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Benefit remembers student attack by carlee lammers staff writer

A benefit for former West Virginia University student Ryan Diviney was held at de Lazy Lizard Thursday night to help Diviney’s family with his medical bills and to increase awareness of campus safety.

Diviney was brutally attacked outside of the Willey Street Dairy Mart in 2009 and remains in a coma-like state.

The benefit was sponsored by

Ryan’s Rally, a website founded by his family for friends to place donations and show their support.

Diviney’s sister, Kari, said she and her family are grateful for the support they have received from the Morgantown community over the past two years.

“I call it my home away from home. I am constantly surrounded by support and people that care,” she said.

“Any support means so much to us, not just money – but love,”

she said. “It’s so nice to know that two years later people still care and show support to our family.”

WVU Student Government Association Director of Safety Dave Small said it’s important to spread awareness of Diviney’s story in order to promote a safer campus environment.

“A lot of students are new on campus and haven’t even heard about what happened. We want to tell the story of Ryan because this could happen to anyone,”

Small said.

Small, who after hearing Diviney’s story became inspired to increase campus safety efforts, said his story speaks volumes about the potential dangerous situations on campus.

“The sheer fact that the incident happened 15 feet away from campus speaks to the need of an increased awareness,” he said.

Small said it’s important for the student body to keep Diviney in their thoughts and con-

tinue to tell his story to others.

“We want those who are students now to show their support for a former student,” he said. “You know like they say, ‘Once a Mountaineer, always a Mountaineer.’”

The Golden Finch will also donate a portion of its profits today and Saturday to the Diviney family.

For more information, visit www.ryansrally.org. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

RISE TO THE TOP

by mike atkinson staff writer

The Mountain Line Transit Authority announced Thursday that changes have been made to a an evening bus route to assist in late night congestion mitigation and improve public safety along the High Street corridor.

Campus PM Bus Route 1 has eliminated the High Street mid-block pickup spot near Wall Street and has assigned the Courthouse Square as the designated pickup spot for High Street.

The change will be in effect for the remainder of the fall semester and has been made at the request of the City of Morgantown, said David Bruffy, Mountain Line Transit Authority general manager.

A survey was sent to students’ MIX accounts to decide which alternative route would serve the late night student riders best, Bruffy said.

“Typically, we consider the customers first, so it’s clear that it will be in the best interest of the customers,” Bruffy said. “We want to give the customers what they want. We looked at a number of other alternatives.”

Bruffy said Mountain Line is working to make sure students are well-informed of the changes, since the PM bus

by nick arthur sports writer

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College of Law to offer legal advice to veterans staff writer

West Virginia University and the Louis A. Johnson VA Healthcare System have created a partnership that will provide veterans with free legal advice from WVU College of Law students.

The program is part of the College of Law’s Veterans Assistance Program that serves nearly 23,000 veterans in North Central West Virginia.

“The Veterans Assistance Project is designed to provide civil legal advice and representation to veterans in the Clarksburg, W.Va., Veterans Affairs catchment area,” said Tom Yanni, a third-year law student who works as a student

attorney.

Student attorneys like Yanni practice under the direction of supervising attorneys and provide a wide range of legal services including appearances in West Virginia state and federal courts.

“The partnership will not only benefit veterans, but will also provide law students with a great amount of experience working with clients,” Yanni said.

“The VA has the goal to eliminate veterans homelessness by 2015,” Yanni said. “The College of Law’s goal is to provide civil legal services to West Virginia’s eligible veteran population, and provide opportunities for student attorneys to

conduct all aspects of the legal profession.”

The new partnership will also provide free legal services for veterans concerning issues such as custody, divorce, property and Social Security.

“The goal is to help veterans navigate through and successfully use the civil legal system to meet their needs,” Yanni said.

“They may have needs originating from recent military service or needs originating from civil dealings and happenings.

We provide services to both groups.”

A group of WVU College of Law students came up with the idea to create a program that provides veterans with legal help in order to prevent

them from becoming homeless and participating in criminal behavior.

“The Veterans Law Caucus, a student organization, began discussing ways to help the local veteran population with legal services three years ago,” Yanni said.

To help support their efforts, third-year law student L.G. Corder conducted and published a report that assessed the legal needs of West Virginian veterans.

He found the needs of instate veterans closely align with the capabilities of the Clinical Law Program at the College of Law, which allows qualified

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AT A GLANCE: - Campus PM Bus Route 1 has eliminated the High Street pickup - Courthouse Square will be the designated pickup spot route is an important aspect of campus safety.

“The Campus PM Bus is a good service, especially if someone is not in a good condition to drive,” he said. “We want students to know there will be signage and employees directing people from the old stop to the new one.”

Mountain Line alerts riders via text message updates in case of last minute changes or inclement weather.

Students can also track the bus via live feeds on Twitter and on the website.

While Bruffy is pleased with the new changes, he said there are still improvements to be made.

“I’d like to see better crowd control, more buses and better waiting areas – possibly indoors with restrooms. But, we have to work with what we have – and that’s up to the Board of Directors,” he said.

For more information, visit www.busride.org or call (304) 291-RIDE. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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by jessica lear

– Kari Diviney

Mountain Line announces changes to bus route

From a program without an office or a field to 12 consecutive NCAA tournament appearances

Life wasn’t always as rewarding as it is now for West Virginia women’s soccer head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown.

She became the first women’s soccer head coach in school history on the first Thursday in August 1995. After 16 grueling seasons, Izzo-Brown decided to look back on what has been a remarkable journey.

“When I was first hired, they didn’t even have an office for me,” she said. “I ended up sharing an office in the Coliseum with the men’s tennis coach, and my office was an old first aid office, so it had a sink and a mirror in it.”

The tiny office was just one of many inconveniences Izzo-Brown faced in her early years in Morgantown.

“We had to share the football’s practice facility. We would wait until football was done, then between men’s and women’s soccer, we never had our own facility,” she said. “That was very interesting – three teams sharing the field. And, in our first year, we played games at Mountaineer Field.”

Life for the Rochester, N.Y., native has changed drastically. She now has her own office located just inside the newly built Dreamswork Field practice facility.

The venue was built specifically for the women’s soccer team in 2010. The addition of the field makes scheduling practices much simpler.

“It is just so much easier on our staff and on the athletes. They have enough to shuffle around, let alone waiting until 9 at night to practice. Also, proper training has been huge for recruiting and for the well-being and welfare of the athlete,” she said.

Izzo-Brown has produced plenty of success. She has compiled a 224-86-32 record while head coach of the Mountaineers. What has been the secret to her illustrious success?

“What’s important is making sure you surround

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I call it my home away from home.

I am constantly surrounded by support and people that care.

Any support means so much to us, not just money - but love.”

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by bryan bumgardner staff writer

Randy Singleton, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Morgantown, spoke to West Virginia University students Thursday about regret.

“They said to me, ‘All you’ve got to do is quit, Randy,’ but I couldn’t,” he said.

Singleton, 43, from Kentucky, only has 37 days left of his 10-year sentence for possession of methamphetamines with intent to sell.

He and fellow inmates from the Institution visited the University Thursday as part of an AlcoholEdu program hosted

by WELLWVU: The Students’ Center for Health.

Singleton shared his experiences with addiction and trafficking in hopes of helping WVU students realize the true dangers of drugs and alcohol.

In the wake of his father’s death, Singleton said his mother became abusive.

Searching for an escape, he first tried cocaine at the age of 15.

“It was the answer to all of my questions,” Singleton said.

“It made everything alright.”

However, Singleton said his drug use soon took control of his life, driving him to rehab and prison.

“I couldn’t figure out why my life was a sham or why I was always in trouble or in prison. My whole life has been run on resentment and anger,” he said.

Singleton warned students that drug and alcohol use in college can become a slippery slope.

“It all starts somewhere.

College puts you in a different environment with people doing stuff they shouldn’t be doing,” he said. “When I was 19 and doing these things, I never thought I would spend a third of my life in prison.”

Now, Singleton said he has a new outlook on life and looks forward to starting over once he’s released.

“Today, I have a new chance. I’m not going to let them run my life any more. I thought I needed drugs, that it was normal to be high,” he said. “Now I know that’s not a good way to live my life.”

Derek Wade, an inmate

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DATE WITH CINCINNATI The West Virginia football team will try to avenge last week’s lost to Louisville with a Big East win at Cincinnati Saturday.

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American soldier found guilty in Afghan thrill-killings JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) — A U.S. Army soldier accused of exhorting his bored underlings to slaughter three civilians for sport was convicted of murder, conspiracy and other charges Thursday in one of the most gruesome cases to emerge from the Afghan war.

Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs, of Billings, Mont., was the highest ranking of five soldiers charged in the deaths of the unarmed men during patrols in Kandahar province early last year. At his seven-day court martial at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle, the 26-yearold acknowledged cutting fingers off corpses and yanking out a victim’s tooth to keep as war trophies, “like keeping the antlers off a deer you’d shoot.”

But he insisted he wasn’t involved in the first or third killings, and in the second he merely returned fire.

Prosecutors said Gibbs and his co-defendants knew the victims posed no danger, but dropped weapons by their dead

bodies to make them appear to have been combatants.

Three of the co-defendants pleaded guilty, and two of them testified against him, portraying him as an imposing, bloodthirsty leader. Gibbs’ lawyer insisted they conspired to blame him for what they had done and told the five jurors the case represented “the ultimate betrayal of an infantryman.”

The jury deliberated for about four hours before convicting him. He faces, at minimum, life with parole, and at maximum life without it. The sentencing hearing began immediately after the verdict was announced, with Gibbs’ lawyer, Phil Stackhouse, asking the jury for leniency on his behalf and noting that Gibbs could be eligible for parole after 10 years under a life sentence.

“He’d like you to know he has had failures in his life and he’s had a lot of time to think about them,” Stackhouse said.

“He wants you to know he’s not the same person he was in Afghanistan. He doesn’t want his

wife to have to raise their son on her own.”

The investigation into the 5th Stryker Brigade unit exposed widespread misconduct — a platoon that was “out of control,” in the words of a prosecutor, Maj. Robert Stelle. The wrongdoing included hashsmoking, the collection of illicit weapons, the mutilation and photography of Afghan remains, and the gang-beating of a soldier who reported the drug use.

In all, 12 soldiers were charged; all but 2 have now been convicted.

The probe also raised questions about the brigade’s permissive leadership culture and the Army’s mechanisms for reporting misconduct.

After the first killing, one soldier, then-Spc. Adam Winfield, alerted his parents and told them more killings were planned, but his father’s call to a sergeant at Lewis-McChord relaying the warning went unheeded. Winfield later pleaded guilty to involuntary man-

slaughter in the last killing, saying he took part because he believed Gibbs would kill him if he didn’t.

The case against Gibbs relied heavily on testimony from former Spc. Jeremy Morlock, of Wasilla, Alaska, who is serving 24 years after admitting his involvement in all three killings.

According to Morlock, Gibbs gave him an “off-the-books” grenade that Morlock and Private 1st Class Andrew Holmes, of Boise, Idaho, used in the first killing — a teenager in a field — in January 2010.

The next month, Morlock said, Gibbs killed the second victim with Spc. Michael Wagnon, of Las Vegas, and tossed an AK-47 at the man’s feet to make him appear to have been an enemy fighter. Morlock and Winfield said that during the third killing, in May, Gibbs threw a grenade at the victim as he ordered them to shoot.

Morlock and others told investigators that soon after Gibbs joined the unit in 2010, he began talking about how easy it

Alaska storm passes, leaves widespread damage ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A massive storm that battered Alaska’s western coast with hurricane-strength winds and towering sea surges has passed out of the region in a much weaker state, but it left behind widespread damage and worries that a man may have been swept out to a churning sea.

So far, 37 communities have reported some form of damage, said Jeremy Zidek, spokesman for the state’s emergency management agency. Most of those communities have opened emergency community shelters, Zidek said.

The strongest storm to hit the state’s western coast in almost four decades also left behind tales of human endurance.

In one remote village that lost heat and power early Wednesday, about 20 vehicles lined up along an airstrip and used their headlights to guide in a plane carrying repair workers.

Other residents there came together and did traditional Eskimo dances used during whaling season to seek good weather.

On Thursday, rescuers searched for a 26-year-old man who authorities said may have been washed into the Bering Sea during the storm.

Kyle Komok, of Teller, was last seen at 4 p.m. Wednesday as he headed toward a jetty where waves were cresting as high as 10 feet, Alaska State Troopers said.

Komok’s sister, Maggie Christofferson, of Kodiak, told The Associated Press that her brother is an experienced mechanic.

“We’re hoping he’s just stuck somewhere, and we’re just praying that he’s safe.”

Emergency responders called the storm an epic event that displaced residents, flooded the shoreline, ripped up roofs and knocked out power in many villages.

The process of gauging the full extent of the damage will begin soon, officials said Thursday.

They noted some of the hardest-hit communities are in areas where winter daylight comes late in the day and mornings are in pitch darkness, which slowed down inspections.

Another storm stepped in to replace the tempest, but forecasters said the new storm was much weaker and expected to begin dying down later Thurs-

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would be to kill civilians, and discussed scenarios where they might carry out such murders.

Asked why soldiers might have agreed to go along with it, Morlock testified that the brigade had trained for deployment to Iraq before having their orders shifted at the last minute to Afghanistan.

The infantrymen wanted action and firefights, he testified, but instead they found themselves carrying out a more humanitarian counter-insurgency strategy that involved meetings and handshaking.

Another soldier, Staff Sgt. Robert Stevens, who at the time was a close friend of Gibbs, told investigators that in March 2010, he and others followed orders from Gibbs to fire on two unarmed farmers in a field; no one was injured. Gibbs claimed one was carrying a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, but that was obviously false, Stevens said.

Stevens also testified that Gibbs bragged to him about the second killing, admitting

soccer

Continued from page 1 yourself with people who believe in what you’re doing.

One thing I’m guilty of is having one of the most positive staffs who have really worked hard for the program,” she said.

Her squads have been extremely successful in Big East Conference play – particularly in recent seasons. West Virginia has won three of the last five Big East Championships, including one just last Sunday.

However, Izzo-Brown isn’t a fan of statistics. She admits that it would nice to take time to firmly grasp what’s been accomplished, but there is no time.

“As a coach you always look forward. For me, it’s what we can do next,” she said.

The Mountaineers are currently ranked No. 9 nationally and will begin NCAA tournament play Saturday at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.

The veteran head coach has a promise to Mountaineer

he planted an AK-47 on the victim’s body because he suspected the man on involvement with the Taliban, according to a report on the testimony in The News Tribune newspaper of Tacoma.

But during the trial, Gibbs insisted he came under fire.

“I was engaged by an enemy combatant,” he said. “Luckily his weapon appeared to malfunction and I didn’t die.”

Gibbs testified that he wasn’t proud about having removed fingers from the bodies of the victims, but said he tried to disassociate the corpses from the humans they had been as a means of coming to terms with the things soldiers are asked to do in battle.

The muscular 6-foot-4 staff sergeant also testified that he did it because other soldiers wanted the trophies, and he agreed in part because he didn’t want his subordinates to think he was a wimp.

Gibbs initially faced 16 charges, but one was dropped during the trial. fans.

“This team is going to refuse to lose, and I think that is going to be the biggest thing,” Izzo-Brown said. “They’re going to put it all on the line because it’s tournament time, and it’s do or die.”

Saturday’s game will be against an Atlantic Coastal Conference member and school rival Virginia Tech.

How will the Mountaineers attack their opponent?

“Right from the get-go, we’re going to get after the Hokies,” Izzo-brown said.

“We’re going to let them know where they are and who they’re playing with.”

One thing is certain – the Hokies already know who they’re playing with.

The modest Izzo-Brown won’t toot her own horn. She doesn’t want to talk about what she has accomplished and the accolades she has received. And to be honest, she doesn’t need to. The supreme empire she has built speaks for itself.

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A couple stand in front of flooded River Street Wednesday in Nome, Alaska. High winds and surging waves pummeled Alaska’s western coast Wednesday, churning the Bering Sea and forcing residents of Nome and isolated native villages to seek higher ground inland. day. It brought winds ranging from 20 to 40 mph, said National Weather Service meteorologist Don Moore.

In comparison, the storm that pounded the Bering Sea coast this week carried gusts of nearly 90 mph and created tides as high as 10 feet above normal.

Though far less powerful, the new storm contributed to already high water levels and kept them from receding as quickly, Moore said.

Communities hard hit include the northwest Alaska villages of Point Hope, built on a large gravel spit, and Kivalina, one of the most eroded communities in the state.

Point Hope Mayor Steve Oomittuk said homes in the Inupiat Eskimo community have been without electricity and heat since early Wednesday, after winds gusting at 80 mph slammed an old wooden shack into a power pole with five main lines, cutting it in half. The building then broke apart, sending wood flying.

“There’s a lot of debris in that area,” Oomittuk said Thursday morning, soon after repair workers landed at the airstrip.

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With the lights out, vehicles lined up along the runway to guide the plane with their headlights.

Oomittuk said the winds were too strong during the storm to get a full picture of the damage around the community.

More than 500 of Point Hope’s nearly 700 residents have been staying at the village school, which has its own generator. Principal Greg Wilbanks said the school would remain a community shelter Thursday night if power was not restored as quickly as hoped. That would mean classes would continue to be canceled for the rest of the week.

Among those seeking shelter at the school was Nellie Sears, the school librarian. She said every classroom was full of residents seeking shelter.

For a while there was a warning Wednesday that the barreling storm could get worse. So villagers started performing the traditional Eskimo dances they do during whaling season, when they are seeking good weather.

Just before 10 p.m., they got word that the warning had been canceled, Sears said.

“We dance to get help,” she said.

Kivalina, 75 miles down the coast, got a “good surge from the ocean,” said village spokeswoman Colleen Swan. But mornings are very dark and the extent of flooding was not immediately known beyond water washing over the village dump site and onto the beach, she said.

She later toured the area and said there was no damage to the dump even though wa-

ter reached a part of it. She said the beach was stressed and the ice lagoon cracked by the huge waves clocked in at 25 mph. At first glance, the village escaped with minimal impact.

“People were looking around and I think a lot of them are totally relieved,” she said. “We’re very thankful it did not get bad enough to flood the village. Not knowing was the worst.”

Most of the community’s 460 residents, including those nearest the ocean and lagoon, were evacuated to the school.

Swan said the door of a community building was ripped off during the storm’s fury. When she awoke Thursday morning, there was a quiet stillness.

“The moon is out. It’s very beautiful,” she said Thursday morning. “It is very calm, as if nothing ever happened.”

The storm battered the oceanfront homes in the tiny village of Shaktoolik, but structures appeared to have been spared, said Michael Sookiayak, a planner for the Shaktoolik tribal council.

“There has been no preliminary reports of major damage here in Shaktoolik,” he said Thursday morning. “Of course, that might change over the course of a day.”

Sookiayak is among those who live on the oceanfront.

“I think the worst part for me and my family ... was watching the waves come up closer and closer to the houses on the ocean side of the community,” he said.

The waves crested over the 2009 storm line, which is just a few feet from the homes, Sookiayak said.

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Izzo-Brown thanks fans following the West Virginia 2-0 win against Louisville to claim its second-consecutive Big East Championship.

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Wade’s father went to prison for murder when he was three, and by age seven, his mother was addicted to crack cocaine.

By age 10, Wade was dealing cocaine and regularly smoking marijuana.

Wade’s mother eventually became sober, and pressured him to do the same.

“My mother lived in an apartment, but I was paying the rent. “I said to her, ‘How can you tell me how to live my life when I’m paying the bills?

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I had to raise myself.’”

During an altercation with a gang, Wade was shot seven times, causing him to lose his right eye.

Wade continued to sell drugs despite the attack, eventually becoming convicted for drug trafficking.

Wade said after participating in the FCI rehabilitation program, he’s ready to begin a new life and has goals of becoming a social worker.

“I feel like if I had a good role model growing up, these things wouldn’t have happened to me,” Wade said. “I want to give back to the community that gave so much to me.”

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Over time, the group gained the support of dean of the College of Law, Joyce McConnell, and numerous law professors to use the Clinical Law Program to support West Virginian veterans.

This partnership is the first of its kind, and Yanni said he hopes it inspires other law schools to create similar programs.

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Venezuela vows all-out hunt for Nationals’ Ramos CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The government sent top investigators Thursday to hunt for Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos, whose abduction has shaken Venezuela’s elite athletes and focused attention on the nation’s sharp rise in kidnappings for ransom.

The 24-year-old player, who had returned to Venezuela after his rookie season, was just outside the front door at his home in the town of Santa Ines on Wednesday night when an SUV approached, armed men got out “and they took him away,” said Ramos’ agent, Gustavo Marcano.

It was the first known kidnapping of a Major League Baseball player in Venezuela, though the relatives of some ballplayers have previously been held captive for ransom.

Police found the kidnappers’ vehicle abandoned in the nearby town of Bejuma on Thursday morning, Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said. He said anti-kidnapping units led by “the best investigators we have” were dispatched to the area in central Carabobo state.

He vowed to rescue Ramos and capture his abductors.

“We’re taking on this investigation with everything we’ve got,” El Aissami said.

Major League Baseball and the Nationals said the leagues’ Department of Investigations was working with authorities.

“Our foremost concern is with Wilson Ramos and his family and our thoughts are with them at this time,” the team and the MLB said in a

joint statement, adding there would be no further comment.

Ramos was outside with his father and two brothers when the SUV pulled up with four men inside, three of whom got out and seized the player, Marcano said.

“The abductors haven’t made contact with the family or with anyone,” said Domingo Alvarez, vice president of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League. “We’re worried.”

Ramos is a key young player for the Nationals. As a rookie in 2011, he hit .267 with 15 home runs and 52 RBIs in 113 games.

He also threw out 19 of 67 runners attempting to steal a base, a 28 percent success rate that ranked third among qualifying catchers in the National League.

Washington acquired Ramos from the Minnesota Twins in a trade for All-Star relief pitcher Matt Capps in July 2010.

He is one of dozens of Venezuelans in professional baseball, and security while at home has increasingly become a concern for the players and their families as a rising wave of kidnappings has hit the wealthy as well as the middle class.

Venezuelan police said 618 kidnappings were reported in 2009, and the numbers have grown rapidly in recent years.

In 1998, when President Hugo Chavez was elected, just 52 kidnappings were reported.

Security experts say the real number of kidnappings today is much higher because many cases aren’t reported to

authorities.

The wealthy have taken steps to protect themselves. Sales of armored cars have soared in the past several years. Bodyguards typically shadow major leaguers when they return to their homeland to play in the winter league.

“Every major league player has his own security, but we don’t know if he had his security there at that time,” Alvarez said.

Former Boston Red Sox slugger Tony Armas, who lives in Venezuela, said young players have been taking additional security measures due to the risk of kidnappings.

“But many of them are careless sometimes. No one seriously thinks that this can happen to us, and much less in a country like ours where people love baseball,” Armas said in a telephone interview.

“Most of us came from humble families. We still have relatives who live in poor areas; we frequent those places and unfortunately the criminals are getting more soulless all the time,” he said.

In November 2009, the 56-year-old mother of Victor Zambrano, who retired after a seven-year Major League career, was rescued in a commando-style operation three days after she was kidnapped.

The former pitcher’s cousin, Richard Mendez Zambrano, had been kidnapped a few days earlier, and was later killed.

In June 2009, Colorado Rockies catcher Yorvit Torrealba’s 11-year-old son and brother-in-law were kid-

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Washington Nationals’ Wilson Ramos looks on during a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix. According to Kathe Vilera, a spokeswoman for Ramos’ Venezuelan League team, the Aragua Tigers, four armed men kidnapped Ramos on Wednesday from his home in central Venezuela. napped and released a day later.

The mother of former player Ugueth Urbina, who was a twotime All-Star pitcher, spent more than five months in captivity until she was rescued in early 2005.

Venezuela has one of Latin America’s highest murder rates, and violent crime has worsened in recent years.

As ransom kidnapping has soared, the government passed a revised law in 2009 that stiffened prison sentences for kidnapping and also allows authorities to freeze the banks accounts of victims’ families to prevent them from paying ransom.

Ramos had been training and planned to start playing with his Venezuelan team next

week. Arizona Diamondbacks third baseman Melvin Mora, also a Venezuelan, proposed that the Venezuelan league ought to call off its games “until he appears.”

But league president Jose Grasso said that won’t happen. “Turning out the stadium lights isn’t a solution,” Grasso said, calling Ramos’ abduction “an isolated event.”

Cuban homes up for sale, housing law in effect Attackers blow up gas HAVANA (AP) — For sale: 5BR 4BA tropical delight along Havana’s exclusive embassy row, just steps from the balmy waters of the Florida Straits.

Asking price $200,000. Foreigners need not apply.

This is the face of a brandnew real estate market that became official in Cuba on Thursday, as a new measure legalized home sales for the first time in generations, applying a jolt of free-market wheeling and dealing to one of the socialist country’s most dire problems: a grave shortage of housing.

“I think this law is divine,” said Tania Duran, who’s offering the home in western Havana. “What I find strange is that it hasn’t happened before, because it’s only logical that if you have property and want to sell it, you can.”

Listings on a Craigslist-style website have mushroomed since the law was announced last week, with prices ranging from the tens of thousands into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, even a cool $1 million for an oceanside villa in the resort town of Varadero.

The law is the highest-profile economic reform yet undertaken by President Raul Castro, who has spearheaded a year of economic changes that has let Cubans go into business for themselves in unprecedented numbers, to legally rent out rooms and automobiles and even to buy and sell used cars.

But the housing bill is the one most likely to affect the lives of millions of Cubans.

Residents of the capital began lining up at government offices early to seek information and process paperwork for property deeds, and their numbers increased throughout the day.

“This is great!” said Havana resident Maribel Diaz, who at 47 years old had never known a time when she might have legally sold her home. “We’ve really needed it for a long time.”

Until now, islanders have turned to black-market transactions with many thousands of dollars changing hands under the table. Now they can sell real estate openly, bequeath property to relatives without restriction and avoid forfeiting their homes if they abandon the country.

Cuba’s housing crunch is acute. Many extended families are crammed into aging, decrepit houses and apartments that have been subdivided again and again to shelter more and more people. The government acknowledges a shortfall of around 500,000 homes, and some experts say it lacks as many as 1.6 million units of adequate housing.

The new law should make it easier for young couples to find their own space, and

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Tania Duran, right, and her husband Fernando Ramiro stand in their home which they have put on the market in Havana, Cuba, Thursday. for seniors to downsize their empty nests and pocket money to fund their retirement.

Because of the new law, “I have a relative who’s leaving the country and now I can take over the house,” said Ricardo Montero Bravo, 40, one of dozens of residents seeking more information and help in putting property titles in order.

Economists caution not to expect too much, too soon.

Much of the money for purchases is expected to come from exiles helping relatives back home, but some may be wary of investing while one of the Castros are in office. The exile community has also been hard hit by the economic recession, and may not have that much disposable income.

“Maybe the expectations are a little overblown to the extent that the situation in South Florida, where most Cuban immigrants are, is not that great right now,” said Sergio Diaz-Briquets, a U.S.based demography expert who has written about housing in Cuba.

But Omar Everleny Perez, the lead economist at Havana University’s Center for Cuban Economic Studies, said in a recent interview that some

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Cubans do have the money: Bank accounts are concentrated among 13 percent of islanders who control 90 percent of the deposits, he said, and some are worth $160,000 to $200,000.

The new law requires that Cubans prove the legitimacy of their funds, and does not establish the right of foreigners to purchase property. There also is no mechanism for lending or mortgages, meaning the price must be paid in cash.

But many Cubans do have high hopes, evidenced by a flurry of activity on Revolico. com, a Craigslist-style classified ad website that since 2007 has been a clearinghouse for real estate transactions involving thousands of dollars changing hands, something that was illegal, until now.

Many listings are relatively modest: $11,000 for a two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment in Havana’s Nuevo Vedado district, or $15,000 for a three-bedroom house in historic Old Havana advertised as “needing profound repairs.”

But some homes in the up-

scale western neighborhoods of the capital run into the hundreds of thousands. And then there’s the Varadero villa, just steps from the sea, pictured as a whitewashed, red-tile roof mansion on a walled property with palm trees and a secondstory balcony.

Its $1 million price tag is particularly eye-popping in a country where government salaries average about $20 per month, and a number of Revolico users doubted its legitimacy, writing in postings on the website that nobody could have come by that kind of money legitimately. There was no phone number given for the owner, and a message sent to the listed email address bounced back.

But in Havana’s embassy district, Duran, 34, is confident that she’ll find someone with a wallet thick enough to pay $200,000 for her fivebedroom, two-story home, which her family spent years remodeling.

“There are people who have that kind of money and will be able to pay,” Duran said.

EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Attackers set off explosives along a gas pipeline in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula that transports fuel to neighboring Israel and Jordan early on Thursday, Egypt’s state news agency MENA reported.

It was the seventh attack on the pipeline since the popular uprising ousted longtime Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak in February.

The report on MENA said unidentified assailants placed explosive charges in two separate places on the line that transports natural gas near the north Sinai town of el-Arish, causing blasts and huge fires. The explosions forced a shutdown and halted exports to Jordan and Israel.

But later, a Sinai security official said there was only one explosion Thursday on the pipeline. He said the attackers blew a hole in an underground part of the pipeline, causing less damage than in past attacks, which mostly targeted pumping stations.

The official said no one saw the attackers, though police were searching the site for

clues. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Previous bombings have been blamed on al-Qaidainspired militants who have stepped up activity in the Sinai, taking advantage of a security vacuum caused by scant police forces in the post-Mubarak era.

Gas exports through the pipeline resumed about a month ago after damage from previous bombings was repaired.

Also in Sinai, Egyptian security officials said Thursday they arrested 36 Eritreans trying to illegally cross into Israel, among them six children and nearly 20 women.

The security officials said the African migrants were hiding just north of the Egyptian border city of Taba with Bedouin smugglers. The migrants paid $40,000 dollars to the smugglers to sneak them into Israel, the officials said.

More than 30,000 Africans searching for jobs or asylum have crossed into Israel since 2005, most of them illegally, according to Israeli government estimates.

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Thank our veterans for their sacrifices Sacrifices made by those in the United States armed forces are more than most Americans can even imagine. They willingly face extreme danger to secure our nation’s freedom.

While it would be appropriate to do so everyday, be sure to that on Veterans Day you thank every service member you see.

Whereas Memorial Day is designated to honor the U.S. soldiers who have died in war, Veterans Day honors all who

have served – both past and present; living and dead.

Combat veterans deal with the horrors of war long after the battles are finished. One tour of combat duty results in a lifetime of tragic memories for the brave soldiers involved.

The politics of war can be argued, but the service provided by the military cannot.

There are no politics involved for the soldiers; they are out to serve our country with no questions asked.

Soldiers enlist with one goal in mind – to proudly serve and protect our country.

Originally, Veterans Day was called “Armistice Day” and was implemented to celebrate peace and to honor the veterans of WWI. After the massive insurgence of troops during WWII and the Korean War, former president Dwight D. Eisenhower motioned to change to the holiday to honor all veterans of American wars, thus

the name was changed to Veterans Day. There is no sane individual who wishes to glamorize the atrocities of war: It is a terrible evil no one should experience.

Soldiers stationed around the world protect our interests abroad and ensure our safety at home.

Without the courageous soldiers in the U.S. military, our freedom would not be secure.

Because of the dedication and courage of our soldiers, at-

tacks on our homeland have been minimal throughout U.S. history to date.

The prosperity of our nation relies on the safety of our people - provided by nation’s soldiers.

All of them made sacrifices; some sacrificed all.

And we thank every one of them for their service and sacrifices; not just today, but everyday.

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Natural gas production needs stringent regulation

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There are 2,500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas beneath the United States. That is many decades and trillions of dollars worth of methane.

Ten percent of U.S. gas lies in a rock formation called the Marcellus Shale, which is about a mile and a half below the surface: It spans from southern West Virginia to upstate New York.

Extraction of gas from the Marcellus Shale is blowing up.

The first new-style Marcellus well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 2005, and there are already more than 1,000 of them. In the next 20 years, 60,000 more will likely be drilled.

With production set to spike, it is critical that we understand this type of gas production’s environmental consequences and

address the risks associated with it.

Gas vs. coal Natural gas is a cleaner fuel than coal. Per unit of energy, natural gas puts 20 to 50 percent less carbon in the atmosphere.

Gas doesn’t acidify rain, emit the neurotoxin mercury and put particulates in the air that give kids asthma.

However, natural gas is still a fossil fuel. It is finite, it releases carbon dioxide and other, more powerful greenhouse gases, and its extraction – especially from unconventional deposits like the Marcellus Shale – uses a tremendous amount of water, pollutes streams and fragments wildlife habitat.

Changes to the land Marcellus gas well pads are big: They occupy between three and eight acres, which is cleared of all vegetation.

Without plant roots to hold it in place, soil from well pads erodes rapidly and travels to streams where it interferes with plant growth and impairs eco-

system function. A recent study showed that the more well pads are in an area, the murkier the streams are – making them less healthy.

Fracking To release gas from shale rock, drillers use water mixed with sand, oils and chemicals at high pressure to fracture the rock that holds the gas, thereby allowing the gas to come up to the surface.

This process is known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Fracking has been used since the 1940s, but new technologies have changed how it’s done and how it impacts the environment.

Horizontal drilling allows drillers to go sideways into the gasbearing rock – meaning they can get much more gas out of each well.

Massive amounts of water To achieve the pressures required to fracture horizontally drilled rock, millions of gallons of water have to be used for each well.

Those millions of gallons of water are typically drawn from

nearby streams or rivers, which can put water stress on downstream ecosystems.

Chemical additives Unfortunately, water isn’t sufficient for that process. To promote gas flow and keep the system clean, companies mix chemicals like diesel fuel and formaldehyde into the water.

A Congressional investigation found that over four years, 14 top companies used over 750 different chemicals in fluids, 29 of which were highly toxic or carcinogenic.

Typically, the Safe Water Drinking Act would regulate this sort of thing, but the 2005 Energy Policy Act – for reasons that defy understanding – specifically exempts hydraulic fracturing operations.

Flowback water Between 10 and 30 percent of the water that is used to fracture the rock comes back to the surface as flowback. The fate of the chemicals in the other 70 to 90 percent of the water has not been studied.

When the water comes back to the surface, not only does it contain the chemicals the driller added, it also picks up some new constituents while it’s deep underground – including radioactivity, heavy metals and extreme saltiness.

That water – full of salt, now radioactive and often toxic – has to go somewhere.

Sometimes it is disposed of through “land application,” which, horrifyingly, is exactly what it sounds like.

Similarly, it can be used to salt roads in the winter. Three cheers for recycling!

The best case scenario is that the flowback goes to an industrial wastewater treatment facility that can deal with the water, but those are expensive as well as few and far between.

Mishaps Even when best practices are followed and everything goes right, there are serious environmental concerns with this new type of drilling – but everything doesn’t always go as planned.

In the last few years, we have seen wells explode and catch fire then burning for days.

We’ve seen blowouts that spew toxic water into streams. We’ve seen leaks, failed casings, illegal dumping, truck wrecks, and all sorts of accidents that put our environment and health at risk.

Natural gas has advantages and will be an important source of energy in the coming decades, but the current regulatory environment is unacceptably lax.

The technologies being used are so new that scientists haven’t yet had a chance to study their consequences.

Congress has authorized an EPA study, but the initial report won’t even be available until the end of next year, and the final report isn’t expected until 2014.

Until we better understand the risks associated with this type of extraction, we should slow down and take a precautionary approach. The gas isn’t going anywhere: Let’s figure out what we can do to make its extraction as safe as possible.

The US must come to terms with its spending problem garrett hunter correspondent

With its Nov. 23 deadline less than two weeks away, Congress’s Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction – the “Super Committee” charged with shaving $1.2 trillion off the federal deficit over the next ten years – is quickly running out of time to accomplish its mission.

According to the debt ceiling deal in August, if the committee fails to agree on a deficit reduction plan, an automatic $1.2 trillion in cuts to defense and domestic spending will kick in.

As one might expect, partisan divides are gumming up the works.

Throughout these negotiations, the committee’s Republicans have refused to allow tax increases to be a part of the final plan, while the Democrats have consistently resisted cuts to

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social programs without tax increases on wealthy Americans.

It says a lot about the U.S. debt problem if the committee is having such a difficult time cutting $120 billion from a $3.7 trillion yearly federal budget.

That’s more than 3 percent of total spending.

Ever since deficit discussions began, Republicans have regularly been represented in the media as inflexible and unreasonable for their no-new-taxes position, while Democrats have largely received a free pass for their insistence on making the rich pay their “fair share.”

Why, though, are the Republicans seen as inflexible? In the face of an ever-growing national debt that threatens American economic stability, are Democrats not being just as inflexible in their demands that increased government revenue be a part of the Super Committee’s final plan?

It takes two to tango, and any hang-ups the committee has over taxes are due both to Re-

publican resistance and Democratic insistence over their inclusion in the $1.2 trillion reduction.

That being said, the Republicans are basically right on this one. The idea that our debt problem can only be solved with a combination of spending cuts and revenue hikes, while pleasant-sounding to political pundits and news analysts who favor some vague notion of “balanced” solutions, is very misleading.

In fact, a study by Harvard economists Alberto Alesina and Silvia Ardagna suggests that spending cuts are far more effective in reducing countries’ debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio than tax hikes.

The pair studied 107 attempts at debt reduction by 21 countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) between the years 1970-2007 and found that the most successful efforts were grounded exclusively in spending cuts rather than a combination of increased revenues and

reduced expenditures.

Even President Obama’s former Council of Economic Advisors chairman Christina Romer has produced work showing that increasing taxes by 1 percent of GDP in an effort to reduce deficits tends to reduce GDP by 3 percent.

More importantly, increasing government revenues for the purposes of deficit reduction – especially if those revenues take the form of increased taxes on wealthy Americans – will have unintended consequences that affect the rest of the country.

No matter how hard Congress may try, it is nearly impossible to isolate the effects of a specific tax to any one segment of American society.

Individuals tend to avoid paying taxes (in perfectly legal ways) when they can – even Warren Buffett takes advantage of federal tax deductions. For most of us this will mean minor alterations in our behavior.

In my hometown of Wheeling, for example, many people

go out of their way to buy groceries in Ohio and clothes in Pennsylvania in order to avoid paying sales taxes.

When taxes are raised on wealthy individuals, they often pass along at least some of the cost either to their employers by bargaining for higher salaries, or to consumers by raising the prices of the goods and services they or their companies provide.

The results are slower growth and job creation within companies and a higher cost of living for middle and lower-class Americans, neither of which bode well for an economy still struggling to recover from the 2008 financial crisis.

This analysis applies to any attempt to increase government revenue, whether through higher taxes or the closure of tax “loopholes” – a strategy Republicans have recently begun to support as part of a broader tax reform mission.

At the end of the day, any business required to cut further into its profit margin to pay the

Internal Revenue Service will look to pass costs onto consumers through higher prices, investors through lower dividend payments, and workers through reduced hiring and growth.

Therefore any effort to simplify the tax code by closing loopholes and eliminating tax credits deductions – a measure I fully support – should be revenue neutral and include cuts to overall tax rates. As fiscal conservatives like to say, the United States has a spending problem – not a revenue problem.

In order to shrink and eliminate the deficit in the long run, federal spending on defense, education, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and other programs will have to be curbed significantly – much more than $120 billion per year.

If Congress is serious about solving this country’s debt problem, the Super Committee’s recommendations (if they make any at all) will only be the beginning of a much more intricate plan.

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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 FRIDAY

LUNCH FOR A BUCK takes place at the Campus Ministry Center on the corner of Willey and Price streets. For more information, call 304-292-4061.

THE CHABAD JEWISH STUDENT CENTER offers a free Shabbat Dinner every friday night at 7 p.m. at the Chabad House. For more information, email Rabbi@JewishWV.org or call 304-599-1515.

WVU HILLEL offers a Shabbat Dinner at 6:30 p.m. at the Hillel House at 1420 University Ave. For more information or a ride, call 304-685-5195.

CAMPUS LIGHT MINISTRIES hosts a weekly meeting and Bible study at 7 p.m. in the Bluestone Room of the Mountainlair.

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OPEN GYM FOR VOLLEYBALL is from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Student Recreation Center. No commitment or prior experience is necessary. Just show up and play. For more information, email Mandy at mhatfie3@mix. wvu.edu.

CATHOLIC MASS is held at St. John University Parish at 5 p.m.

TRADITIONAL KARATE CLASS FOR SELF-DEFENSE meets at 10:30 a.m. in Multipurpose Room A of the Student Recreation Center.

EVERY SUNDAY

TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH offers services at 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

The church is located on the corner of Spruce and Willey streets.

WVU WOMEN’S ULTIMATE FRISBEE club team holds practice at 3 p.m. at St. Francis Fields.

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS offers a service for students at 10 a.m. at the chapel on Willey Street. For more information, call 304-296-7538.

WVU HILLEL offers a Bagel Brunch at 12:30 p.m. at the Hillel House at 1420 University Ave. For more information or a ride, call 304-685-5195.

MOUNTAINEERS FOR CHRIST hosts a supper at 6 p.m. and a bible study at 7 p.m. at the Christian Student Center at 2923 University Ave. PAINTBALL TEAM practices at Mountain Valley Paintball Park. For more information, visit www.wvupaintball.com or email wvupaintball@gmail.com.

CHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP hosts free dinner at 6:15 p.m. followed by a worship service at

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7 p.m. at 2901 University Ave. For more information, email Gary Gross at grossgary@yahoo.com.

SIGMA THETA EPSILON, a National Christian Service Fraternity, would like to invite any men interested in the fraternity to attend its meeting at 5 p.m. at the Campus Ministry Center. For more information, email sigmathetawvu@gmail.com.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CONFIDENTIAL COUNSELING SERVICES are provided for free by the Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatric Services. A walkin clinic is offered weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services include educational, career, individual, couples and group counseling. Please visit www.well.wvu.edu to find out more information.

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

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

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

ROSENBAUM FAMILY HOUSE, which provides a place for adult patients and their families to stay while receiving medical care at WVU, is looking for service organizations to provide dinner for 20 to 40 Family House guests. For more informa-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HOROSCOPES

BY JACQUELINE BIGAR BORN TODAY This year you often become overwhelmed. You might wish that others would work with you more often than challenge you. Use others’ ideas positively, learning to work better with disagreement. If you are single, many people will want to come in close.

The real issue is whether you will allow this intimacy. Sorting through all your admirers could help you work through a lot. If you are attached, accept your sweetie and his or her views and emotions. You will be a lot happier as a couple if you do. GEMINI zeros in on bottom lines.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH Focus on business in the morning. Remember to return certain key calls as the weekend drops in on you. Wonder all you want, but remain firm once you have made a choice. Schedule a late lunch. Tonight: Swap news with a friend.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHH You beam until someone becomes cranky. You wonder what to do next.

You have handled many different situations, but none quite like this. Stop and review your liabilities before acting. Tonight: Treat a friend to dinner.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHH Keep it easy until the afternoon, when you just know. You feel empowered and as if you can handle it all and more.

Don’t settle for anything less than what you want. Enjoy a friend’s or group of friends’ light and mirthful spirit. Tonight: Lots to smile about.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHHH You know what you want and where you are going. Use that information to the max this morning. You have some important decisions to make. A response might force you to go back in your head and rethink your actions. Remember, you can only control yourself, not others. Tonight: Choose something restful.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Sometimes you sell yourself short in an attempt to get situations to work like you want. Other times, by allowing a little more chaos in, you get better results.

Dip into your imagination when making plans. Tonight: And the party goes on.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHHH Try another form of experimenting when discussing an issue. Do be careful, as you are more likely to lose your temper out of the blue, surprising not only yourself but also others. A close associate comes through for you. Tonight: Till the wee hours.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH Your discomfort becomes obvious when someone abruptly changes his or her tune. Don’t wonder how, why and when this attitude change occurred; just accept this person’s new tune as a passage without personalizing it. Tonight: Try a new spot.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH Others remain touchy and controversial. You might want to try another approach or a different style. Make plans and schedule meetings with only those who are friendly. Plan on a late meeting going into dinner. Tonight: Finally, a

point of agreement.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHH Clear out what you must. You’ll accomplish a lot if you can maintain your focus. Fatigue could mark your decisions if you’re not careful. Make a point of having a discussion with a key associate. Let a meeting flow into Friday-night fun. Tonight: Hang out with work friends.

C APRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHHH Your creativity and imagination come forward when faced with a problem. Don’t push a boss beyond his or her level of tolerance. You don’t want to see the end results. Be careful with an expert or someone who could be touchy and at a distance. Tonight: Follow your imagination.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH Stay centered with family and personal matters. Keep opening up to new possibilities that involve your home and security. You might have been thinking about a change involving your work, home and office. Add more lightness to the day. Tonight: Put 100 percent of yourself into whatever you do.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHH Stay on top of your work. You might not be interested in an associate’s offer. Use care as to how you present your disinterest. You could start more problems than are really worth it. Someone close could become unusually touchy. Tonight: Make it easy.

BORN TODAY Attorney Henry Wade (1914), actress Demi Moore (1962), songwriter Jack Keller (1936)

COMICS

Pearls Before Swine

by Stephan Pastis

F Minus

by Tony Carrillo

Get Fuzzy

by Darby Conley

Cow and Boy

by Mark Leiknes

PUZZLES DIFFICULTY LEVEL HARD

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.

THURSDAY’S PUZZLE SOLVED

ACROSS 1 REO part 5 7-Down portrayer on “Frasier” 9 Medicine cabinet item 14 First-century Roman leader 15 Cross 16 Lickety-split 17 Jack Benny’s 39?

19 Was about to blow up 20 Mizrahi of “The Fashion Show” 21 Insurance co. employee 23 __-relief 24 Mix-up among the peas?

27 Top-shelf 28 Charlotte-to-Raleigh dir.

29 Texas NLer 30 Aslan’s land 32 “It __ Nice”: ‘60s protest song 34 Doubter 36 Julian Assange’s controversial website, and a hint to what’s missing from this puzzle’s four longest answers 39 Federal statute trumps it 41 New England law school 45 Mercury, e.g.

46 Old school addition?

49 Rolls around the house 50 Hierarchy level 51 Amorous ship leader?

54 Bug 55 Third deg.?

56 Like some tragedies 57 Club relative 59 Bird with a droll wit?

63 Earn 64 Tulip chair designer Saarinen 65 Chianti, for one 66 Swamp plant 67 Speak like Don Corleone 68 Ticker tapes, briefly?

DOWN 1 __ mission 2 Throngs 3 Saxony’s capital 4 Beds, at times 5 Like some quilt kits 6 Want ad letters 7 See 5-Across 8 Pipe dream, say 9 Castaway’s creation 10 “The Simpsons” character with an 18-let-

ter last name 11 Big name on the ice 12 Vast 13 Site of a legendary parting 18 Fan support 22 Ligurian seaport 24 Shar-__ 25 Weak 26 Aid on a misty night 27 Pretentious 31 “Don’t __!”

33 Country music sound 35 Just starting 37 Suffix with vulcan 38 Craft with a mizzen 39 7-Eleven beverage 40 Vessel with a hinged cover 42 Rigorously abstinent 43 Exploring 44 Shogun stronghold 45 Binocular features 47 1950 #1 Ames Brothers hit

48 She played Romy in “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion” 52 Scary snake 53 Fortitude 55 Tennis great Sampras 58 Shovel 60 Mens __: criminal intent 61 Sch. levels 62 Signs of resistance

THURSDAY’S PUZZLE SOLVED

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Grammy-winning artist Gladys Knight to perform at CAC

by Elizabeth Finley A&E Correspondent

Get ready — seven-time Grammy Award-winner and living legend Gladys Knight is coming to the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center Saturday night. The show is part of the West Virginia University 2011-2012 University Arts series.

Gladys Knight is best known for her R&B and soul hits she recorded in the ’70s and ‘80s as the lead vocalist of her group, Gladys Knight and the Pips.

Gladys Knight and the Pips were signed to Motown Records in 1966, recording top singles such as “I Heard it Through the Grapevine,” “Midnight Train to Georgia” and “If I Were Your Woman.”

These hits allowed her to be awarded a spot in the Rock

and Roll Hall of Fame.

An accomplished artist, Knight has made 38 albums with various No. 1 singles in pop, R&B and adult contemporary music.

“I think a lot of people like her music because she is so iconic,” said Kristie StewartGale, WVU Arts & Entertainment marketing and advertising manager.

In 1987, Knight decided to leave the Pips for good and pursue a solo career.

Knight recently released a new single on iTunes and Amazon in September. The single is a new and updated recording of “I (Who Have Nothing),” a previous hit of Knight’s.

She’s also currently working on a new album with producer Randy Jackson.

“She’s continued to work on her career; she’s still very relevant to today’s music scene —

even to the younger generations,” Stewart-Gale said.

This is the artist’s first time in Morgantown. She rarely does appearances outside the Gladys Knight Theater in Las Vegas, Nev. “The show is only a handful of tickets from being sold out, and with the student ticket rates it’s really a great opportunity to see a legendary performer,” Stewart-Gale said. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see Gladys Knight right here in Morgantown.”

The show starts at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. Tickets are $27 for all WVU students and can be purchased at both the Mountainlair and the Creative Arts Center box offices from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets can also be purchased from Ticketmaster. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Seven-time Grammy Award-winner Gladys Knight will perform tomorrow night at the CAC.

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CBS College Sports Network announcer Mike Leach holds book signing

by Nick Arthur Sports Writer

Former Texas Tech University football head coach and current CBS College Sports Network announcer Mike Leach held a book signing at Barnes & Noble in Morgantown Thursday night.

His book, “Swing Your Sword: Leading the Charge in Football and Life,” was published in July and discusses his odd journey to becoming a head coach.

Many Mike Leach supporters and West Virginia fans wanted to get their book signed by the former head coach “I know his reputation from being a sports fan,” said Matt Taylor, a fan of Mike Leach.

“He’s just an unconventional kind of coach.”

Taylor hopes to learn more about Leach’s odd path to coaching when reading the book.

“I’m hoping it will give a little background of how he has

gotten to where he is,” Taylor said.

Leach attended Brigham Young University, but didn’t play football while there. Instead he enjoyed studying the offense run by the cougars.

He then received a law degree at Pepperdine University.

“I’m interested in reading about his unorthodox path to coaching,” said West Virginia fan Dylan McInturff “He didn’t play football in college, he went to law school. That’s an interesting, different path. He came into the world of coaching completely differently from most other coaches. I’m interested in stories about unorthodox methods of getting to a particular place.

“He was one of (West Virginia head coach) Dana’s (Holgorsen) first bosses and that’s important to me because I’m a big fan of Dana,” McInturff said.

Holgorsen was an assistant under Leach between 2000-07.

After law school, Leach

made many stops as an assistant coach before landing his first collegiate head coaching position at Texas Tech University. He was known for a unique and high-scoring offense during his stay in Lubbock, Texas. Leach was fired by the school in December 2009 for alleged inappropriate treatment of a player.

“He’s a very interesting person, I think that quite frankly he got a raw deal at Texas Tech,” said John Cowgill a Leach supporter. “I was going to get the book anyway and was just glad he was here to sign it.”

Mike Leach has been out of coaching since the incident at Texas Tech. But, he has been high on the list of many schools recently in their search for a new head coach.

John Cowgill feels Leach’s new job will come sooner than later.

“Probably next year in my opinion,” he said.

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Mike Leach signs copies of his newest book ‘Swing your Sword: Leading the Charge in Football and Life’ at Barnes & Noble.

Jackson doctor defends self during NBC interview LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson’s doctor, who refused to testify at his trial, said in an interview broadcast Thursday that the singer lied to him about his medical history and never revealed he had an addiction problem.

“I would hate to put blame on Michael as an individual,” Dr. Conrad Murray told the “Today” show in the interview done days before the doctor’s conviction.

“I only wish maybe in our dealings with each other he would have been more forthcoming and honest.to tell me these things about himself,” he said.

Interviewer Savannah Guthrie asked: “Do you think he lied to you?”

“Definitely,” Murray said.

“About what?” she asked.

“Certainly he was deceptive by not showing me his whole medical history, doctors he was seeing, treatments that he might have been receiving.”

Murray answered.

“Did you really not know he had an addiction problem?”

Guthrie asked.

“Absolutely not,” said Murray. “Did not have a clue.”

Murray was convicted Monday of involuntary manslaughter for supplying the insomnia-plagued Jackson with the powerful operating-room anesthetic propofol to help him sleep as he rehearsed for his big comeback.

During the interview, Murray was shown video of bottles of medications from other physicians arrayed on Jackson’s bedside table, suggesting Murray’s suspicions should have been raised.

“I cannot prevent Michael from seeing other doctors for whatever reason,” the doctor said.

“You must have realized the reason he hired you was to give him this drug, propofol,” Guthrie said.

“No, not at all,” Murray replied. “I met Michael with propofol. This was not something I introduced to Michael.”

Experts testified at Murray’s trial that propofol should not have been administered in Jackson’s home, but the doc-

tor disagreed.

Murray revealed Jackson was under the influence of propofol during a recording found on the doctor’s cell phone.

Murray said the recording, in which the heavily drugged Jackson talked in a slurred voice about his goal of building a major children’s hospital, was made by accident.

Murray, 58, described Jackson as “a desperate man, desperate” during his final hours.

Asked by Guthrie how it felt to be blamed for Jackson’s death, he said, “I loved Michael too. I’m as much of a fan as any of the others. To be blamed for his death has not been an easy thing.”

“Are you the cause of Michael Jackson’s death?” Guthrie asked.

“No, I am not,” Murray said.

The interview with the Houston cardiologist was being aired Thursday and Friday.

Other excerpts were released Wednesday.

Under questioning by Guthrie, Murray said it was not necessary for him to monitor Jackson in the hours before he died because he had given the pop star only a small dose of propofol. The doctor said that was the reason he didn’t mention to arriving paramedics that Jackson had been given the drug.

Guthrie asked, “Well, you told them about the other drugs, but you didn’t tell them about propofol?”

“Because it had no effect,” Murray said. “It was not an issue.”

The coroner, however, found that Jackson, 50, died of acute propofol intoxication complicated by other sedatives.

During the trial, Murray’s defense tried to show that Jackson gave himself an extra dose of propofol while Murray was out of the room, but prosecution experts said there was no evidence to support what one witness called the crazy theory.

Asked by Guthrie if he became distracted that morning by phone calls, emailing and text messages, Murray said, “No I was not.”

“When I looked at a man who was all night deprived

of sleep, who was desperate for sleep and finally is getting some sleep, am I gonna sit over him, sit around him, tug on his feet, do anything unusual to wake him up? No,” Murray said.

“You walked out of the room to talk on the phone?” Guthrie asked.

“Absolutely, I wanted him to rest,” Murray replied.

Other doctors testified at Murray’s trial that leaving a patient alone after administering an anesthetic was an egregious deviation from the standard of care expected of a physician.

In one exchange during the interview, Murray suggested that if he had known Jackson had a problem with addiction to medications he might have acted differently. Experts, however, testified that Murray should have researched Jackson’s medical history before he undertook his treatment for insomnia.

On the day Jackson died, June 25, 2009, Murray said he believed he had weaned the singer from propofol, the drug Jackson called his “milk.”

But when Jackson could not sleep, Murray told “Today,” he gave the entertainer a very small dose of propofol.

In retrospect, he said he probably should have walked away when Jackson asked for propofol. But he said he would have been abandoning a friend.

Meanwhile, the disclosure that MSNBC will air a documentary about Murray brought outrage Wednesday from the executors of Jackson’s estate, who said Murray is getting a prime-time platform to smear Jackson’s reputation without fear of cross-examination.

The executors, John Branca and John McClain, demanded the program entitled “Michael Jackson and the Doctor: A Fatal Friendship” be cancelled.

The network said it had no comment.

Murray is being held in Los Angeles County Jail awaiting sentencing Nov. 29 and could face up to four years in prison and the loss of his medical license.

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Street Style: WVU student fashion Karin Shaq

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“I have to wake up three hours before class to get ready because, of course, fashion is important to me. In Saudi Arabia where I’m from, there is much more fashion. I buy all my clothes online here. Also, my advice for girls: Please don’t wear pajamas to school.”

“I think my style just fits me. I don’t like baggy clothe., I don’t want to be swimming in them. I like my clothes to fit me, and I like to wear hats for bad hair days. I would describe my style as pretty chill.”

“For campus, I hate how I can’t dress how I want all the time; I have to keep in mind I’m just going to class. I love name brands but I will also wear no-name stuff. I’d say the look is all about the silhouette and how the final product looks as a whole, but really there’s not too much method to it.” photos and reporting by BROOKE CASSIDY

Bundling up doesn’t mean giving up on dressing well Christina GuTIERREZ A&E WRITER

Winter weather is cold, dark and wet. It’s up to us to bring the color and fun back into this drab season.

Of course, we’ll miss the simplicity of throwing on a sundress and a pair sandals, but bearing the cold weather is a testament to our fashion skills.

When the weather gets colder, being sexy seems a little harder to attain. The truth is, however, that sexy is way sexier when you’re not showing a lot of skin.

Silhouettes are a great way to show off your best assets while avoiding judgmental glances. If you’ve got great legs and want to show them off but are less than pleased with the pastiness that comes along with the winter, try tights.

A pair of nude tights is a great way to give the illusion

of bareness without baring the cold. For a funkier, more trendy look, try a bold-colored pair of tights.

This season we can look forward to seeing lots of girls bringing it back to mod by pairing colorful or dark tights with dress shorts or boxy dresses.

For this winter, loud and distracting patterns aren’t going to be nearly as important as bold, colorful accessories that make a statement.

There are fashion staples for

every season that will never go out of style. This season, however, it’s all about bringing forgotten pieces back into style.

According to Vogue’s Lucy Hutchings, chic winter hats will be making their generational debut.

“Berets and beanies, cloches and caps, trilbies and trappers - hats in every size, shape and style are the ultimate topping this season,” Hutchings said.

This is the season to be inspired.

While a sleek, black pea coat

is one of those useful staples that should always be hanging in your closet, play around, and try something different for special occasions.

A longer coat or one in a bright color, for example, is very chic and daring.

For those who are willing to treat themselves this holiday season, honor those style icons of the past with a great fur coat or one with fur trim.

Fur, of course, can become quite pricey and, to some, a little off-putting. But there are

ways to get the look without completely diminishing your bank account or your morality.

Websites like www.fabulousfurs.com and www.charlycalder.com provide great alternatives to higher-priced, real fur pieces.

Whether you decide to splurge or not, there is one most important thing to keep in mind this season: Boldness in fashion is more than encouraged, it’s demanded! christina.gutierrez@mail.wvu.edu

Prince William to be deployed to the Falklands LONDON (AP) —Prince William will be deployed to the politically sensitive Falkland Islands next year as an air force search and rescue pilot, Britain’s defense ministry said Thursday.

The second in line to the British throne will spend six weeks in February and March at the British outpost 290 miles (460 kilometers) east of Argentina’s coast in the Atlantic Ocean, the Defense Ministry said.

He will be part of a crew of four Royal Air Force personnel on the deployment. The prince, known in the military as Flight Lt. William Wales, is an RAF helicopter pilot, currently based in Wales.

The defense ministry said William, 29, would not undertake any ceremonial royal duties during the deployment. His wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, will remain in

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Britain.

Britain has ruled the Falklands for more than 180 years, but Argentina claims sovereignty over the islands it calls Las Malvinas.

Next year is a sensitive time the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War. Argentina invaded the islands in April 1982, and British forces retook them after a 10-week war that killed 650 Argentine troops, more than

250 British personnel and three islanders.

William’s uncle, Prince Andrew, served in the conflict as a Sea King helicopter pilot.

Britain still maintains about 1,000 troops in the territory, which is home to about 3,000 people.

The residents overwhelmingly wish to remain British, but Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has insisted Argentina and Britain should

negotiate over the future of the islands, as the U.N. General Assembly has urged.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has refused.

“As long as the Falkland Islands want to be sovereign British territory, they should remain sovereign British territory - full stop, end of story,” Cameron said in June.

In response, Fernandez accused Cameron of “mediocrity bordering on stupidity.”

COLLEGE OF CREATIVE ARTS

SCHOOL OF MUSIC “OPERA SCENES” Fiddler on the Roof, Street Scenes, Rosenkavalier, Carmen, Cinderella November 8, 10, at 7:30 and November 12 at 3:00 Falbo Theatre WVU Creative Arts Center

“LIVE AT THE FALBO” JAZZ CONCERT Featuring Small instrumental and Vocal Jazz Ensembles November 13 at 3:15

WVU WIND SYMPHONY November 15 at 7:30

WVU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Music by Berlioz and Gershwin November 17 at 7:30

For tickets, call 304 293 SHOW (7469) or visit ticketmaster.com. Tickets can also be purchased in person at the Creative Arts Center or Mountainlair. http://ccarts.wvu.edu

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Arts and crafts show visits Mylan Park

by Emily Meadows a&e Writer

If you’re looking to dip into your creative side this Christmas season, check out the 2nd annual Arts and Crafts Christmas Spectacular this weekend at the Ruby Expo Center in Mylan Park.

The showcase will start today and end Sunday, Nov. 13, at 4 p.m. The Spectacular will be open from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. today and Saturday.

The event will feature an

assortment of holiday arts and crafts including jewelry, paintings, photography, sculptures, clothing, floral arrangements, ornaments, candles, home decor, and even treats and gifts for your pets.

The homemade goodies are designed and created by artists and craftsmen from 12 states and more than 180 exhibits will be displayed. This event is an opportunity for those looking for more originality in their Christmas décor, even offering some in-

sight for some creative ideas.

With the growing popularity of websites like “Pinterest,” unique arts and crafts have once again been brought into the limelight of personal hobbies.

Chelsea Johnson, an English student at West Virginia University, said she found lots of unique gifts while attending the festival last year and even picked up some ideas herself.

“I found a lot of neat stuff to buy last year, and it’s great

because I know that no one else will have it. And I got inspired to make my own decorations, too,” Johnson said. “I also was able to find gifts for some friends and family there which was cool because I feel like it’s more personal than something store-bought.”

Samples of pre-packaged holiday food and drinks will also be offered at the event, including candies, fudges, kettle corn and roasted peanuts. Dip, dessert and drink mixes will be available for

sample and purchase as well.

Don’t forget to bring the camera if you bring kids to the event! Santa will be there all weekend taking wish lists and photos with all children attending.

Admission for children 6-12 years old is $1 and all children under six years of age will be admitted free. The cost for all adults over 12 years of age and senior citizens will be $5.50 each.

Find the W.Va., Christmas Spectacular at www.family-

festivals.com for a 50 percent off adult admission coupon. It is valid all three days but may not be combined with any other discounts or offers.

The event will be held rain, or shine and will offer plenty of places for free parking. So get the holiday season jumpstarted this weekend, and support local and statewide craftsmen as you shop, eat or even just browse for new Christmas goodies. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Married duo to perform at The Blue Moose Cafe

by Rebecca Lebherz a&E Writer

Husband and wife musicians Michael and Carrie Kline will perform in downtown Morgantown at The Blue Moose Cafe tonight at 8.

The Klines have dedicated the last 20 years to recording oral history and music in the realm of cultural preservation.

As soon as the couple met, they started singing together and found they knew a lot of the same songs, all of which had to do with West Virginia.

“It was a very fortunate meeting,” Michael said.

“We’ve continued to sing and build on our common repertoire.”

Michael said he has built a close association with Morgantown, by playing here over the years and having his son Sam graduate from West Virginia University.

The couple from Elkins, W.Va., have made their way out of West Virginia to play at many different places including New York City and

Europe.

Michael’s use of oral history to tell stories stems from the troubles he had as a child in school.

“I went through school without learning how to read because of a severe disability that went undetected,” Michael said. “I fell between the cracks.”

He said the only way he ever learned anything was by listening to people.

“Through schooling that was a big disability, but I decided to make a career out of it. I rely on what I hear rather than what I read,” he said.

This drew Michael to stories people told him, and he and his wife decided to take the career path of cultural preservation together.

Both of the Klines play guitar and sing.

“We play guitar duets. I play a lot of lead. She has only been playing for five years,, and she’s doing a great job,” Michael said.

The duo’s musical repertoire covers a large variety of genres common to West

Virginia.

“I can’t say I’m (partial to) any one type of music. I’ve heard lots of different kind — old time instrumental band tunes, bluegrass — it has all influenced me,” he said.

Hazel Dickens, Woody Simmons and Ernie Carpenter are some musicians who have played a role in developing the Klines’ style.

The Klines play folk, gospel, love songs and old ballads that date back to the 1700s. Some are songs they have collected firsthand from people.

The Klines have three CDs out now, all of which will be on sale at the show tonight.

Their most recent CD, “Damp as the Dew,” is made up entirely of coal mining songs.

The Klines have produced 23 oral history audio tours, audio histories and musical recordings total.

Their documentary, “Born and Raised in Tobacco Fields: Portrait of a Changing American Landscape,” won the 2005 Oral History Association’s Non-Print Award and the

Married duo Michael and Carrie Kline will perform at The Blue Moose Cafe tonight.

2006 Spirit of West Virginia Division of Tourism Award for the Pendleton County Heritage Travels Project.

The CDs devoted to local history incorporate field recordings. Michael said that kids love them and libraries are enriched by them.

“Someday this work we

are doing is going to be considered really important because no one else is doing it,” he said.

The Klines will perform a wide variety of songs tonight from old time Appalachian folk to contemporary country ballads from songwriters Kate Wolf, David Norris and Hazel

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“We’ve never played at the Blue Moose before, so we’re looking forward to it. It’s nice they have arranged to have us there,” Michael said.

The Klines will take the stage at 8 p.m. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Final Potter installment, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2’ released caiTLIN gRAZIANI a&e cORRESPONDENT

Thursday at midnight, fans around the United States gathered together to get their hands on the final DVD installment of the “Harry Potter” series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.”

The movie was released in theaters July 15.

The final installment of the boy wizard-series became the highest-grossing film in the series with $7.7 billion in worldwide sales. It has also been dubbed the biggest movie of 2011 and the thirdgreatest film of all time, rivaling James Cameron’s “Titanic” and “Avatar.”

“I feel like even though I already watched this final movie, this is the last release, and it’s officially over – my childhood is officially over,” said Mel Moraes, integrated marketing communications graduate student at West Virginia University. “There is no book series that will ever

compare to the ‘Harry Potter’ series in my lifetime.”

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” grossed $43.5 million at the midnight box office in the U.S., making it the biggest midnight opening of all time.

“Harry Potter” earned almost 50 percent more than previous midnight champion, “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” which earned $30 million from midnight shows when it was released in June 2010.

“I’m sad that the legacy is over. ‘Harry Potter’ was an enjoyable novel to read and an escape to a world filled with wonder,” said Torrie Squires, a nursing student. “‘Harry Potter’ made a huge impact on all its readers.”

“Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2” was based on the seventh book in the “Harry Potter” series. Due to the length and content of the book, it was made into a two-part movie.

“Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows : Part 1” was released in 2010. The books have gradually become darker as the series progressed.

“Thirteen years after the first “Harry Potter” book was published, I’m still astonished and delighted with the response the stories met,” said author J.K Rowling on her website about her fans. “Even though the seventh book and the eighth film have now been completed, I’m getting hundreds of letters every week, and Harry’s fans remain as enthusiastic and inventive as ever.

“I’d like to take this opportunity to say thank you, because no author could have asked for a more wonderful, diverse and loyal readership.”

On this final DVD installment, there is special bonus content including an interview between Daniel Radcliffe and J.K. Rowling.

They discuss Rowling’s intent on the characters getting older, the books getting darker and even Radcliffe having an allergic reaction to the signature “Harry Potter” glasses. “‘Harry Potter’ is all about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity,”

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‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part: 2’ was released on DVD today. said author Stephen King on his website about the “Harry Potter” series.

Fans can still get involved with the world of “Harry Potter” through Rowling’s site,

Pottermore.

Pottermore is anew website from J.K. Rowling that can be enjoyed alongside the “Harry Potter” books.

You can explore the stories

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like never before and discover new writing from the author.

For more information, got to www.pottermore.com. daa&email.wvu.edu

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A MUST-WIN GAME

nick arthur sports writer

Patience is a virtue

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West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen looks on during the game against Louisville last week. Holgorsen will try to avoid losing his third Big East game of the season Saturday against Cincinnati.

West Virginia will try to stop Collaros, Cincinnati’s offense Saturday by ben gaughan

associate sports editor

A lot is riding on West Virginia’s upcoming game against Cincinnati Saturday.

The Mountaineers (6-3, 2-2 Big East) are two games behind the Bearcats (7-1, 3-0 Big East) in conference play (in losses) and have lost two out of their last three games.

It is a critical game for West Virginia to get back to where the team feels it should be at this point in the season.

“Cincinnati is a team that has found ways to win,” said West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen. “They’ve been in a bunch of close games, but the one thing that stands out about them more than anything is the amount

of effort that they play with.”

WVU will want to match that effort, as Holgorsen has called his team out this week, questioning some of the effort that was lacking against Louisville last week.

The defense will especially be looking to add more energy, as it has given up 443, 386 and 351 yards, respectively, in its last three games.

In all three of those games, West Virginia’s opponents have scored more than 30 points.

“In the beginning of the year, it seemed like when everything went wrong, at least we would force (opponents) to a field goal,” said sophomore outside linebacker Doug Rigg. “Now, it’s like everything is turning into a

touchdown on us. I can’t really say what it is – just plays are happening and people are making plays, people aren’t making plays.”

Rigg stressed the problems the defense has been having has been a mixture of being able to correct these mistakes, as well as the other teams just making good, strong plays.

Several younger players including freshmen linebackers Jared Barber, Jewone Snow and Rigg have been thrown in the mix over the last several games.

They’re learning defensive coordinator Jeff Casteel’s system every day and applying it into the game situations as best as they can.

“You have to have a good grasp of the system, even if

you don’t, you just have to play hard,” Rigg said of the young players. “Coach Casteel won’t get too mad at you even if you play hard. Something will happen if you hit somebody. If you play hard and get to the ball, you’ll be fine.”

They’ll need to be up for the challenge this week, as they’ll be facing an experienced and determined Cincinnati quarterback in senior Zach Collaros, as well as senior running back Isaiah Pead.

Collaros makes the Bearcats offense go and has complete control on that side of the ball. He has thrown for 1,784 yards, 14 touchdowns and has completed 63.4 percent of his passes.

Pead, the Bearcat’s leading

rusher, has gained 821 yards and has scored 8 touchdowns this season.

The Mountaineer defensive line will look to get pressure on Collaros, like it did against Teddy Bridgewater and Louisville last week.

“You beat the guy in front of you,” Holgorsen said of the defense. “You have to cover people. If you cover people, he’ll have a hard time getting it to (the receivers) on time.”

“If you don’t have too many missed tackles, and you attack the ball, (and) play with effort – which is what creates turnovers and gets them in third down situations where we can get after them – we’ll have a shot at winning.” ben.gaughan@mail.wvu.edu

men’s basketball

WVU kicks off season against Oral Roberts

By John Terry Managing Editor

The last time the West Virginia men’s basketball team lost its home opener was in 1997 when it fell to Virginia Tech.

The Mountaineers, who are coming off of a 77-74 exhibition loss to Division-II Northern Kentucky, will try to keep that date in mind when it hosts Oral Roberts at 9 p.m. in their season opener. It will be the first matchup between the two schools.

“It was a wake-up call, and I think we’re all awake,” said senior guard Truck Bryant.

“I know we’re going to play hard. Hopefully, we’ll see a tremendous change.”

The Golden Eagles will be no easy task, though, for West Virginia. They return all five of their starters, including four double-figure scorers.

“They’re a team that not only can get into the NCAA tournament but get in there and win games,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins.

“They have skilled guys – guys who can make shots. They have great overall size.”

Dominique Morrison leads the way for Oral Roberts, averaging 19.5 points a year ago. Warren Niles and Damen Bell-Holter follow behind scoring 14.3 and 13.3 points, respectively.

“At the end of the day, we MATT SUNDAY/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Freshman small forward Keaton Miles matches up against a Northern Kentucky defender in West Virginia’s exhibition game last Friday. have to do what we have to

do. We need to help each other and limit his touches,” Bryant said about Morrison.

Steven Roundtree, who scored 12.1 points last season, was also named the Summit League Newcomer of the Year.

It’s been a long week for the West Virginia freshmen since the loss last Friday to the Norse who have spent a considerable amount of time

This season hasn’t exactly been going as planned for Mountaineer fans. First-year head coach Dana Holgorsen and his football team have lost two games in conference play and are currently on the outside looking in toward the Big East Championship.

Following a 5-1 start to the 2011 season, it appeared the Mountaineers would have few problems in a subpar Big East Conference and would travel to their third BCS bowl game in the last six years.

Since then, West Virginia has lost two of its last three games.

In both losses, the Mountaineers were favored by two touchdowns.

After the recent lack of onfield success, I have heard many West Virginia fans utter such phrases as “Bring back Stew!” and “Fire Holgorsen.”

Before we start putting the blame on the shoulders of Dana Holgorsen, let’s first try to pinpoint what has been the cause of the on-field deficiency.

In the Mountaineers’ six wins, the defense is only allowing 18.3 points per game whereas in West Virginia’s three losses, it is allowing 44.6 points per game. It is extremely difficult to win games when your opposition is scoring nearly 45 points.

Defensive coordinator Jeff Casteel is doing the best he can with what he has to work with.

The problems defensively are due to the inexperience. Seven players from last year’s defense have spent time on NFL rosters in 2011.

There are too many players attempting to play an odd 3-3-5 stack alignment the likes of which they’ve never seen.

Through nine games, it has felt like the offense has also had its fair share of struggles – which it has.

But, Dana Holgorsen’s unit is still tallying nearly 40 points per game and ranks No. 13 nationally in points scored.

Not to mention, Holgorsen has implemented an entirely new offensive system.

Could you imagine this year’s offense combined with last year’s defense that ranked No. 3 nationally in points allowed?

So, if Dana Holgorsen and Jeff Casteel aren’t to blame for the underachievement, who is?

I have always been a firm believer that the 2007 West Virginia football team was one of the best teams in school history.

Former head coach Rich Rodriguez had great recruiting success and was able to generate superior talent at all positions.

But since Rodriguez’s departure, this hasn’t been the case.

The Mountaineers lack depth – and sometimes skill – at many essential positions.

They say you can judge a team’s depth by the type of players who play special teams – which are usually the ones who fail to earn a starting spot on either offense or defense.

West Virginia’s special teams has been one of the worst in the country.

With three games remaining this season, let’s all take a step back and understand – Dana Holgorsen isn’t a miracle worker.

He is doing the best he can with the resources at his disposal.

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rifle

WVU in good rhythm as it heads into next tournament

A member of the West Virginia rifle team shoots in the range during the offseason.

West Virginia sophomore Matt Ryan pins a Cleveland State wrestler in a match this season.

by ethan rohrbaugh sports writer

The West Virginia wrestling team will travel to Washington, Pa., Saturday to take part in the Washington & Jefferson tournament.

The Mountaineers (2-0) will be up against what head coach Craig Turnbull calls a “diversity of ability” at the tournament, with 13 teams competing.

“You don’t want to evaluate the competition until it’s over,” Turnbull said of the teams the Mountaineers will face.

“You want to approach each match exactly the same so you just get conditioned to do that by mid-season,” he said.

Turnbull believes the first couple of weeks are valuable to getting his group back into competitive form.

“The first two events of the season purposely were to really get us acclimated, get us back out there, get us used to competing and get use some things that we can us to evaluate,” Turnbull said.

Last Sunday in College Park, Md., the Mountaineers won every match they competed en route to dominating performances over Johns Hop-

kins and Franklin & Marshall.

WVU saw three starters return from season-long injuries to earn wins at the dual meet, including redshirt senior heavyweight Brandon Williamson.

Williamson did not allow a point, on his way to a pair of decisive victories in his return but still said he felt a little rusty when he got back out on the mat.

“It was just good to get it out of the way,” Williamson said.

True freshman Dominic Prezzia made his collegiate debut with an impressive oneminute pin, a team-best for the meet. The St. Clairsville, Ohio, native led the Mountaineers with 13 nearfall points.

“I just went out and wrestled, and I wasn’t really holding anything back,” Prezzia said.

The freshman admitted the differences from wrestling at the high school level was very apparent from the start.

“It’s faster paced,” Prezzia said. “You’ve got to transition a lot faster, and you’ve got to be ready for every match.

“I just want to go out and wrestle hard and work on those little things that I feel like

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I need to work on from the previous weekend.”

Five WVU grapplers have made their way into several online rankings for their weight-class. Williamson’s No. 12 spot in the www.WrestlingReport.com rankings is the team’s highest.

The wrestlers agree the rankings don’t carry much weight when it comes time to square-off with an opponent, and they try not to get caught up in the rankings.

“In a wrestling match, anything can happen,” said sophomore Matt Ryan. “Either way it’s the same as always – just go out there and try to do the best I can to win matches.”

The Mountaineers will send more than 30 wrestlers onto the mat this weekend, which only adds to the value of these early season tournament.

“There will be people there that I think we’ll find very challenging, and it gets all of our guys some wrestling,” Turnbull said.

Matches for the Washington & Jefferson Tournament begin at 9 a.m. at the Henry Memorial Center Saturday. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

No. 3 Mountaineers face Ole Miss in final match of semester by alex sims sports writer

After its first week off of the season, the No. 3 West Virginia rifle team will hit the range again Saturday.

Following a much-needed break after five matches in 15 days to start the season, the Mountaineers (5-0, 3-0) will host their fourth Great American Rifle Conference opponent, No. 5 Mississippi, in what will be their final match before taking a 70-day break for the semester’s end.

In the first semester, WVU has been working on the mechanical side of its game, but when WVU starts up again in January, it will be time to begin building for the postseason.

“The big things this semester, for the team and myself, have been technical goals and mostly just getting our positions and the physical things set up the way we want them to be,” said senior Justin Pentz.

“Then we will worry about the mental side of things and

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on the treadmill.

“We’ve been practicing really hard,” said senior Deniz Kilicli, who will play tonight after sitting out the exhibition game due to a knee injury.

“Every time they did something wrong, we put them on the treadmill. It helps because it gets the memory going.”

preparing for the NCAA’s next semester, because you don’t want to burn out and over prepare; you want to peak at the right time.”

The four-time all-American has carried an average combined total of 1,167 that is second to only Petra Zublasing for the Mountaineers this season.

Zublasing has undoubtedly been the best shooter in all of collegiate rifle this season, as she holds the top score in air rifle as well as the top two smallbore scores. All five of her air rifle scores have ranked in the top seven in the nation.

Expected performances from veterans Zublasing and Pentz, as well as some excellent shooting from younger athletes such as Thomas Kyanko and Meelis Kiisk have contributed to the Mountaineers shooting five of the top 12 combined team scores in the country.

Now, the Mountaineers will look to build on that success this weekend as they remain focused on continuous improvement as this season wears on.

“We like to build slowly,” Pentz said. “This match for me, and I think the rest of the team, is basically going to be the test of how our work and effort and energy has been this whole semester.”

Meanwhile, the Rebels (3-2, 1-2) have used consecutive wins over No. 11 Nebraska and No. 9 Jacksonville State, to bounce back from losses to No. 6 Army and No. 1 Kentucky.

In its loss to the Wildcats, Ole Miss shot its highest score of the year, by posting a 4,654 and has averaged just less than 4,628 per match.

Senior Keely Stankey has led the Rebels in scoring this season, averaging a combined total around 1,158.

“Mississippi has been having a really good year so far,” said WVU head coach Jon Hammond.

“They’ve been shooting really consistently, so it will be a great test for us. We know we are going to have to shoot well to win the match.”

Kilicli said he had the unique position of watching the entire exhibition game from the bench, but wasn’t happy with what he saw.

“The problem is that they just got really confused and didn’t run the sets right,” he said. “(Kevin Jones) and Truck did whatever they could do, but it’s a team sport.

They need help from freshmen, but they haven’t given that to us yet.”

Freshman Keaton Miles,

who said he could’ve played harder against NKU, admitted that the treadmill has helped the freshmen respond well this week.

“You have to pay attention.

You don’t want to end up on the treadmill,” Miles said. “We just need to wake up and play.

You can be on the treadmill or listen (to coach) and go harder. We don’t want to go through that again.”

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No. 9 West Virginia hosts Virginia Tech in first round of NCAA tournament Saturday evening by robert kreis sports writer

For the 12th consecutive season the West Virginia women’s soccer team will compete in the NCAA tournament starting Saturday at 6 p.m. at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.

The No. 9 Mountaineers advanced to the NCAA tournament after beating Louisville 2-0, to clinch their second Big East Conference tournament championship in as many years.

With a 17-4 record and a conference title, it is fair to say that head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown and the rest of the Mountaineers were not happy, and a bit shocked with their seeding in the tournament.

The top 16 teams earn seeds, with four seeded teams in each region. Regardless of where her team is positioned, Izzo-Brown is ready to lead her team to victory.

“Obviously we are excited to be playing,” Izzo-Brown said. “It is time to move forward, and focus on the Hokies.”

The Mountaineers will take on Virginia Tech, who finished with a 12-7-1 record while competing in arguably the best women’s soccer conference in the country, the Atlantic Coast Conference.

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Izzo-Brown acknowledges how hard it is to compete in the ACC, and expects a battle Saturday evening.

“We know (Virginia Tech) is going to come out in a fury,” Izzo-Brown said. “They play in very competitive conference, it is going to be a very good matchup.”

This will be the fourth time the Hokies and the Mountaineers have squared off in program history. West Virginia has owned the series against Virginia Tech, winning all three of the previous matchups while outscoring the Hokies 9-1. The teams have not played each other since 2002, before Virginia Tech left the Big East for the ACC. The Mountaineers are looking to continue their eightgame winning streak that led them to their third Big East championship.

Although winning the Big East was an emotional victory, Izzo-Brown has no doubt that her team will be ready to compete against Virginia Tech on Saturday.

“We talk a lot about a time and a place to do all our celebrations,” Izzo-Brown said. “We

are putting all of these awesome accomplishments on a shelf to celebrate later.”

West Virginia is led by six seniors, and according to IzzoBrown, they are the reason this team has been so successful this season.

“What makes (this team) so special is our seniors,” IzzoBrown said. “The most important thing is having a bunch of girls that have given four or five years, and have put this University and this soccer team first.

“How much they have sacrificed to the University makes them very special.”

Winning the Big East tournament gives the Mountaineers experience in a tournament setting. Experience, along with leadership from the seniors and the coaching of Izzo-Brown, and her staff has the Mountaineers primed to make one more tournament run to end the season.

According to Izzo-Brown, only one thing can stop the Mountaineers in the tournament, and that will have to come from within.

“The only thing that is going to hold this team back is this team,” Izzo-Brown said. “We are not going to set any boundaries, this team can do whatever they want to do, it is just up to them.” patrick gorrell/the daily athenaeum

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Senior Blake Miller and the No. 9 West Virginia women’s soccer team hosts Virginia Tech in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

women’s basketball

Mountaineers open regular season against Youngstown State by cody schuler sports writer

The West Virginia women’s basketball team begins the regular season tonight against Youngstown State.

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The West Virginia women’s basketball team is set to begin its season tonight against Youngstown State.

Tip-off is set for 6:30 p.m. and will be broadcast on ESPN 3.

The Mountaineers defeated Division-II Wheeling Jesuit 100-23 last Wednesday in an exhibition.

The competition figures to be a bit more stiff this time, and the outcome of this game counts toward West Virginia’s official record.

The two teams have met 17 times since 1977, and their last game was played in 1997 – a game West Virginia lost 96-86.

The Mountaineers and the Penguins have split the series with eight wins each.

Youngstown State competes in the Horizon League and finished last season 6-24 overall. Led by second-year head coach Bob Bolden, the Penguins were able to increase their win total to six, after finishing the 2009-10 season with zero.

So far, Bolden has witnessed some promise in his team in a few key areas that will help Friday night. “(I’ve seen) a real willingness to learn and a real willingness to compete,” he said.

“We have a better understanding of what we’re trying to accomplish defensively.”

“It’s an exciting time, (although) obviously we still have quite a ways to go before we’re a good team. But it’s exciting to be where we are today.”

Bolden thinks despite the competitive gap, games against bigger nonconference foes like West Virginia go a long way in creating excitement around his program.

“I think it will be very exciting. Obviously it will be a wonderful atmosphere to play in,” he said.

“They’re obviously a more athletic team than us, they’re bigger than us … they’re going to try and take advantage of that height and try to get it inside, and we’re going to have to be effective in guarding and how we’re going to guard the low post.”

Bolden’s squad returns four starters from last season, in-

cluding the Horizon League Preseason Player of the Year in junior forward Brandi Brown.

Brown was named a second-team all-conference selection despite leading the Horizon League in scoring (19.9 ppg).

Senior guard Macey Nortey, who has started 84 games in her career for the Penguins, also returns after leading the team in assists last season with .83. In her opinion, the contest against West Virginia will be one that will help the team to move forward.

“We usually always have a big team as our first game, and it’s a good way to go into the season; (to) put up a challenge for us and see what we learned in the preseason,” she said.

Nortey and her teammates are well-aware of the superior speed and size West Virginia has, and that has been a primary focus of the team as they have prepared for the upcoming game.

“So far in practice, we’ve learned that their guards are really quick and they’re going to beat it into the post,” she said.

“We know they’re not really great 3-point shooters, but we understand that they’re pretty quick. So we just have to play them for the drive and understand that we have to focus on keeping it out of the post.”

Despite the experience of the team, the Penguins were picked to finish last in the conference during the preseason coaches’ poll.

With a bevy of shooters at their disposal, Youngstown State has the firepower to compete not only in the Horizon League, but also Friday night against West Virginia.

The Penguins converted 205 of 744 3-point shots last season including a school-record 48 attempts last season in a 78-58 loss to Pittsburgh.

Senior guard Kenyra Middlebrooks (8.5 ppg) and sophomore guard Liz Hornberger (3.2 ppg) both ranked among the top 10 in the conference’s 3-point shooting percentage.

Redshirt freshman forward Heidi Schlegel, one of the team’s two 6-footers, returns to provide some size and depth in the frontcourt after an ankle injury sidelined her for the majority of last season. charles.schuler@mail.wvu.edu

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