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Restrictions set on SGA grant process

BY TRAVIS CRUM CITY EDITOR

Members of the Student Government Association approved changes to the Student Organization grant process Wednesday night with its treasurer not in attendance.

The Board of Governors voted unanimously to approve changes that would make communication between student organizations and SGA better during the grant process.

The grant revision will create limitations on student or-

ganizations that were not defined in the previous bylaws.

For example, a grant can be denied if a representative does not attend the SGA meeting, a grant can be denied for not benefiting the University, and a grant cannot be used to benefit membership dues.

During an Oct. 7 SGA meeting, a grant was tabled because of a miscommunication between Shannon Veyon, SGA’s treasurer, and the requesting group’s officers who were not in attendance.

There were communication issues between the group’s ad-

viser and the member who submitted the grant application, but she was in contact with both parties, Veyon said.

“These miscommunications will not happen in the future,” she said.

Further changes to the grant process include allowing the BOG to adjust requested dollar amounts with Veyon providing recommendations.

Also, a timeline for the process was created that limits the grant application process to three weeks.

The application is submitted in the first week, and it will

be made available in the second week.

During the third week, the requesting organization must attend the SGA meeting after receiving a week’s notice by Veyon.

Veyon will present the grant with a detailed summary of the organization’s budget and description of how the funds will be used.

Grants requested more than two months before funds are needed will not be reviewed.

All of SGA’s grant budget must be spent by May 15, according to the change.

Gov. Jason Bailey, who drafted the changes, said it will benefit the student body because more time is allotted for the BOG to review the grants.

Now they can decide what to vote on to make sure it really benefits the University, he said.

He said he made three drafts tailored to prevent further miscommunications.

SGA Vice President Ron Cheng said he was unaware of where Veyon was during

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‘Fire Pelosi & Reid Bus’ stops in Morgantown

‘A-positive’ donation

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A Red Cross worker preps sophomore political sciences major Dana Paschetti to take blood Wednesday.

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The Fire Pelosi & Reid Bus visited West Virginia University Tuesday at midnight for a Republican rally in front of the Mountainlair.

A small group of WVU students, Monongalia County Republicans and others in the Morgantown area attended the event, where they received Raese and McKinley signs.

The Fire Pelosi & Reid Bus has been traveling across the state since Tuesday morning beginning in Charleston, said Mike Stuart, chairman of the W.Va. Republican Party.

The bus brought various Republican candidates to the University, giving them an opportunity to speak for the Re-

publican Party.

John Raese, David McKinley, Shelley Moore and Spike Maynard were just a few of the Republicans who made parts of the trip, Stuart said.

House of Delegates candidates Kevin Patrick and Chris Walters were there to show support for the Republican Party, Walters said.

Students also attended the rally in support or opposition of the candidates.

“I think it’s a great time to be a Republican. I’m here to help get our people elected and support the candidates,” said Heather Hart, a junior multidisciplinary studies major.

Those supporting Democrat candidates, such as

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Campus Greek members and Red Cross collect 117 units of blood by erin fitzwilliams staff writer

Sororities and fraternities found a new way to help others during Homecoming week: by donating blood.

In cooperation with the American Red Cross, the Greek organizations took blood donations from their organizations at the Wesley United Methodist Church.

This year, they collected 117 units of blood, an increase of 28 units from last year, said Adam Reaves, Donor Resources representative for the Red Cross.

The blood drive is sponsored annually by the WVU Greeks, said Andria Alvarez, vice president of correspondence and inter-sorority relations.

This is the first year the sororities and fraternities used the blood drive as part of the Homecoming Week competitions among the Greek organizations, she said.

Each organization was en-

couraged to actively participate in the event by volunteering and donating.

If each fraternity and sorority sent 22 people to either volunteer or donate blood, they received 200 points toward the competition, Alvarez said. “(Students) should want to donate, so everyone is rewarded if they bring in enough people,” she said.

Last year, the blood drive collected 89 units of blood, Alvarez said.

“There was more blood than they were able to use last year,” she said.

The blood drive is one part of Homecoming Week competitions that are taking place until Friday.

The sororities and fraternities have also competed in the Greek Games, a T-shirt sale to benefit WVU’s holiday toy drive and the WELL WVU Condom Caravan.

At each event, the Greek or-

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Chairman of the Republicans in West Virginia Mike Stuart speaks to a group of people in front of the Mountainlair as part of a Republican rally.

‘Naughty Neighbors’ showcases lease advice, being a good neighbor by samantha cossick associate city editor

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Freshman nutrition major Amanda Addezio donates blood at Wesley United Methodist Church with the help of a Red Cross worker during the blood drive Wednesday.

Imam debunks misconceptions about Islam

BY GINA DAMATO CORRESPONDENT

Students learned common misconceptions about Islam during a Diversity Week presentation Wednesday.

An “Islam around the World” presentation was held in the Mountainlair to raise awareness of Islamic tolerance and the religion itself. Nearly one in four people in the world practice the religion.

The presentation was held

by Sohail Chaudhry, the Imam of the Islamic Center of Morgantown, and Zahid Syed, a West Virginia University doctoral computer engineering major.

“There are many misconceptions, but we share similar beliefs to other religions,” said Chaudhry. “We wanted to share our knowledge and clear up confusions with the Islamic religion.”

Chaudhry and Syed prepared an hour-long presenta-

tion featuring a discussion on different ideologies within the Islamic religion. More than 20 students were in attendance.

Chaudhry and Syed spoke about aspects of the religion, from figures that Muslims worship to the different books Muslims hold sacred.

The Quran, for example, is the final message of God within the religion. The original scriptures are believed to be the true form of teaching because they have been passed

down through generations.

The group also discussed controversial topics, such as women’s roles in Muslim communities and Jihad’s real meaning.

“Jihad is sometimes discussed as being associated with terrorism, but Jihad is really choosing to do good over evil,” Syed said.

“Jihad is in the choices we make every day, and as

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Finding a place to live is just as important as being a good neighbor, for West Virginia University students living in Morgantown.

More than 40 students, most freshmen, learned tips on how to find a place and make the most of it at the “Naughty Neighbors” lecture as part of the Diversity Week events.

Price, amenities and location are all things students need to consider when looking where to live, said Don Corwin, president of the Greater Monongalia County Property Owners Association.

Location is the biggest factor to consider since it affects whether you walk, drive or take a bus, he said.

“One of the biggest regrets I

hear is students wish they had lived closer to campus,” Corwin said.

Students should also check what their parking options are and where the bus stops are located, said John Gaddis, member of the Morgantown City Council.

“When you choose where to live, understand how to get around those areas,” he said.

In addition, he suggested students take a copy of the lease to WVU Student Legal Services and consult their parents before signing.

“If parents are involved, it’s probably a good thing,” Corwin said. “They’re concerned about your safety.”

However, ultimately it is up to the student since they will be living there, he said.

Students should also check

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Continued from page 1 Meredith Sussman, a sophomore geography major, and Caitlin Sussman, a senior social work major, also attended the rally.

They wore stickers in support of Gov. Joe Manchin’s campaign for Senate and displayed signs among the Raese signs at the rally.

“We wanted to show support for our candidate,” Meredith said. “I’m pleased he made positive statements encouraging people to go out to vote and vote how they feel so their voice can be heard.”

The rally demonstrated how politics should work, Caitlin said.

“This is how it should be,” she said. “Side by side, peacefully.”

Stuart pointed out that Manchin will still be involved in politics no matter the outcome.

“He’s still going to be governor if he doesn’t win the Senate seat,” he said.

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Continued from page 1 many different resources to find a good landlord, Corwin said.

“Your best resource is the people who live there now,” he said.

Students should also make sure they are happy in Morgantown and have good grades because if they sign a lease and fail out, they still have to pay, said Brian Walker, director of WVU Off-Campus Housing.

Students should also find

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Republican pup, Winston, made it to the Republican Rally Tuesday at midnight in front of the Mountainlair.

On Tuesday, the bus stopped in Huntington, Point Pleasant, Parkersburg, Moundsville and Wheeling before ending in Morgantown, Stuart said.

The candidates continued to Martinsburg, Elkins, Buckhannon and Weston on Wednesday, he said.

The bus will return to Morgantown Friday for the WVU Homecoming Parade and

again on Saturday for a tailgate before the noon football game, Stuart said.

From there, it will stop at Fairmont, the Republican Headquarters in Clarksburg and end at the WV GOP in Charleston, he said.

“We’re in the home stretch,” Stuart said. “But as you can see, I’m energized.”

a roommate whose habits match their own, he said.

Aside from finding a place to live, students should respect the neighborhoods, Gaddis said.

There are many offenses students could face they may not realize, said Carrie Showalter, lawyer with WVU Student Legal Services.

For instance, students who charge for entry into a house party are considered to be operating a business without a licence and may face a $500 fine, she said.

Many neighborhoods restrict noise from 10 p.m. to 7

a.m. and if violated, students could face criminal penalties, Showalter said.

Students who are found on the roof of a building can be charged between $100 and $500 in fines, she said.

However, students who pay their rent, take care of their apartment and pay attention to their neighbors will be well off, Corwin said.

Gaddis added neighborhoods typically have three rules: Don’t be loud, don’t park illegally and don’t leave trash.

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Continued from page 1 Muslims, we strive to achieve good Jihad, just as others strive to make good choices.”

Muslims have a diverse culture, Chaudhry added.

“Not all Muslims have the

Helping kids was the goal of a yard sale held Wednesday in the Mountainlair’s Vandalia Lounge.

The sale was organized by students from West Virginia University’s Greek organizations, the Mountaineer Maniacs and the Student Government Association.

“All of the proceeds from the sale go to SHOP, Students Helping Other People,” said Ashley Staggers, program advisor for fraternities and sororities. “We take underprivileged kids shopping for toys and gifts for their families.”

Last year’s WVU T-shirts and other student organization gear was available to be purchased.

Anything a year old or older was $1.50, while this year’s extra Tshirts were $10, Staggers said.

“It is great to get rid of all of the T-shirts and let them go to someone who wants them, instead of collecting dust,” said Andria Alvarez, a junior who serves on the WVU Panhellenic Council.

“For example, the girls who just got into the sororities can get some of the things that we already have. And it is for a really good cause.”

Alvarez went on the SHOP trip last year with the children.

“We go with grade schoolage kids, and we take them for the day to stores like Walmart,” she said. “They get to buy a toy, but mostly clothes, maybe winter stuff because it is around Christmas.”

The kids also get a chance to

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Senior marketing major Hilah Zia, left, sells shirts to sophomore psychology major Lisa Difrancesco, right, Wednesday in the Mountainlair. buy gifts for their families.

“I have personally gone shopping with the kids, and it is so much fun to see them get money that they can spend on their families instead of themselves,” said Hilah Zia, WVU Panhellenic Council president. “SHOP is a really strong organization, and as Greeks we want to make sure it continues.”

This is the first year the student organizations have held the yard sale and getting many organizations involved was important, Zia said.

“We are collaboratively trying to support SHOP,” she said. “And if we have the supplies to sell, why not let it all go to charity?”

The yard sale is not the only way student organizations are raising money for SHOP. “We raise money all throughout Homecoming Week,” Stag-

gers said. “The student organizations give donations, as do departments around campus.

Some also sponsor a child. ” It takes about $75 to sponsor an individual, and Staggers said they hope to raise about $16,000.

Those interested in making donations can call Student Organizations Services at 304-293-4397.

“Last year, we took 80 children shopping,” she said. “But we also use the money to buy toys for Toy Mountain and to sponsor families.”

Sponsoring a family includes buying clothing for the kids and helping to buy food for a holiday dinner, Staggers said.

“It is really about fitting the needs and wish list of the family,” she said. “Finding what way we can do the most good.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Continued from page 1 ganizations receive points based on their participation, and at the end of the week, the sorority and fraternity with the most points receive a trophy.

The Greek organizations will also compete in the Airband Competition today at 4:30 p.m. on the Mountainlair Green and in the Homecoming Parade and float contest on Friday at 6:30 p.m.

Monetary donations and canned food items are also being collected by the sororities and fraternities.

Last year, Greek organizations collected more than 4,000 canned food items and donated $5,545 to the United Way, according to a press release.

Anyone interested in donating can visit the Student Organization Services wing of the Mountainlair.

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Students were given free chips and other snacks after they donated blood during the blood drive at Wesley United Methodist Church. same beliefs. Many have a very common ground with other religions,” he said. “We aren’t looking for students to agree with what we are presenting them, rather to clarify and bring respect to the religion.”

Brendan Wood, a freshman English major, said the pre-

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neglected to tell she would be absent.

“That was a fault on my part,” she said. “I should have told someone.”

During the meeting, Cheng took over her roll by presenting a grant on her behalf.

Also during the meeting, the BOG voted to approve members to the Judicial Board.

Six students were added to replace staggering terms of the current board.

The Oct. 27 SGA meeting has also been canceled. Instead, all governors and executives are required to attend The Power of 32’s “A Commu-

nity Conversation: The Power of Possibility” event held at 7 p.m. at the Kappa Alpha House on North High Street.

The event aims to collect opinions from 32 counties and four states on each region’s future.

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According to the SGA bylaws, the treasurer is required to attend all meetings to present grant requests to the BOG. Student Organizations are allowed to apply for up to $500 to be voted upon by SGA, which has a grant budget of $33,500 split between two semesters.

Veyon said during a phone interview after the meeting she had personal problems and was unable to attend but

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W.Va. Democrats continue to step up voter outreach

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — With most signs pointing to a tough election climate for Democrats, West Virginia’s Democratic party announced plans Wednesday to step up its voter outreach efforts.

State Democrats launched a new radio ad as part of what they call the party’s largest get-out-the-vote effort for a midterm election.

The outreach will also rely on direct mail, phone banks and e-mail as well as field staff and volunteers, party officials said. They also boasted of having raised $336,000 for this campaign during the first half of October.

Their message: West Virginia has weathered the Great Recession better than most states. Among other points, the state has kept its budgets balanced without painful service cuts, layoffs or tax hikes. Its unemployment rate remains below the national rate. Its handling of debts has drawn praise from Wall Street.

“This is a testament to the hard work of our Democratic Governor and Democratic Legislature and we will tell their story,” party Chairman Larry Puccio said in a

statement.

Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin is running against Republican John Raese for the U.S. Senate that was long held

by Robert C. Byrd, who died in June.

West Virginia has close to twice as many Democrats as Republicans. But the state GOP has sought traction this election by seizing on President Barack Obama’s low approval ratings in the Mountain State.

Obama lost West Virginia in the 2008 election. His administration’s approach to health care and coal mine permitting have become top issues in the state’s federal races. The GOP’s get-out-thevote campaign includes radio ads, Twitter feeds and yard signs seeking to tie Obama to his fellow in-state Democrats.

The state Republican Party also outpaced Democrats for fundraising last month. Federal Election Commission reports posted Wednesday show the GOP began October with a $154,380 balance after raising $188,614 and spending $40,698 last month.

The Democratic Party took in $71,347 and spent $79,347 in September, leaving it with

$73,709 on hand.

Just over half the Republicans’ haul came from national GOP committees. Of the rest, Republican Senate nominee Raese and his wife gave $18,800 while longtime Republican donor James “Buck” Harless contributed $6,000.

GOP congressional candidate David McKinley and the campaign of Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., were among the 25 others who gave their party at least $1,000 in September.

National Democratic committees provided the state party with $51,460 last month. The Lytton Band of Pomo Indians gave the Democrats $10,000. The Native American tribe has pursued gambling venues in California in recent years.

At least 35,749 West Virginians had already cast early votes as of Wednesday, according to figures from Secretary of State Natalie Tennant from all 55 counties except Taylor and Monongalia. Tennant’s office also said that 2,485 absentee ballots have been returned to county officials so far. Early voting began Oct. 13, and ends Oct. 30.

Mountain Party Candidate Jesse Johnson hopes issues set him apart CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — U.S. Senate candidate Jesse Johnson says if elected, he’ll work to break what he sees is the stranglehold West Virginia’s fossil fuel industries have on the state’s economy and public policies.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the Mountain Party nominee also called for an end to mountaintop removal mining, said the federal health care overhaul didn’t go far enough, and said the investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks was incomplete.

Johnson is one of four candidates seeking to fill the unexpired term of the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd. The 92-yearold Democrat, who died in June, was the longest-serving member of Congress.

A 51-year-old Charleston native, Johnson has been the Mountain Party’s standard bearer for the last several election cycles. He challenged Byrd in 2006, attracting less than 2 percent of the vote.

He also ran against Gov. Joe Manchin in both of the Democrat’s successful bids for governor, receiving 2.5 percent of the vote in 2004 and 4.5 percent in 2008. The two are competing for Byrd’s seat.

Johnson believes the voter discontent that’s helped fuel the tea party movement will buoy his candidacy.

“They are people who know in their gut that something is wrong,” he said.

Voters starving for substantial change are “angry that they’re not informed” that there’s a Mountain Party, he said. The party had about 1,100 of West Virginia’s 1.2 million voters registered as of Sept. 30.

“I have Democrats saying, ‘Thank God! Can I have some literature? Can I have a sign for my yard?’,” Johnson said.

“And I have Republicans saying the same thing.”

While tea party activists largely target President Barack Obama’s administration, Johnson blames corporate interests for a “monocoalocracy” that controls West Virginia.

“We’re so in the pocket of these nonrenewable resource industries and the landowners,” he said.

Johnson wants to replace coal as an energy source with renewable alternatives. Besides solar and wind, he cited

a recent report that found sizable geothermal activity beneath the state.

Coal now generates about 45 percent of the nation’s electricity, according to the latest federal figures, while non-hydro renewable sources provide for just under 4 percent. Johnson said he believes renewables can fill the gap.

“Absolutely they can, and it needs to be done as quickly as possible,” he said.

Johnson advocates the continued mining of coal, but as a manufacturing material.

He said research suggests that thousands of products could be made from it, including prosthetics and sporting goods as well as auto parts and air cargo containers.

“We take that coal and we start to produce carbon foam, carbon fiber, carbon nanotechnology,” Johnson said.

“There needs to be a spotlight shone on the possibilities for coal outside of the burning, the polluting.”

West Virginia produced 144 million tons of coal last year. Johnson argued that the higher price coal could command as product material would offset any drop in production.

“The irony is, the coal industry itself does not embrace this,” Johnson said. “They don’t want anyone else telling them what to do.”

Decrying the blasting and filling of valleys with debris that accompanies mountaintop removal, Johnson calls for more job-intensive underground mining. He also raised environmental concerns about the push to drill for natural gas trapped within the Marcellus Shale formation deep beneath the region.

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mixed with sand and chemicals, some of them toxic, to crack the shale and free the gas within.

“We’re talking about water depletion and pollution on a scale that will turn this entire state into a Superfund site,” Johnson warned.

Calling the federal health care overhaul the flawed product of closed-door dealings, Johnson said he favors a government-run system similar to what other industrialized countries offer. Cutting defense spending could help pay for that, he said.

“We have no conventional enemy,” Johnson said. “We are not at war. We’ve not declared war since the Second World War.” When asked about Iraq and Afghanistan, Johnson questioned the U.S. decision to mount a “war on terror” in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

“We’ve had acts of terrorism against this nation for its entire history,” he said. “But it shouldn’t make us automatically declare war against someone or go to war against someone.”

The son of a police detective, Johnson said he instead viewed Sept. 11 as a “crime of the century” that “has never been investigated.”

He discounted the review by the panel known as the 9-11 commission, and the 585-page report it issued in 2004.

“I’m not going to say what happened, or who I believe is the guilty party, etc., but there are far more questions, open-ended questions still to this day that need to be addressed,” Johnson said.

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In this May 30, 2009 file photo, former Lt. Dan Choi, an Iraq combat veteran who was discharged under the U.S. military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy, appears at an equality rally in Fresno, Calif. A federal judge issued a worldwide injunction Tuesday stopping enforcement of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, ending the military’s 17-year-old ban on openly gay troops. U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips declared the law unconstitutional after a two-week nonjury trial on the case in federal court in Riverside. U.S. Department of Justice attorneys have 60 days to appeal. Legal experts say they are under no legal obligation to do so and could let Phillips’ ruling stand.

Federal appeals court continues current military gay policy for now SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily granted the U.S. government’s request for a freeze on a judge’s order requiring the military to allow openly gay troops.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals instructed lawyers for the gay rights group that brought the lawsuit successfully challenging the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy to file arguments in response by Monday.

The judges would then decide whether to extend the temporary stay while it considers the government’s appeal of U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips’ ruling that the policy was unconstitutional.

It was unclear what effect

the temporary freeze would have on the Pentagon, which has already informed recruiters to accept openly gay recruits and has suspended discharged proceedings for gay service members.

There was no immediate comment from the Pentagon, the Justice Department or the White House.

A lawyer for the Log Cabin Republicans said the group was disappointed, but called it a minor setback.

“We didn’t come this far to quit now, and we expect that once the Ninth Circuit has received and considered full briefing on the government’s application for a stay, it will deny that application,” Dan Woods said, of White & Case.

The 1993 “don’t ask, don’t

tell” rule says gays may serve but only if they keep secret their sexual orientation.

Government lawyers argue that striking down the policy and ordering the Pentagon to immediately allow openly gay service members could harm troop morale and unit cohesion when the military is fighting two wars.

President Barack Obama says he supports repeal of the policy, but only after careful review and an act of Congress.

The brief order was signed by the three 9th Circuit judges hearing emergency motions this month: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, who were appointed by President Ronald Reagan, and William A. Fletcher, an appointee of President Bill Clinton.

Calif. pot law could spark court action SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal officials haven’t ruled out taking legal action if California voters approve a ballot initiative that would legalize recreational marijuana use in the state, President Barack Obama’s drug czar said Wednesday.

In a phone interview with The Associated Press, Director of National Drug Control Policy Gil Kerlikowske said Justice Department officials are “looking at all their options” for responding to the measure, which would conflict with federal laws classifying marijuana as an illegal drug.

Among them, he said, is following the recommendation nine of the nation’s former Drug Enforcement Agency chiefs made last month in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder: having Obama sue to overturn Proposition 19 as an affront to federal authority.

“The letter from the former DEA administrators, a number of whom are not only practicing attorneys but former state attorney generals, made it very clear

that they felt that pre-emption was certainly applicable in this case,” Kerlikowske said.

Holder told the former DEA heads last week that the U.S. government plans to “vigorously enforce” federal laws outlawing marijuana possession and distribution even if the activities are allowed under state law. But the attorney general did not respond directly to their suggestion that the administration should go to court if California passes the first-of-itskind measure aimed at treating marijuana the same as alcohol.

“The attorney general made it clear the federal government will continue to enforce the marijuana laws under the Controlled Substances Act. It’s a duty and responsibility of government. It’s not something where they can say which laws they want to enforce and which they don’t,” Kerlikowske said.

“That being said, the Department of Justice is looking at and in discussions about whatever options might be available.”

Proposition 19, a state con-

stitutional amendment on the Nov. 2 ballot, would allow adults at least 21 years old to possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana and grow 25-square-foot pot gardens for personal pleasure. It would also authorize county and city governments to regulate and tax commercial cultivation and sales.

Kerlikowske was in Southern California on Wednesday for a visit to a Pasadena drug treatment center where he planned to discuss new government data on marijuana abuse in California with Dr. Drew Pinsky, host off the VH1 show “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.” The data show that California already has a much higher percentage of children in treatment for marijuana use than the rest of the country.

In California, 47 percent of those undergoing drug treatment for marijuana in 2008, either voluntarily or after encounters with the criminal justice system, were under 18, compared with 28 percent for the country as a whole.

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THURsday OCTOBER 21, 2010

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Marshall should get its Clery Act together In the wake of an alleged cover-up of a gang rape on campus, Marshall University officials must work to become more transparent in reporting crime statistics.

According to the Associated Press, Marshall will face a full review from the U.S. Department of Education due to the way the school has reported serious crimes on campus.

It’s an appropriate move.

The issues stem from Marshall’s handling of the Clery Act, the 1990 law that resulted

from the rape and murder of 19-year-old Lehigh University student Jeanne Clery. Lehigh had manipulated statistics relating to violent crime in the years before Clery enrolled at that school.

Within the past month, Marshall missed a federal deadline to report crime statistics.

Higher education institutions across the country are required to post their security reports or distribute the information to students by Oct. 1

each year.

This year, Marshall was two weeks late.

The Parthenon, Marshall’s student newspaper, reported Oct. 8 the MU Police Department keeps two separate crime logs, apparently omitting serious crimes from the one made accessible to student reporters.

This was following a Charleston Gazette report of an alleged gang rape that occurred in a freshman dorm at the school, where four males

iel Carter, director of public policy at Security on Campus, Inc., to the AP. “If a request has not been made, they can legally provide one thing and not the other, which means they can withhold information.”

Such an incident should be used as a wake-up call for schools around the country.

Universities should focus their energies on preventing violent crime, not covering them up.

were said to have sexually assaulted a female and another male Sept. 12.

Essentially, Marshall officials were attempting to paint the image that the campus was safer than it actually was by having two logs and making one more accessible than the other.

Regrettably, the university was not in violation of the Clery Act by keeping both logs.

“It’s legal, but it’s not the right thing to do,” said S. Dan-

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American public must decide between big or small government omar ghabra columnist

The American public must decide whether the government has a role in providing basic services to its citizens and in regulating the market.

In a heated election season, including the West Virginia Senate election, where Americans are frustrated with their government, the story of Gene Cranick is particularly illuminating.

Gene Cranick’s grandson was burning garbage outside the family home Sept. 29 in Obion County, Tenn.

The fire got out of control, so Cranick called 9-1-1, assuming help would soon be on the way. To his horror, the operator told him he hadn’t paid the fire department a one year, $75 subscription fee, so the department could not help him.

Cranick was told he “wasn’t on their list.” Cranick then pleaded with the operator, offering to pay them the fee or “whatever it takes.”

His pleas were to no avail, and the house continued to burn. The fire department eventually did show up, but not until Cranick’s neighbor’s property caught fire.

The fire fighters proceeded to put out the fire on his neighbor’s property while watching Cranick’s home burn down.

Cranick’s neighbor had paid the subscription fee.

This policy, referred to as “No Pay, No Spray,” ultimately resulted in Cranick losing his

home and the death of several of his pets trapped inside.

Was the decision by the fire department to let this man’s home burn down a good business decision?

Probably.

If they had put the fire out, then others would be hesitant to pay their subscription fee, knowing in the event of a fire, the fire department would put the fire out anyway.

The actions of this fire department are undoubtedly immoral. Cranick offered to pay the fee but was basically told that it was too late, and as punishment, he lost everything he owned.

This was an unconscionable act on the part of the fire department.

According to a recent USA Today/Gallup poll, 72 percent of Americans have a negative opinion of the federal government. This sour mood has been seized by the Republicans as they make the case that government spending is out of control and should be slashed in favor of privatization.

Conservatives assert privatization is the path to prosperity and the “socialism” of the Democrats is leading this country toward ruin.

There’s no question that private companies are far more efficient at doing things than government. The profit motive ensures that.

But the Cranick’s story highlights the fact that there are times when privatization is not the answer. What the fire department did by not responding to the fire at the Cranick residence was a perfectly

sound business decision. But putting out fires shouldn’t be about making money. Sometimes the most profitable decision is not a moral decision.

And this brings us to the questions that we, as Americans, must answer with this year’s midterm election.

Does the government have a role in providing basic services to its citizens and in regulating the market? Or is privatization and self-regulation the answer?

These questions are at the heart of the decisions voters are making across the country, and the Senate race here in West Virginia is no exception.

Democrat Gov. Joe Manchin is pitted against Republican John Raese in a tightly contested race for the late Senator Robert C. Byrd’s open seat. Raese, who recently declared that the “Tea Party is a little left” of him, advocates repealing the health care reform bill, eliminating minimum wage and greatly shrinking the scope of the federal government.

Raese is running on the platform that government is the problem and not the solution, so its role should be limited as much as possible.

While this stance has won him support in a strongly antiestablishment political climate, it is not a feasible way to govern.

This anarcho-capitalistic society envisioned by people like Raese and Glenn Beck would be a disaster for working class people.

There are basic protections the government should pro-

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West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin looks in the direction of Republican candidate John Raese as he waits for the start of West Virginia Senate debate in the studios of West Virginia Public Broadcasting on Scott Avenue. vide its citizens, and some services just shouldn’t be privatized or left for the market to decide.

A man’s house shouldn’t be left to burn just because he hasn’t paid his “subscription fee.” A patient shouldn’t be left to die because her insurance company decided it’s too costly to continue paying for her medical treatment. A coal company shouldn’t be allowed to cut corners when it comes

to the safety just because it’s more profitable to do so.

But many conservatives would disagree.

Glenn Beck spoke out on his radio show in support of the fire department involved in the “No Pay, No Spray” incident. He insists that Cranick did not pay his subscription fee and thus is not entitled to protection.

While putting this extreme free-market ideology into

Letters to the editor Homecoming candidates should run clean campaign It is true what West Virginians say. There really is no place more beautiful than West Virginia in the fall.

Woodburn courtyard is filled with multicolored leaves, football season and of course Homecoming.

This will be my last Homecoming as an undergraduate at West Virginia University. It saddens me to know this is the last time I will truly experience and be part of the real celebration. Even though it is my last Homecoming, it is by far the most meaningful.

My roommate has been chosen to be on WVU’s Homecoming court this year. You would assume that this is one of the happiest times of her life, but she has had to deal with many disturbing things during her campaign.

Homecoming should be a University celebration, and

practice would be great for everyone with enough money to purchase protections, it would create an environment that would undoubtedly punish the poor.

What Beck and those who agree with him fail to realize is that hard work does not always result in success. So just because someone is poor does not mean they don’t deserve the same basic protections wealthy people do.

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running for Homecoming Queen should not be a distress.

The fact that I have seen some of the most horrifying things coming from other candidates to try to cripple their competition has been sickening, and hopefully WVU will do something in the future to change the malicious actions of others while campaigning.

When you think of the Homecoming campaigns, you go to the basics. Candidates hang banners, hand out candy, play loud music in front of the Mountainlair and hand out food discount coupons.

This year, some have changed to a different strategy, using attack campaigning like we see in the political ads that play during election time.

Some individuals have gone as far as to report appalling fabrications of some candidates to gain an edge in the race.

I think there should be something done to prevent Homecoming candidates from purposefully trying to hurt other candidates’ reputations.

Whatever happened to good sportsmanship? Is that what

we are told is the true MounTwenty percent is not chump taineer way? change. Twenty percent of cartel profits equates to approxJeana Marie Gentile imately $1.5 billion every Public relations, senior year. That’s enough money to pay $50,000 salaries to 30,000 Americans. That’s more money than the two highest grossing films in America, Avatar and Titanic, made put together ($1.3 billion in the U.S.).

So 20 percent is kind of a big deal. If marijuana is legalized, On Nov. 2, Californians will there will be a $1.5 billion dolvote on Proposition 19, which lar gap in the marijuana marwould tax, regulate and allow ket that legitimate U.S. busirecreational consumption of ness owners can fill. That’s $1.5 marijuana for adults 21 and billion that could be taxed, regover. ulated and routed through safe RAND Corp. recently re- legitimate businesses. leased a study addressing poMarijuana’s illegality in the tential effects legalization U.S. makes it difficult, expenwould have on drug cartels. sive and sometimes dangerThey estimate Californians ous to produce. The result is make up 14 percent of canna- not enough supply to meet debis users, and cartels make 20 mand. Cartels capitalize on percent of their profits from this. cannabis.

Legalization will make marNationally, Prop. 19 would ijuana production in the U.S. only make a 3 percent (14 per- safer, cheaper and easier, cent of 20 percent) dent in car- which means we don’t have to tel profits. If every state legal- outsource to Mexican cartels, ized marijuana, cartels would and their role in the market will lose the entire 20 percent. become unnecessary.

Legalizing pot will hinder dangerous drug cartels

Drug cartels will be around as long as prohibition is. Prohibition causes violence, not the drugs themselves.

Legalizing marijuana in California may not immediately put the cartels out of business, but it’s definitely a great start, and anything we can do to loosen the stranglehold of violent cartels is a step in the right direction.

Drew Stromberg WVU Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Raese stereotypes all Italian-Americans Recently, Republican U.S. Senate Candidate John Raese referred to fellow Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate and West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin as “Governor Soprano,” a referral to mob boss Tony Soprano of the television series “The Sopranos.”

This reference is a direct slap in the face not only to Manchin and his Italian ethnicity, but to all Italian-Americans.

This type of stereotyping shapes the public image of Italian Americans in a negative way.

Manchin reminds West Virginians to be proud of our state and who we are, that America was built on the backs of West Virginians through the coal and steel industries and protected through our blood on battle fields across the world.

My grandparents, like many immigrants, came to America for freedom and an opportunity for a better life for themselves and their children. My grandparents and all immigrants of Irish, Polish, Greek, Croatian, African, and other ethnic cultures faced discrimination based on their ethnicity and economic backgrounds.

If John Raese is going to stereotype Italian-Americans as mobsters, how is he going to portray West Virginians to his cigarsmoking peers? Is he going to describe us as a bunch of hillbillies?

This is not the kind of person I want representing me in Washington.

Pete Cuffaro Wheeling, W. Va.

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‘Spring Awakening’ tackles teen issues by david ryan A&E editor

It’s okay to be different.

“Spring Awakening,” a nationwide tour of a Broadway production, will spread a message of acceptance and tolerance Nov. 1 at the WVU Creative Arts Center.

The show begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre.

“It’s a coming-of-age musical and very unique in its presentation,” said Landon Shaw, company manager. “There’s comedic moments, but there’s moments that are somewhat dramatic.”

The play tackles issues familiar to all teenagers going through adolescence including sexuality, love and suicide.

“The show is edgy,” he said.

“It’s not a kids show by any means – we even have signs warning about that,” he said.

“Spring Awakening” features nudity, sexual content and strong language.

These elements are presented “in a way that makes it non-gratuitous,” Shaw said. “It’s absolutely essential to have the elements that we do, because this is what teens are going through.”

The play is adapted from a German text from 1891.

The play was considered so edgy at the time that the original production was banned, and the writer, Frank Wedekind, was jailed.

The play was rediscovered earlier this decade and eventually turned into a modern poprock musical, due to the themes Shaw said are still relevant to teens today.

“Teenagers still go through trying to find their individuality and their identity. They still go through body changes,” he said.

“They go through trying to figure out who they are. Teenagers still go through their first love; they still go through instances of thinking about or committing suicide.”

FOR TICKETS Tickets are on sale now at the Mountainlair and Creative Arts Center box offices.

Tickets range from $42 to $52.

WVU students can purchase tickets for $25 with a valid WVU ID. Tickets can also be purchased online at www.ticketmaster. com or by phone at 304-293SHOW.

The play’s theme of acceptance rings even more vital given recent tragedies, Shaw said.

“As we were doing the rehearsals in New York, the original director came to visit us and said now, more than ever, (the play) was relevant,” Shaw said, referencing a recent spate of gay teen suicides across the country.

The nationwide tour is also focusing on smaller towns, Shaw said, that may have been left out of the play’s original run.

This allows them to help connect with anyone feeling isolated and having nobody to talk to.

“Chances are there is someone who might be gay or might be different or feel different and doesn’t know where to go,” Shaw said. “That’s the beautiful thing that art and theater can do: it can make you relate.

“Even if there’s one person in every show that we potentially either save their life, or made to feel better about themselves, then we’ve done it. That’s our mission.”

Ali Daly, public relations specialist for WVU Arts and Entertainment, encouraged students to attend.

“Spring Awakening is another great, Tony Award-winning broadway production that we’re glad to bring to Morgantown,” she said. “It’s sure to be a memorable experience.” david.ryan@mail.wvu.edu

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Award-winning poet Lisa Russ Spaar will deliver a poetry reading tonight at 7:30 in the Robinson Reading Room of the West Virginia University Charles C. Wise Jr. Library.

“We try in our program to bring the very best writers in the country and world to WVU,” said Mark Brazaitis, associate professor and director of creative writing. “Lisa certainly is up there with the best writers and poets in the country.”

Spaar’s work has appeared in many literary journals and has won multiple awards.

Inspiration for her poetry comes from “anywhere,” she said.

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Peace Tree guest lecturer and member of the Monacan Indian Nation Karenne Wood reads poetry in Colson Hall Wednesday.

Monocan Indian Nation member Wood shares experiences in poetry a&e writer

West Virginia University’s Native American Studies Program hosted a public poetry reading by author Karenne Wood Wednesday night.

Performing in front of a crowd of about 40 students and members of the Native American Studies Program, Wood was excited to share her poetry with the room.

Wood is a member of the Monacan Indian Nation and has been on the Monacan Tribal Council for the past 12 years.

She started writing poetry as a teen.

Wood is also involved in a Language Revival program which focuses on lost Native American languages.

She has spent years researching how to save these lost languages for use in conversation, prayer and other traditional uses.

Dr. Cari Carpenter, assistant professor in Native American Studies at WVU, took the po-

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Two characters pose in a publicity still for ‘Spring Awakening.’

dium to share some of Wood’s history.

Carpenter spoke of Wood’s accomplishments, which included her published work and poetry awards.

The first selections Wood chose to recite for the audience came from her book titled “Markings on Earth,” which included a poem that received the North American Native Authors Award for Poetry.

Wood also shared one of her more rare poems, “Celebrating Corn,” which focuses on women in the council preparing their corn in traditional manners.

“This is the first poem I’ve ever had featured in a cook book,” Wood said.

Wood moved onto a more serious piece written about an event she attended in Jamestown.

It spoke of devastation and despair throughout the Native American people.

Following the serious tone of this poem, Wood decided to lighten the mood with a poem full of humor.

She told the audience how difficult it was for Native Americans to be able to “identify” with others, let alone themselves.

The purpose of the next poem was just that – identification.

The poem “My Standard Response,” made a mockery out of present day Native American stereotypes including smoke signals, high cheek bones and the never-ending question of “How Indian are you?”

Other topics Wood’s poetry focused on were Smoke Dancers and making apple butter.

Wood also read excerpts from her upcoming piece “Weaving the Boundary.”

These poems reflected the lives of Native Americans and their folk tales.

Wood’s presentation of her poems provided insight on the lives of Native Americans’ past and present, and she enjoys what she does and what she hopes for the future.

“Writing is always an act of optimism,” Wood said. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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“I’m inspired by just about everything – from a weird or interesting sign in a restaurant window, to a particularly complex glass of chardonnay,” she said, noting the often complex language of the bottles.

“I’m especially engaged and moved by my students’ work and by the metaphysics of the natural world,” she said. “I’ve been called a love poet.”

Spaar currently teaches poetry at the University of Virginia.

She said poetry helps her “to live, to make sense of my world, connect with others.”

Spaar hopes to share that sentiment with her audience.

“I hope they leave happy to have spent an hour doing something humans have done for centuries – poems read aloud

help make people real to one another,” she said.

Brazaitis praised Spaar’s poetic ability.

The audience will get “a real sense of the beautiful way a poet can link words to create images or themes or convey an idea,” he said. “She’s really such a precise, elegant writer.”

Due to her teaching duties in Virginia, Spaar said she doesn’t often have time to travel to other universities for readings.

Those interested but hesitant about attending a reading don’t need to be, Spaar said.

“I think people can be afraid of poetry, or feel that poetry readings are dismal affairs,” she said. “ I like to think otherwise.” david.ryan@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU WOMEN’S ULTIMATE FRISBEE team meets from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Shell Building. No experience is BRAM STOKER AWARD WINnecessary. For more information, conNER MICHAEL A. ARNZEN will tact Sarah Lemanski at sarah_lemanbe featured at the Monongaski@yahoo.com. lia Arts Center at 7 p.m. This TRADITIONAL KARATE CLASS FOR event is free and open to the SELF-DEFENSE meets at 9 p.m. in Mulpublic. tipurpose Room A of the Student Recreation Center.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ORGANIZATION meets at 8 p.m. at the InToday ternational House on Spruce Street.

MCDONALDS will be looking for FREE ARABIC/ISLAM CLASSES potential employees in the Commons is hosted by the Muslim Students’ Area of the Mountainlair from 10 a.m. Association from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. to 2 p.m. This event is sponsored by in the Shenandoah Room of the the Office of Student Employment.

Mountainlair. to register, e-mail BROWN BAG LUNCH FILM & DIS- schaudhr@mix.wvu.edu.

CUSSION SERIES will show “A Day BISEXUAL, GAY, LESBIAN AND without a Mexican” at 11:30 a.m. in TRANSGENDER MOUNTAINEERs the Gluck Theatre in the Mountainlair. meets at 8 p.m. in the Laurel Room of Pizza will be served on a first-come, the Mountainlair. For more informafirst-served basis. For more informa- tion, e-mail bigltm.wvu@gmail.com. tion, visit www.studentlife.wvu.edu/ Continual mpprograms.html#bblfds.

MON GENERAL HOSPITAL needs Oct. 22 volunteers for the information desk, TOMCHIN PLANETARIUM will pre-admission testing, hospitalpresent “Origins of Life” at 7 p.m. and ity cart, mail delivery and gift shop.

“Amazing Astronomers of Antiquity” For more information, call Christina at 8 p.m. in Room 425 of Hodges Hall. Brown at 304-598-1324.

Admission is free but reservations are WELLNESS PROGRAMS on topics required and can be made by calling such as nutrition, sexual health and 304-293-3422, ext. 1443. Tomchin healthy living are provided for interObservatory will be open at 7:30 p.m. ested student groups, organizations for public viewing on the same night or classes by WELL WVU Student Wellbut requires no reservations. ness and Health Promotion. For more information, visit www.well.wvu.edu/ Every Thursday wellness.

CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS, a WELL WVU STUDENT HEALTH is 12-step program to assist participants paid for by tuition and fees and is conin developing healthier relationships fidential. For appointments or more of all kinds, meets at 7 p.m. in the con- information, call 304-293-2311 or visit ference room of Chestnut Ridge Hos- www.well.edu.wvu/medical. pital. For more information, call Mary NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meets at 304-296-3748. nightly in the Morgantown and FairLUTHERAN DISASTER RESPONSE mont areas. For more information, COLLEGIATE CORPS meets at the Lu- call the helpline at 800-766-4442 or theran Chapel at 8 p.m. The LDRCC re- visit www.mrscna.org. sponds to regional and national disasALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS meets ters. No experience is necessary. For daily. For help or a schedule, call 304more information, e-mail Stephanie at 291-7918. For more information, visit szinn1@mix.wvu.edu or visit www.lu- www.aawv.org. theranmountaineer.org/disaster.

CARITAS HOUSE, a local nonprofit MUSLIM STUDENTS ASSOCIA- organization serving West VirginTION hosts a weekly Islam and Arabic ians with HIV/AIDS, needs donations class at 6:30 p.m. in the Monongahela of food and personal care items and Room of the Mountainlair. For more volunteers to support all aspects of information, contact Sohail Chaudhry the organization’s activities. For more at 304-906-8183 or schaudhr@mix. information, call 304-985-0021.

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THE MORGANTOWN CHESS CLUB SERVICES are provided for free by meets from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. in the the Carruth Center for Psychologibasement of the First Christian Church cal and Psychiatric Services. A walkat 100 Cobun Ave. Meetings will not in clinic is offered weekdays from 9 be held the last Thursday of every a.m. to 4 p.m. Services include edumonth. For more information, visit cational, career, individual, couples and group counseling. Please visit www.morgantownchess.org.

CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST www.well.wvu.edu to find out more holds its weekly CRU meetings at 9 information.

SCOTT’S RUN SETTLEMENT p.m. in Room G24 of Eiesland Hall.

People can join others for live music, HOUSE, a local outreach organizaskits and relevant messages. For more tion, needs volunteers for daily proinformation, e-mail roy.baker@uscm. grams and special events. For more information or to volunteer, contact org or visit www.wvucru.com.

UNITED METHODIST STUDENT Adrienne Hines at vc_srsh@hotmail.

MOVEMENT meets at 7 p.m. at the com or 304-599-5020.

WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN Campus Ministry Center on the corner of Price and Willey streets. For more needs volunteers. WIC provides eduinformation, e-mail wvumethodist@ cation, supplemental foods and immunizations for pregnant women comcast.net.

WVU CLUB TENNIS practices from and children under 5 years of age.

9 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Ridgeview Rac- This is an opportunity to earn volquet Club. For carpooling, call 304- unteer hours for class requirements.

906-4427. New members are always For more information, contact Michelle Prudnick at 304-598-5180 or welcome.

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FREE RAPID HIV TESTING is availmeets at 7 p.m. in the Blackwater Room of the Mountainlair. For more able on the first Monday of every information, e-mail kross3@mix.wvu. month from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Caritas House office located at 391 edu.

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Scott Ave. Test results are available in 20 minutes and are confidential.

To make an appointment, call 304293-4117. For more information, visit www.caritashouse.net.

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS, a United Way agency, is looking for volunteers to become Big Brothers and Big Sisters in its one-on-one community-based and school-based mentoring programs. To volunteer, contact Sylvia at 304-983-2823, ext. 104 or e-mail bigs4kids@yahoo.com.

ROSENBAUM FAMILY HOUSE, which provides a place for adult patients and their families to stay while receiving medical care at WVU, is looking for service organizations to provide dinner for 20 to 40 Family House guests. For more information, call 304-598-6094 or e-mail rfh@ wvuh.com.

LITERACY VOLUNTEERS is seeking volunteers for one-on-one tutoring in basic reading and English as a second language. Volunteer tutors will complete tutor training, meet weekly with their adult learners, report volunteer hours quarterly, attend at least two in-service trainings per year, and help with one fundraising event. For more information, call 304-296-3400 or email MCLV2@comcast.net.

CATHOLIC MASS is held at St. John University Parish at 4:30 p.m. on weekdays.

MOUNTAINEER SPAY/NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM is an all-volunteer nonprofit that promotes spay/ neuter to reduce the number of homeless pets that are euthanized every year. M-SNAP needs new members to help its cause, as does ReTails, a thrift shop located in the Morgantown Mall. For more information, go to www.m-snap.org.

THE CONDOM CARAVAN will be in Room G304 of the Health Sciences Center on Mondays and the Mountainlair on Thursdays from noon to 2 p.m. The caravan sells condoms for 25 cents or five for $1.

INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP is an interdenominational student-led organization that meets weekly on campus. Everyone is welcome to attend events. For more information, e-mail Daniel at ivcfwvu@ yahoo.com or visit the IVCF website at www.wvuiv.org.edu.

THE ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE meets on the second Monday and fourth Tuesday of every month at noon at Hatfields in the Mountainlair. All students and faculty are invited. For more information, email amy.keesee@mail.wvu.edu.

THE CHEMISTRY LEARNING CENTER, located on the ground floor of the Chemistry Research Laboratories, is open Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Wednesday.

THE M-TOWN MPOWERMENT PROJECT, a community-building program run by and geared toward young gay or bisexual men 18 to 29, are creating an environment in the Morgantown community where young men can feel empowered to make a difference in their lives. Mpowerment also focuses on HIV and STD prevention education. For more information, call 304-319-1803.

THE MORGANTOWN FUN FACTORY, a nonprofit organization, is looking for volunteers to work at the Children’s Discovery Museum of West Virginia. For more information, go to www.thefunfactory.org or e-mail CDMofWV@gmail.com.

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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR BORN TODAY This year, you frequently question reality and facts. This might reflect that often the information you are given is far from correct.

Create a more solid base of fact rendering. Opinions often will differ. Learn to respect where others come from. If you are single, you certainly seem to have a magic wand, as you draw in many suitors. Forget a lack of romance. If you are attached, the two of you often have differences of opinion. Emotional reactions could be strong, but you will be more grounded if you look at the issue behind the differences. Understanding and accepting them is the way toward peace. ARIES can often challenge you.

A R I E S ( M A R C H 21- A P R I L 19) HHHHH You are in prime shape.

You don’t want to push too hard to achieve your goals, as others could be reactive. Play the waiting game if need be. Explain piece by piece what is going on. Others still might have trouble grasping your ideas. Tonight: Delve into your basket of creativity. Give up judgments.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHH Use your sixth sense to the max. Someone inevitably could test your patience using a gentle type of coercive logic. You need to compensate for time spent trying to convince others you are right. Is it worth it? Tonight: Vanish, because you can.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHHH Meetings and groups prove to be most fortunate. Someone you see on a regu-

lar basis could pull you in but not help you accomplish what you absolutely must at the moment. Let your creativity flow. Tonight: Start the weekend early.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHH Be direct with others, though you could find it to be problematic. Tension rises in an unprecedented manner. You want to get to the bottom of a problem. You could be more upset than in the past.

Tonight: Could be late.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHHH Take the high road in order to gain understanding with a matter that has been challenging. Detach from the whole story, and solutions will appear. Sometimes we have too much information, which could be the case here. Tonight: Do more research if need be.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHHH A partner does get domineering at times. You tend to respond well to his or her attitude. Make time for a discussion, though don’t expect agreement over money. Tonight: Hook up with a pal for dinner.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH You might be in sharp disagreement with someone. How you deal with others could change radically because of another person’s reaction to your generally easygoing attitude. Remember, you don’t need to say yes. Tonight: Just don’t be alone.

SCORPIO ( OCT. 23-NOV.21) HHHHH You might say a little too much. Sometimes lying back and being the listener

is the smart role. Stop being so hard on yourself. Just drop the word “no.” Tonight: Get some exercise.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHHH You might want to rethink a special tie that could involve a creative project. Be careful about taking another’s comments personally. Stay on top of discussions in a meeting. Tonight: Having fun.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH You know what needs to happen between you and another person. Your fatigue could hold you back, to an extent. Be willing to slow down and take a personal day or work from home. Tonight: Order in.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH Listen to others who seem to want to call the shots. Just because you listen doesn’t mean you agree. Know that and understand it. Confusion surrounds information where there is an issue about what is fact and what is fiction. Tonight: Ask key questions. Don’t hold back.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHH Be aware of the expenses of proceeding on the present course. You could be overly tired and pushed. You might want to rethink a money matter, as there could be an issue or discrepancy between facts and figures. Tonight: You might spend more than you want to!

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6’6 240, Bone Crusher to play 123 Pleasant Street by mackenzie mays associate a&e editor

Local rapper 6’6 240 and Atlanta-based So So Def Recordings rapper Bone Crusher will perform at 123 Pleasant Street tonight to celebrate Homecoming week.

6’6 240, real name Lionel Jordan, who is most known for his Mountaineer football-spirited “Gold N Blue” anthems, said he wanted to celebrate the week to show his love for the Mountaineers and bring some entertainment to Morgantown.

“I’ve been here so long, I feel like I’m the true homecoming king around here,” Jordan said.

Jordan invited Bone Crusher to bring what he believes is a one-of-a-kind show to the area. “(Bone Crusher’s) live show is so much more than any music you’ve ever heard,” Jordan

said. “To see the energy this guy has is hard to believe, and it’s definitely something to see. He’s very visual in his live shows. He’s going to bring the event to a whole new level.”

Bone Crusher had success with his hit “Never Scared,” which was the theme for the Atlanta Braves in 2003.

The single was also featured on the video game “Madden NFL 2004.”

He has also been featured on hits by artists Young Jeezy, T-Pain, Mariah Carey, Three Days Grace and Jennifer Lopez.

“He’s a very energetic guy and gives a great performance every time,” Jordan said of Bone Crusher. “I feel like he will be a great asset to the show.”

Though Jordan appreciates Bone Crusher’s energy on stage, he is not modest about

Local rapper 6’6 240 will perform with Bone Crusher at 10 p.m. at 123 Pleasant Street. his own live performance.

“When I perform live with an audience, it’s like a family affair. It’s participation at all levels,” Jordan said. “I got my drummer, I got my DJ and my singers, and we’re like a

full circus on stage. We produce energy and we expect it in return.”

Jordan said he was happy to bring a larger act to what he feels is a typically local music scene.

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“Downtown doesn’t usually have many nationwide acts at small venues,” Jordan said.

“123 has always supported live acts and has a great environment. It’s not just a club scene, it’s made for live music.”

Jordan will be performing a few songs from his latest album, “Jackie Robinson” and said he has grown a lot in his new work.

“I did some experimenting in ways I’ve never done before,” Jordan said. “I think my loyal fans will see my growth and enjoy the nice little twist in my music. I’ve grown to a point where I can work to attract any ear now I think.”

The concert begins at 10 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door.

“Expect to see more than your money’s worth,” Jordan said. “We just want everyone to come out and have a good time. It’s going to be a lively situation.”

6’6 240’s new album titled “Jackie Robinson” can be heard at www.myspace.com/ mrdubvee. mackenzie.mays@mail.wvu.edu

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‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’: A bizarre, but fun mix of dances and scares rachel duryea a&E writer

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is a perfect Halloween movie.

The setting starts out like an average horror film.

There is happiness in the beginning; love and then they break out in song.

What in the world?

This movie is no ordinary horror movie, but a horror movie that brings fear through song.

Of course, it’s a rainy night when the horror starts, and the car gets a flat tire in the middle of nowhere.

These instances provide the audience with a generic horror story setting, but it slowly proves to be an extraordinary film.

A creepy castle is nearby where the couple can go to for help, and the people in the

house have to be distorted in looks and frightening beyond belief.

“Rocky Horror” outlines the story with generic horror movie quirks but adds much more to the film.

This is supposed to be a horror film, but the first music act in the house provided me with happiness and joy because of the upbeat song and the abnormal dancing.

The suspense drawn from the mummy-like creature that Dr. Frank-N-Furter created turned into hilarity as he is lifted up into the air and breaks into song.

The horror in this movie has a hilarious twist.

During a scene that is supposed to be frightening, rock music is played with lights and slow action moves to add suspense.

The actors in this film are overly emotional, which makes for even more humor.

Horror is taken in a different

can be horror enough for some people.

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is definitely one of its kind – a true classic.

The songs are legendary, with a large crowd loving it.

My brother introduced me to the movie when he was in high school, and that was more than 10 years ago.

It’s one of those rare films that leaves a lasting impression.

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is fantastic for Halloween.

It also one of those “scary” movies a guy can actually watch with his girlfriend without her ‘THE ROCKY HORROR ... ‘ freaking out, or a group of girls could watch without having a Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon panic attack.

It’s always great to turn this tone in this movie, such as go- movie on during Halloween ing into a castle where a trans- and simply embrace the setting sexual is the master and has of the movie. control over all, and you don’t know what he plans to do with the characters next.

Being on the edge of your seat rachel.duryea@mail.wvu.edu Tim Curry stars in ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show.’

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Swing Club dances for diversity

Members of the WVU Swing Dance Club practice their moves in the Student Recreation Center.

by mackenzie mays associate a&e editor

The West Virginia University Swing Dance Club will perform in the Mountainlair Commons today at noon as part of WVU Diversity Week.

Swing Dance Club President Gina Lasure, a junior industrial engineering major, said the event will showcase the club’s past work and teach the public about its purpose.

“We’re going to be talking about the history of swing dance and our club and what we do there,” Lasure said.

“We’re also going to be doing a small performance to show off what we’ve learned throughout the dance lessons of the club so far.”

Angela Reh, a graduate assistant in the President’s Office for Social Justice, said the swing dance event is all about learning something new.

“The swing dance presentation is one of the many Diversity Week events which allows participants and observers to see, hear and learn something new,” Reh said. “The idea is to have people thinking beyond what they usually know and do, and explore something different.”

“We hope to have people becoming interested in swing dance, and particularly for students it is a great opportunity to get involved in one of the many student organizations at WVU,” Reh added.

Lasure said aside from the physical exercise, the club has served a social purpose and has other healthy uses.

“I think it’s a great way for people to get to know each other, especially as freshmen, because it’s a really social activity,” Lasure said. “It’s definitely a stress reducer for when you’re having a bad week too.”

Four couples will be performing a type of East Coast swing dance for the event.

“Basically, East Coast swing dance is a type of dance that was popular from the ’20s through the ’50s and was well influenced by the jazz music of the time,” Lasure said.

Lasure said she believes the group was asked to participate in Diversity Week to represent one of the country’s original forms of art.

“Swing dance is one of the only types of dancing that is specifically American,” Lasure said. “It developed here in the early ’20s and played a large

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role in that era. So I think we’re representing an original style of American dance this week.”

Marki Dittman, a two-year member of the club and a junior math major, said she views the club as one of her favorite hobbies.

“I like the club because you don’t have to be a great dancer to learn, so it’s fun for everyone,” Dittman said. “For me, personally, swing dancing is an excellent way to relieve stress. Anyone can do it. It’s really easy to pick up and you never stop learning new moves.” mackenzie.mays@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU voted Big East’s fifth-best Kevin Jones named to preseason All-Big East first team

BY BRIAN GAWTHROP ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Last season’s Big East Conference champions won’t repeat this season.

According to the league’s coaches, that is.

After claiming the program’s first Big East title a season ago, the Mountaineers were picked by the league’s coaches to finish fifth in the 2010-11 Big East standings during Wednesday’s conference media day in New York City.

West Virginia was picked to finish second in the league last season but finished 31-7 and in the Final Four before losing to eventual national champions Duke.

Pittsburgh, which finished 13-5 in the conference last year, was picked to win the league. Villanova, Syracuse and Georgetown rounded out the top five.

The Panthers received 12 of the possible 16 first-place votes with Syracuse receiving two first-place votes. Villanova and St. John’s, which were picked to end sixth in the league, also received first-place votes.

Pitt returns four starters from last year’s team who finished second in the regular season standings. It was the first time Pitt was picked to win the league since the 200607 season.

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WVU football for dummies: screen edition

Preseason Big East poll 1. Pittsburgh (12) 222 points 2. Villanova (1) 208 3. Syracuse (2) 187 4. Georgetown 173 5. West Virginia 164 6. St. John’s (1) 145 7. Notre Dame 123 8. Louisville 121 Marquette 121 10. Connecticut 113 11. Seton Hall 104 12. Cincinnati 91 13. USF 54 14. Providence 36 15. Rutgers 32 16. DePaul 26

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West Virginia forward Kevin Jones defends a Georgetown player during the Mountaineers’ win in the Big East Conference Tournament title game last season.

Syracuse hopes blowout loss to Pitt was fluke scouting the orange Quarterback Junior Ryan Nassib is now the man in charge for the Orange after the graduation of former Duke basketball player, Greg Paulus. In last week’s game against Pitt, Nassib established career highs in completions and attempts. Grade: C+ Running backs Senior Delone Carter is back in the fold after offthe-field issues during the offseason, and the Orange are glad to have him. Carter has a great mix of a speed running game and a power running game, and he will be the workhorse for Syracuse. Behind him will be Antwon Bailey, who is a change of pace back as he offers agility and speed.

Grade: B

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Syracuse strong safety Max Suter, 24, reacts after a Pittsburgh touchdown late in the fourth quarter of last weekend’s game. Pittsburgh won 45-14.

Orange want to erase memory of 45-14 loss to Panthers with win over West Virginia

By Brian Kuppelweiser Sports Writer

Entering Saturday’s contest, the Syracuse football team is 4-2.

On paper, the Orange’s record is the best it’s been since 2003. Yet, when it’s taken into consideration three of those wins came against Akron, Maine and Colgate, it loses a little luster. The Orange’s other victory came in what was probably its best game of the season against South Florida just about two weeks ago.

Last week, though, Syracuse was shellacked by reeling Pittsburgh. With that loss, the doubts Syracuse’s program is on the way back came back for some fans.

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When: Saturday at noon Where: Morgantown (Milan Puskar Stadium, 60,000) TV: ESPN2, ESPN3 Tickets: There are no tickets remaining for the game.

Series: Syracuse leads the series 30-27 Last year: West Virginia defeated Syracuse 34-13

“Everyone knows that Pitt beat us soundly,” said head coach Doug Marrone. “We have to ... come back, and everyone has to put their noses to the grindstone, and let’s go back to work.”

With that being said, Mar-

rone knows it will be a challenge for his team as it travels to Morgantown to take on a veteran West Virginia squad.

“It is an extremely difficult place to play,” Marrone said of Milan Puskar Stadium. “We have a game this week against probably the most experienced team as far as starts that we will face all year.”

For Marrone, it would be easy to nitpick what his team needs to fix as it readies for the Mountaineers. However, it is tough when so many things went wrong in the 45-14 loss to the Panthers.

“To pick one group out or one thing out would really be unfair,” Marrone said. “After a game when you get beat that soundly, it’s very difficult to

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say there is one area because when you look at offense and defense, more so at those two after a game like that, it’s really overall.”

When asked what the Orange need to pay attention to defensively, Marrone, who was the offensive coordinator of the New Orleans Saints from 200608, talked about the play-making ability of running back Noel Devine and others.

“It’s like if we (at the Saints) were able to get the ball in the hands of Reggie Bush, every time he was able to get the ball we felt that he could score,” Marrone said when compared Bush to Devine. “West Virginia has at least three players who I

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Receivers Nassib’s primary target on the outside is wideout Van Chew. The junior receiver averages 75.3 yards per game and is the a deep threat at all times with his speed. Teaming with Chew is sophomore Alec Lemon.

Nick Provo, coming off last season’s knee injury, is a solid tight end option.

Grade: C+ Offensive line Two starters return this season for the Orange along its front five. Senior Ryan Bartholomew is the best of the bunch. He is making the move from guard to center this season and will be in the NFL next season.

The tackle positions are a concern. Grade: C+ Defensive line The Orange have two good options along its front four that standout. End Chandler Jones is an

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As a West Virginia football fan, it’s easy to know all too well how unpredictable the game can be – ahem, 13-9.

But there is one thing I can without a doubt, 100 percent assure will happen in this weekend’s contest against Syracuse: The Mountaineers will run their trademark tunnel screen to either of their slot receivers Tavon Austin or Jock Sanders, and the Mountaineer Nation will boo.

In his Tuesday afternoon press conference, head coach Bill Stewart talked at length about the differences between the tunnel screens and bubble screens his team runs.

He went on to explain each play and why WVU runs them so extensively at times.

To start, let’s go with the explanation of the tunnel screen, or in some cases, it is referred to as the jailbreak screen.

“In the tunnel or jailbreak screen, one guy gets chopped, and the other guys go running out there,” Stewart said.

When explaining the bubble screen, there is one main difference.

“The bubble screen is when the skill guys all block for each other, because they are all out there,” Stewart said.

Good. Now that we have the difference between the two types of plays cleared up, we must now answer why it is featured so prominently from time to time in WVU’s offense.

“We don’t throw it out there unless they load the box,” Stewart said. “It is essentially the same as a sweep, and I like Jock and Tavon out in space.”

Stewart used two key terms in that quote, and they are “the box” and “open space.”

The box, in case of a lack of clarity, is an area of the field incorporating the defensive linemen, linebackers and any defensive back within the proximity of the line of scrimmage near the edges of the defensive line.

Secondly, it is no secret getting your best athletes the ball in space increases the team’s chances of a big gain.

“I don’t like to play in a phone booth,” Stewart said.

“What you do with that play is take quick, little men in open space, and force guys to make tackles in the open field.”

The play has worked on occasions this season, but Stewart was quick to dismiss it as the team’s No. 1 play in the playbook.

“It scored at LSU, and I thought it was a pretty good play,” Stewart said. “But is it our No. 1 play? No, it wasn’t the play we used to find (tight end) Will Johnson in the back of the end zone against Marshall. It wasn’t the play on those (wide receiver) Bradley Starks touchdown catches.”

So, you see, the bubble screen has its merits throughout the game, and it even can be used to set up other plays as seen in last Thursday’s game against South Florida.

The Mountaineers ran the screen play repeatedly until they used it to set up a hook and ladder play on which running back Noel Devine scored a touchdown.

“As the ebb and flow of the game went, we tried a lot of screen plays,” said offensive coordinator Jeff Mullen. “It seemed like the perfect time to call that play.”

With all this being said, feel free to boo if WVU runs multiple screens this weekend.

Heck, it’s your First Amendment right.

But, know this: For the last eight seasons, the Mountaineers have used that exact play as an ingredient to help win at least eight games in each year. brian.kuppelweiser@mail.wvu.edu

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

WEST VIRGINIA HAS EYES SET ON NCAA TOURNAMENT

BY BRAD JOYAL

Mountaineers’ mentality doesn’t include losses

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Less than a month ago, the West Virginia women’s soccer team had a 4-4-1 record, and there was a lot to be done for the Mountaineers to return to the NCAA Tournament.

Since then, the team has won sevenstraight games and all but stamped its ticket to the NCAA Tournament.

After already securing a bye for the first round of the Big East Conference Tournament, the team returned to the national rankings this week at No. 23 in the Soccer America polls.

“I’m going to put my faith in the committee,” said WVU head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown. “They’ve always done a great job. We need to do more to guarantee our spot.”

The Mountaineers are currently in second place in the Big East American Division behind Marquette (12-3-2, 9-0-0).

West Virginia’s only conference loss – and it’s last loss – came to the Golden Eagles in a 2-1 loss Sept. 23.

The Mountaineers are ranked No. 28 in the RPI, yet the team is still focused on improving its record and realizes there are no guarantees when it comes to the NCAA selection committee.

West Virginia’s biggest win of the season came over Virginia, which is ranked No. 8 in the national poll and carries a No. 7 RPI. The Mountaineers topped the Cavaliers (10-3-1) in a 1-0 win at home Sept.

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Senior goalkeeper Kerri Butler said the team’s 3-0 win over conference foe Georgetown Oct. 17 is just more proof the Mountaineers deserve an NCAA bid.

“We’ve done enough to definitely make the tournament. That doesn’t mean that we stop playing,” Butler said.

“We need to keep improving.”

Notre Dame (14-1-1, 8-0-1)has the highest RPI (No. 4) among Big East teams and leads the Big East’s National Division.

The Fighting Irish were named the regular season conference champions and also clinched a bye to the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament.

Izzo-Brown said the RPI plays a huge factor in determining whether teams qualify for the NCAA Tournament.

The coach feels the Mountaineers’ RPI should be higher after beating top-tier teams.

“You never know with the RPI how that is going to work out,” Izzo-Brown said. “I thought our RPI should be a lot higher.”

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West Virginia forward Morgan Betscher battles for a ball with a Georgetown player in the Mountaineers’ 3-0 victory over the Hoyas Sunday.

More work will be done this weekend and throughout the Big East Tournament to try to improve the Mountaineers’ NCAA Tournament stock.

Right now, the Mountaineers are focused on beating Connecticut – a team no member of this year’s team has

beaten.

“We definitely need to beat UConn,” Butler said. “Personally, I’ve never beat UConn, and I’d love to kick their butts at home.”

It is easy to say the West Virginia women’s soccer team is not what it was in September.

The team knows it has the mental toughness to come back from a large deficit and win – something that West Virginia head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown says would not have been true in the first half of the season.

The Mountaineers (11-4-1, 7-1-1 Big East Conference) have the confidence and determination to keep a lead and battle with opposing teams’ strongest players, as they showed in shutting down one of the Big East’s, and, in the eyes of Izzo-Brown, one of the nation’s best midfielders in Georgetown’s Ingrid Wells.

“I learned that when there’s adversity, true character comes out, and there was some character that came out tonight,” Izzo-Brown said after Friday night’s 4-3 overtime win over Villanova. “We started a little slow at home, and we paid the price, and obviously in the second half adjustments were made. The ladies responded, and we played West Virginia soccer.”

The Mountaineers were down 3-1 against Villanova just five minutes into the second half and managed to make the comeback, despite some mistakes on the defensive side of the ball.

The team never panicked or got down on themselves and came together to eventually score the next three goals to get the win.

“I knew that we would come back. I had faith that we would come back,” said center defender Drea Barklage. “It was a totally different team in the second half. It’s just promising. We should never have three goals

scored on us, ever. We were big in the offensive third, and that’s what counts.”

Barklage said because of the way the team battled back and won, it shows how much character and resiliency it has right now.

“We know that we have this mentality that it’s not OK to lose,” Barklage said. “When we have breakdowns, everyone takes it upon themselves to make a difference.”

Midfielder Bri Rodriguez, who scored the overtime winner against the Wildcats, believes that if the game was played earlier in the season, WVU may not have come out on the right end.

“We’re just a different team now than were we back then,” Rodriguez said.

On Sunday, the Mountaineers got strong midfield play by controlling the middle of the field and feeding forwards Blake Miller and Frances Silva, who combined for all three goals in the game.

Izzo-Brown credits her midfielders for shutting down Wells.

Wells has played on the U.S. National Youth team and was all first-team Big East last year.

The 2009 Big East midfielder of the year did not record a shot against the Mountaineers.

“Credit (Caroline) Szwed, Ashton (Larkin), (Bri) Rod,” Izzo-Brown said. “I mean really just to shut Ingrid down because she’s a great player … hats off to our midfield.”

The team’s mental toughness and confidence in each other is what has gotten them on this seven-game winning streak.

“We do have that fight,” said defender Erica Henderson. “We have the ability to push through anything that is pretty much tossed our way.” ben.gaughan@mail.wvu.edu

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Frustrated James Harrison excused from Pittsburgh’s practice PITTSBURGH (AP)—This time, James Harrison sacked himself.

The unhappy Steelers linebacker was excused from Wednesday’s practice after meeting with coach Mike Tomlin about the $75,000 fine Harrison incurred for a helmet hit on a Browns receiver. Tomlin felt Harrison needed time to cool off.

Harrison was so upset with the fine – and the NFL’s stricter enforcement of dangerous hits – that he said he was weighing retirement, although Tomlin expects him to practice on Thursday.

“I thought it was beneficial for him and for us if I gave him a little time to cool off and give him the day off,” Tomlin said. “I excused him at that time and we went on and had a productive day. I’m sure he will be back in the building tomorrow.”

Harrison said in multiple radio interviews that he isn’t certain that he can keep playing the way he has been taught, now that the league not only is fining players but is threatening to suspend them for flagrant hits.

He was fined $5,000 earlier this season for a hit on Titans quarterback Vince Young. Neither of the Harrison hits that drew fines was penalized.

“How can I continue to play this game the way that I’ve been taught to play this game since I was 10 years old?” Harrison said on Sirius/XM radio. “And now you’re telling me that everything that they’ve taught me from that time on, for the last 20-plus years, is not the way you’re supposed to play the game any more? If that’s the case I can’t play by those rules.

You’re handicapping me.”

The three-time Pro Bowl outside linebacker also said he might retire, although the Steelers don’t seem to be taking that threat seriously.

If he quit, Harrison would owe the Steelers a share of the $20 million in upfront money he collected when he signed a $51.2 million, six-year contract in April 2009.

Steelers linebacker LaMarr Woodley also expects Harrison back, saying, “He loves the game too much, man. He loves it too much.”

Harrison was the 2008 AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year and has a reputation of being one of the league’s hardest hitters.

His helmet hits about seven minutes apart in the second quarter caused Browns receivers Joshua Cribbs and Mohamed Massaquoi to leave Sunday’s game with concussions.

Harrison was fined, but not suspended, for the hit on Massaquoi because the receiver could not protect himself as attempted to complete a catch.

Harrison appeared to launch himself toward Massaquoi and struck the receiver with his helmet.

Tomlin repeated Wednesday that he is convinced Harrison’s hit was permissible.

“This is a very emotional thing for James,” Tomlin said.

“He’s a very disciplined and regimented guy who’s passionate about the game of football. It bothers him maybe that he’s beap ing perceived as a dirty player. Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison (92) hits Cleveland Browns wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi, 11, during the second quarter of a an NFL football game in Pittsburgh.

He doesn’t desire to be. He sim- Harrison was fined $75,000 on Tuesday for his hit against Massaquoi. ply wants to play the game and play it extremely well.”

After the game, Harrison said he tries to hurt opposing players because it helps the Steelers win, although he doesn’t try to injure players. Tomlin wouldn’t speculate if those comments may have led the NFL to increase its fine. Harrison has since backed off those comments, saying he doesn’t try to injure anyone.

The absent Harrison received considerable support from his teammates, with guard Chris Kemoeatu saying that the linebacker’s relentless attitude motivates the offensive players, too.

“He is a really big influence to us,” Kemoeatu said. “We look up to him and we see his style of play and we want to be like him and hit like him and run like him. I don’t know how he’s affected by it, but I know he’s disappointed. I think he’s going to work things out and I think he will be all right.

Told that Harrison was contemplating retirement, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady joked that he hoped it was true.

“I’d love to for him to retire,” said Brady, who plays in Pittsburgh on Nov. 14. “If he retired, it would make me very happy.”

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WVU’s Barclay, Tandy named to midseason all-American team Two West Virginia football players – tackle Don Barclay and cornerback Keith Tandy – were named fourth-team all-American by Phil Steele in his midseason awards released Wednesday.

Barclay has had a solid senior season for the Mountaineers at left tackle. Tandy is tied for second in the NCAA in interceptions with four in 2010.

Quarterback Geno Smith has been named the all-Big East Conference first-team. Smith, the Mountaineers’ sophomore signal caller, has passed for Barclay 1,358 yards and 14 touchdowns this season.

WVU players joining Smith on the first team: center Joe Madsen, Barclay, nose tackle Chris Neild, linebacker J.T. Thomas, safety Robert Sands and Tandy.

Players on the second team: running back Noel Devine, slot receiver Tavon Austin, slot receiver/returner Jock Sanders as punt returner, defensive tackle Scooter Berry, defensive end Julian Miller and linebacker Najee Goode.

Players on the third team: Sanders as a receiver, guard Eric Tandy Jobe, tackle Jeff Braun, defensive end Bruce Irvin, safety Terence Free food and other games Garvin and safety Sidney Glover. will be provided at the lot. No alcohol will be permitted.

Coke Zero College Tailgate to be at Student LOT Saturday Big East/Big Ten Baseball The Coke Zero College TailChallenge announced gate Tour will make a stop at the The schedule for the third Student LOT Saturday prior to annual Big East/Big Ten BaseWest Virginia’s football game vs. ball Challenge, hosted by the St. Syracuse.

Petersburg/Clearwater Sports Performing at the WVU StuCommission, was announced dent LOT will be musical artist Tuesday. West Virginia will open Jennifer Paige and special guests the challenge against Iowa Feb. Rivers Monroe. The lot will open 18. The Mountaineers will face at 9 a.m.

Penn State Feb. 19 and Illinois Besides the live music, there Feb. 20. will be plenty of giveaways inThis is the third year of the Big cluding: Coca-Cola shirts, hats East/Big Ten Challenge, which and other gear, and Sunoco Gas- takes place at the beginning of oline reward cards and T-shirts. the college baseball season. Big

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Continued from page 8 outstanding athlete who has two sacks and two forced fumbles in 2010. Mikhail Marinovich is also an athletic speed rusher.

Grade: B-

Continued from page 8 feel or maybe they feel that if they get the ball in their hands in space that those players can score anywhere on the field – no matter how they touch the football.”

Marrone is also concerned at how his offensive will combat the 3-3-5 defense WVU runs.

Wrestling schedule announced The West Virginia wrestling team opens the season Nov. 6.

“Coach (Craig) Turnbull and the wrestling team experienced success last season, and our fans will have more excitement ahead with this season’s schedule,” said Athletic Director Oliver Luck in a release. “This is a very quality schedule that our wrestlers will participate in.”

In one of its earliest starts in program history, WVU will head to the Terrapin Invitational Nov. 6 to face Maryland, Liberty and McDaniel.

The Mountaineers will then compete at several prestigious tournaments including the Washington and Jefferson Invitational, the Navy Classic (Annapolis, Md.) and the Sprawl ‘n’ Brawl (Vestal, N.Y.). WVU will face some of the strongest programs in the nation at these meets, including Penn State and Rutgers.

At the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational and the Reno Tournament of Champions, the Mountaineers will see some of the top programs throughout the Midwest such as Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Iowa.

— Compiled by Tony Dobies

lent coverage skills. At cornerback, Da’Mon Merkerson and Phillip Thomas are new starters that have helped a pass defense that was the worst in the Big East last year. Grade: B-

Special teams Punter Rob Long is one of the best in the country at his craft with a 43.6 yard average per punt. PlaceLinebackers Senior Derrell Smith is as good as kicker Ross Krautman has hit six of seven field goal attempts. they come. This season, he leads the team with 51 tackles. A former Grade: B+ running back, Smith is a tremenCoaching dous athlete that has a knack for big plays. Another former running Head coach Doug Marrone is in his second season as head coach for back, Doug Hogue teams with the Orange, and he has improved Smith. Grade: B+ the program immensely. Syracuse enters the game with a 4-2 record, Defensive backs which ties its win total for all of last Without a doubt, the strongest part of this secondary is at safety. year. Marrone has years of experience in both the NFL and college Shamarko Thomas and Mike football. Grade: B Holmes compliment each other well. Thomas is known as the hit — Compiled by Brian Kuppelweiser man, while Holmes has excel-

syracuse

East baseball returns to Clearwater at the end of the regular season for the 2011 Big East Championship at Bright House Field May 25-29.

The Big East/Big Ten Baseball Challenge consists of eight teams from each conference.

Connecticut, Cincinnati, Louisville, Notre Dame, Pitt, St. John’s, Seton Hall and West Virginia will represent the Big East. The Big Ten will be represented by Iowa, Penn State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Illinois, Michigan, Michigan State and Purdue.

“Offensively, it is more of an issue, because we haven’t seen that defense,” Marrone said. “They are extremely fast and extremely talented, and they know exactly what they are doing, because they have fine coaches on the defensive staff.”

Also working against Syracuse is the team’s lack of depth. In some cases, the shortage is so bad the team has been practicing without

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da sports staff picks BILL STEWART QUOTE OF THE WEEK “I talked too long at the coffee shop.”

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SYRACUSE vs. WEST VIRGINIA UCLA vs. OREGON SOUTH FLORIDA vs. CINCINNATI MICHIGAN ST. vs. NORTHWESTERN RUTGERS vs. PITTSBURGH NOTRE DAME vs. NAVY LSU vs. AUBURN CONNECTICUT vs. LOUISVILLE NEBRASKA vs. OKLAHOMA ST. KANSAS STATE vs. BAYLOR WISCONSIN vs. IOWA NORTH CAROLINA vs. MIAMI OKLAHOMA vs. MISSOURI AIR FORCE vs. TCU WASHINGTON vs. ARIZONA LAST WEEK SEASON RECORD

men’s b-ball Continued from page 8

Despite the ongoing opinion that the powerhouse basketball conference may endure a down season this year, WVU head coach Bob Huggins said it may be as competitive as ever.

“I don’t think the Big East is down,” Huggins said during his preseason media conference Oct. 14. “Pitt has everybody back. Pitt’s going to be a top 10 team. Syracuse had a great recruiting class, and they’ve got people back. Villanova’s got people back. When you look around at the coaches in this league, when’s the last time Rick Pitino didn’t win 20?

“People can sit around and say, ‘They’re down.’ They don’t have to play them. At the end of the day, we’ll have seven or eight teams in the NCAA Tour-

nament, and we’ll have three or four teams in the top 10.”

Georgetown’s Austin Freeman was nabbed as the Big East’s Preseason Player of the Year. The three-year starter for the Hoyas averaged 16.5 pointsper-game last year including the best field-goal percentage among Big East guards while helping GU advance to the league’s title game before falling to West Virginia.

It was the sixth time a Georgetown player has received the award, joining Roy Hibbert (2007-08), Alonzo Mourning (1991-92) and three-time selection Patrick Ewing (1982-85).

Mountaineer forward Kevin Jones was the only WVU player selected onto an all-conference team. The 6-foot-8 junior was named to the league’s first unit, joining Freeman, Connecticut’s Kemba Walker, Pittsburgh’s Ashton Gibbs, Seton Hall’s Jer-

emy Hazell and Villanova’s Corey Fisher.

Georgetown point guard Chris Wright was a secondteam selection, along with Marquette’s Jimmy Butler, Notre Dame’s Tim Abromaitis, St. John’s D.J. Kennedy, and Syracuse forward Kris Joseph.

Syracuse freshman Fab Melo was picked as the conference’s Preseason Rookie of the Year.

The 7-foot center from Brazil earned McDonald’s and Parade All-American honors while playing at Sagemont High School in Sagemont, Fla., last year.

Pittsburgh plays the league’s first game on Nov. 8 when it hosts Rhode Island at the Petersen Events Center.

West Virginia opens its season on Nov. 12 when it hosts Oakland at the WVU Coliseum. brian.gawthrop@mail.wvu.edu

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No update on paralyzed Rutgers’ player ap

Syracuse head coach Doug Marrone leads his team out onto the field earlier this season. His team is 4-2 this season in his second year as head coach of the Orange’s program. pads in order to prevent future injuries.

“I never want to stand up here as a coach and create excuses for injuries or how we have to manage this team,” Marrone said. “Could we be a little bit better if we had some more full padded practices?

Maybe, but I’m not going to use that as an excuse for why we are not executing well.” brian.kuppelweiser@mail.wvu.edu

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — The 72-hour window of hope has come and gone for paralyzed Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand without word on whether he has had any feeling or movement below his neck.

Coach Greg Schiano had no medical update on LeGrand’s condition after the team practiced on Wednesday, the fourth day since the junior defensive tackle was paralyzed from the neck down making a tackle on a kickoff return against Army on Saturday afternoon.

Some doctors believe if a person who sustained a spinal cord injury does not have some feeling or movement within 72 hours, there is little chance of recovery.

Schiano is adamant in his belief LeGrand will walk again.

To honor their teammate, Rutgers players have put a sticker on the front of their helmets with the word “believe.”

“When they look at it, they will see it,” Schiano said of the sticker.

Dr. Roy Vingan, a neurosurgeon with the North Jersey Brain and Spine Group, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday that there is set time to determine the extent of a spinal cord injury.

From his personal experience, however, Vingan said spinal cord patients who exhibit no evidence of neurological function below the area of injury within 24 to 72 hours do not make a significant

recovery. He said there have been one or two exceptions in the time he has practiced, but the number is very low.

“Seventy-two hours is a reasonable amount of time, I think, and many would agree, to access the patient; that if there is no function within 72 hours, it is unlikely there will be a recovery.”

While Vingan is associated with Hackensack University Medical Center, where LeGrand had surgery and is being treated, he was unable to comment on the case because of federal privacy laws. The family has authorized Rutgers to release information about the 20-year-old LeGrand of Avenel.

Strides have been made in helping patients live with spinal cord injuries over the last 25 years, Vingan said.

“The survival potential has significantly improved,” Vingan said.

“The treatment of the injury itself and ability to say we’ve progressed light years in the repair of the spinal cord or in preventing the worsening of an injury once it has occurred, the answer is it is not light years. There has been some improvement, but we certainly don’t have a remedy for a spinal cord injury to repair the cord itself.”

Vingan said there are basically two types of spinal cord injuries, complete or incomplete.

A complete spinal cord injury is irreversible, he said. However,

roughly 85 percent of the people with incomplete injuries show some kind of functional improvement, the surgeon added.

Linebacker Antonio Lowery looked down at the believe sticker on his helmet after practice on Wednesday and said it was a “perfect” way to sum up the feelings of LeGrand’s teammates.

“When I see that, it explains everything,” Lowery said. “It’s just believe every aspect from school, social life, football. It hits home.”

Lowery admitted it has been hard not getting much news about LeGrand’s condition in recent days. However, he knows Schiano has been at the hospital every night and if something bad had happened, he thinks the coach would have told the team.

What Lowery wants this week is a win for LeGrand on Saturday, when the Scarlet Knights (4-2, 1-0 Big East) are in Pittsburgh to play the Panthers (3-3, 1-0).

“Not just one (win), everything we do we want to do it for him,” Lowery said. “When I come out on this practice field and some days you don’t feel like practicing, think of him, and I’ll bet your mind gets back on track. If I have a homework or paper to do, and I don’t feel like doing it, think of him, and I’ll do it.

“So it’s just not this one game, it’s everything,” said Lowery, who had a career-high 19 tackles in the 23-20 overtime win over Army last weekend.

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