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City manager candidates attend forum

BY ERIN FITZWILLIAMS STAFF WRITER

More than 40 Morgantown residents, City Council members and neighborhood association members came out to speak with the top candidates for city manager Tuesday.

The event featured top candidates Tony Massey, city manager in Frankfort, Ky.; Terrence Moore, city manager in Las Cruces, N.M.; and Jeff Mikorski, former assistant city manager and current interim city manager for Morgantown.

The forum had a casual setup that allowed everyone in attenFOR MORE INFORMATION dance to mix and mingle with the candidates and speak with A special meeting open to the them directly. public will be held tonight at Matthew Held, president of the Greenmont Neighbor7 for City Council to review the hood Association, asked each candidates. The meeting will of the candidates what they take place in City Hall at 389 thought of West Virginia University students coexisting with Spruce St. the permanent residents of the community.

Since he has knowledge “There’s been plenty of public friction on the matter,” Held about WVU students specifsaid. “I want a city manager to ically, he wants to further develop the Sunnyside area for listen and look at the issues.”

students to have their own residential neighborhood, Mikorski said.

The problem cannot be specific only to Morgantown, Massey said, and he would look toward other college towns with similar issues and find a solution.

Moore said he has worked on similar issues in New Mexico and would apply what he learned there to Morgantown.

“I had an experience with the Personal Rapid Transit. I rode it from Walnut all the way to Medical,” he said. “It was great to see

Morgantown from that view and see what the students do.”

Robert McNeill, a retired resident who was born and raised in Morgantown, asked the candidates how they will be able to work across racial lines.

“If they couldn’t, they didn’t need to apply,” he said.

Each candidate answered their question thoroughly based on their experience working in diverse cities, McNeill said.

In addition to the forum, the candidates met with various city officials such as the fire

marshal and the police chief to discuss different philosophies and answer questions, Moore said.

Councilor Marti Shamberger said the process of finding a city manager has been impressive, and the council will have to make a very thoughtful decision.

So far, the top three candidates have finished interviews, tours of the city and meeting elected officials, said Scott Reilly, CEO of Affion Public, the

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Students meet and greet candidates Twirlers come in

second place in national contest by sarah o’rourke staff writer

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“Even though we aren’t Feature Twirlers at West going to be on the cover we Virginia University came in know we won the hearts second place last week in a of our fans out there and competition to be featured on we could not have done it a national magazine’s cover. without them.”

Twirl Magazine hosted the competition for its colPaula Jo Meyer-Stout lege edition, and results were WVU Marching Band Auxiliary based on popular vote. Pennand Twirling coach sylvania State University won.

Paula Jo Meyer–Stout, WVU Marching Band Auxiliary and Twirling coach said there is tremendous support the response they received for the WVU Marching Band from Mountaineer fans was and West Virginia,” she said. “overwhelming.”

“Even though we aren’t “We had about 3,400 votes see twirlers on PAGE 2 from our fans, which shows us

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West Virginia House of Representatives candidate Paul Brown speaks about his platform during Meet the Candidates event Tuesday evening in the Mountainlair.

25 to 30 students attend forum with West Virginia Senate and House of Delegate candidates

BY SARAH O’ROURKE staff writer

Nine candidates for the West Virginia House of Delegates from Monongalia County and two candidates for WV State Senate from Monongalia and Marion counties discussed issues related to their platforms and the importance of student involvement Tuesday night.

The event was hosted by the Student Government Association at West Virginia University.

This is the first time in nearly 20 years that an SGA administration has organized a Meet the Candidates event, said Nelson France, SGA liaison to City Council.

France said he hopes students learned about the candidates who are running and what they will do for the state.

“I hope that by the end of the night, at least one student comes away educated on what

the platform issues are, why it’s important to vote and why the candidates are running,” France said before the event. Each candidate spoke on their key issues and answered questions from an audience of less than 30 students in the Gluck Theatre of the Mountainlair Tuesday night.

WV Democratic Senate candidate Bob Beach said biotechnology and the need for a WVU Research Park facility are the most important things for Morgantown.

Road conditions and water quality are also important issues to his platform, he said.

It is important for students to vote because it allows them to have a voice in Charleston, he added.

WV Republican Senate candidate Cindy Frich said her mission is to make West VirChelsi Baker/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM ginia a place where children can West Virginia House of Representatives candidate Charlene Marshall speaks to students about her platform during the Meet the Candidates event in the Mountainlair see candidates on PAGE 2 Tuesday evening.

Local dentists to buy back candy for troops overseas by jessica leppar staff writer

Morgantown dentists want to buy trick-or-treaters Tootsie Rolls, Candy Corn and Blow Pops this weekend to send to U.S. troops.

Wilson Martino Dental and TLC Dental are encouraging children and their families to sell their sweets are the candy buy back event Tuesday.

The dentists then package the candy and ship “goodie” bags to local troops who are serving overseas, said Wendy Boyce, director of marketing

at Wilmar Management, the management organization for Wilson Martino Dental.

“The troops really enjoy this because they are over there without families, so when they get something from home, it really means a lot to them,” said Wilson Martino of Wilson Martino Dental.

Participants receive $1 per pound of candy they bring in, along with a toothbrush, Boyce said.

There will also be an arts and crafts station set up where children can create cards for the troops to add to their

candy donation, she said.

A group of dentists across the country came up with the event, but members of Wilson Martino Dental and TLC Dental add a “personal touch” by sending the bags to local troops, Boyce said.

The troops’ names and addresses come from patients, community members and churches, she said.

“If anyone has someone close to them serving, they may send their address to me,” Boyce said. “All names are welcome and wanted. We will gladly make sure that they get

a box of candy.”

The event began in 2006, and last year, more than 700 pounds of candy were shipped to troops overseas.

The businesses hope the event grows every year, Boyce said.

Wilson Martino Dental is located at 1016 Maple Drive in Morgantown and TLC Dental is located at 1839 Listravia Ave. in Sabraton.

The Candy Buy Back event will be held during the dentists’ regular office hours.

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The 2010 West Virginia University Feature Twirlers at Milan Puskar Stadium.

WVU student a finalist in lingerie competition

BY Melissa Candolfi STAFF WRITER

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One West Virginia University student is baring it for breast cancer.

Devin Links, a junior prejournalism major, is a finalist for a lingerie contest to benefit breast cancer research.

“Mansion Madness,” hosted by www.CollegeMansion.com, began in September with 52 girls broken into regions from all over the country. Links, representing the southern region, is now in Round 4 of 6 with 1,777 votes. If she makes it to the final round, she has a chance to win $5,000 and be crowned “Miss Mansion.”

“I completely forgot about the contest, and then I got an e-mail about it,” Links said. “It said I was in the top 52.”

When Links got the e-mail, she started to promote herself even though she was hes-

To vote for Devin, visit: www. collegemansion.com/mansion-madness-main.php itant about photos of her in her lingerie appearing on the Internet.

“I didn’t want people to look at the pictures and be like ‘oh my god,’” she said. “But then I said ‘whatever’ because I am representing my school, and they should support me.”

Throughout the competition, Links won a trip to the Bahamas. If she qualifies for Round 5, she will win a trip to California.

Each girl in the competition has a deck of cards with pictures of themselves made

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DEVINE BACK AT 100 PERCENT? West Virginia starting running back Noel Devine has been labored by a bone bruise. But, the senior should be back at full health Friday.

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Continued from page 1 going to be on the cover, we know we won the hearts of our fans out there, and we could not have done it without them.”

The voting poll was available through Facebook, she said.

Of WVU’s 3,400 votes, more than 400 voters left comments supporting the twirlers, Meyer–Stout said.

“This was a positive experience all around,” she said. “It has given us greater visibility in the twirling world and helped put our name out there and rank us among some of the most elite twirling teams.”

Since the competition, a few people interested in twirling have contacted Meyer– Stout about attending WVU for its twirling program, she

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Continued from page 1 to be sold for $5 each. All of the cards’ proceeds go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer research and awareness.

Amy Links, Devin’s godmother, said the competition has raised Devin’s self-esteem.

“She is getting great feedback,” Amy said. “It is a great opportunity for girls her age.

It has brought her to a level to feel comfortable doing what she loves: modeling.”

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Continued from page 1 consulting firm that handled resumes and narrowed down the candidates.

The new city manager will be elected by the council, and they hope to hire someone in late November or early December, said Mayor Bill Byrne in a previous report.

Affion Public received more than 60 applications for the position, he said. The top eight applicants were presented to council and narrowed down to three earlier this month.

Even if he is not chosen as

said.

“It’s important to bring elite twirlers here not only for twirling, but also for academics,” she said. “We want successful twirlers who become successful students.”

Currently WVU has four twirlers. Other universities have one to two twirlers, Meyer–Stout said.

The twirlers are Donovan Sarr, graduate student in industrial relations; Kirsten Brown, a junior wildlife and fisheries major; Whitney Godwin, a junior broadcast news journalism major; and Kayla Morris, a sophomore exercise physiology major.

Sarr, who has won several national and world competitions, said the experience has been great.

“There is really a feeling of a team, and it’s nice to have other people with me while performing and know what is

going on,” he said.

The twirlers have the same responsibilities as band members when it comes to practice, performances and classes, Meyer–Stout said.

Many people don’t realize what is behind their show on the field, Sarr said.

“We have broken bones, and our fingers our always shot,” he said. “People assume it’s easy, but it’s not once you get out there and try to do it.”

Stout said being a twirler requires both athleticism and artistic abilities.

“It’s important to realize that a lot of training and time goes into twirling,” she said.

“The fact that on a Saturday WVU has four elite twirlers who are at a high level of performance is not something you see at a lot of other places other than WVU.”

Amy said the competition is not pornographic in any way.

“Any money that is raised for breast cancer awareness may be the funds for a cure one day,” Amy said. “The government isn’t putting time into finding a cure, so it’s up to us to raise the money.”

Amy said Devin has been making use of Facebook to promote herself.

“Her family is helping her any way possible,” she said. “I have a son in West Point. We are sending cards to him to send to his friends in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Amy said Devin has been getting a lot of support from WVU. “For WVU, it is a way for students to get involved in some kind of excitement,” she said.

“With all the horrible things in the world, this is nothing bad.

People are cheering her on and voting for her.”

Voting for Round 5 ends Monday at midnight. Devin is facing off against Meagan Adamo, a student from Lindenwood University in Missouri, for a spot in the final round.

the new permanent city manager, Mikorski said he will still remain active in Morgantown as the assistant city manager.

“I am a team player,” he said. “I take it as an honor to be with the team. I’ve learned different styles of managing with the city managers I have worked with.”

Mikorski was appointed as interim city manager at the Sept. 21 City Council meeting to serve in the absence of former city manager Dan Boroff.

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receive a good education and have opportunities available to them.

It is important for graduates to remain in the state, she said.

Her goal is to create jobs and resources for WVU students.

WV House of Delegates Democratic candidate Tony Barill said the important issues on his platform are job creation, road construction and education.

Barill said he thinks in-state tuition should not be raised for the next two years, and should only be raised for out-of-state students.

He said he believes students should vote because it is their Constitutional right to do so.

Paul Brown, an Independent candidate for the WV House, is running on a platform based on the scientific research he completed on global warming, overpopulation and mass extinction.

If elected, he will work on those issues, he said.

Democratic WV House candidate Steve Cook said he is running because he is passionate about public service and because he hopes to fill one of the two vacancies in the House of Delegates.

Cook said the three most important issues to him are jobs, the environment and education.

Barbara Fleichauer, Democratic incumbent candidate for WV House, said she is running because she wants to improve the state of West Virginia.

“A lot of times students don’t come to legislatures with ideas of things they think we should be working on,” she said. “We

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can do something if you come to us with things that are important to you.”

Fleichauer said she worked on reforming landlord-tenant laws in the past and will continue to do so.

Charlene Marshall, Democratic incumbent candidate for WV House, said the issues she wants to work on include reforming the Promise Scholarship and bringing funds to WVU. Marshall said she wants to work on bringing back the students who have left state to attend other universities.

Republican candidate for WV House, Amanda Pasdon, said it is important for students to go to the polls and vote.

“You’re worried about studying and grades and so many other things, you’re not worried about politics,” she said. “But let me assure you, you need to get involved.”

Kevin Patrick, Republican candidate for WV House, said the most important issues that need to be protected in West Virginia are life, liberty and property.

Kevin Poe, a Republican candidate for WV House, said he wants to work on creating more jobs to avoid having students leaving.

“You (students) need to get involved because this is your future, you need to shape it,” he said. “If you don’t get involved, other people will make decisions for you.”

Chris Walters, a Republican candidate for WV House, is a senior international studies major.

He said he is waiting on six credits to transfer from a university in Poland.

Walters said he understands

what students are going through and he is better suited to help them in Charleston.

Walters said he would like to have professors make their textbooks available on E-Readers such as Amazon’s Kindle and other hand-held reading devices. This would save students more than 20% percent on textbooks, he said Tab Britch, who is also running for the WV House of Delegates, was unable to attend the event.

David Tyler George, a junior aerospace engineering major, said he attended the event because he is politically involved.

George said he thought it was important that a lot of the candidates related to WVU. “There were people tonight who represented all sides of the issues,” he said. “There was a wide range of issues, such as global warming and student issues, and it was nice to hear about them.”

SGA President Chris Lewallen said the event turned out very well, but he was disappointed in the student turnout.

“Students are apathetic, and it’s hard to get students involved, but still, it was nice to have an event so that if students want to become informed, they can,” he said.

Morgantown resident Pam Krushansky said she came to the event to support the Republican candidates.

“I think it was very good of the Student Government Association to organize this and to help educate the students on why it’s important to vote,” Krushansky said. sarah.o’rourke@mail.wvu.edu

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McCain urges W.Va. GOP to get out and vote

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Republican John Raese is a man conservatives can count on to stand by his principles when he gets to the U.S. Senate, and West Virginia’s seat could be the one that lets the GOP regain control, Arizona Sen. John McCain said Thursday.

McCain, West Virginia’s pick in the 2008 presidential election, earned standing ovations from several hundred voters crammed into a stuffy American Legion hall as Raese introduced him as “a real American hero.” He returned the favor by calling Raese “a man of standards, who stands up for what he believes in.”

Raese, who is locked in a competitive race with popular Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin, was greeted by a chant that echoed the theme of his campaign, “No rubber stamp!”

The two are slugging it out for the two years left on the unexpired term of the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd, who died in June.

Mountain Party candidate Jesse Johnson and Constitution Party member Jeff Becker are also in the hunt for the seat, but the two front-runners are engaged in a bitter and expensive battle that has national groups on both sides sinking cash into campaign advertising.

Combined, Raese and Manchin have spent some $4.4 million on the race so far. With control of the Senate potentially in

play, more than a dozen political groups and outside organizations have devoted another $8.3 million to the fight.

That’s nearly $13 million in a state of just 1.8 million people.

McCain underscored the importance of the race.

“I think what happens in West Virginia will determine whether Republicans are in the majority or not,” he said, urging the Republican base to work on friends and neighbors with election day less than a week away and predicting a long night of vote-counting. “... It’s all going to come down to whether we get the vote out.”

McCain blasted the agenda of President Barack Obama and the Democratically controlled Congress, saying “the out-ofcontrol spending, this mortgaging of our children’s future, is more than obscene.”

He also took on the president over a recent statement that Americans are scared.

“Americans are never scared,” McCain shouted to the cheering crowd. “We’re angry.

We’re mad as hell. But we’re never scared.

“And while you’re on your feet,” he added, “when John and I are in the Senate, there is going to be no terrorist that gets Miranda rights.”

Although his speech only lasted 10 minutes, McCain had the crowd on its feet at least four times.

Republicans are trying to make the election a referendum on Obama, insisting Manchin will be a rubber stamp for his party’s agenda. Manchin, meanwhile, is banking on his reputation as the wellliked governor of a financially healthy state, telling West Virginians to trust he’ll be an independent voice.

But McCain said Raese is the only man voters can be certain will vote to repeal the federal overhaul of the health care system.

After the rally, he mocked Manchin’s conservative stance on some key campaign issues, suggesting the governor switch parties and then challenge West Virginia’s other senator, Democrat Jay Rockefeller, for his seat.

Electing Raese, McCain said, would be “an extreme repudiation” of Obama’s agenda.

Raese, who has twice run for Senate, is chief executive of Greer Industries, which owns a radio network, a newspaper, steel, asphalt and limestone operations, a golf course and Seneca Caverns.

He was upbeat and confident after nearly an hour of shaking hands at Charles Town businesses and posing with voters for photographs on the sidewalks. Boasting about a poll that showed him 2 points ahead, within the margin of error, he promised the campaign will “up our efforts” in the final week.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s U.S. Senate and House races have attracted nearly $13 million worth of attention so far from non-candidate groups, with Republicans benefiting from nearly two-thirds of that spending.

Latest Federal Election Commission filings show at least 30 groups have weighed in on three of the state’s four federal contests. Their combined spending, $12.7 million as of Monday, is certain to increase in the week remaining until the general election. They reported expending $401,000 on Monday alone, the FEC filings show.

“The number of active groups and the amount of money being spent by these non-candidate groups has exploded this year,” said Brendan Glavin, a data manager for the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute.

Affiliated with The George Washington University, the institute estimates that this noncandidate spending nationwide will top $564 million by Nov. 2. Such spending reached $397 million in 2008. Glavin said West Virginia ranked 7th for non-candidate, non-party spending this election cycle.

“And spending $8 million in West Virginia gets you a lot farther than spending $8 million in New York City,” Glavin noted.

Nearly 70 percent of the West Virginia spending targets the Senate race featuring Republican John Raese and Gov. Joe Manchin, the Democratic nominee. Around $2.6 million has been to support or oppose the 1st Congressional District candidates, Democrat Mike Oliverio and the GOP’s David McKinley.

The rest, around $1.4 million, has been seen in the 3rd District race between Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., and Republican Elliott “Spike” Maynard.

The national Republican and Democratic parties have each spent $3.6 million of the statewide total through their House and Senate committees.

None of that money had been spent in the 3rd District contest, according to FEC reports.

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Massive windstorm howls across nation’s midsection CHICAGO (AP) — A massive storm with wind gusts up to 81 mph howled across the nation’s midsection Tuesday, snapping trees and power lines, ripping off roofs, delaying flights and soaking commuters hunched under crumpled umbrellas.

Spanning from the Dakotas to the eastern Great Lakes, the unusual system mesmerized meteorologists because of its size and because it had pressure similar to a Category 3 hurricane, but with much less destructive power.

Scientists said the storm had the force of a blizzard minus the snow.

“If it were colder, we’d have a blizzard with this system,” said David Imy, operations chief at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. But the temperatures were in the 50s and 60s, instead of 20s.

At one point, more than 145,000 homes and businesses were without power in Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and the St. Louis area.

The storm blew in from the Pacific Northwest on the strength of a jet stream that is about one-third stronger than normal for this time of year, Imy said. As the system moved into the nation’s heartland, it drew in warm air needed to fuel thunderstorms. Then the winds intensified and tornados

formed.

Add to that the fact the storm was moving fast, 50 to 60 mph, and the winds became even stronger, Imy said.

By Tuesday morning, sustained winds were about 35 to 40 mph. A gust of 81 mph was recorded in Butlerville, Ohio, and 80 mph in Greenfield, Ind., according to NOAA. By late afternoon, the storms were headed toward the East Coast. National Weather Service meteorologist Charles Mott said the winds might weaken, but a squall line was moving ahead of the storm, causing more tornado warnings.

A tornado touched down in Racine County, Wis., where two people were injured when a section of roof was torn off a tractor factory, and in Van Wert County, Ohio, near the Indiana border, where a barn was flattened and flipped over a tractor-trailer and camper. A tornado also touched down in Peotone, Ill., where three people were injured when a home’s roof came off, and twisters were suspected in several other states.

Sheryl Uthemann, 49, was working first shift at the Case New Holland plant in Mount Pleasant, Wis., when the storm blew through about 8 a.m. and started to lift the roof.

“It was just a regular workday and all of a sudden that noise

just came and (co-workers) said ‘Run! Run! Run!’ You didn’t have time to think,” she said. “I looked up where the noise was coming from and saw pieces of the roof sucked up. I’ve never been more scared, ever.”

In the Indiana town of Wanatah, about 60 miles southeast of Chicago, a pole barn at a hydraulics company was destroyed, and two homes were severely damaged, though no injuries were reported.

Firefighter John Sullivan said he saw a funnel cloud, but it did not touch down.

In the Chicago suburb of Lindenhurst, a woman was injured when a branch fell about 65 feet from a large tree, crashed into her car and impaled her abdomen. She was taken to a hospital in fair condition, authorities said.

Meteorologists said the storm had unusually low barometric pressure readings, comparable to those of a Category 3 hurricane but with much weaker winds. The wind gusts were only as strong as a tropical storm. Category 3 hurricanes have winds from 111 to 130 mph.

Storm pressure works like this: The lower the pressure, the greater the winds. The higher the pressure, the calmer and balmier the weather is. If Tuesday’s low-pressure system had been over water – where winds get higher – it would have cre-

Soros donates $1 million to Calif. pot legalization measure SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Billionaire financier George Soros has thrown his weight behind California’s marijuana legalization measure with a $1 million donation a week before the vote.

The contribution reported Tuesday by The Sacramento Bee is the single biggest donation from an individual other than Proposition 19’s main sponsor, Oakland medical marijuana entrepreneur Richard Lee. Soros, a high-profile liberal and philanthropist, has long backed drug law reform. He was one of the top financial backers of California’s first-inthe-nation measure that legalized medical marijuana in the state in 1996.

But Soros held off on openly endorsing the current measure until writing an op-ed published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. In the piece, Soros said legalizing and taxing marijuana would save taxpayers the costs of incarceration and law enforcement while raising revenue for the state.

“Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws,” Soros wrote.

The $1 million donation comes a day after the Yes on 19 campaign launched its first television ad. The opposition’s campaign also recently took to the airwaves for the first time with a radio ad sponsored by the California Cham-

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In this Jan. 14, 1997 file photo, Denis Peron, founder of the Cannabis Cultivators Club, smells a northern lights marijuana plant in the club’s growing room in San Francisco.

Some medical marijuana supporters have said Proposition 19, the ballot measure to legalize pot, could undermine the credibility of the drug as a medical treatment, including Peron, the San Francisco activist who was the driving force behind the 1996 ballot measure that legalized medical marijuana in the state. ber of Commerce, claiming the law would threaten workplace safety and harm the state’s economy.

Soros’ money went to a campaign committee overseen by the Drug Policy Alliance, a drug legalization advocacy group.

Soros sits on the group’s board and is a major donor.

The money will be spent on get-out-the-vote efforts, onthe-ground campaigning and television advertising, said Ethan Nadelmann, the alliance’s executive director and a longtime adviser to Soros on

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drug policy issues.

Soros has long supported medical marijuana and decriminalizing the drug for personal use but has in fact been ambivalent about broader legalization, Nadelmann said.

The 80-year-old investor finally decided to support Proposition 19 after seeing how the ballot measure had “elevated the discourse” around drug law reform, he said.

“For him, it’s not been about legalization per se, but about rolling back the drug war,” said Nadelmann.

A knocked down tree is shown Tuesday after a tornado touched down near Racine, Wis. ated a major hurricane, Imy said.

Tom Skilling, a meteorologist with WGN-TV in Chicago, said the size of the storm – 31 states were under some sort of whether advisory, from blizzards to thunderstorms to tornadoes – also was unusual.

Severe thunderstorm warnings blanketed much of the Midwest, and tornado watches were issued from Arkansas to Ohio.

Eleven states were under a high wind warning: Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa,

Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Ohio and parts of Kentucky.

The National Weather Service said the winds would subside Tuesday evening but could pick up again on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, much of North Dakota was under a blizzard warning. The National Weather Service said up to 10 inches of snow could fall in some areas into early Wednesday across North Dakota and into northern South Dakota. Wind gusts of more than 50 mph in many areas would make travel

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treacherous.

In the Chicago area, morning commuters faced blustery, wind-driven rain as they waited for trains. Some huddled beneath railway overpasses to stay out of the gusts, dashing to the platform at the last minute.

About 300 flights were canceled and others delayed at O’Hare Airport, a major hub for American and United airlines. The storms also disrupted flights at the Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Minneapolis airports.

Audit shows risks in National Archives WASHINGTON (AP) — An audit prompted in part by the loss of the Wright Brothers’ original patent and maps for atomic bomb missions in Japan finds some of the nation’s prized historical documents are in danger of being lost for good.

Nearly 80 percent of U.S. government agencies are at risk of illegally destroying public records and the National Archives is backlogged with hefty volumes of records needing preservation care, the audit by the Government Accountability Office found.

The report by the watchdog arm of Congress, completed this month after a year’s work and obtained by The Associated Press, also found many U.S. agencies do not follow proper procedures for disposing of public records.

Officials at the National Archives, which houses the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and other treasured documents at its Washington rotunda, had no immediate comment Tuesday on the findings.

The report comes more than a year after news reports of key items missing at the nation’s record-keeping agency. Some of the items have been missing for decades but their absence only became widely known in recent years.

The patent file for the Wright Brothers flying machine was last seen in 1980 after passing around multiple Archives offices, the Patents and Trademarks Office and the National Air and Space Museum.

As for maps for the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, military representatives checked them out in 1962, and they’ve been missing ever since.

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cifically mention those or other examples of missing items including Civil War telegrams from Abraham Lincoln, Eli Whitney’s cotton gin patent and some NASA photographs on the moon.

A second GAO report obtained by the AP details “significant weaknesses” in the Archives’ security. The Oct. 21 report refers to lost computer hard drive from the Clinton administration and highlights problems with the Archives’ computer access controls, clearance requirements for employees and physical security. A third report not yet released is expected to detail 213 recommendations to improve Archives’ security, the GAO said.

The risks highlighted by the GAO could affect volumes of mundane legal memos but also key pieces of history.

Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa requested the audits last year, alarmed at the “apparent lack of effective security.”

He noted the loss of the Wright Brothers’ patent, the Clinton administration computer data

with classified information and lost maps from World War II. “This agency is the country’s record keeper,” Grassley said in a statement Tuesday.

“It’s responsible for protecting classified materials and for preserving our most important historical documents. ...

The agency needs to commit to fixing its problems and follow through.”

The Archives acting alone “cannot solve the persistent problems facing federal records management,” the report said, because each agency is responsible for preserving documents.

But the Archives can improve its oversight, the GAO wrote, by pressing for improvement in government-wide records management.

Each agency is supposed to either seek permission to destroy records or recommend preservation at the Archives.

An archivist reviews agency submissions, which must include clear descriptions of the records involved, in a fourstep process. Archivists often review the records themselves.

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Forum highlights need for political involvement The Student Government Association of West Virginia University, including council liaison Nelson France, are to be commended for bringing together the various political candidates vying for the state’s vote.

The event, held during a stormy Tuesday evening in the Gluck Theatere in the Mountainlair, allowed the WVU and Morgantown community to meet their candidates.

West Virginia House of Dele-

gates candidates: Republicans included Kevin Patrick, Amanda Pasdon, Chris Walters and Kevin Poe. Democrats included Charlene Marshall, Barbara Fleischauer, Tony Barill and Steve Cook. Only one independent candidate, Paul Brown, was in attendance. Tad Britch was scheduled to attend but was unable to make the event.

West Virginia Senate candidates:

Candidates for the Senate include Democrat Bob Beach and Republican Cindy Frich.

The event gave the candidates a chance to better explain their platforms and why they deserve the vote of the public.

As with many election cycles, the messages of candidates can get lost in meaningless attack ads.

By organizing this event, SGA gave the voters – the some 50 in attendance – a chance to speak

directly to their candidates at an accompanying reception.

With only a few days before the nation votes, it’s all too easy to forget candidates running on the state and local level.

However, it is often these political offices that help shape the movement of the major political parties.

Had it not been for a few politicians unhappy with the direction of their country, the Tea Party movement may not have

begun.

State-level representatives often have better relationships with their voters than national political office holders, meaning the true sentiment of the public can be conveyed to those in D.C. The staff of The Daily Athenaeum encourages all in attendance – and those who didn’t get the chance to in the troublesome weather that dominated much of the evening – to con-

tinue to learn about their potential representatives.

Visit the campaign websites and read about candidates and their platforms. Get informed about the people that have influence over your daily life.

A vote is an important thing to waste on campaign slogans alone. Take advantage of these opportunities and get informed before Election Day. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

At midterm, give the Democrats more time to restore economy michael levy columnist

One week from today, we head to the polls to vote in the midterm elections.

Here in Morgantown, both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives races are extremely close.

In the Senate race, the latest New York Times election simulation showed Democrat Joe Manchin with 48.749 percent of the vote and Republican John Raese with 48.748 percent of the vote. That’s a one vote in 100,000 difference.

The U.S. House race between WVU alumnus Democrat Mike Oliverio and Republican David McKinley is similarly close.

This could be one of those elections where they’re recounting ballots for weeks after the election, so it is critical that you vote.

And, if you’ve been paying

attention, you know that the NATO-led action in Kosovo, country will be best served if which lasted a total of 2.5 we elect Democrats. months.

GDP grew at an annual rate How to decide whom to of over 6 percent. vote for Unemployment dropped by Politicians lie. It’s what they 42 percent.

And the federal governdo for a living.

Let’s give them the benefit of ment’s budget went from a the doubt and say they stretch deficit equal to 3.8 percent of the truth in order to garner GDP to a surplus of 2.4 percent campaign cash and our votes. of GDP, which was the first and In any case, to elect politi- last budget surplus since 1970. cians based on what they say during a campaign is about as The Bush Era rational as buying a used car Under the eight years of the without opening the hood be- George W. Bush presidency, we cause the salesman told you the had war, economic stagnation, engine was in great shape. and deregulation that nearly To understand what we will led to the complete breakdown get if we elect Democrats or Re- of our financial system. publicans, we have to look to Bush started two wars; wars history. from which we’re still trying to figure out how disentangle The Clinton Era ourselves.

With his huge tax cuts for Under the eight years of the Clinton presidency, we had the rich and implementation peace, prosperity and secure of Medicare Part D, Bush maneconomic footing. aged to take the budget surplus The only war the U.S. was in- Clinton handed him and turn volved under Clinton was the it into a deficit equal to 3.2 per-

cent of the country’s GDP. At the same time, economic growth slowed to an annual rate of 5 percent, and unemployment increased by more than 23 percent.

While the Bush Administration was putting into place these policies that diminished our prosperity and built our debt, they pushed for the deregulation of the financial markets that led our financial system to the brink of collapse.

Make no mistake about it – the protections that were put into place following the Great Depression and then repealed under Bush would have prevented the catastrophes of late 2008 and early 2009.

To avoid a complete meltdown of our financial and economic systems, Bush had to push through Congress TARP, the $338 billion rescue of the financial system, just before he left office.

perity that Clinton handed to Bush, Bush gave President Barack Obama two wars and an economy at risk of total collapse.

Knowing how desperate the situation was, the Obama administration quickly put into place an economic stimulus program to try to mitigate the damage.

The stimulus package included $288 billion in tax cuts, $224 billion in unemployment benefits and $275 billion in jobs creation, primarily through grants.

It is true that these programs, in addition to Bush’s TARP, will temporarily severely increase the deficit.

But if Obama hadn’t passed the stimulus package, we’d likely still be in recession, with unemployment above 12 percent.

Last weekend, Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman pointed out that severe financial crises The Obama Era are almost always followed by Unlike the peace and pros- prolonged periods of unem-

ployment. Two years just isn’t enough time to heal a crisis.

For voters to take out their anger at the economy on the Democrats is short-sighted and will have dire repercussions.

We elected Obama in 2008 because the Republicans had done so much damage to our economy and our country.

If we expected him to fix it all in two years, we overlooked the historical reality of the inertia of systems as large as our country.

We put the Democrats in charge to restore our prosperity and international standing. It’s what they’ve historically done, and it’s what they’re working on now.

Let’s give them a few more years to undo the catastrophic damage the Republicans did and get us back on track.

Voting in Morgantown If you need any information about where or how to vote, call the Monongalia County Clerk’s Voter Registration Line at 304-291-7238.

NPR right to fire Juan Williams for bigoted comments about Muslims omar ghabra columnist

Juan Williams was fired from NPR last week after comments he made about Muslims during an appearance on Fox News “The O’Reilly Factor.”

The story has dominated headlines in the past week and is yet another controversy dealing with the perception of Muslims in America.

Many critics believe the firing of Williams was an overreaction on behalf of NPR and are demanding that NPR stop receiving public funding.

The backlash that has been directed toward NPR is not warranted and reveals a troubling double standard when it comes to how Muslims are perceived in this country as opposed to other religious and ethnic groups.

Juan Williams, who had been employed by NPR for 10 years, uttered the consequen-

tial statement during a discussion with O’Reilly about his own controversial comments regarding Muslims made earlier on “The View.”

O’Reilly then asserted that opposition to the proposed Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan was justified because “the Muslims killed us on 9/11,” prompting two of the show’s hosts to storm off the stage.

During the discussion about whether or not O’Reilly’s comments were appropriate, Williams said when he gets on an airplane and sees “people who are in Muslim garb” he gets “worried” and “nervous.”

Not only were Williams’ comments prejudiced and offensive, but they were also illogical.

None of the hijackers on Sept. 11 were dressed in “Muslim garb.” If someone is going to hijack a plane, they aren’t going to do draw attention to themselves by dressing differently from everyone else.

In fact, the last attempted

terrorist attack on an airplane was carried out by a black man dressed like an American.

So the “nervous” and “worried” feeling Williams gets when he sees a Muslim on an airplane is the result of nothing but his own ignorance.

Many in the media disagree.

Since he was fired, NPR has been under heavy criticism for letting him go. Williams insists his firing was a result of his affiliation with Fox News, and NPR was trying to censor him.

Williams’ sympathizers are calling for an immediate halt to the federal funding of NPR. NPR, on the other hand, insists that Williams crossed the line with his comments, and that he’d been warned multiple times his involvement with Fox News was a breach of his contract.

NPR was right to fire Williams for both reasons.

First of all, Williams’ bigoted comments did cross the line. And secondly, by appearing on a show like “The O’Reilly Factor” on a channel like Fox

News, Williams was compromising his objectivity.

Despite their “Fair and Balanced” tagline, Fox News is by no means an objective news organization.

The vast majority of their shows push a conservative point of view and even their socalled ‘news shows’ are used to further the right-wing agenda.

The perfect example of this was their coverage of the Tea Party rallies and Glenn Beck’s “Rally to Restore Honor.” Viewers were encouraged to participate in the rallies, which dominated coverage on Fox News for days.

It’s no coincidence all of the front-runners for the 2012 Republican nomination for president (Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee) are on the payroll at Fox News.

NPR, on the other hand, strives to be an objective news organization. Their employees are expected to do their job without injecting bias into their work. By contributing to a Fox News show and making di-

visive statements, that’s exactly what Williams was doing. Despite this, critics insist that NPR is overreacting.

But what if Williams had said that he got “nervous” and “worried” when he saw someone dressed in African American “garb”?

Would NPR still be overreacting?

How about if he made an ignorant statement about Jews?

If you want the answer to that question, you can ask Rick Sanchez or Helen Thomas.

Both were fired recently for comments they made about Jews.

Did anyone complain that they were treated unfairly or that they were being censored?

Absolutely not.

Politicians and pundits alike were tripping over themselves to condemn Sanchez and Thomas as bigots and applaud their employers for firing them.

The same people who are leading the witch hunt against NPR for firing Williams were outraged by the similarly ig-

norant comments made by Sanchez. This is yet another incident that reveals the acceptance of prejudice against Muslims in this country.

Just like it’s unacceptable for anyone to make ignorant generalizations about Hispanics, African Americans, Jews, Christians or other religious groups in America, it should not be acceptable to say ignorant things about Muslims.

When Williams or O’Reilly make these idiotic comments about Muslims, they are painting all Muslims with the same brush as the extremists who are inspired by a perverted interpretation of Islam.

There are more than 1.5 billion Muslims in this world and millions live in the United States. You can’t judge all Muslims based on the actions of a handful of lunatics.

NPR had every right to fire Williams for his comments, just like CNN had the right to fire Sanchez. Prejudice should never be condoned, regardless of who it’s directed at.

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watch scary movies by david ryan A&E editor

Horror movies are big business for movie studios during Halloween, with a slew of releases out in time for the holiday.

Despite promises of fear and terror, audiences flock to cinemas for movies like “Paranormal Activity 2,” which topped the box office with $40 million in sales this weekend.

Tracy Morris, Eberly Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at WVU, said people are looking for thrills.

“We like to be moved out of our normal, physiological state,” she said. “We don’t want to be moved too far – you don’t actually want to be subjected to anything awful.”

Physiological factors include increases in getting the heart pumping, Morris said.

Morris also teaches a psychology in cinema course in the fall.

A second theory includes “social bonding,” or sharing an experience with friends or family members, typically with groups of adolescents, she said.

Another theory shows horror movies often reinforce gender roles, she said, “because it allows men and women to enact these traditional roles of protector and protected.”

Others can also use scary movies to their advantage.

Some use terrifying events of scary movies as a “coping strategy.”

“It’s a way to kind of endure that violence in the context of the film, and survive that in a way that helps potentially get over our fears of things that are normal in our environment,” she said.

Elements that are not as

heightened as in movies are then far less threatening.

Steven Skidmore, senior philosophy major, said he watches horror films for “the thrill.”

“I don’t like shock movies, like modern movies,” he said, adding that he’s “rooting for the serial killer.”

“You know (characters) are going to a lake, stupid things happen, and they’re going to get killed,” he said, referencing the “Jason” series of horror movies.

The types of horror movies audiences are interested in have changed over time, Morris said.

Over the course of the history of film, horror movies have shifted from typical fears of monsters and the paranormal to being more suspenseful and about damaged, sociopathic characters.

However, there is a fine line to how much an audience can

take.

“The more you are able to put yourself in somebody else’s position and feel their pain, the less people tend to like horror films in general,” Morris said.

Modern horror movies like “Paranormal Activity 2” are often geared to men, she said, though women also seek enjoyment from being terrified.

When collecting the data of audiences watching the films, the levels of accelerated heart rate, for example, are not as high for men as they are for women.

“There’s kind of this ‘inverted U function,’ where you want to be aroused up to a point, but you don’t want to get beyond that,” she said.

“It seems like women are having a stronger reaction (to horror movies), and it’s into the more negative end.

With males, it’s just at that “high enough” level where

(a horror movie) can still be enjoyable.”

Despite knowing a film is fake, audiences may continue to be on edge after the movie has finished.

Morris attributes this to a trauma-like state.

“From sitting there for two hours in the theater with things popping out and being on the edge of your seat, your physiological system is really ramped up,” she said.

“You’ve become hypervisual to threat.”

The open-ended nature of modern horror movies doesn’t help either, she said.

“Once things are all wrapped up, then you leave the theater – it’s not as exciting,” she said. “But you’ve got so much more to talk about when it is still kind of creepy and unknown and unresolved when you leave.” david.ryan@mail.wvu.edu

‘Jekyll and Hyde’ brings psychological drama to Metropolitan Arts Theatre by jesse tabit a&e writer

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James Gunn speaks on his experiences with Isaac Asimov, both celebrated science fiction authors, at the WVU Festival of Ideas.

Speaker celebrates Asimov’s fiction by jake potts a&e writer

Science-fiction author James Gunn lectured on the work of fellow writer Isaac Asimov in the Mountainlair Ballrooms Tuesday evening as part of the David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas.

Gunn is an accomplished writer in the genres of novels, plays, screenplays, radio scripts and has even edited a selection of novels and has done much research on Asimov’s work. “(Asimov) was an American success story and a self-made man,” Gunn said.

Gunn commented on Asimov’s “great faith” in the education system and his optimistic belief in people to accomplish what they set out to do.

The introduction to the lecture was given by senior biology major Molly Simis.

Simis has been working closely with Gunn to coordinate the lecture and the Festival of Ideas.

She noted on Gunn’s accomplishments in the liter-

ary world, including several awards he’s received, including a Science Fiction Achievement Award (Hugo) he received in 1983.

Gunn began with a quick anecdote about Morgantown.

“It’s odd for me to be in a city that’s named as the same name I gave a village on Venus,” Gunn said. “The only thing is that Morgantown is considered a bit more inaccessible.”

Gunn spoke of Asimov’s history, how he moved from candy store to candy store throughout Brooklyn and had a rough childhood that he used to his advantage.

Asimov found his start in Science Fiction writing by reading magazines that were for sale in his father’s store.

“Asimov had the innate ability to read the pieces and return them to look as if they hadn’t been touched,” Gunn said.

Gunn got his start in the literary world at 15 when he received a typewriter from his father.

Asimov’s work “Nightfall” was, according to Gunn, the

piece that “established Asimov as a serious writer.”

“Asimov was an expert at sounding like an expert,” Gunn said.

Asimov wrote in a style of his own that was distinguished among the other writers in the Science Fiction world, Gunn said.

“Isaac wrote his scientific facts in a way that sounded like fiction and his science fiction to sound like facts,” Gunn said.

Gunn focused on Asimov’s dedication to his writing.

“When asked by a fellow writer which he would choose between women and writing, Asimov replied, ‘Well I can type for 12 hours a day and not get tired,’” Gunn said.

Over his lifetime, Asimov wrote 470 novels, writing roughly one book a month during his prime.

With an informative lecture by Dr. James Gunn, science fiction fans from all over the community came out for the event.

“Science fiction fans span all ages,” Simis said. jakob.potts@mail.wvu.edu

A brilliant scientist will turn into a monstrous killer this Halloween.

“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” a play based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, is showing Thursday through Sunday at the Metropolitan Theatre.

Audiences can expect a modern update of a classic tale about a scientist and his secret dark side, according to Greg Holt, a sophomore theater major who plays “Mr. Hyde” in the production.

Holt said the play puts reality into perspective for audience members.

“It will give people a fresh

take on what they think they have experienced,” Holt said.

Originally titled “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” the novel was published in 1886 and was an immediate success.

It has inspired other films and plays and features a variety of metaphors for the human psyche.

The story follows a scientist and his constant struggle against an inner evil.

The more Dr. Jekyll resists and ignores his sinister side, the more it swallows his mind.

Once Jekyll drinks a potion he’s created, the evil is brought out in him, creating an alter ego that is evil, uncontrollable and a threat to

society.

The cast is made up of eight actors and has been practicing for about six weeks, according to Holt.

Several of the actors will take turns playing “Dr. Jekyll,” though Holt is the only one playing “Mr. Hyde.”

The production is quickpaced at two hours with the inclusion of an intermission.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $18 for senior citizens and West Virginia University employees, and $15 for students.

“The Metropolitan is a great place to hold a production like this, and the play has a very cinematic feel,” Holt said. jesse.tabit@mail.wvu.edu

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LUTHERAN DISASTER RESPONSE COLLEGIATE CORPS meets at the LuToday theran Chapel at 8 p.m. The LDRCC WVU WILDLIFE SOCIETY will meet responds to regional and national at 6 p.m. in Room 308 of Percival Hall. disasters. No experience is necessary. For more information, e-mail Oct. 30 Stephanie at szinn1@mix.wvu.edu ZUMBA WITH THE ZOMBIES HAL- or visit www.lutheranmountaineer.

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WVU-ACLU meets at 6 p.m. profit organization serving West in the Monongalia Room of the Virginians with HIV/AIDS, needs donations of food and personal care Mountainlair.

TAI CHI is taught from 6:30 p.m. items and volunteers to support all to 8 p.m. Other class times are avail- aspects of the organization’s acable. For more information, call tivities. For more information, call 304-985-0021.

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WVU FENCING CLUB hosts ad- tion, needs volunteers for daily provanced fencing practice from 7 grams and special events. For more p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Stansbury Hall information or to volunteer, contact Gym. For more information, e-mail Adrienne Hines at vc_srsh@hotmail. wvufencing@gmail.com or visit com or 304-599-5020.

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AIKIDO BEGINNERS CLASS is held vides education, supplemental at 6 p.m. at 160 Fayette St. Student foods and immunizations for pregrates are available. For more infor- nant women and children under 5 years of age. This is an opportunity mation, e-mail. var3@cdc.gov.

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WVU MEN’S SOCCER TEAM will be playing Marquette at 7 p.m. at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium. It is Dollar Night, so all tickets and concessions will be $1.

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

MOUNTAINEER SPAY/NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM is an allvolunteer 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, e-mail 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 email CDMofWV@gmail.com.

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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR BORN TODAY This year, you swing from being intensely personal to quite detached. Both avenues of self-expression are you. Just be in tune with your needs. You might want to travel, go back to school or explore an opportunity to expand your mind. Many of you will travel and/or draw a foreigner into your life.

This experience also will open up your thinking. If you are single, be open to a very different type of person. After all, your present type hasn’t worked so far!

If you are attached, be willing to walk in your sweetie’s shoes. Try to imagine what it is like being him or her. Accept rather than criticize. CANCER helps you see the other side.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH Keep conversations moving, though you could see a lot change quickly. Understanding evolves to a new level once you process a situation that makes you and others angry. Know when to keep your own counsel. Tonight: Head on home.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHH Deal with your finances directly. You could find that someone wants to spend your money for you. Do you know how to say no? Start practicing. Boundaries are important. Understanding evolves late this afternoon. Though you might feel pressured, others respond. Tonight: Chat over munchies.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHHH You feel empowered and energized in the daytime. Get an early start, if possible. An idea you have been tinkering with might draw some interesting comments.

Share this idea and allow others to express themselves freely. Tonight: Gather and pay your bills.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHH Seize the moment and do some much-needed reflecting, brainstorming and decisionmaking. Timing is such that by the end of the day, you will feel energized and ready to deal with whatever is needed. Tonight: The world is your oyster.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Zero in on what you want, and don’t hold back in a meeting or a group discussion any longer. Someone you share with thinks his or her ideas are better. Though you might not be OK with each one of this person’s brain children, a sounder interaction and better plan evolve. Tonight: Some muchneeded private time.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH You might want to back off from a situation or change your direction. The problem lies in that you are a leader. Be careful how you move away from a commitment.

Schedule a meeting for late this afternoon. Tonight: Where the crowds are.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH Keep reaching out for more information and facts. Be willing to adapt to a needed change that comes out of nowhere.

Use care with spending. Pressure builds late in the day. You need to make an important appearance. Tonight: A must appearance.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH Discussions need to be on an individual level. The unexpected pops in from out of left field. Don’t take any unnecessary

risks, as they could backfire. Late afternoon, detach and gain more insight. Attempt to walk in another’s shoes. Tonight: Listen to great music.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH Others insist on dominating. Be smart, and don’t fight city hall. Use care with a domestic matter that could turn quirky.

Relax; the time will come to have a needed discussion. Your instincts guide you with a key person. Tonight: Dinner for two.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHH Remain easygoing with those you deal with on a daily basis. You might want to redesign your schedule or become more independent. Postpone discussions until late afternoon. Your creativity surges. Be willing to try another approach. Tonight: Sort through offers.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH Your imagination sometimes is difficult to rein in. Try to use it to expand your knowledge. Play amateur psychologist, and try to walk in another’s shoes. Revise your opinions, and clear out some judgments that don’t work. Tonight: Run a couple of errands on the way home.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHH Your instincts will guide you with a domestic or personal matter. Your reactions might surprise you. Visit with an intriguing individual late today. Encourage swapping ideas and opinions. Tonight: Let go and enjoy.

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Morgantown’s Altered Ego offers high-end fashions by megan Puglisi correspondent

This display of accessories is found inside Altered Ego Boutique located on Pineview Drive.

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Christina DeAntonis has practiced fashion all over the country styling for celebrities but has returned to her hometown of Morgantown to start a business of her own.

Altered Ego Boutique, located on Pineview Drive, is a store DeAntonis has dedicated to providing apparel that resembles high-end fashion at a low cost.

DeAntonis was born and raised in Morgantown, but in her early 20s, she set out to explore the West Coast in search of her lifelong “passion for fashion.”

Having the family nickname of “Hollywood” by the age of three, DeAntonis decided to not only live there, but to also build a career in the busy city after earning a bachelor’s degree in fashion design and marketing from

the International Academy of Design and Technology in Tampa, Fl. DeAntonis worked closely with celebrities as a costume designer. She recently worked as the assistant wardrobe stylist for stars Chris Brown and Ester Dean on the set of the music video for the hip-hop hit “Drop It Low” by Dean, featuring Nelly, Keri Hilson, Brandy and Soulja Boy. DeAntonis decided to move back to her hometown and said she’s taken what she’s learned about fashion in Hollywood, and believes it is just as applicable to Morgantown fashion.

“I want to bring Melrose to Morgantown,” DeAntonis said. “Fashion is hard to find in a small town, so I had to drop myself into the middle of it all to get real-life experience, and I never gave up.”

Altered Ego showcases celebrity style, decorated with

fashion magazine covers but offers look-alikes at thousands of dollars less, like a dress similar to one fashionista Lauren Conrad recently wore.

“Lauren Conrad’s dress, I am guessing, was worth thousands of dollars, but I found an amazing knock-off here and sold it for $95,” DeAntonis said.

DeAntonis is dedicated to playing an intimate role in her business, deciding all aspects of the Boutique.

“I hand-pick every piece in the store myself,” DeAntonis said. “All of the clothing, jewelry, shoes – I hand-pick everything.”

Altered Ego Boutique is located at 189 Pineview Dr. and is open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

“My passion is fashion, it’s my life. I love sharing it with the world” DeAntonis said. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Shelly Tramposh comes to CAC by rachel duryea a&e writer

Musician Shelly Tramposh will perform tonight at 8:15 at the Creative Arts Center.

Accompanying Tramposh will be pianist Cullan Bryant.

Tramposh is a viola professor at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam and is the principal violinist of the Orchestra of Northern New York.

She received degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Eastman School of Music and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Tramposh has performed recitals overseas in Europe and Central America and has also played nationally in Chicago, San Francisco, Denver and New York, participating in acclaimed festivals such as Taos School of Music, the Spoleto Festival and the National Repertory Orchestra.

Before joining the Crane School, she was a member of the Colorado Symphony and the Central City Opera Orchestra and was Principal Viola with the Mercury Ensemble and Associate Principal Viola with the Colorado Springs Symphony.

Tramposh currently teaches practicing classes based on the teaching of Burton Kaplan and is also an advocate for tension-free playing with good posture.

Tramposh said the most im-

portant aspect of her performance depends on the audience, and she hopes tonight’s crowd will understand the concept of the recital.

“I hope the audience will pick up on the feeling of the pieces. When performing music, I’m basically the one involved in translating what I think composers wanted the audience to feel, into what they’re actually feeling.

“You can play the same set of music for two different audiences and have a completely different experience each time,” Tramposh said.

Tramposh said she takes pride in this performance because it is able to convey a range of emotions.

“It’s really great music, and each piece has a lot of different characters and feelings throughout them, and so I’m working on just really trying to express that,” Tramposh said.

“Going from angry in one spot to just really loving in another spot, or frightened to happy.

That’s kind of what I hope the audience picks up on.”

Tramposh expressed the importance of live music compared to a piece listened to at home.

“There’s the visual experience of watching a performer do their thing and communicate with the audience. You have the visual part of it, and then there’s the unquantifiable energy in the room, where the audience is actu-

ally a part of the performance just as much as the performer is,” Tramposh said.

Tramposh said, though she’s had years of experience, a true passion for music and an urge to make others realize its importance is what keeps her going.

“Music expresses feelings in a different way than language.

When people get married, they have music that they love at the wedding, and when people die, there’s usually music that the person who died really loved,” Tramposh said. “I think it’s important emotionally for us and in our society.”

Tramposh also said music and live performances are a large piece of culture and one of the most important forms of art.

“It’s like reading great literature, listening to great music exposes you to do different things,” Tramposh said.

“It makes your mind work in different ways and helps you grow as a person in the same way that a museum would. It kind of fills your mind with new ideas.”

Tramposh has high hopes for tonight’s event.

“Having that feeling of ‘here we are in front of the audience,’ is the best,” Tramposh said. “And I have my wonderful pianist with me, and we’re going to have this journey together, so that’s very exciting.” daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Sheen leaves hospital after outburst

Charlie Sheen arrives at the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen, Colo.

NEW YORK (AP) — Charlie Sheen was briefly hospitalized Tuesday after security at the Plaza Hotel called police to report he was disorderly and had broken furniture in his room, police said.

His publicist blamed an allergic reaction to medication, and said the actor was discharged Tuesday evening and on his way back to Los Angeles.

Sheen appeared highly intoxicated when officers arrived to his room around 1:30 a.m., and a woman with him said they had been out drinking and partying that night, according to a law enforcement official. She said he was yelling and tossing furniture when they returned to the room, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the encounter and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said hotel security reported Sheen was disorderly.

“No arrests were made. It’s not a complaint. He’s being treated at a hospital,” Kelly said.

The publicist, Stan Rosenfield,

said the 45-year-old had an adverse allergic reaction to some medication. “Everything else is speculation,” Rosenfield said.

It’s not clear who the woman in the hotel room was. Sheen was in New York on a family vacation. His ex-wife, actress Denise Richards, and their two children, Sam, 6, and Lola, 5, also were staying at the hotel in a different room, the official said.

Sheen, the star of CBS’ “Two and a Half Men,” has had past problems with alcohol and drugs that have landed him in legal trouble.

In August, he pleaded guilty in Aspen, Colo., to misdemeanor third-degree assault after a Christmas Day altercation with his wife, Brooke Mueller Sheen.

Prosecutors dropped more serious charges and he avoided jail time, instead sentenced to 30 days in a rehabilitation center, 30 days of probation and 36 hours of anger management.

Mueller Sheen, who is the mother of twins with Sheen, told police that the actor threatened to kill her and brandished a knife after she told him she wanted a

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divorce. Charlie Sheen said they argued but he denied threatening her, and he told police that he was upset by the divorce threat.

He previously went through a bitter divorce and custody battle with Richards. Her publicist said Tuesday she had no comment on Tuesday’s hotel encounter.

In December 1996, Sheen was charged with attacking a girlfriend at his Southern California home. He later pleaded no contest and was placed on two years of probation.

In 1998, his father, actor Martin Sheen, turned him in for violating parole after a cocaine overdose sent him to the hospital. He was ordered to undergo a rehabilitation program.

On “Two and a Half Men,” TV’s top-rated sitcom, Sheen plays a character named Charlie Harper, a freewheeling bachelor whose playboy lifestyle is complicated when his uptight brother and the brother’s son move in.

Sheen is also the star of films such as “Platoon,” “Wall Street” and “Hot Shots!”

WEB

Johnny Depp stars in ‘Sleepy Hollow.’

Heads roll in creepy ‘Sleepy Hollow’ james carbone campus calender

When I look for a horror film, I want something more than a scare.

I want a story that will keep my mind thinking so that when something pops out, I jump out of my seat.

A lot of movies fulfill this criteria, but a personal favorite is “Sleepy Hollow.”

Made back in 1999, “Sleepy Hollow” features only the third time Tim Burton had directed Johnny Depp, and the two had not yet become synonymous with each other.

It retells the Washington Irving story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” in a way that adds romance, mystery and a lot more action.

Depp plays Ichabod Crane, an easily spooked New York policeman, who is sent out to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of bizarre murders by a local legend, the Headless Horseman.

Along the way he meets an interesting cast of characters such as Katrina Van Tassel (Christina Ricci), her father Baltus (Sir Michael Gambon) and Gaston look-alike Brom (“Starship Troopers” Casper Van

Dien).

Yet the more time he spends in the town, the more he realizes he is in over his head and that the local legend may be more than just a story.

While Depp had already played the role of gangly outcast before, his performance here is noteworthy.

His character isn’t going around looking for acceptance from the townspeople, just trying to solve the crimes and get over his own problems at the same time.

The way the character reacts to certain situations really helps him fill the role of surrogate for the audience, in that he jumps and squeals in the same way the viewers will for the more frightful moments.

Ricci also does a great performance as Katrina, playing a truly enjoyable romantic lead who is able to handle things on her own instead of constantly needing the hero to save her, sans the climax.

The rest of the cast is also noteworthy, be it “Ferris Bueller” principal Jeffrey Jones, Christopher Walken, who owns every scene he is in, regardless of how little screen time he has and three of the four Sith lords featured in the “Star Wars” franchise.

The horror featured is slow paced and jumpy – the way scary films should be.

‘SLEEPY HOLLOW’ Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci However, it isn’t so overwhelming in its gore that squeamish people will have to excuse themselves, excluding one scene.

The mood is well set by the music, composed by Burton mainstay Danny Elfman, which draws the audience in before freaking them out.

For those who want a spooky movie with a decent story, “Sleepy Hollow” will fill that role, but it won’t leave you with the nightmares, unlike some other movies.

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Wednesday October 27, 2010

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Dunning might be WVU’s secret to success in 2010

BY TONY DOBIES SPORTS EDITOR

Last season was a long one for Ayana Dunning, and she didn’t even play a minute.

Dunning, a center on the West Virginia women’s basketball team, was forced to sit out in the 2009-10 season after transferring from LSU. W h i l e Dunning the Mountaineers played, she sat on the bench and watched as her new team surprised the country with a second-place Big East Conference finish.

“I remember back in high school, if I twisted my ankle or

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Continued from page 10 just failed to make a couple guys miss. But did (Syracuse) make good tackles? Yes.” Devine is expected to be at full health Friday when the Mountaineers take on Connecticut (34, 1-1). Devine has had success against the Huskies in the past.

He is averaging 7 yards per carry in his three games against them.

Last year, he rushed for 178 yards in a 28-24 win.

He will need to have the same success, Starks said, if WVU wants to be a balanced offense against UConn.

“You need a solid running game to get a solid passing game,” Starks said. “As soon as we get the running game going, we’ll be fine.”

NOTES zz Stewart expects to use tight ends Will Johnson and Tyler Ur-

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something, I would never want to sit out,” she said. “Then, having to do it for a whole year was tough.”

Now, it’s Dunning’s time to contribute.

She said the year off, sitting on the bench alongside fellow teammates and coaches, gave her a different perspective on the game. Instead of hearing coaches yell from on the court, she saw what those coaches were seeing on the bench.

“In the end, I think it was kind of beneficial for me because I am a transfer, so it gave me a year to get to know the players and the playing style here,” she said. “I just had to look at it from next year’s perspective. I was just practicing, so my preseason was just a year longer than everyone else’s.”

While she was unable to play in games for WVU, she still had

ban equally Friday against Connecticut. Urban was injured earlier this season and Johnson has taken the majority of the tight end snaps in the team’s past three games. zz WVU will face the Big East’s second-leading rusher Jordan Todman Friday. Todman has given WVU trouble in the past. He had 20 carries for 94 yards and one touchdown last season.

“We saw a little bit of him last year. He’s a great back, kind of big. He has nice size, nice speed and he has a lot of vision,” said WVU cornerback Brandon Hogan. “He can see the holes and he runs hard, it’s going to be a challenge for us.” zz West Virginia has lost twice in a row only once under Stewart. He said his team is “ready to break down the door” of the locker room, a play immediately after its’ 19-14 upset of Syracuse. anthony.dobies@mail.wvu.edu

early going.

“It was a great decision on Nikki’s part to bring us all together, talk to us and re-evaluate our goals for the season, because sometimes you get caught up in the games, and as the season goes, it just keeps rolling on and rolling on,” said senior goalkeeper Kerri Butler. “It definitely turned us around.”

That may be an understatement. Since that meeting, the Mountaineers have truly looked like a different team. They’ve looked like one of the best teams in the nation.

West Virginia has found its rhythm at the perfect time of the season – right before postseason play begins. The players gave everything they had left to finish the regular season on a strong note, and it has paid off up to this point.

The team is scoring goals when it should be, and lots of them. The Mountaineers have out-scored their opponents 20-5 during their nine-game winning streak.

“This is a young team that’s been dealing with a lot of adversity, and I just think at every point somebody steps up,” IzzoBrown said. “That’s what makes it special. It’s a hard-working team that wants to win.

“It’s always good to re-evaluate and go back into a meeting and make adjustments. The girls responded. They executed, they knew something had to change and something had to be different, and that’s what they did.”

Now, West Virginia heads into postseason play as one of the most dangerous teams in the country.

The Mountaineers are as confident as ever, and they should be, that a national title is a legitimate expectation. ben.gaughan@mail.wvu.edu

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the ability to practice, condition and lift weights with her team, which she said helped transition from LSU to WVU. “In my year off, I worked on my strength and conditioning the most. That was the most critical thing for me,” she said.

The Columbus, Ohio, native was one of the most highly regarded recruits out of high school. She was rated as the 12th-best senior by HoopGurlz. com out of high school, and decided to head to LSU – nearly 1,000 miles from her hometown – to play college basketball.

When she got to Baton Rouge, La., though, it wasn’t what she expected.

Dunning, who said she is close to her family and wanted to feel that same comfort in college, didn’t feel the love at LSU. After her freshman season, where she played in 23 games

and started nine, averaging 5.1 points and 4.2 rebounds in 13.7 minutes per contest, she decided to take her talents to Morgantown.

That move has allowed her to be closer to her home and build a new family with her teammates at West Virginia.

“LSU is a great school, and they have a great program, but it’s not for everybody, and it wasn’t for me,” Dunning said.

“One of the biggest differences was the camaraderie with the team and with the coaches here.

“Outside of practice, it’s a big family. Literally, I can go to (WVU head) coach (Mike) Carey’s office and talk to him for hours about anything. When you have someone that you can relate to like that, a coach that you’re so comfortable with, you’re able to give him your all out there on the court.”

West Virginia didn’t graduate a player from last season.

So, the Mountaineers, who are coming off a program-record 29-win season a year ago, will be with all of its key players from a year ago.

Dunning will have the difficult task of fitting in with centers Asya Bussie and Natalie Burton.

“She’s just a force inside.

Once you get the ball on the block to her, I don’t think anybody can stop in the country,” said senior guard Liz Repella.

“That’s how powerful she is to block. She’ll definitely help us with her presence inside.”

Head coach Mike Carey said West Virginia will play with two centers at times this year to work in the depth at the position.

That inside presence could be even more important early in the season while WVU is without starting point guard Sarah

Miles, who had surgery to mend a hand injury.

“We’re putting her and Asya in there at the same time,” Carey said. “At times this year, we will use both of them together, because we should play them. My philosophy is that we should play the best five players. If that’s two centers, then that’s two centers.”

With a year away from basketball, some may have forgotten about Dunning. One of her good friends, Connecticut guard Tiffany Hayes, didn’t even know she transferred to WVU. “I’m pretty sure a lot of people have forgotten about me since I’ve been off the scene for a little bit, but I’m looking forward to surprising some people,” Dunning said. anthony.dobies@mail.wvu.edu

men’s soccer

NCAA berth on the line for Mountaineers A win on senior night guarantees home game in Big East Conference Tournament

By Brian Kuppelweiser Sports Writer

Back in early August, when the West Virginia men’s soccer team reported back to Morgantown, expectations were low.

The team returned most of the same members who underachieved and failed to convert on scoring opportunities in 2009.

The Mountaineers carried many of the same goals into the season, like winning the Big East Conference Tournament and making the NCAA Tournament.

Just a few short months later, the team is just a couple wins away from achieving its goal of making the Field of 64.

“Of course, you want to win the Big East first, but we want to make sure we make the tournament,” said forward Shadow Sebele. “That is our

West Virginia (8-5-2, 4-3)

Marquette (5-6-4, 2-3-2)

When: Today at 7 p.m.

Where: Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium MU Head coach: Louis Bennett (5th season,15-56-13) Players to watch: Calum Mallace (5 goals, 4 assists)

main goal, to make the NCAA Tournament.”

For defenseman Ruben Garrido, when he came to West Virginia, it was his belief that making the postseason would be automatic.

“Coming into college, I thought we would be in the NCAA Tournament every year,” Garrido said. “But, with this being my junior year, the thought is exciting.”

The Mountaineers helped improve their chances Satur-

day night, as they pulled out a comeback 3-2 victory in overtime against Seton Hall.

“We are in a good position,” said West Virginia head coach Marlon LeBlanc. “This is another game where we can give ourselves a chance to move up.”

In the most recent RPI standing released Monday, WVU sat at No. 25.

Getting a win against Marquette tonight has more implications than just helping WVU’s NCAA Tournament chances.

“The three points tomorrow night guarantees us a home game next week in the Big East Tournament,” LeBlanc said.

LeBlanc would like to see his team stop its trend of starting off a bit sluggish in the first half.

“We have seen the ability to play back into games this sea-

son, and the danger of that is we are relying on it occasionally,” LeBlanc said. “Being behind doesn’t scare the players, it scares the coaches, though.”

Garrido echoed his coach’s statements in one sense, but did not shy away from how playing from behind can be tough.

“That is a stressful situation, and we want to take care of the game earlier this time,” Garrido said. “We don’t want to put ourselves in a situation where we are on edge for the whole second half.”

When the Mountaineers do come out strong, Garrido said that makes them a team to reckon with.

“When we are able to come out strong consistently, that is a big asset for our team,” he said. brian.kuppelweiser@mail.wvu.edu

QUESTIONABLE CALLS What style of offense should West Virginia run with its current roster?

BY TONY DOBIES

BY BRIAN GAWTHROP

By Brian Kuppelweiser

by matthew peaslee

When West Virginia head football coach Bill Stewart was asked what style of offense his team runs, he didn’t give a clear answer.

That’s a problem.

Here’s the solution.

West Virginia should use its playmakers at running back and slot receiver to accurately execute the spread option offense similar to what those at Michigan, Oregon, Nebraska and others are succeeding at.

The Mountaineers have more skilled athletes than the Wolverines, Ducks and Cornhuskers. There’s running back Noel Devine and a slew of backups, slot receivers Tavon Austin and Jock Sanders and, of course, quarterback Geno Smith.

Smith, who is being used as strictly a pocket passer, can run the ball when needed.

That makes it easier to run the spread because of the viability to use the read option.

If the Mountaineers would bring that play alone back to the playbook, West Virginia’s offense would perk back up.

WVU has changed its ways so much that it has now focused more on passing than running. When it comes down to it, the Mountaineers need to get back to maintaining a strong rushing attack with Devine.

Instead of running Devine up the middle, he needs to be put in space to make plays.

Draws, zone read handoffs and screens will do just that.

A trick play or two wouldn’t bother me, either. With such a veteran group of skill players, it only makes sense. Whatever happens, WVU needs to bring back the spread for good.

In the preseason, the West Virginia coaching staff said the main focus of its offense will be its running game behind Noel Devine.

Coming off its most disappointing offensive game of the season, the Mountaineers need to revert back to that mind-set.

Yes, Devine is still recovering from a toe injury, which he suffered in WVU’s game against LSU. But against Syracuse last Saturday, Devine showed no signs of the injury as the once Heisman Trophy hopeful looked the best he has since West Virginia’s win against Maryland on Sept. 18.

Devine finished with 122 yards against the Orange and appeared to have the quickness and sharp cuts he has become famous for.

The success of West Virginia starting quarterback Geno Smith this season, and especially when Devine was limited, should only be viewed as a solid alternative to Devine, not as a replacement.

With the senior as close to 100 percent as he’s been in nearly a month, he should be given the opportunity to lead this team, just the way he was supposed to do in the preseason.

Putting that weight on the shoulders of a first-year starting quarterback in just his second year of collegiate football is only a recipe for disaster, no matter how much Smith has impressed this season.

For the past three seasons, Devine has been the face of the WVU football program.

Denying him the opportunity to lead it just wouldn’t make sense.

This season’s West Virginia football team is a team of mixed identities.

In some games, the Mountaineers want to be a welloiled passing machine led by quarterback Geno Smith, who distributes the ball in open spaces to receivers Jock Sanders, Tavon Austin and others.

In other games, running backs Noel Devine and Ryan Clarke are the feature of offense that chews time off of the clock and fatigues defenses.

In all honesty, both of these offenses have had success this season, but when the coaching staff tries to make a healthy medley of the two, it just does not seem to work.

WVU’s offensive identity this season needs to be one that can run the ball successfully in order to compliment a defense that is one of the best in the country.

Smith gives WVU something it was missing in the past – an accurate passer who can take the reins to win a game if necessary.

Going forward, the Mountaineers will need to find a duo of running backs to replace Devine. The duo must consist of a power running back such as Clarke, and then a speedy, agile back who can be a game breaker.

To complement those backs, Smith’s legs must be utilized a little bit more, but not to the extent of a Pat White, though.

The last component necessary in the future will be the addition of a killer instinct to the offense.

When this is achieved, WVU will again be a top team in the country.

The West Virginia offense has seen its share of short passes and deep passes in 2010.

It’s what head coach Bill Stewart said has been effective.

Effective enough to be the No. 61 passing team in the country.

In the past three years, the once-potent Mountaineers have taken a downward spiral into an offense that has been largely inconsistent.

The run-first mentality and 3 yards and a cloud of dust are a thing of the past, as Stewart and offensive coordinator Jeff Mullen transformed WVU into a balanced team.

I see no problem with that.

Quarterback Geno Smith is a prototypical drop-back passer with excellent arm strength.

By bringing in a corps of receivers that can run and catch the ball, coaches have set Smith up with many options.

Obviously, he didn’t take advantage of that enough Saturday in a 19-14 loss to Syracuse.

But it was just one game.

However, the team’s identity crisis needs to be resolved fast in order to salvage a season that could be headed to the ground.

This team should be a pass-first team for the remainder of the season and throughout the duration of Smith’s career. The coaching staff just needs to commit to it.

Faith in Smith will pay off, and the new look Mountaineers will be successful for years to come.

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BEN GAUGHAN SPORTS WRITER

A meeting that changed WVU’s season After the South Florida game Sept. 26, the West Virginia women’s soccer team sat at 4-4-1, not knowing how the rest of the year would go or what its true identity was as a team.

Following the 1-1 tie against the Bulls, head coach Nikki IzzoBrown sat the team down the Monday before the Mountaineers’ next game against Pitt.

She stressed the importance of character in a team and tried to spark a little fire in a young, but talented group.

“This is a team that wants to win more than any other team I’ve ever coached, but you’ve got to define yourself now,” IzzoBrown said to the team. “You’ve got to make sure that the wins happen, and how are you going to do that?”

What a difference a little time and reassurance can have on a team.

One month later, the Mountaineers (13-4-1, 9-1-1 Big East Conference) finished second in the American Division of the Big East Conference and were given a No. 2 seed in the Big East Tournament. In addition, the team is riding a nine-game winning streak.

They have found the identity they missed early in the season.

“We struggled at the beginning of the year, and we were all questioning how the rest of the year was going to go,” said defender Drea Barklage after the team’s final regular season game against Providence. “It shows character. We all work hard; we all work for each other. There are no hotheads or superstars on this team. We play to win and we play for each other.”

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Offense struggles as Devine heals by tony dobies sports editor

There’s a website out there to promote West Virginia running back Noel Devine for the Heisman Trophy.

It hasn’t been updated since the Mountaineers’ win over Maryland Sept. 18. That’s probably because WVU’s senior running back hasn’t been the same since. Devine bruised a bone in his foot against LSU and has been limited in games since.

“Noel isn’t a guy that’s going to walk around with a neon light that says I’m hurt, because he’s a tough man,” said WVU head coach Bill Stewart.

The Mountaineers’ offense hasn’t been as successful without Devine fully healthy. Offensive coordinator Jeff Mullen has incorporated more passing plays to deal with Devine not being at full health.

In fact, against UNLV and South Florida, the Mountaineers opened the game in a five-

wide receiver set.

“He’s our playmaker and our home-run hitter. He can score from anywhere on the field.

So, if you take him out, it hurts all aspects of our offense,” said wide receiver Brad Starks.

In the first half of the games since Devine’s injury, the Mountaineers have thrown an average of three more passes than they did in the first three games of the season. WVU (5-2, 1-1 Big East Conference) is also averaging 63.8 yards less per game on

the ground with Devine at 100 percent.

“I don’t know how he feels, but he’ll continue to run hard and continue to be the great player he’s been,” said WVU quarterback Geno Smith.

Devine has tried to play through the injury, but he went through a string of three-straight games without a 100-yard performance. Last weekend against Syracuse, however, Devine had 122 yards rushing.

“We don’t need any super-

stars. We don’t need Batman and Robin capes flying around the stadium,” Stewart said of Devine’s play over the last few games. “He just needs to do a little bit more.”

Stewart said Devine was not at 100 percent against Syracuse and wasn’t sure if he had his pre-injury speed back.

“It was good to have him back at gain over 100 yards,” Stewart said. “Noel played very well. He

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West’s return helps bolster depleted WVU lineup by tony dobies sports editor

West Virginia shooting guard Jonnie West is back.

The Mountaineers’ senior sharp shooter, after initially leaving the team to pursue an MBA, has made the decision to play for WVU once again.

“As things went along, (Huggins) and I talked, and things changed,” West said. “I just saw an opportunity, so I thought about it and thought it was the best thing to do.”

West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins said West’s conditioning has been strong enough to practice in full for the Mountaineers.

“One day I started joking with him that he may have to pull a Brett Favre,” Huggins said. “We may have to come and get you off the tractor.”

Huggins said because the team was practicing with just nine members, he asked West to join the team.

“It’s a long story,” Huggins said. “I told him we really needed some help. And Jonnie really loves this University and this program, and he FILE PHOTO knew what was going on, so he West Virginia guard Jonnie West shoots a free throw against St. John’s during the 2008- was very receptive.

“He was ready to go.”

09 season.

West said he didn’t participate in summer workouts and open gym practices with his teammates, but Huggins said West was at nearly every preseason practice prior to rejoining the team.

West said he talked with his parents, and they told him to do what was best for him.

The memories he’s made with his team, including the run to the Final Four, made his decision easier.

“We lost a couple of people with Da’Sean (Butler), Wellington (Smith) and Devin (Ebanks), but there is still the same guys around, and some of my best friends are still on the team,” West said. “We have fun together, and we will continue to do that.”

For his career, West averaged just 1.7 points per game and 0.3 assists. In 2009-10, he scored 33 points, the most of his career, and was called on in key situations to hit 3-pointers for the Mountaineers.

He hit a buzzer-beating 3-point shot right before halftime against Cincinnati in the Big East Conference Tournament.

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guard Casey Mitchell was reinstated to the team after being suspended indefinitely for a violation of team rules earlier this month. Mitchell has been practicing with the team this week, Huggins said. zz Huggins said he is not worrying about a starting lineup just yet. He admitted the only starter he knows of for sure is junior forward Kevin Jones. zz The Mountaineers could go with two starting point guards, Truck Bryant and Joe Mazzulla, or two power forwards, Dan Jennings and Deniz Kilicli.

“We’ll worry about that after our first exhibition game,” Huggins said. zz The NBA’s Miami Heat cut former West Virginia forward Da’Sean Butler Monday.

He, along with teammate Patrick Beverley, was waived in part because of an injury to Heat guard Mike Miller, which made it necessary for the organization to sign veteran Jerry Stackhouse.

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