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WVU establishes Autism Speaks chapter by lydia nuzum

associate city editor

A new chapter of the nationally recognized autism awareness program, Autism Speaks U, has been established by students at West Virginia University.

Kasia Bryant, a senior criminology student and president of WVU’s Autism Speaks U, said the program was launched at the University three weeks ago as an effort

to promote autism awareness on campus.

Bryant said she was inspired to found the program at WVU by her younger brother, who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism often characterized by difficult social interaction and repetitive task completion.

“My little brother is on the autism spectrum,” Bryant said.

“He has Asperger’s. He’s very high-functioning, though.”

Autism is a disorder diagnosed in one out of every 110 female children in the world and one in every 70 male children. The prevalence of autism is higher than childhood cancer, juvenile diabetes and pediatric acquired immune deficiency syndrome combined, according to statistics provided by Autism Speaks.

The program currently has 61 members. Bryant and the marketing chairperson for the group visited the national Au-

tism Speaks U headquarters on Oct. 28 in New York, NY. “We were able to tour their offices, and they gave us more information to help us promote our chapter,” Bryant said.

“People should join, because it’s a good cause,” Bryant said. “You’re giving back not only to the Morgantown community, but a whole nation of people and everyone on the Autism spectrum.”

The autism spectrum is a

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scale used to organize and classify a number of pervasive developmental disorders, including autistic disorder; Asperger’s syndrome; childhood disintegrative disorder; and Rett syndrome, a disorder exclusive to females that impedes and causes a loss of development after an initial period of normal development.

The spectrum also includes a diagnosis of “atypical autism” to describe patients who exhibit some symptoms of an

autism spectrum disorder but cannot be conclusively diagnosed with autism.

“I joined because I have a cousin who is autistic, and they caught it early,” said Mark Riffon, a senior mathematics student and treasurer of WVU Autism Speaks U. “Prevention is really the key to being able to live life to the fullest.”

Autism Speaks U is an affiliate organization of Autism

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Former Time editor talks 21st century journalism

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Former Time magazine photo editor, MaryAnne Golon, speaks in the Life Sciences Building Monday night.

by mackenzie mays city editor

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Vito Bitetto, left, a junior communications student buys chili from members of the FCM outside of the Mountainlair on Monday, Nov. 7.

Fellowship of Christian Musicians event helps create Christmas gifts for children overseas by jessica lear staff writer

The West Virginia University Fellowship of Christian Musicians raised money to send Christmas gifts to children overseas through a “Chili for Children” event Monday afternoon.

Proceeds from the chili sale will benefit Operation Christmas Child, a program that sends shoeboxes full of necessities to children around the world.

“Operation Christmas Child is an organization that encourages people to pack shoeboxes with things kids

need – like toothbrushes,” said Alaina Tetrick, FCM president.

Though necessary toiletries are vital for many of the recipients, Tetrick said adding some simple joy to a child’s Christmas by including toys in the packages is the best part.

“There are videos online of these kids getting really excited about opening up their boxes and seeing a baby doll or an action figure. We have to include the things they need, but we also want to give the child a good Brooke Cassidy/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Christmas,” she said.

Lindsay Dawson, left, a senior theater student and Alaina Tetrick, a senior music education student, sell Chili for the FCM see chili on PAGE 2 in front of the Mountainlair on Monday.

BB&T CEO discusses banking crisis, economy by bryan bumgardner staff writer

West Virginia University students had the opportunity to learn about global economy from Kelly S. King, chairman and chief executive officer for BB&T banking corporation Monday.

King visited the Erickson Alumni Center as part of a lecture series hosted by the College of Business & Economics in celebration of the school’s 60th anniversary.

King has been at the forefront of the banking crisis in the U.S. and offered students a banker’s perspective on the past, present and future of the American economy.

“It’s an extraordinary time for the banks, and that’s going

to have implications for all of us,” he said.

According to King, philosophical changes in the 1970s led America to begin to advocate home ownership.

Congress then pushed for lending agencies and banks to give out more high-risk loans known as “subprime loans.”

People used these loans to buy homes they were unable to afford, and King said he considers this behavior the cornerstone of the country’s debt crisis.

“People were using home equity like an ATM. They were spending a lot more money than they were making,” he said.

King said he believes people have forgotten the rela-

tionship between their money and how it is invested.

“When you overspend, overinvest and overborrow, you will ultimately have a big problem,” King said.

With more than 28 years of service in BB&T, King has assumed leadership roles in commercial and retail banking, operations, insurance, investment services and capital markets.

He is also credited for leading BB&T to continued profitability and stability through the economic slump of 2008.

This experience makes him especially sensitive to the decisions of other banking corporations.

In a common analogy, King compared banks to students.

“Nobody’s going to give

you an automatic A in class. If you don’t study, don’t do the work, don’t show up, you’re going to fail,” he said.

“Banks should have to learn the same lessons,” he said.

The college has invited guest speakers from across the country and hosted several events in celebration of the establishment of the College of Business & Economics in 1951.

“With these speakers, students not only have the opportunity to learn from books or the Internet, but from real success stories,” said Jose Sartarelli, Milan Puskar Dean of the B&E. For more information, visit www.be.wvu.edu.

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ON THE INSIDE The West Virginia men’s basketball team was unhappy with Friday’s performance and still has a long way to go. SPORTS PAGE 10

Photography editor and media consultant MaryAnne Golon said she sometimes communicates best with an audience when there’s a language barrier.

“I had an audience that didn’t speak my language, and I started talking to them about the pictures I was showing and they’d nod their heads, and it made me really happy. When the translator started, they didn’t need it,” she said.

“Images are universal, and

we’re now living in a very visual culture where you have to learn how to speak a visual language.”

Golon served as the director of photography at Time magazine for more than 20 years, and spoke to West Virginia University students Monday night about 21st century photojournalism and the need for branding, multimedia and social networking in the field today.

While journalism is continuing to evolve with digital

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Business dinner instructs students on etiquette

by Bryan bumgardner staff writer

Everyone knows manners are important, but what if your dinner etiquette could jumpstart your career?

The David-Michael Scholars Program hosted the first annual Business Etiquette Dinner and Seminar at the Waterfront Place Hotel Monday. The dinner was designed to instruct pre-veterinary students of West Virginia University and other undergraduates on proper etiquette and business practices for career and academic interviews.

Professional Image Consultant Susan Lawrence advised veterinary students on personal appearance, conversational polish, and dinner etiquette to aid them in highstakes interviews.

Jeryl Jones, professor of animal nutritional sciences at WVU, helped organize the event.

“As veterinary and medical fields get more competitive with more students, anything that can give people a bit of an edge is worthwhile,” she said.

She said she hoped this event would help the students become more polished for

graduate school interviews.

“Yes, we learn basic manners, but sometimes people don’t have a good ability to talk to people they don’t know,” she said.

Besides dinner etiquette, students learned how to introduce themselves, how to talk to other professionals and how to improve their body language.

“How you carry yourself during the interview process is very important,” Jones said.

The event began with a social hour followed by a lecture and dinner. Students were given etiquette handbooks that detailed the location and purpose of tableware, marking the location and purpose of everything from salad plates to dessert spoons.

Valerie White, a junior biochemistry student, works in a fine dining restaurant and has watched other students struggle through dinner interviews.

White said their misfortune inspired her to attend the event.

“I see how nervous they are and hesitant to do anything, and I don’t want to be like that,” she said. White said any experience is going to help her

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SNUBBED The No. 9 West Virginia women’s soccer team didn’t receive a national seed in this year’s NCAA Tournament, but it will host Virginia Tech this weekend in the first round.

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Penguins’ front office offers advice to students Judge considers $410M by mike atkinson staff writer

West Virginia University hosted the Media Relations Department of the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team Monday in the P.I. Reed School of Journalism in an event sponsored through the WVU Public Relations Student Society of America.

“We never turn these down.

There are so many students that want to do what we do and so few jobs. We enjoy giving advice to students,” said Jason Seidling, manager of communications for the Penguins.

Seidling has worked for the Penguins for three years, writing game notes, handling statistics and filtering media sources. He previously worked for the Pittsburgh Steelers football team and is currently managing three WVU interns.

Seidling gave advice to current students who want to enter the sports communication field.

“You can’t beat experi-

ence. You have to do internships while you’re in school.

We look for prior experiences.

We hope to fill (the internships with) people looking to work in sports, but we don’t always get that,” he said.

Seidling said he stresses the importance of perseverance in the field of sports communications.

“It won’t be easy when you graduate, so what you do in school is very important. It starts right now. We have 50 applicants for our intern spot, and we take three,” he said.

Jen Bullano, director of communications for the penguins, is one of the few females at her level of sports communication in hockey. She addressed the challenges associated with being a female in the sports communication field.

“Don’t get discouraged. It is tough to be a female in this field, but not impossible. Everyone eventually earns respect, but as a female it may be tougher to earn respect,” she said.

She also gave advice to any student interested in the field of communications.

“You will get turned down, but you have to stay focused,” she said.“ Entry-level jobs will not make money. You have to expect to do a lot of tough work and possibly not get paid at first.”

Bullano said networking is a key component to earning a spot in a highly competitive public relations field.

“It’s all about networking and the connections you build.

We are so fortunate to start in the ‘major leagues’. It’s tough because so many students want the same jobs. You really have to stand out, and the way you stand out is through internships,” Bullano said.

Seidling also spoke about the importance of networking for students who want to succeed.

“It’s amazing how few people actually keep the connections they make with companies, but the ones who do end up being successful. It’s always

good to meet possible interns in case an opening comes up,” he said.

Bullano said she looks for professionals when searching for interns.

“We look for people who are motivated and know what they want to do and why. Our biggest turnoff is someone who says they want to go into sports, or someone who says they are a ‘fan’ of our team. We want to know that you can handle being a professional,” she said.

Jeremy Howerton, a junior print journalism student, said he attended the event to gain a sense of the expectations in the sports communications field after graduation.

“I got a sense of the everyday process of being in the sports communication field. I want to be involved with sports communication after college and it’s nice to be aware of the qualifications I’ll need to get a job,” he said. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

Woman accuses Cain of bold sexual advance

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Attorney Gloria Allred holds up two sworn statements as Sharon Bialek, right, of the Chicago area, looks on during a news conference at the Friars Club in New York Monday. Bialek accused Republican presidential contender Herman Cain of making an unwanted sexual advance against her in 1997, saying she wanted to provide ‘a face and a voice’ to support other accusers who have so far remained anonymous.

NEW YORK (AP) — Leaving little to the imagination, a Chicago-area woman on Monday accused Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain of making a crude sexual advance more than a decade ago when she was seeking his help finding a job.

“Come clean,” Sharon Bialek challenged Cain at a news conference in New York at which she described herself as “a face and a voice” to support other accusers who have so far remained anonymous.

Cain’s campaign swiftly denied Bialek’s account. “All allegations of harassment against Mr. Cain are completely false,” it said in a written statement.

Even so, Bialek’s nationally broadcast appearance on cable television marked a new and – for Cain – dangerous turn in a controversy that he has struggled for more than a week to shed. An

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Continued from page 1 become more comfortable during interviews.

“As a server standing there, it’s comical to watch, but when it’s my turn I want to be calm and act like I know what I’m doing,” she said.

Ryan Poling, a junior animal nutritional sciences student, said he hoped to improve himself and his etiquette to impress potential employers.

“Being inexperienced in business etiquette, I figured this could give me an edge dur-

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upstart in the presidential race, Cain shot to the top of public opinion polls in recent weeks and emerged, however temporarily, as the main conservative challenger to Mitt Romney.

Accompanied by her prominent lawyer, Gloria Allred, Bialek accused Cain of making a sexual advance one night in mid-July 1997, when she had travelled to Washington to have dinner with him in hopes he could help her find work.

She said the two had finished dinner and were in a car for what she thought was a ride to an office building.

“Instead of going into the offices he suddenly reached over and he put his hand on my leg, under my skirt toward my genitals,” she said.

“He also pushed my head toward his crotch,” she added.

Bialek said she told her boyfriend, an unidentified pediatriing interviews,” he said.

Poling said he never expected such attention to detail at dinner.

“I sort of joked around about this when I was younger, but now I’m realizing this is actually true,” he said.

The seminar included a four-course dinner. Featured speakers were Lawrence, international image consultant with Class Advantage, Inc., and Susan Robison, assistant director of the Center for Career Development in WVU’s College of Business & Economics.

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cian, as well as a longtime male friend of the episode.

Allred, a sex discrimination attorney with Democratic ties, moved preemptively to blunt any attacks on Bialek’s motives.

She described her client as a registered Republican, a single mother and a woman with a long and successful work history.

Some of Cain’s allies immediately made a target of Allred, a Democratic campaign donor, rather than focusing any anger on Cain’s accuser.

Georgia state Sen. Joshua McKoon, who has endorsed Cain, accused Allred of “carnival theatrics” fueled by a partisan agenda.

“Her involvement makes it clear that it’s a political smear job orchestrated by those on the left because there is nothing more terrifying than Herman Cain as the Republican nominee,” the Republican lawmaker said.

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Continued from page 1 The student organization hopes to raise enough money for up to 10 shoeboxes through the event.

“We’re raising money because our organization is student-run and doesn’t have any funds,” Tetrick said. “We’re a student organization, made by students and ran by students.

We have a monthly worship service and also do all of the other service stuff student organizations do.”

Tetrick said she’s excited about the new features the Operation Christmas Child program has added this year.

“The boxes go all over the world. But, this year the program added a tracker so we get to see where our boxes end up,” Tetrick said. “We’re also really

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“There are no other organizations on campus geared specifically toward promoting autism awareness and aid,” Riffon said. “This serves as a great opportunity to raise funds to benefit autism research, and spread awareness.”

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But Doug Heye, a political consultant who is unaligned in the GOP race, said Bialek’s allegations “are different because they involve a name and specific details.”

He said Allred’s involvement “is going to make some people disbelieve the charges out of hand because of the side show she creates. But Herman Cain has to be clear and convincing in his response.”

Even before Bialek stepped forward, presidential rival Jon Huntsman and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour had publicly urged Cain to address sexual harassment allegations in greater detail.

It wasn’t clear whether he would.

After spending much of last week denying accusations, he told reporters who sought to question him Saturday night, “don’t even go there.” excited that you get to include a picture of your group in the boxes this year.”

The WVU chapter of Christian Musicians got its start last December and provides a place for Christians who love music.

Operation Christmas Child is run by Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian international relief organization that provides materials for people all over the world.

Anyone can pack a shoebox and donate it during Operation Christmas Child’s National Collection Week starting Nov. 14.

Donation locations in Morgantown include The Christian & Missionary Alliance Church, The First Baptist Church of Morgantown and the Avery United Methodist Church.

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The next meeting of the organization will be Monday at 7 p.m. in the Shenandoah Room of the Mountainlair. The meeting will feature guest speaker Cheryl McNeil, professor of clinical child psychology at WVU. The organization is also planning to hold a fundraiser in the coming weeks, Bryant said.

“All of the proceeds from the event will go to Autism Speaks to benefit their research,” she said.

Students can learn more about WVU Autism Speaks U by visiting www.facebook. com/autismspeaksuwvu. lydia.nuzum@mail.wvu.edu

settlement in BofA lawsuit

MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge was asked Monday to give final approval to a $410 million settlement in a classaction lawsuit affecting more than 13 million Bank of America customers who had debit card overdrafts during the past decade.

Attorneys for the Charlotte, N.C.-based bank and the customers both told Senior U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King the agreement was fair and reasonable, even though customers would only receive a fraction of what they paid in overdraft fees. It was not clear if King would rule Monday in the 2½-year-old case.

“It’s really undisputed that this is one of the largest settlements ever in a consumer case,” said Aaron Podhurst, a lead attorney for the customer class.

The consideration of the settlement comes a week after Bank of America backed off a plan to charge a $5 monthly fee for debit-card purchases.

The outcry prompted other major banks, including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co., to cancel trial tests of their own debit card fees.

Bank attorney Laurence Hutt said 13.2 million Bank of America customers who had debit cards between January 2001 and May 2011 would get some payment. Those who still have accounts would get an automatic credit and the others would get a check mailed to them. No one would have to take any action or fill out any paperwork.

Hutt said only 46 customers filed formal objections to the settlement and 350 decided to opt out, meaning they could take separate legal action on their own.

“It’s very easy for people to say on the sidelines, ‘I could do better,’” Hutt said. “Never is a settlement at 100 percent of what somebody thinks they can receive at trial. It’s always a compromise.”

Customers will receive a

minimum of 9 percent of the fees they paid through the settlement, Hutt added. The bank has already paid the money into an escrow account.

The lawsuit claimed that Bank of America processed its debit card transactions in the order of highest to lowest dollar amount so it could maximize the overdraft fees customers paid. An overdraft occurs when the account doesn’t have enough money in it to cover a debit card transaction. Similar lawsuits have been filed against more than 30 other banks.

Despite the settlement, Bank of America insists there was nothing improper about the processing sequence. New regulations enacted following the recent financial crisis prohibit banks from charging overdraft fees on debit cards without first getting customer permission.

Many of the objections concerned the fees for the team of class-action attorneys, which would amount to about $123 million as currently proposed.

Lawyers for people opposed to the settlement said that amount should be cut down by at least $50 million, with the money going back to the wronged customers.

“The best use is to provide compensation to the class members,” said Elliott Kula, who represents some of the objectors.

Another complaint concerns missing records for customers from 2001 through 2003, which has made them impossible to identify. The settlement would take about 14 percent of the total – representing an estimate for the fees paid by those customers – and put the money into nonprofit financial literacy programs.

In addition, the 32 original named plaintiffs who represented the larger class will get bonuses of up to $5,000 each, $2,500 each if both plaintiffs are a married couple.

Man dangles for hours off NY’s Tappan Zee Bridge TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — A fired government worker with a protest sign dangled for hours from New York’s Tappan Zee Bridge on Monday, backing up traffic for miles before dropping into the Hudson River and being hauled aboard a police boat.

Michael Davitt, 54, of Garnerville, N.Y., had been angry about being dismissed in 2008 from his counseling job with the Rockland County mental health department and was well known to law enforcement, county Sheriff James Kralik said.

On Monday morning, Davitt drove a van onto the bridge, lowered a rope ladder that was anchored to the van and climbed down, then sat in a harness for more than three hours about 65 feet above the river.

He swayed in the wind and occasionally swigged from a bottle.

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advances, Golon said one central goal remains the same – to capture “a real moment.”

“What’s a moment? I’ve lived my life in still moments, understanding the importance of the frozen image. But, you can create moments that have the same emotional, impactful and important feel with video if you apply the skill set,” she said. “All good narrative and storytelling comes from a moment, and that’s something that’s really hard to describe.”

As the current consulting director of photography for AARP, the largest nonprofit association in the world, Golon uses multimedia pieces and social networking sites like Facebook every day to tell a story, and she said aspiring journalists should do the same.

“You have these teenagers with iPhones telling you to subscribe to them on YouTube, and you have broadcast journalists on the evening news. And there’s this rich, giant chasm in between,” Golon said.

“I believe in social media.

I started on Facebook when

land officials of a “cover-up” and “retaliation.”

“This is bizarre,” county spokesman Ron Levine said.

“This is a very strange way of making a point.”

He said Davitt had applied for and been given a disability retirement pension.

At about 2 p.m., state police on the bridge deck attached tethers to the rope ladder and lowered Davitt nearly to the water, hoping to get him into a police boat, said state police Capt. Evelyn Mallard.

He then jumped from a height of about 10 feet and swam away, apparently uninjured. After a couple of minutes in the water, he grabbed a lifeline and was hauled onto a Yonkers police boat and handcuffed.

The boat took him to a dock in Tarrytown, where he was taken to the Westchester Medical Center for evaluation, Mallard said. She said charges would not be filed before the evaluation.

Facebook started. I discovered students were using it to communicate, so as a communicator, I wanted access to that big audience.”

Golon said it’s more important than ever for those pursuing journalism careers to stay passionate and “keep the faith.”

“Now, in the digital age of journalism, it’s a job that’s not the survival of the fittest, but survival of the people who want it the most. Those with passion who get out there and do it no matter what it takes – they’re the ones who inspire me,” she said.

Despite the changes in the industry, Golon said today’s journalists can lead successful careers as long as they maintain the passion to serve “the greater good.”

“I always talk about visual journalism as a religion rather than a vocation. That might sound a little weird, but no matter what your religion is, you believe in it. This career is much akin to that,” she said.

“The only way to keep going is if we keep spreading the light.

No matter who your God is, that’s what god does – spreads light.” mackenzie.mays@mail.wvu.edu

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Eddie Murphy steals the show in Ratner’s ‘Tower Heist’ Ali Sultan a&E Writer

Brett Ratner’s action-comedy “Tower Heist” hit theaters last week with an opening box office revenue of $25.1 million.

The film’s trailers looked pretty exciting, promising a classic Brett Ratner film that would easily mix comedy with action to entertain audiences.

“Tower Heist” tells the story of how a high-end apartment building manager – Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller, “Tropic Thunder”) and some of his co-workers and friends (Casey Affleck, “The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford;” Matthew Broderick, “The Tale of Despereaux”) team up with an ex-convict and “professional thief” named Slide (Eddie Murphy, “Shrek”) to pull off a revenge-driven robbery on the man who schemed them all for their life savings.

They spend half of the film planning the swindle and the other half committing to it.

After some set-backs and surprises, they have to find their way out unnoticed.

In terms of comedy, the film delivers on its promise of making audiences laugh.

With an ensemble cast that features Stiller and Murphy, it would be hard not to deliver on such a promise.

Many of the movie’s laughout-loud moments are credited to Murphy’s performance, though. His character’s relentlessness and consistency in upholding the “thief ” title is outright hilarious, and there are many quotable lines to look back at for a laugh.

Stiller and Affleck also entertained audiences with their performances, and overall, the cast was well-chosen for the movie.

The plot line itself, along with the general flow of the film, lacked consistency and felt clumsy at times.

You could, at times, feel the director just wanted to get on

with the actual “heist,” only for it to be a little bit of a disappointment at the end.

There was no real shock from the viewers when the film clearly asked for it, nor was the twist in the story much of a twist.

It does represent a very obvious real-life occurrence that happens frequently in the Wall Street scene, and the film tries to give those affected by it somewhat of an expressive outlet that will produce some laughs out of a serious situation.

In my opinion, it could have been much better.

That being said, I won’t rob the film of its entertainment value as it did provide a lot of it. It was still a good comedy to fill in a lazy Sunday night, and I’d still recommend watching it — especially if you’re an Eddie Murphy fan.

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‘Tower Heist’ is a must-see for Eddie Murphy fans.

Jackson’s doctor convicted of involuntary manslaughter in star’s 2009 death LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson’s doctor was convicted Monday of involuntary manslaughter after a trial that painted him as a reckless caregiver who administered a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic that killed the pop star.

The verdict against Dr. Conrad Murray marked the latest chapter in one of pop culture’s most shocking tragedies the death of the King of Pop on the eve of the singer’s heavily promoted comeback concerts.

Members of Jackson’s family, including his sister LaToya, wept quietly after the verdict was read.

Mother Katherine Jackson later told The Associated Press, “I feel better now.”

Asked if she was confident this would be the outcome, she said, “Yes I was.”

La Toya Jackson told the AP she was overjoyed.

“Michael was looking over us,” she said on her way out of the courthouse.

Murray sat stone-faced during the verdict and was handcuffed and taken into custody without bail until sentencing on Nov. 29. He appeared calm as officials led him out of the courtroom.

“Dr. Murray’s reckless conduct in this case poses a demonstrable risk to the safety of the public” if he remains free on bond, Judge Michael E. Pastor said.

A shriek broke the eerie silence in the packed courtroom when the verdict was read, and the crowd erupted outside the courthouse. Jubilant Jackson fans cheered and sang “Beat It” as they held signs that read “guilty” and “killer.” Passing motorists honked their horns.

The jury deliberated less than nine hours. The Houston cardiologist, 58, faces a sentence of up to four years in

prison. He could also lose his medical license.

Murray’s attorneys left the courtroom without commenting.

In Las Vegas, a former Murray patient and current friend, Donna DiGiacomo, sobbed and said she thought the jury was under “overwhelming pressure to convict.”

“This man didn’t deserve this. They needed a scapegoat,” said DiGiacomo, 53, a former Long Island, N.Y., teacher’s aide who said she didn’t believe Murray did anything to intentionally harm Jackson.

Jackson died on June 25, 2009, and details of his final days dribbled out over several months.

The complete story, however, finally emerged during the six-week trial. It was the tale of a tormented genius on the brink of what might have been his greatest triumph with one impediment standing in his way extreme insomnia.

Testimony came from medical experts, household employees and Murray’s former girlfriends, among others.

The most shocking moments, however, came when prosecutors displayed a large picture of Jackson’s gaunt, lifeless body on a hospital gurney and played the sound of his drugged, slurred voice, as recorded by Murray just weeks before the singer’s death.

Jackson talked about plans for a fantastic children’s hospital and his hope of cementing a legacy larger than that of Elvis Presley or The Beatles.

“We have to be phenomenal,” he said about his “This Is It” concerts in London. “When people leave this show, when people leave my show, I want them to say, `I’ve never seen nothing like this in my life. Go. Go. I’ve never seen nothing

like this. Go. It’s amazing. He’s the greatest entertainer in the world.’”

Prosecutors portrayed Murray as an incompetent doctor who used the anesthetic propofol without adequate safeguards and whose neglect left Jackson abandoned as he lay dying.

Murray’s lawyers sought to show the doctor was a medical angel of mercy with former patients vouching for his skills. Murray told police from the outset that he gave Jackson propofol and other sedatives as the star struggled for sleep to prepare for his shows.

But the doctor said he administered only a small dose on the day Jackson died.

Lawyers for Murray and a defense expert blamed Jackson for his own death, saying the singer gave himself the fatal dose of propofol while Murray wasn’t watching. A prosecution expert said that theory was crazy.

Murray said he had formed a close friendship with Jackson, never meant to harm him and couldn’t explain why he died.

The circumstances of Jackson’s death at the age of 50 were as bizarre as any chapter in the superstar’s sensational life story.

Jackson was found not breathing in his own bed in his rented mansion after being dosed intravenously with propofol, a drug normally administered in hospitals during surgery.

The coroner ruled the case a homicide and the blame would fall to the last person who had seen Jackson alive Murray, who had been hired to care for the singer as the comeback concerts neared.

Craving sleep, Jackson had searched for a doctor who

Conrad Murray listens as the jury returns with a guilty verdict in his involuntary manslaughter trial. would give him the intravenous anesthetic that Jackson called his “milk” and believed to be his salvation. Other medical professionals turned him down, according to trial testimony.

Murray gave up his practices in Houston and Las Vegas and agreed to travel with Jackson and work as his personal physician indefinitely.

For six weeks, as Jackson undertook strenuous rehearsals, Murray infused him with propofol every night, the doctor told police. He later tried to wean Jackson from the drug because he feared he was becoming addicted.

Jackson planned to pay Murray $150,000 a month for an extended tour in Europe. In the end, the doctor was never paid a penny because Jackson died before signing the contract.

During the last 24 hours of his life, Jackson sang and danced at a spirited rehearsal, reveling in the adulation of fans who greeted him outside.

Then came a night of horror, chasing sleep the most elusive treasure the millionaire entertainer could not buy.

Testimony showed Murray gave Jackson intravenous doses that night of the sedatives lorazepam and midazolam. Jackson also took a Valium pill. But nothing seemed to bring sleep.

Finally, Murray told police, he gave the singer a small dose of propofol 25 milligrams that seemed to put him to sleep.

The doctor said he felt it was safe to leave his patient’s bedside for a few minutes, but Jackson was not breathing when he returned.

Witnesses said he was most likely dead at that point.

What happened next was a matter of dispute during the trial. Security and household staff described Murray as panicked, never calling 911 but trying to give Jackson CPR on his bed instead of the firm floor.

A guard said Murray was concerned with packing up

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and hiding medicine bottles and IV equipment before telling him to call 911. Prosecutors said Murray was distracted while Jackson was sedated, citing Murray’s cell phone records to show he made numerous calls.

Authorities never accused Murray of intending to kill the star, and it took eight months for them to file the involuntary manslaughter charge against him. It was the lowest possible felony charge involving a homicide.

There was no law against administering propofol or the other sedatives. But prosecution expert witnesses said Murray was acting well below the standard of care required of a physician.

They said using propofol in a home setting without lifesaving equipment on hand was an egregious deviation from that standard. They called it gross negligence, the legal basis for an involuntary manslaughter charge.

Rappers MC Hammer, ‘Boots’ Riley take to mic in Oakland Occupy protest SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hip hop heavyweights known as much for their fiery political lyrics as for their bass-pounding beats have been among the thousands marching, tweeting and sharing dinner with protestors in the Occupy Oakland protests in recent weeks.

MC Hammer, Raymond “Boots” Riley of hip hop group The Coup, and local rapper Mistah FAB have become a regular presence at the encampments, taking up bullhorns and staying until dawn even amid clashes with police.

Now, as the far-flung movement challenging the world’s economic systems and distribution of wealth gains momentum, the artists say despite their fame, they, too, stand for the 99 percent.

“I’m trying to make a soundtrack out there that rallies people around certain ideas about living in this system into motivation,” Riley said. “This movement is only a couple of months old, and if you compare anyone’s favorite social change movement they haven’t accomplished as much as what’s happened already.”

Rappers Talib Kweli, Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco also have visited protesters in New York City’s Zuccotti Park, and other major cities. But Oakland became a rallying point for Oc-

cupy Wall Street demonstrators nationwide after an Iraq War veteran was injured two weeks ago in a tear gas-filled confrontation with riot police.

The working class city’s music has long been fused with movements for social change.

The Black Panthers had their own house soul group named the Lumpens, which performed tunes like “Revolution is the Only Solution”. Tupac Shakur, who spent time in Oakland, rapped about police brutality after being beaten in a confrontation with local officers, and won his suit against the city.

“There is always a big element of politics that unfolds in Oakland’s hip hop scene even if on its surface it seems playful,” said Ali Colleen Neff, a former San Francisco Bay area music critic who studies underground music movements at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “Boots and the others know there is power to be gained from this kind of coalition building across ethnic and cultural lines.”

Riley was born into a family of radical organizers, and came up in East Oakland. At 14, he joined a communist party and worked as an organizer in housing projects and farmworker communities, but decided to start his musical career after seeing the impact of Public Enemy’s an-

them “Fight the Power”.

As the leader of The Coup, a left-leaning rap group that’s been politically active for about two decades, he is accustomed to critiques. Riley’s awardwinning album “Party Music”, was set to be released right after Sept. 11, 2001, with original cover art that depicted him and band mate Pam the Funkstress destroying the Twin Towers, coincidentally shot months before the attacks. The release was delayed while his label prepared new cover art, but not before it was pilloried on conservative talk shows.

Since then, Riley has been named one of the most influential people of the year by Vibe Magazine, written a soundtrack for The Simpsons and formed a new band called the Street Sweeper Social Club with Tom Morello, Rage Against the Ma-

chine’s guitarist who performed before the Manhattan encampment.

Riley said he sees hope in the Occupy Oakland’s autonomous structure, and will take his cues from the movement’s decentralized decision-making bodies.

“No movement has had total unity of thought and action,” he said. “There are people who have a romanticized notion of how things are supposed to work but it’s gotta be rough around the edges because that’s why we’re able to grow.”

After thousands of peaceful protestors rallied and danced in the streets on Wednesday, MC Hammer found himself in the middle of a police standoff before a splinter group clashed with authorities, setting fires, spraying graffiti and shattering windows.

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Mistah FAB, a star in the West Coast hyphy scene, a local hip hop strain, has been bringing his three-year-old daughter to the protests. He said he

was sorry to see that the peaceful shutdown of the Port of Oakland ended in broken shop windows.

“I don’t agree with tearing down your own stuff, in your own city,” said FAB. “Those small business owners work super hard to maintain these things they’ve built.

They’re not the one percent.”

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Students: Take action to increase safety Campus safety is not an issue to be taken lightly in Morgantown. Violence can happen anywhere, and anyone can fall victim to it.

Monday marked the two year anniversary of the vicious attack on former West Virginia University student Ryan Diviney, who has remained in a coma since the incident.

On Nov. 7, 2009, Diviney was beaten in the Willey Street Dairy Mart parking lot by two individuals during an alterca-

tion that was allegedly started because of a debate about the World Series.

Diviney’s attack could have happened to anyone; he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

WVU students must take precautions for safety. Eliminate any aspect that makes you an easy target.

For one, it is not a good idea to travel alone at night.

In the event of an attack, you become an easy target when

there is no one around to call for help. If you must walk the streets alone, make sure to stay in well-lit areas and have a cell phone in case of an emergency.

Think before posting anything online.

Don’t advertise your whereabouts to the public. Posting on Facebook that you and your roommates are out of the apartment for an extended period of time lets possible intruders know that your resi-

dence is vacant.

If you are involved in a confrontation with a stranger on the street, be the better person and walk away.

Fighting will only lead to more problems. Someone may be seriously injured and even arrested.

Be careful consuming alcohol. Your judgment will be impaired, and your decisions may not be the smartest. You may feel invincible, but lifechanging experiences can

happen in the blink of an eye.

Have a plan for the evening. Before you leave your residence, make sure friends know where you will be and a designated driver is available.

If that fails, make sure money is set aside in case you must call a cab.

Have fun while out in Morgantown, but remember that safety should always be a main priority.

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Powers of social media sites are grossly undervalued doug walp columnist

The capabilities of social media are so vast, so endless, that it’s shocking how many people across the world, especially in the U.S., consistently undervalue its worth.

Some may ask, “How can this be?” It seems American society has been all but totally permeated by the two current social media superpowers: Facebook and Twitter.

The two most well-known social networks have infiltrated schools, the workplace and even government institutions in only a few years of existence.

But, in a majority of these instances, social media rarely takes full advantage of its potential as a technology that could forever change our society and many others as we know it.

No, I’m not talking about the ability to upload your family’s vacation photos from the beach on your iPhone. No, I’m not talking about the ability to update your “weekend” status or meet up with a long, lost friend.

These aforementioned “abilities,” which make up the majority of Americans’ social media activity, are not only unessential and insignificant, but they also constantly overshadow social media’s valuable qualities.

One of the meaningful capabilities is to organize protests on an enormous scale.

I must admit, this particular exploitation of social media has actually seen significantly more use in American society since the “Occupy” protests sprung up across the nation. Before that, it was in the nations of Egypt, Libya and Tunisia that facilitated social media as an integral part of their revolutionary protests.

These countries, where Internet access only ranges from 34 percent of the total population in Tunisia to a meager 5 percent in Libya, were able to

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According to The New York Times, 50 percent of all Americans use some form of social media. unify their efforts and communications against their oppressive governments through social media.

While it should also be noted that the media network Al Jazeera also played an extremely vital role in the dissemination of the revolutionary information and communication by integrating social media into their television broadcasts, social media itself was without a doubt one of the underlying sparks of the recent Arab revolution.

However, the most meaningful capability social media users very rarely ever take advantage of is the ability to finally bypass conventional media reporting and news.

In case you were unaware, the global mass media has reached a startling level of convergence – where six firms have established an oligopoly that netted their corporations a combined 275.9 billion dollars in 2009 alone.

This means that nearly every piece of information that you read in the news today was likely disseminated one way or another from one of these six massive corporations, which obviously represents a colossal underlying problem with the system in general.

How can we ever expect to receive unbiased, uninfluenced news when all the major media corporations have an unfathomable amount of

vested interests to consider every time they produce a single piece of news?

I don’t understand why social media hasn’t been used to bypass the conventional media model on a more widespread basis yet.

Yes, blogs have received an inane amount of attention, but I don’t think they have begun to even scratch the surface when referring to providing an actual substitute for the heavily consolidated, national news.

Political affiliations are also becoming increasingly prevalent whenever you’re dealing with any major news corporation – yet another glaring fundamental flaw in our current conventional media structure.

For years during the inception and evolution of the Internet, experts theorized that eventually the collective freedoms of the Internet would ultimately break down these corporations, as droves of uninfluenced, independent media would be available to the masses – likely for little cost.

In reality, the exploitation of the Internet has only helped to strengthen the stronghold major mass media corporations have over the market, as the corporate media entities continue to merge and expand, maintaining their oligopoly.

At the beginning of this year, the federal government allowed the No. 1 provider of video and residential Internet service in

the United States, Comcast, to gain a controlling stake in NBC – now finally merging the content with the distribution corporation and forever convoluting the separation of news and its provider.

I plead with my fellow Americans: your continued subscription to these consolidated media giants only strengthens their control over the flow of information in our society.

You can combat this by supporting social media – not through your ‘wall posts’ or TwitPics – but through embracing an edifice that doesn’t conform to the conventional media structure, instead relying on actual journalistic integrity and the absence of media bias.

The purpose of GEC courses is to broaden horizons david ciarolla columnist

With the advent of spring scheduling, students find themselves organizing – and prioritizing – their new course loads for the upcoming term.

It is often useful to include one or two low-priority, easy classes to motivate higher grades and lower stress.

Entry-level general education curriculum classes normally fill this role, as cookie-cutter 101s and 102s can provide A’s without any intellectual application or development.

WVU points to the purpose of GECs in the direction of learning to interact with different cultures and people in different fields. In the right setting, though, these eclectic exposures serve a far more important and personal purpose.

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How many students ultimately know which subject they want to study on their first guess?

According to Dr. Fritz Grupe of www.MyMajors. com, more than 50 percent of college students will change their major at least once, and many change three or more times.

Students can only change majors upon finding a new field more attractive than their initial choices, which means most undergraduates are unaware of which subject best suits them before some experience that leads to a new interest.

Since coursework likely causes most of these revelations, it makes sense to accommodate your curiosity instead of rushing to complete the first curriculum that a naive freshman version of yourself declared.

Every field has its supporters professing the beauty and fulfilment its intricacies can offer.

Passionate professors of different disciplines would not exist if there were not something brilliant to inspire them, and they would not harp on about American literature or physics to uninspired young students if they could not successfully open others’ eyes to this potential.

Students in unfamiliar classes may not find any value until they see the right material and the right application at the right time in their lives.

The experts are passionate for a reason, and outsiders can only find such passion from approaching new classes with an open mind and at least minimal application.

Of course, not every interest develops so theatrically, and not every GEC class will uncover a fiery new passion.

Often the aim of general electives, and eclectic experiences of any sort, lies in developing one’s perspective.

Non-major classes that do not lead to grand revelations or career changes still teach

students how to appreciate something foreign to them.

Seeing new material in the right setting can teach one how to look at math, writing or organic chemistry in an interesting and fun way instead of a painful, uncomfortable way.

Even classes that offer far less satisfaction for the effort required have a worthwhile role in one’s academic development.

Knowing other options is the only honest way to quiet the wonder and pull off “everything else.”

A particularly distasteful class or only mildly captivating one, faced fully, can reinforce and refine one’s direction. The value of uglier classes lies not in the boring curricula but in the permanent gift of knowing oneself.

Those who do not “get” literature surely must not see what those with great passion for poetry see. The vogue anti-mathematics crowd surely never found the fun,

self-directed tool mathematics can be.

Often only a bad teacher or failure early in life causes people to close entire subjects from their consideration.

Never should the attitude with which one enters college remain static and unilateral in deciding one’s future, for higher learning uncovers perspectives one never experienced before.

Since the GEC requirements demand minimal and in no way overwhelming introductions to each of its eight disciplines, students should apply themselves for this terribly brief encounter even without foresight – especially without foresight – to see how each subject can enchant their minds.

While GECs could offer much-sought relief from rigorous, monotonous major electives, undergraduates should actively explore these ‘easy’ classes to open unfamiliar windows to the world.

Undergraduates should

find other relief classes, though, because the value of rushing through a major is not worth the cost of glossing over the entire spectrum of undeveloped interests.

An interesting GEC elective may reveal a future more satisfying and inspiring than one’s original plan.

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THE WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FREETHINKING, INQUIRING, SECULAR HUMANISTS meet from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Rhododendron Room of the Mountainlair. For more information, email wvu.darwin. fish@gmail.com.

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 9

THE WVU STUDENT CHAPTER OF THE WILDLIFE SOCIETY will have a meeting at 6 p.m. in 308 Percival Hall.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10

THE MOUNTAINEER HOT WHEELS CLUB meets on the second Thursday of every month at 7 p.m. at the Fairmont, W.Va., Moose Lodge. For more information, call 304-3633777 or email mountaineerhwc@hotmail.com.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11

AQUACULTURE PRODUCT AND MARKETING DEVELOPMENT PROJECT investigators will give brief presentations on their progress at the annual project meeting. The meeting takes place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Room 101A of the National Research Center for Coal and Energy. For more information, call 304-293-2657 or email ken. semmens@mail.wvu.edu.

GLOBAL INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP hosts “So You Think You Can Act?” a night of impromptu skits, food and prizes. All are welcome to participate. The event will be held at the International House at 7:30 p.m.

EVERY TUESDAY

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

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

For more information, call 304-5996151 or visit www.mountaineersforchrist.org.

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

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

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

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

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

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vices Building.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CONFIDENTIAL COUNSELING SERVICES are provided for free by the Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatric Services. A 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 five years of age.

This is an opportunity to earn volunteer hours for class requirements. For more information, call 304-598-5180 or 304-598-5185.

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

ROSENBAUM FAMILY HOUSE, which provides a place for adult patients and their families to stay while receiving medical care at WVU, is looking for service organizations

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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 is held in the Monongalia room of the Mountainlair from 11 a.m. to noon every Tuesday.

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

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

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

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

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

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

COMMUNITY NEWCOMERS CLUB is a group organized to allow new residents of the Morgantown area an opportunity to gather socially and assimilate into their new home community. For more information, visit morgantownnewcomers.com.

NEW GROUP THERAPY OPPORTUNITIES are available for free at the WELLWVU: Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatric Services. The groups include Get More Out of Life, Understanding Self and Others, Insomnia Group, A Place for You, Sexual Assault Survivors Group, Adult Children of Dysfunctional Parents and Transfer Students: Get Started on the Right Foot. For more information call 304-293-4431 or email tandy.mcclung@mail.wvu.edu.

HOROSCOPES

BY JACQUELINE BIGAR BORN TODAY This year you have many ideas and a little too much to follow through on. Frustration and/or confusion could be the natural outcome. Focus on the quality of your life. If you are single, someone you meet this year is unlikely to be a long-term bond. If you are attached, the two of you often see life goals and the path to get there differently. Don’t view each other as wrong; simply accept the other person and his or her views. Your relationship will become easier. TAURUS can be challenging.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH You spark like lightning. If someone is on your bad side, he or she might wish to be otherwise. An assumption you make could be totally off base. You have a lot of fire and get-up-and-go. Tap into your creativity when facing a snafu. Tonight: Don’t go until the wee hours.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHH You might feel slightly out of sorts as you try to come to a conclusion. Give yourself time; don’t pressure yourself. You will see the right path, though it could be much later, or tomorrow. Tonight: Read between the lines.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHHH A friend points to the right path, though there is a defiant side to you that doesn’t want to go along. Of course, ultimately, it is your call, and no one else’s. You will experience the ramifications either way, too. Tonight: Play until you are too tired.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHH Accept your role right now, even if you aren’t comfortable. We all would like more control -- you are no exception.

Right now you really have tremendous sway and impact. First you need to know what you want, OK? Tonight: Until the wee hours.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Look to positive changes and opportunities.

Someone in your immediate environment could be a bit sour. Go forward and avoid this person for now. Mobilize your energy positively. Others feel inspired by you, making anything possible. Tonight: Make it early.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH A key partner pushes you very hard. You might not always feel like you have your finances handled. Stay open to suggestions. A partner could test your limits. Be careful with anger and projecting it. Tonight: Let your imagination kick in.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH You could be sour and coloring a situation far more negatively than need be. One-onone relating could be tense. Toss yourself into something you might enjoy doing more. Tonight: Go along with another’s ideas. You will like the outcome.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHH You have a lot to get done, but you will get it done. Simply focus on one project after another. Do yourself a favor and try not to isolate yourself or spend too much time alone. You could be a very sorry camper otherwise. Tonight: The later it gets, the better it is.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHH Focus on getting the job done, whatever that looks like. Push comes to shove with a friend or loved one. You might wonder why you are doing what you are doing.

Stay centered knowing full well when enough is enough. Feelings run to extremes when dealing with others. Tonight: At home.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH If you can work from home, by all means, do. A boss or higher-up could be close to impossible. Why would you subject yourself to that treatment? A communication is vague. The other party might not be as sure as he or she would like to be. Tonight: Yipping up a storm.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH You might find it a little difficult to get someone to talk who has no intention of spilling the beans. Try as you might, you get nowhere very fast. Frustration builds to unprecedented levels. You might feel unusually inspired and pick up on what is going on. Confirm, please. Tonight: Visit on the way home.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHH Discord easily could continue if the topic is finances. Someone has a vested interest in your thoughts and ideas. Realize what is happening behind the scenes. Know what you need to occur. Understanding evolves once you put yourself in another person’s place. Tonight: Catch up on calls.

BORN TODAY Astronomer Edmund Halley (1656), actor Joe Flynn (1924), novelist Bram Stoker (1847)

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Under cover: Karmin plays Met Cover band duo brings YouTube music to Motown

by Caitlin Graziani A&E Correspondent

YouTube phenomenon Karmin performed at The Metropolitan Theate in downtown Morgantown Monday night.

Karmin began their performance with a cover of Nicki Minaj’s “Super Bass.” Amy Heidemann was dressed in a retro-style green blouse and wore her signature hairstyle, “the suicide roll.”

Nick Noonan, who makes up half of Karmin, played the keyboard, bouncing along with the music.

The crowd took out smart phones and cameras to record the experience.

Heidemann apologized to the crowd for being late; they had been stuck in Dulles International Airport in Wash-

ington, D.C., for six hours. She joked that they stopped to get sushi in the airport before driving to Morgantown.

Heidemann said that a man approached her saying that he had watched her “Look At Me Now” video, and she said that he thought she didn’t eat sushi.

Making a joke about the lyrics to ‘Look At Me Now’ which say “I don’t like sushi.”

Heidemann and Noonan discussed how they haven’t met Lil’ Wayne yet, but they had met Kayne West.

“We Love Wayne. We still haven’t met him yet, that’s gotta happen. I want to touch his hair,” Heidemann said.

The crowd laughed and Karmin began to perform their second song, covering Bruno Mars’ “Grenade.”

During a previous interview, Heidemann answered a question saying that she could really go for a swag sandwich.

That interview has led them to negotiations with Subway to have a “Swag Sandwich” on the menu.

“I really like Subway. Maybe

Nick Noonan of Karmin performs at the Met in Morgantown Monday night.

its because I’m from Maine and there wasn’t anything good to eat there,” Noonan said.

Heidemann encouraged the crowd to tweet “hanging out with Karmin, #WVUSWAG.” Heidemann said they like to take over Twitter when they do performances.

“When I found out she could rap, I was kind of like, oh s---,” Noonan said.

Karmin concluded their performance with their original song “Crash Your Party.”

“They’re like Evanescence meets Nicki Minaj,” said Ryan Cherry, industrial engineering student at West Virginia University.

Karmin, meaning “song” in Latin, was formed in Boston, where Heidemann and Noonan met at the Berklee College of Music. They began writing songs together to fulfill assignments and eventually named themselves “Karmin.”

Visit Karmin’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/ karmincovers. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Members of Karmin perform at the Met Monday night.

Amy Heidemenn and Nick Noonan of Karmin perform at the Met Monday night.

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The Golden Finch hosts autumn harvest-themed supper club

by Caitlin Graziani a&E Correspondent

The sound of fiddles and West Virginia’s fine food filled up the atmosphere at The Golden Finch in downtown Morgantown, Saturday evening.

The Golden Finch hosted its third supper club dinner with a West Virginia autumn harvest theme.

The Fall Harvest is the third dinner The Golden Finch has offered in their supper club.

The restaurant offers a supper club dinner every six or seven weeks.

The first dinner theme was a tribute to Julia Child. The

second dinner was a tribute to Oktoberfest; the food was German, and German beers were also featured.

The dinner featured state specialties such as West Virginia-grown meat, vegetables and fruit, paired with West Virginian beer, wine and homemade apple cider. Throughout the dinner, guests enjoyed the sweet sounds of the Moonshine Monsters.

The first course of the evening consisted of a smoked trout from the West Virginia University Aquatic Farm with apple slaw. Served with the trout, Almost Heaven Amber Ale from Mountain State Brewing Company of Lewisburg,

W.Va., was featured.

“Mountain State sold their first beer in 2005. They began with a home brewing kit, as most microbreweries do,” said Michael Diethorn, a wine connoisseur.

Diethorn educated the guests on the complexities of the beverages served.

Before the second course, a sweet Catawba wine from Lambert Winery in Weston, W.Va., was served.

“The Catawba wine is best described as an American riesling; the grape has a pink skin and is a relative of the Lambrusco grape,” Diethorn said.

To pair with the Catawba wine, a roasted pumpkin salad

over arugula with a tangy vinaigrette to offset the sweetness of the pumpkin. The salad also contained rum-soaked cranberries, chevre cheese with herbs, pumpkin seeds and cherry tomatoes.

The third course was a home smoked beef brisket, rabbit dijon, potatoes au gratin and asparagus. A red wine from Vu Je De Winery in Spencer, W.Va., with smokey notes of dark cherry and oak was served with the third course.

Vu Je De winery is an organically friendly and biodiverse winery. Their property grows five French hybrid grape vines.

For dessert, a warm apple cobbler was served with

homemade apple cider. Black Jewel Port was served with this course.

Forks of Cheat Winery is located in Morgantown, W.Va. Many of their wines can be found in local grocery stores throughout Morgantown.

The dinner ended with owner Tasia Thompson leading a chant in hopes of enticing chef Thompson to come out of the kitchen so the guests may give him a round of applause for the meal he prepared.

“This is our third event in three months. I thank all of you for attending. I love celebrating West Virginia night,” Thompson said.

Thompson recently got ap-

proval from Main Street Morgantown to start a restaurant association for downtown Morgantown. She is hoping to have events such as a top chef competition and server competitions involving restaurants in downtown Morgantown. They hope to start the association next summer.

In the meantime, The Golden Finch offers cuisine prepared with exquisite tastes in mind, at a reasonable price.

You can visit at 330 High St. For more information on The Golden Finch, you can visit its Facebook page and their Twitter for regular updates. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Tuesday November 8, 2011

SNUBBED

ben gaughan associate sports editor

WVU lacks ‘X’ factor When West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen was hired last winter, everyone raised expectations for the program tremendously.

Fans were expecting a 10-2 or even an undefeated season by the Mountaineers – and nothing less.

Well, that isn’t happening, as West Virginia lost its third game of the season to Louisville Saturday and now stands at 6-3, with two of its last three games on the road against what are probably the three best teams left in the Big East.

It’s pretty difficult to come into any big program and expect to finish so strong in the first year, especially in the grueling Big East. Holgorsen is definitely one of the best offensive minds in college football, but he can only do so much.

The players have to play the game. Right now, they’re not doing things that make this team a 10-win or more team. The Mountaineers are making too many mistakes on all three sides of the ball and it’s costing them games they probably shouldn’t lose.

The offense can put up any type of numbers it wants, and it is. WVU averages 487.8 yards and 38.2 points per game – first and second in the Big East conference, respectively.

The Mountaineers totaled 533 yards of offense against LSU, who has one of the top defenses in the country, and have had less than 500 yards of offense in just four games this season. They have had no 300-yard games and just one game under 300 – the first game against Marshall, which ended early.

The offense is also breaking all kinds of records this year. Junior quarterback Geno Smith could shatter the school history books by the time his career is over.

But, that doesn’t always translate into wins when the team has trouble finding an identity in certain situations and fails to make the right plays at the right times.

In case you forgot, it is still the offense’s first season under Holgorsen’s new system.

Mountaineer fans expected it to be flawless, although Holgorsen himself made it pretty clear from the beginning there were gong to be some bumps in the road along the way. The young players are still learning and continuing to improve during every game.

What’s hurting WVU is that it doesn’t seem to have the grit and unconditional intelligence to go through a season without losing a game like LSU or the Cam Newton-led Auburn team from last year.

It seems like it’s been that way for quite some time – even under former coaches Bill Stewart and Rich Rodriguez.

The 13-9 loss to Pitt in 2007 or the 19-16 overtime loss to Colorado in 2008 are prime examples of instances where the better WVU team lost a game it was more than capable of winning.

Several players talked about not doing the “little things” to win during the Louisville game – things such as being able to stop a thirdand-one play, being in the right position to stop the Cardinals from scoring on every single red zone possession, or getting a field goal blocked and returned for a touchdown.

There’s been that cloud hanging over this team for years now that’s keeping them from being a championshipcaliber team.

Maybe the change to the Big 12 will help Holgorsen bring in even better recruits to compete with the likes of Texas and Oklahoma. It is indeed a new era under the new head coach, and he has just begun.

Maybe the team will figure themselves out and have the capabilities to win the rest of the games this season.

It just doesn’t seem likely, though. To have a quick turnaround with the way the team has been playing over

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Members of the West Virginia women’s soccer team look on during the NCAA selection show Monday night. WVU will face Virginia Tech in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

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Unseeded West Virginia to take on Virginia Tech in first round of NCAA tournament by alex sims sports writer

Just 24 hours after winning the Big East Conference title, the West Virginia women’s soccer team was snubbed by the NCAA selection committee.

The Big East Champion Mountaineers were not granted one of the 16 top seeds in this year’s tournament and will play host to Virginia Tech at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium Saturday, Nov. 12 at 6 p.m. in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

“I think my first emotion is disappointment in the NCAA committee,” said West Virginia

head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown.

“We were hoping that we would be rewarded for all of our hard work. It’s frustrating, but we’ll play anybody, anytime, any day, and that’s what we’re going to have to do.”

A live feed from the NCAA was playing for the Mountaineers in the Jerry West Lounge of the Coliseum Monday evening, and when their regional matchup appeared, only a couple of the stunned players verbally griped about the unfavorable seeding.

Then the near-silence was broken by Izzo-Brown, who let out a facetious yell of approval of WVU’s placing.

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Her team followed, erupting in sarcastic cheers of their own.

“Obviously it’s not the path we were expecting, but that happens,” said senior defender Meghan Lewis. “People look at us and don’t give us as much respect as I think we deserve. But we can use that as motivation to fight and show them who we really are.”

Last season, WVU was the third seed and advanced to the Sweet 16 before falling to No. 2 Boston College.

Of the 64-team field, only 16 teams (the top four in each region) are awarded a seeding.

WVU will be one of only four teams to represent the Big East

along with Louisville, Notre Dame and Marquette.

The road will not be easy for WVU, as top programs like VT, Virginia and Texas A&M make for a crowded region.

“You’re in the NCAA tournament. The best teams are here now,” Izzo-Brown said and later reiterated to her players. “So if we have to do it early, we’ll do it early.”

This year’s tournament berth will mark the 12th consecutive appearance for WVU, which is the ninth-longest active streak in the nation.

Last year’s NCAA first-round match against Morehead State drew 1,688 fans, the second-

largest crowd in WVU women’s soccer history.

West Virginia will enter the tournament on an eight-game win streak and has won 15 of its last 16 games.

The first round of the tournament will begin on Nov. 11, and matches through the first three rounds will take place at campus sites.

The Final Four will commence Dec. 2 in Kennesaw, Ga. Finally, the 2011 NCAA women’s soccer season will conclude on the campus of Kennesaw State with the Dec. 4 national championship match. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Holgorsen working WVU to wait for fate after loss to on special teams St. John’s in Big East tournament by cody schuler sports writer

West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen will continue to address various shortcomings on special teams this week as the Mountaineers prepare for Saturday’s road game against Cincinnati.

“We did well with those units yesterday, and in football, after every game, there’s going to be different problem. That’s just the way it is in every football game that exists,” he said.

“You try to get better at them, and you wind up (for) the next week and do your best to win the game. It’s aggravating that it’s a combination of stuff.”

Coaching-wise, we’ll take the blame for half of it, and playing-wise, they have to take the blame for half of it as well,” he said.

In both the kicking and punting games, the Mountaineers suffered severe setbacks that would ultimately lead to the team’s demise. With performances from the Louisville game in mind, Holgorsen revealed the starting punting spot is once again up for grabs.

“We would have went with (redshirt junior) Corey (Smith) on the next one,” he said.

“I’ve told those guys all year long that they’re going to be held accountable for what they do, so we would have went with (Smith) the next time. We didn’t punt again, so at this point we’ll see how practice goes this week.”

The blocked field goal attempt at the beginning of the fourth quarter resulted in a ten-point swing from which West Virginia couldn’t fully recover.

Holgorsen reasoned that the block wasn’t as much a mistake from the kicking team as the byproduct of a great play from the Louisville defense. “(Louisville freshman defensive back Andrew Johnson) played with tremendous effort – he cornered, jumped, got it, took one bounce and landed in the lap of the other guy,” he said.

“Operation time was probably a little slow and then our right wing probably could have gotten a better punch, but that stuff happens fast. I give their kid credit for making that play. We had opportunities to make that same play, and we didn’t.”

The West Virginia defense was unable to come up with big plays when it needed to – something Holgorsen thinks his team can do if it improves in a couple of key areas.

“Getting turnovers on defense, getting off the field on third downs on defense, red zone defense, not giving up touchdowns (and) trying to hold them to field goals,” he said.

Holgorsen and his staff will address the team’s effort and energy this week as it prepares for Cincinnati.

It was apparent on Saturday that Louisville had more energy both on the sidelines and the field, and Holgorsen knows Cincinnati will come out in a similar fashion for this week’s game.

“We talked about it all week, but we didn’t have any energy – our sidelines were dead, and there wasn’t a whole lot of excitement when things did happen for us,” he said. “So it’s a

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Junior goalkeeper Pat Eavenson makes a save in the Mountaineers 2-0 loss to St. John’s in the Big East quarterfinals Sunday.

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Dominant performances kick off season for WVU by ethan rohrbaugh sports writer

The West Virginia wrestling team opened its 2011-12 campaign with a pair of dominant performances at the University of Maryland Duals Sunday in College Park, Md. The Mountaineers won every match they competed in and cruised to 48-0 and 41-0 victories over Johns Hopkins and Franklin & Marshall, respectively.

Head coach Craig Turnbull was happy for the Mountaineers to get back into competitive form.

With three key grapplers returning to the starting lineup after a year of rehab, Turnbull stressed getting his group back and building confidence was a positive sign for a squad that has goals of winning a conference crown.

“Overall, it was just good for us to get started,” Turnbull said.

Redshirt junior Lance Bryson returned to the mat for the first time since the 2009-10 season.

The 174-pounder missed the

last two seasons recovering from multiple shoulder surgeries and showed a lot of intensity in his first matches back in the lineup.

Bryson took down Evan Johnson by major decision in his first pairing and claimed a 5-0 decision over Colin Lahiff in his second.

Redshirt senior heavyweight Brandon Williamson made his return from knee surgery and showed good energy in two matches, winning the first on a 12-0 decision and the second by technical foul.

According to Turnbull, both looked good in their return to competition and looked to be building confidence as their matches went on.

Redshirt junior Colin Johnston, who sat out last season after having shoulder surgery, pinned Johns Hopkins’ Ray Yagloski in four minutes to win his first match since having the operation.

Johnston, unlike Bryson or Williamson, was healthy enough last season to continue working out with the team. Now 22-4 in his career wrestling at

133 pounds, the Eighty Four, Pa., native feels he has improved in every aspect of his game.

True freshman Dominic Prezzia made his debut in gold and blue. He didn’t disappoint, pinning his first collegiate opponent in just 3:03.

The St. Clairsville, Ohio, native won his second match of the day in an 8-4 decision.

“Dominic wrestled with confidence, and he executed very well,” Turnbull said. “He showed a lot that we can build on.”

WVU showed a lot they can build on, but the team doesn’t expect to be in mid-season form after the first week of competition, according to Turnbull.

“There are plenty of things that need improvement,” Turnbull said. “But the effort was good, the energy was good, and we’re happy with the outcome.”

The Mountaineers go back on the road this weekend, as the team travels to Washington, Pa., for the Washington & Jefferson Tournament. ethan.rohrbaugh@mail.wvu.edu

rowing

Mountaineers earn silver medal in first meet of season by amit batra sports writer

The West Virginia novice rowing team headed to Fairfax Station, Va., to compete in the Head of the Occoquan Regatta this past weekend. The competition was the first of the season for the novice team.

The squad earned a silver medal in the women’s novice 4+ event. The novice 4+ “A” crew of Brianna Dendler, Rachel Cokeley, Sarah Hansard, Enya Messersmith and Alexandra Basil finished in 22.00.85 behind Delaware who finished at 21:35:46.

The “B” crew, consisting of Elizabeth Duarte, Bethany Sapen, Virginia Cunningham, Bethany Shaw and Ashley Rumor finished in seventh out of the 20 crews, finishing at 23:42:68.

Associate head coach Tina Griffith was satisfied with the experience for the first time rowers.

“It was a productive day,” Griffith said. “We got a lot of good experience and look forward to going out on the water this week with a more concrete view of our goals and capabilities.”

In the women’s novice eight

competition, West Virginia’s “A” team finished in sixth at 20:40:84, while the “B” team finished in 18th with a time of 23:53:22.

With the solid silver medal finish for the 4+ event, the West Virginia novice rowing team will continue to build on this good result for future competitions.

The Mountaineers return to the water on Saturday, as they head to Philadelphia to compete in the Philadelphia Frostbite Regatta held at the Cooper River. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU steals weekend spotlight

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Junior defender Bry McCarthy was named the Big East tournament’s most outstanding defender.

by robert kreis sports writer

It was a weekend most Mountaineer fans would consider disappointing: The men’s basketball team lost in a scrimmage to Northern Kentucky, and the football team followed suit on Saturday afternoon against Louisville.

However, the women’s soccer team’s win in the Big East Conference championship game salvaged the weekend for Mountaineer nation.

“There is no question about it that when our young ladies put on their jersey that has WVU on it, they always play for this University and this state,” said West Virginia head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown.

“If we brought a little happiness and a little pleasure this weekend, then that makes me happy.”

West Virginia won this year’s Big East title the same way it has been winning all season – using stifling defense and an offensive attack that can literally score from anywhere on the field.

Fourteen different Mountaineers have scored a goal this year, including every starter. Senior forward Blake Miller, who was named the Big East tournament’s Most Outstanding Offensive Player, led

the potent West Virginia scoring attack all season and continued her stellar play into the Big East Tournament.

Miller scored a goal in all three of the Mountaineers Big East Tournament victories, along with registering a point in West Virginia’s previous eight games.

For how assertive the Mountaineer attack is, it may not even be the team’s strongest virtue. All season the Mountaineer back line has swarmed opponent’s ball handlers en route to recording 10 shutouts this season.

Junior defender Bry McCarthy, the lone underclassman of the Mountaineer defense, was named the Big East Tournament’s most outstanding defender. McCarthy assisted Frances Silva’s 49th minute goal in the championship game, along with playing on a defense that allowed the Mountaineers to outscore their opponents 7-1 in the conference tournament.

The biggest asset, as well as the biggest surprise to the Mountaineer defense has been the play of redshirt freshman goalkeeper Sara Keane.

Keane injured her knee coming out of high school and received a medical redshirt her first year on campus.

Last year Keane was red-

shirted again, causing her to have to wait another year before she would get any playing time. It may have taken her two years, but when Keane finally got her time to shine, she took full advantage of it. “(Winning the Big East) is very exciting,” Keane said.

“Just seeing how excited everyone who got to play last year was after winning at Rutgers, (winning the Big East) was something I wanted to help my team do.”

On top of winning the Big East Championship, the Mountaineers put themselves in great position heading into NCAA tournament, set to begin next weekend.

With the victory the Mountaineers are awarded a home game for the opening round of the NCAA tournament. Not only does that mean a visiting team has to come into Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium, where the Mountaineers have not lost since Sept. 1, it also allows the West Virginia faithful to root on the back-to-back Big East champions one more time.

“For us to continue (playing) at Dick Dlesk and have the opportunity to play in front of our fans on that field is unbelievable,” Izzo-Brown said. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

Mississippi head coach Nutt to step down at end of season OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — After more than a year without a Southeastern Conference victory, Mississippi coach Houston Nutt will resign.

The fourth-year Rebels’ coach will lead the team for the remainder of the season, athletic director Pete Boone said at a press conference Monday. Boone also announced that he will step down as athletic director by the end of 2012.

The Rebels have lost 12 consecutive Southeastern Conference games, including Saturday’s 3013 loss to Kentucky. Mississippi is 2-7 this year, including 0-6 in the SEC. Nutt is 24-23 in his four years

in Oxford.

With his coaching staff lining the side of the team’s meeting room, Nutt said he wasn’t surprised by the decision.

“The thing about the SEC that I know,” said Nutt, 54. “They pay you to win.”

He is making approximately $2.7 million this season. Boone said the coach has a $6 million buyout clause in his contract. If no one on Nutt’s staff is retained by the next coach, the total buyout will be about $8 million.

“I’m grateful to coach Nutt for his commitment to our university and his commitment to our football pro-

gram,” Ole Miss Chancellor Dr. Dan Jones said. “I know we’re all disappointed in the lack of success over the last two years.”

Boone said he didn’t make an emotional decision about Nutt’s future, but instead weighed the total decline of the program during the past two seasons, which have produced a combined 6-15 record.

“Our goal is to compete for championships,” Boone said. “And we are not making progress in that regard.”

Ole Miss will play Louisiana Tech on Saturday at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium before ending the season with two conference games against LSU and Mississippi State

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Nutt’s stunning fall was hard to fathom just two years ago. The veteran coach came to Oxford after a 10-year tenure at Arkansas and immediately led Ole Miss to an 18-8 record over his first two seasons, including back-to-back Cotton Bowl victories over Texas Tech and Oklahoma State.

It was the Rebels’ best back-toback seasons in nearly 40 years.

But those victories came with recruits brought to Ole Miss by former coach Ed Orgeron, who was widely seen as a terrific recruiter but terrible game-day coach. Once the roster started filling with Nutt’s recruits, ap the talent level dropped noticeably. Ole Miss head coach Houston Nutt will resign after the 2011 season comes to and end.

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the last few weeks makes me feel uneasy.

Maybe it’s just me being from one of two cities with at least two professional sports franchises that have never won any championships – but it’s clear that until the team learns and grows from these situations, it’s going to take time and some change to get to the level on which everyone believes it can be.

renewed energy in the team and renewed explosiveness,” LeBlanc said. “If we had finished the game the way we started, I would probably be less disappointed. The only time we really play is when our back is against the wall, and that’s the most disappointing thing about tonight.”

It has been an unfortunate trend that has shown not only in a few of WVU’s losses, but in the scope of the entire season as well.

“We’re not learning; we take two steps forward and one step backward,” LeBlanc said. “We have a bunch

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of guys who really want to win but don’t understand that they have to actually do more than want to win; they actually have to put in a lot of effort.”

West Virginia, usually a team that thrives on ball control, lacked in that area early in the game, which contributed heavily to the loss.

St. John’s did not do anything WVU was not prepared for, but it was the lack of energy and execution that spelled the end for the Mountaineers, who were out-hustled and beaten in transition throughout most of the night.

“We got out worked – and that’s the part that bothers me,” LeBlanc said. “It’s all stuff that we knew about.

We talked about our midfield transition being very, very important, and we got out-worked in the midfield, there’s no doubt about it.”

All is not yet lost for the Mountaineers, who stood at No. 18 in the RPI before Sunday. They will need to take this exasperating loss in stride and look forward to the NCAA tournament.

“It’s just a lesson that we need to learn – that we can’t take 70 minutes off like we did tonight and expect to win,” Schoenle said. “We have to regroup, and hopefully we make the NCAA tournament, and then we’ll have new life.”

losing.”

Holgorsen will look to both his coaching staff and to his more experienced players as a means of creating more energy and effort within the team.

“You talk about it and get a whole bunch of players and seniors working toward one goal – and right now, that just doesn’t exist,” he said.

One of those leaders, redshirt senior Brad Starks, was injured against Louisville and will miss the next three games

according to Holgorsen.

Starks, who returns kicks and has four receiving touchdowns this season, is a player Holgorsen thinks will be sorely missed.

“Whoever we put back there is probably not going to be as talented as him and might not be able to do the things he’s been able to the last few weeks, but we have to put someone back there,” he said.

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Junior kicker Tyler Bitancurt missed a field goal and had another blocked during West Virginia’s loss to Louisville.

Special teams mistakes stand out in loss to Louisville by nick arthur sports writer

Special teams are often overlooked when they perform well, but they stand out significantly when they perform poorly.

That was the case Saturday at Milan Puskar Stadium when Louisville upset West Virginia 38-35.

West Virginia first-year head coach Dana Holgorsen summed it up simply.

“We couldn’t punt, couldn’t

kick, and we just lost the battle,” he said.

The special team woes began late in the first quarter when a Michael Molinari punt only traveled 12 yards. Molinari’s ensuing punt only traveled 11 yards.

“We would have went with Corey on the next one,” Holgorsen said. “I’ve told those guys all year long that they’re going to be held accountable for what they do, so we would have went with Corey the next

time.”

The special team problems continued in the second half.

West Virginia was in great position to take the lead following an interception by linebacker Najee Goode, but kicker Tyler Bitancurt missed a 32-yard field goal attempt.

Bitancurt had another opportunity in the fourth quarter to tie the game. However, Louisville blocked the field goal and returned it for a touchdown. The blocked field goal

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proved to be the turning point.

“It was more of them making a play than anything. The kid played with tremendous effort – he cornered, jumped, got it, took one bounce and landed in the lap of the other guy,” Holgorsen said.

Despite the glaring mistakes by two facets of special teams, Holgorsen admits other areas of the special teams played well on Saturday.

“We were incredibly competitive in two areas of special

teams and incredibly not competitive in two areas of special teams,” Holgorsen said.

“Kickoff returns and kickoff teams have been problems at times,” he said. “We did well with those units yesterday, and in football, after every game there’s going to be different problem. That’s just the way it is in every football game that exists.”

The loss to the Cardinals on Saturday has put the Mountaineers two games back from

Cincinnati in the Big East Conference standings. If West Virginia wants to get back on track, it must first fix the problems on the special teams. Holgorsen knows this and takes some responsibility.

“It’s aggravating that it’s a combination of stuff. Coaching-wise, we’ll take the blame for half of it, and playing-wise, they have to take the blame for half of it as well,” he said. nicholas.arthur@mail.wvu.edu

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Mountaineers take one of Geno Smith named Big East two matches over weekend Offensive Player of the Week by sebouh majarian

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The West Virginia volleyball team’s Big East Conference tournament dreams continue to diminish with only two games left in the season.

Last year Connecticut (1413, 4-8) ended the Mountaineers’ (7-17, 5-8) bid to make the conference tournament in a tight five-set win. WVU was burned by UConn again this year during a 3-1 (23-25, 25-16, 17-25, 18-25) defeat in Storrs, Conn.

West Virginia would win the second game of the weekend, sweeping sets over St. John’s (10-19, 1-11) 25-19, 25-18, 2516. The win was the first win away from the WVU Coliseum for the team this season.

Second-year head coach Jill Kramer likes the improvements the team has made over the course of the year, but she has slim hopes of extending the season.

“I don’t know that the cards will fall our way necessarily, but we needed to take care of business on our end this weekend and we knew that,” she said.

In what could have been the final meeting against the Huskies, the Mountaineers struggled offensively despite Kari Post’s 40 assist and 12 dig double-double. WVU finished with a hitting percentage of .157 for the game, while hitting .079 in the third set and .054 in the fourth.

“With respect to the girls I’ve coached, she is one of the best defensive setters I’ve ever coached,” Kramer said. “She’s relentless and gives a ton of effort, and that paid off for her with a double-double.”

West Virginia recorded more kills and digs than Connecticut, with a 50 to 48 advantage in kills and an 85 to 76 margin in digs.

Senior Kylie Armbruster also recorded a double-double with 14 kills and 13 digs.

Michelle Kopecky chipped in with 13 kills, and Anke de Jong added a game-high 15.

The Huskies’ combo of Devon Maugle and Jordan

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West Virginia junior quarterback Geno Smith earned Big East Offensive Player of the Week for his strong performance in the Mountaineers’ 38-35 loss to Louisville Saturday.

Smith completed 31 of 44 passes for 410 yards and three touchdowns. It was the third time this season Smith threw for more than 400 yards passing in a game.

The junior quarterback has now thrown a touchdown in 12 straight games for the Mountaineers. He leads the Big East and is seventh in the nation in passing yards, averaging 347.2 yards per game.

Smith has 6,197 passing yards for his career and moved into No. 2 on the all-time passing

yards list in school history.

Smith has thrown for 3,125 yards and 23 touchdowns on the season.

Rutgers linebacker Khaseem Greene was named the league’s Defensive Player of the Week for his performance in the Scarlet Knights’ 2017 overtime win over South Florida.

Greene made a career-high 17 tackles, the most by any Big East player this season. He leads the conference with 92 tackles this season.

Jones named to Naismith Watch List West Virginia men’s basketball senior forward Kevin Jones has been named to the 2011-12 Naismith preseason watch list. Jones is one of two seniors, along with guard Truck Bryant, on this year’s

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Jones averaged 13.1 points and led the team with 7.5 rebounds per game last season.

He started all 33 games and averaged 34.9 minutes.

Jones ranks second all-time in school history with 309 offensive rebounds and is 29th in school history with 1,165 points.

There were seven freshmen on the list, including Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Marquis Teague (Kentucky); Brad Beal (Florida); Andre Drummond (Connecticut); Quincy Miller (Baylor); and Austin Rivers (Duke).

North Carolina and Kentucky each have four players on the list, while UConn, Vanderbilt and Ohio State have three. ben.gaughan@mail.wvu.edu

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Senior Abby Monson and the West Virginia volleyball team beat St. John’s in three sets but fell to Connecticut this weekend.

Kirk led the charge. Maugle led the team with 14 kills and added seven digs, while Kirk scored 12 kills on a blistering .458 clip. “(Kirk) did awesome. We knew she was going to be a major player for them, and we had a certain way we wanted to defend her,” Kramer said.

“She just found ways to get it done.”

The Mountaineers struggled from the service line, recording 11 service errors in the game.

“Our serving game really needed to be better against them, and that’s typically a great part of our game,” Kramer said. “We didn’t serve and pass that well, and that’s really key for us.”

Kramer was disappointed with the team’s effort in the final set against the Huskies.

“We didn’t make them earn a whole lot in the beginning, and we dug ourselves a bit of a hole,” she said.

The Mountaineers rebounded against St. John’s,

sweeping the Red Storm in its first win away from the WVU Coliseum.

The Mountaineers got off to a slow start against the Storm, allowing them to take a 6-1 lead before Kramer called for time with choice words for her team.

“I really had to have some words with them about what we need to get out of this weekend and that we have to fight,” Kramer said. “We needed a little bit of a wake-up call, and then they got it going.”

West Virginia was led offensively by the pair of Kopecky and de Jong. Kopecky had 12 kills while de Jong, a junior transfer from the Netherlands, added 11 kills.

The last win the Mountaineers had on the road came on Oct. 3 last year with a 3-0 win over Rutgers.

The team will play its final home game of the season with senior night against South Florida next Saturday. sebouh.majarian@mail.wvu.edu

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