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Parking prices in Lair increased

By Charles young City Editor

The West Virginia University Department of Transportation and Parking has announced parking in the Mountainlair parking garage will be raised from $1.00 to $1.25 per hour.

Hugh Kierig, Director of the Department of Transportation, said the increase for short-term parking in the Lair was deemed necessary after the decision was made to in-

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crease the price of long-term parking passes.

“It could have been taken care of in a better way.

“Parking fees were raised I don’t feel it’s fair to students, raising the prices to fund the maintenance and with out much notice other than when they went operation programs of the department relative to the parkto pay for their parking.” ing resources we had,” Kierig Gov. Caroline Sprenger said.

Student Government Association The revenues collected from the increase will be used to fund maintenance and infrastructure improvement. about maintenance. is parking and transportation, Gov. Caroline Sprenger, a said she opposed the increase Kierig said the funds would allow his department to go Student Government Associa- and would work toward bringfrom reactive to proactive tion member whose platform ing the fee per hour back down

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to $1.00.

“It could have been taken care of in a better way,” Sprenger said. “I don’t feel it’s fair to students, raising the prices without much notice other than when they went to pay for their parking.”

The Department of Transportation and Parking has also announced students and facility members who ride motorcycles have new parking regulations and options.

Previously, there were no

regulated designated parking spots for motorcycles and drivers had to purchase the same long-term parking passes as automobile drivers.

Now, motorcyclists will have designated parking and be required to purchase a motorcycle parking pass for $168 per year.

Kierig said the new options were part of his department’s

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2011 FallFest to REC FIELD COMPLETION DELAYED feature 3 Doors Down, Mac Miller

by Charles Young City Editor

West Virginia University’s Department of Arts & Entertainment has announced the lineup for FallFest, the University’s annual welcome celebration and concert.

The 2011 FallFest will include performances from alternative rockers 3 Doors Down, native Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller, recent G.O.O.D. Music signee Big Sean, hipster-rap duo Chiddy Bang and singersongwriter Colbie Caillat, on the Mountainlair Green. San Francisco-based electronic artist MiMOSA and local Morgantown DJ Ikto will perform in the Mountainlair Ballroom.

The Mountainlair will be closed prior to the event from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., when gates open. Performances on the

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Construction laborers work at the Evansdale Recreational Fields Thursday afternoon.

Construction of new Evansdale Recreation Fields delayed because of bad weather

By Alaina Sisson Correspondent

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Tennis courts are still under construction at the Evansdale Recreational Fields.

Rain has delayed the efforts of construction workers attempting to complete the new outdoor recreation area on the Evansdale campus by the scheduled date of August 15.

Due to numerous recent rains, the completion of the project – which began at the end of the spring 2011 semester on April 25 – has been delayed.

Vice president of Administration and Finance Narvel Weese had previously announced the project should be fully completed by the beginning of this fall semester.

“Lots of rainfall has hindered the construction schedule,” said Randy

Hudak, the interim associate vice president for Facilities and Services.

With the presence of this water, the storm water system and route of the water line were redesigned to facilitate future building construction around the site.

The allotted budget for the project is $8.4 million. Although there were numerous setbacks for this project, such as wet weather in the spring, recent summer rainfall and unforeseen rock that needed to be removed from the area, it still has managed to remain within that budget.

Weese said he is very pleased about the budget and with the overall development of this addi-

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Mountainlair Green will begin at 6:30 p.m. Performances in the Mountainlair Ballroom will begin at 8:30 p.m.

FallFest is free to all WVU students with a valid student ID. A tent will be set up in front of the Mountainlair beginning at 6 p.m. to help students with ID questions.

WVU students are permitted one guest age 17 or older and must obtain a guest ticket at the tent in front of the Mountainlair. Legal beverages will be available to students 21 and older.

Alternative beverages and food will also be available.

The PRT will run until 1 a.m.

Buses will run between the Mountainlair and Towers until the conclusion of the event, at around 1 a.m. charles.young@mail.wvu.edu

Davis College, new School of Public Health name interim deans

by Mike Atkinson Correspondent

Alan M. Ducatman and Dr. Rudolph Almasy have been selected as interim deans for two West Virginia University colleges for the 2011-12 year.

Ducatman, interim founding dean of the School of Public Health, is the first dean of the new school.

“I think it’s wonderful. I feel honored to be the first dean.

However, it’s not about me, it’s about the school,” Ducatman said.

He said he is using strategic planning to work with state partners to find the biggest needs of the school, as well as work with faculty and many accrediting bodies to work through the several-year process of becoming

more accredited.

“We hope to start an undergrad program that allows students to find good jobs after college,” Ducatman said.

Ducatman has published various journal entries for the National Library of Medicine over the last 25 years.

He also said the school already has a Master of Public Health program, which currently has about 120 students, is a fully accredited Ph.D. program and has been putting students out into the workforce.

“We have superb job training programs with the Ph.D. program that are well supported,” Ducatman said.

Dr. Rudolph Almasy has

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WVU student found dead in Australia

By Mackenzie Mays A&E EDITOR

A West Virginia University student died Monday evening in Australia while on a University sponsored international exchange program.

Emily Spickler, 19, planned to study journalism at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia, through the school year.

She was found dead in her dorm room around 6:30 p.m.

Reports have been issued that she was found in her dorm shower by friends, according to the Brisbane Times in Aus-

tralia Tuesday.

An autopsy on Spickler determined she died from natural causes, Southern Queensland police said, according to the Brisbane Times.

Michael Lastinger, associate provost for WVU International Academic Affairs, said no student deaths have ever been recorded in the department’s 20-some year existence.

“This one of those things that has never happened to us in an international program.

This kind of accident could happen anywhere to anyone, and we regret profoundly that

it happened to Emily while she was on an exchange program with one of our partners is Australia,” Lastinger said.

“She was a bright, brilliant student, and one of the most charming presences on the WVU campus and the Southern Queensland campus.”

Spickler was a dance minor, a part-time model and a sister of WVU’s Alpha Omicron Pi. She spent part of the summer interning at Los Angeles Magazine in Los Angeles, Calif., and acted as a staff writer for The Daily Athenaeum during her sophomore year.

“Students and colleagues at both universities are dis-

traught. This happened, unfortunately, at a time when she was about to enjoy a year in a wonderful country amongst wonderful people, and that was cut short, along with her brief life,” Lastinger said.

Becky Lofstead, assistant vice president for WVU Communications, said the University is saddened to see such a loss, and the Carruth Center will offer counseling sessions for Spickler’s peers.

“Of course it is a concern when something like this happens to a student while on an

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PRT improvements on track to be completed Staff Writer

The PRT system maintenance is gearing up before the school year to provide better service for incoming students, according to West Virginia University transportation officials.

Improvements to the PRT are progressing well and will be completed within acceptable time frames, said Arlie Forman, associate director of PRT Administration.

“The project that will take longer to accomplish than expected,” Forman said. “Is a piece of electrical switch gear that is no longer being manufactured. Prior to bidding the project, prospective vendors indicated the gear was readily available; this was not the case.”

There will be no foreseen

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interferences with PRT operations when classes start.

The main goal of PRT staff has always been to keep the cars moving so students get to class on time, Forman said.

The most difficult part has been modernizing systems using the limited time of this project before summer break ends, he said.

“It was designed in the 1960s and installed in the ‘70s,” said Bob DeWitt, of PRT Electronics and Operations.

“We’re trying to retrofit 71 vehicles with an advanced on-board computer system.

Ten are in place now. The downtime is almost always due to the vehicles,” DeWitt said.

A new propulsion system should also make the PRT more reliable and help students get to class on time.

Funding for capital and

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inattentive to encourage more motorcyclists on campus.

“We want to make sure that everyone who uses our parking resources contributes to the cost of the operation and maintenance of these resources,” Kierg said.

exchange program. Thousands of students study abroad each year, whether it’s for Spring Break or the prestigious year-long trip Emily was on,” Lofstead said.

“Students have taken ill or gotten into an accident before, but there have been

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By Emily Smith Correspondent

With the fall semester just starting, many student are looking for part-time and off-campus employment.

The West Virginia University Office of Student Employment exists to help students find the perfect job to fit into any busy schedule.

All students are welcome to go to the office for assistance with finding a job during the school year.

Students will be given information on employment opportunities with organizations such as WVU dining services, valet parking at football games, as well as private business and individu-

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“The fare gates are slated to be replaced along with the automatic train controls system,” Forman said.

“However, the financing of Brooke Cassidy/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM that lengthy and costly projPRT cars arrive at the Walnut Street station above construction materials for the PRT. ect has not been discussed.

We have limited funding, so maintenance projects have grant from the Federal Tran- we choose to invest in projbeen paid for from the trans- sit Administration, but other ects that will keep the PRT portation fee and a small projects are in place for later moving in order to best serve no deaths recalled in recent memory.”

“Everyone is shocked and saddened to learn about her tragic passing,” Lofstead said. “From WVU’s standpoint, this is a horrific loss not only for us, but for Emilys’ friends and family.

She was a passionate young woman with her whole life ahead of her.”

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customers and students.”

Several projects have already been completed. The structural repairs of welding and steel reconstruction will be completed before WVU reopens for the fall semester.

“An upgrade doesn’t just happen overnight ; sometimes it takes years,” DeWitt said.

als looking for student workers.

The Office of Student Employment also sends out “email blasts” every Tuesday and Friday containing information on about 15 to 17 job openings at various places.

Susan Lantz, assistant director for the Office of Student Employment, said although the office has only existed at WVU for three years, she feels it has already become a vital part of the University.

“So far we have helped put $16 million back into the pockets of WVU students,” Lantz said.

The Office of Student Employment stays in touch with employers and keeps track of how much students are earning.

The first year the office was

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By Steven Young

UPCOMING CAREER SERVICES’ EVENTS

Correspondent

The Career Services Center at West Virginia University is located in the Mountainlair offers many different programs for all students, not just graduating seniors.

With programs covering everything from helping you choose your major to teaching you how to write a resume and look for a job, the Career Services Center has something for every student.

“I don’t think as many students use it as they should. I think the seniors and juniors should get over there more often to take advantage of it,“ said Omar Wazir, former Student Government Association Governor.

The Career Services Center offers programs to all WVU

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Construction workers inspect the rebar that will be laid with concrete for the sidewalk leading to the new recreation fields on the WVU Evansdale campus. literally transformed in the past three months from a muddy field to what can be seen today,” Hudak said.

The new fields and trail will be conveniently located between the Towers Residence Hall and the Student Recreation Center, which will provide many students with the opportunity to make use of this new area.

There is also easy access to

Morgantown’s PRT system, providing transportation to and from this new recreational spot.

At this time the fields are scheduled to be utilized for student recreation, intramural sports and West Virginia University events.

Further construction includes phase two of this project, which incorporates a new grass soccer field at the Health Sciences field. This construction, located at WVU’s Health Science Campus, will not be available until fall 2012. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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in operation, the students they helped to employ earned a total of around $2 million, and by the second year the number was up to $6 million.

“As a staff member, it’s really cool to be a part of that,” Lantz said.

In addition to emails and office visits, there are a number of ways students can receive information from the Office of Student Employment.

Lantz said her office also visits clubs and organizations and posts job listings through MountaineerTRAK and on kiosks around campus.

Senior Christopher Salvatore is a student worker at the Office of Student Employment.

“My job is at the front desk,

answering calls and counseling students about possible job opportunities,” Salvatore said.

Salvatore got a job at the Office of Student Employment last August through the financial aid work study program and continued to work at the office over the summer.

“Our office helps WVU students find jobs both on and off campus. We also provide students with tips on how to find a job,” he said.

In early August, Salvatore was responsible for setting up interviews via Skype between hiring managers at WVU dining halls and students who were not currently living in Morgantown.

“The interviews were a huge success. There were 20 inter-

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Shelbie Straughn, a junior sport and exercise psychology major, works as a student employee at JACS in the Mountainlair. views completed over Skype, 17 of which resulted in the student being hired,” he said.

The Office of Student Employment encourages students to stop by during office hours

– Monday through Friday, 8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. – and welcomes calls from employers, students and parents. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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tional recreation space that is being created for all of the students.

Once the project is complete, this outdoor recreation area will include one artificial turf soccer field and one naturally irrigated grass soccer field, both of which will be striped to be utilized as four flag football fields as well.

As anticipated, the natural turf field will not be playable until spring 2012, as the design requires a significant amount of time for the grass to take hold.

In addition to the fields there will also be a walking-and-jogging trail and five new tennis courts.

Additionally, repairs are being made to the four preexisting tennis courts located next to the Towers Residence Hall on the Evansdale campus.

Construction for this new recreation area began at the close of the spring 2011 semester, and many students have not had the chance to view it due to the summer recess.

“We expect the feedback from the students to be very positive, as the entire area has

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been named interim dean of the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design.

“I’m excited and honored.

There is an awful lot of good work being done by the school,” Almasy said.

Almasy was selected by a 12-member search committee representing staff, faculty, graduate students, administration and people outside of the college.

“We think it’s a great opportunity. The school has a new building, is interdisciplinary and its research is growing,” said Robert Jones, dean of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences and head of the search committee for the Davis College interim dean.

Jones said the committee partnered with Parker Executive Search, a professional search

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students, like individual career planning sessions with a Career Services counselor, who can help you explore the options or find resources to change your major.

Career Services also has a wide array of services for students nearing graduation, seeking jobs or grad school.

Working on your resume is something that is an ongoing process in college, and Career Services is there to help. They

offer help with corrections and classes in resume writing.

“I took them my resume and had them do all the corrections,” Wazir said. “I thought it was a pretty big help.”

Career Services will also help with putting together job applications and resumes.

“They were very helpful with getting my resume to the right place on time,” said Lara Smith, a junior engineer-

firm, to select Almasy.

He said the candidates should have served in a previous administration role and should communicate well.

“It’s a tall order. They must have a vision for the future, and communicate that vision well with the people in the college.

This college touches every aspect of the state,” Jones said Almasy said his principal role for the next year is to establish a

foundation to allow for strategic planning.

“The Davis College, because it is connected with agriculture and forestry, means that issues with sustainability is at the heart of the college,” Almasy said.

He said he hopes to establish good communication within the program to allow for a smooth transition year while the school looks for a permanent dean.

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ing major.

Another part of Careers Services is MountaineerTRAK, an Internet program students can use to manage multiple resumes, look up and view jobs, sign-up for an on-campus interview and register for career fairs.

MountaineerTRAK is an extremely useful program and exists to be taken advantage of.

There is also a series of seminars available though MountaineerTRAK running all year long, covering everything from the “Job Search Process (when, where, how)” to seminars on “Job Offer/ Benefits Review.”

The schedule for these events can be found on the Career Services web page. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

“I have been at WVU for 42 years, and served three times as the interim dean for the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. My administration experience led the provost to believe I would be a good choice as a transitional dean,” Almasy said.

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Take the experience of college seriously Adjusting to the college atmosphere can be challenging for anyone.

Whether you’re a first-time freshman or a returning upperclassman, the first few weeks of school are a time for fine-tuning.

Skills need sharpened and priorities must be set in place.

Beaches and tans are no longer a concern. Now hard hours

of studying are on the horizon.

To upperclassmen, getting back to college mode will not be as traumatic of an endeavor as it will be for freshmen.

The first timers will have to set aside the notion that a hand will always be there to hold when times get tough.

Yes, attending class is not mandatory from all the professors at West Virginia Uni-

versity, but that doesn’t mean they are encouraging students to miss class.

To the contrary, those professors aim at showing students they are now adults and have to make their own decisions when it comes to succeeding in college - and in lives for that matter.

The best advice an incoming freshman can take from

upperclassmen is to go to class.

It is very easy to get in the habit of staying up late and sleeping in, especially when friends are cheering on the same behavior.

Take the first few weeks slow.

Before engaging in timeconsuming extracurricular activities, take the time to ad-

just to the hectic schedule of college.

It doesn’t pay to spread one’s self too far out.

For some, it is very easy to work a job, go to class and to find time for other activities, and do it all well.

But not everyone can be the ultimate go-getter. Others struggle in college and don’t have a fraction of the respon-

sibilities and worries of others.

College is a wonderful time for anyone, but the educational aspect must be taken seriously.

Adulthood has arrived. Now is the time to hone in on the skills needed for the rest of life.

Don’t waste a second or dollar spent on college. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

PRIDE: A mountaineer tradition

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Mountaineer fans enjoy the Pride of West Virginia’s halftime show.

erin fitzwilliams editor-in-chief

Running out of Milan Puskar Stadium’s tunnels at 220 beats per minute onto Mountaineer Field is the most indescribable feeling. It brings tears to my eyes to try to relive those moments from my three-year tour with the “Pride of West Virginia,” the Mountaineer marching band.

As a former band geek turned editor-in-chief, I’ve had to leave my piccolo playing days behind me, but the time I marched with the Pride will always stay near and dear to my heart.

Game days are special surrounding the stadium. The band meets about five hours before kick-off, and the (drum line) and color guard meet sometime before that.

Believe it or not, my favorite mornings were before noon games, no matter how early I had to wake up. You get up before dawn and enter the stadium to the sounds

of the (drum line). Your toes get moist from the dew on the field. You’re tired, probably cold, but ready for some Mountaineer football.

The real shock is in the tunnels just before pregame.

You can hear the fans in the stadium, and as soon as the (drum line) starts the cadence, the energy becomes electric.

Trust me, if you haven’t seen the band perform before, be sure to get to Milan Puskar Stadium a little early on Sept.

4 to watch and support the Pride for its show time; and also get ready to bring on the Mountaineers. Pregame is the band’s time to shine and get the Mountaineer fans ready to cheer for their team.

Be prepared to see what is arguably the fastest and most intricate pregame show in the country.

At somewhere around 15 minutes, the band is moving almost constantly at fast tempos and playing at the same time.

I am not a West Virginia native, so I was unfamiliar with the Pride’s pregame lineup and what it really meant to

fans. After my first football game and pregame performance, I knew it was really a special thing for Mountaineer fans everywhere.

I will never forget when I traveled with the Pride to Baton Rouge, La., when WVU played Louisiana State University in Death Valley. We did not play during pregame, but for our halftime show we showed off our traditional pregame show including “Fight Mountaineers,” “Simple Gifts” and “Country Roads.”

Usually when the band travels the home-team fans are not very friendly toward visiting bands. We assumed LSU would be no different.

South Eastern Conference bands travel more frequently with their teams and home stadiums are generally underwhelmed by the traveling band.

When the Pride hit the field, I knew we were different. That stadium amplified the Pride’s music unlike any performance I had been a part of. It was almost strange because I heard something I didn’t expect – cheers.

After the performance, I went with some friends to the concession stand, and I was surprised when several LSU fans came up to us and told us how impressed they were.

They said we had LSU fans up on their feet to watch us perform, and we had showed them something different than they were used to. The LSU band, as well as many SEC bands, is traditionally militaristic in style; the Pride, while still focusing on precision, tends to make more free-form shapes and musical styles.

I cannot even begin to say how grateful I am for the trips I have been able to take with the Pride. I’m proud of the impact we left on WVU fans and other fans with our visits.

Last year, when the band traveled to Huntington (and WVU played Marshall in that almost-terrifying game), I have some belief we helped win that game. We were aggravated, but ultimately the band is there to support the team and spread the cheer.

We screamed, we cried, we cheered, and then WVU won the game. I remember

the frantic excitement I had as Bill Stewart climbed up the podium and basically told us we had won the game.

At the Homecoming game last year, a fan ran onto the field during our pregame performance. We were in the middle of performing “Hail, West Virginia” when the rogue, half-naked fan lay down on the field, right where myself and my rank would be marching through to make the outline of the state.

As a rank leader, I knew it was crucial we did not change the shape or move around him; it had to be over him, as the state outline had to be maintained. We marched closer, and I took a second to shout to my rank to keep going at all costs. I was never prouder of my rank when we continued on as if nothing had happened.

I have had so many amazing moments with the Pride.

Being part of this 350-member family for three years has changed my life forever.

I have made relationships that will last a lifetime, and I have truly embodied what it means to be a Mountaineer.

Being a member of the Omicron chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi, a national honorary band service fraternity, has enriched my love for the band and fulfilled my need to help the Pride as much as possible. Kappa Kappa Psi works tirelessly to keep the band running smoothly with any task, no matter how small or large.

With the enormous help of the Pride Travel Fund, I believe it has made every band member’s tour with the band the best it could possibly be.

The Pride is an integral part of WVU and the state of West Virginia.

Throughout my travels with the band, I have truly realized the band is the “Pride” of West Virginia.

The Pride is a beacon for Mountaineer fans everywhere, and without the Travel Fund, none of the great things I have experienced with the band would have been possible.

Support the Pride and donate to the Pride Travel Fund.

Visit www.pridetravelfund. com. for more information on how to donate.

Strive for perfection through making many mistakes Sam Viggiano columnist

Wouldn’t it be easy if we could be perfect? If I could only effectively plan my time better or shoot the perfect 3-point shot or understand the assigned reading from my psychology class. Life would be so much easier.

But does such an easy life exist? I’ve watched the savants of my grade ease in and out of class without breaking a sweat, yet remaining the best in show. How do we enter the kingdom of talented students who quickly understand and perform at the highest level while so many students remain in the servitude of their work.?

After reading Daniel Coyle’s “The Talent Code” this summer, my perspective on genius

and how talent is developed and trained in this multi-genre era has been morphed from callous caterpillar to bright butterfly.

Professors, teachers, parents and bosses collectively agree that learning a new skill, doing homework and practicing takes time. But in this day and age, who has the time to sit down and apply endless hours to perfect work and practicing?

But you don’t have to apply gratuitous amounts of time in order to become accomplished. In fact, all one must do is understand and apply what Coyle calls “deep practicing” to those activities one wishes to better.

Neurologically, during deep practice or any other “human activity, thought or feeling, precisely timed electrical signals travel through a chain of neurons – a circuit of nerve fibers. Myelin is the insulation that wraps these fibers and increases signal strength, speed and accuracy. The more we fire

a particular circuit, the more myelin optimizes that circuit, and the stronger, faster and more fluent our movements and thoughts become,” Coyle said.

Thus, according to science, in order to better a skill, we need to work with perfection.

Wrong. According to Dr. Douglas Field, director of the Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., “The way to build a good circuit is to fire, attend to mistakes, then fire it again, over and over. Struggle is not an option; it is a biological requirement.”

While traveling to talent hot beds around the world, such as the practice field of the Brazil’s national soccer team and Meadowmount School of Music, Coyle found amazing similarities on how youth to adult participants honed their employed skill. The following step-by-step process was observed by Coyle in all of his subjects’ activities:

1. Absorb the whole thing. Do not stop any activity whether you are hitting a ball or sight reading. Follow through.

2. Imitate what the best players do. By listening and watching the champions of your activity, you internally begin to understand and apply to your subject what you want without thinking about it.

3. Chunk your work into smaller pieces, and slow down the work.

4. Repeat this process over and over again, thus allowing yourself time to comprehend and gain fluidity in your pursuits. Very quickly will you be able to speed up the process, although slow practice and work guarantees universal success.

This process has been applied to the five genres of living: education, business, health and psychology, aging and music. But you don’t have to take Daniel Coyle’s word for it. I applied these instructions to several of my summer activ-

ities, one being practicing piano. I have been studying for two years, and I have made little progress in technique and playing ability. When starting Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata,” the most challenging piece I have ever played, I began by sight reading the piece with the alacrity of a sloth and followed through and accepted the wrong notes, rhythms and other technical practices.

From there I broke down the piece into sections and worked slowly with a meticulous eye to detail. I would begin each practice session by reading the entire piece and then critiquing each section. Slowly, and with repetition, I would begin to hear my choppy playing gain fluidity. In three weeks, I was playing his “Moonlight Sonata” up to tempo with perfect finger placement and musicality. Did I mention that this was the fastest I had ever learned a piece, or that I only practiced this piece an hour a day?

And if I can successfully

perform and reach my goal, why can’t you? Daniel Coyle’s “The Talent Code” can be applied to everyday life. His examples range from how South Korean women took over women’s golf, how to better yourself at chess and how to gain 18 pounds of muscle in two weeks.

In terms of school, we begin each semester with a clean slate. Thus, this year can be our opportunity to break the bad habits of speed reading or quickly doing our homework the hour before it is due. We will never learn or practice good study habits if we overload ourselves with too many classes or activities and we ultimately let ourselves down – not our parents or professors.

From the athletes to the musicians to the chess champions, everyone is a pupil to the teacher of time. It is no wonder those who are really “talented” at something are also focused on a single goal and, according to a German proverb, “become clever through mistakes.”

THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

Friday August 19, 2011

OPINION | A5

The best option may be to leave your cars at home tomas engle columnist

Coming to West Virginia University as a freshman student is often an exciting experience, whether you are a rural West Virginia native who feels like you’re are going to the “big city” for the first time, or a suburbanite Northeasterner on the cusp of discovering our wildand-wonderful state for the first time.

There is, however, an unfortunate baptism all incoming students must eventually undergo when coming to Morgantown - accruing parking tickets.

Parking attendants hover over our campus, indiscriminately ticketing all offenders within their path.

Despite all of this over-eagerness of the parking authority, student residents need to keep in mind that parking space is a prized commodity here.

And just like any other good, since there is less of it, prices rise to meet the level of higher demand. So instead of getting frustrated or going broke paying parking tickets, take some advice from a senior.

First off, if you can, do not bring your car to campus. This is the easiest way to avoid getting any tickets in the first place.

And honestly, unless you are an upperclassman living

off-campus and commuting to classes, you do not even need to bring a car in the first place.

The PRT is a fairly dependable and free way of getting from Evansdale to Downtown campus for students.

The Mountain Line bus system, which is also free to WVU students with their Student ID, offers service to various parts of the greater Morgantown area.

And with the recent addition of television screens displaying a map and arrival times in the Mountainlair, library and other high foot-traffic areas, Mountain Line buses have become more convenient for the infrequent user.

On top of these University -provided means of transportation there are also shuttle services for many of the privately-

owned housing complexes.

While I (can not) attest to their dependability or convenience of time schedule personally, the most common piece of housing advice from graduating to incoming students is that they wished they had lived closer two campus and not assumed commutes from these developments would be easy.

If you still decide to bring your car from home and want to live on-campus, you can choose from three residence halls that have parking lots: Fieldcrest (Evansdale), Pierpont (Evansdale) or Summit (Downtown).

You can also buy permits for specially numbered areas, though most are located on the Evansdale campus.

These are difficult to get, with lotteries for spots coming toward the end of the academic year.

On the other side of the coin are privately-owned parking spot leases, with those being on both Evansdale and Downtown campuses.

A primary one found on Evansdale is the parking lot at Suncrest United Methodist Church, which sells parking spots. But choosing this parking area requires you to move your car during home football games due to tailgaters.

If long-term parking leases by semester or year are not in your future, you can always find free – believe it or not – parking in Morgantown.

According to the WVU Department of Transportation

and Parking’s website, all permitted lots that are not marked as 24-hour enforcement are free to park from 5 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday through Friday.

Short-term lots are enforced from 6 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Parking is also free at the Coliseum parking lot and at the Mountainlair parking garage after 7 p.m. on weekends.

For those determined enough to bring their car to campus, it is a manageable feat, though a frustrating one not often worth it.

Save yourself some time and money this year, and don’t bring your car with you.

If you need any more motivation, just imagine all the parking attendants you will deny of tickets in Morgantown.

Professors are here to assist students in an adult setting, not to babysit Sam Viggiano columnist

School is an institution of education. That doesn’t mean you’re going to learn something.

When asked what most students wished they would have liked to have known upon entering college, a vast majority of those interviewed wished they had known how to treat their professors.

Not that WVU is negligent of their professors or has been voted “worst place to work,” but students should understand that professors are not high school teachers.

Student actions ranging from skipping class or homework to talking back to teachers might have resulted in a slap on the wrist or a detention in high school, but college is far more serious.

Most professors are professionals and researchers in their field and deserve the respect of those who have the privilege, not right, to have their tutelage.

Professors are required to provide office hours and other appointment times for students who seek additional enlightenment or help in their course.

These are not hours that students should ignore, especially when crunch time looms on the horizon, and our grades might be pass or fail.

And, unlike high school, these professors are not available at the whim of the student.

As professionals and researchers, they are busy preparing for their classes and assessing their research.

Late homework or tests that receive a zero or are not graded on time are not results of a professor’s vendetta against the student but a result of a student’s inability to provide a sufficient excuse or work.

Exceptions from tests and homework should be predetermined if you do not have the time.

The University can provide absentee forms for groups as far as three weeks in advance, which will give you and the professor plenty of time to come to make amends for the absence.

But if too many absences should accumulate, do not expect the professor to hold the class behind or accommodate to your needs.

Unlike high school, missing too many classes can result in grade deduction or removal from the class.

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be wasting if you do not come to class.

A late professor of mine, (who shall remain nameless), allowed me to share the horror story of her freshman year.

Believing that she was a gifted writer, she attended class and worked diligently, although the professor challenged her work.

Upon receiving a B on her final project she had worked on all night, she emailed the professor a message explaining why the grade should be changed.

Taking it the wrong way, the professor sent a mass email to the faculty of the college warning them of the quick temper from this student.

Mortified, she learned that professors can do much more than assign a bad grade; they but can ruin an academic reputation.

Online communication, whether or not you know that your professor is online and is very important.

Horror stories of students writing nasty comments about professors have been found online and resulted in major and degree removal.

They can see what you write

and what you do on Facebook, Twitter and other social websites.

Also, email and other online forms of communication should be prompt and quickly state the point without compromising the mood of the message.

And while all of these warnings might scare some students into respect or cause them to flee college, this message should not be one of negativity.

At WVU, I have not had a professor who I could not approach asking, politely, for help or an extension because of an absence.

Professors at WVU are here to help, not annihilate, an academic reputation.

Believe it or not, most of them want you to succeed, but under the conditions and standards they expect from an adult, not a high school student.

College is about the academic, social and psychological metamorphosis of the human being.

And until this point, we’ve been stuck in a cocoon of parental and high school social stability.

In college, we will be faced with challenges that will extend beyond our comfortable cocoons.

Thus, one of the best ways to break free from the childhood cocoon is to embrace the knowledge of your professor.

Many of the colleges at WVU have vast amounts of employees, and it might be hard to connect with a professor before entering the major. Yet, even maintaining a healthy relationship with an English 101 or statistics professor can provide for an easy and helpful college career if one should need a reference or conference partner.

But do not suck up to your professor.

Educators can see through the futile attempts of excessive admiration.

In high school, you might have observed privileges given to the class favorites. In college, privileges might result (and that is not a promise) if good behavior, grades and reputation have been practiced.

In order to maintain good relations with professors, always be prompt, if not early,

when turning in work or requesting an extension or absence. Ask questions, and take advantage of their office hours.

It sounds cheesy, but our professors are here to teach and research.

Getting to know and understand the professor will result in better communication and understanding of the subject.

In addition to a personal connection, thoroughly read and understand the syllabus in order to enable a smooth semester.

And if the relationship truly is toxic, there is usually another professor teaching the same subject, and one can seek help there.

THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

A6 | CAMPUS CALENDAR

Friday August 19, 2011

Campus Calendar Campus Calendar Policy To place an announcement, fill out a form in The Daily Athenaeum office no later than three days prior to when the announcement is to run.

Information may also be faxed to 304-293-6857 or emailed to dacalendar@mail.wvu.edu.

Announcements will not be taken over the phone. Please include

WELCOME WEEK 2011 Friday August 19

Residence Hall Check-In 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Welcome Cookout 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Student Rec Center

& Mountainlair Plaza.

Saturday August 20

University Welcome at the WVU Coliseum from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Residence Hall Welcome Events starting at 9:30 p.m.

See your RA for details.

Sunday August 21

Math and Chemistry Placement Exams in 421 Armstrong Hall beginning at 6 p.m. Registration Required.

Monday August 22

Welcome Week Informational Fair and Activities in the Mountainlair Commons from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Commuter Pizza Party in the Commuter Lounge/ Purinton House from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

FallFest on the Mountainlair Plaza beginning at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday August 23

Math and Chemistry Placement Exams at a location and time TBD. Registration Required.

Welcome Week “Ask the Experts” Informational Fair in the Mountainlair Commons from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Wednesday August 24

Math and Chemistry Placement Exams at a location and time TBD. Registration Required.

Welcome Week “Get Involved” Informational Fair in the Mountainlair Commons from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Thursday, August 25

Welcome Week Multicultural Program Activities in the Mountainlair Commons from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

WVUp All Night in the Mountainlair Commons from 7 p.m. to midnight.

Friday August 26

WVU Traditions Events in the Mountainlair Commons from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

WVUp All Night in the Mountainlair Commons from 7 p.m. to midnight.

Mountaineer Idol Preview in the Mountainlair Commons beginning at 7:30 p.m.

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

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

Every Friday

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.

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.

Chabad at WVU takes place at 7 p.m. at 643 Valley View Drive. For more information, visit www.jewishWVU.org or call 304-599-1515.

Campus Light Ministries hosts a weekly meeting and Bible study at 7 p.m. in the Bluestone Room of the Mountainlair.

Every Saturday

OPEN GYM FOR VOLLEYBALL 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, contact 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 college worship from 6 p.m. to 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 7 p.m. at 2901 University Ave. For more information, contact 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.

Continual

Wellness programs on topics such as nutrition, sexual health and healthy living are provided for interested student groups, organizations or classes by WELLWVU Wellness and Health Promotion. For more information, visit www.well.wvu.edu/

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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, contact Michelle Prudnick at 304-598-5180 or 304-598-5185.

Free Rapid HIV Testing is available on the first Monday of every month from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Caritas House office located at 391 Scott Ave. Test results are available in 20 minutes and are confidential.

To make an appointment, call 304293-4117. For more information, visit www.caritashouse.net.

Big Brothers Big Sisters, a United Way agency, is looking for volunteers to become Big Brothers and Big Sisters in its one-onone community-based and schoolbased mentoring programs. To volunteer, contact Sylvia at 304-9832823, 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 information, call 304-598-6094 or email rfh@ wvuh.com.

Literacy VolunteerS is seeking volunteers for one-on-one tutoring in basic reading and English as a second language. Volunteer tutors will complete tutor training, meet weekly with their adult learners, report volunteer hours quarterly, attend at least two in-service trainings per year and help with one fundraising event. For more information, call 304-296-3400 or email MCLV2@comcast.net.

Catholic Mass is held at St. John University Parish at 4:30 p.m. on weekdays.

Horoscopes

BY JACQUELINE BIGAR born today This year, you greet change in a positive and upbeat manner.

Often, you are unsure of your choices. A key adviser will help you make the right decision. Understand, as only you can, the role of being in the limelight. Carry the attention and responsibility with awareness. If you are single, you rarely have difficulty meeting people. Choosing the right person could be another issue. If you are attached, involve yourself much more in your sweetie’s life, and he or she in yours. TAURUS has a steady, even attitude.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH You manifest immense practicality. Your creativity takes on a different role than usual. Let it inspire you past any rigidity. A boss or partner could push you into an uncomfortable zone. Tonight: Indulge and relax.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH You flow with conservative energy, even if there is an implicit demand for change.

Friends spout many different ideas and thoughts. If one appeals to you, don’t hesitate to run with it. Notice where rigidity is preventing you from living. Tonight: Whatever knocks your socks off.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Take your time responding to a difficult and possibly overly personal inquiry. You might choose to have a one-on-one chat with the individual in question. Follow through on expanding your knowledge via education, travel or a discussion. Tonight: A must appearance.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHHH Eye your objective and follow through.

It doesn’t have to be a substantial goal; it can be something as simple as clearing your desk before the weekend. You might feel inspired by a close friend or loved one. Tonight: Join friends for a typical TGIF. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Stay direct in your dealings. Others look to you as a role model. You have that pizazz and extra energy that carries you to the finish line. Express your willingness to make an adjustment. Consider a change in your diet or exercise program. Tonight: You could go till the wee hours.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You could be questioning which path is the best. Detach and get some expert advice, then you will know which way to go. Ask those people who will be immediately affected for their opinions. The answers reveal yet another way to look at an issue. Tonight: Follow the music.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Others see greater implications than you deem likely. They are looking at every possibility. Understand their process.

Both ways -- yours and theirs -- work.

Avoid the judgment game. Open up. Tonight: Interact with a key friend.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH You might want to do something differently but might not be exactly sure what.

Someone gives a powerful commentary about your options. You might not agree with everything you hear. There is a lot to be said about the suggestions. Tonight:

Do absolutely what you want.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You might need or want to rethink a work-related matter. Be sure of your choices. Realize you might need a break, as you have pushed very hard. Juggle different concerns with family and/or a roommate. Tonight: Take care of yourself first.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Your intuition comes in handy, especially with communication. You tend to zero in on what the person is really saying or what hasn’t been said. Your ability to integrate valuable information and move to the next step proves to be unusually important. Tonight: Let off steam.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Much is happening on a deep and personal level. You might not chose to share everything that you are feeling at this point. Open up to new possibilities quietly in your mind, where you feel comfortable. Tonight: Happiest close to home.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You might want to understand what is happening within your immediate circle.

Discussions, even at work, could transform into “What is new? How are you?” conversations. You will find this process of catching up to be important. Tonight: Where your friends are.

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26 Shower head, maybe 29 Georgetown athlete 30 Outlet store abbr.

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Friday August 19, 2011

NEWS | A7

WVU joins other institutions to Advising Center provides students improve high-speed internet with useful aids in different majors

by Lydia Nuzum Staff Writer

West Virginia University has joined 28 other innovative research universities across the country in implementing a program aimed at bringing greater Internet connectivity to the Morgantown area.

The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project, or Gig. U, is an initiative designed to accelerate the implementation of ultra highspeed networks to college communities.

The project is geared toward improving economic growth and stimulating business in the surrounding University community in conjunction with aiding businesses and vendors in order to attract different opportunities to Morgantown, said Jay Cole, chief of staff for WVU. “I think that there is a consensus out there that our uni-

versities need this kind of connectivity, but the surrounding areas are not always included in that assessment,” Cole said.

WVU recently announced an upgrade to the University’s campus core network, which will allow its system to support speeds of 10 gigabits per second, a major improvement over the University’s previous processing speed of one gigabit per second.

The Gig. U project will allow for high-speed connectivity to extend to the city itself in order to serve citizens and students living off-campus.

Cole said WVU received an invitation to join the project in April, and internal discussion resulted in the decision to adopt Gig. U as part of the goals of the University.

“Everyone was excited about the project and about getting involved,” Cole said.

The project is still in the planning stage, but the Uni-

versity is developing a request for information from local service providers for September of the upcoming school year, said Rehan Khan, WVU’s associate provost and chief information officer.

“As part of our land grant mission and as part of our service and support of our state, we would want to participate in something like this,” Khan said.

WVU will join 28 other major universities in the United States committed to improving the connectivity of their surrounding communities, including Duke University, Penn State University, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Chicago.

“The draw for us is to be able to serve as that portal for West Virginia and the rest of the world,” Cole said. “It helps bring the world to us.” lydia.nuzum@mail.wvu.edu

Where to find a hotspot on the downtown campus

by Rebeccah Griffith staff writer

Coming to campus from a high school setting can be a confusing situation, especially when it comes to figuring out classes.

The Undergraduate Advising Service Center can help sort out any problems students may have with their classes as well as being the go-to department for planning their careers at WVU. This office of the University assists students in scheduling, deciding on majors, class conflicts and any general advice a student may need.

The University employs a system using general education curriculum credits, or GECs. Students must take appropriate classes to fill these, specific to their major. This process can be a major ordeal without the help of an advisors, but their assistance can make this a swift exchange, and the same goes for any other problems one may have with classes.

Taking advantage of the Advising Center’s services and careful planning can prevent scheduling conflicts and keep students on a structured timeline for graduation.

In addition to scheduling assistance, the Advising Center can also help students plan broader parts of their educational careers by send-

ADVISING CENTER REGULAR HOURS Monday - Friday (Walk-ins) 8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

1:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. ing them to department advisors at the appropriate time.

“I think it’s beneficial for students to take advantage of the fact that the Advising Center is specific to different departments,” said sophomore chemistry major Yousef Issa.

What he means by this is the advising center branches off into separate divisions based on department, such as the English or Engineering departments. This allows for students to be advised by major-specific advisors rather than general education advisors, which helps by providing students with more knowledgeable guidance.

Without using the matriculation plans provided at the Advising Center, students will find it difficult to enter their department and plan for their progress through their major.

“The Advising Center is a very helpful place to go if you are confused about anything involving classes. Everyone is there to help. When I was a freshman, the people at the Advising office put me on the right track,” said junior English major Michael Secret.

If you ever find yourself

Monday - Friday (Appointment) 8:15 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. overwhelmed by a class or having major conflict with a professor, the Advising Center can help you find solutions and assist you in working toward them.

Freshmen are required to attend an advising workshop as well as completing an online tutorial in order to streamline the advising process and ensure that students know what to expect and what is expected of them at the Advising Center.

These brief exercises teach students the details of advising at WVU and prevent mixups like missed advising appointments or scheduling in the wrong department.

It may seem like a simple task to schedule classes and choose your path through college, but these are big decisions that affect the rest of your life and can become confusing quickly.

Taking advantage of all the resources at the Advising Center is key to a successful path through the halls of WVU and will be endlessly helpful in making important choices that may define your time at the University. rebeccah.griffith@mail.wvu.edu

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Your First Day! – Monday, August 22, 2011 6:00 p.m. – U-92 Campus Radio Live Remote Front of Mountainlair 4:00 p.m. – Student Services Days – 2nd Floor Mountainlair 4:00 p.m. – (Office of Information Technology) Information – Mountainlair Commons 5:00 p.m. – Poster Sale – Mountainlair Commons 4:00 p.m. – Welcome Week Informational Fair and Activities – Mountainlair Commons 1:00 p.m. – Commuter Pizza Party – Commuter Lounge/Purinton House.

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SGA 2011 COVERAGE

SGA uses summer to prepare for upcoming fall semester

by Charles Young

West Virginia University’s Student Government Association will spend the 20112012 year focusing its efforts on helping students deal with the costs associated with attending college.

“From rising tuition and fees to the ever-increasing costs of textbooks to other costs like rising rent and food, students are facing a tighter budget than ever before,” said Jason Bailey, SGA President.

To tackle this issue, SGA members will serve on the University’s newly created Textbook Affordability Committee and will lobby Faculty Senate to encourage faculty to reuse the same edition of textmatt sunday/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

SGA President Jason Bailey gives a speech during the inauguration ceremony last semester dent forums to see if what we are developing is what students want and go from there,” he said.

Most recently, Bailey, along with Govs. Rashad Bates, Ryan Campione and Allison Rollins, went on a “SGA Campus Tour,” where they visited the campuses of Ohio State University, the University of Cincinnati, University of Louisville and University of Kentucky.

“We engaged in an idea exchange and talked about issues that affect SGAs just like ours across the region and country,” Bailey said.

SGA will host a retreat for the members of its Board of Governors and Athletic Council on August 20. The retreat will be followed by workshops aimed

at accumulating the new student leaders to their positions.

Bailey said his governors will be kept busy during the next few weeks with a variety of tasks and fundraisers such as assisting freshmen on move-in day, selling Gold Rush T-shirts in the Mountainlair, participating in an Adventure WV ropes course with resident advisors from Lyon Tower and hosting a commemorative event on Sept.

11 and 12 to honor the 10th year anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001.

“This University has so much to be proud of and has a lot to offer, so we’re excited about what our fellow students are going to accomplish this coming year,” Bailey said. charles.young@mail.wvu.edu

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The West Virginia University Student Government Association has used the summer break to prepare and plan for the upcoming school year.

Jason Bailey, SGA president, said much of the beginning of his summer was spent attending planning meetings for the new Health and Wellness Facility.

Bailey said much of what was discussed during these meetings was not what students had originally desired or expected.

To ensure student input was considered, Bailey and SGA Vice President Megan Callaghan sat in on development meetings and fought on behalf of the students.

“We believe we have made great progress on this facility,” Bailey said.

Bailey and other members of SGA also worked closely with Faculty Senate Chair Lesley Cottrell to develop the University’s first ever faculty, student, staff and alumni race.

The event, scheduled to take place during Mountaineer Week, will be a four-mile charity race benefitting the Untied Way Campaign.

SGA has also held several brainstorming sessions in order to come up with ideas for rewriting the Elections Code, following allegations of “widespread voter fraud” during last year’s elections.

Bailey said the brainstorming sessions were held in an attempt to devise a new system for conducting elections that would be right for WVU. “We will use this during a Speak Up and other open stu-

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books and assign textbooks with electronic editions.

Bailey said SGA will also work toward expanding and promoting the use of The Rack, the student food bank in the Mountainlair. Members of SGA are currently working with several departments within the University to develop a student-run consignment shop to provide a cheaper alternative for students who need clothes.

As the SGA representative to the University’s Board of Governors, Bailey said he would oppose any raises in tuition or student fees.

“I will be advocating tirelessly to ensure that tuition and fees for in-state and outof-state students does not rise again this year like it did last

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year,” he said.

During the course of his administration, Bailey said he would like to work toward improving SGA’s image. Bailey said he hopes to accomplish this through a combination of marketing strategies and increased visibility.

The first step toward increasing SGA’s presence on campus will be to hold consistent office hours and work with University Relations and Student Affairs to market the group.

“By making ourselves more visible in the Mountainlair and elsewhere on campus, we hope students see this as a more readily available opportunity for them to voice their concerns to us,” Bailey said. charles.young@mail.wvu.edu

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NEWS | A9

Enrollment Management to transition to Academic Affairs

By Charles Young City Editor

The West Virginia University Office of Enrollment Management and Services has made the transition from Student Affairs to Academic Affairs. This transition, affecting 115 employees, became effective on Aug. 15.

The Office of Enrollment Management and Services, includes the units within the University dealing with undergraduate recruiting, financial aid and scholarship offices, new student orientation, admissions, student communication center and student systems management, it is led

by Brenda Thompson, asso-

ciate vice president for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management.

Thompson said the transition was modeled after the setup of other research-based universities of similar size.

“The University looked at other models around the country of where these units are located, and most of the

major institutions, you will find it in the academic affairs area,” Thompson said.

Russell Dean, senior associate provost for the University, said the transition was part of WVU’s 2020 Strategic Plan, which calls for more focused attention on graduate studies and research.

“Recruiting graduate stu-

dents is much more tightly tied to the academic departments, and thus it made sense for Enrollment Management to move to Academic Affairs to help facilitate the needed coordination and planning,” Dean said.

Both Dean and Thompson said they anticipated the transition to occur smoothly with

little notice from students.

“Very little will change in much of the day-to-day operations of the units,” Dean said. “Students on campus will probably not see much difference as they interact with the various Enrollment Management offices.” charles.young@mail.wvu.edu

Student food bank at WVU ensures no student will go without food

by Emily Smith Correspondent

Recent studies have shown the number of hungry and homeless college students has been increasing.

Needy students are on campuses across the country, and West Virginia University Student Organizations Services has implemented a program to help prevent that from happening here at WVU. The Rack is a food bank located in the Student Organizations wing of the Mountainlair and is open to all students during Mountainlair hours.

The bank offers a variety of ready-to-eat and easily prepared boxed and canned food items for those in need.

Ashley Staggers, program advisor, said the need at WVU is greater than most people would guess, actually exceeding their initial expectations.

“There are countless students who are truly struggling financially right now, but it’s not necessarily something they talk about. On average, around 50 students use The Rack every week,” Staggers said.

Jacqueline Dooley, program coordinator with Student Organizations Services, said The Rack receives donations from businesses as well as the general public, and anyone willing to donate may do so.

The Greek community at WVU also plays a large role in supplying the bank with food.

Fraternities and sororities will be holding food drives around the time of Homecoming to

collect food for The Rack.

Staggers said they have also had several departments and colleges within the University hold food drives to benefit The Rack.

“We were also fortunate enough to recently receive a grant, which allows us to purchase bulk orders of food through the Mountaineer Food Bank,” Staggers said.

“This has diversified the range of products. In fact, we now have USDA meats, cheeses, frozen foods and produce.”

Although there are many students in need, Dooley said the possibility exists of students taking advantage of the items The Rack has to offer.

“While the concern does exist, the students for the most part have been respectful to only take what they need.

But there’s always one in the bunch who acts out,” Dooley said.

Back in January, large quantities of food were taken from The Rack, and inappropriate messages were left on the signin sheet.

The vandalism took place

during a University holiday, so the building was open but no one was working. No major damage was caused, but the hours were limited to traditional business hours to ensure The Rack is well-stocked and in an inclusive environment for students, Staggers said.

This incident has not discouraged The Rack from further operation. Dooley said they received several letters of encouragement and disgust that someone would commit such an act, and they have not run into any problems since.

“It was extremely unfortunate to see that happen, and we’re happy to say that we haven’t had any other incidents,” Staggers said.

The hours of operation for The Rack are 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 8:15 a.m. until the Mountainlair closes on Friday. If a student cannot utilize The Rack during business hours, however, special arrangements can be made. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Enrollment numbers Study abroad offers variety of travel opportunities continue to increase

By Rebeccah Griffith Staff Writer

By Alex Dufour Correspondent

West Virginia University is anticipating a slight increase in enrollment from last year, less than 1 percent growth, primarily in the undergraduate area.

The greatest increase is in transfer students, much like last year’s demographics.

Brenda Thompson, assistant vice president for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management and Services, said she believes the slight bump this year will be due to the accumulation of some larger freshman class enrollments over the last five years.

“Smaller freshman cohorts that enrolled at the University four to five years ago have graduated or left the University and have been replaced with slightly larger cohorts,” Thompson said.

“This is partly due to the economic climate in our country that has caused more and more students to turn to community

colleges to begin their college education.”

Thompson anticipates the freshman class to be very similar in size to last year.

“The University’s goal is to enroll between 4,900 to 5,000 freshmen each year, and we are on target to meet our goal,” Thompson said.

Thompson said most colleges have enjoyed success in enrollment growth over the last decade, if they wished to grow their school.

The number of students pursuing a postsecondary education is at an all-time high with non-traditional students leading the growth.

“WVU was very strategic in planning our growth by making sure we had the infrastructure and faculty lines in place to do so while providing our students with the best possible learning and living environment,” she said. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

West Virginia University offers a variety of opportunities for incoming students, and one of the best options is the Study Abroad program.

The Office of International Programs at WVU provides students with the opportunity to travel abroad while remaining enrolled in the university.

OIP’s mission is to establish WVU as a global university and expose students to the life-changing cultural experience of studying abroad.

Many students find themselves interested in studying abroad, but the prospect of making a travel decision and encountering a new culture can seem daunting.

OIP provides a wealth of guidance and options regarding traveling abroad.

While many students choose to take part in WVU’s exchange program or Mountaineer Programs Abroad, others may be interested in a shorter stay and become

FOR MORE INFORMATION Visit the Office of International Programs in Stansbury Hall or email OIP@mail.wvu.edu.

involved in a faculty-led program.

With all of these options, the study abroad programs at WVU have a destination and a chance for everyone.

The OIP houses several different programs that involve studying abroad, including the Exchange Program and Faculty-Led Programs.

The Exchange Program is the best known of the study abroad opportunities and involves “swapping” places with a student at a partner university.

“The WVU Exchange Program is a great way to experience a new country. Not only do you experience new opportunities to explore a foreign language, but you also get the chance to im-

merse yourself into a culture that can’t be accomplished through a vacation,” said Ethan Kirk, a junior computer science major.

Students continue to pay tuition at WVU while their housing and meal fees are paid either to WVU or the partner university.

These programs generally persist for a semester or an entire school year, and the variety of possible locations is changing every year. Current exchange partners range from the countries of Austria, Brazil, Denmark, Hong Kong and dozens more.

The University also sponsors Mountaineer Programs Abroad, WVU programs that take place overseas – an option that frequently involves classes taught in English and is supervised by WVU. Many students may want to study abroad but don’t have the desire to stay away from home for an entire semester or year.

For these students, the OIP offers other options such as Faculty-Led Programs.

Faculty-Led Programs are study abroad opportunities that operate for a briefer period of time, such as a few weeks or just over a break.

These are often subjectspecific courses that are taught in conjunction with a class at the university or by WVU professors overseas.

Faculty-Led programs available this fall include Ceramics in China, the WVU Semester in Strasbourg program, an interdisciplinary study in France, and the options will only continue to expand.

The opportunity to study abroad is one that is unmatched and that every capable student should consider taking advantage of.

“These programs are beneficial because they give students a chance to expand their horizons, to acquire real-world experience that’s unparalleled to classroom teachings,” said international studies graduate Megan Ciarolla. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Office of Sustainability tries improve WVU healthcare makes “Most Wired” list community through green efforts

By Joshua Clark Staff Writer

Hospitals & Health Networks magazine has chosen West Virginia University’s health care facilities for their annual listing of the best information technology and patient care in the United States.

This recognition is based not solely on having the latest technology or having the best wireless network, but for putting that technology to meaningful use.

“A most wired facility isn’t just implementing a bunch of technology, but adding systems that support patient care,” said Kim Clarke, director of applications for Information Technology at WVU. Clarke said much of the thanks for the achievement should go to a program called Merlin, WVU Health’s internal infrastructure that fully integrates everything from registering the patient-to-patient re-

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By Emily Smith Correspondent

The West Virginia University Office of Sustainability works with other departments across campus to promote environmental awareness and sustainability.

The office not only hosts events and programs to support recycling and conservation, but also encourages and supports sustainability through scholarships and research.

“The Office of Sustainability facilitates, coordinates and partners with other units and departments to further sustainability in their programs,” said Clement Solomon, director of the Office of Sustainability.

During the month of October the office hosts the Ecolympics. This campaign is a recycling competition between dorms and other campus buildings meant to spread knowledge and information on recycling, energy conservation and sustainable living.

Other events include the Blue & Gold Mine Sale, game-day re-

cycling and Sustainability Week.

A goal of the Office of Sustainability is to save money and increase efficiency throughout the campus and community.

Traci Liebig, a conservation specialist for the University, said the goals of the Office of Sustainability fall in line with the University’s land grant mission.

Liebig said the Office of Sustainability honors this mission by teaching the importance of sustainable living and supporting the sustainability research at WVU. The Office of Sustainability also has may outreach programs, such as poster competitions and community service programs.

Another program, WECAN (WVU Environmental Conservation Awareness Now), is committed to ensuring a more sustainable future for its students, faculty, staff and the citizens of West Virginia.

Through WECAN, WVU strives to incorporate sustainable practices into its businesses and operations.

This includes incorporating green concepts into building

cords to back-end billing.

Bill Miller, Director of Networking for Information Technology, said the facilities have received the magazine’s “Most Improved” award since the system was implemented three years ago.

“We’ve been trying for this survey for eight years,” he said.

“Every year, as certain technologies becomes more commonplace, H&HN switches up the criteria to more cutting-edge and creative technologies. Last few years, they have really been looking for the best fully electronic patient care.”

The Merlin system, which is currently used by more than 12,000 people, allows patients to access their personal records and information from any Internet-connected device.

“You can look at lab results, communicate with your doctor, request prescription refills and make appointments from anywhere,” Clarke said.

Due to the speed and accuracy of the system, sometimes information will have to be delayed to allows doctors a chance to look it over before the patient accesses it.

On Aug. 18 these same services will be launched for WELLWVU Student Health. Clarke said this is projected to dramatically increase the number of users.

All this is possible thanks to a state-of-the-art data center built May 1 at an unspecified location, which Clarke and Miller are both very proud of.

“We have no choice but to keep up now,” Miller said. “It would be really hard to fall off the list now, as we’ve worked so hard to get there.”

WVU Hospitals are also ranked in the top 3 percent for electronic records systems by HIMSS Analytics and are ranked highly in eight specialties by U.S. News & World Report Health. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

WVUe191 is new University 101 class

design and maintenance, promoting recycling and encouraging energy and water conservation in campus buildings.

WECAN hosts several events to promote sustainability in a fun and safe environment, and encourages students to improve by making small, simple changes in their everyday routines.

WVU and WECAN believe through outreach and awareness we can make a difference on campus and in the community.

Students can get involved by joining student organizations that focus on sustainability, volunteering at and participating in events.

Students can also take the “Sustainability Pledge” and commit to reducing their environmental impact.

by Mike Atkinson Correspondent

Freshmen at West Virginia University will no longer be taking University 101 as part of their first-year experience.

Instead, new students to the school will be taking a modified version of the course called WVUe191.

The change was made by a team of faculty and approved by the school’s Faculty Senate.

Joan Gorham, assistant dean of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, said WVUe191 will still be a one credit-hour course and students will continue to meet one day a week.

“Students will learn to set and communicate expectations from the university; (it will) provide opportunity for students to develop critical thinking and com-

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munication, promote metacognition learning style, engage in career planning and promote diversity conclusion,” she said.

Gorham said the change was made to allow for the orientation course to be more academically focused, and allow for students to maintain the information even if changing their major.

“We know that students make changes in their major.

WVUe191 will allow students to change their major without having to take another orientation class,” Gorham said.

Joe Seiaman, assistant dean of Undergraduate Programs in the WVU College of Business and Economics, said several of the major schools at WVU have taken objectives and goals from University 101 and placed them into classes specific to the major within the school.

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These programs will not teach WVUe191, but will teach the same objectives in a major-specific class.

“There is a direct correlation between the goals of the firstyear class and business goals,” Seiaman said.

He explained how the new class will merge with the objectives of WVUe191.

“I think we can engage students in the classroom by incorporating business objectives as well. It will be much better for students,” Seiaman said.

Other schools to use majorspecific classes instead of University 101 are the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, the WVU College of Engineering and Mineral Resources and the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Workers for Hershey protest conditions HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — Foreign students working at a candy warehouse protested conditions and pay Thursday, chanting on Chocolate Avenue under streetlights shaped like Hershey’s Kisses, arguing that they were employed under the guise of a cultural exchange but toil away in what amounts to a sweets sweatshop. The State Department said it was investigating.

More than 100 students gathered in touristy downtown Hershey, home to the nation’s second-largest candy maker, complaining of hard physical labor, steep pay deductions for rent that often left them with little spending money, and no cultural enrichment. They said their concerns were met with threats of deportation.

“We have no money, we have no time and we have no power,” said Yana Brenzey, a 19-yearold journalism student from Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine.

She said she had no idea that she would be lifting 40-pound boxes or netting only about $200 a week when she began working in early May at the warehouse run by Westerville, Ohio-based Exel Inc. A spokesman for the Hershey Co. would say only that the corporation expects its vendors to treat employees “fairly and equitably.” An Exel spokeswoman said the company was working with SHS Staffing Solutions of Lemoyne, Pa., which helped place the students, to resolve the situation.

Late Thursday, Exel issued a statement saying it would stop using student workers once the current group leaves in mid-September.

The students earn about $8 an hour, the same as their American counterparts, and were fully informed about the nature of the work, SHS spokesman Sean Connolly said. The company does not intend to fire the students for their protest, he said.

“We continue to discuss the concerns they have,” Connolly said. “We hope there’s a resolution.”

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Calif., that also helped place the students, asserted that their motives weren’t entirely pure.

“Somebody has been circulating a letter that they will get several thousand dollars back if they protest and be a part of this movement,” said CEO Rick Anaya. “We have not gotten any cooperation from the kids.

Somebody is promising them a lot of money in order to participate in this protest.”

He acknowledged that the jobs are “fast-paced” and involve heavy lifting, but he said the students knew what they would be doing. He said he became aware of complaints two weeks ago and sent managers to Pennsylvania to work out differences.

The students were offered the opportunity to leave the job if they were unhappy, he said.

They are among more than 100,000 college students who come to the U.S. each year on J-1 visas, which supply resorts and other businesses with cheap seasonal labor as part of a program aimed at fostering cultural understanding.

An Associated Press investigation published in December found students who were forced to work in strip clubs instead of restaurants, others tak-

ing home $1 an hour or even less, some living in crowded apartments or eating on floors.

Members of Congress have expressed concern about misuse of the program.

The State Department is sending staff to Pennsylvania to investigate.

“The Department of State takes its responsibilities for administering the J-1 Visa Program seriously,” spokesman Mark Toner said. “It is our responsibility to ensure that all J-1 visa participants are accorded their rights under all provisions of the Summer Work Travel program.”

Yilmazcan Cebe, a 20-yearold civil engineering student from Ankara, Turkey, said that his complaints were met with threats

to force him to pay the remainder of his housing costs and that he might be barred from returning to the United States.

“We are not real workers,” said Cebe, who blamed a persistent wrist pain on the tough labor. “We are just students.”

Student protesters also came from China, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland and Romania. They said their goals were to have all the companies related to their employment negotiate on repaying them and converting their jobs to living-wage positions.

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Wayward whale delighted observers before her death KLAMATH, Calif. (AP) — Janet Wortman knew something was wrong when she drove by the U.S. Highway 101 bridge across the Klamath River and there were no people leaning over the railing to watch the 45-foot gray whale that had been there for nearly two months.

“She would just swim back and forth right in front of you and at one point go like this, like she was waving at us,” recalled Wortman, a member of the Yurok Tribe and a partner in the Requa Inn bed and breakfast overlooking the river. “Silly me, I waved back. It was like she was there to see people. She went back and forth. It was almost like she was going, ‘Here I am, you guys. Can you see me?’”

Before dawn Tuesday, the whale died after beaching itself on the north bank of the river in this coastal town of 800 people that is the headquarters of the Yurok Tribe. Scientists who had kept an eye on her since she swam into the river with her calf in late June were by her side.

In the afternoon, a backhoe pulled the whale from the river onto the gravel bank amid tall willows and dug a pit. Tribal members sang a song and said a prayer to send the whale on to the afterlife, said tribal chairman Thomas O’Rourke. Then they turned her over to scientists to see if they could determine a cause of death before burying her.

They found the whale’s stom-

ach was empty, and took tissue from the skin, blubber and organs to look for diseases and toxins, and to learn more about the whale’s genetics, said Dawn Goley, professor of zoology at Humboldt State University.

For many, the whale’s strange visit to the river recalled a story that Wortman’s great-grandmother’s cousin, Fannie Flounder, used to tell, which was recounted in the book, “The Inland Whale,” by anthropologist Theordora Kroeber.

“She said when the whale is in the river, it means the world is out of balance ... things aren’t the way they should be,” said Wortman. “Fannie said you all need to get together and pray and dance and beat your feet

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O’Rourke said he agreed that the whale’s visit meant the world was out of balance, that ecosystems were failing. He said the whale brought together state and federal agencies and the tribe in a way he has never seen.

“It is acts like this that are going to happen if we are going to stabilize the environment,” There was no obvious reason the whale died, or why she sought refuge in the river, instead of joining other gray whales migrating north to feeding grounds off Alaska, Goley said.

“When she died at 4:19 (a.m.

Tuesday) it was a pretty sad moment,” the professor said. “As a scientist, it’s been interesting to observe a single whale this long and come to know an individual, rather than a species.”

The whale came into the river in late June with its calf, gradually working her way upriver until her favorite haunt was underneath the U.S. Highway 101 bridge.

Rich Mossholder would check on the whale with loads of tourists in his Klamath Jetboats tours.

“I believe this was her destiny,” he said. “She decided (she would die here) before she came in the river. The baby went on.

After that happened, I thought it would probably be the end for her here.”

During July and early August, crowds of people would gather on the bridge, running across, oblivious to speeding traffic, to watch when she swam underneath. Some serenaded the whales with violins and flutes.

One person jumped out of a kayak to swim with them.

“It was like a rock concert,” said Reweti Wiki, Wortman’s son-in-law and a partner in the Requa Inn. He is a Maori from New Zealand and has a traditional whale’s tooth tattoo on his arm.

Tanya Sangrey, director of economic development for the Yurok Tribe, said people would talk to the whale from the bridge, urging her to go back to sea. But she would not.

The calf swam back out to sea on July 23, about the right time for it to wean and go off on its own. But efforts to drive its mother back to sea, including calls of killer whales played upriver, did not persuade her to leave.

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Here we go again: Another big down day for Dow NEW YORK (AP) — Just when Wall Street seemed to have settled down, a barrage of bad economic reports collided with fresh worries about European banks Thursday and triggered a global sell-off in stocks.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 419 points – a return to the wild swings that gripped the stock market last week.

Stocks were only part of a dramatic day across the financial markets. The price of oil fell more than $5, gold set another record, the government’s 10year Treasury note hit its lowest yield, and the average mortgage rate fell to its lowest in at least 40 years.

The selling began in Asia, where Japanese exports fell for a fifth straight month, and continued in Europe, where bank stocks were hammered because of worries about debt problems there, which have proved hard to contain.

On Wall Street, the losses wiped out much of the roughly 700 points that the Dow had

gained over five days. Some investors who bought in the middle of last week decided to sell after they were confronted with a raft of bad news about the economy: zz More people joined the unemployment line last week than at any time in the past month. The number of people filing claims for unemployment benefits rose to 408,000, or 9,000 more than the week before. zz Inflation at the consumer level in July was the highest since March. More expensive gas, food, clothes and other necessities are squeezing household budgets at a time when most people aren’t getting raises. zz Sales of previously occupied homes fell in July for the third time in four months – more trouble for a housing market that can’t seem to turn itself around.

This year is on pace to be the worst since 1997 for home sales. zz Manufacturing has sharply weakened in the mid-Atlantic states, according to a report from the Federal Reserve. Manufac-

turing has been one of the strongest parts of the economy since the recession ended in 2009, but its growth has slowed this year.

The manufacturing news was especially bleak on an already bad day, said Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at brokerage BTIG. He called the Fed report “an atrocious set of numbers.”

“That really set the market on its head,” he said.

Wall Street and other financial markets have wrestled for several weeks with fears that a new recession might be in the offing.

Morgan Stanley economists said in a report Thursday that the U.S. and Europe are “dangerously close to recession.”

“It won’t take much in the form of additional shocks to tip the balance,” they wrote.

Worries about European debt also hang over the market. A default by any country would hurt the European banks that hold its bonds, plus American banks that have lent to their European counterparts.

Renewing the fears, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that U.S. regulators are looking at the U.S. arms of big European banks to make sure they have enough money for day-to-day operations.

“I don’t want to pretend that the market knows what it’s thinking about too much,” said David Kelly, chief market strategist at JPMorgan Funds. “We live in an environment of sell now and ask questions later.”

Asian markets started Thursday’s drop. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index fell 1.3 percent. The main stock indexes in South Korea and India each dropped a little more, then Europe more than that – 4.5 percent in Britain and 5.8 percent in Germany.

In the United States, the Dow fell 419.63 points, or 3.7 percent, to 10,990.58. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 53.24, or 4.5 percent, to 1,140.65. The Nasdaq composite fell 131.05, or 5.2 percent, to 2,380.43.

The cycle of selling picked up again early Friday in Asia, with the Nikkei off another 2 percent.

The Dow is down 13.6 percent since stocks began falling July 21 – four weeks that have rattled Americans watching their retirement savings and other investment accounts shrivel.

Lee Applegate, a retired sales executive from Cincinnati, watched the latest market plunge uneasily but said he was planning to stay the course with his investments. He and his wife have several retirement accounts.

He remembers the mistake he made in pulling his money out of stocks in early 2009, just before the market started its twoyear surge. Since March 9 of that year, the S&P 500 is up 68.6 percent.

“I think things are going to get worse before they get better,” Applegate said. “But I’m still going to ride it out.”

The selling Thursday was immediate. The Dow plunged from the opening bell and was down 528 points about a half-hour into trading. It essentially moved sideways for the next six hours.

New York Stock Exchange volume was 6.2 billion shares – busy for a summer day, but not as busy as during the worst of the

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Trader Gregory Rowe, left, and specialist Gennaro Saporito work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. selling earlier this month, when volume sometimes hit 9 billion.

Last week was one of the wildest in Wall Street history.

The Dow moved more than 400 points on four straight days for the first time. But stocks had been relatively stable this week because investors were calmed by strong earnings reports.

The Dow fell 76 points Tuesday and rose four points Wednesday – the first time in nearly three weeks that the average rose or fell by less than 100 points on two straight days.

That ended Thursday. And with stocks down big, money flooded into U.S. Treasurys and gold, both considered safer investments.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note briefly fell below 2 percent for the first time. It hit 1.98 percent before rising to 2.07 percent. Investors are willing to accept a lower return on their money in exchange for safety.

The price of gold reached yet another high – $1,829.70 per ounce. Gold keeps setting records because some investors

are looking for stability and others are simply looking to cash in.

The price of oil fell $5.20 to $82.38 per barrel after the economic reports raised concern among traders that demand for gasoline would fall. One survey this week found Americans have already cut back on gas 21 weeks in a row.

And the average rate on a 30year fixed mortgage fell to its lowest on record. The rate on the most popular mortgage hit 4.15 percent – just below the 4.17 percent reached last November. The last time long-term rates were lower was in the 1950s, when 30-year loans weren’t widely available.

Nicole Sherrod, a managing director at broker T.D. Ameritrade, said the market volatility has led more clients to put automatic protections in place to sell a stock or an investment fund once it falls below a certain value.

“Our clients are saying that this is not a buy and hold market,” she said. “This is a buy and protect market.”

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HIGH EXPECTATIONS

ben gaughan associate sports editor

Can WVU live up to the hype?

A new era of West Virginia University football has begun with former Oklahoma State Offensive Coordinator Dana Holgorsen taking over as the new head coach of the Mountaineers.

As “Camp Holgs” winds down in its last few weeks before the opener against Marshall, I wonder – can the Mountaineers actually live up to all of the buzz that has been surrounding Morgantown?

After three straight 9-4 seasons under Bill Stewart, it just wasn’t good enough for the WVU administration and fans. They expect more.

There was a lot of hype before Pat White’s senior season in 2008, and then the Mountaineers went out West to Colorado in the third game of the season and suffered an embarrassing overtime loss by a field goal to the Buffaloes, basically ruining the season.

In 2009, the Mountaineers traveled to Auburn in week three and were up by a touchdown in the third quarter until a meltdown toward the end of the game led to a loss.

WVU also lost a heartbreaker to Cincinnati that year 24-21.

Although the team became Big East Champions in 2010, LSU, who comes to Morgantown this year, was too much for the Mountaineers to handle and made a few bigger plays than WVU to win the game. The Mountaineers also had what should be considered an embarrassing loss to Syracuse at home and also a disappointing showing in the Champs Sports Bowl against N.C. State (23-7).

We know what Holgorsen has done in his career as an offensive coordinator, but can he continue and improve his success as head coach at West Virginia?

There’s no question Holgorsen’s system works, and works well. Last year, the Cowboys offense led the nation in total offense during the regular season, finishing No. 2 in passing offense and No. 3 in total and scoring offense. Oklahoma State ranked 61st in total offense the year before Holgerson arrived.

During Holgorson’s twoyear tenure at Houston, the offense ranked No. 3 in his first year and No. 1 in his second. Quarterback Case Keenum led the nation in total offense in 2008 and 2009.

The WVU offense has a ton of talent and playmakers this year. They also have an experienced quarterback in Geno Smith, who will try to get them the ball.

It seems almost certain the offense will produce big numbers, and if it does, can it score enough points to keep teams out of reach if the defense makes a few mistakes?

The Mountaineer defense lost a lot of key players from the 2010 season. Chris Neild is gone as the anchor of the defensive line. Robert Sands is no longer in the secondary.

The line-backing corps lost its three premier starters in J.T. Thomas, Anthony Leonard and Pat Lazear. Only senior Najee Goode has any valuable experience at linebacker coming into this year.

WVU faces a preseason top-5 team in LSU in week three. This is by far the team’s toughest test of the season.

Pittsburgh and USF are the final two games of the season and could have a tremendous impact on the 2011 season if the Mountaineers stay undefeated until then.

The team has struggled in the past to win the big regular season games at the most crucial times, whether it was a result of bad coaching decisions, player mistakes,

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Junior quarterback Geno Smith will be the first two-year starting quarterback for West Virginia since Pat White.

Mountaineer quarterbacks expected to flourish in new offense by michael carvelli sports editor

In the six years that West Virginia University head coach Dana Holgorsen was an offensive coordinator at Texas Tech, Houston and Oklahoma State, he has never coached a quarterback to throw for less than 4,000 yards.

The lowest total in that time was when Cody Hodges threw for a meager 4,197 yards in Holgorsen’s first season as Texas Tech’s offensive coordinator in 2005.

That would’ve topped Marc Bulger’s record for most yards in a season by a WVU signal caller by 590 yards.

Junior quarterback Geno Smith knows the expecta-

tions are high this season. He doesn’t mind it one bit.

“Honestly, I put the pressure on myself,” Smith said.

“Even if I wasn’t a Heisman candidate or whatever it may be, I always want to be the best, so I put all that pressure on myself to work hard every day and try to develop my skills, lead my teammates and become a better player.”

As a sophomore last season, Smith was named second team all-Big East after throwing for 2,763 yard, 24 touchdowns and just seven interceptions. He’ll be the first WVU quarterback since Pat White to start two years in a row.

Now having that year of experience under his belt could

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10 IAN LOY Rejoined the team as a walk-on during fall camp.

be another thing that helps Smith stand out among some of the top quarterbacks in the country.

“The thing that you can’t coach is Geno’s experience,” said quarterback coach Jake Spavital. “When I was at Oklahoma State and we had Brandon Weeden, that kid had never started a game before and those first four games, he came out and acted like the pocket was a pitcher’s mound.

He thought he had all the time in the world.

“Geno’s had bullets thrown at him, he’s very good at managing the game. He knows when to get rid of the ball at certain times, and he knows how to work the pocket and move the team, which is very important.”

Behind Smith on the depth chart is freshman Paul Millard.

Millard earned the backup job after a solid spring, which he capped off by completing 18-of-30 passes for 253 yards and two scores.

Since camp opened this fall, Millard has been pushing Smith as much as he can for the starting job. Because of that, it doesn’t feel like the usual situation where the ju-

nior quarterback is mentoring the freshman and showing him the ropes all day long in practice.

Instead, the two have shown each other what to do, since they’ve both been playing in Holgorsen’s offense for the same amount of time.

“Paul’s a guy who doesn’t need mentoring,” Smith said.

“He’s mature enough to know what he has to do, and he’s mature on and off the field, so I don’t really have to mentor him. I look at him as equal to me, even though he’s younger.

“That makes our entire team more confident to have two quarterbacks who can get it done.”

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Freshman Millard embracing role as Smith’s backup

BY MICHAEL CARVELLI SPORTS EDITOR

Freshman quarterback Paul Millard understands his role on the West Virginia football team is Geno Smith’s backup.

That doesn’t mean he’s content with it.

Millard’s confident in what he can do. He’s confident that he’s got what it takes to step in and lead this team.

And, he’s confident that he can beat out Smith.

“I’m here to put pressure on Geno as best as I can,” Millard said. “As the backup quarterback, if you’re not doing that, then you’re not doing your job. At least that’s the way I see it.”

When every other backup quarterback the Mountaineers have had in the last two seasons left because they didn’t want to sit and wait it out behind Smith, Millard stayed. For him, there wasn’t much of a choice.

On one hand, he understands what those others were thinking. On the other, he feels he’s right where he’s supposed to be.

“The nature of the game is that guys just want to get in and play faster and start their career off a lot faster, and I did too,” Millard said. “But the reality of

NFL career.

“I’ve read books about Drew Brees and Tom Brady. In that Drew Brees book, he talks about backing up Doug Flutie (for the Chargers), and just for a couple years just watching what Doug Flutie did on the field and just learning from that,” he said.

The Flower Mound, Texas, native thinks his time over the next couple seasons could be just as big a benefit as it ended up being for Brees.

“A year of not playing, if that’s the case, I think that could really help you out when you do get your chance to play,” Millard said. “I really think those years of watching the game and learning from the game can turn over.”

But, one interesting component of Millard and Smith’s relationship is that, since both are learning head coach Dana Holgorsen’s offense together.

So, some days Smith helps Millard with things, some days Millard helps Smith. They both get to pick things up MATT SUNDAY/The Daily Athenaeum from each other to make them better West Virginia freshman Paul Millard will enter the 2011 season as junior Geno Smith’s backup quarterback. quarterbacks.

“I watch Geno and see what he does, I pick up things from him,” Millard said. it is, I’m in a great situation here at West back who has ever had success got to “And, I’m sure he probably does the Virginia and I think a lot of big things start right away. Millard looks at his sit- same from me.” uation like a recent Super Bowl-windown the road can happen.” see millard on PAGE B5 Besides, it’s not like every quarter- ning signal caller’s when he started his

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CAMP HOLGS The West Virginia football team kicked off its first Fall Camp under new head coach Dana Holgorsen

by cody schuler sports writer

Day One - Aug. 5 The long wait finally ended as preseason football camp broke today for the new-look West Virginia football team.

Players were not in pads, in accordance with NCAA regulations, and there wasn’t much action during the portion of practice open to the media.

Amidst the stretching, a tangible level of excitement surrounded the camp as players loosened up to music playing over the loudspeaker.

Only offensive lineman Josh Jenkins was missing, as the oft-injured senior wide receiver Bradley Starks was on the practice field and participating in drills with his teammates.

Again, limited action con-

sidering it was only day one, tament to how badly the ning backs coach Robert Gilbut the energy and excite- Mountaineers need more lespie. The running backs ment was the story of the day. quarterbacks. paired up and attempted to strip one another of the ball Day Three - Aug. 8 Day Two - Aug. 6 as they ran up the field. The Practice began without freshmen trio of Vernard Saturday’s practice moved away from the practice field sophomore running back Roberts, Andrew Buie and and into the stadium as head Daquan Hargrett, who we Dustin Garrison stood out coach Dana Holgorsen began later learned would be trans- most. day two of his three day of- ferring from the program.

Gillespie himself took part fensive installation.

Today was the first day in the drill and in the midst Quarterbacks Geno Smith the Mountaineers practiced of attempting to strip the ball and Paul Millard worked in “shells” or light shoulder from a runner, knocked him with quarterbacks coach Jake pads. Senior tight end Tyler to the ground. The action was Spavital on rolling out of the Urban was wearing a green intense, and it appeared the pocket and throwing to spe- “limited-contact” jersey but effort was at a great place. cific targets. Later, the two still got reps during drills.

Day Five - Aug. 10 quarterbacks lined up and The field goal unit looked threw to running backs and pretty good as both Tyler BiToday marked the first full wide receivers on a variety of tancurt and Corey Smith al- day in pads as players traded ternated kicking. Senior wide in the “shells” for full shouldrills.

Due to a lack of depth at receiver Starks was mov- der and leg pads.

Walking around practice the position, Spavital and ing around nicely and made Holgorsen both had to step some impressive catches were scouts from eight NFL in and alternate throwing during receiving drills. teams. It wasn’t apparent if Tavon Austin looked stel- they were watching anyone with the two quarterbacks.

Although both coaches had lar as usual, especially on one in particular, but they were some nice throws, it’s a tes- particular play in which he busy taking notes and talking made two defenders miss on to one another.

Kicking drills were led off a sharp series of cuts. Geno Smith and Paul Millard threw with a block from cornerback well despite what must be a Pat Miller, who continues to growing amount of fatigue on stand out wherever he is on the quarterbacks’ arms. the field.

A couple of players were Day Four - Aug. 9 wearing red jerseys and were The story of the day was held completely out of practhe running backs corps tice. It seems mostly a prewhich continues to compete cautionary measure as the fiercely against one another. players were working out The most interesting drill and riding exercise bikes of the day was a ball-protec- throughout the time we were tion drill orchestrated by run- present. Senior tight end Ty-

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ler Urban was back in his regular jersey for the first time.

Day Six - Aug. 11 : Finally, another quarterback has joined the ranks for the Mountaineers. Ian Loy, a former walk-on and West Virginia native, was on the field and in a practice jersey, but was not wearing any pads.

It is weird seeing a third quarterback on the field, but it is very refreshing since Geno Smith and Paul Millard have been the only two throwing so far.

Drills were the same as we’ve been seeing so far as special teams dominated most of the time practice was open to the media. On another note, a new high for Mountaineers in red jerseys occurred today as a total of four players were held out of practice and confined to the exercise bikes.

Day Seven - Aug. 12 Six players were held out of practice today as the physicality of early preseason camp continues to bump and bruise more players each day.

Most notable of the group is senior defensive lineman Julian Miller, who was sporting a walking boot.

Senior wide receiver Bradley Starks returned to the field after missing yesterday’s practice due to “personal issues.”

During the special teams portion of the practice, we saw freshman cornerback Avery Williams block one of Corey Smith’s attempts.

Smith and fellow kicker Tyler Bitancurt both have had kicks blocked multiple times throughout preseason camp, however they continue to show progress and improved consistency, especially Bitancurt on this day.

Redshirt junior quarterback Ian Loy was out throwing passes for the first time today. He still wasn’t wearing pads, but he was throwing to receivers and appeared to be getting into a good rhythm.

Geno Smith and Paul Millard were seen slapping high-fives and patting each other on the helmet as they both were out completing passes at a startlingly accurate pace.

Day Eight - Aug. 13 Another day another “A” for the Mountaineers as Friday’s practice was much the same as yesterday’s. The media was restricted to one side of the field and only allowed to the 50 yard line.

This was a different alignment than what we have been accustomed to, as before we pretty much had freedom to roam as long as we were off the field.

This practice seemed to creep by slowly from an action standpoint as stretching and special teams drills dominated the 30-minute viewing period.

The trio of West Virginia quarterbacks were off to the side with quarterbacks coach Jake Spavital. Footwork and accuracy appeared to be the theme of the drill as the three quarterbacks stepped in and out of cones before throwing at a target. charles.schuler@mail.wvu.edu

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Big winners so far during fall camp by michael carvelli sports editor

It happens every fall.

When teams begin practice, there are always players who aren’t expected to play well but emerge as contenders. There are players who might have had high expectations going into camp, and they don’t live up to them.

The same has happened since West Virginia University began practice on Aug. 5.

Here are some of the Mountaineers who have impressed the most up to this point in camp: Wide receiver Ryan Nehlen It’s safe to say Nehlen caught everyone by surprise this spring.

The redshirt junior walk-on who has yet to catch his first pass in a regular season game came out of nowhere to be one of the most impressive receivers during spring practice.

Still, people were skeptical that he would just become the next in a long line of players to have a great spring and then disappear once fall came around.

Then camp started, and Nehlen hasn’t disappointed.

Head coach Dana Holgorsen has praised the Morgantown native multiple times since camp started, calling him the most consistent receiver on the team.

It seems like now, especially with oft-injured wide receiver Brad Starks missing some time already this fall, Nehlen has continued to do what he needs to do to make sure he can make an impact in the WVU offense this season.

Running backs Andrew Buie and Dustin Garrison People knew the two newest faces in the WVU backfield had a lot of talent when they committed to the Mountaineers.

Some even expected one of them to come in and take the starting job. It appears that could be true.

At this point in camp, Holgorsen has said Buie and Garrison are right now neck and neck with another freshman, Vernard Roberts, to start.

What’s interesting about the two is that, although they’re both similar in size, they are admittedly two different runners.

Garrison describes Buie as being a speed back who can make just about anybody miss, while Buie said Garrison is one of the most patient running backs you’re going to see.

With those two, plus Roberts, the Mountaineers should have three running backs who will continue to have a tough competition for the majority of the carries.

Inside receiver Devon Brown Brown led Wake Forest in catches the last two seasons, but not many people knew quite what to expect from him this season at WVU. Obviously at inside receiver, he has some tough competition to go up against in junior Tavon Austin and senior Tyler Urban if he wants to see the field. But at this point in spring, it looks like he’s shown that he’ll be just fine fitting in with the rest of this offense.

From the first day of camp, Brown impressed Holgorsen, who said a big part of his quick adjustment this fall was the fact that he got to participate in seven-on-seven drills with the rest of the offense over the summer.

Cornerback Pat Miller Heading into this season, the Mountaineers were looking for someone to step in and fill the void left by cornerback Brandon Hogan.

Prior to the start of camp, it was between Miller and Brodrick Jenkins for that spot on the field opposite Keith Tandy.

And thus far, Miller hasn’t looked like he wants to be the one to lose that spot.

Cornerbacks coach David Lockwood said a lot of the strides Miller has made this fall can be attributed to added maturity.

“Miller is starting to show he can be an every-down corner,” Lockwood said. “Last year, if he didn’t make a play, he came

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Clarke adjusting his role to improve overall game

Junior fullback trying to cut down on fumbles in 2011 by cody schuler sports writer

Following two two years in the same offensive role, redshirt junior running back Ryan Clarke has found the key to thriving in head coach Dana Holgorsen’s overhaul of the West Virginia offense: Adapt.

Clarke, a two-year starter who has served as the Mountaineers’ primary goal line option, is consciously making an effort to modify his style of play to better fit the pass-heavy offensive scheme that will make its Morgantown debut this fall.

“My role has changed a little bit. It seems like it will most likely be more blocking, but that’s just the way the offense is,” Clarke said. “I’d rather be doing whatever. As long as I’m on the field, it really doesn’t matter.”

From a general perspective, Clarke has noticed the position as a whole has been revamped.

“The running back’s role is pretty split,” Clarke said. “We pass and run about the same amount of time, but there’s

more emphasis on protecting (junior quarterback) Geno (Smith). We have to be really good at pass blocking because we pass a lot and people tend to blitz this offense more because it is so fast.”

Clarke is adamant about not focusing on the past and instead placing emphasis on the future.

In the past two seasons, Clarke has scored a team-leading sixteen touchdowns. The problem with that statistic, however, was that it occurred under a different coaching staff.

“With these new coaches, you have to realize that everyone’s got a new role,” Clarke said. “Everybody is starting fresh, so you just have to play hard and try to make a name for yourself.”

The goal of standing out to the coaches has been more difficult to achieve this year than previously for Clarke, as the logjam at running back has made it difficult to get as many repetitions in practice.

Clarke sees himself as both a beneficiary and a victim of

this predicament. Fewer carries may lead to less exposure, but the quality of those carries rises as a result.

“It stays in the back of your head because (running backs coach Robert Gillespie) reemphasizes the whole time during practice that you’re only going to get a couple of reps, so you make sure they’re good reps so you can get on the film for the coaches to evaluate.”

The competition at the position is something Clarke has enjoyed so far. While it would be easy to become frustrated about stiff competition at a position he has previously had a stronghold on, Clarke seems to appreciate how the situation is making a better football player of himself and those around him.

“The more each person elevates their play, the person next to you on the depth chart has to raise their level,” he said “If there’s ever a chance that they’re turning it up more than I am, I just have to adjust and pick my level of play up. It’s just competition the whole time,

you have to go hard and play hard all the time.”

Aside from improving pass protection and catching, a focus at the running back position that Gillespie has strenuously preached is protection of the football.

One particular practice drill has players match up alongside one another and attempt to strip the ball loose. If the enthusiastic position coach doesn’t like what he sees, he jumps right into the drill and doesn’t stop until either the ball is loose or the runner is on the ground.

“If possible, he said he wants you to fumble because he pulls it so hard, but that’s just going to make us better in the end.”

This particular drill, and facet of the position, is one Clarke has worked to improve.

Hoping to shed the synonymous reputation as fumbleprone, these drills are essential to Clarke’s future success. “(For) bigger, stronger guys, it’s tough, but it’s good because it teaches you repetition; holding it high and tight. The more punishment you receive for

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Junior fullback Ryan Clarke participates in a drill during practice. dropping the ball, the less we’re going to drop the ball. Nobody wants to stay after practice,” he said.

Gillespie keeps a running tally of who fumbles during practice. Clarke’s goal is to stay off that list as much as possible to avoid his teammates’ punishment.

“If one person fumbles, the

whole group has to stay. He has a whole list of things for us to do,” he said.

To accomplish the lofty goals the team has set this season, let’s hope Clarke and the rest of the running backs aren’t staying after practice doing up-downs. charles.schuler@mail.wvu.edu

Julian Miller hoping to make senior season memorable by nick arthur sports writer

After three head coaches, a new athletic director and 38 wins over five seasons, Julian Miller is still a member of the West Virginia football team.

The senior defensive tackle from Columbus, Ohio, is adjusting to his new role as a leader.

The fact four members of last year’s defense are currently on an NFL roster is a clear indication some inexperience will be on the defensive side of the ball when the Mountaineers take the field Sept. 4, against Marshall.

“Coming into this year you wvu sports info Senior defensive end Julian Miller recorded have guys playing out there nine sacks as a junior. who haven’t had as much expe-

rience,” Miller said. “You have to definitely step up as a leader and help these guys get through certain situations.”

Miller said the offense headlined the first week of practice.

However, he is pleased with the improvements being made defensively.

“Just recently we’ve definitely started to click more as a defense,” Miller said. “Everybody is getting after it and getting to the ball. Just learning the plays more and being more comfortable with running them as you get deeper into camp has also helped and played a factor.”

The majority of the preseason has been highlighted by the naming of Dana Holgorsen

as head coach.

Holgorsen has been known specifically for a high-powered and high-scoring offensive attack, but Miller doesn’t think this will affect the success of defensive coordinator Jeff Casteel’s squad.

“Our defense, nothing really changes, we’ve had the same system for years now,” Miller said. “Older guys know what’s going on, it’s just all about the getting newer guys up to speed.”

The senior tackle played end last season and has been adapting to his new position at tackle.

Miller has mixed emotions for the last day of camp and the start of the season.

“It’s going to be kind of bittersweet,” Miller said. “You

think about all the memories, all the camps you’ve been through during five years here, all the bonding that happens within camp – just the memories you take out with you are kind of special.”

Last year’s defensive tackle Scooter Berry got his first action in the NFL as a part of Monday Night Football on ESPN this past week. Miller was thrilled to see his good friend and former teammate get a shot at the next level.

“That’s a part of a dream come true for me. My ultimate goal and dream is to play at the next level,” Miller said. “Just to see a guy that I’ve played with all these years, to go see him out there and get that opportu-

nity and chance, it was heartwarming. Hopefully, I have my chance at that dream too.”

Achieving that dream is a distinct possibility for Miller.

An impressive work ethic has been a lucid bullet point on his resume since his arrival in Morgantown.

But how else does Miller want to be remembered?

“Just as a guy who came out everyday willing to work hard, who wanted the team to be better,” Miller said. “Not any individual type of accolades. I am very team-oriented and definitely went out there trying to help this team win a championship.” nicholas.arthur@mail.wvu.edu

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Pittsburgh, USF picked to finish behind West Virginia

By John Terry managing editor

West Virginia was picked to finish first in the Big East Conference with 21 out of the 24 first-place votes. Pittsburgh was picked to finish second in the Big East receiving two firstplace votes, while South Florida received a lone third place vote.

Syracuse, Cincinnati and Connecticut were picked to finish fourth through sixth, respectively. Louisville and Rutgers were picked to finish in the bottom two spots.

Pittsburgh First-year Pittsburgh head coach Todd Graham is hoping to restore stability to the Panther football program in 2011.

After an off-season in which Pittsburgh hired former Miami (OH) head coach Mike Haywood to later fire him after a domestic violence charge, Pittsburgh went with Graham, a former assistant at West Virginia

University for two seasons starting in 2001, who compiled a 3617 record in four coaching seasons at Tulsa.

The offense will see a major facelift from former head coach’s Dave Wanstedt’s prostyle attack. Graham’s no-huddle offense averaged 41.4 points per game and 505.6 yards.

Running back Ray Graham will lead the offense as he was second in the Big East Conference a year ago racking up 922 yards and eight touchdowns, more than any other non-starter in the conference. Quarterback Tino Suneri is also returning for his junior year. He completed almost 65 percent of his passes in 2010, throwing for 2,572 yards with 16 touchdowns.

Even though the Panther’s defense will lose 2010 Big East Defensive Player of the Year Jabaal Sheard, but will return all of its defensive line as Pittsburgh is moving to a 3-4 base defense.

South Florida

South Florida has high hopes for its 2011 campaign as quarterback B.J. Daniels is healthy.

Daniels, who battled through injury for much of last season, is ranked fourth on USF’s career passing yards with 3,754 and passing touchdowns with 25. Daniels will have wide out A.J. Love as a target, as he was granted a sixth year of eligibility after an injury last season.

The Bulls will also have to replace their leading rusher from a year ago in Moise Plancher.

Demetris Murray will be tasked up with the slack as he rushed for 542 yards and four touchdowns.

USF has to replace four all-Big East players on defense, but five players will return. Linebackers DeDe Lattimore and Sam Barrington were ranked second and third in tackles in 2010, while safety Jon Lejiste had a teamhigh four sacks.

acuse in just two years. In his first two years with the Orange, he has increased the number of wins and capped it off with a win against Kansas State in New Era Pinstripe Bowl. A year ago, Syracuse won all of its road conference games including a 19-14 win in Morgantown last year.

Trying to capture the first back-to-back winning seasons since 2001, returning quarterback Ryan Nassib and his five top returning receivers will have to continue their success from a year ago.

Returning players accounted for 17 of the team’s 19 touchdown receptions. Nassib has 22 career touchdown passes and a completion percentage of 55.6 percent. The Orange will also return all four of its offensive linemen

Cincinnati For the first time since Syracuse 2005, Cincinnati sat at home Head coach Doug Marrone and watched the bowl games. has changed the culture at Syr- Returning quarterback Zach

Collaros was chosen unanimously as the all-Big East First Team quarterback. He threw for 2,902 yards last year to go along with 26 touchdowns, leading the Big East with 263.9 yards per game.

If Cincinnati’s offensive is going to be effective, it will have to improve its turnover differential.

In 2010, the Bearcats ranked last in the Big East with a -15 turnover margin.

Cincinnati will have the conference’s top returning tailback in Isaiah Pead. Pead rushed for 1,029 yards with six touchdowns last year ranking fourth in the conference. Wide receiver D.J. Woods, who was named to the 2010 all-Big East second team averaging 74.8 yards per game and a total of eight touchdowns last year, is also returning.

The Bearcats’ strongpoint will be on the defensive side of the ball where it returns all 11 of its starters from a year ago. Among those returning are linebacker JK Schaffer, who registered 100 tackles a year ago for the second straight season, and defensive tackle Derek Wolfe who finished with 48 tackles last year.

Connecticut After being embarrassed in the Fiesta Bowl by Oklahoma, 48-20, Connecticut’s offseason was filled with off-the-field turmoil surrounding its head coach. Former head coach Randy Edsall left the Huskies for Maryland shortly after the bowl game leading to upheaval around the selection of new head coach Paul Pasqualoni.

Pasqualoni has a lot to live up to, however, as Connecticut has shared the Big East title in two of the past four seasons. The Huskies led the Big East with eight non-offensive touchdowns last year.

Connecticut will replace starters at quarterback, running back, and all three interior line positions this season.

QB Mike Box is the only quarterback on the roster to play in a college game.

The Huskies do return all four of their starters from the defensive line. Defensive tackle Kendall Reyes was named to the 2010 all-Big East First Team last year, while defensive end Jesse Jo-

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Dana Holgorsen, Jake Spavital and Shannon Dawson’s arms For the first week of practice, Holgorsen, quarterbacks coach Jake Spavital and inside receivers coach Shannon Dawson were helping out quite a bit in practice, thanks to only having two quarterbacks on the roster following the departure of freshman Brian Athey to Illinois State.

In an attempt to not put any

seph led the team with 8.5 sacks.

Louisville For the first time in three seasons, Louisville went to a bowl game in 2010 to win the Beef O’Brady’s Bowl in St. Petersburg.

While that’s good news for the Cardinals, the team will have to replace all four of its all-Big East First Team selections from a year ago.

The Cardinal offense ranked second in the conference last year, but it will have to replace seven starters – its two best quarterbacks, starting running back, and four of its starting linemen. Louisville will most likely look to quarterback Will Stein to pull together the offense. Stein played in just three games last year.

The defense could be the strong point for the Cardinals.

After finishing 10th nationally in pass defense allowing just 167.4 yards per game, 2010 Big East Rookie of the Year Hakeem Smith will return at safety. Linebackers Daniel Brown and Dexter Heyman are also returning from last year.

Rutgers For the first time in five seasons, Rutgers didn’t go to a bowl game in 2010, but it’s hoping to improve that this year with 17 starters returning.

The Scarlet Knights received just 33 votes in the preseason conference poll following its six-game losing streak to end last year’s campaign.

New offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti Jr. will have to re-ignite the offense this year.

The team returns ten starters, including quarterback Chas Dodd, who made eight starts last year as a true freshman. Wide receiver Mark Harrison, who was third in the Big East in receiving yards had nine touchdowns, will be the go-to target for Dodd.

Rutgers returns five players on defense. Defensive end Manny Abreu will make the move to the line after being a linebacker last season.

Third-year starter Steve Beauharnais, who was the team’s top tackler in 2010 with 79 takedowns, is also returning. john.terry@mail.wvu.edu

more stress on Geno Smith and Paul Millard’s arms than they were already going to have, the three coaches participated in drills, throwing passes to receivers.

But finally, West Virginia was able to bring in two more quarterbacks for this season in walk-on Ian Loy and Kentucky transfer Michael Burchett.

That means more bodies to come in and take some of the pressure off of Smith and Millard to make all the throws during practice. But, it also means less time with the Athletic Training staff for the three coaches.

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Photo’s from WVU in 2010 Big East Action

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Syracuse’s Antwon Bailey rushes the ball against West Virginia during the fourth quarter of last year’s game in Morgantown.

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Former West Virginia running back Noel Devine breaks away from Pittsburgh linebacker Greg Williams to run for a first down during last year’s Backyard Brawl.

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Spavital promoted to QB coach Former graduate assistant has followed Holgorsen to three different jobs

By Ben Gaughan

associate sports editor

West Virginia Quarterbacks Coach Jake Spavital has been under Dana Holgorsen’s wing for more than three years now.

So, the fourth-year coach is used to packing up and trying to make an easy transition each year. This year is no different.

“Nothing has changed,” Spavital said. “I’ve still been coaching the quarterbacks, and that’s the thing that Coach (Holgorsen) has done great. It’s that everything has been the same. It’s been a smooth transition.”

There is one difference about this year at WVU – Spavital no longer has to take graduate classes after coaching on the field all day.

Spavital was promoted to full-time Quarterbacks Coach by Holgorsen last week and says he plans to finish his graduate studies at some point, but for now it’s all about Mountaineer football.

The immediacy of the promotion should not come as a surprise, as Spavital’s family has a history of coaching football.

“It’s been a long three years now,” Spavital said. “My first job was for Todd Graham at the University of Tulsa.

My brother is the secondary coach at the University of Houston and that was my

connection with Dana.”

“My brother was like ‘he’s a brilliant coach, you need to come down and learn under him,” Spavital said. “I went in there and hitched the wagon under him. I’ve gone spot for spot and pretty much sold my soul to him. He’s unbelievable, he’s been great to me.”

As if that weren’t enough football history, Spavital’s grandfather was the Quarterbacks coach for Super Bowl winning Quarterback Joe Namath.

Holgorsen and Spavital worked closely together with Quarterback Geno Smith and the rest of the offense in the spring, but now the former graduate assistant has had more one-on-one time with his starting quarterback.

“This offense, you give the quarterback a lot of freedom, so you can install (plays, schemes, formations etc.).

We have three days of installation,” Spavital said.

“You install those three days, and you just keep repeating it and they keep getting better with it. They start learning better situations, and that’s the main thing we’re working with them now is just making the right checks …

We’re not going to call perfect plays. Geno is going to have to correct us at times. That’s the main thing that we do is put him in situations where he can make us look good.”

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Continued from page B1 Smith says the friendship the two have formed helps the competitiveness between the two during practices.

“We were always friends,” Smith said. “Paul is a great competitor. I enjoy competing with him every day.

“Every day I tell him I’m going to kick his butt, and he tells me the same. That’s our relationship and it doesn’t affect us off the field. That’s what makes it so special between us.”

Luckily for Millard, there wasn’t a huge adjustment period when he first got here in the spring, which was part of the reason he was able to sepa-

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Quarterbacks coach Jake Spavital watches junior quarterback Geno Smith work on a drill during practice. Spavital was promoted to quarterbacks coach after spending two years as a graduate assistant under WVU head coach Dana Holgorsen at Houston and Oklahoma State. tal has noticed the leadership and experience he has on the field and believes it is a huge part of why this offense can be successful.

“The thing that you can’t coach is Geno’s experience.

He’s been a two-year starter here. He’s got a lot of gametime experience,” Spavital said.

“Geno has had bullets thrown at him. The kid is very good at managing the game. He knows when to

get rid of the ball at certain times, and he knows how to work the pocket and move the team, which is very important. There’s something about game experience that you can’t replace.”

Spavital has now cemented his chance to coach quarterbacks and continue his dream with coach Holgorsen, the man who took him by his side three years ago. ben.gaughan@mail.wvu.edu

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The fact that they see each other as equals has also played a huge part in them developing a relationship off the field. In fact, it was Millard who made the first move in really getting that relationship started off on the right foot.

“I think I invited him over to play some Xbox or something,” Millard said. “The way I see it, we’re both in the same boat and we’ve both got to work together, so I think that it’s important to build a relationship there that’s very positive. We can push each other and make each other better as players.”

For about a week into camp this fall, it was just Smith and Millard listed on the depth chart at the position after freshman Brian Athey opted to transfer to Illinois State in the days leading up to practice starting.

This put the Mountaineers in a rather interesting predicament as they relied on their two quarterbacks to throw much more in practice than the coaches would’ve ideally liked.

Holgorsen, Spavital and inside receivers coach Shannon Dawson even helped out during drills by rotating in and out with Smith and Millard when they were throwing passes to the receivers, and the two quarterbacks were still throwing 200-300 passes each practice.

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And they weren’t done adding depth yet.

Dana Holgorsen announced that the Mountaineers added another quarterback over the weekend in former Kentucky walk-on Michael Burchett.

Burchett was a non-recruited walk-on for the Wildcats, and Holgorsen expects him to be eligible to play, but he has been working to confirm that with the WVU compliance department.

Burchett threw for 3,142 yards and 39 touchdowns as a senior in high school.

“He had a really good, successful career in high school,” Holgorsen said. “He is a very good student. He is going to go into our engineering department, which is another reason for the move.”

Now that they’ve added more depth to the position, Spavital expects that will definitely take some pressure off of Smith and Millard’s arms, at least in practice.

As for the players, they’re just ready to have a successful season and live up to the expectations that have been set for themselves.

“Now that I’m entering my junior year, I feel like I have the chance to put up some numbers, but I’m not looking forward to that,” Smith said. “I want to win every game.”

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He said the offense at West Virginia is practically identical to the one he ran when he put up staggering stats in his senior year of high school, throwing for 4,491 yards and 47 touchdowns.

“There’s a little more (to Holgorsen’s offense), but the offense I ran in high school is extremely similar to this,” he said.

“It’s no-huddle, the coach was signaling in the plays, that kind of thing. “(Now) it’s just playing football. It’s just playing the game I’ve always played.”

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After losing just three players to graduation from last season the 2011 West Virginia Men’s soccer team is poised to build off of last season’s success and prove to the rest of the country that this team can play with anyone.

“For the first time in a long time, it’s a more mature team,” said head coach Marlon LeBlanc “Now we’re a year older, a year wiser.

We’ve got just about everybody back from last year’s team, and I think the sky is the limit for this year’s team.

This is a team that could be one of our best ever here.”

The team will be lead by second team preseason allAmerican Raymon Gaddis.

Gaddis, a senior defenseman, was also named to the all-Big East Conference preseason team.

Gaddis will lead one of the toughest defenses and midfields in the conference, if not in the country, this season. Franck Tayou, Peabo Doue and Shadow Sebele will join Gaddis to highlight the backfield.

All four were starters on the team who reached the NCAA Tournament last season, but won’t be the only players LeBlanc will be counting on this season.

“We have a young group that’s all kind of grown together,” he said. “So the Travis Pittmans and Nick Claudios, they’ve all been in transition so the leadership becomes a lot more collective.”

WVU will be in need of that experience to survive its arduous conference schedule.

This season the Big East Conference boasts three of the nation’s best. Connecticut will start the season ranked No. 7 while Notre Dame will take a No. 11 ranking. WVU is the third team, starting the season ranked No. 22.

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Junior Shadow Sebele is one of West Virginia’s nine returning starters this season. ably the toughest conference in America,” LeBlanc said.

“It’s sixteen teams deep, very similar to basketball where you’ve got eight teams, nine teams that are always in the mix for an NCAA tournament bid every single year.”

By the time conference play rolls around the Mountaineers should be ready for high-level competition.

Four of WVU’s non-conference matchups come against teams ranked in College Soccer News top 25.

And unlike other sports that load up on “cupcake games” early in the season, WVU will face No. 12 Virginia and No. 8 Maryland in its first two matchups.

LeBlanc admitted it may hurt the team’s overall record, but it will benefit them in immeasurable ways for the long haul.

“I’m not one of those coaches who is just going to schedule teams that aren’t going to prepare us and rack up a whole lot of wins,” he said.

It is all about being prepared according to LeBlanc.

Preparation and hard work will get guide the team to success.

“Our goals are to compete for the Big East championship,” he said. “To compete for a national championship.” derek.denneny@mail.wvu.edu

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Mountaineers have more confidence in 2011 by michael carvelli sports editor

Last year, the West Virginia University men’s soccer team advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2007.

Now it’s ready to make another leap forward in 2011. And that means one thing and one thing only.

“We’ve all agreed we want to win a national championship,” said junior forward Peabo Doue. “There should be no less. We want to be playing that game.

“We’re holding our heads high because we know what we’re capable of.”

With all the returning talent that has been around for a couple of seasons, plus the talent coming into the program this year, Doue believes there’s no reason this can’t be a special season.

“We all believe that this is a really good year for us, and we’re excited to see what our team is made of,” said junior forward Peabo Doue. “We’re basically returning our whole group, so I think a lot of us are excited and we have big expectations for this group.”

Head coach Marlon LeBlanc thinks it’s that mentality – they can go out and compete at a championship level – that will be the biggest difference in this year’s team compared to the one that lost in the second round of the NCAA tour-

nament last year.

“There’s a little bit of swag in this group,” LeBlanc said. “This year, you can see it, you can feel it. There’s a little bit of that borderline cockiness to this group.

“Every elite team needs to have an edge. I think this group has that edge this year.”

And there’s a good reason for that. After the way things happened in the Big East and NCAA tournaments last year, the Mountaineers have good reason to believe they have a good chance to win every game, no matter who the opponent or how much they fall behind early.

In their first round NCAA tournament win over Xavier, WVU fell behind 2-0 before rattling off four straight goals to come away with the win.

The Mountaineers final losses of the season came against Louisville in the Big East Conference quarterfinals and Akron in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

Those two went on to play in the National Championship Game, with the Zips coming away victorious.

Much like it did against Xavier, WVU fell behind early on to the eventual national champs. Through 80 minutes, the Mountaineers were behind 3-0, but they were able to rally in the final minutes and score two goals before coming up just a little short.

But LeBlanc doesn’t see that as a bad thing at all, especially

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Junior forward Peabo Doue started 17 of 21 games for the Mountaineers in 2010. as he prepares his team for the 2011 season.

“This team will now have an edge to them. No matter what stage of the game we’re at, we feel like we can win,” LeBlanc said. “Knowing the way that last 10 minutes played out, even against the best teams, we’re always going to be in the games.

“That confidence is a big thing, and this group finally believes they’re good enough to play with anybody.” james.carvelli@mail.wvu.edu

zz The Mountaineers return 10 starters from last year’s team, and only lose three players to graduation. zz Of those three players who graduated, only goalkeeper Zach Johnson played significant minutes all season. Defender Dan Hagey started at times, but had to deal with injury most of the season. zz The team has four foreign players this year. zz Senior Ray Gaddis was recently named to the Hermann Watch List.

The Hermann Trophy is the college soccer equivalent to the Heisman Trophy and is given each season to the best player in the country. zz The starting goalkeeper position this season is going to come down to four players. The leader is Justin Holmes, who transferred to WVU after leading New Mexico to the NCAA tournament last season. zz West Virginia is projected to finish third place in the Big East Conference Blue Division this season, behind Connecticut and Notre Dame. zz WVU is ranked in the top 25 in two polls.

The Mountaineers were tabbed No. 22 by College Soccer News and came in at No. 24 on Goal.com. zz WVU is coming off its first NCAA tournament berth since 2007, and beat Xavier in the first round before falling to the eventual champions, Akron.

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TEAM NOTES zz Nikki Izzo-Brown has never had a losing season as head coach of the Mountaineers, compiling a 207-8242 overall record in 15 seasons. zz Senior Forward Blake Miller is one goal away from tying Kim Bonilla for eighth on the school’s career goals list. zz Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Sara Keane enters her first season as the starting goalie of the Mountaineers. She replaces Kerri Butler, who holds the West Virginia career record for most shutouts. zz The 2011 team features six seniors and 12 freshmen, with four players on the roster from the state of West Virginia. zz The team will return 84 percent of its goals from last season and 89 percent of its assists. zz The Mountaineers open their 2011 season at Virginia. West Virginia is 3-8-2 alltime against the Cavaliers. zz Since being named head coach prior to the 2006 season, Coach Izzo-Brown has posted a 118-26-11 record at home, with a record of 58-10-8 at home since the opening of Dick Dlesk Stadium in 2004. The team is 16-5-4 in games at Dick Dlesk Stadium attended by more than 827 fans. zz West Virginia fell to Boston College 4-0 in last year’s NCAA sweet sixteen. That marked the 11th consecutive NCAA appearance by IzzoBrown’s squad.

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WVU looking to repeat as Big East champs Mountaineers want to thrive under pressure to win another championship

By Nick Arthur Sports Writer

As fall approaches in Morgantown, the summer heat drifts away, and all that had bloomed in the spring seems to die-off.

However, West Virginia women’s soccer head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown’s reign at the helm continues to flourish.

Izzo-Brown enters her 16th season as head coach of the Mountaineers. And, the modest veteran knows the trick to a successful long tenure. “You surround yourself with a lot of positive, hardworking people,� Izzo-Brown said. “I’ve just been lucky enough to have it.�

Fortune is on the side of the Mountaineers as they are trying to defend their Big East Conference championship this season. The team returns eight starters from last year’s squad.

Preseason practice began earlier this month, and Coach Izzo-Brown is very pleased with the early progression of the bunch. But there’s also room for more improvement. “I feel really good, but I’m never satisfied,� Izzo-Brown said. “I feel good where we’re at, but we have a long way to go to defend our Big East championship.�

Izzo-Brown has had her hands full this fall, due to the 11 freshmen that stepped on DreamsWork Field for the first time on Aug. 3.

However, the expectations for freshmen are high. “It is a hard-working class, all of them have been working hard all summer,� Izzo-Brown said. “Even if they don’t understand something in the system, I expect them to work hard and work through it.�

Redshirt freshman Sara Keane is set to replace last year’s goalkeeper, Kerri Butler.

Although she has yet to play in an actual game for the Mountaineers, Keane has been with the program for two seasons.

As a true freshman, she received a medical redshirt while she continued rehab on a torn ACL she suffered in high school. Then, last year, she redshirted again.

Izzo-Brown is convinced the two years of waiting and watching Butler will be a huge benefit for Keane. “Understanding the highlevel of soccer the conference presents is going to be huge,�

Izzo-Brown said. “Having two springs to deal with competition is going to big, but also the trust of us having her at goalie.�

Adding consistent goaltending to an offense that returns 84 percent of its goals may be the recipe for success in 2011.

Izzo-Brown feels this team may have a unique quality

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Senior defender Meghan Lewis started all 24 games last season and made the Big East Conference all-Tournament team. about it, compared to some of the other Mountaineer teams she’s coached throughout her career. “The leadership is very special, thus far. There are a lot of hungry seniors who really want to leave their mark,�

Izzo-Brown said. “They set their goals high.�

Those goals could end up at the Big East championship, which, as luck may have it, is in Morgantown this season.

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West Virginia women’s soccer head coach Nikki IzzoBrown isn’t hiding the fact that her team is under pressure this year to repeat as Big East champions.

She’s embracing it.

After winning the team’s second Big East Conference title last year – its first since 2007 – Izzo-Brown is using the motto “Pressure is a privilege� to refuel the teams’ fire for the upcoming year.

And, as if repeating weren’t enough pressure on itself, West Virginia will play host to the 2011 Big East Women’s Soccer championships. “I always look at pressure being a privilege,� the 16th-yearhead coach said. “ I think it’s not necessarily the pressure but the expectation of being in our house to defend the Big East championship. It’s a privilege to be here and know what the goal is.�

Escaping the burden will start with the eight returning starters from last year’s team, including the entire backline, leading the 11 new freshman.

Izzo-Brown said she has been happy with the leadership of her returners, especially with the incoming group being so large. “This team is really being led with some great upperclassmen that have been focused and ready to roll,� Izzo-Brown said. “And obviously they’ve been pushing the freshmen.�

Senior Blake Miller, the team leader, says goals, assists and points from a year ago and the early exit in the NCAA tournament in a 4-0 loss to Boston College in the Sweet 16 is also motivation for the team to work hard. “You always want to push harder,� she said. “You’re only as good as your last game. Getting to the Sweet 16 was amazing, but I want to get to that next

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Both Izzo-Brown and Miller stressed the importance of understanding success comes from doing the little things right. “I don’t ever expect us to be good because we have eight starters returning,� Izzo-Brown said. “I expect us to know what’s expected. I think that with those eight starters there is an expectation I have, and a high standard I’m going to have, but its work, and we have to defend a Big East championship, and it’s not going to be easy.�

Also easing the pressure is the offensive firepower returning. Lead by Miller with 10 goals, nine assists, and 29 points, the team returns more than 80 percent of the goals and the assists are returning from last year’s team. “It’s a good feeling that we have girls here who can put the ball in the back of the net,�

Miller said. Being a forward, you feel pressure regardless.

We have so many girls up top that can score well. It’s not like everything’s on me. I feel pressure, but it’s because I want to do well for the team. “It’s the same pressure that everyone else is feeling.�

And Izzo-Brown hopes it’s that pressure that will lead the team back to a second consecutive Big East championship.

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by nick arthur sports writer

Before the summer, names like Hope Solo and Abby Wambach were unheard of in most American households.

After the grueling 22 days of the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the above-mentioned names have been embraced by the entire country and beyond.

The popularity of these names led to a significant increase in television viewing of women’s soccer.

The World Cup Final between USA and Japan received a staggering 8.6 television rating, making it the mostwatched women’s soccer match since the unforgettable 1999 World Cup Final. For those of you not familiar with the rating system, let’s put that rating into perspective: The 2011 MLB All-Star Game managed to pull a 6.9 overnight rating. Last year’s MLB World Series tallied an 8.4 average rating.

Judging by those numbers, America’s pastime was overtaken by a dramatic women’s soccer run.

West Virginia University women’s soccer head coach Nikki-Izzo Brown was glued to her television for the majority of the tournament. She was extremely impressed with the success of the National team.

“What our women’s team did in the World Cup was inspirational,” Izzo-Brown said.

“I think any athlete that understands competition and the ability to overcome any obstacle, especially those in the Brazil game to advance, is huge.”

Will this translate into more support for the WVU women’s soccer team?

Coach Izzo-Brown is hopeful.

“With us being a championship program and being ranked in the top 25, it says there is quality soccer right here in Morgantown”, IzzoBrown said. “The national exposure our USA team got, it drew some attention. These women can play, and they can play a game that’s attractive.”

Izzo-Brown’s squad is ranked No. 13 to begin the 2011 campaign. Her team is coming off an NCAA sweetsixteen appearance last sea-

son and is eager to attempt to repeat last year’s success.

The Mountaineers will find themselves an underdog early and will need an upset as they will travel to Virginia to take on the No. 10 ranked Cavaliers.

The USA women’s team had an upset of their own in a victory over Brazil, and made a deep run in a tournament no one expected them to win.

Coach Izzo-Brown is hopeful this is something that can directly influence her players.

“That’s something they’re going to look at to inspire them,” Izzo-Brown said. “We got the nation’s attention that women can play soccer, they can play hard, and that’s something to bring.”

The team will play their home-opener Sunday, August 21 against Purdue.

The day has been deemed as “Dollar Day.” Tickets and some concession items will be offered for $1, with admission free to students.

Sunday will also be “Free Poster Day” with a poster of the 2011 women’s soccer schedule available to all fans. nicholas.arthur@mail.wvu.edu

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Kramer hopes to build on second season at WVU Returners trying to build on 15-15 season by sebouh Majarian sports writer

With her first season of unpredictability and growth under her belt, West Virginia University volleyball coach Jill Kramer is ready for whatever gets thrown at her in her second year.

The Mountaineers are ready to improve after a roller coaster season of highs and lows ended with a 15-15 record including a 5-9 record in the Big East last year.

“I didn’t look at it as unsuccessful, but I also didn’t look at it as successful. I looked at it as this is how we did and we could have been better in these places,” Kramer said.

Last season the team fell just short of their goal of making the Big East Tournament. The Mountaineers dropped a tough 3-2 match against Connecticut in the season finale leaving them on the outside looking in.

WVU lost some offensive firepower and stability with the departure of graduating seniors Lauren Evans, Bonnie West, Abby Norman and Andrea Miller. WVU will also have to adjust with the transfers of Whitney Lee, Gabriela Nadal, Lisa Riedel and Sidney Sauter.

Despite those losses the team still returns 10 athletes from last year’s squad. Making significant contributions last year were Kari Post, Serinna Russo, Kylie Armbruster and Michelle Kopecky.

The Mountaineers will retain three of their top five leaders in kills. Kopecky is the returning leader in kills (249),

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Senior Michelle Kopecky spikes the ball in the Mountaineers final regular season game against Connecticut . while Russo (210) and Armbruster (199) trail. Post, a Yuba City, Ca. native, was eighth in the conference with 9.89 assists a set.

The team won’t dwell on the losses as they look to incorporate the new pieces. Kramer, a well accomplished recruiter, managed to attract two players from the Netherlands in Anke Dejong (Groningen, Netherlands) and Carlijn Oosterlaken (Tubbergen, Netherlands). She also managed to sign Kiara Gilbert (Irvington, N.J.) a transfer student who spent one season at UNC-Charlotte.

Those three late additions will join the 2011 freshman class of middle back Evyn McCoy (Clare, Ill., Sycamore High), outside hitter Halle Kearney (Cleveland, Ohio, Magnificat High) and setter Courtney Robison (Shepherdsville, Ky, Assumption High).

The Mountaineers have

higher expectations this year if they qualify for the Big East Tournament, held in Milwaukee, Wis. at Marquette University.

“We want to put ourselves in position to get into the Big East and compete – I don’t want them to be satisfied with just getting there,” said Kramer.

After spending what she called an invaluable summer with the U.S. Junior National team, Kramer has picked up some knowledge and information she can pass on to her athletes.

Besides exposing the athletes to the right information and not overloading them, Kramer has also learned different ways to look at statistics and various training methods.

“In the end, things need to be about the team and about the girls and about them

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Taking things as they get thrown at her is something West Virginia University volleyball head coach Jill Kramer has become accustomed to in the last year.

Following her first season with the Mountaineers, Kramer spent her summer as an assistant coach on the United States Junior National Team, which earned a fourth place finish in the FIVB Junior World Championships in Lima, Peru.

The San Antonio native spent the summer with the national team in California as they trained for the World championships before heading to Peru for the tournament in July.

The experience taught her a lot of valuable lessons that could be related to what she had to learn when she took the WVU head coaching position just a day prior to the beginning of practices last season.

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erything and anything and be OK with it,” Kramer said.

The team fell to China 3-1 (2025, 25-19, 25-16, 25-23) in the bronze medal game, as Brazil fell to Junior World Champion Italy in the championship game.

Kramer described the international experience as being more unpredictable than the experiences she has had here in the states.

“When you’re playing in that type of environment, you have to take things as they come,” Kramer said. “We weren’t even sure how we were getting from point A to point B, you just had to go with the flow and follow the FIVB.” This isn’t the first time Kramer has been affiliated as a coach on the national level. She has been involved with USA Volleyball for the past five years, accruing a 27-1 record during her time.

The Mountaineer head coach was like an sponge, absorbing all the information she could as she was surrounded by a very experienced coaching staff in former Olympians Rob Browning, Erik Sullivan and Denise Corlette.

“It was a great experience.

Volleyball is a big deal down there so even the Peruvian team was on billboards, and every match was sold out. The

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NCAA has more to deal with than just Miami (FL) mess (AP) — Strippers, prostitutes, decadent parties on the yacht. If all the allegations against the University of Miami turn out to be true, the NCAA may have to add another chapter to the rule book when it comes to defining what exactly constitutes extra benefits for college athletes.

Not to worry, though. The organization is already on the case, and no doubt will be helped along by an extraordinarily detailed Yahoo Sports expose of a Miami athletic program where cash was king and the partying never seemed to stop.

No word yet on whether they put Inspector Clouseau or Barney Fife in charge, but for five months the NCAA has been diligently conducting its own probe of the Hurricanes and this time it means business. It really does.

“If the assertions are true, the alleged conduct at the University of Miami is an illustration of the need for serious and fundamental change in many critical aspects of college sports,” NCAA president Mark Emmert said in a statement.

Just what those changes might be, Emmert didn’t say. Certainly, though, prostitutes and strippers weren’t at the top of the agenda when presidents of major universities met last week in what was supposed to be a first step in reforming major college athletics.

Some good did come out of that meeting, most notably a measure to boost graduation rates along with a possible postseason ban for teams that don’t measure up. But the scandal unfolding at Miami illustrates how a program can openly flaunt rules for years with little fear of the consequences.

For that to change, someone has to be in charge of college athletics. And, despite all of Emmert’s tough talk, it’s clear the NCAA isn’t.

The big conferences control the big bowls. Television money dictates who plays where and when and in what conference.

Wealthy boosters chase after the most coveted coaches with fistfuls of cash.

And all the NCAA does is slap a few hands once in a while when it has no other choice.

That’s not to say Miami will get off easy once the NCAA finishes its investigation. The Yahoo Sports report is so damaging that the football program could be grounded for years based on it alone. There will surely even be a call for the NCAA’s so-called “death penalty,” which has not been used since the Southern Methodist University football program was decimated by it a quarter-century ago.

If ever a program deserves to be shut down, Miami might be the one, given the range of accusations made by convicted Ponzi con man and Miami booster Nevin Shapiro and told to Yahoo Sports. Based on his tell-all, there wasn’t much that top football players and other athletes at Miami lacked for over the years.

Most boosters hand out $100 bills. Shapiro went much further, treating players to strip club parties, paying for prostitutes and catering to their every need. In one case, Shapiro told the website, he even paid for an abortion for a woman one of his players had impregnated.

Much of it allegedly happened under the watch of former Miami athletic director Paul Dee, who would go on to – no, we’re not making this up – become chairman of the NCAA’s committee on infractions. It was from that position last year that Dee came down hard on the University of Southern California in the Reggie Bush case, saying then that “higherprofile players require higher-profile monitoring.”

It the allegations prove correct, that makes Dee either a hypocrite or someone who was stunningly unaware of what was taking place right under his nose. Either way, it doesn’t do much to inspire confidence in the enforcement efforts of the NCAA. Ultimately, though, enforcement problems are the least of the NCAA’s worries. The real trouble in college sports runs a lot deeper than players getting caught selling jerseys or boosters handing out cash or seats on a yacht.

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Convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro told Yahoo! Sports he provided extra benefits to 72 football players and other athletes at Miami from 2002 to 2010. His claims involve several current players, but coach Al Golden said it was too soon to take disciplinary action. it back. There is so much money flowing into college football these days that schools and conferences have little incentive to do anything but pay lip service to the organization and its ideas about athletes getting an education and graduating with real degrees.

Emmert says he wants to change that, and so far in his short term as NCAA president he should get credit for at least talking a good game.

Achieving real reform, though, will be a lot tougher than simply cleaning up the mess in Miami.

Former Miami (FL) linebacker calls Shapiro claims ‘unfortunate’ METAIRIE, La. (AP) — While a published photograph shows former Miami linebacker Jonathan Vilma and imprisoned Miami

booster Nevin Shapiro spending time together on what looks like a yacht, Vilma declined to go into details about their relationship or Shapiro’s recent claims about giving improper gifts to Hurricanes athletes.

“I feel it’s unfortunate that things are being brought up right now from a guy who’s in jail,” Vilma, now a defensive captain and linebacker with the New Orleans Saints, said after practice Wednesday night. “You can go back and forth with someone who’s in jail and try to explain yourself. I really don’t want to do that. That’s very unnecessary. I’ll leave it at that.”

Shapiro was sentenced to 20 years in prison in June for masterminding a $930 million Ponzi scheme, plus ordered to pay more than $82 million in restitution to investors. In interviews with Ya-

hoo!, he claimed he provided Hurricanes players with cash, prostitutes, cars and other gifts from 2002 to 2010.

Shapiro also claimed that he placed bounties worth thousands of dollars on Miami opponents’ key players, and that Vilma was trying to earn one such payout with vicious hits on then-Florida State quarterback Chris Rix. Vilma said he was not sure what Shapiro’s motives would be for making such claims, adding, “I don’t care.”

“Right now that’s really not of relevance,” Vilma said. “I have to get ready for what we’re doing right now with the Saints, with my defense, making sure we’re doing the right things to get better. I can’t let any distractions get in the way of that.”

Vilma also balked at giving an opinion on former Miami players

who have backed up some of Shapiro’s allegations.

“That’s their business,” Vilma said of other Miami players who backed up Shapiro’s claims.

“You’re talking about nine years ago, eight years ago. (I’ve) moved on from that. Far removed from that right now, especially with what’s going on with the Saints.

I feel like we have a very good team. I feel like we have a very good chance of getting to the playoffs and repeating what we did in ‘09,” when New Orleans won its first Super Bowl.

Vilma recently donated $450,000 to Miami to be put toward a new athletic center, and his name was expected to be placed on an athletes’ lounge.

Now, however, Miami could face severe sanctions if an NCAA probe finds substance in Shapiro’s allegations.

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Eagles’ Maclin cleared to practice following cancer scare PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Eagles wide receiver Jeremy Maclin, who still hasn’t practiced yet, has been cleared to return to the team after a cancer scare, trainer Rick Burkholder said Wednesday.

Burkholder said, barring a setback, Maclin will return to practice within 10 days and should be able to play in the Sept. 11 opener at St. Louis.

Burkholder said Maclin began experiencing symptoms – night sweats, fever, loss of weight, loss of appetite – in March, synonymous with lymphoma, a form of cancer.

But a five-month battery of tests taken in both Philadelphia and St. Louis came back inconclusive, and not until Wednesday, was Maclin finally cleared of all serious conditions.

Maclin was tested for HIV

and numerous other diseases and underwent several tests, including scans.

He also consulted with a hematologist, an oncologist and an infectious disease specialist, among others.

“Frankly,” Burkholder said, “nobody could come up with a definitive diagnosis.”

Burkholder, speaking on a conference call from Pittsburgh, where the Eagles face the Steelers in a preseason game Thursday, reported Maclin’s symptoms disappeared at some point before late July.

He said the cause of the symptoms remains “vague.”

“We’re confident that the life-threatening stuff is out of the mix,” Burkholder said.

“Right now, we’re going to look at him as having an inflammatory condition that caused him to have the symptoms and the abnormal blood

studies.”

Maclin underwent a laparoscopy procedure last Thursday so doctors could get a clearer biopsy than previous tests had provided.

The results came back Wednesday, and were negative.

Asked why his description of the cause of Maclin’s condition seems vague, Burkholder replied, “It is vague.”

As the Eagles turn their attention to the Steelers and beyond, doctors will continue to monitor Maclin.

But the trainer said he and team physician Gary Dorshimer, who treated Maclin, are confident the symptoms won’t return.

“We’ll continue to test him, just like we test any player that’s had any condition,” Burkholder said. “If a player has high blood pressure, we

continue to test him for high blood pressure.”

Burkholder’s conference call was the first statement from the Eagles on Maclin’s condition. Burkholder said Maclin asked the team not to comment until he was cleared.

“His request through this whole thing was that we don’t do anything with the media or any reports until we were really ready to have everything more definitive in the testing,” Burkholder said.

“So, obviously we granted him that wish, and that’s why we really didn’t have anything to say. Legally, I can’t say anything till he gives me the OK. “And he gave me the OK this afternoon.” ap Maclin, 23, caught 70 passes for 964 yards and 10 Jeremy Maclin hasn’t returned to practice yet, but has been cleared to play after a cancer scare. touchdowns last year.

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playing the game really well together,” Kramer said. “They also need to perform in certain environments and build that team chemistry, it’s not rocket science.”

Though her first year might not have gone as well as planned, the former University of Virginia assistant coach knows there is still a lot of room to grow.

“I learned from it, and we’ll do some things a little different this year. Every year is a new year and at the end of that season, I’ll have a lot of instances to look at and say we were good here and good here, but need to get better here,” Kramer said.

The second year coach believes that with a year under their belt, she and the team are already more cohesive.

She stated she and the team were on the same page about training and trying to establish the culture they wanted for the program.

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Not everything went smoothly as Kramer and the team had to deal with some adversity which they are not used to.

Kramer noted that the lights went out in the Eduardo Dibos Gymnasium for about an hour during a match, and the following day water poured onto the court from a hole in the ceiling, causing a serious delay in action.

“Being in a third-world country, sometimes you have things that are a little off,” Kramer said. “There are just some things like that which occur but you have to deal with.”

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West Virginia senior Kylie Armbruster attempts a spike against Buffalo last season. munity in general is something on which we’re constantly working.” Kramer said. “We have a lot of work to do, but I’m excited to get going.” sebouh.majarian@mail.wvu.edu

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“You have to make sure that you’re not overloading your players with too much information,” Kramer said. “There is a lot of information we could give them, but you have to give them the right information.”

Kramer had a chaotic rookie campaign that fell just short of the teams goal of qualifying for the Big East tournament in a 3-2 loss in the season finale to Connecticut.

Regardless, there were many notable highlights of the season which included ending a 38-year losing streak to rival Pittsburgh and beating in-state rival Marshall to bring back the Golden Ball trophy. sebouh.majarian@mail.wvu.edu

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Suh fined $20,000 for hit on Bengals’ Andy Dalton ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Ndamukong Suh has been fined a third time for roughing up three different quarterbacks in less than a year.

The Detroit Lions defensive tackle doesn’t plan to change his game.

“Not by any means,” he said Wednesday after he was fined $20,000 by the NFL for a hit on Cincinnati quarterback Andy Dalton last week. He didn’t like it much, tweeting: “$20,000REALLY???!!!”

The former Nebraska star said he plans to appeal the fine.

“Who wouldn’t?” Suh asked.

The reigning NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year grabbed Dalton and threw the rookie to the turf after he had gotten rid of the ball late in the first quarter of Friday’s preseason game. Suh was flagged for unnecessary roughness.

“The league puts it on the defensive player to know when the ball is gone,” Lions coach Jim Schwartz said.

Suh was fined twice last year for hits on Chicago’s Jay Cutler during the regular season and Cleveland’s Jake Delhomme in a preseason game.

Suh’s checking account can absorb the latest hit. His five-year contract is worth $40 million guaranteed and as much as $68 million, though the NFL has increased the fine each time.

“Twenty grand? For the preseason? They’re trying to send a message,” teammate Nate Burleson said.

Suh was fined $7,500 for what he did to Delhomme, grabbing his face mask, twisting it and slamming him to the ground. He was docked $15,000 for shoving Cutler hard and high in the back from behind during a game last December.

Detroit’s second exhibition game is Friday at Cleveland. Browns offensive tackle Joe Thomas said he and his teammates are mindful of what Suh can do.

“Everybody sees it and it’s the back of your head, but it’s not really something you worry about,” Thomas said. “Most of our focus and attention is between the whistles and it seems he’s getting a name for himself for what happens after the whistle.”

Suh, though, likes the comparison that has been made be-

tween him and former NBA great Shaquille O’Neal, whose size and power made him simply stronger than opponents, some of whom fell or flopped after he touched them.

“Shaq had the same problem when he was in the NBA,” Suh said. “He kept playing. NBA Hall of Famer soon to come, one of the greatest big men I’ve ever seen, so I hope to follow in his footsteps.”

Suh has some sympathy for the officials, trying to determine if he’s playing within the rules.

“I really feel like I put the refs in a tough situation because of my strength,” he said.

But it’s not going to stop his relentless pursuit of players with the ball?

“I’m not going to stop playing hard,” he said. “I owe it to my fans, my teammates, the coaches.

That’s one of the reasons why football is football. It’s physical contact, aggression that is made exciting.”

Newton to start for Panthers SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Carolina coach Ron Rivera says Cam Newton will start Friday night’s preseason game against the Miami Dolphins.

Rivera says Newton’s start is “pretty much following the line of what we had planned throughout training camp and that’s to go back and forth” with Newton and Jimmy Clausen.

Rivera says the first-team offense will play about one half and that Clausen will get reps with the first team to keep the quarterback competition even.

The coach says he’s not made a decision on which quarterback will start the Sept. 11 regular season opener against Arizona.

He says he’ll likely make that announcement next week.

Rivers says by then “we’ll have a real good feel for what we’re going to do as we go into the regular season.”

Former NBA ref kills himself after his wife’s murder NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former NBA referee shot and killed himself in a suburban New Orleans hotel room on the same day his wife was found strangled at their Houston-area home last week, authorities said Wednesday.

A law-enforcement official in

Montgomery County, Texas, said Troy Raymond, 46, was a “person of interest” in the death of his wife, Leslie Anderson Raymond, whose body was discovered last Thursday at their home in Spring.

Troy Raymond’s body was discovered at a hotel in Jefferson Parish. The coroner’s office said he shot himself in the head.

Tim Holifield, a Montgomery County constable, said that Raymond hasn’t been named a suspect in his 41-year-old wife’s killing and it’s premature to connect their deaths.

“At this point, to call him anything other than a person of interest post-mortem would be unfair and improper,” Holifield said.

Raymond was an NBA referee during the 2003-04 season and more recently has refereed college basketball games, including for the Sun Belt Conference.

Holifield said a relative of Leslie Anderson Raymond found her body Thursday afternoon and called for help. Investigators were still at the home when they learned from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office that Troy Raymond’s body had been found at a Westwego hotel that afternoon after a housekeeper heard a gunshot.

Troy Raymond’s sister, Aqucinette Matthews, told Jefferson Parish investigators that her brother was having “marital problems” and had said he “needed to split up” with his wife, according to a sheriff’s department report.

Holifield said investigators were seeking cell phone records that may help “fill in a lot of gaps” in the probe.

“We have no witnesses,” he said.

Big East commish reaches out to Beebe, Swofford (AP) — Big East Commissioner John Marinatto says he has been in constant contact with Dan Beebe of the Big 12 and John Swofford of the Atlantic Coast Conference in recent days and has suggested the three meet to discuss conference realignment.

Marinatto didn’t reveal details about his conversations with his fellow commissioners but said Tuesday: “I thought it would be important for us to meet face-toface and take the lead in trying to do things the right way.”

Marinatto also has spoken with NCAA president Mark Emmert, but he said Emmert was not planning to hold any meetings with conference commissioners to discuss conference realignment.

In a statement to the AP, Swofford said he is open to Emmert’s “involvement in helping us find a process that better serves the greater good of college athletics.”

“As it relates to conference realignment, if we can find a more structured way to do business with each other, we need to try to find it,” Swofford said. “In my opinion, further exploration would be healthy and beneficial for our profession.”

The NCAA president doesn’t have the power to stop schools from changing conferences and Marinatto pointed out that Emmert’s involvement would likely be limited by potential legal issues such as restriction of trade and antitrust laws.

Beebe’s conference, which nearly was wiped out last year when the Pac-10 expanded, is in danger of losing Texas A&M to the Southeastern Conference.

If the Aggies end up in the SEC, the league likely would need to add at least one more member.

There has been rampant speculation the SEC, which has 12 members, could target another school from the Big 12, or from the ACC and Big East for further expansion.

“We can and must be mindful everyone’s best interests and be constructive and not destructive,” Marinatto said. “But we all realize we are competitive and we have different constituencies to serve.”

New Jersey won’t certify Carl Lewis as Senate candidate TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s top elections official won’t certify Carl Lewis as a candidate for state Senate in the November election, the latest move in a monthslong political contest over whether the nine-time Olympic gold medalist is eligible to run for office in his native state.

Republican Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, who also serves as secretary of state, wrote in a certification order sent Monday to county clerks that Lewis doesn’t meet the requirement that candidates for state Senate live in New Jersey for

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Detriot Lions’ defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh was fined $20,000 by the NFL for his hit on Cincinnati Begals’ rookie quarterback Andy Dalton. four years before running.

The 50-year-old Lewis, a Democrat, contends he moved back to New Jersey when he bought homes there for himself and his mother in 2005. The state says he voted in California as recently as 2009, making him a legal resident of that state.

“To date, and absent a court decision to the contrary, Mr. Lewis has not met the four-year residency requirement,” Guadagno wrote. “In view of my statutory obligations, I cannot certify the name of Frederick Carlton ‘Carl’ Lewis.”

Federal District Court Judge Noel Hillman scheduled a hearing for Friday afternoon.

Lewis, who has said Republican Gov. Chris Christie urged him not to get into the race, stepped up his criticism in recent days. He believes Christie is orchestrating the fight to keep him from competing and says the decision not to certify his name on the ballot is further evidence that the GOP is nervous about his candidacy in the Republican-leaning district. “(Guadagno) has chosen again

to step out of bounds and ignore the law and ignore the facts of the case,” Lewis said.

Christie’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Lewis lawyer Bill Tambussi, who is fighting to keep the track icon’s name on the ballot, said Guadagno’s conduct in the case raises “important issues that require urgent attention.” He petitioned Tuesday for immediate intervention from the federal court.

A copy of his and Guadagno’s court filings were obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.

“The Secretary of State again seeks to deny the voters of the 8th legislative District a choice,” Tambussi said in a statement.

“This 11th-hour, unilateral political tactic is further evidence of the Secretary of State’s utter disregard of the facts, United States Constitution and the Third Circuit Order that Carl Lewis remain on the ballot. Mr. Lewis’ position from the outset has been and remains that the election should be in the hands of the voters and not a political actor.”

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OSU President Gordan Gee Little Leaguers hope to make history atones for Little Sisters joke OREGON, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University’s president is back in the good graces of the Little Sisters of the Poor after turning them into a punch line last fall when he mocked other universities who don’t play in football’s power conferences.

Gordon Gee spent Wednesday touring a home for the elderly operated by the religious order in northwest Ohio, and he pledged to be one of their greatest advocates after putting them into the spotlight.

“As you know, I’ve made you famous,” he told the residents and staff members.

He later stood next to Mother Cecilia Mary Sartorius, the home’s administrator, who gave him a hug and whispered that he was forgiven. “Does everyone hear that I’m forgiven?” he shouted. “My day of penance is over.”

Gee stepped into a controversy last November when he told The Associated Press that teams like TCU and Boise State don’t deserve to play in the Bowl Championship Series title game because they don’t play anybody. “We do not play the Little Sisters of the Poor,” he said.

That comment rankled fans across the country as well as university officials.

Boise State’s president, Bob Kustra, responded by calling Gee’s comments a great exaggeration, saying it “gets under the skin of all of us who thought university presidents were supposed to be standing for fairness, equity and truth in how we portray our universities.”

TCU fans got even following the Horned Frogs’ win in the Rose Bowl over Wisconsin of the Big Ten with a message on billboards around Columbus that read, “Congratulations to TCU for their BCS Rose Bowl Victory.” It was signed, “Little Sisters of the Poor.”

Gee has famously gotten in trouble for his off-hand remarks, most recently during the memorabilia-for-cash and tattoos scandal that cost football coach Jim Tressel his job.

Gee was asked in March whether he’d considered firing Tressel. He responded: “No, are you kidding? Let me just be very clear: I’m just hopeful the coach doesn’t dismiss me.”

Tressel stepped down three months later.

Gee acknowledged Wednesday that he knew nothing about the Little Sisters or their mission of serving the elderly poor at about 30 homes nationwide.

He said his wisecrack turned out to be a good thing because

it’s helped promote the good work of the sisters.

“This is God’s work here,” he said, adding that he’d like to see Ohio State students and alumni volunteer at their facilities. He sent a personal check to the Little Sisters of the Poor last fall.

“Out of inadvertent humor can come great deeds,” he said.

Gee shook hands with residents in wheelchairs, including those dressed in rival Michigan shirts and hats, and signed autographs for those wearing Ohio State jerseys while touring the home.

His visit was even bigger than bingo day, said activities director Rosanne Kalinowski.

It’s difficult to find money to operate the facility that’s home to 74 residents, Sister Cecilia said. Most months are run at deficit.

“We’re very lowly, humble people,” she said. “We take care of the poor and try to reach out to get support. This has opened whole new doors for us.”

The nuns gave him a bow tie with a Little Sisters logo and accepted his offer to attend a football game this fall.

“Sister Cecilia will dress up as a fullback,” he said. “Of course, we’ll expect special prayers on the Buckeyes that day.”

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Players practice on the Howard J. Lamade Stadium field at the Little League World Series complex in South Williamsport.

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Montana had never had a team in the Little League World Series. So, a couple weeks ago, 12-year-old Andy Maehl asked his Billings coach if their team was ready to make history.

“He kept asking me the question every five minutes,” coach Mark Kieckbusch said Wednesday in recalling the talk with the catcher at the regional tournament. “I thought, ‘What are you, crazy?’”

Prophetic? Yes. Crazy? Not so much.

The mashers from Montana have made it all the way to South Williamsport, joining 15 other teams hoping to make the triumphant trot around the Lamade Stadium warning track with a World Series championship banner.

“Just to think, in 65 years,” Maehl said Wednesday after batting practice, “we’re the only team from Montana to do that.”

Kieckbusch watched nearby, his shirt soaked in sweat after an hour watching swings in the cage.

“To go down as the first Montana team ever,” Maehl said, “that’s really cool.”

The 65th World Series is peppered with other intriguing story lines, like the hometown favorites from Clinton County, Pa., who stormed through the Mid-Atlantic region to claim the final berth in the series on Monday. The Key-

stone Little League boys went straight from the regional final in Bristol, Conn., to the Little League complex, even though their homes are just about 30 miles southwest in rural central Pennsylvania.

So, it comes as no surprise to expect a big crowd Friday when Pennsylvania plays LaGrange, Ky., under the lights at Lamade Stadium.

“This is really exciting because I’ve been wanting to get here my whole life and play on this field,” Pennsylvania outfielder Mike Keibler, 12, said.

“I’ve watched the kids that were on there and it looked like a really cool field.”

But the pressure isn’t affecting Keibler or the rest of his teammates. These are mainly 11- and 12-year-olds, after all.

“The best thing about the dorms is the games,” he said.

“There are video games, there’s ping pong, and my favorite – air hockey.”

The World Series format was tweaked slightly this year, with an extra day tacked on to make it an 11-day marathon to championship Sunday on Aug. 28. The change will help give teams added time to develop a pitching strategy as a result of Little League’s strict pitch count rules.

Also, the eight-team U.S. and international brackets are no longer each divided into two four-team divisions. Double-elimination rules remain until the tournament’s final

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weekend.

Wednesday, though, was all about getting the last few swings in the batting cage. The fields were abuzz with activity on a picture-perfect summer afternoon as the familiar “ping” of metal bats resonated.

On the Mexico team, shortstop-pitcher Carlos Arellano seemed far from home on his 13th birthday. Keep in mind, while most participants are pre-teens, 13-year-olds are eligible so long as they were 12 on April 30.

The team had a chocolate birthday cake for Arellano and teammate Ulises Rodriguez, who turns 13 on Thursday.

Arellano’s favorite player?

His father, who goes by the same name. He played in the minors. But the younger Arellano wants just one gift this year ... and it’s not from his father.

“Win the first game tomorrow,” he said.

A team from Tokyo won the 2010 title, snapping a five-year winning streak for U.S. teams.

Japan this year is represented

by Hamamatsu City, which along with Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Montana are among 11 squads this year from local leagues making their inaugural appearances.

On the other end is Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, a World Series regular with 12 straight appearances – though this year’s trip came by virtue of a disqualification.

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Couples says Woods needs Mayweather, two other men sued to play to make Cup team in Las Vegas shooting incident HARRISON, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. captain Fred Couples wants Tiger Woods on the Presidents Cup team, provided Woods plays tournaments before he shows up at the Australian Open a week before the matches.

Woods missed the cut at the PGA Championship – only his second tournament in four months – and failed to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs. That makes him ineligible for any PGA Tour event until the first week of October. Couples is to make his two captain’s picks on Sept. 26, the day after the Tour Championship.

“He can’t just show up the week before in Australia,” Couples said Wednesday at the Senior Players Championship. “I have made it clear that whoever I picked will be playing the Australian tournament the week before. But I need him to play more than just there. There’s quite a few tournaments after the Tour Championship.”

Woods already has a contract to play in the Australian Open in Sydney. The Presidents Cup is the week after, on Nov. 17-20, at Royal Melbourne.

Woods has played every Presidents Cup since he first became eligible for them in 1998.

Couples and Woods are longtime friends, and when Couples agreed to return as captain, he jokingly sent Woods a text message telling him to play well so the captain wouldn’t have to waste a pick on him.

Turns out it was no joke. Because of injuries to his left leg, Woods went from the Masters on April 10 to the Bridgestone Invitational on Aug. 7 without completing a tournament. Then came the final major, where he missed the cut by six shots and finished out of the top 100 for the first time in a major.

“I really want him on the team based on my opinion that he’s been the best player for 10 straight years,” Couples said. “I don’t think you can push him

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Tiger Woods reacts after making birdie on the 16th hole during first round play in the Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament at Firestone Country Club in Akron earlier this month. down because he’s not playing maybe as well as 20 other guys that could be picked. A couple of times I’ve been picked for a Presidents Cup or a Ryder Cup, and sometimes that’s just the way it falls.”

Couples said he has talked to Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, about playing more events and “we’re going to figure out a way that we can get this done.”

After his press conference, Couples told Golf Digest for a story on its website, “From what I see, he’s looking to turn it around quicker, but not playing much golf. He may read that and say, ‘Screw him.’ I mean he’s my favorite player. But to get better, you gotta play.”

Woods said upon leaving the PGA Championship that he has plenty of time to work on his game, but he did not rule out playing more.

Couples pointed to Luke Donald and Dustin Johnson, who play about two dozen times a year, and are getting better.

“I just don’t know how he can sit there and think his game

is going to improve,” Couples said of Woods.

Woods and Steve Stricker went 5-0 two years ago in the Presidents Cup at Harding Park.

The only team – Presidents Cup or Ryder Cup – that Woods missed was in 2008 because of knee surgery.

“I’m the captain, and he wants to be on the team,” Couples said. “This is my chance to hold my rank above him one time.

And I’m going to do it. Look, he has carried this tour for a long time. If somebody looks at it wrong, if I end up picking him – which I probably will – they would be crazy. He doesn’t want to go there and lose. He hates to lose. So he’s going to do his best.

“But I’ve got to push him to play a little bit so he’ll do a little bit better.”

Meanwhile, Couples said PGA champion Keegan Bradley was not guaranteed a captain’s pick if he needed one. Bradley is a 25-year-old rookie who has won twice this year, including the final major of the year.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Superstar boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. is facing a civil lawsuit from a pair of men who say he orchestrated a shooting attack on them two years ago outside a Las Vegas skating rink.

The lawsuit obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press accuses Mayweather, Ocie Harris and others of making threats since the attack.

Leonard Ellerbe, CEO of Mayweather Promotions, said the undefeated boxer had nothing to do with the shooting or any of the alleged acts.

“As in most civil cases this is just another attempt to extort money,” Ellerbe said.

“An educated observer would examine the background of these individuals and immediately question their credibility,” he said.

A lawyer for Harris, who is accused of firing shots in the incident, was not immediately available for comment. Harris has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in the shooting. His trial is scheduled for February.

Mayweather attorney Mark Ferrario said Mayweather looks forward to resolving the dispute in court but declined further comment.

Lawyers for Quincey Williams and Damien Bland said in the lawsuit filed Tuesday that they want Mayweather and his associates to stop contacting their clients, plus an unspecified amount of money for damages.

Robert Adams and Robert Eglet, the lawyers who filed the suit, were not available Wednesday because they were preparing for an unrelated trial, their office said.

Mayweather is undefeated in 41 fights and has won titles in five divisions. He currently is training for a Sept. 17 fight against Victor Ortiz.

According to police, Mayweather argued with Williams on the night of the shooting inside the Crystal Palace Skating Center. Police say the Aug.

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. poses for a photo during a news conference in Las Vegas. A Las Vegas man who accused Mayweather of ordering his bodyguard to shoot at him outside a skating rink in August 2009 is suing the former Olympian.

23, 2009, incident started over a text message Williams sent Mayweather saying he hoped the boxer would lose his upcoming fight.

At the time, Mayweather was preparing to face Juan Manuel Marquez. Mayweather won that bout by unanimous decision.

Authorities have never accused Mayweather of firing shots and he has never been criminally charged in the case.

Witnesses told police they saw Harris fire at least five shots at a BMW sedan with the two men inside after having earlier spoken with Mayweather.

Neither man in the vehicle was wounded.

Mayweather later denied knowing Harris or having any knowledge of a shooting. But police said they linked the boxer and Harris through witnesses, surveillance videotapes and records seized when authorities served search warrants at Mayweather’s home.

The lawsuit, which was first reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, said the men now live in “immediate and mortal fear” of being hurt by Mayweather and the other people they say are responsible for the shooting.

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A guide of how to utilize social media at WVU as a freshman

n a c s k r o w t e n h ? c u o y Whi o t l u f e s u e can b Facebook “Facebook lets you document your life for the world, everybody wants to matter,” Martin said.

Facebook has probably become the most explosive social media application because of the more than 750 million users and the movie “The Social Network.”

You probably have hundreds of “friends” on Facebook, however most of them are probably people you went to high school with, colleagues, family members or just acquaintances you don’t really spend time with. Facebook has become a place where you

can connect to people when you might not actually know them well.

For your next few years at WVU, this could come in handy for you. It’s a good idea to befriend a couple of your peers in a class.

Add them on Facebook, that way there’s no awkward phone number exchange and you could message them if you had to miss or have a question.

Aside from practical use, I like to use Facebook to post pictures and get tagged in pictures my friends take. Pictures on Facebook can be a fun place to share them, but Chris

Martin, vice president for University Relations, said she suggests that students use caution when posting pictures.

“Employers can ‘Google’ you,” she said. “There’s a lack of privacy and anyone can find you.”

Martin also suggested to check out the Museum of Me at http://museumofme.intel.com to get an interesting arrangement of your Facebook activities. From status updates, to photos and videos and friends, the program transfers them all to a video of you, which turns out to be pretty neat.

events happening around the world. During the riots in the Middle East, Twitter was a meeting place for information.

The ongoing riots in London have also reported that Tweets have been spread regarding meeting places and such.

While in these circumstances

it’s used for correspondence, it can be helpful to journalists at newspapers to get these personal accounts of events.

Twitter can be as useless or useful as you need it to be. Get involved, tweet, retweet and tweet some more.

stories which also contain multimedia.

Chris Martin, vice president for University Relations, said she thought Google+ is more personal than other social networks because of the individual circles.

It is easier to separate who you want to see your content and who you do not.

A Google+ Hangout, one

of the features the new social network is offering is a Skypelike tool where you can videochat with those who are in your circles.

You can also +1 websites, photos, messages and more that you like or are interested in.

These +1’s will appear on your Google+ profile page similar to Facebook’s pages.

Twitter Tweeting has become a great source of news and has revolutionized the news business. The Daily Athenaeum tweets updates about breaking News, Sports and A&E. Twitter has essentially made the average person a reporter, giving personal accounts of

Google+ This social tool is still in it’s beta-phase, but it is the fastest growing social network by reaching more than 25 million users in less than a month since its start.

Much of what we’ve seen of Google Plus is a disconnect in understanding what all the fuss is about. The Daily Athenaeum uses Google+ to post photos and our news

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BY Erin Fitzwilliams Editor-in-chief

Social media has become a part of everyday life for our generation. Time passes quickly as we constantly check our Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Foursquare and the list goes on. Each social medium gives users a chance to utilize the tools they offer.

This guide aims to help the West Virginia University students have a better understanding and maximize their usage of social media.

The Daily Athenaeum has embraced social media and uses it to spread news, photos and videos. The DA’s editorial staff strives to utilize social media to bring WVU students the news they want to hear.

What is Social Media?

Social media can be described as an application through communication.

Chris Martin, vice president for University Relations, said communication will always be part of humanity. The explosion of technology and connectivity has made social media wildly popular.

“With technology, a mass audience became the publisher for communica-

tion. Individuals began to share knowledge with a larger audience,” she said.

“You can carry it around in your pocket.”

The invention of smart phones like the iPhone, HTC Evo, Blackberry or Palm Pre made mobile communication through social media so easy to connect. No longer are social mediagoers condemned to their computers.

Social Media @ WVU Social media at WVU keeps the campus connected. Last year, several TV screens called Information Stations launched on Channel 7. The screens displayed Twitter updates with WVUrelated hashtags and Foursquare updates, like who is checked in and who the Mayor is. The screens are not only for the Mountainlair, but are spread around campus and can be accessed in the dorm rooms.

According to a statement by Spencer Graham, system’s operations manager for WVU Web Services, an update to the Info Station system allowed for broadcast in high definition on channel 72.1.

“The difference between Channel 7 (analog signal) and the new channel is stunning in crispness,” he said. “We will continue to broadcast the analog signal on Channel 7 so that students in the residential complexes can access

the Info Stations in their rooms in standard def or high def, depending upon their type of television.”

Martin said the TV’s around campus would also show alerts in weather and emergency situations.

Overall, social media is what you make of it. It’s about who you follow, who you interact with, the more you interact and participate the better experience will be.

These tools can serve almost as a record or diary of your life, you Tweet about how awful your morning was, you post a picture of your cat on Facebook and you share a news story with your Google+ circles. Follow people who intrigue you, make you laugh and make you think.

Befriend your acquaintances, add them to your circles and add them on Foursquare. Just remember the golden rule – have fun.

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The Daily Athenaeum’s social media guide continues as it lists the top tweeters to follow on Twitter. Also, more information about the various social media networks are available.

Freshman Andrew Buie is one of the three first-year players competing for the starting job in the backfield.

He credits veterans with helping him get adjusted to college life.

Find out how you can get your student ticket to see the West Virginia football team kick off the Mountaineer’s home opener at Milan Puskar Stadium against Marshall University on Sunday, September 4.

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Foursquare This game-like social network is one of my favorites. You “check in” into a location and get points to sort of compete with your friends.

You can be the “Mayor” of a location, add tips about the place and earn badges based on your check in.

WVU’s Foursquare has proven helpful and fun for those who check in to University buildings. Each WVU building has a fun tip about the college or department housed in the building, or some fun fact about the history of the building.

Foursquare will be unveiling campus badges this

year and WVU was chosen among other Universities to receive a badge.

Chris Martin, VP of University relations said sometime during the fall semester, the University will have a Foursquare scavenger hunt for freshmen to learn and get used to the campus.

Although most students may use Youtube as a study break distraction s, other students use it to post projects and document the events in their daily lives.

In 2011, when WVU made international headlines for student celebrations in the wake of Osa-

mas Bin Ladin’s death, cable news channels showed amateur footage uploaded to Youtube by West Virginia University students.

The website’s potential social connectivity continues to grow as users continue to explore and expand their creativity.

YouTube YouTube is a video sharing website which allows users to upload, share and view videos from any Internet connected device.

For college students this versatile platform can be used for entertainment, education and documentation.

Flickr Flickr is an online pic-

ture and video sharing website which allows users to upload and embed albums of personal photographs.

The site is also used by many bloggers, online journalists and photog-

LinkedIn

LinkedIn is one of the most professional social networks available.

Because networking is so important when finding a job, LinkedIn puts all of your connections on a screen.

It shows who you have connections with as well

raphers to host images on their web and social media sites. For students, Flickr can be used as a real-time scrapbook to chronicle the college adventure.

Students can upload photographs from sport-

ing events, dorm life and campus happenings to albums shared with friends and family members.

To stay in touch, stay connected and to help students share more, Flickr is the perfect social tool.

as who your connections are connected too.

LinkedIn is an extremely useful resource to college students as the four years in college are important networking years. When you meet a classmate, or get to know professors and coworkers be sure to

find them on LinkedIn. It can help you find connections in your industry which could help you find an internship or even a job.

Be sure to keep your LinkedIn profile up to date with an accurate resume and up-to-date contact information.

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By John Terry Managing Editor

Thousands of students new to West Virginia University will flock to campus today for the start of their college careers.

This year’s Welcome Week, a week filled with activities to help alleviate the anxieties college brings, will be highlighted by the addition of the First Year Academy.

The First Year Academy, which will take place today through Sunday, was created as part of the University’s “Blueprint for Student for Success.”

“We want the focus to be on academics,” said Dean of the Honors College and chair of the committee organizing

the First Year Academy Keith Garbutt. “We wanted that to be the focus of the weekend.

It’s a full weekend, but if you look at some of the activities planned by colleges and departments, it’s going to be a lot of fun.”

He said it was important to have a one-stop shop for students in their first weekend here in order to learn more about safety, wellness and personal finances.

The First Year Academy is a requirement for all incoming first-year students and will include activities in which students learn about their majors, academic departments and services available to them on campus, said Resident Faculty Leader of Lincoln Hall Ted Vehse

The First Year Academy will also include meetings with resident faculty leaders and residence assistants, and meetings with faculty and administrators will be encouraged.

In addition to the First Year Academy, the University also changed the time of the University Welcome. Typically held on Sunday afternoon, the University moved the event to Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Busses will transport students from the residence halls to the Coliseum beginning at 5:30 p.m.

University spokesperson Becky Loftstead said the change was made to accommodate the scheduling with the First Year Academy.

“It was a really good fit in

the new scheduling as it follows an afternoon of information and academic sessions,” she said.

President James P. Clements, Provost Michele Wheatly, Student Government Association President Jason Bailey and Mountaineer mascot Brock Burwell will speak to the more than 5,000 students in attendance.

The event will conclude with the singing of “Country Roads.”

“To sing ‘Country Roads’ as a class is a neat way to end the event,” said Director of University Events Stephanie Ballard Conrad. “It’s a goose bump moment” Throughout the day Saturday, leading up the University Welcome, the First Year

Academy will kick into high gear with First Year Academy Informational Sessions, as well as Academic Department Visits and WVU Library tours, among other activities.

The informational sessions will continue Sunday.

“We want students to be prepared and ready on Monday morning to start their college lives,” he said. “This is a first for the First Year Academy so we are hopeful it will be a positive and useful weekend for students.

Welcome Week will start with a welcome cookout from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday night at both the Student Recreation Center and Mountainlair Plaza.

2011 Welcome Week Highlights MONDAY 16th annual Fall Fest at 7:30 on the Mountainlair Plaza TUESDAY Ask the Experts all day in the Mountainlair WEDNESDAY Rec Center 10th Anniversary Celebration at 4 p.m.

THURSDAY Multicultural activities all day in the Mountainlair FRIDAY Mountaineer Idol preview at 7:30 p.m. in the Mountainlair

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Dining meal plans include wide array of options by erin fitzwilliams editor-in-chief

Morgantown offers West Virginia University students a variety of on- or off-campus dining opportunities beyond dorm food.

Whether it be in the Mountainlair or down High Street, there are ways to escape cafeteria food.

The dining plan offers students who live off-campus the opportunity to have prepaid meals on- or off-campus.

O n-campus locations like Burger King, Quiznos or Chick-fil-A in the Mountainlair all offer the plan for some of their breakfast and dinner meals.

WVU currently offers five meal plans ranging from 10 to 19 meals per week.

The Mountaineer Plan, which costs $1,829 per semester, offers 19 meals per week and about 300 meals per semester.

The Select 15 Plan, which costs $1,708 per semester, offers up to 15 meals per week.

The Select 10 Plan, the cheapest plan, offers 10 meals per week for $1,540 per semester.

Meals Plus money is included with each plan and is redeemable at many oncampus locations, which include Burger King or the Lyon’s Den, located in Towers.

Lyon’s Den is a convenience store-type location, which is open on nights during the week, offering madeto-order food and other necessities for dorm-dwelling students.

For those looking for near unlimited dining options, two other plans are available.

The Blue Plan allows for 209 meals, and it also comes with $100 in Meals Plus, for $2,043 for the semester.

The Gold Plan provides up to 229 meals per semester and comes with $100 in Meals Plus money, available for $2,116 per semester.

All meal plans are redeemable at the many campus residence hall cafeterias and many of the restaurants in the Mountainlair.

The Healthy U option is a campus-wide dining initiative that offers a menu based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

Signs noting Healthy U meal options are posted in the dining hall locations.

If a student has a dietary

concern, such as a glutenfree diet or diabetic-friendly meal, they can call ahead for a special menu. Dining Halls do their best to accommodate special needs.

For weekly dining hall menus visit http://diningservices.wvu.edu/ to view options and Healthy U alternatives.

Downtown Morgantown offers many different restaurants such as D.P. Dough, Casa D’Amici, Chico’s Fat Burritos, China Wall, Jimmy John’s, Tailpipes, Subway and Pita Pit, which cater to students and offer late hours to accommodate nocturnal student habits.

Rusted Musket and Sandwich U are two popular latenight delivery options for students around Morgantown.

Visit www.dubvmenus. com to see many of Morgantown’s restaurants, some of which offer online ordering, delivery and take-out.

On-campus Dining Options zz Arnold’s American Diner (Arnold Hall) zz Bits & Bytes (Engineering) zz Boreman Bistro (Boreman South) zz Brew ‘n Gold Cafe (Towers) zz Burger King (Mountainlair) zz Cafe Evansdale (Towers) zz Cavanaugh’s (Health Sciences Center) zz Chick-fil-A (Mountainlair) zz Eliza’s Cafe (Downtown Library) zz Fieldcrest (Fieldcrest) zz Freshens (Mountainlair) zz Grab ‘n Go (Summit Hall) zz Hatfields (Mountainlair) zz JAC’s (Mountainlair) zz Lyon’s Den (Towers) zz Quizno’s (Mountainlair) zz Sbarro (Mountainlair) zz Sports Cafe (Student Rec Center) zz Starbucks (WVU Bookstore) zz Summit Cafe (Summit Hall) zz Taziki’s Mediterranean Cafe (Mountainlair) zz Terrace Room (Stalnaker Hall)

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C4 | FRESHMAN 411

Friday August 19, 2011

ALTERNATE TRANSPORTATION

For less traveled roads

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A student approaches the bus in front of the Mountainlair. The Mountain Line bus runs A PRT car pulls into the Beechurst platforms downtown before being boarded.

Monday through Saturday and its stops include, but aren’t limited, to High Street, Towers, the Mountainlair and West Run Road.

By Amy Rogers staff writer

Morgantown is notorious for limited parking and high parking fees. To help ease traffic congestion, West Virginia University prefers incoming freshman students to leave their cars at home.

Various forms of alternative transportation are readily available for all students, which include the PRT, the Mountain Line Transit bus system, Zipcar, Zimride, free shuttle services between the WVU Coliseum and Engineering PRT as well as numerous bicycle racks located around campus.

“Freshmen don’t need a car on campus. They can use the PRT, bus system, rent a car, carpool or bike,” said Hugh Kierig, AICP, director of the Department of Transportation and Parking in Morgantown.

PRT Personal Rapid Transit, or The PRT, is an 8.2 mile mono-

rail system that transports individual train cars carrying students between the Downtown, Evansdale and the Health Science campuses.

Students ride the PRT for free with a simple swipe of their Student ID card. Forgot your card at home? Not to worry, the PRT also allows the option of paying $0.50 per ride, as well.

The PRT system has been in operation for over 35 years now. Over this time, some renovations have been needed. A $92.8 million master plan has been developed in the recent years to make the necessary changes.

“There is some major preventative maintenance construction happening this summer,” Kierig said. “One thing to note is that the PRT will be getting a new onboard computer system for the fleet of train cars.”

Kierig said all of these changes would be installed over a period of a year. Another positive change for the

PRT will be its new propulsion system. The downtime during PRT breakdowns can’t be completely eliminated, but they should be noticeably less and shorter when they do occur, Kierig said.

Mountain Line Transit WVU Students ride for free on the Mountain Line bus system. Like the PRT, all that is needed is a swipe from the Student ID card when boarding the bus. There is also the option of paying $0.50 cents if a student forgets their ID. The Blue and Gold connector is the most popular route connecting the Towers dormitories to the Life Sciences building on Grant Street every 20 minutes.

There is also a late night bus system that runs Thursday through Saturday from 8 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. connecting the Mountainlair to Towers and the Valley View area.

Also offered from the Mountain Line Transit are routes to the Morgantown Mall and

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One of the Zipcars is displayed outside the Mountainlair Wednesday afternoon. Zipcars can be rented by the hour or up to four days at a time.

Granville Shopping center to Zimride provide students without cars Zimride is a new carpool access to groceries or leisurely matching program that has been in effect at WVU for the retail purchases. past two years. Program manZipcar agers match students with simStudents who need to use a ilar travel needs. Students gain car for a short period of time mutual advantages from regiscan rent one by the hour with tering with Zimride.

This online carpool matching the new Zipcar Program.

This rental service is new to tool allows students with cars WVU this fall. Students pay a and students without cars who small hourly fee to rent a car, are heading in the same direcusually between $7-9 per hour. tion over holidays or weekends To obtain a car, students to get matched up to save on must first be pre-approved by the cost of commuting home. applying for membership on Zimride software matches the WeGo section of the WVU students with similar comTransportation website. Once mutes. There is also a Facebook approved, students will receive page to allow users of this program to collaborate with others. a Zipcar membership card.

Students can then retrieve Students who wish to use this the rental car from Towers. Stu- program must also register on dents then simply wave their the WeGo section of the Transpersonal membership card in portation website. front of the ID on the car, the car recognizes the time frame Coliseum Shuttles in which the student is authoFor those students living in rized to use the car and the Morgantown who do have a doors automatically unlock. car, trying to find a parking spot downtown can be an extremely

frustrating experience.

To eliminate this frustration, students can park for free at the WVU Coliseum and take a shuttle directly to the Engineering PRT station.

“I strongly push towards students not bringing cars to the University, but if they choose to bring a car, using the Coliseum shuttle system is a great idea,” said Dave Barnett, Campus Bus and Charter Services.

“Beechurst (Avenue) is heavily traveled, and we just want to provide a safe, free parking solution with a safe route from the parking lot to the PRT station,” said Barnett.

Although taking a car to college may seem like an important necessity, living in a clustered college town like Morgantown can actually become more of a hassle than a convenience. Save yourself the trouble and take advantage of the free services provided by WVU. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

Mountainline offers WVU students rides back home by amy rogers

However, WVU has already taken steps to accommodate this need by providing transport to Students without cars at West areas such as upstate New JerVirginia University might con- sey and New York, Philadelphia, sider getting home during holi- Hagerstown, Md, Pittsburgh, and Allentown, Pa. as well as to day breaks to be a problem. staff writer

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For those students needing to travel to Pittsburgh or the Pittsburgh Airport, twicedaily shuttle services are offered through Transportation services. Students are dropped off to the Greyhound bus station in Pittsburgh or at the Pittsburgh Airport.

During holiday times, an extra bus service is offered to accommodate the increased demand for transport to Pittsburgh.

“The charter bus system is the most stable student routing solution because the routes travel from Morgantown directly to the highest demanded areas,” said Hugh Kierig, Director of the Department of Transportation and Parking.

The shuttle bus leaves Morgantown and takes students directly to the most popular transport hubs.

The Pittsburgh Grey Line route also transports students to destinations such as Clarksburg, W.Va., Fairmont, W.Va., and Waynesburg, W.Va. “On average, the Thanksgiving shuttle is the largest vol-

ume in demand from students wanting to use this service,” said Dave Barnett, Charter and Shuttle Bus Services. Students may want to reserve shuttle services for Thanksgiving break well in advance, he said.

Use the AMTRK Connection to connect from the drop-off location to reach more cities by train.

The Greyhound Connection will also take students to Philadelphia, New York City , Chicago, Atlanta, DC, and more.

Megabus Connections take students to New York City, Philadelphia, New Jersey, DC, State College, Pa., Harrisburgh, Pa., Erie, Pa., Buffalo, NY., Ohio, and Michigan.

Pittsburgh Port Authority System takes students to Heinz Field and PNC Park, but can also take students to other locations within Pittsburgh.

For a small fee, students can choose to upgrade to a business class seat on the charter bus services. Added amenities for the upgrade include a secured assigned seat, reclining seat backs, drop-down trays, and free power ports for electronics and free Internet service.

Other services that can be purchased for charter bus rides include ordering lunch or a newspaper. Meals must be purchased 24-hours in advance and will be waiting for the student when they get on the bus.

One small bag under 25lbs. can be taken on the bus for each rider. Oversized or extra luggage can be transported as well for an extra fee.

For sports teams or larger groups, individual private charter buses can be scheduled for one-stop transportation needs.

Charter bus services can be reserved for special needs or long distance travel covering 48 US States.

“Since the University provides more than adequate shuttle services for getting around Morgantown as well as a means of going to out of state regions, there shouldn’t be any need for students of any year to have a vehicle at WVU,” said Barnett. “The bus routes are a very reliable means of transportation.”

For more information on which bus routes to use, visit http://www.busride.org/.

To find out more information about bus trips, please visit http://parentsclub.wvu.edu/ schedules. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Friday August 19, 2011

FRESHMAN 411 | C5

The Daily Athenaeum, your source for WVU news Welcome to West Virginia University and the official student publication.

The DA will be here for your college career, covering the news that matters to the WVU community – students, staff and faculty.

As a student-run organization, we try our best to bring you the timeliest and highest quality stories possible.

With this, the first regular issue back (we don’t stop for summers), it’s perhaps best to introduce ourselves, our history and our mission statement.

The Daily Athenaeum began in 1887 as a literary magazine called “The Athenaeum,”

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based on the Latin translation of a “body of knowledge.”

We cover everything from the resignations of former presidents to the hiring of new presidents, Final Four runs and Twitter updates – but our obligation will always be to our readers.

The majority of our revenue comes from the advertisement sales, but student tuition helps pay for a portion of the paper, as well.

A brief glimpse of our operation: The Daily Athenaeum, pronounced “Athen-ee-um,” is published five days a week.

We have a staff of more than 40 people who each work

under an editor in the News, Sports, Arts & Entertainment and Opinion sections.

Our operations are controlled by the Board of Student Publications.

The top editors, the editorin-chief and managing editor, are appointed by the Publications Board, which is made up of, among others, the dean of the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism and the vice president of the Student Government Association.

The top editors hire the editors below them, and they choose their staff from student applicants enrolled at the University at any level, provided the student is tak-

ing a minimum of nine hours and has at least a 2.0 GPA. The University does not censor stories.

The paper is student-run.

There are typically no nonstudents in the building after 5 p.m.

We attempt to cover as much of University and city life as possible. But we miss things. And, sometimes, we get things wrong. We are all here to learn and get experience in the news world.

If you wish to suggest a news story or comment on one that has run, email danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu.

For sports, e-mail dasports@mail.wvu.edu.

For A&E, email daa&e@ mail.wvu.edu.

For Opinion, letters to the editor and to submit a guest column, email daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu.

To contact the editor, email da-editor@mail.wvu.edu.

We really like to hear how we’re doing on a daily basis so please do not hesitate to give us feedback.

One of the biggest problems at any college newspaper is constant turnover.

No one from our staff is here longer than they are enrolled at the University. A reporter may only cover his or her beat for a year or two at most. An editor is rarely in

charge for more than a year.

When they graduate, their relationships with sources, wisdom and knowledge are all lost.

We encourage people, then, to come to us as much as we try and come to you.

Hopefully, we can serve you well. If we don’t, let us know.

Finally, if you have an interest in working with us, please pick up an application at 284 Prospect St. or email the section editor of your choice.

Contact information and news updates are available at www.thedaonline.com. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

Letters to the Editor can be sent 284 Prospect St. or emailed to DAPERSPECTIVES@mail.wvu.edu. Letters should include NAME, TITLE and be no more than 300 words. Letters and columns, excluding the editorial, are not necessarily representative of The Daily Athenaeum’s opinion. Letters may be faxed to 304-293-6857 or delivered to The Daily Athenaeum.

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Maximize your experience at West Virginia by getting involved Michael levy Columnist

G re e t i n g s incoming freshmen!

I know you’ve heard it 17 times already this week, but it’s worth saying again in hopes that it will sink in: You are entering one of the most exciting periods in your life.

College is loaded with opportunities that are much tougher to find elsewhere in life.

On the excitement scale, there is a huge range among students’ college experiences.

Sadly, for most students, the experience lies way too close to the boring end of the spectrum.

So, how do you ensure that

you make the most of this preciously valuable time?

Two words – get involved.

The more involved you are, the more people you’ll know, the more you’ll learn and the more exciting experiences you’ll have.

Also, there’s a compounding effect in being involved: By knowing more people and being out there and part of things, you’ll meet even more people and learn about opportunities to get involved in even cooler stuff.

How do these experiences sound?

•Traveling to Nicaragua for a summer internship, sleeping in a hammock and developing the business of a fair-trade coffee plantation.

•Being part of an ultimate frisbee team that travels to

tournaments around the region and parties their butts off every time they do.

•Volunteering with a local non-profit to make the streams around town fishable and swimmable by healing them from the acid mine drainage that has plagued them for years?

I have friends who have done each of those, and their college experiences were way better than most.

It’s not difficult or competitive to get involved, you just have to know what’s going on and make an effort to show up.

As you get more involved and get to know more people, you’ll start to hear about the really special opportunities – the ones that are so sweet they don’t even get advertised.

But, to start, just find a couple of things you’re interested in and dive right in.

The first Wednesday of the semester, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. is the student organization fair in the Mountainlair.

Check it out. Talk to people and note what seems interesting.

Go to a couple of events held by some of the different organizations, and you’ll probably find something you like.

If you don’t find the right group there, check out the Student Recreation Center for all things athletic, especially the Outdoor Recreation Center, which organizes killer trips, teaches rock climbing on the wall and rents outdoor gear at student-affordable prices.

Maybe you’re into giving something back?

Studies show one thing

that make people the happiest, second only to dancing, is volunteering.

Check out Students in Service for a way to get some of your tuition paid for volunteering and Campus Compact for service-learning opportunities.

And, keep your eye on the bulletin boards scattered around campus and in coffee shops in town. There’s always new stuff happening – the hardest part is finding out about it and showing up the first time.

Don’t expect to find the perfect match or your new best friends right away – these things take time. Pick a couple of things to get involved with and commit to showing up for a few months. You’ll meet tons of people, hear about all sorts of things to do and the rest will

Beginner’s guide to staying in shape in college by jesse tabit a&E Writer

The freshman 15 can be hard to avoid.

Then again, gaining any weight in college can be hard to avoid. Why isn’t there such a thing as sophomore 15? Or junior 15?

I guess it’s that first introduction to dorm food and unleashing the inner partier that has students adjusting their lifestyles, only to return home a changed (and perhaps out of shape) individual. Fitting time in your schedule to stay fit can be difficult; everyone knows that.

But, the first thing to note about getting in shape is discipline.

Just as if you want to succeed in school, you need to discipline yourself if you want to get into shape.

Once you have your class schedule, plan accordingly (whatever time is best for you) for a workout.

The West Virginia University Student Recreation Center is a perfect place to start.

The equipment is top-ofthe-line, and the facility is simply massive, containing an indoor track, a rock wall, racquetball rooms and numerous basketball courts, just to name

a few features.

The Rec also features many exercise classes and even gives you access to free personal trainers.

But, hey, you don’t even have to go to the center of the Evansdale campus to get a workout.

Running, or any other type of cardio workout, can be done on the mountainous streets of Morgantown.

The hilly landscape provides plenty of challenge and routine for anyone looking to get a good workout.

Though, to be efficient, you do not even have to leave his or her room to work up a sweat. Routines and workouts can be found all over the Internet, teaching people how to use small spaces to their advantage.

Personally, I like to use dumbbells and any other kind of hand weight when utilizing a small space. However, much more practical equipment (such as a chair or a book) can be used. This way money is saved and even less space is taken than if you were to purchase exercise equipment.

And, I know what you’re thinking: “A lot of this is easier said than done,” but you just have to get in the right mindset.

It also helps to have a workout partner, someone to mo-

take care of itself.

Oh, and one more thing.

You want to party. I know.

Everyone wants to party in college, and most do. You probably will too, almost certainly more than would make you happiest.

Here’s what most people don’t realize: The best parties, where you have the most fun, are when you are with people with whom you have shared intense experiences.

So go build houses for homeless people with Habitat for Humanity, or take a ski trip to Vermont with Outdoor Rec. or pull trash from a stream with Friends of Decker’s Creek.

I guarantee you everyone will want to have beers when the day is done, and they’ll be ten times better for what you did together.

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Welcome to WVU from SGA

Words of Wisdom

From the University Police Department Sergeant Peggy Runyon & Sergeant Kenny Main University police department

Fall is a time of both excitement and apprehension as you come to a unique environment with many opportunities and challenges.

Returning students are used to the atmosphere; new students are not. Some new students are away from home for the first time, and this presents some concerns not only for them, but their parents as well.

Regardless of which group you fall into, the following practical information will be useful.

The college environment presents many situations and choices that have the ability to affect your life in both positive and negative ways in your future.

Unfortunately, some students too often make choices without considering the alternatives and the consequences.

What may seem like a prank, a simple argument or even a seemingly harmless decision regarding a social activity can lead to major life-changing events.

A prime example of this can be someone making the conscious choice to attend a party and drink or go downtown to the bars to drink. Seems like a normal event to many, but

a drink from a stranger or an argument that leads to a fight can be life-changing.

Additionally, consuming too much alcohol or engaging in dangerous drinking games can have a serious impact on your life. We are not here to argue that people should not have a good time, but there are ways to do so without jeopardizing your safety or your future. By choosing to consume alcohol, especially in excess, you increase your risk of being in an accident, a fight or being sexually assaulted or arrested.

West Virginia’s drinking age is 21. Underage individuals who drink or possess alcohol can be arrested and, in some cases, sent to jail. Many people don’t realize that even if you are 21, you don’t have the right to appear in public in an intoxicated condition. That can lead to an arrest as well.

We bring this up only because it’s relevant to our discussion and our ultimate point, which is: Make good choices.

In this situation the ideal and safest choice is not to drink at all. However, if you do choose to drink, drink responsibly and don’t drive. DUI enforcement is a focus of local enforcement agencies.

Stay with groups of friends, for safety truly does come

with numbers, and look out for each other. Agree that you go together and leave together.

Good Choices If you choose to drink, don’t drink to excess.

Watch your drinks, don’t leave them unattended.

Travel in groups with friends in well lit areas, and stay together.

Don’t leave intoxicated friends behind; get them help. Severe intoxication is not funny; it can be life- threatening.

Make good choices and carefully consider the consequences of actions or inactions.

You are responsible for your safety and the community’s quality of life, and we want your educational experience to be one of safety and success.

Over the course of the school year, we will have articles addressing some key traffic and criminal codes and parking regulations on campus as well as pertinent safety issues in the community.

Persons interested in acquiring more information about safety or about the University Police Department’s educational programs can contact the department at 304-293-COPS.

Formerly knows as the ‘Fusion Party’, the current members of SGA are sworn into office.

My fellow Mountaineers, As you begin your time at WVU, you will soon find that being a Mountaineer is truly a lifestyle and culture unlike any other. You will begin to identify yourself not only with one of the greatest universities in the country, but also with the great State of West Virginia.

You are bound to face obstacles throughout your time here, especially during your freshman year and transition to college life, but, nonetheless, you will have the best experiences and opportunities of your life.

As students who are starting our fourth or fifth year at WVU, we have some critical pieces of advice that may aid in your ability to succeed while having the best time possible: Make new friends. Many students are going through exactly what you are experiencing. Whether you are a long way from home, want a fresh start, or simply want a new group of friends, your freshman year is the perfect start.

Don’t just stick with the friends you may have come to WVU with, but make new ones as well, whether they are in your dorm, sitting near you while you’re reading this or in your classes. Having friends where you live, where you learn and where you relax will enhance your time that much more.

Go to class and study. Ev-

ery person came to WVU for different reasons, but you all chose to go to college for the same reason: to get a higher education and finish with a degree in hand. If you don’t go to class and put your academics as your top priority, then you won’t see that day.

Having to leave the University early due to academic troubles will cause you to miss out on the other opportunities WVU has to offer.

Get involved. WVU has more opportunities than you could ever imagine, but it is your responsibility to seek them out and take advantage of them. You have the chance to go Greek or join other clubs and organizations, volunteer in the community of Morgantown, study abroad, receive prominent internships and network with some of the greatest alumni in the world.

WVU has hundreds of student organizations centered on virtually every possible interest, and these can be the highlight of your experience at WVU. Taking advantage of every opportunity possible will not only improve your time on campus, but it will aid in your ability to succeed post-graduation.

Have fun. Although we firmly believe academics must be your number one priority to succeed, we also believe that you must take time for yourself, enjoy your free time, and expe-

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rience all WVU has to offer.

Whether it is going to sporting events, taking advantage of the world class arts and entertainment that comes to WVU, attending WVUp All Night in the Mountainlair during weekends or checking out the Morgantown night life scene, you need time to relax and temporarily relieve your brain from the tons of information it will be absorbing during your years of learning.

We guarantee your time at WVU will be the best time of your life. It certainly has been the best of ours. If you manage your time correctly, you will become part of the newest class of graduates from West Virginia University in 2015. We want to see you walking across that stage on graduation day, but ultimately it is up to you to make it happen.

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Freshmen making early impact Freshman Buie credits veterans with helping him get adjusted to college life sports editor

The transition from high school to college is a tough task for any freshman.

Throw in daily meetings, practices and weight lifting sessions and the life of a freshman college football player at West Virginia is an adjustment that can get to be pretty difficult to get through.

But luckily for West Virginia’s 19 freshmen and five transfers, this switch has been pretty easy thanks to a lot of help from the veterans on the team.

Freshman running back Andrew Buie, one of the three first-year players competing for the starting job in the backfield, said other running backs like juniors Shawne Alston and Ryan Clarke have played a big part in helping him and the other freshmen at the position get comfortable at WVU on and off the field.

“They did a great job over the summer at seven-on-sevens, taking time out with me, Dustin (Garrison) and anyone else who wanted to understand what we were doing better,” Buie said.

“They taught us what they had learned about the offense up to that point, so that when we did come into the meeting on the first day, we at least had some understanding of what was going on.”

Buie, a Jacksonville, Fla., native who was recruited heavily coming out of high

school received offers from schools like Louisville, Pittsburgh, Michigan and Auburn, said it was the people in Morgantown that really sold him on becoming a Mountaineer.

“The people are so friendly everywhere you go. It’s a nice college town,” the freshman said. “I wanted to experience something different in life, and when I came here and I visited, they showed me around and instantly at that point, I felt that I wanted to be here.”

Freshman Dustin Garrison is another back competing with Buie and freshman Vernard Roberts for the starting running back position this season. A native of Pearland, Texas, said the most difficult part to adjust to since camp began was the first couple of days.

“That first day was really hard for me and Andrew,” Garrison said. “Vernard had been here since spring, so he already knew what it was like. On that first day (running backs coach Robert Gillespie) really pushed me and Buie with the drills.”

For junior college transfer Shaq Rowell, his transition into the Division I-A ranks has been quite different from the freshmen like Buie and Garrison.

When he played at Iowa Western Community College, the sophomore nose guard had things a little differently than he does now that he’s in Morgantown.

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Freshman Andrew Buie participates in a drill during summer camp in Morgantown. The Jacksonville, Fla., native is one of three freshmen competing for the starting job in the backfield. play, he had to pay for it. The training staff that was supposed to keep him and the other players on the team wasn’t close to as good as it is now.

That’s why he’s not taking any of the opportunities he’s been given to play at WVU for granted.

“Junior college makes you want to play football more,” Rowell said. “The small things like cleats and gloves, we have to provide for ourselves. That’s the stuff people take for granted.”

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“What’s great is that it does so much more than it sounds like it does,” Staffileno said. “It’s more than just a fan club.”

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But Staffileno said the best deal was the “True Blue” membership, which costs $35 and gives you everything the first to give, and also allows you to sign up for trips a day before anyone else.

Last year, the Mountaineer Maniacs’ biggest road trip for a football game was when they made the trip down to Baton Rouge, La. This year, Staffileno said the Maniacs could be taking students on up to four trips for football season.

He said the Maniacs will definitely be making the trip to the Maryland and Cincinnati games and, depending on ticket availability and when the games are, they could also go to Syracuse and Rutgers to watch the Mountaineers play.

“When the Syracuse game got moved to a Friday, it kind of pulled that away a little bit, it’s just tougher to do,” Staffileno said. “Hopefully we can do the trip to Rutgers. That’s the only one we’re really not sure about.

“That will probably be an overnight trip with maybe a little visit to New York City. I feel like that would get a lot of popularity, and a lot of people would want to go on that.”

While a lot of things are done give students the chance to watch the football and basketball teams play, Staffileno said this year, the organization will be putting more emphasis on getting students out in larger numbers to some of the other Olympic sports, like soccer, baseball and volleyball.

SGA Athletic Councilman Steve Orlowski is the Director of Olympic Sports for the Mountaineer Maniacs, and Staffileno said he has a lot of good ideas to help raise awareness for the “smaller sports.”

“I’m really going to let him take the torch on Olympic sports,” Staffileno said. “I trust him a lot and I’m just going to sit back and let him do what he wants to do.”

Those Olympic sports, where there aren’t as many people there, are a great opportunity for students – especially freshmen – to get acquainted with other people and do one of the things that make the Mountaineer Maniacs such a great organization for students, build new relationships and make new friends.

“If you’re not at the games, you’re missing out on being with the majority of the student body at WVU,” Staffileno said. “It’s a great opportunity to meet people who could become your best friend while you’re in school.” james.carvelli@mail.wvu.edu

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Club sports provide options for all students Club Sports Federation’s goal is to have more than 50 club teams by 2013 john Terry MANAGING EDITOR

Just a small percentage of the incoming freshmen at West Virginia will be on a varsity athletic team, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be an athlete.

That is because of club sports.

With 38 different club sport teams at WVU, Club Sports Federation President Jared Fabian said there is something for everyone. And the number of club sports teams continues to grow, too.

Fabian said that the num-

ber if team’s has increased every year since the Club Sports Federation was founded.

“By the end of the school year in 2013, our goal is to have more than 50 teams,” he said.

There will be something different about club sports at West Virginia University this upcoming year as the University will have completed some of the $8.4 million stateof-the-art recreational fields project in three different areas around Morgantown.

Construction of the artificial turf field, tennis courts,and walking track across from the Evansdale Residential Complex, as well as the new turf rugby field and lighted baseball and softball fields at Mylan Park will be done by the fall, according to Fabian.

Vice President of Student Affairs Ken Gray said that the recreational fields at the Medical Center location will take longer to complete. The field’s will both need to be resurfaced and lights must be moved from the center of the

field.

He said that location should be ready by Spring 2012.

“The new facilities are going to help us get kids involved because there will be more attention on club sports,” said WVU Club Sports Federation President Jared Fabian.

“I expect participation to increase more than it has in the past years.

Students are going to be able to see all the activities go on, and they will want to become a part of it.”

The new recreational fields will provide West Virginia club sport teams the ability to host tournaments and games in Morgantown, something Fabian said a lot of the team’s haven’t been able to do in the past.

The rugby teams are the only teams that have hosted tournaments in the past, Fabian said.

“I want to have 5-7 tournaments,” Fabian said. “These new facilities will help us put on tournaments. Hosting tournaments will help us

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Fabian said it still isn’t enough, and most teams must charge dues. The amount varies based on the team’s

budget.

Fabian, who is also involved with the baseball team, said it charged its members $250 last year.

“Fund raising is also a huge source,” Fabian said. “All our teams fund raise.” john.terry@mail.wvu.edu

A guide to student ticketing for home football games by michael carvelli sports editor

For every home football game West Virginia University makes 12,500 student tickets available.

The majority of the seating is in the upper deck at Milan Puskar Stadium, and tickets are distributed through a loyalty and seniority-based process.

This is the eighth season tickets have been given out this way, and WVU Director of Sports Marketing Matt Wells said he feels the system is the best way for the school to handle giving out tickets to the students who want to attend games.

“If you look at the system, the fact that there’s a second chance for students to get a ticket, if they didn’t request one or didn’t one in the lottery, is great,” Wells said. “I can tell you, in the first seven years of this program, there’s never been a game where all the tickets were claimed in the initial claim phase.

“There’s always a chance for every student who wants to watch the game to get to go.”

To request a ticket, students should go to www.WVUgame. com. Once there, click on the “Student Tickets” tab before clicking “Get Tickets” and being sent to the student ticketing website.

When logging into the student ticketing site, students will use their MIX username.

The password will be the last six digits of their student ID number.

After that, students will be able to click “request ticket” on whatever game is highlighted in yellow.

If the game is not highlighted in yellow, students aren’t able to request a ticket for that game yet.

When requesting a ticket for the first time, students can only request one ticket.

For the first home game of the season against Marshall on Sunday, Sept. 4, students will be allowed to request their ticket starting Sunday, Aug. 28 at 12:01 a.m.

They will then have until 11:59 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 29 to claim their ticket.

Wells said students should try logging into the site prior to when they have to request tickets for the first time, so they can get comfortable with where they’re supposed to go.

“It’s important because it’s a new process for them,” Wells said. “It’ll help them learn how to log on. The key thing is that they make sure to request that ticket in the initial request phase.”

Students will get the choice to sit in the “lower level,” “upper level” or “Maniacs.”

All members of the Mountaineer Maniacs sit in the upper section of Milan Puskar Stadium, which is where most of the available student seating is located.

After students request their tickets, an email is sent to the student’s MIX account to confirm that the ticket has been requested.

If, after the request period has ended, there were more than 12,500 tickets requested, tickets will be distributed to students based on a loyalty-

based lottery.

Students are awarded their points for the lottery throughout the season based on seniority and loyalty points.

Before the season starts, all students will at least have one point.

Seniors and graduate students start with five points, juniors have three, sophomores have two and freshmen have one.

From there, for every game the student attends they will gain an additional point.

After the 2011-12 season is over, 20 percent of the points a student earned will be carried over to the next year.

Wells described the lottery system used as much like that of the NBA draft and said the lottery is usually used as many as four or five times per season.

He said if students want to make sure they have a ticket for the bigger home games like Pittsburgh on Nov. 25, they should make sure to attend the smaller games at the beginning of the year like Norfolk State.

“The more points you have, the more chance they’ll have to win a ticket,” Wells said. “It’s possible that someone who is

a freshman and just has one point can win a ticket, but the seniors with five points are more likely because they’ll have five chances to win one, whereas the freshman will just have the one.”

Once the request period is over, tickets will be distributed to the students and another email will be sent to the students’ MIX accounts telling them where to go to claim and print out the ticket.

Go back to www.WVUgame.com and sign in using the same username and password. This time, the students will click “claim ticket.”

Students will have two days to claim their ticket and any ticket that goes unclaimed will be taken away and given to students who didn’t get a ticket on a first-come, firstserved basis.

The ticket will be used by students to enter the games, along with their valid WVU Student ID. Students will enter Milan Puskar Stadium through the east side of the stadium.

Gates will open 90 minutes before kickoff, and since the seating is general admission there are no assigned seats.

ticketing timeline Sunday, Sept. 4 vs. Marshall Requests begin: 12:01 a.m. Aug. 28 Requests end: 11:59 p.m. Aug. 29 Claims begin: 3:01 a.m. Aug. 30 Claims end: 11:59 p.m. Aug. 31

Saturday, Sept. 10 vs. Norfolk St. Requests begin: 12:01 a.m. Sept. 4 Requests end: 11:59 p.m. Sept. 5 Claims begin: 3:01 a.m. Sept. 6 Claims end: 11:59 p.m. Sept. 7

Saturday, Sept. 24 vs. LSU Requests begin: 12:01 a.m. Sept. 18 Requests end: 11:59 p.m.Sept. 19 Claims begin: 3:01 a.m. Sept. 20 Claims end: 11:59 p.m. Sept. 21

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Saturday, Oct. 8 vs. Connecticut Requests begin: 12:01 a.m. Oct. 2 Requests end: 11:59 p.m. Oct. 3 Claims begin: 3:01 a.m. Oct. 4 Claims end: 11:59 p.m. Oct. 5

Saturday, Nov. 5 vs. Louisville Requests begin: 12:01 a.m. Oct. 30 Requests end: 11:59 p.m. Oct. 31 Claims begin: 3:01 a.m. Nov. 1 Claims end: 11:59 p.m. Nov. 2

Friday, Nov. 25 vs. Pittsburgh Requests begin: 12:01 a.m. Nov. 13 Requests end: 11:59 p.m. Nov. 14 Claims begin: 3:01 a.m. Nov. 15 Claims end: 11:59 p.m. Nov. 16

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When it comes to hanging out with friends in Morgantown, it can get expensive.

Going to see a movie can cost a lot of money if you do it every weekend, and even a restaurant like Applebee’s can be expensive when you’re a fulltime student without a source of income.

Thankfully, in our modern age of technology, there are plenty of ways to work around that.

When it comes to films, it will almost always be cheaper to stay in with a rental than head out to either theatre located in Morgantown.

Thanks to services like Redbox and Blockbuster’s rental kiosks, students will only have to spend a dollar a day to rent new releases on DVD. A Blockbuster store is also within walking distance for students on the Evansdale campus, allowing them a greater selection for the same price they would pay at a theatre.

Still, the best source of cheap entertainment is Netflix.

It has a variety of plans for students to access, be it the digital-only service for $7.99 a month or spending $19.99 a month, which gives users access to their digital services as well as having access to three DVDs that may not be offered digitally at that time.

The digital service is one of the great things to happen to home movie rental.

It allows students to watch their favorite movies and TV shows not only on their computer, but also on many

phones and gaming systems that are out right now.

Netflix can be used not only when hanging out with your friends, but also when you’re bored during that wait between classes.

Hulu Plus also allows television fans to access whole seasons of programs such as “The Office” or “Modern Family,” for a similar price, although this comes without the benefit of DVDs. The standard Hulu is also a great way to catch up on that episode of “Parks and Recreation” that you missed this week.

For those who would rather go out and have a lavish meal with their friends instead of stare at a screen for two hours, there is a cheaper equivalent to that as well – meal plan.

While it may not sound very interesting, a meal plan will allow students to enjoy the company of one another without having to spend any money at that moment.

Granted, you do have to spend money when you purchase a meal plan but, considering most dorms don’t have a proper kitchen and how expensive it will be to dine out night after night, it is a wise investment.

The various dining halls located around campus will easily allow friends to come together, especially if they happen to live in the same dormitory.

The Mountainlair’s dining options may be more open when it comes to seating, but it gives students plenty of opportunity to meet others in a non-threatening environment.

Plenty of friendships can start over a shared interest in Burger King.

Some out there may prefer to have a mutual love of video games be their foundation, there is a cheaper answer than buying a brand new $60 game for your Playstation 3.

Services such as Gamefly act similar to Netflix and, while it is more expensive, it works just as well for getting your videogame fix.

Redbox will also soon be offering video games as well for $2 a night, a much cheaper investment, especially for those games that could be either amazing or awful.

Finally, Blockbuster is still an option.

While it does offer typical rental prices, it also has a special deal allowing customers can sign up for where they can keep a game out for however long they want and exchange it for another when they are finished, all for a monthly fee.

Finally, there will always be the outdoors to take advantage of.

Regardless of the season, there is something for everyone to go out and do.

During the fall, the leaves become a lovely color, during the winter there will always be a hill that can be sled down and spring and summer allows for students to take advantage of all the parks located across town.

Even better, bring a bike with you. Not only will you get to see parts of Morgantown many students don’t know about, but you will get a work out while doing it.

So, for those who want to have a good time but don’t have the cash for it, don’t forget there is always a more frugal Plan B to take advantage of. jamie.carbone@mail.wvu.edu

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Located on Morgantown’s High Street, past Dollar Tree but before Pleasant Street, is Vintage Videos & Games, a used video game and movie store.

It is a place where students can shop for inexpensive forms of entertainment.

Vintage Videos & Games has been buying, selling and trading used games and movies for over 14 years.

The front window display is recognizable by its showcase of both retro and recent games and systems.

The inside is full of rows and rows of movie cases, and posters cover the back wall.

The front counter is devoted to older video games, from the Nintendo Entertainment System to the more recent Nintendo DS. Behind the counter sits the video game consoles themselves as well as a TV that shows old movies to entertain both employees and customers as they go about the store.

Newer, more popular movies, such as “Tron: Legacy” will be several dollars cheaper than you would find at Wal-Mart or Target.

Older, lesser known movies,

including VHS tapes, go for much less.

While movies are the store’s biggest seller, video games are a close second.

Vintage Video sells all kinds of entertainment systems, from newer ones like the Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360 to the Atari 2600 and ColecoVision.

“People collect a lot of retro systems,” said Kevin Riggleman, owner of the store, which opened in 1997.

They also have plenty of controllers for sale, from Dreamcast to Guitar Hero guitars on display for customers to browse.

Regardless of how obscure or unique a product may be, Vintage Video will buy it off your hands and put it on the shelves.

While the store offers everything from original Gameboy to the Sega Gensis, the Nintendo and the Super Nintendo sell the most cartridges.

“When the Wii puts something out for download, we get calls asking for the original,” Riggleman said.

Vintage Video refurbishes anything that they buy, from cleaning and testing cartridges to checking discs for scratches and resurfacing them if needed.

The store allows customers to try out a game in-store before they buy it to make sure it works.

“We guarantee everything we sell here for 30 days,”

said Andrew Mayer, who has worked at the store for years.

Another service the store offers is repairs, replacing parts in broken PS2’s and resurfacing scratched discs for a fee, depending on how bad the problem.

When a customer brings in a movie or game, they can either sell it or trade it in for store credit.

The store will buy anything if it is in decent condition, from old anime tapes to just released video games and put them back on the racks for other customers to enjoy.

Casey Nassif, a sophomore biology major at West Virginia Universtiy, frequents Vintage Videos & Games once a month to check out what is available.

“All the DVDs and video games I’ve bought there have been in good working condition,” Nassif, who describes himself as a “casual gamer,” said.

If Nassif can’t find a game he is looking for online, he said he will go to Vintage Videos to see if they have it instead of going to other used game stores in the area.

Vintage Videos and Games is open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and closed on the weekends, so video game fans should do their shopping during the week. jamie.carbone@mail.wvu.edu

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A dorm room, and sometimes an apartment, can never seem big enough. Squeezing two people, who most likely are meeting for the first time, can be a daunting task. Below are some tips to keep your dorm, apartment or house a fun place to live during college.

Utilize under-bed storage The key to a relaxing space is reducing the clutter. Under-bed storage is crucial in a dorm room because if not used, it is valuable space wasted. Do yourself a favor and go to a store to purchase under-bed plastic bins.

You can throw your winter clothes you won’t need for a few months and other things, such as backup bed sheets, in there.

It’ll cut down on a lot of “stuff”

being in the room.

Make it feel like home Your college apartment is essentially your home away from home. With that being said, make sure you treat it like your home, too.Be sure to decorate with pictures of friends and family. On your desk or by your bed are good places.

Don’t let the cheap plastic excuse for window shades suffice, go out and get some nice dark, thick fabric (or just some better quality shades) to make sure the pesky sun doesn’t wake you up earlier than you’d like in the mornings.

TV is pretty important I’ve heard people say they didn’t want a TV in their freshman dorm room. I think that’s the wrong way to go about things. A television can be the

center of social activity for the floor.

You’re guaranteed to make a bunch of new friends if your room becomes the hub of football weekends. Aside from making friends, falling asleep to SportsCenter or HGTV can be a relaxing way to end the night before another stressful day of classes begins.

Keep it clean Your parents are no longer there to tell you to clean your room, and you won’t ever have to make your bed again if you don’t want to. But, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep your room clean.

When you order pizza or Chi-

nese food, do yourself a favor and throw it away when you’re done. A clean room will make everything more relaxing. Potential friends don’t want to come into a room with old food boxes everywhere.

Laundry Hamper This one is a little bit detailed, but I think it’s the most crucial, both for roommate happiness and dorm room liveliness. Go buy a laundry hamper and keep your dirty clothes in it. Don’t have your dirty clothes hanging off your desk chair or bed. It’s disgusting and your roommate will not appreciate it.

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Everyone remembers his or her first Fall Fest.

Even if the headliner isn’t your favorite artist, a concert on the Mountainlair Green on the first day of classes is the perfect way to start the school year.

The energy of the concert is unlike any other local venue and introduces newcomers to what West Virginia University is all about.

Here’s a look at some of the best Fall Fest shows in the past, in case you missed them.

In 2002, Wyclef Jean took the Fall Fest stage. The Haitian hip-hop artist later came to be an influential producer who used pop culture to his advantage through political hits. That same year The New Rel-

ics, a local band, joined the stage.

That Fall Fest sums up what the firstday-of-school tradition is all about – bringing in big names to start off the school year just right, while at the same time sharing a piece of Morgantown with others.

That fusing of mainstream and local started everything.

2003 brought the Black Eyed Peas, 3 Doors Down and Default took the Fall Fest stage.

This show really helped shape the variety show that Fall Fest has always strived to offer. Bringing in mega pop icons like the Peas, and adding in some superstar alternative rockers developed that representation of each music genre.

This show paved the way for Fall Fest’s main goal: to bring in something for everyone.

One of the most talked about Fall Fest shows was in 2004.

Two words: Kanye West.

One of the greatest things about looking back on past Fall Fests is realizing that our University played host to some of the biggest names in the industry – before they were the biggest.

Looks like we know what we’re talking about when it comes to good entertainment.

The 2004 show brought in rap mogul West, in addition to rockers Fuel and Trapt. That show and the 2006 show featuring The Roots, Staind and Motion City Soundtrack, proved to be two of the best Fall Fest shows in history, according to former WVU students.

“My favorite show was probably when The Roots played. I remember they covered ‘Black Betty’ by Ram Jam. At the end,

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it was unbelievable,” said Dave Daniels, a 2008 history graduate. “Those shows were by far the best I’d seen.”

Daniels said no matter what the show is, Fall Fest always proves to be a good time.

“I think it’s a great tradition. The only unfortunate part was if you had a late class. I remember some of my friends having to miss parts of Fall Fest because it is on a school night,” he said. “But having it right on campus between buildings is great. The venue is the best.”

So whether you remember singing along with Dashboard Confessional in the rain or jamming to throwbacks by Third Eye Blind, Fall Fest is always memorable.

Hope this year’s experience is another great memory of WVU. mackenzie.mays@mail.wvu.edu

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WVUp All Night to add new features for students

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Mountaineer Idol is one of many special events that takes place at WVU’s WVUp All Night.’ Winner Amanda Hughart, center, poses with finalists Dan Whiteman and Chelsease Malone, hosts Molly Hott and Dave Slusarick and Mountaineer Brock Lesnar after being crowned the 2011 Mountaineer Idol.

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West Virginia University is known primarily for a few things: football, flammable furniture and a nightlife unlike any other school.

One event that has made the nightlife such a major part of the Morgantown area is WVUp All Night, an alternative to the bar and club scene available to WVU students.

The event got its start in 1998 thanks to Vice President for Student Affairs Ken Gray and members of Student Affairs.

Since then, the event has been prospering and growing

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at a substantial rate, reaching crowds of the upwards of 3,500 students, according to Sonja Wilson, Mountainlair Senior Programming Administrator.

“It’s been great to see all the students come out from behind the piles of homework and out of the dorm rooms to mingle with other students,” Wilson said, “and that’s exactly what this event is designed to do.”

With several elements incorporated into the event, Wilson hoped to attract all types of students to the Mountainlair.

“We took a long look at polls and trends of the past years and decided that our theme nights have made the most progress,” Wilson said.

Changing the plan from last year, instead of having a theme night once a month, every weekend will have a different theme.

“We’re going to aim for the events of that weekend, from comedy to the food to the decorations and everything in between, all to match the theme

of the weekend,” Wilson said.

Wilson is proud of how the event incorporates different student groups around WVU. For one of the biggest weekends Wilson said he is anticipating adds a new sports group that has just made Morgantown its home: roller derby.

In the spring semester of 2012, a ‘50s themed weekend will be incorporated into the events with roller derby.

“We’re really pulling for the ‘50s weekend to be a big success,” Wilson said. “We’re going as far as to bring in a roller rink where we will have roller disco, all night skating, and we will be showcasing the Roller Vixens.”

Another big event in WVUp All Night’s future is the performing arts weekend, where there will be a Morgantown twist of “Dancing with the Stars” held in the Mountainlair ballrooms.

“It’ll be just like the show you see on television, but instead of celebrities, we will be having members of our faculty

and staff dancing with students with dance experience,” Wilson said.

The voting will remain the same except for an added twist to help the causes of the American Red Cross. The Wednesday prior to the event, a blood drive will be held in the Mountainlair, and you can

donate your pint of blood to whichever dancing pair you would like. These will be added to the raw score of the dancers and help determine the winners.

WVUp All Night has been around for over a decade, providing an alternative to the nightlife scene Morgantown

has to offer. With only a student ID, students can gain access to all of the events and free food.

“It’s just a great way to help bring the students of West Virginia University closer together and help them get out and have some fun, too,” Wilson said. jakob.potts@mail.wvu.edu

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Amateur comic Bryan Trost took second place earlier this year as part of ‘Last Comic Standing’ held at WVUp All Night.

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CAC brings witches, ghosts and murder to the stage by mackenzie mays A&E editor

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Artwork by Carrie Grubb hangs in the art gallery at the Creative Arts Center on Monday.

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Fall Fest, football games and soccer games may take up the majority of your free time during the fall semester, but there’s something else to enjoy as well.

The Creative Arts Center, commonly referred to by students as the CAC, showcases nationally and internationally recognized artists who come in to present their artwork for students and other viewers to enjoy and discuss.

The Mesaros Galleries and the visiting artist program is a way for art students to experience and learn techniques and ideas from other artists.

“These artists (come in) to discuss contemporary ideas and artistic directions in their work,” said Robert Bridges, curator of the Art Museum at West Virginia University.

Others benefit from these visits by seeing how and what is being done today in the art world, providing students with fresh

inspiration to create some great pieces.

These events are free and open to the public and often are followed by a reception where food and beverages are available, which provides an opportunity to meet the artists and discuss any questions and/or comments about the pieces.

The following is the schedule for the visiting artists: - Nyame Brown – The John Henry Works: September 1 – October 6 in the Laura Mesaros Gallery - Thaddeus Mosely – Sculpture: September 1 – October 6 in the Paul Mesaros Gallery - Faculty Exhibition – Shoji Satake Ceramic Sculpture: October 13 – November 17 in the Paul Mesaros Gallery - Shared Journeys II – Ceramic Art: October 13 – November 19 in the Laura Mesaros Gallery - MFA Thesis Exhibition: November 28 – December 9in the Laura and Paul Mesaros Galleries.

- Contemporary Prints: January 19 – March 8, 2012, co-curated by Printmaking professor Joseph Lupo and Curator Robert Bridges in the Laura Mesaros Gallery - Prints from the Collection: January 19 – March 8, 2012, cocurated by Printmaking professor Joseph Lupo and Curator Robert Bridges in the Paul Mesaros Gallery - MFA Exhibition: March 11 – April 3, 2012 in the Laura and Paul Mesaros Galleries - Bachelor of Fine Art Senior Project Exhibition: April 14 – May 12, 2012 in the Laura and Paul Mesaros Galleries All lectures are held in the Bloch Hall of the CAC. Not all students can get their work on such a noticed wall however. “The body of work presented by each (student) candidate represents the highest level of achievement as they receive their Master of Fine Arts degree,” Bridges said. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

The West Virginia University Creative Arts Center has hosted a variety of events over the years, bringing in Broadway headliners from across the country while offering theatre students a chance to perform their own work at the same time.

This year, the CAC will focus on bringing an assortment of chilling thrillers for the Morgantown area to enjoy. From witches and ghosts to serial killers, every student thespian and drama enthusiast has something to see.

The first play of the year is something for horror-lovers.

“Down the Road” will show throughout the last week of September at the Gladys G. Davis Theatre inside the CAC. The play debuted in the late 80s and was written by famed playwright Lee Blessing.

The story takes an inside look at the mind of a serial killer. In the play, a murderer stuck behind bars contacts a team of journalists to help him publish a biography, but the gruesome details the murderer is ready to

share proves too much to take.

The New York Times compared the main character to real life serial killer Ted Bundy for his next-door neighbor demeanor and big screen character Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in “The Silence of the Lambs” for his chilling insensitivity.

In October, students will get to see the big screen brought to life with Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible.”

The tale chronicles the events that took place in Salem, Mass., during the 1600s, taking audiences on a mysterious fight against witchcraft.

Miller, creator of the famed “Death of a Salesman,” helped bring his legendary story to the big screen in the ‘90s starring Wynona Rider and Daniel Day Lewis.

The show begins Oct. 20 at the Metropolitan Theatre on High Street.

The spookiness continues in November with the showing of “Blithe Spirit.” The 1940s tale focuses on a fortune teller and a man haunted by his past – literally. His dead ex-wife is one of the story’s main characters.

The play begins Nov. 17 in

the Gladys G. Davis Theatre.

On a more serious note, the play “Buried Child” will bring a much bigger picture to the stage.

At the heart of the play is symbolism of the breakdown of the nuclear family and a dissection of American traditions and values.

The play is written by Sam Shepard, one of the most successful culture-themed playwrights, and revolves around a seemingly ordinary family’s dark and disturbing secret.

The show will debut Feb. 24 in the Gladys G. Davis Theatre.

A performance of “The Visit” will debut in April and portrays a battle of good and bad moral codes, forcing audience members to ask themselves what they would do in a similar complicated situation.

The play is filled with deeper, complex struggles masked in a simple, down-home kind of atmosphere.

For more information, visit www.theatre.wvu.edu.

All WVU students will receive discounted tickets at a price of $15. mackenzie.mays@mail.wvu.edu

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Gary’s Comics and More is the place for comic book fans by alec berry web editor

Comic book fans should take a chance and stroll down High Street.

Once they wander past the rowdy nightlife and bustling traffic, their eyes will become audience to something else – an economic system with personality and charm.

Small shops, a rarity in this modern era, populate the concrete sidewalks.

These are businesses with intention of service and aesthetics rather than the mathematical automation Walmart accustoms us to.

Restaurants with taste, boutiques with inspiration, and oddball establishments usually deemed unprofitable hinge their doors open. And, if you trot far enough, the sight of blue paint and a neon Batsignal should be noticable.

Such a calling card belongs to Gary’s Comics and More, a college town comic book store.

Opened in November of 2004, Gary’s Comics hit the ground running with strong public interest.

Gary Loring, owner, cites the excitement as a reaction to his need to genuinely serve the local comic enthusiasts.

As Loring suggests of other comic stores he’d seen, “They were not serving the public.”

In result, comic readers migrated to the new business.

Local residents and West Virginia University students have supported Loring’s business ever since.

The physical store takes pride in its appearance by way of its clean space and favorable lighting. Gary’s resembles

nothing of the expected comic book store experience.

Product is organized, plain and simple, and the business’ employees provide friendly interaction. Loring makes a point to emphasize a personality as well as a sense of care.

“An employee at Walmart probably doesn’t know much about what you want to buy,” Loring said. “I employ people who are knowledgeable about the product, as well as eager to talk.”

This strategy shapes Gary’s Comic into not just a place of purchase but also a hangout, or as Loring describes it, “a safe haven for nerds.”

The store seems to be the focal point of Morgantown’s comic scene.

Walk in on any given Wednesday, and you can expect to see people hanging out by the register.

In the background, some new release will buzz on the store’s television set, providing inspiration for conversation.

Organization also plays a big role in Gary’s success. The store makes a shopping experience easy with its attractive layout.

For Loring, it is a simple manner of keeping things “easy to find.”

“There’s already a confusion in comics – numerous titles, an extensive backlog of reading material – so organization is very helpful for interested people coming in off the street,” Loring said.

Gary’s Comics offers a specialized stock as well. Marvel and DC Comics populate the shelves like any other retailer, but just as easily you can find a volume of Dave Sim’s “Cerebus” or the latest issue

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These choices in stock show that Gary’s Comics holds concern for a variety of audiences

rather than a single, core group.

Comic books are comic books though, no matter the genre or subject matter they

present, so for Loring it all “It’s a good field, and comics comes back to a love for the do good things for people. I books. wanted to be a part of that.”

“I love what comic books alexander.berry@mail.wvu.edu do to people,” Loring said.

Upcoming comic book releases will entertain, surprise readers by alec berry web editor

Many comic books ship to stores each and every month.

While the weekly shopper may be in on scene, the average consumer may have no clue where to begin. Here are a few recommendations for what looks to be an exciting fall in comic books.

‘Holy Terror’ is a long awaited story from ‘Sin City’ creator Frank Miller.

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“Holy Terror” By: Frank Miller I should not have to recommend this, but here it goes.

“Holy Terror” marks Frank Miller’s return to comics after an extended absence. Miller is simply a legend of the medium. His works, “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns,” “Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again,” “Ronin” and his run on Marvel Comics’ “Daredevil,” exist as remarkable touchstones.

Miller holds status as an innovator as well as an influence. You cannot get any bigger than Frank Miller.

He originally conceived “Holy Terror” as a “Batman vs. al-Qaida” propaganda piece, but later decided against using the Dark Knight. As Miller described in 2010, the idea “was not a Batman story” after all.

“The hero (in Holy Terror)is much closer to ‘Dirty Harry’ than Batman,” Miller said.

He did keep the idea though and moved forward on “Holy Terror,” but he soon

created his own character to carry the piece: The Fixer.

While some may question the subjective nature of such a work, it’s not a first. Superman and Captain America have both seen time as propaganda pieces.

The Second World War almost made it mandatory that they send a swift impact to the face of Hitler.

If anything, “Holy Terror” plans to explore the notion of patriotism and help an artist cope with the events of September 11, 2001.

As Miller stated in 2006 at San Francisco’s WonderCon, “That’s one of the things they (superheroes) are there for.”

It just feels good to know a new Frank Miller comic is on the horizon.

“Holy Terror” hits comic stores on September 14. It runs 120 pages for the price of $29.99.

“Casanova: Avaritia #1” Writer: Matt Fraction Artist: Gabriel Ba This, ladies and gentlemen, is the long-awaited follow-up to one of the best comics of the last decade.

Matt Fraction, Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon’s “Casanova” sends my mind and spirit into overdrive.

One part spy fiction, another part pop celebration and another part complex, “Casanova” goes beyond a simple means of explanation.

On its surface, the comic follows the saga of a fledgling spy trying his best to keep his

chaotic family life in check.

A time terrorist known as Newman Xeno enjoys taunting Casanova Quinn, the young spy, and has since made a mess of Quinn’s life.

“Casanova” contains a mixed thematic palette, making it a comic worthy of multiple readings. It comments on the comics’ medium as much as it does other works of art, and it somehow brings many elements of reference together to create linear statements as well as aesthetic pleasures.

Honestly, I’m not entirely sure what “Casanova” is at its core. The only solid understanding of its subtext I possess is its personal connection to writer Matt Fraction.

In a recent interview with www.Newsarama.com, Fraction noted that “Casanova” stands as “all autobiographical.” Quinn acts as fictional analog for the very real writer, and what Fraction experiences, Quinn experiences.

“Casanova”, at least to me, functions as a man making sense of his life as well as chronicling it through pop culture and fiction.

“I think maybe any writer worth his salt reflects their perspective at the moment they write. Otherwise ... what are you saying?” says Fraction in the Newsarama interview.

Do not allow the potential complexity intimidate you, though. “Casanova” works perfectly well on its surface as a wonderfully paced and

sexy spy thriller. A larger cast of characters grab at your eye balls, and the illustrations by Gabrial Ba force you to whisper, “Wow.” “Casanova: Avaritia #1” hits comic stores September 7 for the price of $4.99.

“Butcher Baker, The Righteous Maker #7” Writer: Joe Casey Artist: Mike Huddleston This comic book equals the hottest pamphlet on the stands. Seriously.

With Butcher Baker, writer Joe Casey observes the life of a retired superhero who suddenly finds himself back in the game and screwed over by the forces he works for.

Casey writes the book to reflect a fast pace as well as an “in your face” tone. The surface story absorbs its audience with its aesthetic charm, while Baker’s subtext causes a reader’s mind to stare from multiple angles.

It is a comic book manifesto on what superhero comics should be, as much as it is a meta-textual romp designed to convey Casey’s own journey working in and creating comics. And, man, can Mike Huddleston draw and color and instill hope within you once more.

No need to find the first issue and start from scratch; jump in here and now, and just have fun.

“Butcher Baker, The Righteous Maker #7” hits comic stores September 28 for the price of $2.99.

“Action Comics #1” Writer: Grant Morrison Artist: Rags Morales Really quick – Grant Morrison and a fresh take on Superman. That is all you need to know.

This will be a great place to jump on as the inspirational writer takes the Man of Steel back to his social activist roots. Convinced that Superman appears too boring? Morrison’s Superman is sure to cure that thought.

“Action Comics #1” hits comic stores September 7 for the price of $3.99. alexander.berry@mail.wvu.edu

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U92 offers students chance to live broadcast dreams by alec berry web editor

U92-FM, West Virginia University’s student-run radio program, offers an educational advantage for students seeking experience in the broadcasting field.

“We prepare students for the work field,” U92’s program director, Alex Trafecante said. “We try to provide the most accurate portrayal of work after college.”

While the education may be a direct lesson in Radio 101, U92 functions on multiple levels. The role of the disc jockey matters. Most importantly U92 exists to play music, specifically alternative music, but also offer a mix of news, sports and public relations go into the whole of U92.

Trafecante said all positions “play into the same educational role” U92 performs.

While U92 is a radio station, the education aspect can transfer over to a broader broadcast field anyone, at least anyone interested in broadcasting, can benefit from.

“The beauty of it is that it is all a learning process,” Trafecante said. “No prior experience is needed. Anyone can come to U92 and, through time, walk out informed on the workings of a broadcast operation.”

“They can then carry this information onto actual jobs after college.”

The music cannot be forgotten, though. Founded in 1982, U92, the Moose originated as an alternative outlet for music, and it has offered those tired of mainstream pop a place to turn to.

The station became a playground for the outcasts, or more like a focal point for music culture.

“College radio and underground music are two halves of the same whole,” Trafecante said. “There has always been underground music, but not until the early 80s did it start getting the playtime it deserved.”

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Former DJ Sage Perrott talks during her radio show at U92.

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U92, the WVU radio station, is located in the Mountainlair and plays alternative music. playtime was on the airwaves of college stations, including U92, the Moose.”

This relationship between radio and artist has been a crucial one over the years.

College radio tends to be on the cutting edge, while commercial stations stick to the safe bets, and through such an attitude college radio usually spotlights artists early on in their careers, potentially contributing to their eventual success.

For example, U92 helped catapult artists such as the B-52s and Cypress Hill to popularity, and for such effort the station has gold records from the artists hanging on its walls.

U92 does not always receive the recognition they deserve, though. At least, that is the opinion of station DJ Stephen Hoops.

“I feel this radio station is much too underappreciated,” Hoops said. “People should pay it attention.”

“We’re a radio station that operates free of corporate control,” Hoops said.

“In this day and age, that is so rare.”

“We here have the power to truly play whatever we want. You’d think people would respect that freedom.”

The lack of attention could be connected to radio’s overall lack of attention. Radio tends to be brushed off by the public or labeled a dying medium.

Hoops disagrees with the death chants, though.

“I honestly don’t think radio is dying. While it might not be the most prominent form of media, the success of modern radio is measured through its ad sales,” Hoops said. “Businesses would not invest in radio advertisements if they felt it was a waste of money.”

“As long as people still have their own vehicles, radio will exist. If anything, internet radio is the future, in which case almost every commercial radio station has a live web stream.”

As for future concern, U92 looks ahead to Monday, August 22 when the station will host its annual live remote broadcast outside of the Mountainlair.

“The opening day remote is a huge tradition here at the station. We’ve done it ever year since we started in ‘82,” Trafecante said. “It’s not only an excuse for U92 to show its pride, but it’s an excuse to show how dedicated and proud the station is of its university.”

“We try to get the students amped for the upcoming school year as well as try to get people interested in the station.”

U92’s annual remote is always a big success, and Trafecante said he expects no different this year.

“College radio gives a voice to the voiceless,” Trafecante said. “People like that idea.” alexander.berry@mail.wvu.edu

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Corey Smith to rock CAC

by Mackenzie Mays A&E Editor

When country artist Corey Smith compares his work to the other mainstream country songs played on the radio, he thinks of the difference between homemade and store-bought biscuits.

“People are familiar with canned biscuits. There are a lot of cans of biscuits out there, all pretty consistent.

They’re perfectly shaped, soft, fluffy and ideal,” Smith said.

“Mine are made from scratch. Each is different and a little rough around the edges, but they come from the heart.”

Smith, who found recent success with his witty and sentimental hit “21,” will perform at the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center Aug. 27.

Though he hit the area last year as part of a Mountain Stage variety performance, he’s excited to fully experience Morgantown this time around.

“Morgantown is one of those places I’ve wanted to go to for years,” Smith said.

“The college demographic has always been a big part of what I’ve done. It’s hard to beat the energy of the young, idealistic, heavy-drinking college crowd. I have a feeling this show is going to have a lot of energy.”

His new album, “Broken Record,” continues to exhibit the intimate, relatable lyrics that made him famous.

But writing songs that seemingly everyone can relate to isn’t that easy, he said.

“It’s a hard process that involves a lot of self-reflection. But I find when I’m honest about a struggle that I’m facing and specific about it, it becomes a relatable song. It’s important not to get caught up in trying to write songs that people can relate to. I just write what I know,” Smith said. “We’re all not that different.”

The writing process is rewarding, though.

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Though this is his seventh album, Smith says he’s changed while staying true to himself, which is essentially the theme of “Broken Record.”

“In some ways it’s different, and in some ways it’s not. The album is largely about continuity versus change. Certain people can hear elements of it and think I’ve sold out and I’m too commercial and instrumental, and others can still recognize that organic, acoustic sound,” Smith said.

Smith’s goal for all listeners is to find that balance between old and new on his latest album.

“I hope they get a balanced look at where I am

and where I’ve been, and maybe a hint of where I’m heading,” he said. “It’s just me, trying to make something out of the world and trying to express myself along the way.”

The show will begin at 8:30 p.m. at the CAC. Student tickets are $17.

Smith hopes the show will be as much as an experience for audience members as it is for him on stage.

“Performing is a way I deal with problems. If I’m homesick or have personal concerns, for the two hours that I’m on stage I don’t have to worry about anything else,” he said. “I hope the crowd forgets about their troubles too and focuses on making memories, dancing and singing.” mackenzie.mays@mail.wvu.edu

Netflix: A smart investment for movie buffs in dorms jesse tabit a&e writer

The wonders of Netflix and the average college student.

Movies are awesome, plain and simple.

They have the power to influence our lives, entertain us, motivate us and even scare us at times.

If you like movies as much as I do, you already know this. And you also know how expensive they can be. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that 30 percent of my savings this summer has gone to theater tickets, DVDs and occasional Blockbuster visits.

Sad, I know.

How e ve r, t h i s nu m ber could have been much higher had I not signed up for the wonder that is Netflix.

“What is Netflix?” you ask.

You’ve seen trademark red envelopes lying around at friends’ houses, but you’ve never really thought anything of them/ Well, let me explain.

Watching movies has been a longtime hobby of mine, and Netflix lets me access thousands of movies instantly on my computer or via mail, depending on the availability of the film.

The company started its subscription service in 1999 and offered about 100,000 titles on DVD with more than 10 million subscribers by 2009.

The service with its wide variety of films has an equally impressive selection of television shows organized by genre.

The system allows customers to rate the films or programs via a star system, and it offers suggestions on other films or television shows they might enjoy.

The only flaw is a limited number of films are available on instant queue. A more recent burden is a jump in subscription price from

$9.99 per month to $16, because the company underestimated how many people wanted to receive DVDs by mail, a more expensive service than instantly streaming videos.

The full price of $16 will give you the option to watch movies online via the Netflix website and receive movies by snail mail.

Customers can also choose the instant streaming feature or receive movies by mail, separately, for $10 per month.

The best thing about Netflix? There are no late fees.

You decide when to watch the film that has been delivered to you. No hassle of traveling to the video store (which barely even exists anymore), waiting in line, paying $10 for two movies and having to return them in several days.

Netflix is excellent to have in the dorms or in your crowded college house. It’s a convenient system that offers personalized, fun entertainment right at your fingertips: something no movie-lover should go without.

And yeah OK, it may sound like I’m just trying to sell a product, and in a lot of ways I am.

However, convenience and afford ability mean a lot in college, and Netflix has both.

Go out and sign up already.

You get one month free, so what have you got to lose? jesse.tabit@mail.wvu.edu

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SUMMER MOVIE REWIND A look back at the best movies of the long, hot summer

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“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” It marked the end of an era to a famous series and was without a doubt the most popular movie this summer as millions flocked to the theater dressed as its characters.

The epic end to one of the most successful film franchises of all time, “Deathly Hallows: Part 2” is absolutely dazzling in every respect. Picking up where Part 1 left off last year, the final installment sees Harry and friends battling the evil Lord Voldemort in hopes of saving the world of wizardry.

Practically every frame is filled with gorgeous detail, and the action is equally impressive.

Furthermore, the movie is so full of heart it’s at times nearly beating off the screen. Bottom line is it’s perhaps the most emotionally involving blockbuster of the

summer and a terrific send-off for the students of Hogwarts we have known for the past decade.

Through the course of four different directors, fans have wanted to know how the end was going to take shape – this summer, they finally found out.

“Bridesmaids” Hilarious, over-the-top and full of heart, it’s almost impossible not to like “Bridesmaids.”

Kristen Wiig, star of “Saturday Night Live” and “MacGruber”, gives a breakout performance with this film, earning the title of the highest grossing R-rated female comedy of all time.

The top-notch female cast proves the girls can be just as raunchy as the guys when it comes to pre-wedding celebrations (I’m looking at you, “The Hangover”).

“Thor” This movie received a dazzling debut in May. Though some may think this superhero flick may just be a setup for next summer’s “The Avengers,” “Thor” offers plenty of

‘Mega Man’ delivers readers a good time in latest issue JAMIE CARBONE A&E WRITER

As video game franchises go, “Mega Man” is one that has been frequently tarnished in the past. From a ridiculously bad animated series to spin-offs that don’t properly capture the series’ original spirit, it was hard to take the blue bomber seriously.

Now, Archie Comics is doing some work to restore the series’ honor with their new monthly comic book, “Mega Man.” Written by Ian Flynn and drawn by Patrick Spaziante, both the longtime creative team on Archie’s “Sonic the Hedgehog” comic book, this new series works hard to tell a compelling story using the game’s long history.

The first arc, “Let the Games Begin,” focuses on the creation of eight robots by the brilliant Dr. Thomas Light with some help from his jaded assistant Dr. Albert Wily.

The robots are Rock, Roll and the six robot masters, each of which were designed to do a job to make mankind’s lives easier and given names such as Elec Man and Cut Man. On the day of Dr. Light’s big unveiling of his new creations, things take a turn for the worst as Dr. Wily reprograms each robot master to do his evil bidding and ruin Dr. Light’s name.

Although built to be a simple lab assistant, Rock decides to help his maker by becoming Mega Man, humanity’s best bet to survive this attack. Along the way, Rock must deal with becoming a weapon of war, fighting his former friends and deciding if this is the life for him.

It is surprisingly deep for a comic based on a children’s video game.

The best part of this entire series is Spaziante’s art, which captures each character perfectly. It is definitely a credit to any artist who can take bulky, nose-less robots and make them fully-fleshed out characters.

Flynn’s story also captures the spirit of Mega Man very well,

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The latest issue of the ‘Mega Man’ comic series wraps up the story based on the first video game. especially with his portrayal as being unwilling to hurt his robotic brothers. It appears that he isn’t giving the robot masters as much screen time as they deserve, but by the look of things after the first arc’s end, they’ll be playing supporting roles in the issues to come.

Still, the first game should be represented by more than four issues, and while the second arc will be focusing on the remake “Mega Man Powered Up,” it looks like it will focus on the robot masters Oil Man and Time Man and less on the game’s story.

When I had first heard this comic was coming from Archie comics, I’ll admit I was hesitant, but so far, the final product has been Mega Man’s best representation in years. As a fan, I can only hope they will continue to pump out stories fans can enjoy.

While that means I’ll have to cancel my blood feud with Jughead, as long as I still get to read stories about my favorite Capcom franchise, I have no reason to be angry.

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action spectacle and good performances.

Thor, arrogant and careless, is stripped of his powers and banished to earth in hopes of learning humility. While it is entertaining to see the god interact with humans, the movie’s best scenes take place in the luscious and beautiful realm of Asgard.

Chris Hemsworth owns the lead role, and the film has all of the ingredients to make for an exciting summer movie.

“Friends with Benefits” This movie was the most watched romantic comedy this summer.

While it was very similar to spring’s “No Strings Attached,” the summer movie provided additional storylines and a better chick flick conclusion.

Lead actor Justin Timberlake provided unparalleled humor to accompany the sexy Mila Kunis who added some flare.

“Super 8” Special effects are nothing without a compelling story and interesting characters. Good thing “Super 8” has it all.

Mike Tyson made a cameo appearance in both movies. This time, instead of a tiger, there was a tiny monkey. A crazy night in Las Vegas turns out to be very similar to a crazy night in Bangkok, but it was still one of the best comedies of the summer.

“X-men: First Class” Reviving the soggy “X-men” franchise, “First Class,” is stylish and fresh. Though it is a prequel to the first “X-men” film, director Matthew Vaughn (“Kick-Ass”) and crew bring an energetic, fun presence to the screen that will make fans want to watch the whole series again.

Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy lead an all-star cast of mutants with explosive (pun intended) powers ready to take down bad guy Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) and become socially acceptable among the humans. It’s fun to see all of the young mutants acquire control over their powers.

Throw in a brisk pace, inventive effects and an interesting storyline, and you have an ex-

J. J. Abrams, director of the fantastic “Star Trek” reboot (2009), gives his homage to Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi films “E.T.” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” with “Super 8,” yet the monster movie has a uniqueness all its own.

In the summer of 1979, a group of friends who are making a film witness a train derail in their hometown. In the wake of this accident, the friends search for answers as strange occurrences happen all over the town, and a mysterious being lingers in the dark.

The film features superb special effects and phenomenal performances from its young cast who tell a tale with a surprising amount of emotional depth. I wouldn’t hesitate to call it the best movie of the summer. Well done, Mr. Abrams.

“The Hangover Part II” It wasn’t nearly as good as the original, but it’s still worth seeing. The joke theme was similar, but with an extra dose of crude humor.

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“Horrible Bosses” This film was one of the more non-traditional comedies of the summer.

A balance of sex and humor fueled the movie into a nonstop knee-slapper.

Actress Jennifer Aniston, wearing just a skimpy robe to turn on her dentistry patients, and the three middle-aged employees attempting to kill their bosses makes the film less than realistic, but the laughs never stop.

“Bad Teacher” Cameron Diaz is any student’s dream teacher. The alcohol drinking (during class), weed smoking and sometimessnoring character makes for a believable “bad teacher.” But then, Diaz is motivated by a cash award to get her students to succeed academically.

This is a perfect movie for the first week of school. But, keep dreaming – you won’t find any teachers like that here. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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‘Crazy Stupid Love’ full of crazy awesome romantic twists JAMIE CARBONE A&E WRITER

When it comes to taking a date to the movies, it can be a challenge to find a movie to entertain both men and women.

Yet Steve Carell’s latest film, “Crazy, Stupid, Love.” has combined two different storylines, one for men and the other for women, which make a solid film anyone can enjoy.

The movie starts off with a dinner between long-time married couple Cal (Carell) and Emily Weaver (Julianne Moore) where Emily announces she wants to get a divorce.

Cal, broken by the revelation, is shattered even more

by Emily’s announcement that she had an affair with her co-worker David Lindhagen (Kevin Bacon), and Cal leaves that night to drink his pain away.

At the bar he meets ladies

man Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling), who teaches him how to talk to women after years of being rusty.

Jacob, however, seems to want more from life and, after meeting Hannah (Emma Stone) at a bar, may have found the woman of his dreams.

While the movie focuses on the characters played by Carell and Gosling, there are numerous subplots featured, such as Cal and Emily’s son being in love with his babysitter, and a friend of the Weavers having to choose between Cal or Emily as friends and the regrets that may come with that decision.

As a whole, the movie feels very much like an ensemble piece, with each named character playing his or her role so perfectly that if someone else had been cast in the part, the movie wouldn’t be the same.

Special credit goes towards Oscar winning actress Marisa Tomei for her small but memorable role as the first girl Cal tries to pick up at the bar. Later, she is involved in one of the

Steve Carell and Julianne Moore star ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love.’ most awkward yet entertaining moments in recent film history.

Kevin Bacon also does a solid job as Lindhagen, a homewrecker who was clearly

interested in more than just sex from Moore’s character. He is the closest thing the film has to a bad guy, yet his is still relatable to the audience.

While Gosling does a good

audience a good idea of what kind of man the character is, but it is less enjoyable without the scene of self-struggle.

For a romantic comedy, the film features a large amount of comedic twists, from parents misunderstanding a situation to people actually following through on their ridiculous claims. This is what the film is based on, and it really works.

The biggest problem with the film is that Carrel seems to have played this role many times before. After leaving “The Office” earlier this year, I had hoped his next big project would be something exciting and new, and, while the end result isn’t bad, it doesn’t fulfill his potential.

It is nice when film studios WARNER BROTHERS make a film that both genders can enjoy, and, while it doesn’t take any risks, “Crazy, Stupid, job in the film, it seems that his Love.” is still worthy of date character never goes through night. a moment of character growth through internal conflict; one second he is a man-whore, and the next he isn’t. It gives the jamie.carbone@mail.wvu.edu

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Top 5 iPhone apps all students must have jake potts associate a&e editor

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An example of the artwork produced locally at The Wow! Factory.

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From pottery to glass fusing, The Wow! Factory is the place to go if you’re looking for a little “you” time.

Located at 3453 University Ave. in Star City this place is

easy to get to and fun to go back to!

As you design your own pottery piece, you can choose what design and colors will be used, and in one week from your visit you can go pick it up glazed and ready to take home.

It’s a great way to relieve some stress and chill out, especially from classes where studying and homework can get the best of you.

Jewelry, vases, decorative bowls and cups are just some examples of what customers can make.

They will bring out the artist in you, and they make great gifts, especially from students who are on a budget.

The possibilities are endless.

According to their website prices are all-inclusive,

which includes your choice of piece, color and decorative tools starting from $5. It’s also a great spot for a group to get together, as they offer private party rooms.

They’re open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. They are closed Mondays.

For any additional information The Wow! Factory can be reached at 304-599-2WOW. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

In today’s world, it’s very common to come across an entire group of students equipped with iPhones or smart phones of another type.

The applications these phones are capable of running grow every day and can help us in life in numerous ways.

As a West Virginia University student, there are five particular applications that excel beyond the rest when it comes to day-to-day survival.

1. iWVU Created by Mountaineer alumnus, Jared Crawford, the iWVU application contains all the tools one could need when it comes to navigating the busy city of Morgantown and for staying on top of the events taking place around town.

With interactive maps, PRT status updates, a live WVU Twitter feed and much more, this application suits any Mountaineer’s smart phone.

And, for the price of nothing, it’s a steal.

2. Dictionary!

There’s nothing more embarrassing than being in the middle of a conversation and being stumped by a word you just don’t comprehend. From classroom situations to that first date with a special someone, if the other party whips out some vocabulary that leaves you in the dust, it’s smart to have some back up.

The Dictionary! application is a straightforward tool to help you in situations where you may not understand a word. From homework assignments to conversations, it’s nice to have the comfort of knowing that if you don’t understand a word, your phone will understand it for you.

3. Chegg Buying textbooks sucks.

They’re expensive, heavy to carry around and, let’s be honest, normally don’t leave our shelves.

If you are still committed to purchasing the books you need for class, it’s smart to know your options. Chegg compares their rental prices to the prices of local book stores by entering the title, author or scanning the code with iOS 4+.

Late fees won’t be a problem with reminders from the Chegg staff, and it even helps you return them by telling you the nearest UPS location.

4. myHomework Tired of spending countless hours penning your assignments and due dates into a tiny planner you may wind up losing anyway? You are on your phone all the time anyway, so you might as well take advantage of it.

The app helps students stay ahead of their assignments by filling in the homework and tests in advance and providing notifications to keep everything on track.

5. YPmobile At one time or another, you and your friends will get in an argument about a phone number to a restaurant or taxi service. Win the argument by having Yellow Pages handy with this app.

By simply entering the name of the company or business, local listings appear based on your location. It comes in handy when you’re on-the-go and need a phone number quickly.

With today’s technology moving faster than we are, it’s nice to stay ahead of the game. And, in a city like Morgantown, staying ahead of the game is the key to success.

With this list of applications, staying on top of things will become a lot easier.

Plus, since all of the apps listed above are free, there’s no reason to not help yourself by downloading them in the App Store today. jakob.potts@mail.wvu.edu

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Two ‘Snow Whites’ set to debut in three-month period LOS ANGELES (AP) — Moviegoers may want to take two bites of the same apple next year: A pair of live-action adventure flicks based on Snow White will come out in theaters just months apart.

As it stands, the first, stillunnamed Snow White movie is scheduled for release March 16. That gives moviegoers two and a half months before “Snow White and the Huntsman” on June 1.

Executives are confident that both projects can succeed, given their differences in stars, tone and plot.

However bizarre the coincidence is, history shows that two similar projects like these can both attract large audiences.

In May 1998, viewers turned out for “Deep Impact,” a movie about a comet threatening Earth. They showed up again that July when an asteroid did the same in “Armageddon.” ‘’Deep Impact” sold $349 million in tickets worldwide, and “Armageddon” followed with $555 million.

Audiences didn’t duck for cover either when “Dante’s Peak” blew in February 1997 only to have “Volcano” erupt that April. The first made $169 million and the other $120 million at the box office.

The latest standoff pits a couple of “frenemy” studios against each other — newbie studio Relativity Media and its longtime distribution partner, Universal Pictures.

Since 2005, Relativity had provided financial backing for most of Universal’s new movies in a deal that was to last through 2015. But Relativity

has been eager to make money from distributing as well, as it did with the March 8 release of “Limitless,” which has sold more than $150 million in tickets worldwide.

So in June, Relativity passed its co-financing deal with Universal to Relativity’s financial backer, Elliott Management.

That paved the way for the two studios to compete head to head — Relativity with the unnamed movie and Universal with “Huntsman.”

“Everybody kind of goes into this eyes wide open,” said Tucker Tooley, Relativity’s president of worldwide production.

“It’s the nature of competition.

It’s the nature of this business.”

Universal executives declined to comment.

Executives argue that the two Snow White movies are spaced far enough apart so that advertising one won’t inadvertently drive people to the other.

Most movies make 95 percent of their sales in the first four weeks. On average, people in North America see four movies a year. There’s plenty of time to get refreshed and go out again.

“Ten weeks in the movie business is a lifetime,” said “Huntsman” producer Joe Roth.

He should know. Roth was head of Disney’s studios when its “Armageddon” opened second but still sold $200 million more in tickets worldwide than “Deep Impact.”

The casts of both Snow Whites are also distinct enough to merit a return trip to the theater.

In Relativity’s version, billed

as a family comedy, Julia Roberts is in for an intriguing role reversal as the former “Pretty Woman” plays the Evil Queen.

“She’s a very fun and evil and wicked Evil Queen,” said producer Bernie Goldmann, who also produced “300.” Nathan Lane is set to add a humorous touch as a bumbling Huntsman.

In Universal’s epic action adventure, Kristen Stewart of “Twilight” fame gets “Karate Kid”-like fight training from buff Chris Hemsworth of “Thor.” Hemsworth plays the mercenary Huntsman, who disobeys orders to kill her. The action-packed movie also involves a love triangle with Prince Charmant, played by Sam Claflin.

“At its heart, it becomes a girl’s empowerment movie,” Roth said.

Timing and casting aside, Snow White is a tale that has been told many times with many different plot twists.

These versions follow that tradition.

In an early Italian retelling, the good guy we know from Disney’s 1937 animated classic as Prince Charming rapes Snow White while she’s sleeping, according to Tina Boyer, a professor of German at Wake Forest University. She awakes not to a kiss, but to her baby being born. Another tale has Snow White fleeing her father, not her wicked stepmother, because he’d like to make her his incestuous wife.

Relativity’s movie has Snow White teaming up with the seven dwarves to fight the Evil Queen. In Universal’s, she

teams up with the Huntsman to fight back.

Reading the 20-plus different versions is partly what inspired Melisa Wallack to write her own take in the script that Relativity later bought, said Goldmann, Wallack’s husband.

“It enabled us to understand that there was a lot of freedom in expanding the story,” he said.

Evan Daugherty had written the other Snow White script while he was a film student at New York University many years ago. He also takes many liberties with the plot. Universal, now owned by Comcast Corp., bought it following a bidding war.

It helped that “Alice in Wonderland” sold $1 billion at the box office last year and revived interest in classic stories that feature young girls and have fallen out of copyright protection.

Even if producers of both projects saw success and jumped on the bandwagon, there aren’t enough complex roles for young women these days anyway, said Marjorie Rosen, a professor of film and journalism at Lehman College.

Having characters as rich as Snow White and the Evil Queen on screen is a blessing, Rosen said, even if there are going to be two versions of them.

She said pent-up demand for strong female leads has led to the success of a slew of recent bride movies, from “27 Dresses” and “Bride Wars” to the recent “Bridesmaids.”

“Women were lining up for the first week or two because they were desperate for mov-

AP Kristen Stewart will be part of the pair of live-action adventure flicks based on Snow White that will come out in theaters just months apart. ies about them,” Rosen said.

“Maybe (the studios) are hoping that Snow White is kind of like that but better.”

And if there’s two, why not a third? Word has it that Disney has been working on a liveaction remake of its animated classic for the past decade. In that one, Snow White ends up in a forest with seven Shaolin monks.

At its core, each iteration is

about a dysfunctional family, something that touches everyone at some level. That may be why the story is still relevant today.

“They can take the basic themes if they want to and go with it because that’s what fairytales and folklore are all about,” said Wake Forest’s Boyer. “They have to be reinvented. That’s how they stay alive.”

Mandela opera heads to South Africa Drawing stolen from California hotel JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A sexy dose of jazz and the refined strains of Western opera and traditional Xhosa song drive a new opera about South Africa’s former president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela.

The range of musical styles in “Mandela Trilogy” reflects South Africa’s mix of cultures, the production’s writer and director Michael Williams said in an interview before a dress rehearsal on Friday.

After preliminary runs in the eastern coastal city of Durban and the heartland town of Bloemfontein, the Cape Town Opera’s production comes to South Africa’s economic and entertainment hub Saturday.

The sweeping action of “Trilogy” moves from Mandela’s boyhood village in southeastern South Africa to the Johannesburg townships where he became a political leader and then to the prisons where he spent 27 years. Mandela is shown cheating on his wife, making political missteps and struggling with the burden of holding others’ lives in his hands.

“Mandela Trilogy” ends triumphantly, with Mandela’s 1990 release and stirring speech to a crowd in Cape Town.

The scenes in the village allow the singers to showcase the hymn-like power of African choral music. As the setting moves to Johannesburg, it’s clear that African jazz easily crossed the boundaries apartheid tried to draw between black and white, African and European. The classical sections, said Philisa Sibeko who sings the role of Mandela’s second wife, Winnie MadikizelaMandela, draw on opera’s storytelling strengths.

“It’s visual, it’s audible, and it’s got all these emotions involved,” said Sibeko, who grew up in a Cape Town household led by her great grandmother, who conducted African choirs.

South Africans have made opera their own. Sibeko is the second singer to take the stage as Madikizela-Mandela this year. In April, another creative team brought “Winnie the Opera” to South Africa’s national theater in Pretoria, the capital.

A South African “Carmen” opened in New York in 2004 and a film version won an award at the Berlin Film festival the next year. A South African “Magic Flute” played London’s West End in 2008.

“There is in South Africa this incredible singing tradition,” Williams said. “We have wonderful choirs here. And opera is the next step.”

A 40-piece orchestra of Western instruments backs the singers of “Mandela Trilogy.” The music is punctuated by the clashing of the fighting sticks of the Xhosa village characters, the clanging of metal cups against prison bars, and

the tapping feet of dancers performing the pantsula jazz style.

The opening scene shows Mandela in prison, but not acting like a prisoner. He meets his jailers as their equal: “May I remind you, we are not criminals, but political prisoners, jailed for our belief in a free South Africa,” he says.

In preparing to take on Mandela as an operatic figure, Williams studied biographies and delved into the official archives at the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The set is decorated with reproductions of calendars and photographs Mandela had in prison and that now are housed at his foundation. Most in the audience won’t be able to see such details, but they show the artistic team’s determination to create a realistic atmosphere. Sets use archival footage of anti-apartheid protests and a photograph of Mandela’s Robben Island prison cell projected on screens.

Williams also read histories of Johannesburg’s townships, discovering an obsession urban South African criminals in the 1950s developed for the 1948 Hollywood gangster movie “The Street with No Name.” Scenes from the movie play silently in the background during the jazz segments.

Some lyrics are taken from Mandela’s speeches and other writings. The result can sometimes seem stilted, but the words often flow poetically, as in the final scene, when Mandela and chorus sing: “We must not allow fear to stand in our way.”

Gloria Bosman dons a red crushed velvet dress to deliver a compelling performance as

the South African jazz age star Dolly Radebe — once Mandela’s mistress.

“It’s information that’s documented. It’s not gossip,” she said. She added she did not believe Mandela should be seen as a god, because that might discourage others from trying to make the right choices in life despite their frailties.

Three singers portray the anti-apartheid icon as a village boy, a young revolutionary in the city, and a prisoner who is to become president.

Aubrey Lodewyk, who plays the eldest of the three Mandelas, said ordinary people can draw an important lesson from Mandela’s life.

“He was a human being, he had his faults,” Lodewyk said.

“But yet he came out as great a man as he is.”

“Mandela Trilogy” runs from Aug. 13-19 in Johannesburg.

Performances are scheduled next year in Britain and Norway.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 17th century drawing by Rembrandt was snatched from a private art display at a California luxury hotel while a curator was momentarily distracted, officials said Monday.

The theft of the $250,000 sketch from the lobby of the RitzCarlton Hotel in the upmarket seaside community of Marina del Rey happened around 10:30 p.m. Saturday night while someone who seemed interested in buying another piece held the curator’s attention for a few minutes.

“When the curator turned back to the Rembrandt, it was gone,” Los Angeles County sheriff ’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said. It was not clear whether the person talking to the curator was connected to the theft, though Whitmore said a team of at least two people was involved.

The sketch, called “The

Judgment,” was completed around 1655 and is signed on the back by the Dutch master.

Rembrandt von Rijn is widely regarded as one of the finest painters in European art history and his worldwide name recognition has made his work a common target for thieves.

“Rembrandt is a name that criminals know or should know,” said Chris Marinello, executive director of the London-based Art Loss Register, an international database of stolen artworks. “When they come across one, they see dollar signs.”

Marinello said the theft was likely a crime of opportunity and not an operation carried

at the command of a mysterious criminal with a private art collection, as is often depicted in movies.

“Hollywood would love us to believe there are paintings being ordered stolen,” he said.

“We have yet to find that.”

Artworks tend to surface either very quickly after they are stolen or else disappear into the underworld where they are traded between criminals at a fraction of their value for drugs and other illicit materials, Marinello said.

The sketch was being displayed on an easel or wooden stand and was apparently not fastened down in any way, Whitmore said.

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Muppets, penguins, vampires lead fall film lineup LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brad Pitt reinvents baseball, while Kristen Stewart acquires a taste for blood. George Clooney runs for president, while Meryl Streep impersonates Margaret Thatcher. Leonardo DiCaprio puts America under surveillance, while Robert Downey Jr. faces a criminal mastermind.

Variety abounds in Hollywood’s fall and holiday seasons as studios pack the schedule with Oscar hopefuls, action flicks, comedy and musicthemed tales, as well as a family lineup that brings the return of the Muppets, dancing penguins, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Puss in Boots.

Downey’s back in “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” as the great detective and his ally Watson (Jude Law) meet archenemy Professor Moriarty. Clooney directs and stars as a White House aspirant in “The Ides of March,” with Ryan Gosling as an aide who stumbles onto disturbing campaign secrets. Stewart reunites with vampire lover Robert Pattinson and werewolf pal Taylor Lautner in “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1,” the next-to-last chapter in their supernatural saga.

Split into two movies, the final book in Stephenie Meyer’s series holds major life changes for Stewart’s Bella, which we won’t divulge here for sake of the handful of fans who haven’t read it. For those who have, director Bill Condon says the cliffhanger that concludes part one is a no-brainer.

“The clue lies in the book,” Condon said. “I would say that if you know the book well, I think you’ll have a good sense of where the first movie will end.”

The season also brings two films directed by Steven Spielberg, the globe-trotting story “The Adventures of Tintin” and the World War I saga “War Horse”; Martin Scorsese’s 3-D family film “Hugo,” about an orphan boy who lives in the walls of a Paris train station; “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” with Tom Cruise’s elite team going rogue after an attack on the Kremlin; the comedy “Jack and Jill,” with Adam Sandler in dual roles as a family guy and his

pesky sister; and “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” an adaptation of the Swedish best-seller starring Daniel Craig as a journalist aided on an investigation by a deeply troubled computer genius (Rooney Mara).

Real people provide intriguing stories as Streep seeks to add to her record 16 Oscar acting nominations, playing the British prime minister in “The Iron Lady”; Pitt takes over the Oakland A’s front office as pioneering baseball strategist Billy Beane in “Moneyball”; and DiCaprio takes on the sweeping life of FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover in “J. Edgar,” directed by Clint Eastwood.

The film spans decades, covering the bureau’s successes taking down gangsters in the 1930s, Hoover’s paranoia about communists and civil-rights leaders, and questions about his sexual preferences.

“He was surrounded in mystery. I’d always heard a lot about rumors of his sexuality, the cross-dressing, but more than that, the man had absolute power when it came to forming the bureau of investigation and its influence over the government,” DiCaprio said. “He was pretty much a historical figure that wasn’t to be messed with.”

In “Moneyball,” Pitt’s Beane takes over the A’s and builds one of baseball’s most cost-effective teams through “sabermetrics,” a statistical analysis that broke with conventional Major League scouting by identifying undervalued players.

“It’s tough, tough material in a sense of how do you make a dramatic film out of sabermetrics? But there is a story of going up against a system,” Pitt said.

“If we hadn’t been doing it this way for so long, is this the way we’d begin if we were starting today? Like our use of oil. You could ask the same question if the automobile was being invented today. Would we really be going oil?”

Hollywood is giving a fresh start to familiar titles and characters. Among them: the animated sequel “Happy Feet Two,” with Elijah Wood’s tapdancing penguin coping with fatherhood issues; “Puss in Boots,” an animated “Shrek”

In this image released by Disney, Jason Sege and Amy Adams are shown with muppet characters Walter, Kermit and Fozzie Bear in a scene from the film, ‘The Muppets.’ spinoff chronicling the early adventures of Antonio Banderas’ gutsy cat; “The Muppets,” the first big-screen outing in more than a decade for the beloved puppet gang; “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked!”, with the talking rodents stranded on a remote island; “The Thing,” a prequel to the 1982 horror tale about Antarctic researchers terrorized by an organism that replicates human forms; and “Footloose,” with newcomer Kenny Wormald as a youth rebelling against a town’s ban on dancing.

“Footloose” director Craig Brewer was 13 when he saw the 1984 original. It was a seminal movie for Brewer, whose credits include the acclaimed “Hustle & Flow,” and it bothered him when the remake was announced and people asked, “why would you want to do some tripe like ‘Footloose’?”

“Are you kidding? ‘Footloose’ rocked my world. It really rocked my world,” Brewer said. “I made it for a new generation, but I’m a filmmaker because of ‘Footloose.’ I think I’m

actually a better man because of ‘Footloose.’”

Peter Jackson shares similar childhood fondness for “Tintin,” on which “The Lord of the Rings” filmmaker is a producer.

New Zealander Jackson said that Belgian writer Herge’s stories of intrepid young reporter Tintin are as popular there as they are in Europe.

But like most Americans, Spielberg never heard of Tintin until he was in his 30s, only discovering Herge’s storybooks after French critics compared the character to Indiana Jones when 1981’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark” came out.

“Indiana Jones is a chiseled character and I guess has a different kind of tenacity,” said Spielberg, whose film stars Jamie Bell in a performance-capture role as Tintin, with computer animation providing the final look of the characters.

“Tintin is much more of a Boy Scout. He’s a reporter, but he begins by reporting a story that is always about a mystery that needs to be solved or a puzzle that needs solving, and he winds up becoming the story.

You’re not supposed to do that, I think, in journalism. You’re not supposed to become the story.”

Spielberg also directs the live action “War Horse,” which follows the travels of a horse that journeys from rural England through the battlefields of Europe during World War I. Other films for the fall and holidays include “Tower Heist,” with Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy orchestrating a revenge raid on a swindling tycoon; “Arthur Christmas,” an animated adventure about a youth (voiced

by James McAvoy) who delves into Santa’s high-tech operation; “Real Steel,” starring Hugh Jackman as an ex-fighter training a robot boxer in a world where machines have taken over in the ring; “In Time,” featuring Justin Timberlake on the run in a future where people scramble for time allotments to stay alive; “Immortals,” with Henry Cavill and Freida Pinto in a clash of ancient Greek gods and heroes; and “The Big Year,” casting Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson as rivals in a bird-watching competition.

Also, “Dream House,” star-

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ring Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz as a couple whose new home holds terrible secrets; “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” with Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock in a drama about a boy convinced that his father left a final message before his death in the Sept. 11 attacks; “New Year’s Eve,” an ensemble tale set on the last night of the year that features Halle Berry, Robert De Niro, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Biel and Hilary Swank; “The Sitter,” with Jonah Hill as the world’s worst babysitter; “Young Adult,” starring Charlize Theron as a writer reconnecting with hometown classmates; and “Contagion,” tracing a deadly virus as it sweeps around the globe.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh, “Contagion” has an allstar ensemble led by Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, Marion Cotillard and Jude Law. Shunning Hollywood conventions, Soderbergh aimed for a fact-based thriller that would authentically capture how authorities and the general public might respond to a viral threat.

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Safety questions loom over Indiana stage collapse INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Nathan Byrd was known as a daredevil, a wiry stagehand who would take on jobs no one else wanted.

But one thing scared him: The quality of the canvas roof covering the stage at the Indiana State Fair.

“He said it scared the crap out of him all the time,” said Randy Byrd, his older brother.

Byrd was working 20 feet above the stage Saturday night when a wind gust estimated at 60 to 70 mph toppled the roof and the metal scaffolding holding lights and other equipment. The stage collapsed onto a crowd of concert-goers awaiting a show by the country group Sugarland.

Byrd and four others were killed. Twenty-five people remained hospitalized Monday.

As the fair reopened Monday, investigators and the families of the dead and injured were still seeking answers to hard questions: Was the structure safe?

Why were the thousands of fans not evacuated? Could anything have been done to prevent the tragedy?

State fair officials have not said whether the stage and rigging were inspected prior to Saturday’s show. Fair spokesman Andy Klotz said initially that the state fire marshal’s office was responsible for inspections, but he backtracked Monday, saying he wasn’t sure whose job it is.

A spokesman for the Indiana Department of Homeland Security said neither the fire marshal nor Homeland Security officials conduct inspections. And the city does not have the authority to inspect items on state property.

“We do have our own requirements within the city for temporary structures, and we do have our own permitting requirements,” said Kate Johnson, spokeswoman for the Indianapolis Department of Code Enforcement. “But in this situation, we don’t have that authority because it’s state-owned property.”

As they investigate, inspectors for the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration will be looking at

the weather and any potential structural or design flaws in the stage, among other things, experts said.

Another emerging issue is whether fair organizers responded quickly enough to forecasts of an approaching storm, especially since a different concert nearby was canceled because of the weather.

Just 15 miles north in the suburb of Fishers, about 6,700 people attending a performance by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra were evacuated Saturday from the Conner Prairie Amphitheater.

Tom Ramsey, the orchestra’s vice president and general manager, said the group reviews information from a private weather company and consults with the National Weather Service, with a goal of giving patrons at least 30 minutes to get to their vehicles if bad weather threatens.

“We saw a storm that contained lightning dip south a little bit. Once we saw that, I made the decision to stop the concert and send everyone to their cars,” he said.

At the fairgrounds, concertgoers and other witnesses said an announcer warned them of impending bad weather, but there were no warnings to clear the area.

Fair officials said the stage that collapsed is erected at the start of the fair each year to provide a framework on which performers can add their own lights or other features. The roof can be raised or lowered based on the act.

Saturday’s accident was at least the fourth stage accident since the start of July. Earlier this month, wind blew over a lighting rig at a music festival in Tulsa, Okla., and lightning toppled a stage under assembly near Quebec City. That followed a summer gale that toppled a stage in July at a music festival in Ottawa, Canada, where the band Cheap Trick was performing. Three people were hospitalized.

In 2009, another Canadian storm knocked over a stage in Camrose, Alberta, killing one

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A frame grab from video provided by Jessica Silas shows the stage collapsing at the Indiana State Fair, killing five and injuring dozens of fans waiting for the country band Sugarland to perform in Indianapolis. person and injuring about 75.

And that same summer, a stage failed at Quebec City comedy festival.

The owner of the company that installed the rigging in Indianapolis expressed sympathy for the families of those killed or injured. A telephone message seeking comment from a spokesman for Mid-America Sound Corp. was left Monday

by The Associated Press.

Industry standards do not spell out exactly how concert organizers should react when unexpectedly severe weather hits an outdoor event using a temporary stage, but they do specify that a safety plan should be in place.

“You have to figure out what are you going to do if some extreme weather event comes up and exceeds what you’re designed for? What’s your operational plan? How do you get people out of the way? How do you lower the roof?” said Karl Ruling, the technical standards manager for PLASA, a profes-

LMFAO Concert becomes first event to experiment with all-mobile ticketing NEW YORK (AP) — A recent concert featuring the dance duo LMFAO and rapper/producer Swizz Beatz seemed like a typical summer concert. But the fans who attended were actually taking part in an experiment in mobile ticketing.

The Billboard Summer Blowout party was billed as the first event for which every ticket distributed was done via mobile phones. Joshua Dziabiak, founder of ShowClix, the company behind the service, said the new MMS ticketing system was the first of its kind to be used in the United States and hopes the system will revolutionize the way ticketing works.

“It’s the ability to have your event tickets delivered to your mobile device without having to print anything out,” he said before Thursday’s free concert. “It’s a lot easier for patrons to remember their tickets.”

ShowClix has been making mobile ticketing available for concerts for the past three years. When someone buys tickets for an event, instead of getting paper tickets, the purchaser has it sent to their mobile phone via a text message. Once they turn up to the venue and show their phone, another device is used to scan it.

The ecological benefits of the system are a big draw for brands looking to be more eco-friendly. In addition, without having to print paper tickets, the cost to the promoter is less, said Dziabiak, adding that the marketing potential is also endless.

Redfoo of the chart topping LMFAO supports the new system.

“My cell phone is my favorite device that I have, so the fact that people are using this MMS technology to let people know where the concert is the day before is fun. I’m all for anything like that,” he said.

“Whether it’s Twitter, YouTube, or an AP (Associated Press) on your phone, that’s what the exciting thing about this whole movement is, we

are so close to the fans. It’s just really rewarding that way... This definitely is the future,” added the “Party Rock Anthem” singer.

Gary Bongiovanni, editor in chief of the touring trade publication Pollstar, said increasingly venues are providing other options than the traditional printed tickets.

“Whether it’s paperless tickets or print-at-home technology, instead of the guy ripping tickets at the door, he’s sitting there with a hand scanner, and that technology seems to get deployed at a fairly rapid rate,” he said. “It’s not out there everywhere yet, but I can see much more of that.”

He cautioned that an event that sold tickets only via mobile phone had the potential to be exclusionary. However, he noted that most people have a cell phone, and they are “just an extension of their hand.”

He also added that it allows the seller to have a great deal of information about the fan, which these days is often invaluable.

“There’s a lot potential uses for the technology once you’ve identified who the people are who are in the audience,” he said.

“A few years ago artists would play to a full arena and not have a clue who any of those people were, and today (they have) much more information.”

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sional trade association for businesses that install equipment for entertainment venues.

“Obviously this is not how they planned it,” he said. “But how it ended up being wrong, I don’t know.”

Bill Gorlin, vice president of McLaren Engineering Group’s Entertainment Division, has spent roughly 15 years engineering high-end shows from Super Bowl performances to Lady Gaga concerts.

Gorlin said he is trying to get states and localities to adopt standards that would set building codes for how much temporary structures – like the stage that collapsed Saturday – can handle. Factors such as windload – a measure of how much a stage can handle before it is blown over – should be accounted for by state and local officials, he said.

Gorlin also worked on a panel established by the American Society of Engineers to look at what standards should be used for temporary structures

like stages.

Most of the building standards used by the entertainment industry require the development of weather-management plans and set guidelines for whether parts of a stage can be dissembled or broken down.

Ruling said he would prefer the industry adopt the PLASA standards and police itself, but said it would be acceptable if states adopted PLASA standards. He said he’s against states writing their own codes, saying lawmakers can’t do as good a job as those in the business.

The search for answers in Saturday accident was almost certain to last for months.

The Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration took nearly five months to investigate the death of Declan Sullivan, a University of Notre Dame student who was killed when the hydraulic lift he was using to film football practice was toppled by a 53 mph wind gust.

IOSHA spokesman Chetrice Mosley said investigations must take into account many variables.

“When we do an investigation, it’s across the board. We look at the structure, the blueprints and all of the companies involved. We do interviews with employees as well as spectators, and we’ll work closely with state police,” she said. “So there are a lot of areas that we review before we make a determination.”

The fair reopened with a memorial service to honor the victims of the collapse. However, it canceled two of its top-billed concerts scheduled for the same stage – a Janet Jackson performance on Wednesday and a Lady Antebellum show on Friday.

Gov. Mitch Daniels said the tragedy has broken the hearts of the state’s residents.

“Our first job is to get back in the business of living, get back in the business of the state fair and back in the business of caring for each other,” he said.

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