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SGA SpeakUp to address election reform by mackenzie mays city editor

The West Virginia University Student Government Association will host a SpeakUp event today to address election reform.

During last year’s election, the SGA Judicial Board issued a revote due to multiple allegations of voter fraud.

The SpeakUp event is designed to address ways to avoid voter fraud in addition

to issues such as election timelines and various techniques to cast votes, said SGA Elections Chair Jason Butts.

“Last year’s election definitely had faults. We’re looking forward to this coming election season and hope to create an election process that is user-friendly and will diminish election fraud,” he said.

Butts, in addition to Governor Ryan Campione and Attorney General Jason Junkin, will be on the SpeakUp panel

to answer questions about the electoral process and take suggestions from students about how it can improve.

Butts said SGA will use the input received at the SpeakUp to rewrite and implement a new elections code.

“The students that come and voice their opinions will absolutely have an integral part in shaping the election process,” Butts said. “Students’ opinions and voices do matter, and they will help create a new

election process this spring.”

SGA is interested in new ideas for the voting process and is leaning toward a system more similar to that of local and national governmental elections, Butts said.

“We are looking to revamp the election process in general. Due to last year’s experience, we are pushing for booth voting or restricting internet voting to specific computers on campus that will be overseen by administrators,” he

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West Virginia University students, professors and members of the Morgantown community can now connect faster and easier thanks to improvements to AT&T’s local wireless capacity and mobile broadband network.

“It’s like adding an extra lane to a highway,” said Gayle Kansagor, spokeswoman for AT&T. “Now, more people can connect to social networks with their devices and make phone calls easier.”

The new network enhancement adds new layers of frequency to cell sites throughout the Morgantown area to better manage an increasing demand for mobile broadband services.

“As part of the Morgantown community, we’re always looking for new opportunities to provide an enhanced customer experience, and our investment in the local wireless network is just one way we’re accomplishing that,” said J. Michael Schweder, president of AT&T Mid-Atlantic in a press release.

“In addition, our recently announced agreement to acquire T-Mobile USA, Inc. will strengthen and expand our network in Morgantown. If

approved, this deal means that we’ll be able to expand the next generation of mobile broadband – 4G LTE – from our current plan of 80 percent of the U.S. population to more than 97 percent.”

Kansagor said the new enhancements will especially benefit a large college community like Morgantown.

“As with any large group of people, capacity issues are always a concern,” she said. “Students rely on wireless internet.

We wanted to make it easier and quicker to place calls and to get online.”

The new extensions should also help alleviate some of the problems during events such as WVU football games.

As technology advances, AT&T is reaching out to communities across the country to help them connect, Kansagor said.

“We want you to have an extraordinary experience in West Virginia and across the country, whether you are sharing videos and photos with friends, watching a movie, checking the latest scores or keeping your business mobile on your AT&T device,” said Larry Evans, vice president and general manager for AT&T Ohio

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After the controversy surrounding last year’s election complications, Junkin said he hopes events like these will help restore the student body’s trust in SGA. “We want the election process to be secure, and we want the students to know that their vote matters and counts,” Junkin said. “The goal of the election is to allow us to hear the voice of the student

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Imagination Station opens at children’s museum

AT&T increases Morgantown wireless capacity by ben scott

said.

Junkin said SGA is working to take the mistakes from the past to create better leadership for the future.

“If there’s anything at all that can be improved, it’s on the table,” Junkin said. “Last year, there were several issues that came up during the election process. Each year, various election code violations are reported, and we would like to find ways to prevent these violations.”

Children can create, learn in new addition to Mountaineer Mall by lydia nuzum

of the Mary McIntosh Davis Imagination Station Exhibit. The station was completed using a grant sponsored through the West Virginia University College of Business & Economics.

“We want to give children the opportunity to freely explore and discover at their own pace,” said Angela Carver, pres-

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Children, parents and community volunteers gathered together this weekend to celebrate fun, play and learning.

The Children’s Discovery Museum of West Virginia opened its doors on Sunday during an official dedication

ident of the CDMWV. “We want them to be able to take whoever is with them, whether that is a parent, a grandparent, a nanny or a babysitter, and express themselves the way they want and have a captive audience.”

The museum, located in the Mountaineer Mall complex on Greenbag Road, is designed to offer interactive learning ex-

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periences and interactive play opportunities to children.

The museum features an active zone for children to engage in hands-on play, as well as a science station where children can conduct experiments and engage in interactive learning, said Julie Bryan,

Panel encourages involvement of female Potential int’l students encouraged to attend WVU students in law by jessica lear staff writer

The West Virginia University College of Law hosted its first Women in Law and Leadership panel discussion Monday.

The event featured a panel of four women in law professions and was recently started

by Joyce E. McConnell, the dean of the WVU College of Law. McConnell said the program was started in response to a declining number of women applying to and attending law school, and that fewer women remain in the profession long enough to be in leadership positions.

“We, the College of Law community, have decided to be proactive and focus on the opportunities available to women as lawyers and leaders and to provide inspiration to all those women who are thinking about a life in law,” McConnell said.

Monday’s panel discussed

the difficulties and opportunities available to women pursuing a career in law.

“I think so many women look at law as a means to another end,” said Irene Keeley, a panel member. “There’s nothing wrong with that, but if you don’t love the law, if you don’t pursue the law with the passion that comes with being a professional, you will miss out.”

In addition to Keeley, panelists included Susan Brewer, Katherine Dodd Combs and Barbara Groves Mattox.

The panelists offered advice for young women working toward a career in law.

“Being a lawyer is a tremendous, tremendous honor. It’s an opportunity and a pleasure. It’s hard work, but the avenues for advancement or interest fulfillment are limitless,” Combs said.

Groves Mattox said she hopes the young professionals in the audience find as much

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by carlee lammers correspondent

The West Virginia University President’s Office for Social Justice, in partnership with the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, is hosting its 11th annual Colloquium for Minority Doctoral Candidates.

The colloquium, which began Sunday and ends today, allows minority students considering a doctorate degree to view a first-hand glimpse at what the University has to offer.

“Our purpose is to help those who are the most underrepresented in higher education, and help those folks see their opportunity at WVU,” said Charlie Moris, special assistant to the executive officer for the President’s Office of Social Justice.

Fifty-five doctoral candidates from different nationalities attended the colloquium after completing a highly competitive application process.

On Monday, President

individual department to discuss their academic futures.

Today, the doctoral candidates will meet with the provost, where any questions they may have concerning life at WVU can be answered.

Moris said without the many committed university partners, the colloquium would not be the successful and beneficial program it is.

“We become a better University as we attract a more diverse and competent student body,” Moris said. “I’ve been at WVU for 23 years, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything else. But, we can make it better.”

WVU, which offers 29 doctoral programs, is the leading doctoral university in the state, Kristen Basham/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM and Moris said the colloquium West Virginia University President James P. Clements welcomes visitors to the Doctoral strives to aid doctoral candidates Colloquium held in the Mountainlair ballrooms Monday morning. in making an informed decision on furthering their education.

James P. Clements welcomed nity and uniqueness WVU has “It’s always your best decithe participants to WVU in the to offer minority students. sion to make an informed deThe participants also had the cision,” he said.

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Tuesday October 4, 2011

WVU hosts Southeast Regional Collegiate Soils Contest

By Brian Aluise Correspondent

West Virginia University is hosting the 2011 Southeast Regional Collegiate Soils Contest.

Nine colleges along the East Coast have sent four-person teams to compete for a chance to qualify for the national contest in the spring, which WVU will also host.

Since the contest’s inception in 1960, WVU has hosted the contest four times, and the last time the Mountain-

eers came out victorious was in 2009 when they won the competition at the University of Tennessee.

The Davis College of Agriculture has prepared 12 practice sites on the WVU Agronomy Farm, WVU Organic Research Farm and the Twin Hill Farm just outside of Morgantown.

These practice “pits“ will be available to the contestants starting today through Thursday.

The location of the final pit,

which has not been disclosed, will be announced Friday when the actual contest begins.

Participants are expected to identify different layers of soil in these pits and should describe the characteristics of each layer such as color, fragmentation and structure.

Based on their observations, contestants make interpretations of the pits such as water infiltration rate.

Next, they record their findings on score cards, which are then graded by soil scientists

within the Davis College.

After the scorecards have been evaluated, plaques are awarded to the top ten individual scorers.

The team of students with the highest total score wins the coveted team cup championship.

By competing in the contest, students learn essential skills and techniques used by professional soil scientists, said Dr. James Thompson, associate professor of pedology and land use planning.

“I always tell the students when we’re preparing for a contest that in those four days that we’re there, you’ll learn more about soil than in an entire semester,” Thompson said.

The contest also provides students the opportunity to study soils home environments very different than their own, he said.

“In the last six years, I’ve taken groups of students to coastal California, Texas and Utah,” Thompson said. “These arid environments have very

different soil compositions, and its important for students to encounter soils that are different from our own.“ T.J. Montgomery, a senior environmental protection major and member of the Soil Judging Team, said the experience of competing is invaluable to interested students.

“It definitely gets students ready for the real world,“ Montgomery said. “You get a lot of hands-on experience.”

Project, which is dedicated to exploring and conserving the salmon habitat in the rivers of the Kamchatka peninsula of Siberia, an extensive region of northeastern Russia.

The project was recently featured on the National Geographic channel’s “Monster Fish” series.

It now serves as one of the last ecosystems for Pacific salmon

on the planet, and the species is in danger due to the high quality of fish eggs extracted from the fish that are used to make caviar.

Although legal regulations have been placed on the sale of caviar, there are still many illegal sellers of the delicacy, and many in the area partake in the activity to support their families, Hazboun said.

“The area has been econom-

ically devastated,” Hazboun said. “Poachers feel like they have no other choice.”

Hazboun and his team went on an expedition in the summer of 2010 to Kamchatka to explore the mountain and aquatic landscapes of the area.

Through this expedition, the team encountered a once-in-a lifetime adventure while learning more about the location, its

people and the fisheries, Hazboun said.

Researchers participating in the Kamchatka Project kayaked more than 100 miles of unexplored white water to research threatened rivers in the area.

Hazboun said the salmon problem must be addressed in small steps.

“You must see what your role here is first,” Hazboun said.

“Our biggest role is to come to campuses and show you pictures and show you what is happening in places like this.

Hopefully it makes our audience want to join our cause.”

To learn more about the project and how to get involved, visit www.kamchatkaproject.org.

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Visiting biologist speaks to students about salmon conservation by kelsey montgomery correspondent

Biologist and Utah State University graduate student Jeffrey Hazboun spoke to the West Virginia University Davis College Environmental Research Center Monday as part of its Fall Seminar Series.

Hazboun is the science coordinator for the Kamchatka

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LOCAL NEWS

West Virginia gubernatorial race winds down with final appeals CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and Republican Bill Maloney each issued final appeals to West Virginia voters Monday, on the eve of a court-ordered special election to award an abbreviated term as governor.

Maloney planned to visit Clarksburg, Beckley and Charleston before returning to Morgantown, where he’s made his career as a drilling engineer and business owner. On the heels of his 53rd birthday Sunday, Maloney is campaigning on his experience as an employer while attacking Tomblin as a career politician.

“While Tomblin is happy with the status quo of being ranked dead last in labor force participation, Bill is ready to move the state forward,” Maloney spokeswoman Michelle Yi said Monday. “Our campaign is confident that voters will go to the polls tomorrow and vote for Bill Maloney to be West Virginia’s next governor.”

The Democratic nominee, Tomblin also was rallying supporters Monday in Charleston.

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fulfillment in their future jobs as she does.

“I absolutely love my job. I like going to work. I like doing it. I find it fascinating. If I could wish anything for all of you, it would be that,” she said.

The panel also suggested students not formulate plans early in their career but be open to all opportunities in order to have a successful and enjoyable career in law.

“You can have a plan that is ‘I’m going to do my best.

I’m going to keep my eyes wide open, not be afraid and look for opportunities to better myself and my organization,’ – that’s an okay plan,” Brewer said.

Each member of the panel brought different experiences to help young aspiring females in the field.

Keeley, a district judge for the Northern District of West

Manchin’s departure.

The governor’s office will again be up for election next year, for a full four-year term.

Backed by Manchin, Tomblin has cited recent improve-

ments in the state’s economy and its government finances.

He has also racked up the same array of business, labor and special interest group endorsements won by his fellow Democrat during his runs for governor.

“We always knew this race was going to be close, but we’re optimistic that West Virginia will remember that this race is about what’s best for our state,” said Chris Stadelman, Tomblin’s spokesman. “We believe we will win tomorrow night.”

Six other third-party, independent or certified write-in candidates are also running Tuesday. During the Sept.

21-Oct. 1 early voting period, West Virginians cast more than 56,630 in-person or absentee ballots, Secretary of State Natalie Tennant said Monday. That initial turnout equals less than 5 percent of the state’s registered voters. That’s slightly better than the early turnout before the May 14 primary, but about 9 percent of voters cast early ballots before last year’s general election.

West Virginia’s chief elections officer, Tennant did not immediately estimate turnout for Tuesday but it’s expected to be light given the single race on the ballot.

A Republican was last governor in 2000. The GOP has sought to reclaim the office partly with ads that link President Barack Obama to Tomblin. Obama lost in West Virginia in 2008, and Gallup surveys find his approval ratings in the state among the worst nationwide. Tomblin, 59, has sought to align himself with a different fellow Democrat, Manchin, who was able to withstand a similar line of attack during last year’s special U.S. Senate rate.

Negative ads also target Tomblin over his family’s greyhound breeding business, which has won racing purse awards from a state fund supplied by gambling proceeds.

Democrats, in turn, have tried to make an issue of Maloney’s business dealings and his outof-state roots. He moved to West Virginia after college.

certainly something we would want to apply for in the future.”

The station features a small stage, a puppet theater and costume wardrobe.

“We are just really thrilled to show a completed exhibit area, hoping that as we move into November we’ll be able to start our first appeal for donations,” Carver said.

The CDMWV is a non-profit initiative by Recreational Opportunities For All Young Kids Initiative, Inc. ROFAYKI created a pilot site, the Morgantown Fun Factory, which operated for eight years. Carver said the new project is designed to cater to the growing Morgantown community.

The imagination station was named for Mary McIntosh Da-

vis, a former board member of ROFAYKI. The Davis family contributed 90 percent of the children’s books that belong to the CDMWV. “She had a passion for children and the organization. When Ms. Davis passed away last year, we felt we really wanted to honor her memory with the imagination station,” Carver said.

The museum also features a tree mural, Carver said, and corporate donors will each have a leaf-shaped and engraved plaque dedicated in honor of each contribution.

“I was really excited to volunteer with the Children’s Museum,” said Jenn Buch, a senior graphic design student. Buch and two other students were paired with the museum for

a web design class, and have since volunteered hours painting the murals for the museum, she said.

“While this new space is larger and allows children and their parents to learn and explore together, our goal is to ultimately have our own two or three story structure with exhibit areas covering more subject areas, as well as being able to offer more curriculum-based field trips to area schools,” Carver said.

The CDMWV is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and admittance is $3.50 per child. For more information, visit www.cdmwv. org.

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Republican Bill Maloney participates in a West Virginia gubernatorial debate co-hosted by The Intelligencer & Wheeling News Register and West Virginia Northern Community College, Wednesday, Sept. 7.

His weekend campaign stops included his native Logan County, which he has represented in the Legislature since the 1970s. As Senate president, Tomblin has been acting goverVirginia, has worked in health care law and was appointed a district court judge by President Bush in 1992.

Brewer, the CEO of Steptoe and Johnson, has focused her career around the field of litigation and has tried more than 100 cases.

Combs possesses knowledge of the corporate world, having served as the vice president, corporate secretary and deputy general counsel of the Exelon Corporation.

Mattox works with General Electric where she is the director of tax policy and senior tax counsel, and she often works with tax leaders worldwide.

The program adheres to WVU’s Strategic Plan for 2020 which encourages an increase in diversity and culture at WVU and plans to create a video to help encourage women to pursue careers in law and consider attending the WVU College of Law.

nor since U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin resigned Nov. 15 after winning election to his current post.

The state Supreme Court later ruled that an elected governor must take office within a year of

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The Mary McIntosh Davis Imagination Station Exhibit was completed through a Corporate Social Justice Grant awarded by the WVU College of Business & Economics. The college awards $20,000 each year to local non-profit organizations, and the CDMWV was awarded $2,000 to complete the imagination station.

“It was just wonderful to be able to apply, and to receive for the first time,” Carver said. “It’s

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erywhere. We’re investing in a combination of technologies Continued from page 1 right here in Morgantown to meet these needs and ensure and western Pennsylvania. an advanced broadband ex“Smartphones, tablets perience for all our customand laptops are continuing ers,” Evans said. to drive unprecedented demand for wireless access evdanewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Angela Carver, president of the Children’s Museum of West Virginia, speaks to children and their parents during the dedication of the Mary McIntosh Davis Imagination Station exhibit.

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body and to determine who they would like to represent them. In order to achieve this goal, it’s critical the student body has faith in the election process” The SpeakUp event will be held today in the Greenbrier Room of the Mountainlair at

7 p.m. Food will be served concluding the event.

“It’s critical that students attend – the more ideas we receive, the more we’ll be able to enact effective reform,” Junkin said. “SGA exists for the students and it is with the help of the student body that we will enact positive change at this university.” mackenzie.mays@mail.wvu.edu

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Machine Head’s ‘Unto the Locust’ doesn’t disappoint Hunter Homistek a&e Writer

Oakland trash metal titans Machine Head have released their seventh studio album “Unto the Locust” under Roadrunner Records.

First of all, this point has to be addressed before you listen to the CD. “Unto the Locust” is not (their previous album) “The Blackening.”

“The Blackening” was a sensational album that received incredibly high praise from nearly every critic, fan and music lover who listened to it.

Put simply, when a thrash metal band like Machine Head is nominated for a Grammy, they’re doing something right.

That is the nature of “The Blackening,” an album that will undoubtedly go down as

Machine Head’s finest work – an album that stunned the world and cemented their already illustrious history in the heavy metal world.

So, when you listen to “Unto the Locust,” you have to keep in mind this is not “The Blackening: Part II” or any kind of continuation on that album.

If you remember to separate the two, “Unto the Locust” will be a much more enjoyable listen.

The first thing worth noting with “Unto the Locust” is the track listing.

Picking up the CD, I thought I got ripped off at first. With only seven songs, I thought, “Where is the rest of the album?!”

But then I popped it in and listened to track one, “I am Hell.” And I listened – and kept listening.

Eight minutes had passed and I was still listening to track

one! While there are only seven tracks on the CD, each track is lengthy and full of various styles and ideas conceived

by Machine Head frontman Robert Flynn.

Along with this eight minute and thirty-second opening song, “Unto the Locust” boasts three more tracks eclipsing the seven minute mark, two running over six minutes, and one (the shortest song) clocking in at a still-impressive five and a half minutes.

“Unto the Locust” is, because of this, an album that shows off Machine Head’s maturity as songwriters and musicians.

They recognized they could either put out a typical 14-track album with shortened songs or they could release songs in their entirety as they wanted.

Choosing the latter proved to be a smart move for the

group as each song is impeccably well-developed and the song structure is fluid and uninterrupted.

“Unto the Locust” serves as a chance for Machine Head to show the metal community that, despite a nearly two-decade career, the group is still developing as musicians.

“The Blackening” will serve as the album with the best riffs, and “Unto the Locust” will serve as the album with the most developed song structure.

That is not to say, however, that Machine Head’s style is lost in “Unto the Locust.”

There is no mistaking their trademark harmony-laden riffs and rapid thrash drums – these elements are found in abundance on the album.

They do deviate more into cleaner passages, however, and Flynn’s vocals are as clean and melodic as ever, at times.

In this way, it touches on the Machine Head of old, but also develops the Machine Head of new.

All things considered, Machine Head’s “Unto the Locust” is a great album.

If “The Blackening” never existed, it would be their best work in my eyes.

I respect and appreciate everything Machine Head has done with this album – they’ve separated themselves from their previous work despite so much pressure to make a continuation of their Grammy nominated, careerdefining record.

And in today’s cookie-cutter music scene, a band doing what they want in the style they want is all we can ask for.

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Machine Head “Unto the Locust” “Unto the Locust,” the seventh album from Oakland, Ca., trash metal group Machine Head, follows their Grammy-nominated album “The Blackening.” Machine Head continues to grow without distancing long-time fans.

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Andy Rooney, famed commentator, ends ‘60 Minutes’ run of 33 years NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Rooney insisted he’s not retiring. He’s a writer, and a writer never stops being a writer.

Even so, he delivered his final weekly essay on “60 Minutes” Sunday night, his last in his 33 years with the newsmagazine. It was a moment, he said he has dreaded.

“I wish I could do this forever. I can’t, though,” he said.

CBS News announced last week that the 92-yearold Rooney would be stepping down from his wellentrenched berth on “60 Minutes” after delivering his 1,097th commentary.

“I probably haven’t said anything here that you didn’t already know or have already thought,” he said. “That’s what a writer does. A writer’s job is to tell the truth.”

Rooney began his long career by writing the words for people to say who were on TV or radio. Then when he began his weekly “A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney” in 1978, he began saying them on camera himself, though not as a television personality, but as “a writer who reads what he’s written.”

Rooney said in his farewell piece that he has lived a

lucky life, luckier than most.

But befitting his trademark crotchety nature, he voiced one parting complaint: He doesn’t like being famous, nor does he like being bothered by fans.

“I spent my first 50 years trying to become well known as a writer, and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous,” he said. “I walk down the street now or go to a football game and people shout, `Hey, Andy!’ And I hate that.”

So if you see him in a restaurant, Rooney said as he signed off, “please, just let me eat my dinner.”

Andy Rooney announced he will end his 33 year career as a commentator for CBS New’s ‘60 Minutes.’

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Emergency room doctor says Jackson physician never mentioned propofol LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first week of the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor has had all the trappings of other courtroom spectacles involving the King of Pop: Dozens of sign-toting fans, TV crews, Jackson lookalikes and the familiar faces of the Jackson family enduring yet another public crucible.

Inside the courtroom, jurors heard intimate, riveting details of the pop superstar’s life, including recordings of his drugslurred voice, his hopes for a major comeback tour, even his love of spinach cobb salad with organic turkey breast.

But jurors have been reminded regularly that someone else is on trial here. And despite all the courtroom drama, the involuntary manslaughter case against Dr. Conrad Murray is relatively straight-forward. To win a conviction, prosecutors must simply prove that Murray acted with gross negligence as Jackson’s personal physician in the days and hours before his

death.

Murray, 58, a Houston cardiologist, sat silently as prosecutors called witnesses who said he never told them to call 911 after Jackson was found unconscious in the bedroom of his rented Los Angeles mansion.

They suggested Murray could have instructed security guards, a chef and Jackson’s personal assistant to make the crucial call, but he didn’t.

One security guard said Murray delayed the call while telling him to bag vials of medicine.

In the eyes of prosecutors, Murray did nearly everything wrong and even abandoned the singer in his hour of extreme need when he left his bedside to make a phone call. Defense attorneys are aggressively challenging such claims.

Attorney Adam Braun, who briefly represented a doctor charged with overprescribing drugs to Anna Nicole Smith, said the first requirement for prosecutors is to prove the cause of Jackson’s death.

A coroner’s report said he died on June 25, 2009, of acute intoxication from the powerful anesthetic propofol, with the presence of sedatives known as benzodiazepines.

Prosecutors “have to show it was reckless both to prescribe and administer propofol and to leave it next to the bed,” Braun said.

Thus far, prosecutors have focused their evidence on alleged serious acts of omission

by Murray. Witnesses said he delayed asking others to make the 911 call; failed to have the proper lifesaving equipment on hand; and didn’t tell paramedics that he had given Jackson propofol.

Central to their case is Murray’s decision to provide the star with propofol, the drug Jackson called his “milk,” delivering it in a cozy home bedroom rather than a hospital room where it is meant to be given with an anesthesiologist on hand and life-saving equipment such as a CPR machine available for any

emergencies.

In pictures shown to jurors, there are fluffy pillows and a thick down comforter on Jackson’s bed, but no CPR machine or oxygen monitoring equipment. A lawyer for the producer of Jackson’s ill-fated “This Is It’ concert said the doctor had ordered a CPR machine to be provided when they arrived for the shows in London but not before.

In his opening statement, prosecutor David Walgren said Murray told police he gave Jackson a small amount of propofol on the day he died and provided doses every night for about six weeks before that as a sleep aid.

Defense attorney Ed Chernoff countered that Jackson did not die because Murray gave him propofol; he died because he stopped giving it to him. Murray was actually trying to wean him from the drug when Jackson downed a fatal ap dose while Murray was out of Emergency room physicians testify during the Conrad Murray involuntary manslaughter the room, the lawyer said. trial in downtown Los Angeles.

Yahoo, ABC joining forces in news partnership to reach 100 million NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News and Yahoo Inc. are joining to deliver more online news to their audiences. With the deal, ABC News content will be prominently featured on Yahoo News, the most visited news website in the world. It will also show up on Yahoo’s popular front page.

The two news organizations have a combined online audience of more than 100 million users per month in the U.S. something ABC News president Ben Sherwood noted was “the size of the Super Bowl audience.”

While, the deal helps ABC grow its online reach, Yahoo News can drive further traffic to its own site by featuring original, made-for-online content. For the first time, ABC is launching Web-only news series, starting with a live interview with President Barack Obama by George Stephanopoulos Monday afternoon.

That launches a series, “Newsmakers,” with online interviews conducted by the likes of Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, Robin Roberts and others.

Couric said the deal offers an “incredible opportunity to do extended interviews” and delve deeper into subjects without the constraints of “TV time.”

Both companies will maintain editorial control of their own content.

Yahoo and ABC News have already had agreements to share content online, but the companies say the latest ven-

ture goes deeper than that.

Sherwood called it a “gamechanging day” for ABC News.

Outside of Monday’s announcement, there hasn’t been much reason for fanfare at Yahoo lately. The company has struggled to grow advertising revenue in the last few years, in part, because of competition from Google and Facebook. The company fired its CEO, Carol Bartz, last month, and is trying to decide whether to sell all or at least part of the company.

Colin Gillis, an analyst with BGP Financial Partners said Yahoo’s alliance with ABC “is not going to fix Yahoo’s problems.” Gillis noted: “This is a relatively small event in the broader ecosystem of what is going on with Yahoo.”

Yahoo’s problem, Gillis believes, is that “it doesn’t have a strong voice for a lot of its content,” the way AOL has Huffington Post, for example. So the ABC deal will help the company share some of ABC’s news brand. But Gillis pointed out that Yahoo’s bigger issue is its leadership void.

“No major deal is going to get done until that void is filled,” he said.

Though the quality of its journalism is well-regarded, ABC News has suffered from a business standpoint during the past decade because it doesn’t have a regular cable partner, the way NBC News has MSNBC and CNBC. The tight relationship with Yahoo could give the network a chance to step beyond that weakness. ABC is

owned by The Walt Disney Co. “This is about the networks of the future,” Sherwood said.

“This is about how people get their news and information from different networks, whether it’s on television, online, on mobile devices, on tablets and, quite frankly, in ways that we haven’t even thought of yet.”

As part of the deal, ABC and Yahoo will work together to sell advertising. ABC will sell online ads during the spring “upfront” season, when advertisers bid on commercial time for next fall’s TV season. Ya-

hoo will take care of sales during the rest of the year.

Executives would not disclose how the companies would share revenues created by the venture. Levinsohn said Yahoo has already heard from advertisers and agencies looking to be part of new programming created for the Web. Sherwood and Levinsohn are both new in their jobs, having taken over leadership roles in their companies over the past year. Sherwood said they have known each other for a while through past digital ventures and began talking

about ways to work together as soon as they began in their new positions.

Also part of the deal, Christiane Amanpour will have a Web-only series discussing the top international stories of the day and “Nightline” anchor Bill Weir will do a weekly series on innovations titled “This Could Be Big.” ABC will work together with Yahoo on political coverage heading into the election year, he said.

ABC already contributes video streams to Yahoo’s news sites, but the deal deepens the

relationship with far more content and makes ABC the top news source on the Web site, executives said.

“To be able to go deeper with this array of talent at ABC News is a big statement for us,” said Ross Levinsohn, executive vice president of the Americas at Yahoo.

Shares of Yahoo rose 81 cents, or 6.2 percent, to $13.98 in morning trading. Investors were buying the shares after the CEO of Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said he would be “very interested” in buying Yahoo.

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Tuesday October 4, 2011

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All votes will matter for today’s election The people of West Virginia have the opportunity to use the most important tool of democracy – an election ballot.

Today is the special gubernatorial election which was called by the W.Va. State Supreme Court to replace the vacant governor’s seat of Joe Manchin. Manchin’s seat was vacated when he became a U.S. Senator.

With the political rhetoric getting nasty between parties, this election is said (by some

sources) to be a representation of the 2012 presidential election.

According to polls yesterday, Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin is leading his Republican opponent, Bill Maloney, 47 to 46 percent.

West Virginians must take part in this crucial election.

In could be a landmark victory for Republicans, who have not won a governor’s seat in a decade. With the polls separating the ma-

jor parties by only one percentage point, the election is a toss-up.

Because of the closeness of the race, it is pertinent voters show up to the polls.

Voting is a right every American should be proud to have. Many countries around the world do not give their citizens the opportunity to choose their leaders.

Don’t take this right for granted.

There is no excuse for not

voting.

It doesn’t take much time out of the day, nor does it cause any pain. The only thing we ask is for all voters to do some research on which candidate best represents your viewpoints – don’t blindly vote.

Vote on a candidate because of his values, political record or for a promising platform.

Don’t take negative campaign advertisements to

heart. Usually they represent a candidate’s actions out of context and don’t tell the whole story.

The more voters educate themselves, the better the quality of the governor who will be elected.

Take part of the greatest American tradition – democratic voting.

It will make you feel better about your part in society.

Tell us what you think about this issue. Send a tweet to

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Denmark’s ‘Fat Tax’ misdirected in health impacts david ciarolla columnist

The latest social guidance from Denmark’s government places a tax on fatty foods over “healthier” foods for the first time in history. Foods with saturated fats will be taxed pointedly, and significant levels of trans fats will be made illegal. The uncomfortably involved government quickly denies personal decadence before withholding the government’s reach into citizens’ lives.

This “Fat Tax” has easily uncovered shallow aims and overreaching deep impacts. Saturated fats in no way top the list of unhealthy indulgences or even problematic macronutrients.

Disrupting the national market for these seldom abused, but often enjoyed, foods will steer cravings toward unhealthier foods and burden domestic producers of popular fatty dishes.

A trip through the supermarket’s “fat-free” or “reduced-fat” varieties will reveal the common replacement for this original fat: refined sugar. These lowfat foods typically have equal or more calories than the normal versions, with new empty simple sugars replacing vital, seldomabused fats. Producers create the best flavor to sell to the average, non-health freak consumers, and tasty sugar almost always replaces the tasty fat.

Count how many protein and energy bars, specifically marketed for nutrition, have chocolate or caramel (the overwhelming majority do). Even health-conscious consumers will always hold flavor above pure nutrients. Flavor will rightly remain the top concern in food markets.

The recommended daily intake of saturated fats is a modest 20 grams, a small and necessary amount. The daily requirement for simple sugars? Zero grams, ever.

Both negatively affect health when consumed in excess, but perhaps tax incentives should not steer fatty foods towards more sugar.

Fats are an embarrassingly weak target for destroying problematic diets. While pizza and pepperoni rolls have less than optimal macronutrients, these delightful foods are hardly the culprit which causes 67 percent of American citizenry to arrive at an improper weight. The large

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Unhealthy children eating a a popular fast-food chain. majority has little to no restraint against junk foods and gain most of their weight from empty sugar-infused treats and drinks.

Not only has the Danish government chosen the wrong food group, but they missed the primary cause of unhealthy bodies. People did not start eating worse because food became a few cents cheaper, and they will not resurrect their health because Whoppers cost an extra 25 cents or taste slightly different. They will still want the same food.

Most modern lifestyles support large appetites and little physical activity, so people will continue to consume an excess of food, now with a poorer and more costly selection.

Government policies should

target the worst foods, the unhealthy lifestyles responsible for most of the weight problems, or most sensibly, allow citizens to prioritize enjoyment over perfect health.

The human population, especially in America, has shown an alarming trend toward unhealthy body weights. People are undoubtedly bigger than ever before, and the progression of body weight is not headed in a good direction.

Of course mandating vegetables in place of all other snack foods would force some people to lose weight, but that level of intrusion clearly overreaches State involvement in personal lives.

How much control of our food purchases can we comfortably

hand over to the government, though?

The new “Fat Tax” will probably change the content of Danish McDonald’s’ and bakeries’ recipes. People will reorganize their grocery lists to include the next tastiest foods.

Even if this tax did accurately improve nutrition, do people want to be forced to eat healthier?

With a new Nutrition Pit opening next to a new Five Guys in Morgantown’s Suncrest Centre, local residents have a clear test of their true interests. I expect Five Guys draws more positive attention.

People gravitate toward imperfect foods for a reason, and their preferences show the importance of indulgence and fun

over bland self-maintenance.

The government could more aptly promote good lifestyles instead of banning everything that could be abused. Some humans will inevitably abuse things that feel good.

People will have dangerously promiscuous sex, drink large amounts of beer and marvel at the gratuitous grease on their fatty pizzas. The majority of such practices are not abusive and quite fun, though.

The good lifestyle we seek is a lifestyle full of enjoyment, and smothering asceticism can never replace the beautiful immediate.

As the visionary Yoshida Kenko contended, “What a wonderfully unhurried feeling it is to live even a single year in perfect

serenity! If that is not enough for you, you might live a thousand years and still feel it was but a single night’s dream.”

Allowing occasional abuse, occasional imperfection, and physical impermanence far outweighs universally removing some of the best things in life.

I hope America shuns this discouragement of good food, because the U.S.’s delicious (and unhealthy) food selection is glorious, and I’d love it to stay that way.

Unrestrained fun matters more than preserving a joyless life. At a certain point, we want to enjoy food, enjoy “vices,” and be comfortably “imperfect.”

Dear Danish government give your people some f-----pizza, and leave them alone.

Recent reforms to ‘No Child Left Behind’ are positive elena kadvany daily trojan uwire

President Barack Obama visited the students of Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington D.C. last Wednesday to deliver his annual back-to-school speech, with one definitive message: Keep going to school. Don’t just finish high school; go to college. And once you’re there, graduate and get a college degree.

This speech closely paralleled the goal of the controversial No Child Left Behind Act. In theory, by enacting federal academic requirements that states must meet annually – all

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of which are based on teaching-to-the-test type standards – the government will help high school students become college and career ready.

But is this really the right message to send to schools? Measuring educational growth and success based on standardized test scores is antiquated and has set a very harmful standard for what is considered valuable in education.

Though No Child Left Behind doesn’t directly impact university-level education, its focus on tests and statistics does.

According to No Child Left Behind, 4,000 California schools are currently “failing.”

Luckily, Obama has recognized No Child Left Behind might be what’s really failing.

Last week Obama lifted the 2014 proficiency deadline – a provision that called every state to set standards in reading and math to be met by 2014 – for states that agree to adopt his administration’s new academic standards.

States can now apply for waivers from some of the law’s provisions and replace them with standards of their own design.

These changes allow for much more flexibility when it comes to measuring student progress and creating teacher evaluation systems.

Most importantly, they open a door for states to shift away from data-driven achievement and toward genuine reform.

There’s no way for high schools to throw out standard-

ized testing altogether or for colleges to stop giving out grades, but with the changes made last week, the next step California takes with the revised law will set an important tone for the state’s education system at every level.

According to No Child Left Behind, standardized test scores are expected to rise every year.

Schools that don’t meet those standards are branded as “failing” and face even more federally imposed requirements and sanctions.

School reform is not motivated or supported in the correct way. Instead, further rigidity is applied as well as a heavy pressure to teach to the test.

Student progress and teacher evaluations shouldn’t

be about numbers or meeting requirements.

Neither should the idea of a good school. A good school is about people, interaction, stimulation and creativity.

There is an admitted strength in the reliability of statistics and data, but it cannot define schools.

Some states have already applied for waivers, but California’s decision remains to be seen.

The state should avoid jumping through even more hoops to meet the waiver’s conditions and just keep following NCLB. There is no requirement or money lost if California doesn’t apply for the waiver.

What the state would lose, however, is a crucial opportu-

nity for it to take its schools in the right direction. It also demands a level of flexibility that schools will only get closer to achieving through the waiver.

In a New York Times article reporting on Obama’s removal of No Child Left Behind’s “most onerous provisions,” Jack Jennings, president of the Center on Education Policy, suggested “This is the beginning of the end of the No Child era.”

Hopefully it is the beginning of the end of test-driven reform.

The changes to No Child Left Behind have brought a necessary spotlight to education reform in California.

It is now up to the state to address its own flaws, take advantage of the waiver system and move forward.

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THE WVU ANIME AND MANGA CLUB meets in room G25 of Brooks Hall at 7 p.m.

For more information, email blavend2@mix.wvu.edu

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 5

THE WVU BOWLING CLUB meets from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the bowling alley of the Mountainlair. For more information, call 304-615-3112 or email wvubowling@gmail. com.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 6

A SENIOR RECITAL by Amy Cheung will begin at 8:15 p.m. in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall of the Creative Arts Center. She will be performing on the piano.

For more information, call 304293-4359 or email charlene. lattea@mail.wvu.edu.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 7

THE PNC PRACTICUM PROGRAM - ECONOMIC SEMINAR SERIES presents Buhong Zheng of University of Colorado - Denver. It will be held in room 441 of the Business and Economics building. For more information, email william. trumbull@mail.wvu.edu.

EVERY TUESDAY

THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ORGANIZATION meets at 8:30 p.m. at the International House at 544 Spruce St. For more information, call 304-777-7709.

MOUNTAINEERS FOR CHRIST, a Christian student organization, hosts free supper and Bible study at its Christian Student Center. Supper is at 8:15 p.m., and Bible study begins at 9 p.m.

All students are welcome. For more information, call 304-599-6151 or visit www.mountaineersforchrist.org.

SIERRA STUDENT COALITION meets at 7 p.m. in the Blackwater Room of the Mountainlair. The group is a grassroots environmental organization striving for tangible change in our campus and community. For more information, email Kayla at kmedina2@mix. wvu.edu.

FEMINIST MAJORITY LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE meets in the Women’s Studies Lounge of Eiesland Hall at 6 p.m.

For more information, email rsnyder9@ mix.wvu.edu.

ECUMENICAL BIBLE STUDY AND CHARISMATIC PRAYER MEETING is held at 7 p.m. at the Potters Cellar of Newman Hall. All are welcome. For more information, call 304-288-0817 or 304-879-5752.

MCM is hosted at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Ministry Center at 293 Willey St. All are welcome.

BCM meets at 8:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church on High Street.

THE CARRUTH CENTER offers a grief support group for students struggling from a significant personal loss from 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. on the third floor of the Student Services Building.

AMIZADE has representatives in the commons area of the Mountainlair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to answer questions for those interested in studying

all pertinent information, including the dates the announcement is to run. Due to space limitations, announcements will only run one day unless otherwise requested. All nonUniversity related events must have free admission to be included in the calendar.

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

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WVU WOMEN’S ULTIMATE FRISBEE meets from 10 p.m. to midnight at the Shell Building. No experience is necessary. For more information, email Sarah Lemanski at sarah_lemanski@ yahoo.com.

BRING YOUR OWN BIBLE STUDY AND PIZZA NIGHT is at 6 p.m. at Newman Hall.

WVU SWING DANCE CLUB will meet at 7:45 p.m. in Multipurpose Room A of the Student Recreation Center. No partner needed. Advanced and beginners are welcome. For more information, email wvuswingdance@gmail.com.

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WELLNESS PROGRAMS on topics such as drinkWELL, loveWELL, chillWELL and more are provided for interested student groups, organizations or classes by WELLWVU: Wellness and Health Promotion. For more information, visit www.well.wvu.edu/wellness.

WELLWVU: STUDENT HEALTH is paid for by tuition and fees and is confidential. For appointments or more information, call 304-293-2311 or visit www.well.edu.wvu/medical.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meets nightly in the Morgantown and Fairmont areas. For more information, call the helpline at 800-766-4442 or visit www.mrscna.org.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS meets daily. To find a meeting, visit www. aawv.org. For those who need help urgently, call 304-291-7918.

CARITAS HOUSE, a local nonprofit organization serving West Virginians with HIV/AIDS, needs donations of food and personal care items and volunteers to support all aspects of the organization’s activities. For more information, call 304-985-0021.

SCOTT’S RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE, a local outreach organization, needs volunteers for daily programs and special events. For more information or to volunteer, email vc_srsh@hotmail.com or call 304-599-5020.

CONFIDENTIAL COUNSELING SERVICES are provided for free by the Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatric Services. A walk-in clinic is offered weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Services include educational, career, individual, couples and group counseling. Please visit www.well.wvu.edu to find out more information.

WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN needs volunteers. WIC provides education, supplemental foods and immunizations for pregnant women and children under 5 years of age. This is an opportunity to earn volunteer hours for class requirements. For more information, contact Michelle Prudnick at 304598-5180 or 304-598-5185.

FREE RAPID HIV TESTING is available on the first Monday of every month from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Caritas House office located at 391 Scott Ave. Test results are available in 20 minutes and are confidential. To make an appointment, call 304-293-4117. For more information, visit www.caritashouse.net.

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

information along with instructions for regular appearance in the Campus Calendar. These announcements must be resubmitted each semester.

The editors reserve the right to edit or delete any submission.

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

vice organizations to provide dinner for 20 to 40 Family House guests. For more information, call 304-598-6094 or email 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 304-296-3400 or email trella.greaser@live.com.

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

THE CONDOM CLOSET will be held in the Monongalia room of the Mountainlair from 11 a.m. to noon every Tuesday.

THE CONDOM CARAVAN will be held in the Mountainlair from noon to 2 p.m every Tuesday. The caravan sells condoms for .25 each or 5 for $1.00.

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

For more information, go to www.msnap.org.

THE ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE meets on the second Monday and fourth Tuesday of every month at noon at Hatfields in the Mountainlair.

All students and faculty are invited. For more information, email amy.keesee@ mail.wvu.edu.

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

FREE STUDENT SUCCESS SUPPORT, presented by the WVU Office of Retention and Research, helps students improve on time management, note taking reading and study skills as well as get help with the transition to WVU. Free drop-in tutoring is also available every night of the week in different locations. For more information, visit http://retention.wvu.edu or call 304-293-5811.

THE M-TOWN MPOWERMENT PROJECT, a community-building program run by and geared toward young gay or bisexual men 18 to 29, is 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.

COMMUNITY NEWCOMERS CLUB is a group organized to allow new residents of the Morgantown area an opportunity to gather socially and assimilate into their new home community.

For more information, visit morgantownnewcomers.com.

NEW GROUP THERAPY OPPORTUNITIES are available for free at the WELLWVU: Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatric Services. The groups include Get More Out of Life, Understanding Self and Others, Insomnia Group, A Place for You, Sexual Assault Survivors Group, Adult Children of Dysfunctional Parents and Transfer Students: Get Started on the Right Foot. For more information call 304293-4431 or email tandy.mcclung@ mail.wvu.edu.

HOROSCOPES

BY JACQUELINE BIGAR BORN TODAY This year, you could experience considerable stress but not be aware of the impact of that tension. Stop, slow down and become more aware of yourself and your reactions. Don’t let negativity or defeatism get the best of you. Your good intentions often go to extremes, and you find yourself overindulging. Sometimes you seem to lack self-discipline, yet other times you are very rigid about what must be done. Opt for a balance. If you are single, meeting someone could cause extra stress. Only you can determine if this is worthwhile. If you are attached, share more of your feelings with your loved one. Once you share more, you will tend to swing less from one side of the pendulum to the other. Be careful with CAPRICORN. They often test your endurance.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH Your ability to communicate what is relative could fall to the wayside right now.

You could try to communicate with a different attitude, but that procedure might not work. Just be indulgent and understanding, as you are not the only person with this issue. Tonight: Energizing a little late.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHHH Keep heading in your chosen direction.

You might have a lot to accomplish. What is dependent on others might be best left for another day, another moment. Think positively, understanding your liabilities.

Tonight: Try exotic!

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHHH

Deal directly with a friend or loved one.

You know when you have had enough, but extricating yourself might be difficult.

All the creativity, savoir-faire and directness make no difference today! Tonight: A calm conversation.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHHH Let others understand what is happening behind the scenes. Realize what is needed to make a situation work. Laughter could be the outcome of an incredibly awkward moment. Hopefully the giggles occur immediately. Tonight: Say “yes.”

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH You might want to rethink a decision rather carefully, but don’t decide just yet. What you are seeing around you might not be reflective of what could be. Communication seems inordinately difficult. Tonight: Play it easy.

other path around it. Listen to your inner voice when dealing with a loved one and a potentially hurtful situation. Detach and don’t personalize. Tonight: Talking up a storm.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH Remain sensitive to what is happening.

You could find that someone is very difficult or testy in a meeting. Resist walking out; just look at this situation as a passage. The odds are against a duplication. Tonight: Treat a loved one to dinner.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Of all signs, you seem the most together.

What others don’t see is the questioning and the processes you go through internally. An opportunity comes through a woman or someone you care about. Tonight: All smiles.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH Frustration could mark your decisions. You wonder why. Don’t focus on this issue; move along. A child or loved expresses his or her need for some friendly feedback and attention. Make the time. Tonight: Let your mind wander.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH Listen to others and take a greater interest than in the past. Even though you don’t agree, you see validity in what someone is saying. Understand that both of you could be right, but how to honor and work with that information could be up for grabs -- for now. Tonight: Vanish.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHH With confusion and changes, security remains a high priority. A domestic issue keeps popping into your mind. The wise move would be to try to handle it and stop being haunted by the situation. You do have your hands full. Tonight: Happy at home.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHH Examine possibilities that come through a meeting. You don’t need to agree with someone. You do need to work with this person. Open up to the possibility that he or she might have a unique concept. Tonight: Hook up with your friends.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH Keep communication moving. If you hit a brick wall, know that there is an-

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Diversity Week flash mob seeking participants

By Ashley Hite A&E Correspondent The West Virginia University President’s Office of Social Justice is looking for students to join a flash mob which will be performing on Oct. 17 as a part of Diversity Week.

The mob’s performance will be based around the theme “Love, Peace, and Understanding,” the overall theme of WVU’s Diversity Week.

The flash mob project began collecting members over

the summer and advertised through the WVU MIX announcements page.

Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome to join the flash mob. To join, like the “WVU Flash Mob” page on Facebook.

The Facebook page is only for members that will be performing as part of the flash mob and the page is used a roster or head count.

Bennett Tower Resident Hall Coordinator Pascha Adamo is the choreographer and coordinator of the flash mob.

“It is [a busy job], but it’s worth it,” Adamo said.

Although the group’s Facebook page has over 600 members, Adamo said about 60 have attended at least one practice.

“I think we’ll probably end up with 100, I’m hoping,” Adamo said.

Adamo said the goal of the flash mob is to perform it at five separate locations across campus simultaneously.

The song for the performance is “One Tribe,” by the Black Eyed Peas.

Adamo said she searched through the lyrics of the suggested songs by the members of the Facebook group before deciding on “One Tribe.”

“The lyrics of ‘One Tribe’ mesh very well with the theme of love, peace, and understanding for everyone,” Adamo said. “It also overlaps very well with the oneWVU program that we have on campus.”

The WVU Flash Mob page offers the breakdown videos of the flash mob’s choreography.

Rachel Gregory, a sopho-

more mechanical and aerospace engineering student, said she is itching to try out the moves on the page.

“It definitely looks like fun,” Gregory said.

While the videos show the breakdown of the dance moves, the final choreography is not in the videos. Adamo stresses the importance of attending at least one practice.

“It’s really important to come to one, especially if we’re going to do this in different locations, we need to sort this all out,” Adamo said.

The practices are scheduled for tonight at 5:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. in the Bennett Tower Gold Room.

Anyone interested can attend one or both practices.

There will also be a practice Sunday, and the time will be announced on the WVU Flash Mob page.

Adamo said the group will be holding mandatory practices in the near future for anyone who wishes to participate during Diversity Week . daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Ex-Pantera bassist brings Kill Devil Hill to 123 Pleasant Street

by Hunter Homistek A&E Writer

Ex-Pantera bassist Rex Brown has assembled a metal juggernaut in his latest group, Kill Devil Hill.

Brown will unleash the monstrous four-piece at 123 Pleasant Street tonight.

Supporting Kill Devil Hill will be the southern metal sensations Texas Hippie Coalition and Columbus, Ohio, alternative metal group Downcast.

It’s no secret when ex-Pantera members devote their time to a project, the world listens.

Ex-Pantera singer Phil Anselmo has been a part of bands like Down and Superjoint Ritual, while drummer Vinnie Paul now plays for metal giant Hellyeah, who has achieved mainstream success.

Before his tragic onstage death, Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell was shredding in the band Damageplan, a group that quickly became a mainstay in metal lovers’ libraries.

Kill Devil Hill’s lineup also features prominent drummer Vinny Appice, who has worked with bands like Dio, Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne. Appice has also recorded and co-

written songs featured on more than 25 albums, many of which went on to become multi-platinum hits.

“A supergroup consisting of Rex Brown and Vinny Appice is something I can get behind,” said Chris Netwon, junior medical technology student.

Between Brown, Appice, and guitarist Mark Zavon, Kill Devil Hill has ties to legendary groups like Pantera, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, WASP, Ratt and Heaven & Hell.

“Sabbath and Pantera got me into metal, and WASP and Ratt are probably my two favorite hair metal bands,” Newton said. “I’m looking forward to seeing how all these great musicians will sound making music together.”

Needless to say, there is no scarcity of musicianship in Kill Devil Hill, and attendees expect a hard, in-your-face brand of metal that will leave a smile on your face and a ring in your ears.

Behind Kill Devil Hill will be strong support from outlaw metal fiends Texas Hippie Coalition.

The Texas based quartet is still on tour pushing their 2010 release ‘Rollin,’’ which was released via Carved Records.

“Look at these guys! You’ve got a 300-pound singer and a guitarist that looks and sounds like Dimebag reincarnated,” said Blake Willard, a Morgantown resident. “How can this not be good, seriously?”

Indeed, there is nothing pretty about Texas Hippie Coalition, but that’s exactly what they want. They’ve appeared on The Jerry Springer Show and are happy to label themselves as the flag-bearers for modern outlaw rock, happily embracing their southern roots and attitudes.

Their sound also reflects this as it exhibits a strong metal influence along the lines of Pantera or Black Label Society but also brings to mind acts like ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynard in its obviously southern-infused styling. Texas Hippie Coalition is a band of outlaws and they simply won’t have it any other way.

123 Pleasant Street is sure to be pure mayhem tonight as Kill Devil Hill takes the stage along with Texas Hippie Coalition and Downcast. For metal lovers, this show promises to be an absolute hit, so come down equipped for battle at 10 p.m. and get lost in the brutality. www.planet1051.com

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Defense has something to build on

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Cornerback Keith Tandy breaks up a pass in the end zone. Tandy had two interceptions against Bowling Green.

WVU defense forces five turnovers, avoids letdown against Bowling Green by michael carvelli sports editor

The West Virginia defense had played well in its first four games of the season, but it had yet to put together a complete game.

There were always moments when the Mountaineers had lapses, and, as a result, they would end up allowing more yards and points than they probably should have.

All that changed Saturday against Bowling Green.

With the exception of the ten points it allowed in the first quarter, West Virginia did just what had it wanted to do all season.

One of the things the Mountaineers had not done well all season was forcing opponents into turning the ball over.

Coming into the Bowling Green game, WVU had forced just three turnovers in the first four games, and those turnovers came in the form of three Danny O’Brien interceptions in the Mountaineers’ 37-31 victory over Maryland.

Against the Falcons, WVU forced five turnovers.

“Coach (Jeff ) Casteel challenged us to have a big game on defense,” said senior cornerback

Keith Tandy. “We’ve only had turnovers in one game this year, so we wanted to come out and get a couple this game.”

He did what he could to help the defense accomplish those goals.

Tandy’s two interceptions were his first of the season following his first team all-Big East Conference season in 2010— during which he picked off a league-best eight passes.

“I’m just trying to make plays on the ball,” Tandy said. “Once the ball was thrown, I was trying to go get it. I knew it was raining, so it was going to be hard for (Bowling Green quarterback Matt Schilz) to throw the ball perfect.”

This good game arrived at the right time for the Mountaineers. Bowling Green was coming into the game as one of the more dynamic offenses in the country.

Before Saturday’s game, the Falcons had averaged nearly 40 points per game and proved to be tough to stop both on the ground and in the air.

“When you turn the ball over four times, that didn’t really help us,” said Bowling Green head coach Dave Clawson. “West Virginia is too good on short field. We were going to struggle to stop

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Mountaineers lose two over weekend by sebouh majarian sports writer

Improvements were made but, despite making changes to the lineup, the results remained the same for the West Virginia volleyball team this weekend.

The Mountaineers (3-12, 1-4) started a new lineup but were swept in straight sets by Georgetown (9-8, 1-4) and No. 2 Villanova (11-5, 3-0).

The Mountaineers lost five of the six sets by two points and battled back from a slow start but fell to the Wildcats 1425, 23-25, 23-25 Friday before losing 26-28, 23-25, 23-25 to the Hoyas Sunday.

WVU head coach Jill Kramer started sophomore Liz Gulick and moved Serinna Russo to outside hitter while sliding Stephanie Mock to libero against Villanova.

Kylie Armbruster started in place of Russo against the Hoyas.

Kramer said her girls showed selflessness as no issues arose from the lineup alterations. But it didn’t surprise her much as the changes let a few of the players get some much-needed rest.

“They handled it really well.

Kylie came off the bench and

hit .312, and I think it helped her not to have to play the duration of the match,” Kramer said. “To be able to go in there and not take a full load of six rotations and just play three.”

The Mountaineers battled early, holding a 5-5 tie before being outscored 9-4 by the Wildcats. The offensive struggles showed in the opening set as the team only had six kills on a .071 hitting percentage.

Senior Kari Post recorded her sixth double-double of the year with 22 assists and 10 digs against Villanova. She led the Mountaineers in the second set with ten assists and helped lead a late run to tie the match at 20-all before two kills from the Wildcats’ Morgan Petkovich sealed the set.

WVU got off to a fast start in the third set, going up 5-1, but would give up the lead and trail late by five. Freshmen Halle Kearney and Evyn McCoy combined for a block before a Villanova error cut the deficit to 24-23 until a Wildcat kill ended the game.

Four Mountaineers recorded double figure digs, accounting for 42 of the team’s 49 total. Russo, who ranks 12th nationally in digs per set, led the team with 12, while Mock and Courtney Robin-

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Defensive back Travis Bell celebrates after recovering a fumble on the opening kickoff during West Virginia’s 55-10 victory over Bowling Green.

Senior Kevin Jones blocks a shot against Louisville last season.

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Despite changes in the lineup, the West Virginia volleyball team dropped two games on the road this weekend.

son joined Post with 10 each.

West Virginia beat themselves against Georgetown with errors, despite having more kills and digs. The team recorded seven errors in the first two sets and 11 in the third.

“We have to be better at serving. It’s all mental and whether or not we’re prepared, we have to be better at the service line,” Kramer said.

The first and third sets were similar as both teams battled back and forth with 12 ties in the opening set and 13 in the third.

After a 9-all tie in the second set, the Wildcats scored

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Kevin Jones named to Wooden top 50 list by michael carvelli sports editor

West Virginia forward Kevin Jones was put on the 2011 Wooden preseason watch list.

The list includes the top 50 upperclassmen in college basketball who are the early frontrunners for the Wooden Award, which is given to the nation’s best player.

Jones averaged 13.1 points and 7.5 rebounds per game as a junior and had a career-high 25 points and 16 rebounds in March against Louisville.

The senior from Mount Vernon, N.Y., is one of 10 players from the Big East Conference on the list. He joins Connecticut junior Alex Oriakhi and sophomore Jeremy Lamb,

Syracuse seniors Scoop Jardine and Kris Joseph, Notre Dame senior Tim Abromaitis, Pittsburgh senior Ashton Gibbs, Marquette senior Darius Johnson-Odom, Louisville junior Peyton Siva and Villanova junior Maalik Wayns.

The Big East’s 10 players is the most of any conference in the country. The Big Ten had nine, followed by the SEC’s seven.

This year, North Carolina became the first team to ever place four players on the list.

The Tar Heels return senior Tyler Zeller, junior John Henson and sophomores Harrison Barnes and Kendall Marshall this season. james.carvelli@mail.wvu.edu

Freshman running back Dustin Garrison may have stolen the show Saturday during No. 16 West Virginia’s 55-10 rout of Bowling Green, but low and behold, the Mountaineer defense forced five turnovers in the game.

WVU forced just three turnovers in its first four games this season. On Saturday, the Mountaineers got their first two fumble recoveries and doubled their interception total on the year.

Now, the defensive statistics look a little better with six interceptions and two fumble recoveries.

The breakout game was bound to happen sometime.

The defense got the most pressure on an opposing quarterback it has gotten all season.

The defense recorded two sacks on Bowling Green quarterback Matt Schilz – one by redshirt senior defensive end Julian Miller and the other by junior safety Terence Garvin.

Defensive coordinator Jeff Casteel’s defense had high expectations going into this season because of the success of last year’s squad, which ranked in the top 10 nationally in several defensive categories.

Despite the lack of turnovers before this week, the defense was not performing poorly, though. The Mountaineers have given up 113 points to opposing offenses, and almost half of that came in the 47-21 loss to LSU. Of course, the help of a high scoring offense allows for some margin of error, but it has not been a letdown by any means, and there is still a lot of room for improvement. It looks like the progress started this week against Bowling Green.

Redshirt senior cornerback Keith Tandy was a first team all-Big East selection last year after finishing the 2010 season tied for fifth nationally in passes defended (17) and tied for 10th in interceptions (6).

Tandy was finally in the right place at the right time Saturday. He intercepted two passes and “should have had a third,” according to West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen.

Garvin has come into his own this year, making big plays to ignite this young defense. The Baltimore, Md., native is second on the team in tackles (33), has two interceptions – one was a 37-yard return for a touchdown – and a sack.

The defense was very aggressive against Bowling Green— not that it wasn’t aggressive against other teams, but the bounces were going the Mountaineers’ way Saturday. Turnovers should continue to happen if the team can continue to make plays on the ball— something Holgorsen referenced the team wasn’t doing against LSU. Saturday’s showing by the defense certainly boosts WVU’s confidence heading into Big East play against UConn this week.

Connecticut has given up 13 turnovers on the season (five INT’s and eight fumbles).

The Huskies have also given up 12 sacks this year, something of which the WVU defensive front should be sure to take advantage. With their speedy defensive ends and instinctive safeties (Garvin and redshirt sophomore Darwin Cook), they can blitz if need be.

UConn currently has the worst record (2-3) out of all the Big East teams, and averages just 7.3 yards per pass attempt. Garvin and the rest of the defense will need to build on the plays they made against Bowling Green and continue to realize what made them so great last year – using determination to get to the passer without anyone stopping them.

Holgorsen has talked all season about being smarter than the opposing team on both sides of the ball. The defense needs to think before

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NBA Commissioner David Stern said progress needs to be made soon in the league’s ongoing labor talks.

Huge day ahead in NBA negotiations NEW YORK (AP) — After a lockout that has lasted more than three months, whether the NBA season starts on time could come down to one “very huge day” in labor talks.

Owners and players will be back Tuesday for a full bargaining session, knowing if they fail to produce results, there may not be enough time left to avoid canceling regular-season games.

“A lot of signs point to tomorrow being a very huge day,” players’ association president Derek Fisher of the Lakers said.

“There will be a lot of pressure on all of us in the room, and we’ll accept that responsibility and go in and see what we can get worked out.”

The sides met in small groups Monday for about five hours, a session that Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver said was mainly about “setting the table” for Tuesday. While careful not to put too much pressure on Tuesday’s talks, he and Commissioner David Stern made clear there had to be signs of compromise.

“Each side understands exactly what’s at stake and where potentially there is movement in order to try to get a deal done,” Silver said. “I mean, we can only say we’re running out of time so many times.

“We both understand that if we don’t make our best offers in the next few days, we’re going to be at the point where we’re going to be causing damage to the game, to ourselves, and they’re going to be out paychecks,” he added.

The regular season is scheduled to open Nov. 1. Players would have reported to training camps Monday, but those were postponed and 43 preseason games scheduled for Oct. 9-15 were canceled last month.

“We still are in the same position that we all wish we were starting training camp today and we know a lot of our fans in respective markets feel the same way,” Fisher said. “So we’re going to continue to work at this until we can either figure it out in a way that will spare us all a lot of collateral damage and games missed, or not, but we’re going to put the effort and the time in as we have been doing and see if we can come to a resolution.”

The league locked out players on July 1 after the expiration of the old collective bargaining agreement. Seeking significant changes after saying they lost $300 million last season, owners want a new salary cap structure and are seeking to reduce the players’ guarantee of basketball revenues from 57 per-

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cent, to perhaps 50 percent or below.

Fisher, who didn’t take questions, said the sides still weren’t close enough to be able to talk about major progress, but were aware of the calendar.

“We know that our backs are against the wall in terms of regular-season games and what those consequences will be,” he added, “but we still have to be respectful to the process, not rush through this, realizing that there are great deal of ramifications for years to come. So we have to be responsible in that regard.”

Celtics All-Star Paul Pierce was the only other player to take part. Though not a member of the union executive committee, he participated in meetings over the weekend and Silver had singled him out as a player who had said meaningful things.

Fisher said he didn’t know which players would come Tuesday. The sides will meet among themselves in the morning before the bargaining session follows in the afternoon.

“If it’s a very short meeting, that’s bad,” Stern said. “And if it’s a very long meeting, that’s not as bad.”

Stern had warned last week there would be “enormous consequences” to not making progress over the weekend, but he’s since been cautious not to overstate anything.

“It would be great to be able to make some real progress tomorrow,” he said. “Whether that’s possible or not, I don’t know, but we had a good meeting today defining the issues and the positions and we’ll see how that works.”

Stern said it would be difficult to have an 82-game regular season and not start Nov. 1, noting that arenas are already pressuring the league to see if they can schedule events later this year. Yet as much as the league wants the work stoppage to end, there still may be too many differences to make it happen quickly enough.

The revenue split and the cap structure have been such obstacles that the sides have hardly touched anything else that would go in the CBA. Perhaps that’s why Stern and Silver referred to Tuesday being more a beginning than an end to the process.

“It can’t end no matter what tomorrow, because even if we begin to make progress, I mean there are literally a hundred other issues that haven’t even been addressed yet, socalled ‘B-List’ issues,” Silver said.

“So there’s a long negotiation ahead of us no matter what.”

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State is in trouble with the NCAA again, this time because three Buckeyes players including two who have already been sitting out for taking cash and free tattoos accepted too much money for too little work in their summer jobs.

Last year’s leading rusher, Daniel Herron, and the top returning receiver, DeVier Posey, along with offensive lineman Marcus Hall will not be permitted to play when the Buckeyes play at No. 14 Nebraska on Saturday.

Athletic Director Gene Smith insisted at a Monday afternoon news conference that there was no “systemic” problem at Ohio State, which has admitted to having several players involved in different NCAA violations over the past 10 months.

He blamed it all on the athletes, former coach Jim Tressel and a booster who on Monday was banned from further contact with the Buckeyes.

“These failures are individual failures: failures of individual athletes, and as you know unfortunately a previous coach, and a booster,” Smith said when asked if the latest violations will lead to more serious institutional charges of lack of control and failure to monitor from the NCAA. “So it’s not a systemic failure of compliance. I’m optimistic and I’m confident that we will not have those charges.”

Herron and Posey had fivegame suspensions extended. They were expected to be reinstated to play this week but now Ohio State is hoping the NCAA might allow them back on the field for the seventh game.

Hall was suspended for the first time.

Two other players also were overpaid for the summer work, which included working at a car wash or picking up scrap metal.

Defensive lineman Melvin Fellows is out with a medical hardship and starting linebacker Etienne Sabino has already been reinstated by the NCAA. The booster who paid the players, a Cleveland-area businessman named Bobby DiGeronimo, was dissociated from the program after years of being a friend of Buckeyes football players and a major fan. Smith declined to answer a question about why Ohio State had not looked closer at DiGeronimo and his relationship with players.

Smith said he did not think the latest self-reported violations would cause the NCAA to come down harder on Ohio State’s athletic programs. But he said he believed that it will now take longer for the committee on infractions to arrive at the penalties.

“It was anticipated that we would be able to complete these other issues to allow the committee on infractions to consider them and get us an answer in October,” Smith said. “We were not able to accomplish that. So I anticipate the committee on infractions will take longer and give us an answer hopefully this fall.”

The players were paid $15 an hour although they said they were not told how much they were going to be paid. According to Ohio State’s self-report, Posey was overpaid $728, Herron and Fellows $293 apiece, Hall $233 and Sabino $60.

“They didn’t register (these jobs) with the university. That was wrong, clearly. There was no safety net. Had they done that, the university could have checked to make sure everything was correct,” said Larry James, attorney for Herron, Posey and other Ohio State

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five unanswered points to build a comfortable lead until the Mountaineers rallied late, scoring five unanswered points of their own before a Hoya block ended the set.

Michelle Kopecky led the Mountaineers with 10 kills, while Kearney trailed with nine, as the offense seemed more fluid with the team swinging at a .171 hitting percentage.

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Continued from page 7 they react to a play, and big plays will continue to happen throughout Big East Conference play.

If there’s ever a time for the defense to get in a groove, it’s right now at the beginning of WVU’s Big East schedule.

Ohio State head coach Luke Fickell will be without three players when his team plays Nebraska Saturday players. “But they were truthful.

They were not accused by Ohio State or the NCAA of ... lying. They were truthful, straightforward.

They had no idea they were being overpaid.”

Ohio State has had so many players suspended or in trouble that Smith, who spoke and answered questions for 18 minutes, has to differentiate between the tattoo-related violations “the broader issue” as he calls it and other suspensions.

The central allegations at Ohio State’s hearing on Aug. 12 before the NCAA’s committee on infractions dealt with players who were given improper benefits and the fallout from it which included 10-year coach Jim Tressel being forced to resign because he did not disclose information about violations and quarterback Terrelle Pryor leaving school a year early to jump to the NFL. Now a member of the Oakland Raiders, Pryor is currently under suspension from the league for his messy move to the NFL and his college problems.

“We lost five out of six sets by two points, so yeah, we are right there,” Kramer said.

The Mountaineers aren’t letting losing deter them from their goal of advancing to the conference tournament for the first time in program history.

“They’re doing the things they need to do to get better,” Kramer said. “We have a goal to reach the Big East tournament, and we’re working towards that every day.”

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Herron, Posey, left tackle Mike Adams and defensive end Solomon Thomas, along with Pryor and another player no longer attending Ohio State, were suspended in December for the first five games this fall.

Ohio State confirmed later Monday that Adams and Thomas have been cleared for the game in Lincoln, Neb., on Saturday.

All were found to have received cash and free or discounted tattoos from Edward Rife, the subject of a federal drug probe who later entered a guilty plea to money laundering and drug-trafficking charges unrelated to the Ohio State case and is awaiting sentencing.

Herron, Posey, Adams and Thomas were set to rejoin the team this week. The Buckeyes (32) are coming off a dismal 10-7 loss to Michigan State last week in their Big Ten opener.

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Continued from page 7 them on a normal field, but to give them a short field as often as we did— it was going to get ugly.”

The Mountaineers got a good look the week before at just how tough it can be to beat a good team when its defense is forcing turnovers.

LSU made the WVU offense uncharacteristically give up the ball four times in a 47-21 victory on the road at Milan Puskar Stadium.

West Virginia wanted to put that same pressure on the Bowling Green offense.

“Last week, after what LSU did to us, we wanted to be able to do that,” said senior linebacker Najee Goode. “For any offense— to get the ball turned over— it’s hard for them to keep going— and we were able to do that and take a little bit of confidence from them each time we got out there and did that.”

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teammate of Pryor’s in Jeannette, Pa.), and cornerback Travis Howard, along with backup safety Corey “Pittsburgh” Brown were suspended shortly before the opener and sat out two games. The NCAA determined that the players had received $200 in cash for attending a charity event in February near Cleveland.

DiGeronimo helped to run that annual charity event, which Ohio State allowed players to attend in both 2007 and 2010.

Ohio State is awaiting the NCAA’s report of sanctions for the Tressel/tattoo violations. The university has offered penalties including vacating the 2010 season’s 12-1 record, returning bowl payments totaling almost $339,000 from last season, and accepting a two-year NCAA probation.

The NCAA could add to those sanctions, and could tack on penalties based on the subsequent investigation of players taking money at the charity event and being overpaid for their summer work.

Mountaineers allowed came in the first quarter, and the burden didn’t necessarily get placed on the defense.

The Falcons were able to take a 7-3 lead on its first play from scrimmage. When a 77yard kick return put the Falcons in the red zone, Schilz found Ray Hutson for an 18yard touchdown pass.

On their following drive, a 14-yard punt by redshirt junior Corey Smith put the Mountaineer defense in a tough spot once again, and the Falcons were able to drive 52 yards in 11 plays before getting stopped inside the 10-yard line and settling for a field goal.

“It’s rough,” Goode said of playing with bad field position. “It changes your mindset. You’ve just got to do things a little bit different. It gets you back on your toes a little bit as a defensive player.

“It makes you have to step up and make a big play when you need it.”

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10 | SPORTS

Tuesday October 4, 2011

O-Line more confident

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The West Virginia offensive line gets ready to snap the ball against Norfolk State Sept. 10. The offensive line has not given up a sack since playing Maryland Sept. 17.

WVU offensive line confident heading into Big East play by nick arthur sports writer

A recap from Saturday’s game between No. 16 West Virginia and Bowling Green would most likely center around the incredible performance by freshman running back Dustin Garrison.

The Pearland, Tx. native, rushed for an astonishing 291 yards and two touchdowns.

Not to take anything away from Garrison’s performance, but most of his success was due to a dominating performance by the Mountaineer offensive line.

“Everybody was doing their job,” Garrison said. “Linemen were finishing blocks, receivers downfield were finishing blocks, and that’s what happens when

everyone works together.”

After a shaky start to the season, the five members of the offensive line have come together as one unit. They posted impressive performances against Maryland and LSU before Saturday’s outing.

Garrison was able to use his vision to maneuver his way through the gaping holes created by the offensive line.

“The linemen made holes,” he said. “Most of the yards I got were cutting off blocks (fullbacks) made.”

Garrison rushed for 85 yards in the first quarter, the most by a West Virginia running back in a game this season. Junior quarterback Geno Smith noticed the gaping holes being produced.

“The offensive line did an incredible job of moving the line of scrimmage and pushing those guys backwards,” Smith said.

Center Joe Madsen thought the reason for the success was simple.

“We went out there and we finished like we said we would,” Madsen said.

The modest Madsen also acknowledged effective film preparation for aiding effective blocking.

“They were doing what we thought they were going to do,” Madsen said. “They moved around a lot, they had a lot of slants on the line, but we just picked them up.“ It had been quite some time since Madsen and his fellow of-

fensive linemen witnessed such a performance from a Mountaineer running back.

“He was making cuts that were just unbelievable,” he said.

But, the center did admit that in previous games, the group wasn’t doing their job to ensure an adequate rushing performance.

“He was able to make cuts, that other games weren’t really there,” Madsen said. “It was nice to see.”

West Virginia and its offensive line will begin Big East Conference play Saturday. Establishing a consistent rushing attack may be the key to another Big East championship. nicholas.arthur@mail.wvu.edu

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Redshirt sophomore right tackle Pat Eger celebrates with fans after WVU’s win over Bowling Green.

tennis

WVU motivated by last year’s loss Mountaineers make strong effort in

Wake Forest Invitational Tournament

by ben gaughan

associate sports editor

Last year, the UConn Huskies defeated West Virginia 16-13 in overtime en route to its first BCS bowl game in program history.

UConn is the Mountaineers’ next opponent, and despite the Huskies’ 2-3 start to the season, WVU is not going to play down to its opponent’s level because they know any team can take another team down at any time in the Big East.

“The first half of the season over,” said West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen during Monday’s Big East Conference call. “It’s all about Big East play and facing UConn, which was able to knock off West Virginia last year en route, to be able to go on to the BCS. It’s going to provide a lot of motivation for our guys this week.”

UConn has played some tough competition so far this season, losing to Western Michigan last week. A strong team from the MAC that gave Michigan a run for its money in the first week of the season.

The Huskies also lost to Vanderbilt, in week two by just three points.

“Every snap that I’ve seen out of UConn has been very competitive,” Holgorsen said.

“They’ve got a lot of returning guys.”

Holgorsen knows UConn’s record does not show its full capabilities. The Huskies are a competitive physical football team that will challenge the Mountaineers in all phases of the game.

The Mountaineer offensive line has played much better since the start of the season.

The players feel they have finally come together as a unit and have the confidence to play against any team they face.

The offensive line played a large part in freshman running back Dustin Garrison’s

by robert kreis sports writer

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UConn kicker Dave Teggart celebrates after kicking the game-winning field goal to defeat the Mountaineers 16-13 in overtime last year. success last week.

The UConn defensive line is very talented and very big, something similar to what WVU saw against No. 1 LSU. “They’ve allowed themselves to be coached,” Holgorsen said of his offensive linemen. “It’s not surprising that it took them a few games to get going, but they’ve shown improvement each week, not only with what their schemes are but what their technique is,” he said.

After Garrison’s monster performance against Bowling Green, Holgorsen was impressed with how he ran through the holes and made cuts to make defenders miss in the open field.

“You just have to tell those guys to take advantage of the opportunities that they had, and the last six quarters,Dustin’s been able to get in there and get on a roll,” Holgorsen said. “The more we gave it to him, the

more he’s played, the better he’s gotten.”

UConn quarterback Johnny McEntee has improved in each game he’s played to start the season.

Two weeks ago, McEntee had two touchdown passes in a 17-6 win at Buffalo. Last week, the redshirt junior had four touchdowns against Western Michigan.

“It’s not surprising that it’s been getting better,” Holgorsen said. “It’s like anybody else that doesn’t have a ton of experience. Then, you put him in a new system with some new guys calling the shots— it’s a tribute to (UConn’s) coaches.

The Mountaineers look to build off the success they’ve had in the last few games and bring an extra chip on their shoulders to Saturday’s game after last year’s meltdown in Connecticut. ben.gaughan@mail.wvu.edu

The West Virginia women’s tennis team spent the weekend in Wake Forest, N.C., competing in the Wake Forest Invitational Tournament.

Head coach Tina Samara was happy with the efforts her team put forth and believes they are building the correct foundation for a winning structure.

“The returning players that we have are playing at a higher level of play than they did last year,” Samara said. “With the addition of a few new players, we are going to be a little better than we were last year.”

In the first day of competition, four Mountaineers competed in a total of eight matches.

Sophomores Melis Tanik and Mary Chupa, two bright spots on the Mountaineer roster, competed in both singles and doubles on the first day of competition. Chupa won her first match of the weekend, defeating Elise Held of Davidson 6-2, 6-2. Tanik was not as successful in her first match, losing to Campbell’s Karolina Cherna 6-3, 6-3.

Tanik and Chupa competed in two tough doubles matches Friday. The duo lost to Olga Blank and Kelly Cameron, 8-5, in their first doubles match but were victorious later in the day, beating a Radford doubles team 8-2.

Senior Catie Wickline and freshman Ikttesh Chahal were the only other Moutaineers to see action in the tournament.

They lost both matches in which they competed in Friday, 9-8 and 8-5 respectively, but coach Samara was impressed with her team’s doubles play. “(The team) is all really starting to learn how to play on the doubles court,” Samara said. “They are understanding that doubles is so much more strategy (than singles).”

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West Virginia head coach Tina Samara talks at a press conference last year. Samara expressed her happiness with the team’s effort at Wake Forest this past weekend.

WVU saw most of its success in the second day of competition. Tanik and Chupa continued their doubles success Saturday, beating Davidson’s Stephanie Synn and Nisha Crouser 8-2.

Tanik continued her success in singles competition, beating Richmond’s No. 1 player Helen Cunningham 6-3, 6-2. Tunik has played Cunningham in the past and did not fair as well as she did Saturday.

“Melis had another good tournament, beating Richmond’s number one player,” Samara said. “What I liked about what Melis was doing was some things out of her comfort zone that she was not really willing to try last year, and that is definitely going to make her better down the road.”

Chupa was not as successful in singles play Saturday, losing a tough match to Elon’s Viviana Stavreva 6-3, 7-6.

The Wickline-Chahal tandem fought in another tough match against Brigita Bercyte and Karen Foreman of Wake Forest but came up short, losing 9-8.

Wickline also lost her only singles action of the day to Davidson’s Katherine Dicconson 6-4, 6-3.

The final day of competition was tough for West Virginia. The only players to record victories were Wickline and Chahal, defeating Wake Forest’s Rebecca Sieglar and Zane Zarina.

Chahal was not able to continue her winning ways in singles play, losing to Marine Wieliczko of East Tennessee State 6-3, 6-2. Samara is excited to see what kind of player Chahal can develop into.

“Ikttesh also showed some improvement,” Samara said.

“We just have to get her to stay focused throughout a whole match. We see a lot of potential in her.”

Chupa and Tunik fell short in doubles play Sunday, losing to Richmond’s Helen Cunningham and Alex Smyth 8-6.

Tunik could not muster a win in singles play either, losing in three sets to UNC-Wilmington’s Christina Lee 6-4, 2-6, 6-3.

WVU returns to action this weekend at home when it hosts the Martha Thorn Invitational Tournament starting Oct. 7. The tournament this weekend is the only home event for West Virginia this season. robert.kreis@mail.wvu.edu