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Student receives honor from Glamour by lydia nuzum

associate city editor

When West Virginia University student Katherine Bomkamp developed the “PainFree Socket” as a science project in high school, she had no idea the doors her invention would open.

Now, Bomkamp, a sophomore political science student, has been named one of Glamour Magazine’s “21 Amazing Young Women,” and traveled to New York, N.Y. Monday to

be recognized in an event held

by Glamour in Carnegie Hall.

“It was absolutely fantastic, and it was very inspiring to meet and see other talented young women who earned this honor, too,” Bomkamp said.

Bomkamp was approached by the magazine in May, and in October she learned she would be considered for the honor.

Bomkamp was honored for her invention, the “Pain-Free Socket,” which she developed as a science project while in

high school.

The invention is a prosthetic addition for amputees suffering from phantom limb pain – pain felt in a limb which no longer exists.

The device, which utilizes thermal biofeedback, treats pain by releasing very controlled levels of heat to the amputated limb.

Bomkamp said she was inspired to create the device by her visits to Walter Reed Army Hospital in Maryland with her father, a retired member of the

SGA revises bylaws to reflect current administration BY joshua clark staff writer

The West Virginia University Student Government Association approved proposed changes to its bylaws during a regularly scheduled meeting Wednesday.

“This is a gateway for our administration to sort of leave a legacy for SGA,” said SGA President Jason Bailey. “We added some of the many initiatives we added this year. Our newest mission statement voted on by the administration was put in.

There was also some muchneeded grammatical change, as well, and rearranging a few articles.”

Bailey said certain positions described in the articles needed to be rearranged, and director and administrative positions were added to the second article of the document. This includes full positions in the arts, off-campus housing and Mountaineer Maniacs.

“Mountaineer Maniacs was included within the executive directors, but obviously executive director of the Maniacs isn’t quite on the same level of the other executives,” Bailey said. “Now they have their own article within the bylaws. Plus, we added the Student Advocates for Legislative Advancement as a subsidiary organization of SGA, so now they work under us.”

The revisions to the bylaws passed unanimously.

New interns of the SGA took notes on how meetings are conducted.

“This year we got about 15 interns,” said Vice President Rashad Bates. “They are a great class. I’ve been saying all meeting that this is the best class we’ve ever had.

They are all intelligent, motivated sophomores and freshmen. Though any class level can apply, we want to give them time to learn.”

One intern from last year is current athletic councilman Zach Krebs.

“I was kept really informed, and really felt like I was an important part of SGA,” Krebs said. “They let me see all the text messages, all the emails. I pretty much saw everything. When it came time to run for a bigger position, it was an easy transition. I met a lot of people that I work with now, and it’s a great way to set up relationships with future coworkers.”

This year Krebs has his own intern, and he said he hopes to pass on how beneficial the program is for students.

“I transferred here, so it was hard finding a way to balance my time,” Krebs said. “Your reputation in SGA starts as an intern. The best thing in the world is getting a fresh start.” joshua.clark@mail.wvu.edu

Mon. County celebrates Animal Shelter Appreciation week by lacey palmer staff writer

The Monongalia County Canine Adoption Center is encouraging community members to celebrate National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week.

The week is held every year Nov. 6 through Nov. 12 and was established to acknowledge and promote the invaluable role shelters play in communities and increase awareness of animal welfare issues and shelter services.

“This week is basically to let the public know how important it is to support the animal shelters in your community,” said Dana Johnson, supervisor of Animal Control and the Monongalia County Canine Adoption Center.

Johnson said it is important for individuals considering pet adoption to seriously weigh their options to prevent giving the pet up in the future.

“First and foremost, it’s very important to educate yourself

on training an animal before adopting. I think that’s a lot of the reason we get animals here,” Johnson said. “People get frustrated – they aren’t consistent in their training, and the animal doesn’t do what they would like it to, so they get angry or upset. They aren’t getting the results they want, so they give up and bring it to us.”

Johnson said future pet owners should consider the size of their family, the age of their children and how much space, time and money they have.

The Monongalia County Canine Adoption Center is the only shelter in Monongalia County that accepts animals from the general public upon proof of residence within the county.

In 2010, the Monongalia County Canine Adoption Center took in 1,272 cats and 1,073 dogs.

Of those cats, 133 were

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U.S. Air Force.

“I would visit Walter Reed with my dad, and I met a lot of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan who were suffering from phantom-limb pain,” Bomkamp said.

Bomkamp said no other product like the “Pain-Free Socket” had been proposed for treating phantom limb pain.

She said she wanted to create an alternative to the current methods for treating the pain, including prescribed pain-killers and barbiturates, which

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Sarah Culberson tells her story at Return to ‘Bumpe’Wednesday night at the Metropolitan Theatre. Adopted by Morgantown residents, she traced her biological family back to Bumpe, Sierra Leone in Africa.

WVU grad helps rebuild an African school with ‘Return to Bumpe’ event by kelsey montgomery staff writer

The Morgantown community showed their support by coming out to the “Return to Bumpe” event at the Metropolitan Theatre Wednesday night.

West Virginia University graduate and Morgantown native Sarah Culberson hosted the event in an effort to rebuild a high school in Sierra Leone, West Africa.

Culberson was adopted as an infant, and in 2004 she discovered her biological father was a tribal leader of the Mende tribe in Bumpe, Sierra Leone – making her the princess of the tribe.

Bumpe High School is a boarding school that provided an education to more than 600 students and was destroyed by the Revolutionary United Front army during a civil war in the region, which lasted from 1991 to 2002.

A year after the discovery of her fa-

ther, Culberson founded the Kposowa Foundation in hopes of rebuilding the school.

“All I wanted to do was to meet my real father,” Culberson said. “However, things turn out to be so much bigger than ourselves and sets us on a journey that we’ll never forget.”

Culberson’s adoptive father, Jim Culberson, is a neurobiology professor at

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Presents for Patients connects students, elderly by ben scott correspondent

This holiday season, members of the Morgantown community have the opportunity to spread good cheer to those who need it.

The Presents for Patients program was created to ensure that patients in local longterm health care facilities receive gifts and visitations over the holidays.

Volunteers “adopt” a resident and spend time with the patient they have been matched with.

“Often, our residents in longterm care outlive their families and feel that they have no con-

nection left to the community,” said Donna Tennant, coordinator for West Virginia Presents for Patients. “We try to keep that connection to the community alive for them so they know they haven’t been forgotten.”

Presents for Patients was founded by William Day in 1984 and is affiliated with St. Barnabas Charitable Foundation in Pennsylvania.

The program has reached patients in New York, Ohio, West Virginia, Tennessee and Pennsylvania.

Tennant said the program is not only beneficial to the patients, but always provides an insightful experience for young adult volunteers.

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nity that I’ve created a company around,” she said.

Glamour Magazine provided travel and hotel funds for Bomkamp to visit New York. Bomkamp said her experience as an “Amazing Young Woman” was rewarding.

“Just standing in the front row of Carnegie Hall and receiving a standing ovation was an amazing experience,” Bomkamp said. “Over the last four years, I’ve tried so many times

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“I wanted to find a way to treat the problem holistically without the use of these drugs,” Bomkamp said.

The product is currently undergoing its third and fourth generation development stages. Bomkamp said she is excited to take her product to the next level and ultimately help it to reach the veterans it is intended to treat.

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“We’ve had West Virginia University students come in to sit and talk to our residents and hear stories about what Morgantown was like 50 years ago,” Tennant said.

“Sometimes, if you come in to adopt a resident and bring them a gift, some of those stories turn out to be worth more than anything you could ever buy.”

One of the most fulfilling aspects of the Presents for Patients program is seeing the residents’ faces when they receive their gifts, Tennant said.

“One time, we had a resident that wanted a Minnie Pearl hat.

We found a big rim hat, left the tags on it and gave it to her. She

was so excited,” Tennant said.

“To see her face light up was like we had given her a check for $1,000.”

Tennant encourages volunteers to attend a holiday party and socialize with the residents.

“A smile is worth a million words, and seeing the happiness you can bring to someone just by visiting them or bringing them a gift is quite a reward,” Tennant said.

Volunteers can sign up for the program before Dec. 16.

For more information, call 304-599-0497 or email dt2078@ aol.com. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

WHERE’S THE EFFORT? West Virginia head football coach Dana Holgorsen said he may only bring 55 players to Cincinnati this weekend.

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Penn State trustees fire Paterno, Spanier STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier amid the growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach.

The massive shakeup Wednesday night came hours after Paterno announced that he planned to retire at the end of his 46th season.

But the outcry following the arrest of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky on molestation charges proved too much for the board to ignore.

Speaking at his house to a couple of dozen students, Paterno said, “Right now, I’m not the football coach. And I’ve got to get used to that. After 61 years, I’ve got to get used to it. I appreciate it. Let me think it through.”

He shook hands with many of the students, some of whom were crying.

Other students were upset. A large crowd descended on the administration building, shouting “We want Joe back!” then headed to Beaver Stadium.

One key question has been why Paterno and other top school officials didn’t go to police in 2002 after being told a graduate assistant saw Sandusky assaulting a boy in a school shower.

Paterno says he should have done more. Spanier has said he was not told the details of the attack.

Sandusky has denied the charges.

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Penn State students stand outside Old Main on campus protesting the handling of a child abuse scandal involving a retired Penn State football coach in State College, Pa., Wednesday. The Penn State board of trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno Wednesday night amid the growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach.

Defensive coordinator Tom Bradley will serve as interim coach while Rodney Erickson will be the interim school president.

Earlier in the day, Paterno said in a statement he was “absolutely devastated” by the case, in which Sandusky, his onetime heir apparent was charged with molesting eight boys in 15 years, with some of the alleged abuse taking place at the Penn State foot-

ball complex.

“This is a tragedy,” Paterno said. “It is one of the great sorrows of my life. With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more.”

John Surma, the vice chair of the board of trustees said, “these decisions were made after careful deliberations and in the best interests of the university as a whole.”

He said Paterno was told by

telephone that he was out after spending most of his life at Penn State and guiding its football teams to two national championships in the 1980s.

“The past several days have been absolutely terrible for the entire Penn State community.

But the outrage that we feel is nothing compared to the physical and psychological suffering that allegedly took place,” Surma said.

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“It’s a different world in Sierra Leone,” Jim said. “Over there, our efforts are about the children, the education and their future.”

Culberson gave a detailed account of her journey to Bumpe and the efforts Mallory Bracken/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM that have come out of her The West Virginia University African Music and Dance Ensemble performs at ‘Return to Bumpe’Wednesday night at the Metropolitan Theatre. foundation.

She said the Morgantown community played an instrumental part in the efforts to reconstruct the boarding school.

“There are no words to de-

The firings came three days before Penn State hosts Nebraska in its final home game of the season, a day usually set aside to honor seniors on the team.

The ouster of the man affectionately known as “JoePa” brings to an end one of the most storied coaching careers - not just in college football but in all of sports. Paterno has 409 victories - a record for major college football - won two national titles and guided five teams to unbeaten, untied seasons. He reached 300 wins faster than any other coach.

Penn State is 8-1 this year, with its only loss to powerhouse Alabama. The Nittany Lions are No. 12 in The Associated Press poll.

After 19th-ranked Nebraska, Penn State plays at Ohio State and at No. 16 Wisconsin, both Big Ten rivals. It has a chance to play in the Big Ten championship game Dec. 3 in Indianapolis, with a Rose Bowl bid on the line.

After meeting Tuesday, Penn State’s board of trustees said it would appoint a committee to investigate the “circumstances” that resulted in the indictment of Sandusky, and of athletic director Tim Curley and a vice president Gary Schultz, who are accused in an alleged cover-up.

Paterno notified Curley and Schultz about the 2002 abuse charge and is not a target of the criminal investigation. Curley and Schultz have been charged with failing to report the incident to the authorities.

Sandusky, who retired from scribe seeing the community you grew up in being so devoted to your cause,” Culberson said. “It chokes me up when I reflect on the support I have received from all of you here today.”

Culberson said even though the reconstruction so far has been more than she ever imagined possible, there are still more strides to be made.

She hopes to have a transportation system and plumbing system installed in the near future, and that one day the school will run on solar energy.

Currently, the school is without power and students who study at night use candlelight.

A library was recently built onto the school and

Penn State in June 1999, maintained his innocence through his lawyer. Curley has taken a leave of absence and Schultz has decided to step down. They also say they are innocent.

The committee will be appointed Friday at the board’s regular meeting, which Gov. Tom Corbett said he plans to attend, and will examine “what failures occurred and who is responsible and what measures are necessary to ensure” similar mistakes aren’t made in the future.

Sandusky founded The Second Mile charity in 1977, working with at-risk youths. It now raises and spends several million dollars each year for its programs.

Paterno is listed on The Second Mile’s website as a member of its honorary board of directors, a group that includes business executives, golfing great Arnold Palmer and several NFL Hall of Famers and coaches, including retired Pittsburgh Steelers stars Jack Ham and Franco Harris.

On Wednesday morning, Paterno said he planned to retire at the end of the season, but the board had other ideas.

In a statement, Paterno said: “I grieve for the children and their families, and I pray for their comfort and relief.”

He went on: “I have come to work every day for the last 61 years with one clear goal in mind: To serve the best interests of this university and the young men who have been entrusted to my care. I have the same goal today.” was given by the Lemonade fund, a non-profit organization that runs through Oprah Winfrey’s Angel Fund.

WVU Theatre & Dance, local backwoods music band Stewed Mulligan and the WVU African Music and Dance Ensemble performed at the event.

Culberson’s close friend, Pamela Donohoo, a Los Angeles-based aerialist, also performed.

“This is what you’ve all contributed to and supported.

You are a part of this journey. Every one here tonight is making a difference in this world,” Culberson said.

For more information on the Kposowa Foundation, visit www.bumpenya.com. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Continued from page 1 to make the product a reality because I believed in the good it would do and being told ‘no’ so many times. It was such a rewarding experience for me – and one that I’ll never forget.”

The event also included an award for the magazine’s 10 “Women of the Year.” Guests honored at the event included Jennifer Lopez, Gloria Steinem, Chelsea Handler and Arianna Huffington. Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice presented an award at the event and approached Bomkamp to congratulate her.

“She’s one of my heroes and

a reason I wanted to study political science in the first place,” Bomkamp said. “I almost passed out after that – it was so exciting.”

Bomkamp said her work toward developing her invention has been aided by the Entrepreneurship Center in the College of Business & Economics.

“Together we – over the last year – have been able to take her project from a science project to actual commercialization,” said Mindy Halls, director of the Entrepreneurship Center.

Halls said several technical and business advisors within the University as well as throughout the state have advised the project during its

research and development stages.

“We’ve already met with someone who is interested in marketing her product after it has completed the research and development stage,”Halls said.

Bomkamp said her decision to attend WVU was influenced by its strong emphasis on research and innovation.

“I wanted to come to WVU because I wanted to attend a school that would support me academically and also be able to support the development of my business and product,” Bomkamp said. “I knew at WVU I would be able to do that.”

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adopted, 1,021 were euthanized and 86 were picked up by rescue groups.

Of the dogs, 327 were adopted, 401 were euthanized, 96 were picked up by rescue groups, and 184 were picked up by owners.

“Our numbers have gone down a little in the past few years, but not nearly as much as you’d hope to see,” Johnson said.

One rescue group working with the Canine Adoption Center is the Animal Friends of North Central West Virginia, a No Kill Sanctuary for local animals.

The Animal Friends of North Central West Virginia is a nonprofit shelter with adoption and foster programs for animals and provides refuge, aid and care for unwanted, abandoned and abused animal’s free from the threat of euthanasia.

Johnson encourages community members to consider visiting a shelter before they decide to purchase a pet elsewhere.

“Check out the animals up for adoption at your local shelters before purchasing a purebred dog, because a lot of times you find everything that you’re looking for in a shelter,” Johnson said.

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‘Modern Warfare 3’ could become best-selling game of all time ALi Sultan A&E correspondent

The latest addition to the “Call of Duty” video game series “Modern Warfare 3”was released Tuesday, selling more than 6 million units in just one day.

The rate at which the game has been selling is set to make it the highest-selling game of all time. In just two days, its sales have already surpassed the first-week sales of EA’s “Battlefield 3.”

The game was released in the early hours of Tuesday morning as thousands of stores worldwide held midnight launch parties with hundreds of gamers waiting in line at each location.

GameStop in Morgantown at the University Town Center welcomed around 300 people at midnight for the release, while Wal-Mart also had a busy morning with more than 100 people waiting in line for their copies of the game.

The storyline of the game begins exactly where the 2009 sequel “Modern Warfare 2”left off.

The internationally feared war criminal Makarov is still on the run and several task forces around the globe are trying to put a stop to his plot as he seeks to take control of the world in a World War III

setting.

The player’s objectives in the single-player campaign mode start with defending the New York City harbor and launching counter-attack measures against Russian forces that are invading the city.

In just the first mission, made up of three sub-missions, the player will experience several types of gameplay – everything from the basic first-person gun action to piloting personal underwater crafts and escaping attacks from speedboats.

As the story progresses, the players will experience several types of exciting gameplay, some of which were seen in previous “MW” games.

The Spec-Ops mode is still available for single-player as well as co-op, but the most significantly improved aspect of the series is the online multiplayer mode.

Players will feel like kids in a toy store upon entering the multiplayer mode as the developers have introduced several new changes and improvements to the structure of this mode.

The Create a Class menu, for instance, you will see a menu three times the size of the “MW2” menu, as the developers have added new kill streak packages and rewards, weapon rankings and attachments, player-appearance customizations and of course, playlist modes.

For kill streak rewards, players will have to choose between support packages, assault packages and specialist packages. The support and specialist packages are not actually kill streak packages as they count points rather than kills and the stack up does not reset whenever the player is killed.

Playlist additions include Kill Confirmed where the kills only count if the victim’s dog tags are collected by the killer or a teammate and Team Defender where a team must hold on to a flag in order for their kills to count toward the final score.

In terms of gameplay, the game is definitely a big improvement from “MW2” as several different glitches have been fixed, and players are no longer able to take advantage of some loopholes namely the use of One Man Army with grenade launchers.

The campaign gameplay is as exciting as ever as the story never ceases to entertain and the objectives of each mission are well-constructed.

The only setback in the game is the set of maps provided for the multiplayer mode. Each map has many areas that can be tagged as camping spots, such as small balconies, tight alleyways and hidden corners.

This is just a temporary setback, however, as the developers have promised at least one downloadable map pack every

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U2 marks ‘Achtung Baby’ anniversary with deluxe edition re-release Emily Meadows A&EWriter

One of the most internationally influential alternative rock bands has reissued one of their classic albums for its 20year anniversary.

Irish rockers U2 released a single disc as well as deluxe edition box set of their 1991 album “Achtung Baby” Oct. 31st, and the collection has been well-received by longtime

fans. The deluxe edition box set features a compilation of previously unreleased tracks, videos, remixes, B-sides and a DVD featuring documentary and performance footage.

For the super fan, an uberdeluxe edition is now available. It includes vinyl versions, four bonus concert DVD’s and six mastered CD’s, a copy of the album’s follow up “Zooropa”, a hardback memorabilia book and a magnetic puzzle.

Fans can even snag a pair of Bono’s trademark “The Fly” sunglasses in the collection.

Vinyl box editions including four LPs with B-sides, remixes and a detailed color booklet is also available.

“Achtung Baby,” originally released Nov. 19, 1991, was the bands first release of the ‘90s.

It adopted a more heavy, abstract sound, unlike the solid college rock roots fans were used to but was nonetheless extremely well-received and respected. U2 front man Bono has often even called the album as “the sound of four men chopping down the Joshua tree”, a pun on the dra-

matic difference in style from their 80’s releases.

The critically acclaimed album is eight times platinum and has been referred to as one of the greatest rock albums of all time by publications “Time” and “Entertainment Weekly”. The album’s biggest hit, “One,” continues to receive airplay on many classic rock stations, and is still frequently performed by the band.

The inspirational track has been covered numerous times by many popular artists, in-

cluding Mary J. Blige, and is famously used in numerous human rights and social justice events and rallies.

Other tracks from the album include the single “Mysterious Ways,” “Even Better Than The Real Thing,” and “Blow Your House Down.”

The bands inventive musical sound fronted by Bono’s lyrical creativity has brought U2 a loyal and diverse fan base of all ages over the last three decades. While the single disk in store reissue does not offer much more than a few remas-

tered tracks, it can be viewed as an album that reintroduces the band,s sound to a new generation of listeners who may have disregarded, or been too young to enjoy the album during the time of its original release.

Those already loyal fans of the album will want to pick up one of the deluxe editions for their collection.

All “Achtung Baby” editions are available now in stores, online and available on iTunes. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Cartoonist and ‘Family Circus’ creator Bil Keane dies at 89 PHOENIX (AP) — Bil Keane’s “Family Circus” comics entertained readers with a simple but sublime mix of humor and traditional family values for more than a half century. The appeal endured, the author thought, because the American public needed the consistency.

Keane, who started drawing the one-panel cartoon featuring Billy, Jeffy, Dolly, P.J. and their parents in February 1960, died Tuesday at age 89 at his longtime home in Paradise Valley, near Phoenix. His comic strip is featured in nearly 1,500 newspapers across the country.

Jeff Keane, Keane’s son who lives in Laguna Hills, Calif., said that his father died of congestive heart failure with one of his other sons by his side after his conditioned worsened during the last month. All of Keane’s five children, nine grandchildren and great-granddaughter were able to visit him last week, Jeff Keane said.

“He said, `I love you’ and that’s what I said to him, which is a great way to go out,” Jeff Keane said of the last conversation he had with his father. “The great thing is Dad loved the family so much, so the fact that we all saw him, I think that gave him great comfort and made his passing easy. Luckily he didn’t suffer through a lot of things.”

Jeff Keane has been drawing “Family Circus” in the last few years as his father enjoyed retirement.

Keane said in a 1995 interview with The Associated Press that the cartoon had staying power because of its consistency and simplicity.

“It’s reassuring, I think, to the American public to see the same family,” he said.

Although Keane kept the strip current with references to pop culture movies and songs, the context of his comic was timeless. The ghost-like “Ida Know” and “Not Me” who deferred blame for household accidents were staples of the strip. The family’s pets were dogs Barfy and Sam, and the cat, Kittycat.

“We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, whole-

some family humor and entertainment,” Keane said. “On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can’t tell what you’re going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.”

Jeff Keane shared the sentiment, saying “Family Circus” had flourished through the decades because readers continue to relate to its values of family moments.

“It was a different type of comic, and I think that was my dad’s genius creating something that people could really relate to and wasn’t necessarily meant to get a laugh,” he said. “It was more of a warm feeling or a lump in the throat.”

Keane’s friend Charles M. Schulz, the late creator of “Peanuts,” once said the most important thing about “Family Circus” is that it is funny.

“I think we share a care for the same type of humor,” Schulz told The Associated Press in 1995. “We’re both family men with children and look with great fondness at our families.”

Keane said the strip hit its stride with a cartoon he did in the mid-1960s.

“It showed Jeffy coming out of the living room late at night in pajamas and Mommy and Daddy watching television and Jeffy says, `I don’t feel so good, I think I need a hug.’

And suddenly I got a lot mail from people about this dear

little fella needing a hug, and I realized that there was something more than just getting a belly laugh every day.”

Even with his traditional motif, Keane appreciated younger cartoonists’ efforts.

He listed Gary Larson’s “The Far Side” among his favorites, and he loved it when Bill Griffith had his offbeat “Zippy the Pinhead” character wake up from a bump on the head thinking he was Keane’s Jeffy.

Keane responded by giving Zippy an appearance in “Family Circus.”

Born in 1922, Keane taught himself to draw in high school in his native Philadelphia.

Around this time, young Bill dropped the second “L” off his name “just to be different.”

He worked as a messenger for the Philadelphia Bulletin before serving three years in the Army, where he drew for “Yank” and “Pacific Stars and Stripes.” He met his wife, Thelma (“Thel”), while serving at a desk job in Australia.

He started a one-panel comic in 1953 called “Channel Chuckles” that lampooned the up-and-coming medium of television. (In one, a mom in front of a television, crying baby on her lap, tells her husband: “She slept through two gun fights and a barroom brawl - then the commercial woke her up.”)

He moved to Arizona in 1958 and two years later started a comic about a family much like his own. Keane and his wife had a daughter, Gayle,

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“I never thought about a philosophy for the strip it developed gradually,” Keane told the East Valley Tribune in 1998. “I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that’s happened in the strip has happened to me.

“That’s why I have all this white hair at 39 years old.”

Thelma Keane died of Alzheimer’s disease in 2008 and was the inspiration for the Mommy character in the comic strip.

When his wife died, Keane called her “the inspiration for all of my success. ...When the cartoon first appeared, she looked so much like Mommy that if she was in the supermarket pushing her cart around, people would come up to her and say, `Aren’t you the mommy in `Family Circus?’”

She also served as his business and financial manager.

Arizona and Keane had a mutual influence on each

other. Keane’s work can be found all around from children’s centers to ice cream shops.

Likewise, Arizona could also be found in Keane’s work.

A 2004 comic saw the family on a scenic lookout over the Grand Canyon with the children asking “Why are the rocks painted different colors” and “What time does it close?”

Jeff Keane said those memories endure.

“He was just our dad. The great thing about him is he worked at home, we got to

see him all the time, and we would all sit down and have dinner together. What you see in the `Family Circus’ is what we were and what we still are, just different generations.”

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Create a plan for tackling student loans As we approach the end of the fall semester, some West Virginia University graduates will leave the University and enter the “real” world.

When students leave WVU – whether it’s to graduate, transfer, drop out, be a part-time student or take time off – they are required to take part in an exit interview if they have borrowed federal student loans to pay for tuition and fees.

For those graduating WVU, an email will be sent to set up the exit counseling interview.

If a student does not complete the interview before leaving, they will have a hold placed on their records and their transcripts withheld until it is completed.

For the college student focusing on studies for four years, loans are probably the last thing on their minds. Many

are thinking of graduation and all the exciting aspects of having a professional career.

Don’t let student loans creep up on you: Keep them in the back of your mind.

Make sure your payments are deferred until graduation, but if possible, pay off some of the interest early so it’s not accumulated when you get the first bill.

Most loan companies will

work with you on a payment plan and will allow you to defer payment for up to six months after graduation.

That may seem like a long time, but it will come quickly after leaving WVU. Realistically, some might not land a job right after graduation, so you should have a plan ready for when the student loan companies start looking for payments.

It takes much financial planning and upkeep to pay off student loans effectively while still paying other bills and attempting to set yourself up for the rest of your life.

Get a head start on anticipating the big bills that await by making payments as possible today – it will make your future much less stressful. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Cuban embargo is counterproductive and should end tomas engle columnist

For more than 50 years Cuba has suffered under a trade embargo imposed by the U.S. government. This embargo effectively bans American citizens from engaging in any commercial, financial or economic activity in the communist country. But with the introduction of market reforms by the new Raul Castro regime over the past three years, this unjust and inefficient policy should finally come to an end.

Starting in the fall of 1960 as a reaction to the new revolutionary government of Cuba seizing American assets, the economic embargo has become a defining characteristic of the island nation. Not being able to import automotive parts or new models since 1960 has left the island’s transportation system in a time capsule from the 1950s.

And, while the other defining characteristics of Cuba – food shortages, dilapidated infrastructure, poor living conditions and little political freedom – can all be laid at the feet of the Castro regime, the embargo only aids in their continuation.

Just like with trade sanctions on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in the 1990s, this policy only ends up helping the dictator and punishing the people. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), when the sanctions were enforced in Iraq (1990-2003), roughly half a million – mostly women and children – died due to malnutrition and lack of proper medicine. By not trading goods with these countries, which increases availability and lowers prices, the power of who gets what goes to the dictator.

In Hussein’s Iraq, and Castro’s Cuba, high-priced and scarce basic necessities not only became prizes for those loyal to the regime, but also a convenient distraction. Being able to control most of the information their subjects receive on a daily basis, dictators can use trade embargoes as a scapegoat for all the problems that are actually the result of their own disastrous economic

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Cuban President Raul Castro delivers a speech. policies. This enables the regime to stay in power longer than they would have if there was no disruption of trade in the first place.

Trade embargoes are not only bad economics and unfair to the people already living under an authoritarian regime, but also makes our own government appear callous and hypocritical. The United States freely trades with the much larger communist China – despite their imprisonment of political dissidents – and has allied with dictators before from the Middle East to Central Asia just to secure air bases.

According to former Senator Gary Hart the Cuban embargo has become ingrained into

American foreign policy purely out of habit. “Though it started out to be a measure of an administration’s resistance to Castro’s politics, it very soon became a straightjacket whereby first-generation Cuban-Americans wielded inordinate political power over both parties and constructed a veto over rational, mature diplomacy.”

Another group wielding political power against the embargo being lifted is the people who benefit from high sugar cane prices – the American sugar lobby.

With one of the (number one) sources of sugar cane in the world blocked from one of the largest markets in the world, American sugar cane in-

terests have greatly benefited at the expense of Cuban farmers.

American consumers have also suffered at the expense of the embargo by having high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) seep into every food product they consume because of the high price of natural cane sugar and American farm subsidies to corn growers.

While the topic of HFCS could fill up another column, American consumers should be able to buy products with cane sugar without having to deal with artificially higher prices.

It’s ironic that a policy initially started as a reaction against a communist government coming to power is now entrenched in our capitalist system by a

government-protected monopoly and price controls.

While Cuban-American relations have been icy in the past due to both sides’ flaws, Raul Castro has thankfully been paying attention to China’s pragmatic communism instead of North Korea’s dogmatic communism.

Upon taking leadership in 2008, Raul removed government restrictions on Cuban citizens buying goods like microwaves, computers and DVD players. Vacant government-owned land has been turned over to private farmers and private co-ops, and decision-making shifted to the municipal level to increase food production.

The Cuban government has even introduced a measure completely antithetical to communist dogma – a tiered pay system for public employees, paying them on the merit of their work. Along with cutting half a million public employees from the government payroll in a year, allowing Cubans to start small businesses, and legalization of the Cuban real estate market, the Cuban government has made enormous strides in just three years.

These reforms give our government such an easy out to this counterproductive policy of economic embargo on the people of Cuba. Refusing to end the embargo at this point is simply cruel.

Blame our Congress for the lack of economic progress dylan r. matthews harvard crimson uwire

Like many of those interviewed in Victoria A. Baena’s excellent Fifteen Minutes piece on students’ disappointment with the Obama administration, I remember Election Day, 2008 as one of unusual euphoria.

I was at the College Democrats’ party in Currier when I heard that Ohio had been called for Obama, clinching the election, and promptly started celebrating like I’d never celebrated before.

I tried unsuccessfully to remember my mother’s cell phone number and ended up screaming “WE ELECTED OBAMA” to some poor Maine woman. I ran to Winthrop to meet up with old intern friends from Obama’s primary campaign, amazed that we

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had even gotten to the general election, let alone won it.

I may have had a little bit to drink. It was a good time.

So I understand, in light of the still-stagnant economy and the deficit brinkmanship of the last year, why people are disappointed.

Obama’s victory was emotionally meaningful, and, given the huge expectations that win set, discontent is inevitable. But the right takeaway, I think, is not that Obama is a failure, but that that major change is really hard, especially in America, especially for the president, and especially now.

Suppose the United States had a parliamentary system of the kind in place in most of the developed world.

Let’s suppose the U.S. had no president or Senate, that the speaker of the House operated as a de facto prime minister, and that Obama had been swept into that office.

Given that the House, un-

der Speaker Nancy Pelosi, passed cap-and-trade legislation to fight global warming and a health care bill with a public option, it’s fair to say that Speaker Obama would have gotten that done as well.

He also likely could have passed initiatives that Pelosi didn’t take up, because she assumed the Senate would just kill them.

Perhaps he would have passed more stimulus spending, perhaps campaign finance reform. He would have done what all parliamentary leaders with majorities do: Use the power voters gave him to pass his whole agenda.

But instead of a parliament, the U.S. has a system that is designed to prevent government policy from fully reflecting the public will.

The Founding Fathers, as we all learned in high school civics, were deathly afraid of actual democracy, and put plenty of veto points (the president, the Senate, the Su-

preme Court, etc.) in the Constitution so as to prevent it.

That Obama could not have pushed through his whole agenda, like leaders of other developed democracies can, is not his fault. It’s James Madison’s.

Some might find this explanation unsatisfying. Didn’t Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, and Lyndon B. Johnson pass major legislation under these same constraints?

Yes, but they had two other things going for them. For one thing, their Congressional majorities were enormous compared to Obama’s.

In 1935, when Roosevelt signed Social Security into law, there were 72 Democrats in the Senate. In 1965, when Johnson signed the bill creating Medicare, there were 68 Senate Democrats.

Obama, by contrast, had at most 60 Senate Democrats to work with, and only 59 by the time health care reform passed.

What’s more, Obama has had to deal with a de facto 60vote supermajority requirement that only emerged in the past few years.

Roosevelt and Johnson had to deal with a higher bar for breaking filibusters (67 votes instead of 60), but it was only with Mitch McConnell’s emergence as Senate Minority Leader in 2007 that the procedure began to be used routinely to routinely legislation, and before 1970 it was only really used to delay civil rights legislation.

Indeed, when Johnson was whipping votes for Medicare, his legislative strategists did not even consider the possibility that the bill would be filibustered. It was just too absurd an idea.

If you’re going to be disappointed with someone, then, be disappointed with the Republicans and moderate Democrats in Congress who derailed Obama’s agenda.

Talia B. Lavin, one of those

disappointed students quoted in Baena’s article, regrets that Obama has not done more to curtail “continual expansion of the power of the presidency.”

But on domestic policy, the rise of the filibuster has actually lead to an expansion of Congress’ power and diminishing of the president’s. And with great power, as SpiderMan’s Uncle Ben reminds us, comes great responsibility.

Mitch McConnell may not be “one of us,” but he is a person with moral agency. Liberals should start treating him like one. We can argue for days over what Obama could have done differently, but there’s no question that there was plenty that Congress could have done differently.

To respond to the policy failures McConnell and his allies creates by blaming Obama is to enable Republicans’, and Congress’s, effort to duck responsibility for their actions.

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THE WEEK AHEAD TODAY 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 THURSDAY

CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS, a 12-step program to assist participants in developing healthier relationships of all kinds, meets at 7 p.m. in the conference room of Chestnut Ridge Hospital. For more information, call Mary at 304-296-3748.

LUTHERAN DISASTER RESPONSE COLLEGIATE CORPS meets at the Lutheran Chapel at 8 p.m. The LDRCC responds to regional and national disasters. No experience is necessary. For more information, visit www.lutheranmountaineer.org/disaster.

MUSLIM STUDENTS ASSOCIATION hosts a weekly Islam and Arabic class at 6:30 p.m. in the Monongahela Room of the Mountainlair. For more information, contact Sohail Chaudhry at 304906-8183 or schaudhr@mix.wvu.edu.

THE MORGANTOWN CHESS CLUB meets from 7 p.m. in the basement of the First Christian Church at 100 Cobun Ave. Meetings will not be held the last Thursday of every month. For more information, visit www.morgantownchess.org.

CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST holds its weekly CRU meetings at 9 p.m. in Room G24 of Eiesland Hall. People can join others for live music, skits and relevant messages. For more information, email roy.baker@uscm.org or visit www.wvucru.com.

UNITED METHODIST STUDENT MOVEMENT meets at 7 p.m. at the Campus Ministry Center on the corner of Price and Willey streets. For more information, email wvumethodist@comcast.net.

WVU CLUB TENNIS practices from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Ridgeview Racquet Club. For carpooling, call 304906-4427. New members are always welcome.

THE WVU YOUNG DEMOCRATS meets at 7 p.m. in the Blackwater Room of the Mountainlair. For more information, email kross3@mix.wvu.edu.

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

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TRADITIONAL KARATE CLASS FOR SELF-DEFENSE meets at 9 p.m. in Multipurpose Room A of the Student Recreation Center.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ORGANIZATION meets at 8 p.m. at the International House on Spruce Street.

BISEXUAL, GAY, LESBIAN AND TRANSGENDER MOUNTAINEERS meets at 8 p.m. in the Laurel Room of the Mountainlair. For more information, email bigltm.wvu@gmail.com.

CHESS CLUB meets from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the food court of the Mountainlair. Players of all skill levels are invited to come. For more information, email wvuchess@gmail.com.

THE CATALAN TABLE will meet at 4 p.m. at Maxwell’s restaurant. All levels welcome. For more information, call 304-293-5121 ext. 5509.

INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP meets at 7 p.m. in 316 Percival Hall. For more information, call 304376-4506 or 304-276-3284.

FREE ARABIC/ISLAM CLASSES will be hosted by the Muslim Students’ Association from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Kanawha Room of the Mountainlair.

To register, email schaudhr@mix.wvu. edu.

CONTINUAL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN needs volunteers. WIC provides education, supplemental foods and immunizations for pregnant women and children under 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.

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

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

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

LITERACY VOLUNTEERS is seeking volunteers for one-on-one tutoring in basic reading and English as a second language. Volunteer tutors will complete tutor training, meet weekly with their adult learners, report volunteer hours quarterly, attend at least two inservice trainings per year and help with one fundraising event. For more information, call 304-296-3400 or email trella.greaser@live.com.

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

THE CONDOM CLOSET 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 304293-4431 or email tandy.mcclung@ mail.wvu.edu.

HOROSCOPES

BY JACQUELINE BIGAR BORN TODAY This year you can open up to new changes and greater possibilities. You see the world more openly.

You sometimes see how opposites can be the same, at least in their core issues.

You could swing between whether to do what you want to do and what you think you would like to do. Another scenario could be whether to do what you want or what is right or will work. You will discover that for you, one path works better than the others. If you are single, establishing a new relationship with your birthday on a Full Moon guarantees suitors, but not necessarily peaceful relating.

If you are attached, the two of you look to a better year, but you need to have equality. You might note your differences more than your similarities. TAURUS can be extremely challenging.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH You suddenly become far more sedate and caring. How could all of this have happened? You made a big splash the past few months. Now this? We cannot say that others aren’t wistful for the person of the past, but they will like your caring even more now. Tonight: Make it your treat.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHHH The Bull roars. The Full Moon focuses on you and only you. Don’t be shy or too patient. Now is the time to move, especially if you have been eying a particular goal -that is, if you want a yes answer. Tonight: Juggling others’ concerns.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHH Know that sometimes the less said the greater

the impact you have. Knowing what you want and being willing to move forward and make it so are part of the recipe. Now the best move is to watch and check out where others are coming from. Tonight: Vanish.

able. Try accepting and opening up.

Your ability to deal with the impossible emerges. Others are in sync with your thoughts. Understand where the similarities are rather than the differences. Tonight: Let another person choose.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHHH Zero in on what you want. Listen to what is being said between friends, then observe what is happening. You might be a little tired of a situation that keeps repeating itself. Be direct in your conversations.

Tonight: Where the fun is.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH Touch base with others’ needs and desires. With that type of nurturing, people cannot help but respond. Let defiance go -- it is an immediate reaction, nothing more. Structure your plans around what works. Tonight: Put your feet up and relax.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Take a stand if you must. Others always respond to your leadership. You have a sudden concern about making money.

Push comes to shove faster than you can believe, especially if you have a different point of view. Tonight: A must appearance.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHHH Allow more creativity into your ideas, actions and conversations. Please note the high response to your ingenuity. You might consider projecting in this manner more often. A friend would like more attention. Tonight: Let the good times begin.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH Display your customary efficiency. Some people could find you a little demanding in the next few weeks. You just have all this energy and need to keep your focus.

Understanding will evolve. Tonight: Look beyond the obvious.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH A key person is on the bandwagon about a new beginning. You cannot shut this person down. Opposing him or her would be a lesson in futility. Why do that to yourself, or to anyone else? Tonight: Dinner for two.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH Rethink a personal matter with the person involved. A discussion helps both of you bond more closely, no matter what. Anger will keep building if you don’t discuss the issue. Do it sooner rather than later.

Tonight: Togetherness builds.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHHH You want to understand what is going on. Not everyone is as willing to calmly discuss a situation as you are. Rather than get into a disagreement, flow with the moment knowing that anything is changeable. Tonight: Juggling calls, mail and plans.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHHH Defer to your significant other. No matter how you look at a situation, it is change-

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Pearls Before Swine

by Stephan Pastis

F Minus

by Tony Carrillo

Get Fuzzy

by Darby Conley

Cow and Boy

by Mark Leiknes

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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

WEDNESDAY’S PUZZLE SOLVED

ACROSS 1 Gaucho’s weapon 5 What two lanterns in the Old North Church signified 10 Shenanigan 14 “Paradise Lost” setting 15 Assessed 16 Holder of small tools 17 Symbolic gifts 19 Josés hand 20 Like some ink cartridges 21 Vitruvian Man is on some Italian ones 22 Exasperate 25 Pago Pago resident 28 Sosa’s 1,667, briefly 29 Conspiracy theorist’s worry 30 Zeno, notably 32 Styled after 35 Soother for men 39 Stadium sound 40 Shake 41 Victory goddess 42 __ Deion: NFL nickname 43 Bk. after Proverbs 45 Indigenous language 50 Selectric selection 51 Became one lane, say 55 Hammer feature 56 President’s option, and a hint to the puzzle theme in 17-, 22-, 35- and 45-Across 58 Soprano Te Kanawa 59 Gets zero mpg 60 First name in bike stunts 61 Fall runner’s goal, perhaps 62 Requirements 63 Take it easy DOWN 1 Whack 2 Glade target 3 “Hello, Dolly!” surname 4 Part of a best man’s toast, maybe 5 Josh of “True Grit” (2010) 6 Comedian Smirnoff 7 Cordwood measure 8 Bard’s nightfall 9 Many pop-ups 10 Madagascar mammals 11 Asteroids maker 12 Syntax problem

13 Newsstand booth 18 When said three times, a WWII film 21 Order from on high 23 Valuable stash 24 Tony’s cousin 25 Bandy words 26 It’s five before Foxtrot 27 Light-headed insect?

30 Railroad switch 31 Smidgen 32 Indigo dye source 33 Styled after 34 Whizzes 36 “The Canterbury Tales” estate manager 37 Gin flavoring 38 Quick look 42 Dipstick 43 Door to the street 44 Brusque 45 Kisses and then some 46 Kate’s TV roommate 47 Regal topper

48 Fr re de la m re 49 Blunt, as truth 52 “Houston, __ had a problem” 53 Nice warm times 54 Dimbulb 56 Verb associated with blame 57 Neruda’s “__ to Conger Chowder”

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Michael McDonald to play CAC

by Rebecca Lebherz A&E Writer

Soft-rock legend Michael McDonald will perform Friday Nov. 18 at West Virginia University’s Creative Arts Center as part of the University Art Series.

McDonald is a five-time Grammy Award winning, singer and song writer whose music career reaches across four decades.

“His career has definitely span the time, he is not one of those one and done kind of artists,” said Kristie Gale, marketing and advertising manager for WVU Arts and Entertainment.

McDonald started his music career as a backup singer for the jazz-rock band Steely Dan. He returned to provide backup vocals, and played some keyboard for Steely Dan throughout the 70’s.

In 1976 he joined the Doobie Brothers. During his time with the band they released several of their hit songs including “What a Fool Believes,” “Real Love” and “Takin’ to the Streets.”

“What a Fool Believes” became a number one single in the U.S. and won a Grammy for Song of the Year.

Gale said that this current group of students is familiar with McDonald because their parents were likely listening to his music when he was part of the Doobie Brothers.

“He’s someone that you grew up with and now you have the opportunity to see him at this point in his career,” Gale said.

When the Doobie Brothers split in the early 80’s McDonald’s solo career took off.

He has collaborated with artists such as Michael Jackson, Kenny Loggings, Bonnie Raitt, and Van Halen.

McDonald’s duet with James Ingram “Yah Mo B There” won a Grammy in 1985 for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

In 2003, his album “Motown” won two Grammy nominations. Many of his hits have topped Billboard charts and he is still making new recordings today.

“Anytime we are able to bring someone of his caliber and talent to Morgantown that’s exciting,” Gale said.

She said often times you have to travel to Pittsburgh or farther to hear artists of his level, but McDonald is coming to WVU to perform for the first time.

Gale said this is the sixth concert in this season’s University Art Series, which averages about 20 concerts a season.

The series is in its 36th year and it continues to grow and evolve.

“When it was first started, it was eight events and in order to be a subscriber you had to buy all eight,” Gale said.

“In 2005, it changed to create your own and you get to choose five events.”

This concert is part of McDonald’s limited tour and he will also perform in Huntington, W.Va. on Nov. 17.

Tickets range from $47$67 and student tickets are discounted at $27. Tickets can be purchased at the Mountainlair or Creative Arts Center Box offices, online at ticketmaster.com or by calling 304-293-SHOW and 800-745-3000.

Gale said it is very near a sold out show already and this is definitely not a concert you want to wait until the night of to get your ticket.

The show time is set for 7:30 p.m. in the Lyell B. Clay Theatre in the CAC and there will be no opening acts. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Booker T. Jones to headline Mountain Stage Sunday

by Caitlin Graziani A&E Correspondent

Booker T. Jones will be performing at Mountain Stage this coming Sunday at 7 p.m.

Joining him will be performers Lake Street Dive, The Spring Standards, Jill Sobule and Kenny White.

Jones won a Grammy Award in 1997 for his work with Booker T. & the MG’s, taking home honors for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. He was named a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient 10 years later, also for his work with the MG’s.

Described by PopMatters as a “gorgeous, tasteful, closeknit band of musicians,” Lake Street Dive offers a largely acoustic, groove-driven strain of indie pop. The group consists of drummer Mike Calabrese, bassist Bridget Kearney, vocalist Rachael Price and guitarist Mike “McDuck” Olson.

The Spring Standards were brought up on the music of their elders, they drew much of their inspiration from those times, learning the power of song from artists such as The Beatles, James Taylor, David Crosby and Stephen Stills.

“I ran away at the age of 12 with a fake ID and joined the Marines. Because of my size and prowess, I was put in special units. I served in (the Vietnam War) where I was honorably discharged for a bit of friendly fire,” Sobule said. “Since then, I have made eight records and have won numerous awards. I went out once with a very famous morning talk show host. Kids?

None that I know of.”

“These songs have not always come easily, however, after many successful years of various musical endeavors, they have led to White’s new Wildflower Records release, ‘Comfort in the Static.’ A collection of wonderfully crafted

songs, this album continues to follow the human condition with both unbridled detail and humor,” according to Kenny White’s website.

In addition to being a songwriter and musician, White is also a contributing novelist to the book “The Black Body” which takes on the challenge of interpreting the black body’s dramatic role in American culture.

Tickets for Mountain Stage are $15 in advance and $20 on the day of the show. Mountain Stage is a tremendous event for anyone with a passion for music.

Regardless of your familiarity with the acts scheduled to perform, the show always showcases some incredible talents.

The show here in Morgantown, like all performances of Mountain Stage, is recorded for broadcast on NPR. Mountain Stage is the longest-running show of its kind.

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Love Me Knots, Prison Book Club play 123 tonight

by Hunter Homistek a&e Writer

West Virginia rock bands The Love Me Knots and Prison Book Club are set to take the 123 Pleasant Street stage tonight in what promises to be a supremely entertaining display of musical prowess.

The Love Me Knots are a three piece band based in Morgantown and they are a mainstay in the local music scene.

Led by vocalist and guitarist Brian Porterfield, The Love Me

Knots boast a raw, unprocessed rock sound that brings to mind classic acts like Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.

With so many modern bands bringing an electronic influence into their sound via synthesizer, turntable, samples, etc, The Love Me Knots stay true to their roots and dish out the brand of groovy, crunchy rock the world has known and loved for decades.

Driven by nothing more than guitar, bass, drums, and vocals, The Love Me Knots keep their sound simple and are never

short on hooks and catchy riffs.

This expert songwriting and understand of what people like to hear is what makes them so enjoyable and such a compelling listen.

This is the kind of music to groove to; it isn’t redefining a genre, but it is certainly a worthy and admirable addition to what is arguably the most popular music on earth—that old time rock n’ roll.

Opening up for The Love Me Knots is Shepherdstown, WV act Prison Book Club.

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Prison Book Club is a four piece rock band comprised of members from other WV outfits The Fox Hunt and The Demon Beat. In this way, they are a super-group of sorts and the wealth of experience among them leads to a refined and expertly executed sound.

Like The Love Me Knots, Prison Book Club’s style is timeless. Crunchy guitars coupled with driving rhythms and catchy vocals make them a hit among fans of southern and classic rock, and the band is always eager to showcase this brand of rock for fans across WV. “123 is one of the best clubs we’ve played,” said guitarist Adam Meisterhans.“It’s got a great history and we enjoy the folks that work there.”

Tonight’s show, which begins at 10 p.m., promises to be an exhibition of experienced musicians doing what they love to do. For those looking for a midweek break from class or work, The Love Me Knots and Prison Book Club are eager to provide the release you need. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Holgs, WVU going all-in If there’s one thing I’ve learned about West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen so far, it’s that he is not one to bluff.

If you were to sit down with Holgorsen at a card table, you would want to think twice before calling his bluff. When he raises the stakes, it’s always because he is holding something in his hand.

OK, so maybe a metaphor combining Holgorsen and gambling isn’t the most tactful, but follow along with me anyway.

It’s common knowledge that Holgorsen will say whatever is on his mind when in a press conference. This trait of Holgorsen is one I find to be my personal favorite.

His genuine and unfiltered press conferences can be a beat writer’s dream or a university official’s worst nightmare.

Regardless, Holgorsen won’t ever say something he doesn’t mean. Is that a good or a bad thing? I guess it depends who you ask.

Yesterday, Holgorsen announced that he may only take between 50 and 55 players on the trip to Cincinnati.

“We’re going to take who wants to pull for their teammates and who wants to be all in on this thing, not guys who pout or mope because they’re not playing or any of the rest of it,” he said.

West Virginia currently has 72 players on scholarship – 13 less than the NCAA allows. This is due to a variety of reasons, including the departures of former players like quarterback Barry Brunetti and running back Daquan Hargrett.

Taking only 55 players could be seen as somewhat of a gamble. With a thin sideline like that, a couple of injuries at positions that already lack depth could end up posing a serious problem.

With the riskiness of that in mind, I absolutely love what Holgorsen is doing. He’s not putting on a show or making false promises.

He’s giving his team an ultimatum: Commit fully to the message or get out of the way.

Last year, Auburn faced an intense amount of scrutiny after allegations surfaced questioning the recruitment of Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Cam Newton.

Auburn head coach Gene Chizik pushed a message he had used previously- only this time it resonated with every player, coach and fan of the Tigers.

That message proved to be universally received and served as the rallying cry for a team that would eventually win the national championship. That message is what Holgorsen is trying to achieve from this week forward at West Virginia.

The message? “All in.”

That’s what Holgorsen is right now. That’s what he wants his team to be.

Granted, Auburn was able to create an “us against the world” feel with the widespread negative attention the team received. West Virginia isn’t in that situation.

But with two conference losses to teams it feels it should have beaten, West Virginia can at least create an “us against the Big East” feel.

With the chips down after the loss to Louisville, West Virginia is hanging on to its hopes of a Big East championship by a thread.

A loss to Cincinnati will serve as an untimely kill shot to a dream that never got the chance to materialize.

Now is the time for the team to rally around one common goal.

Too much time has passed for players to consider individual agendas anymore.

West Virginia has been outhustled and outworked in several games this season. Holgorsen must put an end to that reputation immediately, and with yesterday’s message, he is on the path to do so.

Holgorsen has played his hand. If West Virginia is able to unite behind one shared vision – even if it’s with only 55 players on the sidelines – then there is still hope for this team to reach its championship goals.

Otherwise, West Virginia may end up folding its hand on a season that will end up being an underachieving disappointment. charles.schuler@mail.wvu.edu

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Freshman running back Dustin Garrison sits on the bench following West Virginia’s loss to Syracuse earlier in the season.

Holgorsen concerned with lack of effort, could travel with just 50 players by michael carvelli sports editor

Following West Virginia’s loss to Louisville Saturday, head coach Dana Holgorsen didn’t hold back when discussing what the problem has been in the Mountaineers’ losses this season.

“There are a lot of guys that just show up and expect to win, based on winning 60 games in six years. There are a bunch of people that think that way and haven’t played a down around here,” Holgorsen said. “We’ve got to have guys that have invested enough into the program, that have enough to them, that step up and give their absolute best all the time.”

The lack of effort Holgorsen has seen in some of his players is something that has bothered the first-year head coach, and to resolve it he’s considering changing the number of players who make the trip with the team to take on Cincinnati this week.

WVU usually travels with 70 or more players, but that number could fall to be-

tween 50 and 55 this week.

“We’re going to take who wants to win. We’re going to take who wants to pull for his teammates and who wants to be all in on this thing,” Holgorsen said. “We’re going to be a united team, and the only way I know how to get that accomplished is to make sure we’re only taking people that are focused and headed in the right direction.”

And the coach isn’t the only one who can tell that things need to change.

The players have started to notice it, too. Now that the Mountaineers have their backs to the wall, and every game determines whether or not they have a chance to win a Big East Conference title, it’s important now more than ever that they come out ready to play against Cincinnati.

“I know no one wants to go out there and lose – it’s very embarrassing,” said junior quarterback Geno Smith. “We want to win every game, and we believe we can win every game. It’s just a matter of not showing effort on every single snap.

“We can either go up or down, and I believe in my teammates and my coaches.

I believe we’re fighters, and I think we’re going to come out and respond.”

Still, it’s disappointing to some of West Virginia’s veteran leaders that their head coach had to come out this late in the season and talk about the team’s lack of effort and not listen to things they’re told by other players or coaches.

“Those are the type of things you try to take care of in the spring time and in preseason camp,” said senior defensive lineman Julian Miller. “I felt that we had done a good job of that but as the season has gone along, some people get off track with what we’re doing here.”

For seniors like Miller, whose number of games playing for the Mountaineers continue to dwindle each week as the end of the season inches closer, they don’t want an issue like this to put a damper on their fi-

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West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen said he could only bring 55 players when his team travels to take on Cincinnati this weekend.

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Mountaineers host South Florida on Senior Day by sebouh majarian sports writer

The “big day” was supposed to be when the West Virginia volleyball team made it to the Big East tournament.

Unfortunately for the five seniors on the team, the “big day” is coming a little bit early.

The Mountaineers (7-17, 5-8) are currently on the outside looking in with very slimto-no hope of qualifying for the Big East tournament.

WVU sits No. 11 in the conference – two spots behind a South Florida (10-15, 6-6) team hungry for every win as they attempt to sneak into the tournament.

Kylie Armbruster, Kari Post, Abby Monson, Serinna Russo, and Michelle Kopecky will be taking to the court one last time on senior night Saturday at the WVU Coliseum.

“It’s a celebration. It’s a celebration of their careers, and they’ve worked hard,”said WVU head coach Jill Kramer.

“They’ve dealt with a lot of change since I’ve been here, and change isn’t easy for a lot of people.”

The Mountaineers’ five seniors have played a total of 1,332 sets during their time in Morgantown, led by Arm-

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Abby Monson is one of five seniors who will be honored on Senior Day this weekend against South Florida. bruster’s performance in 379 of them. Their departures will leave the Mountaineers with numerous questions heading into next year.

“You for sure want the seniors to go out in the Coliseum with a bang, and we

want them to do great things,” Kramer said.

During Kramer’s two seasons as a head coach, both teams have ranked in the top 50 nationally in digs per set.

The team currently ranks No. 45 nationally, averaging just

under 17 digs per set after finishing as No. 22 last season with 17.33.

“Defense is a lot about effort and your mentality, and we’ve been lucky enough to have two great defensive players on the team in our liberos,”

Kramer said.

The other libero, who is not a senior, is Bonnie West, the university’s career leader in digs.

Russo leads the team by raking up 5.78 digs per set, good for No. 8 nationally and second only to conference and national leader Kim Maroon of Villanova.

“We let (Serinna) read and make the right play on the right ball, and we have a lot of confidence that she can do a good job of that,” Kramer said.

Post has 3,294 assists in her career, putting her just 44 behind Kailee Goold for No. 4.

Russo, a Riverside, Calif., native, would finish with the seventh most digs in a season if the season ended today.

She could threaten Michelle Domas for first as she only trails the record by 62 digs.

“It’s something you can hold on to if you want and be proud of,” Kramer said. “The most important part is when it effects the team in a positive way.”

The Mountaineers can make a major dent in USF’s tournament hopes as the Bulls are in a four-way tie with only three spots remaining. The

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by nick arthur sports writer

With only four games remaining, the No. 23 Cincinnati Bearcats are the only undefeated team left in Big East Conference play.

The Bearcats have now won six straight games after defeating Pittsburgh last Saturday.

“Pitt is a very, very wellcoached football team,” said Cincinnati head coach Butch Jone. “Anytime you can go on the road in this conference and come away with a win is a great thing.

“It was a great college football game – very hard-fought.

Both teams played with great effort and energy. I thought we made the plays we needed to.”

The Bearcats will host the West Virginia Mountaineers Saturday at noon.

“Obviously a tremendous challenge playing West Virginia,” Jones said. “They’re very talented and play with a great tempo on offense.”

The game will be played at Paul Brown Stadium – home of the Cincinnati Bengals – instead of Cincinnati’s on-campus venue at Nippert Stadium. Butch Jones is proud of the way the team has dealt with non-traditional home games.

“We’re playing at Paul Brown Stadium. We haven’t played a home game at Nippert Stadium since Sept. 22,” he said. “You just can’t say enough about everyone associated with our football program right now.”

The Bearcats have won three consecutive conference games. In all three games, the Bearcats didn’t hold a halftime lead and were forced to overcome deficits. Jones feels

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Senior Kate Harrison and the No. 13 West Virginia cross country team will run in the Mid-Atlantic regional this weekend with a chance to earn a spot in the NCAA championships.

Head coach Butch Jones has led Cincinnati to six straight victories. this has to change.

“We can’t continue to do that; we have to get off to faster starts,” he said.

Despite West Virginia’s recent problems defensively, Jones feels the Mountaineer defense can cause some problems.

“I still see a typical West Virginia defense,” Jones said.

“They’re fast, they’re physical, they play with great effort.

You’re not going to find anyone in the country who has more respect for Jeff Casteel than I do.”

Cincinnati is the only remaining team in the Big East

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that controls its own destiny.

If the Bearcats win their final four games, they will represent the Big East Conference in a BCS bowl.

The reason for their success this season may be a vocal group of seniors.

“I can’t say enough about our senior class and the leadership they’ve provided,” Jones said. “We’re going to be challenged down the stretch, starting off with what I think is one of the premiere teams in our conference in West Virginia.” nicholas.arthur@mail.wvu.edu

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West Virginia to host Cincy, Villanova by robert kreis sports writer

The West Virginia swimming and diving team will take on Cincinnati and Villanova this weekend at the WVU Natatorium.

Mountaineer head coach Vic Riggs thinks the meet against the two schools could give a good idea of how good his team can be this season.

“Beating Cincinnati and Villanova, two teams that are going to be very competitive at the Big East Championship, will be very significant for us,” Riggs said.

The Mountaineers will dive back into action after a long break in competition.

Riggs took the time off to prepare his team for the brunt of the Mountaineers’ 2011-12 season. “(Practice) has been good,” Riggs said. “We have had some good training sessions, and I definitely feel like we are getting ready to hit the (next) part of our season pretty well.”

Although both the men and women’s teams have not won a meet since the West Virginia State Games, both teams featured swimmers

putting up impressive number in the early season.

On the men’s side, freshman Daeton Davenport looks to be a bright spot for the Mountaineers for years to come.

Davenport, a freestyle swimmer from Austin, Texas, has claimed victories in the 200 free, 1,000 free, as well as been a key member of the 400 free relay. “(Davenport) is learning a lot,” Riggs said. “He has really stepped up on some of the areas he needed to improve upon, and we are hoping for the rest of the season those things will continue to improve.”

Junior Rachel Burnett has started the season in dominating fashion and leads the women’s team. Burnett has posted wins in the 400 IM, the 100 free and is a member of the 200 medley and 400 free relay teams.

Burnett was also able to capture a new pool record in the 1000 free during the West Virginia State Games. Riggs believes Burnett’s motivation has come from disappointment last year.

“I think missing NCAA last year was a disappoint-

ment,” Riggs said. “Any time you have an opportunity to respond to disappointment you can respond in a negative way or a positive way, and I think (Burnett) is responding in a positive way.

“The ultimate goal of getting back to NCAA’s is fueling the fire for (Burnett) right now.”

Riggs expects Saturday’s meet to be a close one for the women’s team.

“Both (Villanova and Cincinnati) are going to be real good challenges,” he said. “I think having the depth that we have this year, having the divers is really going to make for an exciting meet.”

As for the men’s team, Riggs looks for Villanova and Cincinnati to put forth a strong effort, but fully expect the Mountaineers to come out on top.

“We are looking at an opportunity to perform at a comfortable level,” Riggs said. “Cincinnati and Villanova men’s are good programs, but we feel that we are a stronger program and we should come out with a pretty strong win.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

Mountaineers to run in Mid-Atlantic regional by ethan rohrbaugh sports writer

The No. 13 West Virginia cross country team will line up in hopes of locking up a bid for the NCAA championships this Saturday as the Mountaineers travel to Princess Anne, Md., for the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional.

WVU enters the race as the third-ranked team in the region behind Big East Conference foes No. 2 Villanova and No. 7 Georgetown. No. 22 Penn State is the only other top 25 squad in the 39-team Mid-Atlantic.

The Mountaineers were last in action Oct. 29 at the conference championships. The team finished in a tie for fourth with No. 9 Syracuse as Villanova went on to its fourth consecutive league title.

Three all-Big East performances led the Mountaineers as redshirt senior Kate Harrison, junior Katie Gillespie and redshirt junior Sarah-Anne Brault all finished in the top 15.

Head coach Sean Cleary said that he was satisfied with how his group ran at the championship meet, but added they would need another big showing at regionals to secure a spot in the national title race.

His runners think they’re close to reaching the peak of

their performance.

“We’re expecting to have our best races in the next couple of races,” Harrison said.

The Toronto native placed third in the Big East and has a pair of first place finishes under her belt this season, but said this weekend is all about the team.

“This one is definitely about the team and just running as well as possible as an individual to help the team get to nationals,” Harrison said.

The key for West Virginia in pulling off a Regional title, according to Harrison, Gillespie, and Cleary, is getting a better run out of the ladies behind the Mountaineers’ all-Conference runners.

“Everyone’s running a bit more consistent, so it’s just about trying to get our four, five, and six runners a little closer in the pack to our one, two, three,” Gillespie said.

Redshirt seniors Ahna Lewis, Kaylyn Christopher and redshirt junior Stephanie Aldea make up the most likely four, five, six for WVU and provide Cleary with some added experience toward the bottom of the lineup.

“They know that they’re better than what they ran at the Big East,” Harrison said. “They know where they can improve

and do even better for us.”

The course that will host Saturday’s race in Princess Anne is the very same course on which WVU started the season Sep. 3.

Though none of West Virginia’s usual starters were competing in that race, they did get a chance to work out on the course.

“We know what to expect for the course and we’ve seen the competition so we know what they’re looking like,” Harrison said.

“We’ve been doing more speed training and fine-tuning,” Gillespie said of the team’s workouts. “We should be feeling a little better, a little quicker and a little sharper as we get close in.”

With most of the ladies running for West Virginia getting set for their third or fourth Regional championship race, Harrison noted the calm confidence that comes with having been here before.

“Having done it so many times, you feel more mature and patient and that really helps a lot,” Harrison said.

“A lot of it is running your own race,” Gillespie said. “But I know where I should be in proximity to some girls from other teams.” ethan.rohrbaugh@mail.wvu.edu

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Volleyball, hockey have successful weekend by jon fehrens

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An array of different club teams were on display last weekend for West Virginia ranging from club volleyball all the way to the climbing team.

The women’s club volleyball team traveled to Pittsburgh Sunday to take place in the University of Pittsburgh Invitational.

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Bulls are last of the four because of overall record, trailing Seton Hall, Georgetown, and Syracuse.

“We just need to go out and play hard, and we need to be playing our best volleyball.

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The team returned to Morgantown for Saturday’s game against Youngstown State.

In a 6-2 win over the Penguins, Nick Persichetti became the second Mountaineer to record a hat trick.

The two wins give the hockey team its longest winning streak of the season, winning its last five.

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The team looks to be short in accomplishing their goal of qualifying for the tournament, but Kramer and her army are still taking steps in the right direction – whether in the Big East or the Big-12.

“We’ve made improvements, but you also have reflection, so you look back on things to see where you could

be better,” Kramer said.

“It’s seeing where we’re at in the big scheme of things and picturing the program, and not taking it year to year.

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West Virginia head coach Mike Carey talks to his players in a huddle of the Mountaineers exhibition game against Wheeling Jesuit.

Carey, West Virginia sign five players to 2012 recruiting class by ben gaughan

associate sports editor

The West Virginia women’s basketball team announced Wednesday it has signed five new players for the 2012-13 season.

West Virginia head coach Mike Carey added Bria Holmes (Hamden, Conn.); Lanay Montgomery (Germantown, Md.); Darius Faulk (New York, N.Y.); Jennie Simms (Accokeek, Md.) and Makenzie White (Danville, W.Va.) to the 2012 Mountaineer class.

Carey spoke highly of the incoming recruiting class for next year.

“This is a great class that we are bringing in,” Carey said.

“It is probably, as a collective group, the best class we have ever brought in during my time here.”

Holmes is a 6-foot-1 guard

and has the highest rank out of the recruiting class. ESPNU HoopGurlz ranks her at No. 28, and according to Jump Off Plus reports Holmes is the secondbest small forward and No. 16 best player in the country.

Entering her senior season, Holmes has helped James Hillhouse to a 72-9 record over the last three years, including three straight state championships.

The senior guard has 1,459 points, 486 rebounds, 324 assists, 405 steals and 162 blocks up to this point in her high school career.

Holmes is a three-time Southern Connecticut all-Conference player. She was named as a two-time New Haven Tap all-County, two-time CHSCA all-State, three-time all-State New Haven Register, threetime all-Area New Haven Register, two-time MSG Player of the Week and Southern Con-

rowing

WVU to adjust for shorter race by amit batra sports writer

The West Virginia rowing team returns to the water for the Philadelphia Frostbite Regatta in Philadelphia, Pa., Saturday.

The race will be held at Cooper River in Philadelphia after the Head of Schuykill was cut short due to adverse weather conditions.

The Frostbite Regatta will feature shorter racing distances. The Frostbite is a 2 km. race; WVU’s previous races have been 5 km.

“Following the Head of Schuylkill, our team has focused on preparing for the shorter racing distance we will see at the Frostbite,” said senior Shannon Gribbons.

“We have worked on our starting strokes and reaching higher stroke rates in order to prepare for the shorter race,” she said.

As the season progresses, West Virginia hopes to improve its results and gain more experience.

WVU has done better in each regatta leading up to the Philadelphia Frostbite.

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four medals at the Head of Ohio in Pittsburgh, two first place finishes at the Head of the Kanawha in Charleston, and the same at the Head of Schuykill The Philadelphia Frostbite Regatta will focus on the rowing team’s ability to adjust to the shorter distances they will face.

“Our training has remained largely the same with the exception of working on racing starts in preparation for the Frostbite Regatta,” said head coach Jimmy King.

“Unlike the fall races that are raced in a time trial fashion over 5000 meters, the Frostbite is like our spring races – raced over 2000 meters alongside other boats.”

The week off for the rowing team could help them for this competition.

“Although we didn’t race, we certainly didn’t rest,” King said.

“The weekend between the Schuykill and the Frostbite did help, however, by simply giving us more time to work on some aspects of 2 km. racing that we generally ignore through much of the fall season.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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She averaged 14.5 points per game, 8.7 rebounds per game and 2.8 blocks per game— totaling 463 points, 278 rebounds and 88 blocks in her junior season at Academy of the Holy Cross.

“Lanay (Montgomery) is one of the best high school post players in the country,” Carey said. “We’re excited to get her here. She’ll be able to contribute as a freshman and be able to come in with her size and skills and be a great player for us.”

Faulk, out of Nazareth Regional, is a 5-foot-10 guard ranked No. 60 in the class of 2012. She helped lead Nazareth Regional to its first New York State Federation Class AA Championship in 2011.

She also plays for head coach Apache Paschal with the AAU team Exodus New York City.

“Darius gives us speed on

the perimeter,” Carey said. “She is a very active point guard, very aggressive defensively and offensively, (and) gives us that extra burst of speed and plays extremely hard... We think she’ll be able to contribute immediately to the program.”

Simms, a 6-foot forward out of Riverdale Baptist High, is ranked No. 87 overall and No. 20 at the forward position by ESPNU HoopGurlz.

“She can shoot the three but can also take you inside and post you,” Carey said of Simms’ flexibility.

White, a 5-foot-9 guard, is no stranger to WVU. The Danville, W.Va., native was raised around the WVU program.

As a junior, White helped the Scott High Skyhawks to the semifinals of the Class AA state tournament in 2011. She tied a state record, scoring 37 points in the 63-61 opening-round

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“Makenzie White is a player from the state that we are excited to have here at West Virginia University,” Carey said.

“She is an extremely hard worker, can score the basketball and is a very physical player. She will fit in great in our program.”

Carey is confident with the class he is bringing into the program next year and knows these girls reflect what Mountaineer basketball is all about.

“We are very excited for the future of West Virginia women’s basketball because it is very bright,” he said. “All these players are great people who come from great families, and we are really proud to have them here at West Virginia University.” ben.gaughan@mail.wvu.edu

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necticut Conference championship MVP. “Bria is a great-sized guard that can play several positions,” Carey said. “She is one of those players that with her size, at 6-foot-1, can go inside out, shoot the three and also take it off the dribble on the fast break.

The flexibility of someone like her also gives us a lot of things we can do on both sides of the court. She is highly recruited, and we are very excited to have her. She gives us a type of player that we haven’t had here in a very long time.”

Montgomery is coached by Ed Simpson, who is the same high school coach by whom current WVU freshman guard Akilah Bethel was coached.

Montgomery, a 6-foot-5 center, is a three-star prospect who was named to the WCAC allConference first team in her junior season.

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