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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

VOLUME 125, ISSUE 12

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WASHED OUT WIN “I’m proud of the kids as far as how they handled the situation. It was important for us to be excited to play.”

— West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen

Tomblin visits Morgantown, discusses volunteering

By Charles Young Associate City Editor

Acting Governor Earl Ray Tomblin met with more than forty supporters Saturday afternoon at the Morgantown Democratic Party campaign headquarters to discuss the gubernatorial special election and the importance of volunteering.

Tomblin, who was formerly State Senate president, became acting governor when Governor Joe Manchin resigned to fill Robert Byrd’s United States Senate seat.

In January, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ordered a special election to fill the office of governor by Nov. 15, a year from when Tomblin assumed the role of acting governor.

On May 15, Tomblin defeated Rick Thompson, speaker for the West Virginia House of Delegates, and Natalie Tennant, West Virginia secretary of State, to win the special election Democratic primary.

On Oct. 4, West Virginia residents will head to the polls to choose between Tomblin and his Republican opponent Bill Maloney.

Before addressing his supporters, Tomblin was introduced by Kelly Palmer, the chair of the Monongalia County Democratic Executive Committee, who discussed the importance of party unity and state pride during the election.

“I know we will come together as Democrats and do what’s best for the state, and that’s electing Earl Ray Tomblin to be our next governor,” Palmer said.

Palmer also introduced members of the West Virginia University Young Democrats, who will be answering phones and volunteer-

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West Virginia wide receiver Stedman Bailey stiff arms a Marshall cornerback during the first half of Sunday’s rivalry game against Marshall.

No. 24 WVU beats rival Marshall in shortened game.

SCORING SUMMARY FIRST QUARTER 7-0 MARSHALL (10:18) Andre Booker 87-yard punt return 7-3 Marshall (5:36) Tyler Bitancurt 27-yard field goal Brooke cassidy/da matt sunday/da brooke cassidy/the daily athenaeum

West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen won his first college football game as a head coach Sunday against Marshall.

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West Virginia defeated Marshall 34-13 in a game that was called at the 14:36 mark of the fourth quarter after more than four hours of delays. WVU junior quarterback Geno Smith finished with 249 yards and two touchdowns.

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SECOND QUARTER 10-7 WEST virgina (13:51) Ivan McCartney 4-yard touchdown reception from Geno Smith 17-7 WEST VIRGINIA (5:25) Stedman Bailey 15-yard touchdown pass from Geno Smith.

20-7 WEST VIRGINIA (1:55) Tyler Bitancurt 43-yard field goal 20-10 WEST VIRGINIA (0:00) Tyler Warner 24-yard field goal THIRD QUARTER 20-13 WEST VIRGINIA (5:14) Tyler Warner 21-yard field goal 27-13 WEST VIRGINIA (4:59) Tavon Austin 100-yard kickoff return FOURTH QUARTER 34-13 WEST VIRGINIA (14:36) Vernard Roberts 1-yard touchdown run GAme was called with 14:36 remaining due to weather

Ceremony held to remember nine WVU students by lydia nuzum staff writer

Alpha Phi Omega, a service fraternity, held a bell-ringing ceremony in the Oglebay plaza Friday to remember nine West Virginia University students who died this summer.

“The nine friends we grieve today were sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and classmates,” said WVU President James P. Clements. “But, they will always be members of our Mountaineer family.”

Friends and family of the nine students were in attendance for the ceremony, and those who knew the students spoke about their lives and their impact on the University. “‘Tis a gift to have friends, and a true friend to be,’” Clements said, quoting the West Virginia traditional favorite “Simple Gifts.”

The students remembered at the ceremony include: Omoniyi Bakare, a junior multidisciplinary studies student from Woodbridge, Va., who died May 13; Wayne Bumpus, a senior biology student from Charleston, who died

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Mantrip draws thousands before Sunday’s game by cody schuler sports writer

When the Mountaineer Mantrip was announced, some voiced concern about whether or not the fan turnout would be large enough to make the event a successful endeavor.

Sunday left no doubt as to where the future of this new tradition is heading, as the Mantrip drew widespread acclaim from a variety of fans.

Thousands of Mountaineer faithful lined the Mantrip path, making the event a standing-room crowd only.

Hundreds of fans took to the hillsides to get a glimpse of a tradition unlike any other in the program’s history.

“It was really awesome; I got goose bumps,” said recent West

Virginia University graduate Lauren Peters. “It was awesome that we got to be so close to the players as they got ready for the game.

It made us feel like we were a part of the game.”

Peters admitted she initially had doubts.

“I was kind of skeptical about walking the team through a crowd of fans, but I think they did awesome – the (fans) were so well behaved,” she said.

For Morgantown High School student Tyler Walls, the inaugural Mantrip made for his favorite gameday memory.

“That was probably the coolest thing I’ve ever seen here outside of the football stadium,” Walls said. “(With head coach) Dana (Holgorsen’s) speech, plus the (Mantrip), it was the most exciting thing I’ve ever seen out here.”

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Even Marshall fans stopped to catch a glimpse of the Mantrip in action, as green shirts could be seen scattered amongst the sea of gold and blue.

“I thought it was great,” said Jeff Gillenwater, a Marshall fan and Hurricane, W.Va., native. “I thought it was wonderful. It pumps (the team) up with all the fans.”

The scene visibly motivated starting nose tackle Jorge Wright, and it was a sight that his future mother-in-law took great pride in.

“It is very exciting. It’s firing us up just as much (as the players).

We’re really excited,” she said of the Mantrip. “This is the first year, and I hope it becomes a tradition.

We had a great turnout, there were a lot of people and everybody was enjoying the activities.”

For junior exercise physiology

major Daniel Griffith, the Mantrip served as a culmination of what the state of West Virginia stands for.

“It made everything come full circle,” he said. “They played the fight song and ‘Country Roads’ and the Mountaineer was there too, to make it even better.

“It was really cool, because most big name schools kind of have something like that, and I like that it’s supporting the coal mines.

That’s a big industry for West Virginia,” Griffith said.

Griffith and a group of his friends followed the team throughout the walk, and he noted the excitement from the fans was uniform every step of the way.

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ON THE INSIDE The West Virginia women’s soccer team beat Marshall 3-0 Monday morning after the game was postponed Sunday night. ON PAGE 7

WVU head coach Dana Holgorsen was cheered on by thousands of fans watching the first Mountaineer Mantrip Sunday.

THE WAITING GAME West Virginia football players had to keep a lot of time keeping busy Sunday night during weather delays.

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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Business plan competition helps students start own business

by Amy Rogers Staff writer

The West Virginia Statewide Collegiate Business Plan Competition kicks off this month and gives students from across the state the opportunity to make their ideas come to life.

West Virginia University’s Entrepreneurship Center in the College of Business and Economics will host the event, with the first round of the competition beginning Sept. 27.

The three-round competition will last through April

FOR MORE INFORMATION For additional information regarding the business plan competition, visit http:// be.wvu.edu/bps and is designed to help students acquire the education, skills, contacts and motivation necessary to create a start-up company in West Virginia. “The neat thing about this competition is that even though it takes place in an ac-

ademic setting, it’s not an academic exercise,� said Mindy Walls, director of the WVU Entrepreneurship Center. “It’s a real competition because we expect real businesses at the end.�

Groups of up to four students can submit ideas, which are divided into two categories: “Lifestyle and Innovation� or “Hospitality and Tourism.�

Teams will submit their best business ideas to compete for one of two grand prize packages consisting of $10,000

cash, accounting, legal and virtual or physical incubator space.

Walls said 20 in-state businesses have grown out of the competition within the past five years. “The purpose of the competition is economic development,� Walls said.

Grant Bayerle, who was a winner of last year’s Lifestyle and Innovation category, said the competition gave him practical knowledge and helpful contacts. “I want to stress how valu-

able the experience was,� Bayerle said. “This competition has really good real-world application.�

Bayerle and his team won based on their idea for a more efficient way for government and military records to be retrieved from a portable USB card. “This competition has really given me a course of action. I now have a plan of how to market my product and to hopefully make a decent amount of money from it,� he said.

Round one of the competi-

tion requires the submission of a three to five page summary of a business idea.

Ideas will be scored and categorized by a panel of judges using a rubric.

During the final round, each team will receive a $1,000 stipend and the guidance of a business coach to help develop a complete business plan for their idea.

Business ideas must be submitted by Sept. 28 at noon to compete. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

Some oppose W.Va. historic register Police investigate basketball academy CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Some landowners in Jefferson County oppose adding more than 4,000 acres along Bullskin Run to the National Register of Historic Places.

Media outlets report that the landowners sent a letter last week to Susan Pierce, deputy historic preservation officer with the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, voicing their concerns about the proposed historic district.

The landowners say they’re concerned about restrictions being placed on their properties and the proposed historic district’s impact on growth in the county.

They also say the state agency didn’t give landowners proper notification of its nomination of the area.

Pierce said the agency followed federal regulations and published general notices in two newspapers. The agency also notified the Jefferson County Commission in July by letter of its attempts to nominate Bullskin Run for the national register.

She also said a listing on the national register doesn’t place any restrictions on private property. No permission is required for alterations and repairs and the property can be sold or demolished.

But landowners can obtain benefits from property being listed on the national register.

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — South Charleston police are investigating a prep basketball academy that city officials say appears to be a scam.

City officials found 16 to 18 youths sleeping on the floor in a two-bedroom apartment after a mother in Indiana concerned about her son called the city Friday night, Mayor Frank Mullens said. “We’re out now trying to take care of these kids who are here, even from overseas – France and Africa – that are under the impression they’re going to a prep academy to get an edu-

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An important piece of Civil War history is going on the auction block, the 19th century mansion that sits on the land where abolitionist John Brown was hanged more than 150 years ago.

They will be eligible for historic rehabilitation tax credits and grants, Pierce said.

County commissioners questioned the state’s nomination of the property at their meeting last week. They said there was no local involve-

ment in the process. “I’m troubled over the lack of the state to respect local citizens,� said Commissioner Lyn Widmyer. “It’s all being done on the state level without the county’s say.�

ing their time throughout the campaign. “It’s good to see all of our volunteers here, especially our young people who are in there making calls,� Tomblin said. “We’re finding that all round the state – youngsters getting out and giving their time.�

Tyler George, president of the WVU Young Democrats, said he felt young volunteers

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July 24; Zachary Burns, a senior multidisciplinary studies student from Roanoke, Va., who died June 12.; Ian Drebes, a freshman pre-accounting student from Franklinville, N.J., who died June 28; Alice Mingyar, a doctoral technology education student from Clarksburg who died July 8; Ashley Parker, a junior general studies student from Lewisburg who died

cation and play basketball,�

Mullens told the Charleston Gazette.�

The academy’s operator, Daniel Hicks of South Charleston, said his school is legitimate.

He told the newspaper that the youths discovered by the city were brought to the area by a coach without his knowledge. “Some of those kids are 20 years old, with no birth certificates,� said Hicks, who played college basketball at New Mexico State and Concord. “How could I put them in my school?�

Mullens said the city has

been arranging for the youths to return home. “We were able to get some of them on a Greyhound bus,� he said.

A hotel in South Charleston has agreed let seven or eight youths stay there, Mullens said.

Police Chief Brad Rinehart said he is investigating. Authorities are trying to determine whether it’s a state or federal issue because it involves youths from around the country. “They’re good kids. I put about seven of them on the bus last night and a couple of them hugged me goodbye,� he said.

were an important part of the political process. “As college students, we aren’t likely to be able to contribute significantly with donations,� she said, “but due to our unique schedules, we are able to contribute our time and energy.�

George said members of his group would be focused on encouraging more of their peers to make it out to the polls. “Many young people are either not registered or are apathetic,� he said. “In order for our

generation to be represented, its important to work hand in hand with campaigns to raise awareness.�

Due to the unusual timing of the special election, Tomblin said volunteers, such as the Young Democrats, would be essential to helping raise awareness and support. “Getting our word and our message out in Monongalia county is what will help us win this election,� Tomblin said.

July 26; Alicia Shaheed, an incoming freshman general studies student from Morgantown, died June 29; Emily Spickler, a junior journalism student from Shepherdstown, died Aug. 15 ; and Jaikumar Vaidyanathan, a graduate mechanical engineering student from Chennai, India who died on May 28.

Alpha Phi Omega has regularly held bell-ringing ceremonies for Mountaineer students who have passed away during their time at WVU. The ceremony includes the

ringing of the bell attached to the mast of the USS West Virginia, part of the original warship sunk during the battle of Pearl Harbor, which currently stands in front of Oglebay Hall. “I think the bell-ringing is important because it helps us bring the University and the community closer together,� said Lauren Lagana, bell-ringing ceremony chair. “It’s a good reminder for us that someone is missing.�

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Three WVU cheerleaders walk the Mountaineer Mantrip in front of the players before Sunday’s game.

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“We were at the front and we walked the path behind them, it was pretty epic,� he said. “It was really loud, everybody was chanting and yelling – especially when (senior defensive end) Bruce (Irvin) came out, and then when Holgorsen gave his speech.�

For Tom Brugnoli, a Moun-

taineer fan for several decades, said the Mantrip is a tradition that was both necessary and innovative. “It’s terrific, it’s something unique and I think it’s needed up here, and it draws a lot of fan interest and I think it’s great for the players too,� he said. “Being from a mining town and working with the mining business several years ago, I’m really familiar with what the Mantrip was, and I think it’s

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just a great idea they brought up and it’s wonderful for the fans and the players.�

Brugnoli is from Beckley, W.Va., a city that is deep in the heart of coal country. For him, the Mantrip was about more than football. “When I saw it in the paper, I thought, ‘Wow, what a wonderful idea,’ and I’m glad Dana’s thought of it,� he said. “He’s representing the heritage of this great state and I think it’s just fantastic.�

Brugnoli has been coming to games since 1973, and this particular weekend was a special one for him, as he, along with his family and friends, were celebrating his birthday.

In his opinion, there was no finer way to spend the day than to share it with the fans and the team on the first ever Mountaineer Mantrip. “The players get to mingle with the fans a little more and the band is obviously there in front of them – the No. 1 band in the county as far as I’m concerned,� he said. “It’s all about the players, it’s all about the fans, and what more than to do something like this.� charles.schuler@mail.wvu.edu

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Winter threatens repairs of Irene-damaged roads NEW YORK (AP) — Northeastern states struggling to rebuild hundreds of roads and dozens of bridges in the wake of Hurricane Irene are facing another natural threat: winter.

The end of construction season is fast approaching in New England and upstate New York.

By November it will be too cold to lay asphalt, and by December snow and ice will cover the mountains, leaving towns dangerously isolated and possibly dissuading tourists during the region’s ski season. Vermont officials said Monday they are renting quickly built, militarystyle temporary bridges as a stopgap measure.

“We’re going to be into winter before we know it,” Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin told reporters last week. “We’ve got a lot of highways to rebuild, bridges to rebuild, before snow starts to fly in Vermont.”

Raging floods gouged and closed more than 300 local roads and state routes in Vermont and damaged at least 22 bridges in the state, marooning people for days in at least 13 towns. Irene ripped another 150 roads in neighboring New York state. Some of the washed-out roads have gaping gullies 30 feet deep.

Road building experts say that if the work isn’t done by mid-November, winter’s cold, ice and snows will prevent any substantial progress until after the spring thaws.

The consequences could be serious: residents forced to make 30-mile detours – on mountain roads, some of them unpaved – to the nearest grocery store or doctor, businesses struggling for customers and a possible hit to the state’s allimportant winter tourism.

“The window is short,” said Cathy Voyer, president of the Vermont chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America. “You can’t pour concrete, you can’t pour asphalt.

Stabilizing cranes in the winter would be very difficult.”

Other states wrestling with post-Irene road repairs include New Hampshire, New Jersey,

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A front-end loader passes a sink hole in a Millburn, N.J. intersection. Officials say it could take months just to make basic repairs due to damage caused by Hurricane Irene. Many permanent fixes will have to wait until the spring.

North Carolina and Virginia.

Brad Sant, vice president of safety for the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, predicted the affected Northern states will have to settle for “Band-Aid” repairs until the spring.

Though the level of Irene’s road destruction is not unprecedented for a hurricane, “What makes this more challenging is the location of the destruction, being in the Northeast with those early, cold-weather conditions that are likely to come,” Sant said.

To help Vermont get an early start, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he will authorize $5 million in “quickrelease” rebuilding funds.

Damage to the state’s federally funded highways alone is expected to top $125 million, LaHood said.

The state owns 360 feet of temporary bridge sections and plans to install them on

key spans before winter, Michael Hedges, structures program manager at the Vermont Agency of Transportation, told the Associated Press.

It is also negotiating leases and rent-to-own contracts with three companies to bring in military-style “Bailey bridges,” Hedges said. The bridges, made up of 10-foot sections of metal decking, may have to serve for 4 or 5 years until the state can finish permanent repairs, he said.

In New York’s Adirondack Mountains, quiet summer brooks turned into torrents that ripped massive holes in the two primary routes around the winter destinations of Lake Placid, Whiteface Mountain and Saranac Lake – economic lifelines as the winter sports season approaches.

Both lanes of Route 73, the easiest way for people from the south to get to the mountains, were sliced clean through

in some places, leaving jagged splinters of asphalt dangling over gravel, dirt and rushing water.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo estimated total damage to New York State at about $1 billion, but has not said how much of that is road damage.

In Vermont, some residents were forced to climb up and down ladders set in riverbeds where bridges were swept away. All-terrain vehicles ferried residents, food, water and medicines along muddy trails to get around gaping road washouts.

Deputy Transportation Secretary Sue Minter said officials still were unsure of the full extent – or cost – of the damage.

“We know that we have hidden hazards out there, things we may not even know about yet,” Minter said. “In some cases it could take years to get our roads to a standard that people are used to.”

In New Hampshire, officials have decided to wait until spring to build a permanent replacement for a washed-out bridge on U.S. Route 302 near the landmark Mount Washington Hotel. Crews were building a temporary bridge to serve until then, said Bill Boynton, a spokesman for the New Hampshire Department of Transportation.

“We just have to sort of button something up for the winter,” Boynton said.

Irene hit a region that already suffers from some of the worst roads in the region, according to a new study.

About 35 percent of Vermont’s rural roads were rated in poor condition before the storm, the highest percentage in the nation, according to a study released Thursday by the Washington-based TRIP think tank. In New Hampshire it’s 21 percent.

The region also has a high

concentration of weak bridges, with about 15 percent of the spans in New York, New Hampshire and Maine rated as structurally deficient, according to the TRIP report. The study is based on data from the Federal Highway Administration.

New Jersey said it had finished almost all of its highway repairs by Friday. The worst damage was on Interstate 287, where the Rockaway River tore a hole the size of a tractor-trailer.

“The noise was atrocious,” said resident Theresa Kayhart, 51, as she peered down from a bluff overlooking the river on Friday. “You could hear the rumbling of the rocks moving away. I’ve never seen this river like that.”

Within days crews had filled in the hole with boulders and covered it with new asphalt.

Southern states were dealing with their own road troubles.

In North Carolina, officials said they would lay a temporary, prefabricated bridge across the biggest hole in the Hatteras Island highway while the state Transportation Department plans long-term repairs.

Environmental groups say it makes no sense to rebuild a road on a moving barrier island. They have called for the state to build a 17-mile bridge that would bypass the area’s shifting beaches.

In Virginia, the state department of forestry said Friday it had removed about 2,800 trees that had blocked some 800 miles of roads.

On the upside, the storm has created a rush of new construction jobs as state and city officials go into “combat engineering” mode, said Boynton, the New Hampshire official.

And that rebuilding is likely to go on for a while, said John Horsley, executive director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.

“This devastating attack by Mother Nature, with incredible flooding that took place, that’s going to set them back for years,” Horsley said.

Still undecided, Palin Lee’s remnants spawn Ga. twisters, rain rails against Obama MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Sarah Palin left open the possibility of a presidential bid Monday afternoon, while encouraging tea party activists to unite against President Obama.

And the former Alaska governor praised Republican presidential candidates for working harder to appeal to the tea party movement.

“Now we’re seeing more and more folks realize the strength of this grassroots movement and they’re wanting to be involved,” she told hundreds of activists at a Tea Party Express rally in the Granite State’s largest city. “I say, ‘Right on, better late than never,’ for some of these campaigns, especially.”

She didn’t name any names, but former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is among those courting tea party groups this weekend.

But Palin’s New Hampshire appearance comes amid rising frustration – and indifference – among Granite State Republicans and tea party activists over her hazy intentions.

She has drawn headlines, dominated cable news coverage and raised supporters’ hopes through several recent visits to early voting states.

And as she did Monday, she has consistently left open the possibility she would seek the presidency.

A New Hampshire tea party leader couldn’t hold back his frustration Sunday night at another rally hosted by the Tea Party Express.

“Once again it is time to determine – are you here to sell books or are you here to run for president of the United States?” asked Corey Lewandowski, state director for Americans for Prosperity, a tea party ally. “The people of New Hampshire deserve to know, are you serious? And if you are serious, then welcome to the race. And if you’re not serious, get out of the way because we’re going to elect a new president.”

Aside from Monday’s visit – her second in New Hampshire over the last three months –

local operatives say Palin has not moved to hire staff or organize a ground game here in the state that will host the nation’s first presidential primary in roughly five months.

“At this late stage, there’s been so little infrastructure work for a potential candidacy, I think this is simply Sarah Palin wanting to be part of the process and to help shape the debate for the presidential campaign,” said Michael Dennehy, who led Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign four years ago, but is uncommitted this year.

“At some point immediately – meaning the next week or two – she’s going to hurt herself badly if she does not announce that she’s not going to run for president.”

The head of a prominent Granite State conservative think tank, also a tea party ally, says there is a growing sense of indifference among local conservatives.

“If she had done it right she could be popular here,” said Kevin Smith, executive director of Cornerstone. “But I don’t feel a lot of energy or enthusiasm here about a Palin run. Voters here in this state, who frankly have been taking this primary seriously since the beginning of the year, are indifferent.”

That said, she drew hundreds of supporters to Monday afternoon’s rally. And she was interrupted once with chants of, “Run, Sarah, run.”

“I appreciate your encouragement, I do,” she said, offering no more insight into her presidential ambitions.

The Republican presidential candidates, however, have much riding on a Palin candidacy, as she could dramatically change the dynamic of the race.

Operatives here think a Palin bid would eat into Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s support and therefore help Romney.

Speaking at another Manchester event Monday morning, Romney welcomed Palin to the race.

“There’s always room for governor Palin,” he said.

ATLANTA (AP) — The slowmoving remnants of Tropical Storm Lee dumped a torrent of rain across the South on Monday and whipped up twisters in Georgia as the storm system pushed farther inland. One death was reported, and at least one person was injured.

In Mississippi, a man was swept away by floodwaters after trying to cross a swollen creek, the first death caused by flooding or winds from Lee. The system was sweeping through Alabama and pushing into Georgia, where the suspected tornadoes sent trees falling into homes and injured at least one person.

Lt. Jay Baker of the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office northwest of Atlanta said he’d gotten scattered reports of homes damaged by falling trees, but couldn’t say how many. One person was taken to the hospital after being hit by falling debris, but his injuries were not life-threatening.

In Woodstock, Mickey Swims and his wife hid in their home’s basement during the storm.

“I heard it and saw the trees go around and around,” Swims said. “I knew when I heard it that if it touched down, it was going to be bad.”

Swims owns the Dixie Speedway, and he estimated his racetrack had up to $500,000 worth

of damage. That includes about 2,000 feet of chain-link fence uprooted from its concrete base, walls blown out of a bathrooms and concession stands and tractor-trailer trucks turned into mangled messes.

In areas of Louisiana and Mississippi that took the brunt of the storm over the weekend, at least 16,000 people remained without power as of Monday afternoon.

The man who died in Mississippi, 57-year-old John Howard Anderson Jr., had been in a car with two other people trying to cross a rain-swollen creek on Sunday night. Tishomingo County Coroner Mack Wilemon said Anderson was outside of the car and had been thrown a rope to be rescued, but he couldn’t hold on.

Jonathan Weeks, a 48-yearold salesman from Plantersville who owns a vacation home nearby, said he helped pull two people to shore and tried to save Anderson.

Weeks said he and his wife saw a van crossing the creek, and he happened to have a rope in the tool box of his truck.

“It all happened so fast.

They were in there trying to get out and panicking. The power was out so everything was dark,” Weeks recalled in a phone interview Monday.

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“We threw them a rope and tied it to a tree,” Weeks said.

“We got two of them to the bank and were trying to help the driver. We had him on the rope and were trying to pull him in, but I don’t think he was able to hold on.”

Surf churned up by the storm has also proven treacherous. In Texas, a body boarder drowned after being pulled out to sea by heavy surf churned up by Lee, and the Coast Guard was searching for a boy swept away by rough surf off the Alabama coast.

Lee came ashore over the weekend in Louisiana, dumping up to a foot of rain in parts

of New Orleans and other areas. Despite some street flooding, officials said New Orleans’ 24-pump flood control system was doing its job. On Monday, heavy rain continued to fall in Mississippi and make its way across Alabama and into Tennessee and Georgia.

“Right now it’s a big rainmaker, said Marc McAllister, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Jackson.

Rain already had started falling in Tennessee, though no campers had been evacuated from Great Smoky Mountain National Park, officials said.

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Evacuation should not be taken lightly West Virginia University is lucky there were no injuries sustained after the evacuation at the football season opener against Marshall University on Sunday.

The situation could have been handled much more efficiently by the authorities and the fans.

While National Weather Service announcements were made throughout the second half of the game, fans were still

slow in exiting the stadium when the game was delayed.

When lightning was spotted and the game officially delayed, the fans were told to clear the stadium, but there wasn’t much movement among the fans until the storm came much closer.

Even though the ESPN report of a fan being struck by lightning was false, the possibility of it occurring was real.

In times of evacuation, it is crucial everyone listen to the lo-

cal authorities and clear the area in a safe and orderly fashion.

Fans who were exiting the field for the concourse levels should have initially considered trying to seek shelter in their cars and campers like the announcements asked, but many stayed on the concourse, causing those still trying to leave their seats no cover when the rain started.

When the exit is blocked, leaving people trapped in a tor-

rential rain storm, the possible hazards pile up. The fans in the stadium were in danger of being struck by lightning or trampled by the crowd.

The chaos was not only the fault of the fans, but the authorities as well. Police officers should have been urging all fans to leave at a faster pace after the delay was announced.

No one wants to walk in the pouring rain, but those who stood in the tunnels blocked

the way for others. The police should have been on the situation from the minute the game was delayed.

If a fan would have been struck by lightning, there probably would have been a surge of panic through the crowd, which would have resulted in more injuries.

Let this be a lesson to the University and fans. There should be a plan set in place in case of another evacuation. Ex-

its should always be clear and moving.

A better emergency evacuation plan would have had officers at all exits, assuring the fans of a safe way out of the stadium.

The Athletic Department should evaluate whatever plan is in place, and make the proper changes.

The safety of the fans should always be the first priority. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

Taco Bell is good for student budgets, but not for ethics Danielle Faipler columnist

In 1946, Glen Bell opened the first Taco Bell, which was nothing more than a hot dog stand. It was named “Bell’s Drive-In,” and was open from 9 a.m. until midnight.

During the 1950s, Bell took a risk and started selling taco’s.

Its success grew over night and continued to grow.

Taco Bell is a perfect fastfood chain for broke college students because it offers tasty food for cheap prices.

However, the poor working conditions on supplier farms and methods of slaughter will have to improve.

In 2001, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a southern Florida farm worker’s organization promoting fair working conditions for tomato pickers, boycotted Yum! Brands Inc., which owns Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC and A&W restaurants.

According to the Washington Post, the CIW claimed Yum Brands pressured the growers to sell tomatoes at a discount price, which kept wages low for the workers.

They’ve had the same wages for 30 years, make 45 cents for every 32-pound bucket of tomatoes picked and are also treated like slaves.

Yum! Brands Inc. signed an agreement with the coalition to monitor working conditions and wages in 2005.

The agreement was a 75 percent raise on every pound of tomatoes picked, which was one penny per pound.

There was also a lawsuit against Taco Bell’s beef. The suit claimed Taco Bell used meat containing less than 33 percent beef and 67 percent filler.

Taco Bell then had an ad campaign revealing it uses 88 percent USDA beef supplied from Tyson Foods, Inc. The beef is mixed with water, spices, oats and starches found in all processed foods.

Tyson Foods, Inc. is the largest meat supplier in the United States, producing chicken, beef and pork. It has slaughterhouses located in Texas, Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa and Kansas.

The company is “committed to the well-being, proper handling and humane slaughter of all the animals that are used in

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Men wear t-shirts in protest of Taco Bell. our food products” said John Tyson the CEO and chairman of Tyson Foods.

The cows used are fed until they are 600 to 800 pounds and then are brought to (feedlots). Feedlots are where cows are brought up to slaughter weight of 900 to 1,400 pounds.

From here, the cows are sold to processors and packers, (i.e., Tyson Foods).

The USDA requires slaughter be done by surgical anesthesia or ritual slaughter. Rit-

ual slaughter involves slitting a cow’s throat from one end to the other, making sure to puncture all major veins and arteries. It is used for Jewish (Kosher) and Islamic (Halal) slaughter.

There are four anesthesia methods used to render cows unconscious so they feel no pain during slaughter.

The carbon dioxide method involves putting cows in a carbon dioxide chamber then taken out after a certain pe-

riod of time.

Captive bolt anesthesia renders a cow unconscious immediately. There are two types; penetrating, where the bolt enters the skull and brain; and non-penetrating, where a circular head hits the skull causing a concussion.

Bullets are also used, but the gun must have a high enough caliber to make the cow lifeless in a single shot.

The final method is an electric current used to cause sei-

zures or a heart attack.

There are uncertainties in the stunning processes because slaughterhouses make more money as more cows are killed. Workers can feel pressured to get more cows done, even if it is not necessary.

Workers also become tired, equipment fails and animals become restless throughout the day.

It is up to the employer to make sure workers do their jobs; however, it is up to

the workers to sustain their responsibilities.

Taco Bell needs to ensure all ethical treatment of human workers and animals. Yum! Brands Inc. must become an advocate for the ethical treatment of animals and workers, and lead the fast-food industry in these practices.

Without this progress, the customers of Taco Bell will only support poor working conditions and animal abuse, even if the tacos are delicious.

Anthony’s memoir won’t profit if the public moves on caramine engle the daily ocollegian

More than one month has passed since infamous totmom Casey Anthony was released from jail after being acquitted from all charges relating to the death of her twoyear-old daughter, Caylee Anthony. Audiences worldwide quickly became infatuated with this case after much media speculation and public scrutiny, making the Casey Anthony murder trial one of

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the most rampant and focal criminal cases of the decade.

Many people are curious as to why the public drew such personal and political interest in this case. Most hypothesize that it was the angelic innocence of Caylee Anthony or the eerie eccentricity of Casey Anthony that tugged at communal emotion.

Regardless of your standpoint and personal verdicts, Anthony is now a free woman.

But hell hath no fury like the American people. The seemingly unpopular jury verdict left millions of viewers outraged, crowning her the title of “Most Hated Woman in

America.”

Even after her release, antiAnthony activists are relentlessly seeking justice for baby Caylee, beginning with a boycott of any and all things that would profit Casey Anthony.

Since the breach of this phenomenon, there have been rumors of Anthony tellall book deals, interviews, movies and public appearances. Although most major television networks have denied negotiating a paid interview with Anthony, sources do claim that she will be writing a memoir with a ghost writer.

The much anticipated and

projected seven-figured offers set Anthony’s enemies a rage, and they boldly vocalized their plans of boycott by means of petition, protest, and social networking. The basis of these boycott efforts is to ensure that no person, including Casey Anthony, receive financial gain of any kind as a result of the death of Caylee Anthony.

The boycott initiators hope to spread the message that people will not be purchasing anything related to Casey Anthony in hopes that publishers will think twice before offering her large sums of money.

How effective these efforts will be – I’m not sure.

Regardless of your own personal opinions and sentiments, and regardless of any monetary gain or notoriety Anthony may receive, she likely will negotiate deals and make enough money to accommodate her now reclusive lifestyle. While I wholeheartedly understand the pure motives behind the boycott initiative, money will not buy Anthony happiness nor will it undo the past.

Once the American people realize that Anthony never has, nor will she ever have, anything of substance

to say, they will become disinterested in this case and write it off as a terrible tragedy. So, whether or not you choose to purchase the, “If I did it,” sequel, remember that in all likelihood this projected memoir will be a meaningless, inconsequential piece of fiction.

It is important that we not fixate on the amount of money that Casey Anthony may or may not receive as a result of this tragedy, but focus our efforts on awareness and prevention so that Caylee’s legacy can stand for something honorable, respectable, and influential.

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THE WEEK AHEAD TODAY SEPTEMBER 6

THE JOHN HENRY WORKS,

by Nyame Brown, will be open from noon to 9:30 p.m at the Creative Arts Center on the Evansdale Campus. The galleries will be open until October 6. For more information, call 304-293-2312.

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 7

VINCE GILL will be performing at the Creative Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call 304-293-7469.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8

WVU WOMEN’S ULTIMATE FRISBEE TEAM meets from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Shell Building. No experience is necessary. For more information, contact Sarah Lemanski at sarah_lemanski@yahoo. com.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9

MOUNTAINEER IDOL will be holding the first elimination round from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. in the Mountainlair. For more information, call 304293-2702.

EVERY TUESDAY

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.

WVU SWING DANCE CLUB meets 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.

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, contact 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 304-2880817 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

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

Mountainlair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to answer questions for those interested in studying abroad.

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.

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WELLNESS PROGRAMS on topics such as nutrition, sexual health and healthy living are provided for interested student groups, organizations or classes by WELLWVU Student 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 304-2932311 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 walkin 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 304293-4117. For more information, visit www.caritashouse.net.

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS, a United Way agency, is looking for volunteers to become Big Brothers and Big Sisters in its one-onone community-based and schoolbased mentoring programs. To volunteer, contact Sylvia at 304983-2823, ext. 104 or email bigs4kids@yahoo.com.

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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.

which provides a place for adult patients and their families to stay while receiving medical care at WVU, is looking for service organizations to provide dinner for 20 to 40 Family House guests. For more information, call 304-598-6094 or 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 in-service 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, a project of WELLWVU Student Wellness and Health Promotion, will be in the Mountainlair Kanawha Room from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

THE CONDOM CARAVAN, a project of WELLWVU Student Wellness and Health Promotion, will be in the Mountainlair from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.

The Caravan sells condoms for 25 cents or five for $1.

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

INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP is an interdenominational student-led organization that meets weekly on campus. Everyone is welcome to attend events.

For more information, email Daniel at ivcfwvu@yahoo.com or visit the IVCF website at www.wvuiv. org.edu.

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

HOROSCOPES

BY JACQUELINE BIGAR

the theme.

BORN TODAY Express a newfound sense of dynamic thinking and acting more often. You are in a period of tremendous change and growth. Often, the unexpected occurs within situations you consider stable. Flex and recognize that you can choose an alternative. If you are single, you exude a certain unique attractiveness that draws suitors. Keep a new relationship light, and let it develop slowly. If you are attached, move through issues as a team, not individually. Your mate sparks your creativity. CAPRICORN enjoys you more than most signs.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHHH Investigate new possibilities with an open eye. Be willing to toss away what no longer works. Insulate yourself from a problem person, and you will be much happier. Evaluate a matter with greater perspective and knowledge. Tonight: Dote on a friend.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH You could be stressed out and not realize it. Stop and take a look at what you need in order to relax. If you can let go of tension, you will transform your reactions. Given a break, optimism and centering will return. Now act. Tonight: A must appearance.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHH You are opening up to different procedures and ideas. Your ability to understand depends on your detachment skills, especially with personal triggers. Once clear, you will make solid decisions; actions will follow in the same vein. Tonight: Let your imagination rock and roll.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHHH Relate on a one-on-one level, making for greater clarity. Unexpected developments come forward that allow greater give-and-take. Listen to news with an open mind. Sort through what you feel is reality-based. Tonight: Togetherness is

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHHH You might not like taking the plunge in order to move forward. Unexpected news could force a revamping of your thinking, if not your plans. You could be overly tired and withdrawn. Opportunities come through a high profile and an optimistic attitude. Tonight: A must appearance.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH Tap into your creativity when someone you counted on lets you down. Remember to flex, reframe and see the situation in a different light. You might be amazed by what comes up if you are willing and open. Start thinking about an offer, which could involve travel. Tonight: So what if it is Tuesday?

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH You are learning that you are your own best friend. Don’t underestimate that fact.

Sometimes you don’t support yourself.

This issue might come up with a real estate or partnership matter. Tonight: Bring extra work home, if possible.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHHH You could be in touch with your friends and might want to see a situation in a much different light. Others react in an unanticipated manner. Stay open to the

unexpected, which could bring a new option to your daily life. Tonight: Catch up on email, calls, etc.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH You are all about money -- making it, investing it and spending it -- at least for now. Your perceptions are changing, but you will be able to adapt to each bend in the road. Trust your judgment. Be willing to let go of what no longer works. Tonight: Treat yourself later, too!

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHHH Count on your energy and ability to handle a change. A transformation in your perspective keeps you invigorated. Let your creativity open up the full dimension of what you can conjure up. The unexpected plays a role. Tonight: Whatever pleases you.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH Stand back and allow others to run the show. On some level, they need the experience in order to work through their judgments. You might want to consider pulling back more often. A change on the home front will be positive. Tonight: Not to be found.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHHH How you say what you think and how you share your ideas seem to open up a meeting. Others see you as a sure-bet winner.

What you think you want surprisingly might not be connected to the presentday you. Take a hard look at your desires.

Tonight: Visit with a friend over a meal.

BORN TODAY Political figure Joseph P. Kennedy (1888), comedian Jane Curtin (1947), actress Rosie Perez (1964)

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64 Poses (for) 65 Wheel attachment 66 Aussie runner 67 Pint-size 68 For fear that 69 Free (of) DOWN 1 Chinese menu assurance 2 Hopping mad 3 *Quaint means of communication?

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Social network’s more beneficial in college jake potts a&e editor

Social networking has become one of the biggest influences of this day and age.

From Facebook to Twitter, Myspace to Tumblr, the options of staying connected with others via the Internet are endless.

Last year, I conducted a self-experiment in which I deactivated my Facebook and kept note of the follow-

ing behavioral changes in myself.

After merely two weeks, it was as if I had never had a Facebook at all, plus it was nice to be away from the drama.

The downside to being disconnected from the masses was I missed out on certain events or breaking news that didn’t make their way through the crowd by word of mouth.

Overall, I proved to myself (and anyone following my blog) that life does go on without Facebook. Old-fash-

ioned communication is just as effective as a keyboard and not knowing who is going where for dinner will not be the end of the world.

With only a couple of negative aspects, the entire experience was a lot more enjoyable than I had anticipated.

In high school, there seems to be a different light on social networking that isn’t very emphasized in college.

In the younger years, social networks have been used as a primary source for drama, rumors and all the gossip that makes a teenage

‘The Help’ puts in overtime at No. 1

‘The Help’ claimed the No. 1 spot for the third weekend in a row grossing over $19 million.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Help” stayed on the job over Labor Day, finishing as the No. 1 film for the third-straight weekend.

The acclaimed drama about Southern black maids speaking out during the civil-rights movement took in $19 million over the long holiday weekend, according to studio estimates Monday.

That raised the film’s domestic total to $123.4 million. “The Help” also has begun rolling out overseas, pulling in $1.7 million in its first international market, Australia.

A DreamWorks Pictures release distributed by Disney, “The Help” has been a triumph amid a rush of late-summer duds that ended Hollywood’s busiest season. Another batch of new movies this weekend packed in modest to small crowds. “’The Help’ is literally in a league of its own at the end of a summer movie season where the competition was virtually non-existent,” said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. “It’s a really good movie that happened to land in the perfect spot at the perfect time. They are really just reaping the benefit of the worst dog days of August that we have seen in years.”

Best among the newcomers was Focus Features’ Holocaustrevenge thriller “The Debt” at

No. 2 with $12.6 million from Friday to Monday. “The Debt” stars Helen Mirren and features “The Help” co-star Jessica Chastain.

The Weinstein Co. sci-fi horror tale “Apollo 18” opened at No. 3 with $10.7 million. Another fright flick, Relativity Media’s “Shark Night 3D,” debuted at No. 4 with $10.3 million.

A handful of other movies opened in narrower release well outside the weekend’s top 10, including Visio Entertainment’s golf drama “Seven Days in Utopia,” which stars Robert Duvall and Lucas Black and pulled in a modest $1.6 million.

Pantelion Films’ action comedy “Saving Private Perez” debuted with $830,000, while Samuel Goldwyn Films’ sex comedy “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” opened with just $153,000.

While holdover films almost always have big drops in revenue in subsequent weekends, “The Help” did the same business this past Friday to Sunday as it did a week earlier.

Starring Viola Davis, Emma Stone and Octavia Spencer, “The Help” has followed the path of the book on which it is based, which became a literary phenomenon through word-ofmouth among readers.

The film began solidly with a No. 2 opening, then rose to its three-week reign at No. 1 as fans talked it up to friends.

“The Help” gave Hollywood a slight boost over Labor Day weekend a year ago. Overall domestic revenues for the four days came in at $139 million, up 5 percent from the same weekend last year, when “The American” opened at No. 1 with $16.7 million, according to Hollywood. com.

Domestic receipts from the first weekend in May through Labor Day finished at about $4.38 billion, up a fraction from summer 2010 revenues, Hollywood.com estimates.

But factoring in this year’s higher ticket prices, actual movie attendance was down slightly, the fourth-straight summer that admissions have dropped.

Overseas, the family smash “The Smurfs” continued to dominate, pulling in $23.3 million to pad its international total to $295.8 million and its worldwide haul to about $430 million.

“Rise of the Planet of the Apes” ran second internationally with $19.4 million, lifting its overseas take to $186.5 million and its worldwide total to about $350 million.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Monday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Tuesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — With Oprah Winfrey gone, daytime television is ready for a new monarch.

Barbara Walters and the show she invented 15 years ago, “The View,” pronounce themselves ready to step up. She may be past 80 now, but would YOU bet against her?

The show begins its new season Tuesday, with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as guest. In a muddled daytime picture, “The View” plans to compete aggressively for displaced Winfrey viewers with a more topical feel, aggressive booking of guests and a few pages ripped from Oprah’s playbook.

“Oprah was the only other show that did some of the things that we did,” said Bill Geddie, executive producer. “Quite honestly, some of the people that we might have gotten second, we’ll be getting first now.”

“The View” has just as much chance as any to become the daytime talk leader. Late afternoon, where Winfrey’s show ran across most of the country, is considered a more desired time slot than the 11 a.m. home of “The View.” But a big mixture of personalities like Dr. Phil, Ellen DeGeneres, Anderson Cooper and Dr. Oz will now be competing in the afternoon, some of them new to their time slots or

new to the business, and none goes in with a huge advantage in the ratings, said Bill Carroll, an expert in the daytime market for Katz Media.

Meanwhile, “The View” is a fixture at its time of day.

“Consistency always works in your favor,” Carroll said.

Geddie noted that no 11 a.m. show has ever been the top daytime talk program, and he seems eager for the challenge of changing that.

The time slot was no real prize back in 1996. ABC had a string of failures there before asking Walters to come up with an idea for a show. She thought of presenting a handful of women with diverse backgrounds and opinions, primarily an entertainment show.

Still busy at ABC News, Walters appeared only two days a week and asked Meredith Vieira to be moderator, a role now held by Whoopi Goldberg.

Only 60 percent of ABC viewers could see the show at first, and Walters remembers spending much of her first year cajoling station managers across the country to carry it. Now “The View” is seen virtually everywhere on ABC. “The View” evolved to become more topical and opinionated as the years went on, a progression that is continuing.

The Sept. 9 show will feature former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and focus on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Former Vice President Dick Cheney and GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman are each scheduled to appear in the first month.

Such guests co-exist with the popular “hot topics” opening segment, where Goldberg, Walters, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd kick around the day’s water-cooler subjects.

Still, Walters cautioned, “We are not `Meet the Press.’” Not when Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian are booked for Wednesday. Matthew Broderick, Jennifer Aniston, Demi Moore and Alicia Keys are among other first-month guests.

Behar and Shepherd will talk about what it was like for each of them to get married this summer, and the show plans to candidly follow Shepherd’s effort to have another child.

“We still do loving interviews,” Walters said. “We’re not Bill O’Reilly.”

Fox News’ O’Reilly, who’s had some memorable tangles with the ladies of “The View,” is also booked for the first month.

“Authors, actors, celebrities and so forth need a place to go,”

girl’s world go round.

From statuses about hot dates with cute boys to subtle messages talking trash on another individual, the uses of Facebook and other social networks seem to be a bit more shallow and useless than in the college world.

Granted, there are times where events are announced, old friends reunite, and the social networks are used for their true intent – not just to say “Bobby and Becky are so cute together!”

After the immature tendencies of social network-

ing passes and the students of America’s high schools go their separate directions, the “puberty” of social networking occurs and the true intents are then used.

Friends who are hundreds of miles apart are now able to keep in touch, events being held can be spread to the masses and even know whether or not the invited people are planning on attending.

Throughout the years, social networking has developed and grown. Tracing as far back as AOL Instant Mes-

senger to Myspace to Facebook to Twitter and everything in between, the world of social networking has taken interpersonal communication to a new level.

While the gossip worshipping elements of these networks prove themselves to be absolutely pointless unless you’re looking to burn time, the more developed uses of these networks have proven themselves to be effective and useful in the day-to-day life of a college student. jakob.potts@mail.wvu.edu

Internet archive shows Sept.

11 terrorist attack coverage NEW YORK (AP) — For many in New York and Washington, Sept. 11, 2001, was a personal experience, an attack on their cities. Most everywhere else in the world, it was a television event.

TV’s commemoration as the 10th anniversary approaches on Sunday puts that day in many different contexts. There is one place, however, for people to see the Sept. 11 attacks and the week after as they unfolded, without any filters.

The Internet Archive, a California-based organization that collects audio, moving images and Web pages for historical purposes, has put together a television news archive of that day’s coverage.

More than 20 channels were recorded with more than 3,000 hours of television. Besides major U.S. networks like ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC, the Internet Archive has posted online TV recordings from Moscow, Paris, London, Baghdad, Tokyo, Ottawa and elsewhere.

The material is valuable to researchers, but the Internet Archive wanted to make it easy to use so the general public can go back and see what that day was like, said Brewster Kahle, the organization’s director.

“It is one of the top four or five events that have happened on television,” Kahle said. “You can think of putting a man on the moon, the Watergate hearings, the Kennedy assassination. I’m hopeful that people will come to this and make their own decisions about how they want to think about it, as opposed to politicians who have been pushing and pulling the event for years.”

The archive begins at 8 a.m. ET, or 46 minutes before American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

That alone is interesting for the striking contrast it provides with the last seem-

ingly carefree moments before several tough years. On NBC’s “Today” show, Katie Couric talks brightly of “a beautiful fall morning in Manhattan” and the camera pans to a cheering crowd.

Charles Gibson mocks his “Good Morning America” colleague Diane Sawyer for writing notes on her hand, and ABC’s Claire Shipman said the biggest news in Washington was Michael Jordan giving hints he might return to the basketball court.

Out of a commercial late in the morning shows, even cutting one commercial short on CNN, suddenly came camera shots of a burning World Trade Center, ones that would dominate screens for several hours.

Newscasters were careful before the story became clear. Matt Lauer initially called it an “accident.”

Morning shows effectively used phone calls from eyewitnesses adding details beyond the faraway camera shots. “It’s mind-boggling and it’s horrifying,” one witness, Jennifer Oberstein, told Lauer.

Then came one of many unthinkable moments: a second plane darting into pictures and crashing into the second tower, exploding in a fireball and falling debris.

“We just saw another plane coming in to the other side,” Gibson said. “This looks like there is some sort of concerted effort to attack the World Trade Center that is underway.”

Later, when the towers collapsed, one after the other, it seemed so inconceivable that anchors initially couldn’t grasp what viewers had seen on the screen.

NBC’s Tom Brokaw talked of structural damage so severe that the buildings would probably have to be brought down - after one of them already came down on its own.

“The whole side has collapsed,” ABC’s Peter Jennings

said when the first tower came down.

“The whole building has collapsed,” ABC’s reporter on the scene, Don Dahler, corrected him.

“The whole building has collapsed?” Jennings responded.

CNN’s Aaron Brown responded with the horror most viewers no doubt felt when the second tower fell.

“Good lord,” he said. “There are no words.”

“The landscape of New York has just been changed and you have to presume that thousands of lives have been extinguished,” Jennings said.

In those early hours, ABC’s John Miller and NBC’s Andrea Mitchell had raised the name of Osama bin Laden as possibly the man behind the attacks, even as the networks reported the false claim of a Palestinian organization taking credit.

Also interesting are the perspectives from overseas.

The BBC in London, for example, showed video of people jumping or falling from the towers - images that American networks stayed away from. In Moscow, a newscaster who broke into a program to report on the towers collapsing displayed a voice halting with emotion.

The site is easy to navigate, with timelines that direct users to specific events of the morning, such as when the second plane hit the trade center and when each tower collapsed. It can be frustrating to use, however, as the video is displayed in 30- or 40-second blocks instead of continuous streams. And there are occasional gaps; large portions of CBS’ coverage is missing, for example.

Kahle said he believed it was important to provide this resource. There are surprisingly few ways for people to go back and see television news reports, at least compared to print, he noted.

Walters’ ‘The View’ primed for run at top of television ratings

Barbara Walters’‘The View’ is looking to take the top of television rankings after Oprah Winfrey’s final season came to a close. she said. “And we’re a very good place to go. We’re an intelligent show, we are a stable show, we like each other. ... It’s a fun show, and I think they will feel all the more comfortable with us.”

Sound like a pitch? Walters has made a few in her day.

Much of the energy she brought to finding big interview “gets” for ABC News is now focused on “The View,” where she usually appears three or four days a week. Firmly establishing the topical niche is a pre-emptive strike against CNN’s Cooper, who premieres his show this

fall, and Walters’ ABC colleague Katie Couric. Couric, who was a guest host on “The View” once this summer, begins her own daytime talk show next year.

Geddie also talks about more frequently using panels of expert contributors - doctors, lawyers and such - to answer questions.

That also sounds very Oprahlike, given the satellite system of contributors she developed through the years.

The competitive approach also extends to cosmetics. Instead of slapping a fresh coat of paint on an old set, “The

web

View” completed a sleek redesign. Gone is the uncomfortable couch where Walters joked some guests nearly toppled over and off the set.

“We’ve always thought of ourself as the little engine that could, and now we’re practically the railroad,” Geddie said.

“The landscape is changing, and it’s not just Oprah. The soap operas are going away. At ABC, we were always the third or fourth show behind the soaps and now we’re the No. 1 show. We felt that if we were a big show, we ought to look like it and act like it.”

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WVU defense impressive in opener West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith stole the show Sunday.

The running game struggled to get going, and the offensive line had a tough time slowing down the Marshall defense.

But honestly, none of that should have taken anyone by surprise.

One pleasant surprise that should be taken from the Mountaineers’ 34-13 win over Marshall was the stellar performance on the defensive side of the ball.

Not many people were sure how the WVU defense would look after losing seven starters from last year’s team that finished near the top five nationally in just about every statistical category. The experienced group, which consisted of Chris Neild, J.T. Thomas, Brandon Hogan and Robert Sands, was replaced with players like Jorge Wright, Doug Rigg, Pat Miller and Eain Smith.

The players who started Sunday had taken a lot of snaps in their Mountaineer careers, but not many had been looked to take on the role as a consistent starter.

With the exceptions of senior defensive end Julian Miller, senior cornerback Keith Tandy, junior linebacker Najee Goode and junior safety Terence Garvin, the starters on this year’s WVU defense only started a total of four games in 2010.

That didn’t seem to matter against Marshall, as the Mountaineer defense looked very good in its first time against a team that wasn’t wearing the same jerseys.

It was the WVU defense that played a big part in getting the momentum back into the favor of the Mountaineers after the Thundering Herd seemed to have control out of the gates.

Marshall came out on its first drive of the game and completed a few passes and got into WVU territory, only to stall and come up short on fourth down to turn it over on downs.

After the Mountaineers kicked a field goal to cut the deficit to 7-3, the WVU defense responded with three impressive drives in a row. It held the Marshall offense to just six yards on the 11 plays it ran in those three drives.

Not long after those three drives, West Virginia found itself up 20-7 and in control of the game.

The Mountaineers had another drive where they held th Herd to negative yards after the restart of the game and they didn’t allow a touchdown to the Marshall offense.

The only points the Mountaineer defense surrendered in the game were because of two Tyler Warner field goals.

That’s a feat that was accomplished three times by last year’s defense, but it wasn’t one that many people expected to see out of this unit.

It really shouldn’t be much of a surprise though. After all, the Mountaineer defense is run by Jeff Casteel, one of the best defensive minds in the country.

But there was at least one thing the defensive players pointed out when they talked about room for improvement following Sunday’s game – and it was the one area they weren’t exceptionally good in last season, either.

They want to force more turnovers.

If this defense can find a way to get the other team to make mistakes, throw more interceptions or fumble the ball, it could be a really good season for this group.

Or at least it can be if they keep up the way they played Sunday.

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West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen yells at running backs Andrew Buie, Dustin Garrison and Vernard Roberts during Sunday’s win against Marshall.

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Holgorsen era begins with 34-13 win over Marshall in shortened game by cody schuler sports writer

Dana Holgorsen’s first game as West Virginia’s head football coach may be remembered more for what happened off the field instead of on it.

After more than four hours of weather delays, the Mountaineers picked up an official win over Marshall in just more than three full quarters of play by a score of 34-13.

“I’m proud of the kids as far as how they handled the situation,” Holgorsen said. “It was important for us to be excited to play and they had a lot of energy.”

Junior quarterback Geno Smith completed 26-of-35 passes for 249 yards and two touchdowns in leading the Mountaineers to their first victory of the season.

“He did well. He kept the play alive a lot early,” Holgorsen said of his quarterback.

“They put a lot of pressure on us and there were some times we didn’t pick things up and sometimes when we didn’t run our routes fast enough for Geno to get the ball out. It’s why you practice and play to

get better.”

Nine players recorded receptions for West Virginia, led by redshirt sophomore Stedman Bailey, who finished with 76 yards and a touchdown.

Sophomore Ivan McCartney also tallied five catches for 31 yards and his first career touchdown.

The Mountaineers rushed for 73 yards, as true freshman Andrew Buie led all players with 15 carries for 36 yards.

Fellow true freshman Vernard Roberts scored the only rushing touchdown of the game, which came on a 1-yard carry in the third quarter.

The West Virginia defense did not allow a touchdown in the abbreviated game, holding the Thundering Herd to just 187 yards of total offense.

Late in the third quarter, Marshall pulled within a touchdown of the Mountaineers after a Tyler Warner field goal made the score 20-13. It was in this moment junior receiver Tavon Austin made the play that would change the game.

Just when it looked like the Thundering Herd had gained some desperately needed piv-

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The West Virginia football team celebrates following freshman Vernard Roberts’ first touchdown of his Mountaineer career. otal momentum, Austin returned a kickoff 100 yards to give West Virginia a 27-13 lead.

The electric play was followed by a series of lightning strikes and rain eventually leading to a delay that lasted more than three hours.

After returning to the field,

men’s soccer

WVU tops Binghamton 2-1 at home Friday night

Marshall was forced to punt after three plays, and the Mountaineers capitalized on the opportunity with Roberts’ first touchdown of his WVU career.

Roberts didn’t see the field in the first half, but after Buie sustained a bruised collarbone, he began to see signifi-

cant playing time.

Just like earlier in the game, after the Tyler Bitancurt extra point sailed through the uprights, lightning struck again and the teams retreated to the locker room for what

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women’s soccer

by alex sims sports writer

The West Virginia men’s soccer team improved to 2-1 on the season after a comefrom-behind victory Friday night over Binghamton.

The Mountaineers stumbled a bit to begin with on a very muggy September night. Temperatures reached the high 80s at the start of the game, which may have contributed to their early struggles.

Binghamton forward Jake Keegan capitalized on the sluggish start by WVU, as he delivered his team’s first and only goal of the match at the 9:22 mark.

The goal came when a corner kick by Adam Whitehead was deflected off a WVU defender, which Keegan buried into the back corner of the net.

Substitutions proved to be the antidote for WVU, as insertions of senior midfielder Ruben Garrido and junior forward Peabo Doue provided it with a necessary spark.

“I thought the insertion of Garrido into our midfield really upped our tempo, and the same with Doue and his insertion up front,” said WVU head coach Marlon LeBlanc,

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Sophomore Emily Dillon scored a goal off the bench for West Virginia in the Mountaineers’ win over Marshall on Sunday.

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Fans congratulate juniors Uwem Etuk and Travis Pittman following West Virginia’s 2-1 win over Binghamton on Friday night.

“It allowed us to start running beyond, and it gave [Andy] Bevin a little bit more room because then they had to respect Peabo’s speed behind him.”

The substitutions paid off for West Virginia in the 32nd minute, when Doue took a pass down the right side from defender Eric Schoenle and then crossed it to freshman striker Andy Bevin who netted the equalizer for West Virginia.

“We kind of shot ourselves in the foot for that first goal,

giving away a corner when we didn’t need to,” Bevin said. “It took a good half an hour for us to start playing, and then once we got that first goal, we knew we had it in us to get the second.”

The decisive goal came 41:54 into the game. West Virginia midfielder Uwem Etuk stole the ball near midfield and sent a long pass to Bevin who broke away from one defender and beat Binghamton keeper Chris Hayen.

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No. 25 Mountaineers shut out Marshall 3-0 by robert kreis sports writer

In a match that was originally supposed to take place Sunday but was postponed until Monday afternoon, the West Virginia women’s soccer team defeated Marshall 3-0.

The Mountaineers did not allow the postponement or Monday’s rainy weather distract them against their in-state rivals.

“The weather was definitely a factor,” said West Virginia head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown. “It was something we battled through

and found a way to win today.”

The weather was especially a nuisance for redshirt freshman goalkeeper Sara Keane.

“It was slippery the whole game,” Keane said. “It was not ideal, but we worked through it.”

The Mountaineers’ win against Marshall was their third shutout of the season, a statistic Keane hopes she and the rest of the defense will continue to post.

“Obviously not letting a goal is our number one priority,”

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DELAYED REACTIONS

men’s

Continued from page 7

Mountaineer players tried to keep busy during weather stoppages on Sunday

Fans begin to exit Milan Puskar Stadium during a weather delay Sunday. Fans were told to leave their seats midway through the third quarter due to lightning in the area.

By Ben gaughan

associate sports editor

During two separate delays lasting more than four hours, fans, players, coaches and media all started to get restless.

But people had to find something to pass the time during the wait. What else would you expect a college student-athlete to do?

“Mostly played video games,” said WVU starting quarterback Geno Smith.

“During the off time, me and Paul (Millard) and Mike (Burchett) just hung out with my teammates. We already had a solid game plan and we knew what we had to do, so we just kicked back and relaxed for a little bit.”

The game was delayed with 4:59 remaining in the third quarter due to lightning warnings pursuing the Morgantown area. Three hours and three minutes of waiting ensued.

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Fans of both schools huddled under Milan Puskar Stadium’s concourses, and many were sent to the Caperton Indoor Practice Facility to wait.

It brought both sides together for a few hours. Some Marshall cheerleaders were talking to WVU players and fans, according to Twitter photos.

“Never have I ever dealt with something like that. It’s a new experience for me, and you have to be ready for everything,” Smith said.

West Virginia traveled to Auburn in 2009 and witnessed similar weather in that game, but it was not nearly as long of a wait as Sunday night.

Other Mountaineer players, such as senior cornerback Keith Tandy, were using up there time listening to their iPods and trying to get their mind off the game for the time being.

“We had the weight room, people lying around,” Tandy said. “People stretching, making sure they stay loose and then we had the TVs – we could sit in there and watch so you wouldn’t be like, ‘What’s going on?’ Your mind doesn’t have to wonder as much.”

Just after the players got back out on the field and the fourth quarter began, officials brought the teams back into their respective locker rooms again for more than an hour. At that point players just wanted to find out what was going. The WVU and Marshall athletic directors and coaches met and decided it was best for the safety of the players to end the game.

It was the third game of the weekend to have been can-

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The sophomore goalkeeper challenged Bevin, but the Mountaineer freshman was able to tap the loose ball off his shin into the goal, giving WVU the lead.

Once West Virginia got up, it controlled the ball, never really allowing Binghamton back into the game.

Despite the positive outcome, LeBlanc is not yet satisfied with how his team is performing.

“I’m at the point with this team that I know we’re going to score; it’s just a matter of when,” LeBlanc said. “The key is, once we start to play better and better teams, those opportunities will come few and far between. So we have to make sure we start better, no doubt about that.”

The Mountaineers second game in the WVU Nike Classic against No. 25 Old Dominion was canceled due to inclement weather on Sunday night.

WVU had a 1-0 lead thanks to a Travis Pittman goal off a Bevin assist, but play was suspended with 4:05 left in the first half.

After a delay of more than two hours, players were al-

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WVU quarterback Geno Smith said he spent most of his time playing video games with teammates during Sunday’s weather delays. celed early due to bad weather.

“I didn’t think about that (happening to us) at all… and we ended up in the same situation,” Tandy said. “We kept looking at the weather channel and saw there were more storms coming in so we were like ‘What are we waiting for?’”

At that point of waiting, players started to realize there was not a good chance the game would continue, plus they were tired and hungry from having not eaten any food since 11 a.m.

West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen even joked that the kids would have gotten some study hall hours in if it was available.

Fans still hiding from the rain even had enough of waiting. Three male students ran out to the middle of Mountaineer Field during the three-hour delay and attempted to make snow angels in the puddles on the turf until security escorted them off.

ESPN reported a WVU fan was struck by lightning in sec-

tion 201, which is a paid section in the upper deck on the east side of the stadium.

West Virginia State Police Captain James Merrill announced that the reports were false at the press conference after the game was finally called.

“During the second calling of the game there was a lightning strike where you could look up in the stands and it looked like it appeared to hit the stands,” he said. “So for precautions we went ahead and sent EMS, the event staff and the state police up to that area that was affected, because there were fans still in the stands. We got there; we found nobody was struck by lightning.”

To the captain’s judgment, the lightning did appear like it could have hit the stadium and struck a fan. But EMS was sent up to the section to investigate and reported there were no signs of damage to any part of the stadium or any fan. ben.gaughan@mail.wvu.edu

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Continued from page 7 Keane said. “When we do not allow a goal, we are most successful, so we are going to keep trying to keep the ball out of the net.”

As impressive as West Virginia’s goalkeeping and defense were, the Mountaineers’ offense kept pressure on a Marshall defense that, at times, seemed to struggle due to the poor weather.

The first goal of the game came at the 12-minute mark in the first half after a Marshall defender miscleared the ball due to poor footing and allowed for an own goal.

The Thundering Herd continued to put up a fight against the Mountaineers but could not consistently muster enough of an offensive attack to score a goal.

The Mountaineers’ second goal of the half came after freshman midfielder Jess Crowder fired a shot off the goal post that sophmore forward Emily Dillion was able to put back for a score.

Dillion and the rest of the

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Head coach Marlon LeBlanc and the West Virginia men’s soccer team were leading No. 25 Old Dominion Sunday before the game was called due to lightning. lowed back onto the field only to be called off once lightning struck again.

The game was eventually called a no contest around 8 p.m.

The No. 12 Mountaineers will be back in action this Friday when they visit No. 9 UC Santa Barbara and again on Sunday against Cal Poly.

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West Virginia bench provided a spark on the offensive end that helped the Mountaineers claim a victory and show Izzo- Brown the depth her squad has.

“It is always hard for a coach to come up with a starting line up on game day,” Izzo-Brown said. “When it is as hard as I have to do, I think that is a good problem to have.”

Dillion claimed bench play was one of the most important aspects to the entire team. Dillion plans on continuing to work in practice, so when she is called off the bench she can immediately impact the game.

The third and final West Virginia goal came at the 58-minute mark in the second half when senior defender Meghan Lewis ripped a shot that dribbled through the goalkeeper’s hand.

The Mountaineers return to action at home against High Point on Sunday at 1 p.m. at Dick Dlesk Stadium.

A remembrance is scheduled before kickoff honoring those affected by the September 11 tragedy.

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Continued from page 7 would be the last time.

With the score at 34-13 and 14:36 remaining in the final quarter, the game was officially called, and the Mountaineers were awarded the victory.

“I’ve never seen anything like tonight,” said Marshall head coach Doc Holliday.

“Unfortunately, that’s the way it happened. It was the decision of the conferences and the athletic directors, so I had no choice.”

Holgorsen also commented on the way the game unfolded, acknowledging the situation was less than ideal.

“We have a 20 hour rule and these guys played eight,” he said. “It gets to a point where enough is enough. I understood the situation, everyone wants to play and play a full game, but it gets to a point where it would be hard for those kids to go back out there after eight hours.”

The first offensive series of the game for West Virginia was a lackluster three-andout, which ended with Marshall junior wide receiver Andre Booker returning Corey Smith’s punt 87 yards for a touchdown.

Geno Smith then responded by driving the Mountaineers down the field on what looked like a drive headed for the end zone until the Marshall defense stopped Buie on three straight running plays inside the ten yard line. Bitancurt connected on a 27-yard field goal, making the game 7-3 in favor of the Thundering Herd.

With 13:51 remaining in the second quarter, Smith connected with Ivan McCartney on a five-yard strike, ending a 10 play, 62-yard drive in which he completed six of seven passes.

The West Virginia defense then forced a Marshall punt, and the following drive again ended with a Mountaineer touchdown when Smith hit Stedman Bailey for a 15-yard score.

With the lead at 17-7, the

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Junior inside receiver Tavon Austin returned a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown Sunday against Marshall.

Mountaineer defense forced a third consecutive punt, which was followed by a Tyler Bitancurt field goal with 5:14 remaining in the second quarter.

Marshall was threatening as the first half was coming to a close, but after driving 72 yards the Mountaineer defense stopped the drive cold – but not before senior kicker Tyler Warner succeeded on a field goal attempt, making the score 20-10 in favor of West Virginia.

Marshall came out of the locker room and attempted to surprise the Mountaineers with an onside kick, but was unsuccessful. West Virginia couldn’t capitalize on the opportunity, and after three plays, the offense was forced to punt.

The two teams then traded scoreless series, with the 2010 score remaining intact until 5:14 remaining in the quarter when Tyler Warner connected on his third field goal of the game.

The Mountaineers then scored 14 unanswered points, and after 4:22, the game was decided. charles.schuler@mail.wvu.edu

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

10 | SPORTS

Tuesday September 6, 2011

men’s soccer

women’s soccer

WVU bench getting job done Freshman Bevin off to great start by michael carvelli sports editor

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Sophomore forward Emily Dillon has one goal and an assist in six games coming off the bench for the Mountaineers this season.

by nick arthur sports writer

After six games and nearly a month into the season, the West Virginia women’s soccer team is beginning to establish its strengths and weaknesses.

One convenient strength presented by the team early in the season has been impressive performances by non-starters.

The bench has consistently produced when called upon particularly in Sunday’s game against Marshall.

Sophomore forward Emily Dillon has been one of the leaders of that position throughout early season play.

“We have a lot of depth this year,” Dillon said. “When we get called off the bench, we just know we’ve got to go in and give it our all. We have a very good mentality coming off the bench.”

Twenty Mountaineers saw action Sunday against Marshall. The team posted a 3-0 shutout over their in-state counterparts, even with many

inexperienced players on the field.

“I just can’t stress how important it is to know that when the starters leave the field, the level of play isn’t going to drop,” Dillon said. “When the starters get tired, someone else is going to come in and pick it up.”

Dillon netted a goal in the 33rd minute of Sunday’s game, making her the eighth different player to score a goal this season. West Virginia head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown is pleased with the depth of this season’s squad.

“You never know where the scoring is going to come from,” she said. “It’s a reflection of how effective different players are on our team.”

The Mountaineers improved to 3-3-0 on the season.

Coach Izzo-Brown has experimented with multiple starting lineups in recent games.

But, don’t necessarily look at that as a bad thing.

“It is always hard for a coach to come up with a starting lineup,” Izzo-Brown said.

“That is a good problem to have. Emily (Dillon) and the rest of the bench make my job difficult, and that’s important.”

The key to the bench’s success this season isn’t that they have performed well when entering the game, but there hasn’t been a noticeable downgrade in production when their number is called.

“You always want to make sure that when you’re subbing, the level of play doesn’t drop,” Izzo-Brown said. “I thought our subs were very effective today” The team will play their final non-conference game this Sunday against High Point.

The depth of the team will be something to keep an eye on throughout the season. Especially when the team enters a grueling Big East Conference schedule “When we can go deep (in the bench) and keep our level of play the way we have, it is extremely important,” IzzoBrown said. nicholas.arthur@mail.wvu.edu

In July, Andy Bevin was in Columbia representing his home country, New Zealand, in the U20 FIFA World Cup. Fast forward two months, and the freshman is now in Morgantown playing a vital role on the West Virginia men’s soccer team.

“I came here straight from Columbia, so I’m coming in (to the season) the fittest I’ve ever been in my life,” Bevin said. “That’s helped me preseason to show everything I’ve got, and luckily the coaches trust me enough to put me straight into the starting lineup here.”

During the World Cup, Bevin scored one goal against Uruguay in group play and was considered to be one of the top strikers in the country before heading to WVU to begin his college career.

And he has yet to disappoint in his first season with the Mountaineers.

Through the first three games of the season, Bevin has scored three goals. His first was the team’s lone goal in a 3-1 loss to Maryland, but his two goals against Binghamton on Friday carried WVU to a 2-1 victory over the Bearcats.

“He’s got a knack for scoring goals,” said West Virginia head coach Marlon LeBlanc.

“He’s got that goal-scorer’s touch.”

Bevin always knew he had what it took to be able to contribute at this level; it was just a matter of actually going out and getting the job done.

“I like to think I had it in me to compete here,” Bevin said. “It’s been a good start and I just want to keep that going. To get three goals in the first three games is nice, you couldn’t ask for much more than that.”

If there is one thing that hasn’t been a tough transition for Bevin up to this point, it’s the style of play in the U.S..

Actually, the styles of the

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Freshman forward Andy Bevin celebrates after scoring a goal against Binghamton on Sunday.

U.S. and New Zealand kiwis are quite similar, he said.

“That’s why Marlon likes to keep the Kiwis around,” Bevin said. “We play a pretty similar game and I’d say it’s a real youth level (in America), so players are still growing and understanding each other, whereas I’ve been playing at home with the men’s level where it’s all quite structured and a lot of emphasis on getting a solid back four, a solid midfield and then just getting it to the strikers and seeing what they can do.

“Here, we play more of a passing style, so I’ve had to adapt to that.”

Other than that small adjustment, Bevin pointed out the biggest difference between playing at WVU and playing in New Zealand is the fact so many American players are more athletic than a lot of the players he would face back home.

“Everyone’s an athlete here. Everyone can run really quickly and jump high, and everyone’s pretty strong because they put a lot of emphasis on that over here,” he said. “I just have to keep working hard when we go into the training rooms, and I’ve just got to keep myself at the athleticism level that some of the boys on my team

have so we can compete a little bit better.”

Another part of being able to better compete with opposing teams is team chemisty. That’s one thing that getting off to such a good start and breaking into the starting lineup right off the bat has been able to help Bevin.

He’s been able to form a great relationship with the team’s other forwards, which they think will only make them better.

“That’s something that comes straight from the training field. We’ve been working hard in preseason and coach has been fiddling around with a couple of different setups,” Bevin said.

“Luckily, with me and (junior forward) Peabo (Doue) understanding each other, we’re going to push toward titles this year, I’m sure of that.”

For Doue, who scored five goals last season, and the rest of the team, it didn’t take long to realize Bevin was going to be a big part of this year’s team.

“He’s natural at that striker position,” Doue said. “The first time I saw him play, you could tell he was going to make an impact on the team.” james.carvelli@mail.wvu.edu

sights from this weekend

No. 24 West Virginia defeat Marshall 34-13 in its season opener on Sunday.

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Mountaineer mascot Brock Burwell walks toward the block of coal at the end of the Mountaineer Mantrip.

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West Virginia head football coach and Men’s Basketball coach Bob Huggins at the Bob Huggins Fish Fry this weekend.

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WVU students gathered at the Mountaineer Maniacs Tailgate Party at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium on Friday before the Men’s Soccer team’s game against Binghamton.

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WVU defender Meghan Lewis takes a shot against Marshall during the team’s 3-0 win Sunday.