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Students not turning out for flu shots

BY DUSTIN HOFFMAN STAFF WRITER

Student turn out for flu shot clinics this year at West Virginia University has been underwhelming compared to years past, said Jan Palmer, director of Student Health. Approximately one fifth of the prepared doses have been administered, he said.

Palmer credits the high number of people vaccinated last year to media attention given to the H1N1 or swine flu

virus, which is considered by world health organizations to be “dead and gone,” he said.

“I think because there was so much talk about (influenza) last year and so little talk about it this year, people are not going out to get the vaccine,” he said. “There is no big media hype, but seasonal flu is expected to be here like every other year.”

In addition to the media coverage last year, the vaccine was available free of charge due to the sweeping nature of

5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Also, the Student Recreation Center will host another clinic on Nov. 11 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The clinics are open to everyone, not just residents of Evansdale, Palmer added.

Flu season is considered to be from November to March, the time when the disease is most prominent. The vaccine is designed to be administered in advance, greatly reducing the risk of the disease developing and spreading to those who come in contact

the swine flu epidemic.

Flu shots are now $15, and are available to students, faculty and staff desiring immunization. The cost is the least expensive, compared to places such as drug stores, which offer an immunization for $25, he said.

Because of the lack of students taking the opportunity for immunization, additional clinics have been added.

From Nov. 8 to Nov. 10, three clinics will be held at the Towers dining hall from

with it.

Influenza is spread through respiratory droplets, which are introduced into the environment through coughing and sneezing.

The student population lends itself to the spread of influenza, as students are in close contact in living quarters, dining halls, classrooms and public transportation such as a cramped PRT, he said.

Palmer said the infection sets in before symptoms fully

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West Virginia running back Noel Devine sprints to the endzone on a clutch 56-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter against an the Connecticut Huskies team last season.

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Even a team-oriented player like J.T. Thomas needed time to himself.

West Virginia had just lost to Syracuse 19-14 in the team’s first home loss since 2008 and its first loss to the Orange since 2001, and the senior’s hopes of finishing the Big East Conference slate undefeated were ruined.

“I had to pick myself out of the dirt. I had to handle myself first,” Thomas said of recovering from the defeat.

“That loss was rough.”

It took a toll on the entire

team, the senior linebacker said. West Virginia head coach Bill Stewart even called it a “wake-up call.”

Being ready to play won’t be a problem tonight, though, Thomas said, when the Mountaineers travel to Hartford, Conn., to take on the Huskies at 8 p.m., as the team understands it can’t afford to drop another conference game if it still wants to win the Big East Championship.

“We have to focus on being perfect for the rest of the season,” Thomas said. “Syracuse showed us last week that you have to be ready every week.

Every week is a playoff game.

You have to win all of them to get where you need to be.

“We have to keep believing. We have to play big Friday night.”

The leadership of Thomas and the 20 other seniors is even more important to the team now with five games remaining in the season. Senior nose guard Chris Neild said the best leadership doesn’t necessarily mean being vocal, but more so by consistently doing the right things even when nobody’s watching.

If everyone carries themselves in such a manner, the rest of the season should be

a success.

“If (a loss) happens again, it’s a lack of leadership,” Neild said. “If it were to happen again, someone’s going to have to check their hold as a leader, myself included.”

The Mountaineers will especially rely on Neild tonight against Connecticut’s standout running back Jordan Todman, who enters the game fifth nationally in rushing yards-per-game with 140.

The junior has rushed for at least 100 yards in nine of his last 10 games.

Neither West Virginia or

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WVU students can ‘Make a Difference’ Saturday

BY SAMANTHA COSSICK ASSOCIATE CITY EDITOR

West Virginia University students will be giving back to the community this Saturday during the annual Make a Difference Day. In its eighth year at WVU, Make a Difference Day is a national day of service sponsored by United Way and the WVU Center for Civic Engagement, said Brett White, special events coordinator for the CCE. “Service is a part of our

mission at WVU, and this is just another way we give an opportunity to students,” he said.

So far, approximately 350 students have signed up to volunteer during Make a Difference Day, White said.

This is an increase from last year and Make a Difference Day has steadily become WVU’s largest service event, he said.

“It’s important for WVU students to get involved and give back to the community because a lot of the agencies

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they are helping out do so much for the University,” said Adrienne DeMinico, youth volunteer connection worker at United Way. The Center for Civic Engagement has lined up 13 projects at various agencies for the students to take part in, White said.

Some of those projects include cleaning, restocking and organizing at the Salvation Army, painting the basement at the Caritas House and moving furniture at Mountaineer Wellness, he said.

Other agencies students will volunteer for include Scott’s Run Settlement House, Brain Under Construction Zone, Sundale Nursing Home, the American Red Cross, Old Hemlock Foundation and Positive Spin organization.

Helping these organizations is critical to the community, White said.

“They wouldn’t be able to do these big projects without (the students),” he said.

The students will volunteer

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Homecoming to be certified, violations reviewed Sunday

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develop, and that those infected with the disease can easily be spreading it before they realize.

“Many students are very diligent about going to class, and even if they are a little bit sick, they are still going to be out mingling with others rather than staying away, staying isolated,” he said.

“Someone starting to come down with something, they’re going to be out there exposing

COMING NEXT WEEK The West Virginia men’s basketball team opens its season with an exhibition next Friday. We’ll have season previews and commentary all next week.

Homecoming candidates who have campaign violations filed against them will defend themselves Sunday during a Student Government Association Judicial Board hearing.

The board will vote during the meeting to certify the election and review the money spent on campaigns.

Monday was the deadline to file campaign violations and four of the 10 candidates each received a violation. However, two of the violations were dismissed by Thursday, said Tasha Frazie, Student Government Association elections chair.

The candidates testifying Sunday face a possible overturning of elections results or a fine not exceeding $200, said James Bailey, Judicial Board chair.

“We will go over each violation and go on what we see and hear from others, and we have to make a decision based on that,” Bailey said.

At the meeting, the Board will look at campaign expenditures to determine if all 10 candidates stayed within the $750 budget.

Each candidate was required to submit an itemized breakdown of purchases, such as T-shirts or food, but some candidates have not yet pro-

duced receipts, Frazie said.

The Board will also vote to certify the election for Omar Wazir, Homecoming king who won by 400 votes, and Tracy Speilman, Homecoming queen who won by 319 votes. There were 2,508 votes cast for king and 2,586 votes for queen.

One violation to be reviewed is an allegation that candidates Kyle Golombos and Dana Zelder used a University e-mail LISTSERV to campaign for votes.

The violation was filed by Speilman and accuses them of “sending an e-mail out to approximately 900 (Health Sciences Center) students.”

“I don’t think these violations were serious because it was an accident. If only the code was more clear-cut by saying no e-mails can be sent out,” Zelder said. “I just found out what a LISTSERV was the other day.”

Zelder said she sent an email encouraging her friends to vote during the elections and it was then forwarded by a nursing professor. She and Golmbos did not intend to break the rules, she said.

Golombos agreed by saying the e-mail was not campaigning because it did not say who to vote for.

“It was just a reminder

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Family planning program to offer HIV testing for women by jessica leppar staff writer

West Virginia University students, especially women, are encouraged to understand the importance of routine testing for human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. In an effort to stop the spread of HIV, women who go to the WVU Student Health Center for their annual gynecology exam can also receive sexually transmitted infection, STI and HIV testing through the family planning program, said Sue Turnbull, clinical nurse educator at Student Health.

“Women are at a higher risk for HIV infection compared to men because of their anatomy,” she said.

Any tear or abrasion can lead to an infection, Turnbull said.

“We’re really trying to stress to women how easy it is to get the test and do it annually,” she said.

HIV testing costs $15 and

FOR MORE INFO To schedule an HIV testing appointment, call WVU Student Health Clinic at 304-293-2311. can be done using an oral swab, with results available within 20 minutes, Turnbull said.

Statistically, college-aged students are more at risk for contracting HIV than any other age group, she said.

Approximately 40,000 new infections are reported each year, and nearly half of them are individuals under the age of 25, Turnbull said.

If a student is diagnosed with HIV, they are referred to the WVU Positive Health Clinic for proper treatment by an infectious disease physician, said Tabatha Coombs, registered nurse and clinical coordinator for the Positive Clinic.

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THE FINAL FIVE COMPETE Mountaineer Idol will cut two more contestants Friday in a Broadway and Motown themed series of performances.

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Promotional company to give out free beer, energy drinks

BY GINA DAMATO CORRESPONDENT

Students at West Virginia University are the target consumers of brands such as beer and energy drinks being given out by uHAPS, a company that exposes products to college students.

Promotions in Morgantown began in July 2010 with uHAPS setting up an eightmember team to complete “on the ground” marketing tactics, said Stepfan Jefferies, founder and senior vice pres-

ident of uHAPS Media. The team, led by Chris Rohman, a senior advertising major, has been working to promote brands like Anheuser-Busch, Yuengling and Monster energy drinks to college students, Jefferies said.

Anheuser-Busch is the latest client to begin promotion, he said.

Being a representative for uHAPS is a great college job, Rohman said.

“Every time I work, it’s like going to a party, whether it is tailgating or the bar,” he said.

Tailgates and bars are just some of the venues that have events sponsored by uHAPS and Anheuser-Busch, Jefferies said. Others include concerts and festivals in the area.

Their latest event included tailgating during the WVU vs.

Syracuse football game on Oct. 23.

“We have held over 100 events since we began in Morgantown,” Jefferies said.

Morgantown is a recent market for the company and will become a permanent market for the various uHAPS pro-

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Symptoms of influenza include: high fever, headache, fatigue, dry cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle aches and stomach ailments.

“We encourage everyone to get the vaccine because when seasonal flu comes, as it will, so people are protected and won’t get sick.”

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to vote and to say that we appreciate the support as a collective group as Homecoming candidates,” he said.

Zelder plans to fight the violation Sunday by mentioning that other candidates used a LISTSERV without punishment.

“I never would have sent it if I knew it was illegal,” she said.

“It would’ve never happened.”

A similar violation against the pair was submitted by Wa-

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Continued from page 1 “We provide a streamline way of going from testing to people entering into care who do have a positive test,” she said.

This year, Student Health is hoping to hold outreach events at Towers, Turnbull said.

Most students are not well

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for four hours during the day and then have a lunch provided by the Boston Beanery, White said.

Students who want to get involved in the United Way can contact DeMinico at volunteer@teamunitedway.org.

Jefferies said.

“We give away promotions, T-shirts, inflatable chairs, concert tickets, even scooters – you name it,” he said.

The company utilizes Facebook and Twitter as well as their own website to promote upcoming locations and events, Jefferies said.

The company also documents their events, taking a large number of photos and posting them to the various websites, Rohman said.

“Students are beginning to recognize us more now,” he

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In this file photo, then-sophomore nursing major Heather McCue gets her H1N1 vaccine in the form of Flu-Mist at the Student Health Center. zir last Sunday but was dismissed because it was a duplicate complaint, Frazie said.

A violation against candidate Taylor Richmond for having a racially discriminating campaign was also dismissed last Sunday.

The complaint referenced candidates Richmond and Melissa Moraes’ use of the “Bed Intruder Song” as their campaign slogan, Frazie said. The violation was dismissed after it was determined to not have broken any elections codes.

Another violation was filed

by Zelder against Speilman,

which said Speilman was academically dishonest because she listed herself as a nursing student instead of a pre-nursing student on her queen application form.

The violation against Speilman has been reviewed and determined to be an error and will be dismissed Sunday, Frazie said.

Based on the nature of the violations, it would be unlikely that the election results would be overturned, Bailey said. All the Board’s decisions will be final, he said.

educated about HIV and are more likely to engage in high risk behaviors, she said.

In addition, individuals who have other STIs are more like to contract HIV, Turnbull said.

“Once you have one infection, your immune system is infected, which makes you more likely to contract HIV,” she said.

HIV is classified as a chronic illness, but if diagnosed and

treated early, it is less likely to progress into acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, Turnbull said.

“HIV positive patients can still have relationships, get married and women can still have children,” she said.

“It all has to be monitored very closely, but it’s feasible.

You just have to know your status.”

Last day to drop a class Today is the last day for students to drop an individual course while receiving a withdrawal, or “W” on their transcript.

All final changes to a student’s schedule should be

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Students are encouraged to speak with their advisor about dropping a course, since it may impact their progress towards a degree.

Anyone who has a hold on their account and cannot drop a course should contact the Office of the University Registrar at 304-293-5355.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Let’s face it: Teenagers spend hours texting, socializing on Facebook and playing video games. And it’s driving their parents nuts.

Sure, there are real dangers associated with all this screen time – everything from cyberbullying to couch-potato obesity. Not to mention driving while texting, shortened attention spans and Internet porn.

But many of today’s parents spent hours as kids sitting in front of screens too – only they were TV screens.

Which raises an interesting question: Is Facebook really worse for teenagers’ brains than the mindless reruns of “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Brady Bunch” that their parents consumed growing up?

Douglas Gentile, a child psychologist and associate professor at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, who studies the effects of media on children, says texting, Facebook and video games are not inherently bad.

Nor are they inherently better or worse than watching TV, although they do pose different risks, such as cyberbullying.

But research has shown that the more time kids spend in front of screens – whether

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it’s TV or instant-messaging – the worse their school performance. “That doesn’t mean it’s true for every kid, but it makes sense, that for every hour a kid is playing video games, it’s an hour that they’re not doing homework or reading or exploring or creating,” he said.

Gentile calls this the “displacement hypothesis. If screen time is displacing doing their homework, that’s bad.

But if their homework is done, well, so what?”

Gentile, who admits that his own teenager crossed the “9,000 texts in one month barrier” last summer, acknowledged that parents are struggling to adjust to a world in which kids would rather look at words on a cell phone screen than have a conversation.

“The older generation, it’s not their culture,” he said.

“There is a resistance to it.”

Watching TV as a family, as mindless as that experience can be, is now regarded with nostalgia by parents. If your kid is sitting in the living room watching “American Idol,” you can plop on the sofa with them, and “it’s a shared experience,” Gentile said. But if they’re texting or video-chatting with a

friend from school, “it’s a private experience. It’s like they’re whispering secrets. And we find it rude.”

Patti Rowlson, a mother of two in Everson, Wash., says this “has been a topic of discussion in our house for years now.”

She and her husband started out limiting TV time when their kids were little, but “then technology crept in. Cell phones, laptop computers, iPods with Wi-Fi. We, as parents, were no longer in control of screen time because we could not even tell when they were using it.”

Recounting a struggle that will sound familiar to many parents, Rowlson said that at first, she and her husband imposed limits on tech use.

“There were battles and even groundings,” along with the confiscation of iPods, she said. “We were constantly policing and the kids were constantly getting in trouble. We were trying to fight for the old ways, and it was causing a lot of stress and tension in the family.

It was ridiculous. So we loosened up. And it’s made everybody happier. We were fighting something that you can’t hold back. It’s how they communicate with their peers.”

cob and 4-year-old Sami-Lou. She figures they’ll pay $36 in sales tax to the state.

The kids sold the squash from their porch, splitting the profits with the grower. Some people made donations and others LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — An drove from as far away as SpoIdaho family is out of its gourds kane, Wash., to grab a gourd. thanks to publicity about a tax agency threatening to close their pumpkin stand for lack of a state permit.

Kami Charais tells the Lewiston Tribune they made three times as much money as expected, bringing in $600 to pay SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilfor wrestling and dance lessons for their children, 6-year-old Ja- ian court ruled this week that

McDonald’s must pay a former franchise manager $17,500 because he gained 65 pounds (30 kilograms) while working there for a dozen years.

The 32-year-old man said he felt forced to sample the food each day to ensure quality standards remained high, because McDonald’s hired “mystery clients” to randomly visit restaurants and report on the food, service and cleanliness.

The man also said the company offered free lunches to employees, adding to his caloric intake while on the job.

His identity was not released.

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Connecticut enters tonight’s contest with much momentum, however, as the Huskies are losers of their last two games – losses at Rutgers and at Louisville.

But UConn is undefeated at home this season, and the Mountaineers expect Connecticut to rely heavily on Todman in order to continue

its success at Rentschler Field.

“He’s a very versatile back.

He can run the ball inside or outside,” Thomas said.

“They’ve always come out and have a good running attack, no matter who is in the backfield. We have to account for him. He’s going to be a tough task for us.”

Offensively, West Virginia will have to limit its turnovers if the Mountaineers want to avoid a repeat of last week.

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said. “They love receiving our free giveaways and getting their picture taken.”

Students can learn more about the events by adding “uHAPS Morgantown” on Facebook.

The next uHAPS event will take place tonight at 8 at Crockett’s and the Sport’s Page for the WVU vs. University of Connecticut game. They will also be sponsoring a Halloween Downtown bar crawl tonight at 10.

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motions, he said.

The company concentrates on engaging potential customers with “combat” marketing tactics, which means placing the product in front of customers at various venues so they become familiar with it, Jefferies said.

This tactic has been successful not just in Morgantown, but across the country, he said.

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threw a career-high three interceptions against the Orange. The team hadn’t turned the ball over in its three previous games – all victories.

The plethora of blitz packages executed by the SU defense made it especially hard for the Mountaineer offensive line, and the team expects a similar approach out of the Huskies’ defensive unit tonight.

Stewart said his team used its loss as a teaching lesson, however, and should be ready for almost anything it had trouble with against Syracuse.

“Hopefully, the character of this Mountaineer football team will continue to be built on situations like this,” Stewart said. “It’s a heck of a learning experience for the young men. If we gain anything at all from the loss, that will be of help down the road.” brian.gawthrop@mail.wvu.edu

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Women’s soccer in need of support Sunday The West Virginia University women’s soccer team is on the verge of reaching history.

But, it needs your help to do so.

The Mountaineers have won nine-straight games heading into Sunday’s Big East Conference Tournament quarterfinal game against Rutgers. The team tied a program record of wins in a row Sunday in a 2-1 win over Providence.

If WVU can beat the Scarlet Knights at 1 p.m., Sunday at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium,

it will have won 10 games in a row for the first time in program history.

West Virginia has been able to turn its season around after a slow start. The Mountaineers, who have been to the NCAA Tournament in each of the last 10 years, were playing at a pace that could’ve ended that streak.

When the team fell to 4-4-1, head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown brought the team together in what has been a highly publicized team meeting. From that point, the Mountaineers have

been a completely different team.

WVU has reeled off nine victories in a row. Four of those games have come with decisive three goal or more margins.

Izzo-Brown’s squad features some of the best players in the Big East Conference, including forwards Blake Miller and Megan Mischler, midfielder Bri Rodriguez, defender Bry McCarthy and goalkeeper Kerri Butler.

The Mountaineers are so strong this season that 14 play-

ers have tallied at least one point.

The success hasn’t translated into larger crowds, though. The women’s soccer team is averaging 759 fans per home game.

The Mountaineer women’s soccer team is truly the best show in town, and deserves a larger crowd Sunday. When the stadium is packed to capacity, it can be one of the most intense college soccer atmospheres in the country.

That’s what Izzo-Brown and

the Mountaineers will need if they want to increase their chances of making program history.

If WVU continues to play with as much success as it has over the last nine games, you could stake the claim you saw WVU’s first national title team – not including rifle – in person.

So, head out to the stadium for what should be quality Big East soccer on a sunny Sunday afternoon in Morgantown.

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Avoid the nightmare before Halloween: Last minute costumes CHad wilcox columnist

When we were (younger) children, All Hallows’ Eve was a night of light-hearted terror when we were encouraged to dispense with our disbelief and relish the appearance of ghosts, ghouls and goblins.

We dressed up to trick each other and fleece treats from adults who no longer believed in what we tried to resemble.

We ate candy until our tummies hurt, and nearly developed diabetes overnight.

Now, in the horrors of young adulthood, you dispense with your self-respect and indulge in freedom from fear of embarrassment and humiliation.

You dress up with even more make-up and even more attention to detail than a normal night out. Now, the boys dress to amuse, and the girls dress to arouse.

You drink until your tummy hurts, and develop a hangover

overnight.

It’s a night of Jack-andCokes instead of jack-o’-lanterns, an annual pop-culture parade in which video games, jokes, movies, books and pornographies come alive and take over the streets.

While once we suspended our sense of reality, we now suspend our sense of morality.

Who wants a pillowcase full of cavity-causing treats with so much eye candy around?

No longer is the scariest thing knocking on creepy, crotchety old Mrs. Jones’ door, nor scoring Reese’s cups laced with razor blades.

What we most fear now is showing up to the costume party or club costume-less – truly a social nightmare. But even if you haven’t been planning your costume since Nov. 1, 2009, or can’t afford an “Always Sunny” Green Man suit, it’s never too late to put something together last minute.

Here are some ideas to make the most of your collegiate Halloween.

Adam and/or Eve

For boys: A fig leaf. For girls: Three fig leaves. If you’re a couple, grab an apple and go together. It’s cute, yet simple, but is a fair-weather costume.

Vampire Vampires have been reborn – if that is possible for the undead – with “Twilight” and “True Blood.” To be on Team Edward or Team Jacob, snap in some vampire teeth and spray paint on some abs. For something even more orgiastic, go for the debauched, bloodlusting True Blood look.

To be Bella, just dress casually, but remember to let your jaw hang open and blink your eyes constantly.

Sl--ty anything It’s because of the Sl--ty Anything costume that a night once populated by childhood nightmares is now full of adolescent fantasies.

If you’ve been on campus for just one Halloween, you have witnessed the novel perversion of just about everything: school girl, baseball player, construction worker,

nurse, elf, angel, nun, hobo.

So how can you dress up by dressing down this year?

The best method is to start nude and add minimal pieces of coverage until you can be vaguely recognized as a popculture character, animal or inanimate object. It could be as simple as underwear and cat whiskers, or as elaborate as underwear and a halo.

If you don’t feel like building your own, it might be too late to order a pre-made expositional costume from the Internet, but that’s not a problem.

Head over to Wal-Mart and squeeze into something from the kids’ Halloween section; suddenly you’re a sl--ty “Dora the Explorer.”

Any thing p ol itically incorrect If you’re going for laughs this year, think up something offensive and shocking, either historical or contemporaneous.

A variation on the Sl--ty Anything, these costumes are for those unafraid to let it all

hang out, especially since the eventual posting of Halloween ‘Jers e y Shore’ cast photos on Facebook might member As a runner-up for this jeopardize their careers and certainly destroy any future in year’s favorite costume, empolitics. bracing your inner Jersey is a quick fix for not having a costume.

Lady Gaga Expected to be the most Doing Snooki is simple: popular costume this year, it’s spray on a deep orange tan, also the most versatile. Given stuff a bra, pile on the makeher propensity to dress in just up, pretend to have the worst about anything, you can grab taste in clothes that someone whatever is lying around, else’s money can buy, practice add a cumbersome hat, slip an attitude of obliviousness on your highest stilettos, and and entitlement and memorize those adorable one-liners. you’re Gaga.

Are you feeling particularly For the guys, being the Sitavant-garde a la the Video Mu- uation is obviously the best sic Awards, but don’t want to bet. It will enable you to act risk infecting everyone around like an even bigger spotlight you with E. Coli? Head over to jerk at the bar or party than Kroger and slap a pound of you usually are, as now you chipped ham on your butt, are “in character.” some turkey on your breasts Everyone loves a loud, agand some roast beef, well, gressive, intellectually chalwherever hasn’t been covered. lenged narcissist. Right?

And because Morgantown The greatest advantage to is municipally regressive this costume is that for a sizeenough to still let you smoke able minority of the student in bars, you might win a cos- body, particularly those hailtume contest by attempting ing from the New York City vithe difficult “Telephone” still- cinity, they just have to dress lit cigarette butt sunglasses. as if it’s a normal weekend.

123 Pleasant Street vital to Morgantown’s local music scene jeremiah yates columnist

If there is one thing Morgantown has, it’s a vibrant night life.

It’s no secret the students and local residents in Touchdown City love to get their groove on and let loose.

For the girls wanting to get out and “shake it,” a number of clubs will meet their boogie needs; and the suave gentlemen searching for a connection are sure to follow.

But not everyone is a “booty shaker” or a smooth-talking player with mischievous motives.

Others just love live music.

And there are many bars in Morgantown that feature live bands.

Yet none contribute to the local music scene like 123 Pleasant Street.

Every week, 123 features local favorites such as Fletcher’s Grove, ’85 Flood, Square the Circle, the Greens and many more.

Since the building opened its doors as The Underground Railroad in 1982, it has been the backbone to local music.

Marsha Ferber, the original owner of the Underground Railroad, operated the bar with the intentions of spreading her liberal views of music, politics and art.

With the support from U92’s local alternative format, her creation quickly became a favorite among music and art lovers.

Nationally acclaimed acts such as the legendary blues man Bo Diddley and The Red Hot Chili Peppers started to make appearances at the popular venue, which increased the buzz on campus.

The Underground Railroad experienced much success through the 80s, but after Ferber’s mysterious disappearance in April of 1988, the bar’s flame blew out. Her employees kept the bar running for a year before they closed the doors.

After the bar reopened in 1990 under the name The

Nyabinghi Dance Hall, the popularity of the bar returned. An abundance of local bands filled the bar regularly until 1998, when the building was condemned by city officials.

Following 100 years of supporting businesses and live music, rumors spread that the building was going to be torn down.

But after the building was bought by current owner Louis Giuliani, he and several other supporters of the cause worked tirelessly to save the historic site. The bar again reopened under a new name – 123 Pleasant Street.

To this day the bar continues to bring acts from around the country.

Just this year, the bar has featured Hank Williams III, SOJA and The Clarks.

“123 is one of the places we started ... I remember my buddy telling me that he saw Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana there together before “Nevermind.” I was like ‘holy crap,’ I’m standing on the same stage,’” said Jacob Hemphill, lead vocals and guitar for SOJA. “We come back because we love the town and the fans. Morgantown is a place like no other. The hospitality is all around us.”

Music lovers of all genres are welcome at 123.

For those who want to get out the glow sticks and get down to laser shows and techno beats, 123 features the electronic

dance night on Wednesdays.

Other nights vary. Rap, metal, bluegrass, funk and country are all likely to be seen on stage at 123. No matter the taste, any fan of music can call the bar home.

The bar is not the largest in Morgantown, nor is it the most technological or renovated. But the vibes felt inside are fascinating, and the entertainment provided is top-shelf.

Other bars of Morgantown need to follow their lead and continue to support the local music scene.

In the words of Plato, “Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”

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THROWDOWN IN MOTOWN

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The scene at the 2009 Motown Throwdown Rail Jam from the rooftops of High Street in front of Pathfinder and the Court House Square.

Winter sports will take over High Street Saturday by mackenzie mays associate a&e editor

The fourth annual Motown Throwdown presented

by Pathfinder of West Virginia will make High Street the center of extreme winter sports Saturday.

The event will act as a preseason contest, in which 40 professional snowboarders and skiers from all over the country will compete for a $1,000 prize on an 80-foot rail setup between Walnut and Pleasant

Win tickets to ‘Spring Awakening’ West Virginia University Arts & Entertainment is giving students the chance to win tickets to coming-of-age play “Spring Awakening.”

Those interested can stop

by WVU A&E’s table in front of Hatfield’s in the Mountainlair between 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. to register for the competition.

Company manager of the play Landon Shaw said the play is “a coming-of-age musical and very unique in its presentation. There’s comedic moments, but there’s moments that are somewhat

streets, accompanied by more than10,000 pounds of snow.

“We’re basically transplanting the rail parks that are found in bigger resorts outside of Morgantown, right in the middle of High Street,” said Event Coordinator Andrew Walker.

“This way, people can come out and see these guys do the same caliber tricks from mainstream action sports seen at the X Games and the Dew Tour, right downtown.”

Aside from the competition, local DJ Sean Nice and

dramatic.”

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

“The show is edgy,” he said.

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

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

These elements are presented “in a way that makes it non-gratuitous,” Shaw said.

The play comes to the WVU Creative Arts Center Monday, Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $27 for students with a valid WVU ID and are available for purchase at the Mountainlair or Creative Arts Center box offices.

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MIX MASTER MIKE will perform live during the event on the provided 30-foot stage.

MIX MASTER MIKE is the DJ for hip-hop group the Beastie Boys and has won multiple DMC World DJ Championships as a turntablist.

A light show, featuring more than 100 choreographed cannister lights, will also be featured.

A variety of vendors, including Oakley, Burton and Skullcandy will be giving away free prizes to those in attendance.

Walker said the event is focused on bringing more awareness about a lesser-known sport.

“The main goal is to promote boarding and skiing throughout the state,” Walker said. “It’s getting bigger and bigger, and people don’t realize what the state has to offer when it comes to these sports, and the people who excel in these sports are overlooked.”

The Warner Theatre will reopen Friday night as part of the festivities.

Three movies will be shown to get the people into the mood for the winter sports event.

“Cheers,” a snowboarding film, “Always Strapped,” a documentary which chronicles the Pathfinder Team around the local area and “iTrip,” a skiing movie will be shown for the single price of $5.

Doors open at 7 p.m.

An after party, hosted by Pathfinder following the main event Saturday, will be held in the VIP room of De Lazy Lizard.

Approximately 500 VIP

bracelets will be distributed at the event Saturday.

“This is one of the largest rail jams on the East Coast, and I think this year is going to be three times as big as the events in the past,” Walker said. “Bottom line is, we want to bring more popularity to these sports and get everyone ready for winter.”

The Motown Throwdown begins at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public. mackenzie.mays@mail.wvu.edu

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If a group has regularly scheduled meetings, it should submit all

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CATHOLIC MASS Is held at St. John University Parish at 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. All are welcome.

SINGLE ADULT DINNER for the never-married, widowed and divorced is held at 5 p.m. More information, call 866-948-6441 or visit www.SingleFocusMinistries.org.

ZUMBA WITH THE ZOMBIES HALLOWEEN PARTY will be at G’s Fitness from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Cos- Continual tumes are welcome, and the best MON GENERAL HOSPITAL needs costume wins a prize. For more in- volunteers for the information formation, call 304-292-0154. desk, pre-admission testing, hospitality cart, mail delivery and gift Every Friday shop. For more information, call WVU HILLEL offers a Shabbat Christina Brown at 304-598-1324.

Dinner at 6:30 p.m. at the Hillel WELLNESS PROGRAMS on topHouse at 1420 University Ave. For ics such as nutrition, sexual health more information or a ride, call and healthy living are provided for 304-685-5195. interested student groups, orgaLUNCH FOR A BUCK takes place nizations or classes by WELL WVU at the Campus Ministry Center Student Wellness and Health Proon the corner of Willey and Price motion. For more information, streets. For more information, call visit www.well.wvu.edu/wellness.

304-292-4061.

WELL WVU STUDENT HEALTH is CHABAD AT WVU takes place at paid for by tuition and fees and 7 p.m. at 643 Valley View Drive. For is confidential. For appointments more information, visit www.jew- or more information, call 304-293ishWVU.org or call 304-599-1515. 2311 or visit www.well.edu.wvu/ CAMPUS LIGHT MINISTRIES medical. hosts a weekly meeting and Bible NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS study at 7 p.m. in the Bluestone meets nightly in the Morgantown Room of the Mountainlair. and Fairmont areas. For more information, call the helpline at 800Every Saturday 766-4442 or visit www.mrscna.

OPEN GYM FOR VOLLEYBALL is org.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Student Recreation Center. No com- meets daily. For help or a schedmitment or prior experience is nec- ule, call 304-291-7918. For more essary. Just show up and play. For information, visit www.aawv.org.

CARITAS HOUSE, a local nonmore information, contact Mandy profit organization serving West at mhatfie3@mix.wvu.edu.

CATHOLIC MASS Is held at St. Virginians with HIV/AIDS, needs donations of food and personal John University Parish at 5 p.m.

TRADITIONAL KARATE CLASS care items and volunteers to supFOR SELF-DEFENSE meets at 10:30 port all aspects of the organizaa.m. in Multipurpose Room A of tion’s activities. For more information, call 304-985-0021. the Student Recreation Center.

CONFIDENTIAL COUNSELING Every Sunday SERVICES are provided for free TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH of- by the Carruth Center for Psychofers services at 8 a.m. and 10:30 logical and Psychiatric Services. A a.m. The church is located on the walk-in clinic is offered weekdays corner of Spruce and Willey streets. from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services inWVU WOMEN’S ULTIMATE FRIS- clude educational, career, individBEE CLUB TEAM holds practice at 3 ual, couples and group counseling. Please visit www.well.wvu. p.m. at St. Francis Fields.

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF edu to find out more information.

SCOTT’S RUN SETTLEMENT LATTER-DAY SAINTS offers a service for students at 10 a.m. at the HOUSE, a local outreach organichapel on Willey Street. For more zation, needs volunteers for daily programs and special events. information, call 304-296-7538.

WVU HILLEL offers a Bagel For more information or to volBrunch at 12:30 p.m. at the Hil- unteer, contact Adrienne Hines lel House at 1420 University Ave. at vc_srsh@hotmail.com or For more information or a ride, call 304-599-5020.

WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHIL304-685-5195.

MOUNTAINEERS FOR CHRIST DREN needs volunteers. WIC prohosts college worship from 6 p.m. vides education, supplemental to 7 p.m. at the Christian Student foods and immunizations for pregnant women and children under 5 Center at 2923 University Ave. PAINTBALL TEAM practices at years of age. This is an opportunity Mountain Valley Paintball Park. For to earn volunteer hours for class more information, visit www.wvu- requirements. For more informapaintball.com or e-mail wvupaint- tion, contact Michelle Prudnick at 304-598-5180 or 304-598-5185. ball@gmail.com.

FREE RAPID HIV TESTING is CHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP hosts free dinner at 6:15 p.m. available on the first Monday of followed by a worship service at every month from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

7 p.m. at 2901 University Ave. For at the Caritas House office located more information, contact Gary at 391 Scott Ave. Test results are available in 20 minutes and are Gross at grossgary@yahoo.com.

SIGMA THETA EPSILON, a Na- confidential. To make an appointtional Christian Service Fraternity, ment, call 304-293-4117. For more would like to invite any men inter- information, visit www.caritasested in the fraternity to attend its house.net.

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS, a meeting at 5 p.m. at the Campus Ministry Center. For more infor- United Way agency, is looking for mation, e-mail sigmathetawvu@ volunteers to become Big Brothers

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There is no charge for publication. Questions should be directed to the Campus Calendar Editor at 304-293-5092.

and Big Sisters in its one-on-one community-based and schoolbased mentoring programs. To volunteer, contact Sylvia at 304983-2823, ext. 104 or e-mail bigs4kids@yahoo.com.

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

LITERACY VOLUNTEERS is seeking volunteers for one-on-one tutoring in basic reading and English as a second language. Volunteer tutors will complete tutor training, meet weekly with their adult learners, report volunteer hours quarterly, attend at least two inservice trainings per year, and help with one fundraising event.

For more information, call 304296-3400 or e-mail MCLV2@comcast.net.

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

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

HOROSCOPES

BY JACQUELINE BIGAR

friends as you start the weekend.

BORN TODAY This year, follow your knee-jerk response, and you’ll come out ahead. Creativity and imagination merge, especially as you learn to understand those in your day-to-day environment. Open up to new possibilities, though at times you could feel uncomfortable. If you are single, a foreigner could have a startling impact on your life. The experience could be a real eyeopener. If you are attached, the two of you become closer through taking a seminar or workshop together. You also might plan a very special trip together.

CANCER can draw you in quickly.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHHH Your energy is right in sync with the moment. Surprising news comes your way. The unexpected occurs with plans.

You won’t want to change your plans, but it might be necessary. You understand what responsibility means. Tonight: Go off and be spontaneous.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH All eyes turn to you, whether you like it or not. You could be overwhelmed by your feelings. At the same time, you will gain insight into what drives you.

Allow greater creativity and caring to flow into your life. Tonight: Let your hair down.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHH Communication flourishes when you focus on your long-term goals. Touch base with a key person you look up to.

Let your imagination rock and roll. Unexpected developments could surprise you and point to a new course of action. Tonight: Happily mosey on home.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHH Be careful about spending. Suddenly, out of the blue, a devil-may-care attitude might be marking your actions when it comes to spending and overindulgence. Careful! A boss reacts in an unanticipated manner. Tonight: Visit with

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHH Understand what is going on behind the scenes. You come to the inevitable conclusion that you might need more facts. Keep your own counsel. You don’t need to let everyone know what you are thinking. Tonight: Nap, then decide.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHHH Meetings prove to be instrumental in making decisions. You discover the power of a group. A partner could surprise you with his or her actions, reminding you that you never know someone completely. Tonight: You might want to call it an early night.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH Detach yourself from a boss or difficult person in your life. You have energy and dynamic ideas. Mix them together, and you are unbeatable. Funnel your energy into your weekend, friends and long-term goals. Tonight: Where the party is.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHHH You understand how very psychic or intuitive you are. Know that you need to follow through on these feelings.

The long-term ramifications of suppressing your emotions could be quite

overwhelming. Tonight: Bring friends together.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH You could make inroads with a key person, if you so choose. How you handle a personal relationship really is your decision, but if you could identify with this person, your bond would be closer. Try walking in his or her shoes.

Tonight: Take off ASAP. CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Creativity flourishes because you are able to allow others to dominate and sometimes come up with the better idea. Accepting the power of teamwork in creating a better product could be more important than you realize.

Tonight: Get together with a favorite person.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH Complete what you start, knowing you probably won’t want to work this weekend. In fact, as the day meets dusk, you already have a strong sense of what might be going on this weekend. Tonight: So many choices. Now what?

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHHH You radiate contentment and anger.

You also seem to be able to find solutions when few people can. Open up to news, and stay even and steady.

Perspective defines situations. Your laughter heralds a new beginning and a change of pace. Tonight: Make it an early night.

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32 Late party attire 33 Dealing with 34 “The Neverending Story” author 35 Sandwich request 42 “C’mon, man!”

43 Do a little math 46 Genesis baking ingredient?

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51 Former Vietnam area mostly S. of the 17th parallel 52 Co-producer of U2’s “Achtung Baby” 53 Exile of 1979 54 Banning CFC production, e.g.?

60 Stadium entrance 61 Like some windows 64 George of “Cheers” 65 Foresees 66 Beats 1-0, say 67 Film holders 68 Mess of dough DOWN 1 Trouble 2 Cook with waves 3 Oxford campus 4 TV screen meas.

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Singers to tackle Broadway, Motown songs to make top three by jesse tabit a&e writer

Mountaineer Idol is coming to a close with only five contestants left in the singing competition.

The fifth round will be held in the Mountainlair Ballrooms night.

Event coordinator Sonja Wilson said the competition will be difficult to narrow down.

“This is the chance for the singers to show their versatility, and that is what Mountaineer Idol is all about,” Wilson said.

The round’s themes are “Broadway” and “Motown.” Each contes-

tant will sing a song from each genre. Two contestants will be eliminated.

Contestants will be scored on a scale from one to 10, based on voice, stage performance, song selection and overall performance.

“It’s going to be difficult singing songs from two completely different genres, but I am looking forward to it,” said Kasey Jagger, a sophomore forensic and investigative science major.

For her Motown choice, Jagger will be singing “Stop in the Name of Love,” by The Supremes and “Think of Me” from “Phan-

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tom of the Opera” for the Broadway selection.

Chelsea Malone, freshman general studies major, will sing “Endless Love” by Diana Ross and “Memory” from Cats.

“I’m looking forward to being one step closer to the final week,” Malone said.

Host Dave Slusarick is not sure what to expect because he believes each contestant is capable of performing a variety of genres.

“All of the singers have good poise and song choices so far,” Slusarick said. “The song choices are the best ever featured in Mountaineer Idol.”

The final round of Mountaineer Idol is Nov. 14 at 3 p.m.

The song choices of each of the final three contestants will be a song already performed in the competition, a song never performed in the competition and a song chosen by the co-hosts.

The winner of the competition, sponsored by “American Idol” and Coca-Cola, will receive $1,000 and a chance to sing the National Anthem at a WVU men’s basketball game.

Runner-up will receive $750, while third place will take home $250.

“We are encouraging people to come out and support the singers, even though the event occurs on the same night as the WVU vs.

Connecticut football game,” Wilson said. jesse.tabit@mail.wvu.edu

‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ returns to Morgantown at X-hale Hookah Lounge by david ryan A&E editor

Morgantown, it’s time to do the “Time Warp” again.

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” will play from Halloween night and continue through Monday morning at X-hale Hookah Lounge on Walnut Street. Admission is $6.

The cult-horror classic, which celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, will begin monthly screenings, in a tradition left by the recently closed Warner Theatre.

“We really discussed it and it seemed almost natural,” said Ric Hogerheide, events coordinator for DubVNightLife.com and DJ at X-hale.

“Nobody stepped up to the plate and we thought, ‘why the hell not?’”

The movie provides an outlet for an underrepresented part of Morgantown, Hogerheide said.

“When a lot of people think

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of Morgantown and the events here, they don’t think of the arts, or the coffee house drinkers,” he said. “They think of the frat kids and the nightclubs, not that there’s anything wrong with that. But everybody needs an outlet for what they do.”

X-hale makes the perfect venue for the screening, Hogerheide said, attributing its low-key atmosphere and distinction in a town full of nightclubs.

The screening will include live action performers who shadow the action projected on a large screen, Hogerheide said, with the original cast that performed at the Warner.

“It’s like a big, long, intricate dance,” he said. “Lots of inappropriate things go on in line with ‘Rocky Horror.’

That’s essentially what the live group does – make it even raunchier.”

Audience members are encouraged to dress up in their “Rocky Horror” costumes,

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Morgantown Writers to hold reading, workshop by visiting author by david ryan A&E editor

West Virginia author Marie Manilla will visit Morgantown this weekend as part of a literary arts program.

The visit is sponsored by Morgantown Writers and West Virginia University Press and will feature a short story reading and a workshop.

The reading will take place at the Arts Monongahela Gallery tonight at 6:30.

The writing workshop will take place at the Morgantown Public Library on Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

Manilla, a West Virginia University graduate, originally worked as a graphic artist for eight years, she said,

before she started writing fiction.

“I fell in love with the short story form,” she said. “That’s the form I wanted to start learning about first.”

While working as a graphic designer in Texas, Manilla began writing about Latin culture.

“When I started writing fiction, I was writing about people from Texas, and I was writing about the Latino experience.”

Manilla wanted to write about the Latino experience after growing up in a “pretty homogenous” West Virginia at the time.

When she moved back to West Virginia, she began writing about her own expe-

riences in state, after tackling “snobbery” outside of the state.

“People make the same kind of stereotypical assumptions of us,” she said. “I wanted to present a different view of us to the world. I also wanted to present the idea that we also struggle with our identity and that we sometimes feel insecure, because we’re the butt of so many jokes.”

Manilla’s short stories include characters that deal with identity issues, particularly those about West Virginia, she said.

The short story form, she said, enables the writer to capture “light-bulb moments.”

“You have to be very careful about what you include in

short stories,” she said. “Short stories have to lead up to that light-bulb moment of epiphany. I like the adrenalin rush of a short story. I like the short time frame. I like that it has to be tight, concise and precise.”

Manilla said she often ends her short stories with the character’s lives up to the reader, letting them fill out the rest of the story.

Manilla’s latest publication, “Still Life with Plums,” is published by WVU Press and is a collection of short stories.

According to a press release, the book “weaves together the outwardly distant lives of several strangers from the southern portion of the United States, including a “Black-Irish” West Virginian,

a wise-cracking dog groomer, an emasculated husband, a Guatemalan widow, a Japanese-Latin-American poster child from WWII and a meticulous predator.”

Characters from her stories often come from real-world encounters and people she’s met, she said.

Manilla will read selections from the book Friday and will share her formula for a great short story.

“I really boiled it down to my three ‘wow’ aspects to have in a short story,” she said.

The first wow factor is honesty, she said.

“When your readers read it, they’ll either be nodding in agreement because they know that this is true, or a light-bulb

will go off in their head for them when they’re reading your story.”

The second is urgency, she said. The constrictions of a short story is different than a novel, which allows greater room to build characterization.

The third is being able to learn something from the story.

Manilla often researches occupations and hobbies for characters, she said.

“Those details will become a metaphor for your character, whether you mean them to or not,” she said. “It’s a nice way to add another layer of detail to your stories.” david.ryan@mail.wvu.edu

‘Scared Shrekless’ brings clever entertainment Taylor Swift tells kids: james carbone campus calender editor

The Shrek series has had its ups and downs.

Actually, it has had mostly ups, the only real problem being “Shrek the Third.”

Thankfully, their Halloween foray, “Scared Shrekless,” is a positive experience.

The story, taking place presumably after the fourth film, as Shrek and Fiona’s children are walking and talking, is similar to the “Treehouse of Horror” episodes done by “The Simpsons,” with three short stories told between one overarching story.

The main story starts off with Shrek and his kids scaring children for their candy before leading into a challenge from his friends Donkey, Pinocchio and the others as to whether or not they can stay in the castle of Lord Farquaad, the villain from the original “Shrek.”

Once there, everyone takes turns telling stories to see who is the bravest mythical creature around.

The stories themselves combine popular horror films with typical Shrek humor in a way

adults and kids can enjoy.

The Gingerbread Man tells a story about his supposed bride, combining “The Bride of Frankenstein” with elements of “Fatal Attraction.”

Donkey’s story starts off as a spoof of “Psycho” before devolving into pure insanity as Donkey and Puss ’N Boots keep changing elements of the tale.

The final one is an “Exorcist” parody starring Shrek and Pinocchio, with quite a few humorous references to Disney’s “Pinocchio” film.

When it comes down to it, the whole special was enjoyable.

The jokes were typically Shrek fare, with pop culture references and ridiculous humor abound, yet the formula still works.

The best joke featured involved the Duloc welcome box from the original Shrek, with the tune staying the same, yet the song itself becoming rather morbid.

Most of the cast returned from the films, as well, with Mike Meyers doing a stellar performance in what may be his biggest role, and Cameron Diaz returning for a surprisingly small role.

The biggest absence was Eddie Murphy as Donkey, although the soundalike who

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Characters from the ‘Shrek’ movie series appeared on the Halloween special Thursday night.

voiced him did a great job of imitating the voice.

Thankfully, all the peripheral characters were voiced by their proper actors, as Gingy and the three little pigs would’ve sounded especially weird without their trademark voices.

Kristen Schaal also does a voice in one of the stories and it proves she should get more work.

The CGI used to animate the characters looks a little simpler than the kind used in the last couple of movies, but it still

looks good.

I know that they aren’t planning any more movies right now, but if they keep making holiday specials, I’ll keep watching them.

For those that missed it the first time, it will be showing again Sunday night, along with a “Monsters Vs. Aliens” special, which I’m sure is also worth checking out.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Studying hard can bring sweet rewards, like screaming “We love you!” to Taylor Swift from seats that match the color of Clifford the Big Red Dog. The Grammy Award-winning superstar stopped by the headquarters of Scholastic Inc. on Wednesday and chatted and performed at the publisher’s downstairs auditorium, where about 200 grade-schoolers and middle-schoolers, most of them girls, had received a break from class to see Swift talk about reading and writing. The children had been selected by their schools because of improvement in their reading scores.

“I think that smart kids are the coolest kids,” Swift, wearing a dark-blue cotton dress with red and white flowers and twotone high heel shoes, said to much delight as she was interviewed on stage by “America’s Got Talent” host Nick Cannon.

The 20-year-old singer-songwriter, who has been busy promoting her new CD, “Speak Now,” shared songwriting tips (imagine you’re writing a letter, she advised), childhood reading memories and repeated plugs for books as a path to a better life. “(Without books) You can let little things pass you by, little details,” she said. “Like, say you’re driving down the road and there’s just this really beautiful autumn tree and it has these gorgeous orange leaves. You might just let that pass you by if you have never read books that describe how beautiful they are, from somebody else’s perspective.”

Swift did more than talk. She sang a few lines from one of her favorite songs, Faith Hill’s “This Kiss,” and was joined by her band at the end to perform her new single, “Mine.”

The children made their own music, spontaneously singing along when Swift’s “You Belong With Me” was played on the house sound system before she arrived.

Swift, a native of Wyomissing, Pa., whose first record came out when she was 16, said she had always been a reader and was encouraged by her parents and teachers. She started writing poetry in second grade and by fourth grade had enough courage to enter a poem, “Monster in My Closet,” in a national poetry contest.

(She didn’t win, she says, but she did place.) Studying “Romeo and Juliet” in ninth grade helped inspire her Top 10 single “Love Story.”

She also said she loved “Sesame Street” books growing up and was inspired by the stories of Dr. Seuss because of their

rhymes.

“A lot of people who gravitate toward music are really, really sort of drawn to poetry because the words all have a rhythm and it comes together just right,” she said. “I love poetry, because if you get it right, if you put the right rhymes at the right ends of the sentences, you can almost make words bounce off a page.”

Responding to student questions, Swift said she enjoyed authors who had a “a very conversational style to their writing” and was drawn most to books that dramatized history, perhaps about a “girl during the Revolutionary War.” She said reading made her a better songwriter because it helps you with “understanding metaphors” and “how to paint a picture with a song.”

Asked how to encourage children who don’t like to read, she suggested not taking on too much, perhaps starting with a short story or even a newspaper.

“It doesn’t have to be a big, thick, long book,” she said.

“You don’t have to pick up something that looks scary.”

On stage, Swift cited Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” as a favorite. wwInterviewed briefly at a post-show reception, Swift said she loved the novel, set in the South in the 1950s, because of how it was narrated from a child’s point of view.

“The main character didn’t exactly know what was going on, but the reader does,” she said. “It’s all portrayed in an interesting way, all the huge issues in the book, like civil right, come from a children’s perspective. It’s an interesting way to tell a story.”

Swift is part of a new Scholastic promotional campaign, “You are What You Read,” for which authors, celebrities and public figures from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to “Percy Jackson” novelist Rick Riordan choose favorite books. Swift’s picks include E.B. White’s “Charlotte’s Web” and Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir on divorce and recovery, “Eat, Pray, Love,” not a surprising choice for a songwriter known for her romantic laments and explorations.

Swift said during the reception that she was enjoying Gilbert’s most recent book, “Committed,” in which the author marries the Brazilian man she met in “Eat, Pray, Love.”

“Listening to her talk at seminars, especially one that I YouTubed, where she was talking about trying to create her followup project, it made me cry,” Swift said. “It was so inspirational.”

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West Virginia competes in Big East Championship by derek dennenny sports writer

The West Virginia cross country team will travel to Syracuse this weekend for the Big East Conference championship. The Mountaineers finished in third place on this course earlier in the season. “(The team) ran this course earlier in the year and know what to expect,” said head coach Sean Cleary. “The teams

that handle the expected adverse conditions this weekend will emerge having met their goals.”

Cleary said rain throughout this week in the Syracuse area has likely affected the course.

Still, he doesn’t think it will bother the Mountaineers.

“To be honest, I say bring it on,” Cleary said.

Cleary, who redshirted his top four runners earlier in the season, feels his team has made

steady improvements throughout the year, but he is still expecting to see better times this weekend.

“We have been preaching to continue to close our gaps,” he said. “To be honest, I will be very excited if our front runners can have their best races of the year and our gap continues to shrink. This is easier said than done, of course, but I really feel as if we are pulling together at the right time and can pull this

off.”

To prepare for the race, Cleary said the team has been on its normal pre-race training regime. He added, the team will ease up as the weekend nears to save the team’s legs for the race.

“The trick for us is to be able to finish as high as we can this weekend but not sacrifice our shape for (NCAA) Regionals and Nationals,” Cleary said.

Although cross country is one of the purest forms of a

team sport, Cleary admits he will look to a few runners to help pace the team. Those are senior Maria Dalzot and junior Ahna Lewis.

“In reality, everybody needs to run their best this weekend,” he said. “We are trying to beat teams that we have not been in a position to beat all year.”

In a conference stacked with elite teams – four that are ranked in the top 14 in the country – Cleary’s expectations

don’t change for this weekend’s race. He just wants his team to run its best.

I want this group to go in, run unfazed with the competition and realize that they belong,” Cleary said. “This is essential for not only this weekend but the future of this program.”

WVU won the event in 2007 and finished second in 2008 and 2009. derek.denneny@mail.wvu.edu

Minnesota Wild’s Backstrom strong in net in 2-1 victory over Capitals ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Niklas Backstrom stopped 21 shots, and the Minnesota Wild slowed down speedy Washington in a 2-1 victory over the suddenly punchless Capitals on Thursday night.

Chuck Kobasew got his first goal of the season and Mikko Koivu scored for Minnesota’s league-leading power play against Capitals goalie Michal Neuvirth, who wasn’t quite as good as he was in a shutout the

night before.

He didn’t have much help, however. Alex Ovechkin scored with 1:36 left, snapping a fivegame scoreless streak, but the Capitals were held to a seasonlow 22 shots on goal after posting at least 33 shots in each of the last five games.

Nicklas Backstrom’s shot with less than 6 seconds left was stopped by the other Backstrom’s glove.

The NHL’s highest-scoring

team last season, the Capitals have scored four goals or more only twice in 10 games. They’re still 6-4, but their top line is missing the spark that helped them to the league’s best record last season before their stunning first-round ouster from the playoffs by Montreal.

Ovechkin was shown on camera angrily whacking his stick against the bench at one point.

His linemate Backstrom

scored twice in Wednesday’s win over Carolina, but coach Bruce Boudreau suggested they’ve been pressing. The Capitals hit their share of pipes in this one, including Matt Hendricks in the third period.

The Capitals, playing the second night of a less-thanconvenient Carolina-Minnesota back-to-back set of road games, managed only four shots on goal in the opening period while the Wild struck

first.

Kobasew, playing on Koivu’s first line with Antti Miettinen scratched because he was sick, sneaked behind Capitals defenseman John Carlson and popped a perfect crosscrease pass from Andrew Brunette from the corner into the net.

Backstrom was on his game for the Wild during a power play for the Capitals early in the second period, when he

kicked out his right leg to rob Mike Knuble’s shot from the faceoff dot.

With the crowd – announced at 17,352 – rather quiet for most of the night, the thud of that pad save was audible throughout the arena.

Then midway through the middle frame, Backstrom stopped his sort-of namesake by nimbly gloving a closerange shot by Washington’s Backstrom.

Original rules of basketball will Maple Leafs struggle offensively, go up for auction on Dec. 10 Bruins win with 2-0 shutout KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — It’s been nearly 119 years since James Naismith wrote down 13 rules for a new game he devised as a way to give youths at a Springfield, Mass., YMCA an athletic activity to keep them busy in the winter.

On Dec. 10, those rules – considered “the birth certificate of one of the world’s most popular sports” – will be put up for auction in New York and are expected to bring in at least $2 million.

The proceeds are to go to the Naismith International Basketball Foundation, which promotes sportsmanship and provides services to underprivileged youths around the world.

Ian Naismith, the foundation’s founder and grandson of James Naismith, said it was a family decision to put the rules on the auction block and give the money to the Naismith charity.

“We need to take the money and work the money back into kids,” Ian Naismith told The Associated Press. “We call it recycling. With the economy going south the last couple of years, my stroke, my wife passing away, it was more important to me to have the game go back into the kids. It’s what Dr. Naismith wanted.”

James Naismith penned the 13 rules on Dec. 21, 1891, while he was a physical education instructor at a YMCA training school in Springfield.

His boss had given him two weeks to come up with a new indoor activity for his gym class, and he wrote down the rules on the eve of that deadline.

He gave the list to his secretary, who typed them up on two pages that Naismith pinned on a bulletin board out-

side the gym.

He moved to Lawrence, Kan., in 1898 and became the first basketball coach at the University of Kansas. He coached for nine seasons before assuming other academic duties and serving as athletics director.

One of his players was Forrest “Phog” Allen, who went on to become popularly known as the “father of basketball coaches.”

The two are memorialized on the University of Kansas campus, where the basketball court at Allen Fieldhouse is named James Naismith Court.

Naismith died in 1939, three years after his new game became an official sport at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

“It’s really the genesis, the birth certificate of one of the world’s most popular sports,” said Selby Kiffer, senior specialist in American history documents for Sotheby’s, which will conduct the Dec. 10 auction.

“It’s a sport that has had an impact on everything from fashion, such as sneakers, to culture that in a way transcends sports.

“Basketball is a pure invention,” he said.

Ian Naismith said he has wanted to sell the rules for years, but had never made a serious effort to do so. He said someone offered his father, also named James, $1 million for them in 1968 and $2 million in 1973, but they were never sold.

The rules were passed down to Ian Naismith, his brother and sister in 1980 when their father died.

“I’m very proud of the game, proud that it’s the fastest-growing game,” Ian Naismith said.

“I’m upset about a lot of things taking place in the game, but I don’t want to say anything negative. Well, one thing. The Labron James spectacle, his reality show when he was signing up with a team, I thought that was in poor taste. That’s not basketball, as far as I’m concerned.”

Kiffer said the estimated value of the rules is “$2 million plus,” but said it’s hard to estimate how much the pages will sell for because they are unique.

“The estimate is unusual for us, giving a single-figure estimate,” he said. “Normally we have a high and a low. This is something so unusual that I don’t think we know what the upper end might be. We’re afraid that by putting a high estimate, it might limit people’s vision of what it is worth.”

The basketball rules will be in elite company at Sotheby’s on auction day, with Robert F. Kennedy’s copy of the Emancipation Proclamation – one of only 26 copies signed by Abraham Lincoln that are believed to still exist – and a battle flag recovered from the Battle of Little Bighorn also on the block.

“One of (James Naismith’s) famous quotes was, ‘I want to leave the world a better place for me having been here,’” Ian Naismith said. He added that putting the money from the sale back into the Naismith Foundation – which also funds orphanages and children’s services around the world – means his grandfather’s legacy will endure.

“We heal kids, if we can,” Naismith said. “We educate them.

We’re talking about street kids.

I’m not into the politics of the game. I prefer to do the charity.”

BOSTON (AP) — Tyler Seguin is enjoying the love of the Boston fans and seeing what can happen when things go the other way.

Seguin scored his first goal at home Thursday night in Boston’s 2-0 victory over Toronto, the team that traded the Bruins the pick they used to select him No. 2 overall in the NHL draft.

The Maple Leafs got Phil Kessel, who was mocked and booed by the crowd as he fell to 0-4 in Boston since the trade, with just a single assist in seven games against his former team.

“He must be doing something right if they’re doing that,” Seguin said. “I like to say I hope I’ll get booed in an arena.

“But hopefully it won’t be Boston.”

So far, so good. Bruins coach Claude Julien said after the game that Seguin would stay with the team for the rest of the season; Boston had the option to send him back to juniors after nine games.

“I just found out,” Seguin said in the hallway after Julien spoke to reporters.

Patrice Bergeron scored his first goal of the season for the Bruins.

Tim Thomas stopped 20 shots to earn his second shutout and remain unbeaten for the season, improving to 5-0 with a 0.60 goals-against average; Tuukka Rask was in goal for the Bruins’ only two losses.

“I feel good. It’s fun to play right now,” Thomas said. “It was easier to focus on a shutout because we couldn’t afford to give up a goal and let them back in.”

Jonas Gustavsson stopped 30 shots for the Maple Leafs, but he didn’t get any help from

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Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas makes a save as Toronto Maple Leafs’ Luke Schenn looks for the rebound during the first period in Boston on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. an offense that has scored just seven goals in its last five games.

“Their goalie made some good saves,” Leafs defenseman Dion Phaneuf said. “He was hot. We threw everything at him we could.”

No sooner had Seguin beaten Gustavsson to give Boston a 1-0 lead with 41 seconds left in the first period than the sold-out crowd broke into a mocking chant of “Thank you, Kessel!”

“I could care less. Doesn’t matter to me one bit,” Kessel said, shrugging his shoulders and scrunching up his face. “I just couldn’t bury my chances.

What can you do?”

The chant was repeated when Seguin broke free on Gustavsson with 7 minutes left in the third but missed when he was slashed from behind. Fans wanted a penalty shot, but they soon returned to mocking Kessel, a talented goal-scorer who was criticized in Boston for not

being tough enough.

Kessel had told management he wanted to play elsewhere, and the Bruins obliged by trading him to Toronto in 2009 for two first-round draft picks and a second-rounder.

Kessel entered the night third in the NHL with seven goals, but he hasn’t been able to break through against Boston.

“The pressure being put on him doesn’t mean he doesn’t try or work hard,” Julien said. “I just think we do a real good job playing against him.”

Seguin topped that when he slapped home a pass from Dennis Seidenberg with 41 seconds left in the first period. The Bruins made it 2-0 in the second period when Zdeno Chara slid a pass along the blue line to Bergeron, who one-timed it into the net for the 100th goal of his career.

The Bruins have allowed 11 goals in seven games – the fewest in the league.

Blue Jackets’ defeat Oilers in shootout COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Nikita Filatov and Rick Nash scored in the shootout to overshadow Taylor Hall’s first NHL goal, leading the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 3-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night.

The game was played before 9,128 fans, the smallest crowd to watch the Blue Jackets at home.

Hall, the acclaimed No. 1 pick in the June draft, tied it at 9:57 of the third period. He was in the crease to tip a shot

by Theo Peckham.

The 19-year-old star from Calgary had scored his first point on an assist Oct. 10 against Florida. He also assisted on Shawn Horcoff ’s first-period goal for the Oilers, who have lost six in a row and

are 2-23-3 in their last 28 road games dating to mid-December of last season.

Samuel Pahlsson and Kyle Wilson had goals in regulation for the Blue Jackets, who have won three in a row and five of six. Steve Mason made 25 saves.

In the shootout, Edmonton’s Sam Gagner went first and appeared to have scored after he got Mason down on the ice with a fake. But Mason reached back with his stick to flick the puck away at the last instant.

Nash then buried a hard shot with very little deception, just past Devan Dubnyk’s blocker.

Next up for the Oilers was Gilbert Brule, a former No. 1 draft pick of the Blue Jackets who was traded after two largely unproductive seasons.

He was roundly booed as he skated in on Mason, ripping a shot that clanged off the right post.

Columbus then went with Filatov, taken sixth overall in the 2008 draft, in the extra session. He had fallen into disfavor a year ago under thencoach Ken Hitchcock, electing to return to play in his native Russia rather than go to the minors.

Filatov carefully skated in on Dubnyk, faked and then netted a high backhander.

The Blue Jackets led 2-1 after a period.

Pahlsson notched his first goal on a one-timer off a nifty pass from the back boards by Clark, who assisted on both Columbus goals in regulation.

Horcoff picked up the equalizer, benefiting from tic-tac-toe passing. Hall feathered a crosscrease pass from the right wing to fellow rookie Jordan Eberle, who slid a perfect setup to Horcoff at the right doorstep.

With just under 2 minutes left in the period, Wilson’s shot was blocked by Dubnyk. But the rebound came right back to Wilson and he netted his second chance.

Both teams had numerous prime scoring opportunities in the final minutes.

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When asked “if” West Virginia could stop Connecticut running back Jordan Todman, Robert Sands quickly shook his head.

“When,” the Mountaineer safety sharply responded.

“When (we stop Todman).”

Coming off the team’s first Big East Conference loss of the season to Syracuse, it’s that kind of positive attitude that Sands said will springboard the unit to get back where it needs to be.

The mental correction started immediately after the defeat, and Sands hopes learning from them forgetting about past struggles will only benefit the team starting tonight when the Mountaineers face the Huskies.

“You got to live for the present and the future,” Sands said.

“The future is UConn, and that’s what we’re preparing for.

That’s what we’re focused on.”

The defense has been the Mountaineers’ saving grace in 2010. Even after continually struggling to handle Syracuse’s run game, the WVU defense feels it is still in control.

“Our defense takes a lot of criticism because we felt we

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WEST VIRGINIA vs. UCONN LOUISVILLE vs. PITTSBURGH SYRACUSE vs. CINCINNATI WVU defenders take down a USF receiver Oct. 14. were responsible for that loss,” Leonard said. “We still have mistakes to correct on our end.”

After giving up just 83 rushing yards per game prior to last week, the Mountaineers surrendered 183 to Syracuse – the most allowed this season.

“There are times throughout the game where we slip up and hurt ourselves,” said WVU defensive lineman Chris Neild. “It showed at the end.

(SU) got more points than us.”

Sands said stopping the run is paramount in order to secure a victory, especially against Connecticut’s quarterback Zach Frazer, who is taking over as the team’s starter

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after Cody Endres was excused from the team for disclipinary reasons.

“Once you stop the run, then they have to pass,” Sands said. “They play right into the hands of the defense.

“We got some guys back there that can make a play on the ball, catch the ball and run with it after.”

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Volleyball hits road with Big East Conference Tournament berth within reach by sebouh majarian sports writer

The West Virginia volleyball team’s chances of reaching the Big East Conference Tournament rests heavily on its final road trip of the season.

The Mountaineers, who currently sit tied for seventh place in the conference standings, play Marquette today and travel to Syracuse Sunday. The league’s top eight teams qualify for the postseason.

“You shouldn’t live your life by saying, ‘oh it’s getting close, now we have to play hard’,” said WVU head coach Jill Kramer. “It should be like that. It’s all just as important

West Virginia (14-10, 4-4)

Marquette 15-7, 6-2)

When: Tonight at 7 p.m.

Where: McGuire Center Series: WVU leads 4-3 Coaches: Jill Kramer (first season at WVU, 14-10); Bond Shymansky (second season at Marquette, 33-19) On the line: West Virginia sits at No. 7 in the conference, while Marquette is at No. 4.

as it was at the beginning (of the season).”

“We have to stay in the moment and take care of each point, because every point matters.”

West Virginia (14-10, 4-4 Big East) is currently tied with Pittsburgh and Seton Hall for

the seventh spot. If the teams finish with identical records, the advantage goes to the team with the best head-tohead record. West Virginia beat the Panthers, but fell to Seton Hall.

If needed, an additional tiebreaker is based on a team’s percentage of sets won, and then points scored.

After this weekend, West Virginia returns home for four games to end the regular season.

Kramer said her team needs to only focus on taking care of its business, however, and not worry about the results the Mountaineers can’t control.

“You don’t want to spend your time looking sideways,

Rowing travels to Philadelphia for the Head of the Schuylkill regatta by derek denneny sports writer

The West Virginia rowing team will travel to Philadelphia this weekend to participate in the Head of the Schuylkill. The Mountaineers have been training for the past three weeks in preparation for this event.

“We need to be more aggressive,” he said. “More than anything, I was surprised and disappointed by a lack of energy and emotion for the first competition of the year. Hopefully, this changes.”

WVU will face the likes of

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Continued from page 16 At the end of the day, Smith was sacked five times and threw three interceptions.

“I’ve got to get the ball out of my hands quicker,” Smith said.

“Guys were getting open. I just have to be more disciplined with my reads.”

He has not been placed in a difficult position quite like he was Saturday.

He had been heralded for the valiant comeback against Marshall, but the Syracuse game had a much different feel to it.

Against Marshall, Smith took control. Last weekend, it seemed the Orange took control of him.

Smith is ready to get back to his form in those last two drives against Marshall, though.

Part of it comes with advancements in the passing game. He knows hitting open receivers is the key and holding on to the ball for too long results in a sack.

WVU head coach Bill Stewart has mentioned that he plans on taking advantage of Smith’s ability to run more often, starting tonight against Connecticut.

Although a prototypical passing quarterback, Smith has an agile pair of legs and can scramble if needed.

Although he didn’t show much of it against the Orange, there was one instance when he shook off a broken play and ran for a first down.

That needs to happen again

Temple, Navy, Maryland and Penn, among others.

The all-day event Saturday will test the endurance of the rowers as they take on a grueling course, which includes passing under four bridges on the rough waters of the Schuylkill River and ends at Philadelphia’s famous Boat House Row. WVU will enter boats in the women’s pair without a cox, women’s college novice eights, the women’s club eights and the women’s open four with cox.

This will be WVU’s second

meet of its fall schedule. The results will not count in the standings, but King feels that the races are good practice and training for the spring.

“We’ll make the expected technical improvements simply with more time on the water, so I’m not too concerned,” King said. “Most important for now … we need to become more competitive within the team on a regular basis so that we aren’t trying to take on an unfamiliar persona on race day. Hopefully, we will see that.”

to keep defenses off‑guard.

Smith’s role is to rally his Mountaineers and stay the course to their goal of a Big East Conference championship.

It’s possible. Pryor proved that.

He made adjustments after that awful conference loss to Purdue.

With a renewed mentality, he led the Buckeyes to an un-

defeated season the rest of the way. At 10‑2 OSU landed a spot in the Rose Bowl and beat Oregon 26‑17.

Pryor and the Buckeyes mirror the Mountaineers in 2010.

Smith wants to reach that BCS plateau, too.

It can happen, but it’s in his hands.

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because you have to take care of yourself,” Kramer said. “But at the same time, it adds some extra drive and motivation.”

Coming off two consecutive losses, West Virginia will be looking to end Marquette’s (15-7, 6-2) eight-game winning streak, in which the Golden Eagles have won 24 sets and lost only six.

Both Marquette and Syracuse (21-5, 3-5) rank in the top eight nationally in hitting percentage, while Marquette sits 21st nationally in kills-per-game.

Playing outside the WVU Coliseum has been the Achilles’ heel for the Mountaineers this season, though, as the team is just 2-7 on the road

compared to their 7-1 home record.

“We can’t make excuses about that. It’s our life,” Kramer said. “We’ve been on the road all year, so we just have to buck up.”

Both the Golden Eagles and the Orange have higher RPI’s than the Mountaineers’ 128th ranking. Marquette is ranked 70th, while Syracuse trails at No. 72.

The Mountaineers, meanwhile, are fifth nationlly in digs per set with 18.49. The team is led by senior libero Bonnie West, who ranks 42nd, and junior Serinna Russo, who is 76th, respectively, in the category. sebouh.majarian@mail.wvu.edu

Current Big East Standings 1. Cincinnati 2. Louisville 3. Villanova 4. Marquette 5. Notre Dame 6. South Florida 7. West Virginia 8. Pittsburgh 9. Seton Hall 10. Syracuse 11. Georgetown 12. St. John’s 13. Rutgers 14. Connecticut 15. DePaul

8-1 (21-4) 8-1 (14-6) 7-1 (19-4) 6-2 (15-7) 6-3 (13-9 5-4 (9-11) 4-4 (14-10) 4-4 (10-14) 4-4 (10-14) 3-5 (21-5) 3-6 (13-12) 2-6 (15-10) 1-7 (9-13) 1-7 (3-16) 1-8 (4-21)

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Nikki Izzo-Brown Women’s soccer coach

Come support the women’s soccer team Dear WVU Fans, I’m reaching out to the Mountaineer nation encouraging you to please come support your No. 18 women’s soccer team this Sunday at 1 p.m., as we take on the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers for the Big East Conference quarterfinal game at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.

Free admission and free student shuttle bus to the game from Towers and the Mountainlair from noon to 1 p.m., then a return following the game.

Prior to kick off, free t-shirts will be thrown out to the crowd.

Your Mountaineers are on a nine-game winning streak and want to win this University a Big East championship that we all can be proud of.

The impact of your support this Sunday will create a great atmosphere for our success.

The more Gold and Blue we have in the stands will prove we have the best fans in the country!

This is our last home game and we want to make sure it’s our largest crowd yet. Come make history and be part of the largest crowd and help our 10-game winning streak.

Thank you and go Mountaineers!

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Women’s soccer hosts Rutgers in first round by ben gaughan sports writer

Every season is different. Every team goes through challenges. Sometimes it floats to the top. Other times it sinks to the bottom.

This year’s West Virginia women’s soccer team has risen above the surface.

He a d coach Ni k k i Izzo‑Brown’s team is currently riding a nine‑game winning streak. While that has happened twice before under Izzo‑Brown (2002 and 2003), the 2010 team is a little different, she said.

“The versatility of the team, that at any different time somebody is stepping up,” Izzo‑Brown said of the difference. “Everybody is stepping up at the right time. This team wants to make history. They’re really focused and committed to doing that.”

The 18th‑ranked Mountaineers certainly have battled through adversity this season.

The team started the season 4‑4‑1 and dealt with a stint of injuries Izzo‑Brown had never encountered in her time at WVU. “I’ve never in my 15 years here had more injuries to (players) this season,” she said.

“Everybody has tried to stay mentally strong.”

Despite being unable to play, those injured players tried to stay involved as much as possible. Izzo‑Brown said she was proud of that commitment.

“If they couldn’t be on the field, they were focused mentally more than physically off the field,” she said. “It has been a really interesting year for the staff and for the team because of the training situations and all the injuries we’ve had to deal with.”

In addition to that extra effort, Izzo‑Brown said the focus of her team and its abil-

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Senior Ashtin Larkin gets ready to kick the ball up the field in a game against Providence Oct. 24. ity to maximize its effort has been a big reason for the recent success.

Izzo‑Brown said the team’s seniors have played at their highest level, as well.

“You look at (goalkeeper) Kerri Butler, (forward) Megan Mischler, (midfielder) Ashton Larkin; They’ve all really stepped up in different ways,” Izzo‑Brown said.

“I think the seniors have definitely led us, there’s no question about that. There are

West Virginia (13-1-1, 9-1-1)

Rutgers (10-8-1, 5-5-1)

When: Sunday at 1 p.m.

Where: Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium MU Head coach: Glenn Crooks (10th season,123-82-27) Players to watch: April Prince (5 goals, 2 assists)

just so many different people.

I can name someone different every game, and that’s the danger of this team. Every time I

give you a name, I think ‘this player has done this.’ But first and foremost it’s definitely the seniors, and then it goes from there.”

WVU hopes to keep its winning streak alive when it takes on Rutgers in the Big East Conference tournament quarter-finals. RU will be looking for revenge after the Mountaineers defeated the Scarlet Knights last year in the conference tournament on their home turf, when they were

ranked.

“We’re just creating an environment where we need to be focused. These last couple days have been critical for us, especially with all the injuries,” Izzo‑Brown said. “Besides that, this team wants to compete every day and find that competitive edge. So, myself and the staff just try to create an environment for them to do that.” benjamin.gaughan@mail.wvu.edu

Men’s Soccer closes out regular season with trip to Providence by michael carvelli sports writer

The West Virginia men’s soccer team will head out on the road one last time in the regular season to battle Providence.

Road venues haven’t been nice to the Mountaineers, who haven’t won away from Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium since a 2-1 win over Old Dominion, Sept. 12.

“This season, we haven’t been good on the road,” said sophomore midfielder Shadow Sebele. “We’ve got to go into this game with a lot of energy and try to get the win away from home.”

The Mountaineers will surely have their hands full, Saturday afternoon, as they will take on a talented Providence team that hasn’t lost a game since its 2-0 defeat to Connecticut, Sept. 13.

“They’ve got players who can absolutely hurt you. They’re smart players. They’re always a very organized team,” said WVU head coach Marlon LeBlanc.

West Virginia (9-5-2, 4-3)

Providence (8-5-2, 2-3-2)

When: Saturday, 1 p.m.

Where: Glay Field, Providence, R.I. Coverage: Check Monday’s edition of the DA for a recap of the game.

Midfielder Matt Marcin, a senior, leads the team with four goals, and midfielder Marc Cintron, a sophomore, comes into the game with a team-high six assists.

The WVU defense will likely need to be at the top of its game if it wants to slow down Providence’s balanced offensive attack.

It’s possible that in its quest for the ever-elusive road victory that West Virginia will have to be without starting center back and team captain Eric Schoenle, who went down with a right ankle injury in the first minute of the team’s 3-0 win over Marquette, Wednesday.

If Schoenle can’t go against

the Friars, the Mountaineers will more than likely move junior midfielder Matt Drake to the back line like they did Wednesday after Schoenle’s injury.

“Hopefully Eric is OK, and we can get him back sometime soon,” LeBlanc said. “But, I think the difference with this group is that we’ve got players who can step in. I thought Matt Drake did a good job when we put him back there.”

The perfect complement to the defense is a West Virginia offense that has seemed to get better as the year went along. Evidence of that is junior Franck Tayou. The junior college transfer has been an integral part of the Mountaineers’ offense and has hit his stride after a multi-goal game against Marquette.

“There are plenty more goals to come,” Tayou said. “I feel like my confidence is definitely going up, and I hope to get more goals and help win more games.”

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Continued from page 16 saw this look in his eyes and in his face.”

During Wednesday’s practice, Box took the field again, but he still showed signs of a concussion issue, according to Edsall.

“At the start of practice Wednesday, there were things that I was concerned with,” Edsall said. “I just didn’t see the guy that I’ve seen, so I put Zach (Frazer) up with the first team.”

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idence are ranked fourth and are five points ahead in the fifth in the Big East Confer- standings. ence’s Blue Division, respectively. The Mountaineers james.carvelli@mail.wvu.edu UConn offense against the Mountaineers, who they have historically struggled against.

The Huskies hold a 0-6 mark all-time against WVU and on average, have been outscored by a 23.5-point margin.

In order to cut that margin down, Edsall said it will be up to the UConn defense to slow down the Mountaineers’ playmakers.

“Offensively, they have very skilled people at running back in Noel Devine, and at receiver in Jock Sanders and Tavon Austin,” Edsall said. “We’re going to have to play very well in order to have an opportunity to win.”

The challenge, though, will be a tough one for a Huskies defense that is giving up a hair under 23 points per game.

Due to the team’s recent struggles and slow start, there

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Continued from page 16 The quarterback play has been much improved compared to last year’s numbers from starter Jarrett Brown.

Smith, through seven games, already has four more passing touchdowns than Brown and is completing more of his passes.

“Geno’s been on fire, so

have been rumblings that Edsall’s job is in jeopardy.

“People can have opinions and say what they want to say, but the people I need to care about are the players, the people at this university, and myself,” he said. “Some years you have enough pieces for the puzzle, and some years you don’t. All I can do is work to make these kids all that they can be in every aspect of life.”

Furthermore, one of the team’s captains, fullback Anthony Sherman, talked about moving past these rumors and being ready to play on Friday night.

“As captains, we need to be more vocal and step up as leaders,” Sherman said. “That is what the team needs at this moment, and that’s our job: to step up and take the lead.”

we’ve relied on him a lot more,” said starting left tackle Don Barclay.

His teammates said they’ve seen a more focused Smith this week in practice. They expect that to translate to a better performance Friday night.

“He took that loss pretty hard,” said receiver J.D. Woods, “but he’s come back more focused and ready to go.” anthony.dobies@mail.wvu.edu

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SPORTS

FRIDAY OCTOBER, 28 2010

matthew peaslee sports writer

Geno’s struggles resemble Pryor’s Oct. 17, 2009.

Ohio State sophomore quarterback Terrelle Pryor led the 5‑1 Buckeyes into West Lafayette, Ind., for a game against Purdue. OSU was supposed to win the game with ease – after all, the Buckeyes had defeated the Boilermakers in seven‑straight games.

That didn’t happen.

Pryor fell flat on his face by completing just 38 percent of his passes. The former No. 1 high school recruit in the nation had only 87 yards through the air. He was tormented all day by an onslaught of Purdue rushers and couldn’t adjust quickly enough.

Ohio State lost that game 26‑18.

Just over a year later there was a similar scene in Morgantown.

After defeating Syracuse eight times in a row, the West Virginia football team struggled to get anything going on offense throughout its 2010 meeting with the Orange.

That game ended similarly to Ohio State’s – in the favorite losing the game.

Fingers can be pointed in all directions regarding WVU’s 19‑14 loss, but it all comes back to the quarterback.

Sophomore Geno Smith had his worst game as starter for the Mountaineers against the Orange.

The sophomore showed his age and inexperience in his seventh career start, much like Pryor did a year earlier.

Smith seemed befuddled when faced with Syracuse’s multiple blitzes.

Many believe it is the fault of the offensive line. But, Smith had plenty of time to unleash the ball.

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CONTACT US 304-293-5092 ext. 3 | DAsports@mail.wvu.edu

Huskies see challenge in WVU by brian kuppelweiser sports writer

No one has ever said coaching is easy, especially at a level as high as Division 1 college football.

For Connecticut head coach Randy Edsall, his 12 seasons at the helm of the Huskies have seen just about everything.

His tenure has been successful, as he helped with the teams transition to collegiate football’s highest ranks, tragic, as he dealt with the death of cornerback Jasper Howard last season and, now, tumultuous this season due to the suspension of starting quarterback Cody Endres.

Because of the circumstances Endres put his team in, UConn started redshirt freshman Mike Box as quarterback

last week in the team’s 26-0 blowout loss to Louisville.

“I liked his demeanor,” Edsall said. “He didn’t have any situations where he wasn’t managing the game.”

This week, though, Edsall must again deal with more adversity, as his team will be without the services of Box due to a concussion he suffered last week.

Box was initially expected to be the starter, but Edsall did not like what he saw in practice from the young quarterback.

“I had some concerns Tuesday at practice,” Edsall said. “I didn’t see the same Mike Box that I’ve seen previously in terms throwing and handling some things. After practice, he kind of came over, and I just

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West Virginia receiver Brad Starks gets tackled after a reception against Syracuse on Oct. 23.

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Smith ready to fight back against Huskies

BY TONY DOBIES sports editor

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Geno Smith eludes a tackle in the season opener against Coastal Carolina.

West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith can remember getting beat 49-2 in high school.

The Mountaineers’ sophomore signal caller remembered what it was like trying to recover from such a tough outing the next week.

“That was something that I just got over,” he said. “It’s a game, and at the end of the day, you either win or lose.”

But Smith has never had to get over an individual performance as bad as last Saturday’s against Syracuse. In the Mountaineers’ 19-14 loss to the Orange, Smith threw three interceptions – something he said he didn’t think he had ever done before.

“One thing you learn from playing quarterback is that you have to have a short memory,” Smith said. “You can’t dwell on anything, because that will af-

fect you.”

After the game, the Miramar, Fla., native said he received a call from his mother to make sure he was OK. However, he added “she knows stuff like that won’t get to me.”

It’s been a long week for Smith, who would’ve rather played again the day after his three-interception performance.

WVU head coach Bill Stewart said after the game Saturday that Smith would learn from his mistakes.

“When you’re not clicking at that position, you’re not seeing a lot of things. Some things you see may be illusions,” Stewart said. “But, there are other reasons why bad plays happen besides the quarterback. That’s why I never throw my quarterback under the bus.”

That game is all behind Smith now. He said that uncharacteristic showing has helped motivate him for Fri-

day’s game at Connecticut. It will be in the back of his mind once he takes the field against the Huskies, though, to prevent any carryover from the Syracuse game.

“You can’t get down after a loss, because you can’t just turn the season and go into the tank. We want to come out and win every game, but unfortunately we haven’t,” Smith said.

“I just came back to practice, practice hard and come out the next game and be relentless.”

Outside of his performance against Syracuse – in what Stewart wants all to know was just Smith’s seventh start – the Mountaineers’ quarterback has been a quick learner by all accounts. In just his second start, he brought West Virginia back from down 15 points to Marshall in the fourth quarter to an overtime victory over Marshall.

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