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Univ. ready for thousands at Fall Fest By John terry managing editor
Thousands of West Virginia University students will flock to the Mountainlair plaza tonight for the 16th annual FallFest. University spokeswoman Becky Lofstead said more than 20,000 students and guests are expected to attend. “We really have had a safe event for students and their guests,” Lofstead said. “I think
the whole premise around it is that people can come back and see their friends.” Lofstead said despite having the large volume of students in a confined area, there haven’t been many problem in years past. “We’ve been pleased with it and hope it continues,” she said. “We have close to a couple dozen University Police officers that patrol the area to make sure the students are safe and having a good time.”
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University Police Chief Bob Roberts said FallFest doesn’t create any more issues than a normal night in Morgantown. “We’ve had minor issues, but nothing major,” Roberts
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said. “We’ve been working FallFest for 15 years. We’ve been accustomed to working in that environment.” Roberts said that the visible presence of his officers
and the Morgantown Police acts as a deterrent for inappropriate behavior. “Some people will misbehave, and we will have to deal with those people, but most people are respectable and responsible,” Roberts said. Alcohol-related incidents occur, but students are usually just issued citations, Lofstead said. “We want to make sure the students get home safely whether it be on-campus or
off-campus,” she said. The University partners with the City of Morgantown to make sure the city is prepared for the number of students. Lofstead said Morgantown Police will patrol outlying areas such as Sunnyside. “We’ve managed to have a very successful relationship,” she said. The University also hires
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When West Virginia University student Emily Spickler died Aug. 15 while studying abroad in Australia, friends from all over the country reached out to her family. Jill Spickler, Emily’s mother, said the overflow of condolences only confirms her daughter’s impact on the people she’s met. “There aren’t enough words. She was so beautiful, inside and out. She was talented – a writer, a dancer, a model. She was confident and poised. In short, she was an angel on earth,” Jill said. “Condolences, thoughts, prayers and kind words have poured in from all over the U.S. and Australia.” Emily was found dead in her dorm room while on an exchange program at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba, Australia on Monday, Aug. 15. Officials say she died of natural causes.
When: Aug. 27 at 11 a.m. Where: Covenant Church 7485 Shepherdstown Pike Shepherdstown WV, 25443 She would’ve celebrated her 20th birthday Aug. 18, just three days after her death. Southern Queensland flew Jill, along with Emily’s father and brother, to the university for a ceremony in her honor. Students presented a slide show at the ceremony and gave Emily’s family a scrapbook of photographs taken during her short time there. “Our experience in Australia has been nothing short of wonderful, other than the obviously heartbreaking task of having to be here at all,” Jill said. “She fell in love with this place and said she thought she
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Clements remembers his first day of college
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A West Virginia University Boreman Hall hotshot helps a student move in to the dorms on Friday.
Thousands of new students moved into the dorms Friday by erin fitzwilliams editor-in-chief
West Virginia University students flooded into Morgantown over the weekend. Some were coming home “to the place they belong,” while others were moving in for the first time. The Downtown and Evansdale campuses were crowded with parents moving their freshmen into the dorms. Family caravans included siblings, pets and relatives, while others were left to move in. The lawns and sidewalks around the dorms were littered with organized piles of students’ belongings while they waited for the carts and room keys so they could move into Erin Fitzwilliams/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
Parents wait with their West Virginia University student’s belongings outside of Bennett Tower.
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West Virginia University President James P. Clements addresses students at the University Welcome in 2008. It was Clements first year at West Virginia, as well.
By Charles young Associate City editor
The first day of college is an exciting and unforgettable time in anyone’s life. From finding new buildings to making new friends, the first day on campus is filled with experiences that can have an impact on the rest of a student’s college career. West Virginia University President James P. Clements said he vividly remembers his first day of college and how it inspired him to devote his life to education. Clements, who attended University of Maryland, Baltimore County, recalled
walking into his first class, a 9 a.m. U.S. history course, feeling overwhelmed by the power of high education. “It was incredible for me because it was like a lighbulb went off in my head,” he said. “Before the professor said a word, I had this feeling that I wanted to be a college professor.” Upon realizing his passion for teaching at the age of 18, Clements said he began working to making his dreams a reality. “I began working toward become a college professor,” Clements said. “It’s the
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WVU libraries receive grant to digitize newspapers BY Jessica Lear Staff Writer
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the West Virginia University Libraries with a $266,000 grant to help digitize West Virginia newspapers written between 1836 and 1922. “This grant both continues and rewards the leading role that the WVU Libraries have historically played in preserving West Virginia newspapers of the 18th through 20th centuries,” said John Cuthbert, director and curator of the West Virginia and Regional History Collection of the WVU Libraries.
The NEH and the Library of Congress have recently begun the National and Digital Newspaper Program, which urges states to make historical newspapers available online for the public. “By reading an old newspaper, one can get a feel for the times in which the paper was written and attitudes of the people of the age on literally every topic,” Cuthbert said. Previously, these newspapers were available on microfilm only and were cataloged by date, making it difficult to find a specific newspaper if the exact date was not known. “A problem with using old newspapers is that they do
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not have an index; finding every reference made would take perhaps years of looking. If the papers were available in a digital searchable database, one could find references instantly,” Cuthbert said. Moving these newspapers from microfilm to the Internet will be a big help to researchers looking for sources. “Newspapers have been published in West Virginia since 1790, and they are significant resources for many kinds of research,” said Harold Forbes, associate curator of West Virginia and Regional History Collection of the WVU libraries. The digitizing is not only ex-
pected to help researchers and students in West Virginia, but throughout the United States. “A student at WVU, or anyone anywhere in world who has access to the Internet, will be able to search for subjects and instantly view newspapers articles,” Cuthbert said. The NEH and the Library of Congress have issued similar grants all over the country with a goal to compile a database with historical newspapers from all 50 states. “Many researchers need access to old newspapers, and current technologies allow
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LUCK TALKS BEER West Virginia Athletic Director Oliver Luck released the details of the beer sales that will take place at football games this fall. SPORTS PAGE 21
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had found paradise.” Because of Emily’s adoration of the area, some of her ashes will be scattered at Surfer’s Paradise, a nearby beach in Queensland that she liked to visit. “The international students whom Emily had befriended here showed us around campus where she liked to hang out,” Jill said. Friends and family back home celebrated her birthday in her honor and posted memories on her Facebook page. Calista Paine, a student at California State University in Northridge, Calif., has been best friends with Spickler for about seven years. The two are listed as sisters on Facebook. Spickler’s drive and determination is one of the most important traits Paine hopes friends and family remember, she said. “She was someone who knew what she wanted to do with her life. All the steps she made toward her goals made it crystal clear to everyone that she was going to be so successful in life,” Paine said. Spickler had goals of becoming a fashion journalist and had just wrapped up an internship at Los Angeles Magazine in Los Angeles, Calif., this summer. She was known for not only her kind attitude toward strangers but for her compassion for animals as well.
event staff and acquires a number of volunteers to work the entry and exit points, as well as the concession areas. A command post for police, EMS and event staff is set up on Maiden Lane. “A lot of people pretty much pull all-nighters to serve the students,” Lofstead said. The University released traffic restrictions caused by the event Saturday. Roberts said usually there aren’t many issues with traffic. “Most people just know
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Spickler planned on volunteering at a kangaroo refugee park during her year-long exchange trip in Australia. “Emily was this beautiful, friendly, outgoing girl who was an extremely compassionate person toward people and animals,” Paine said. “She had a lot of people who loved her, and I hope others will be able to realize what a special person she was.” Larkin Judd, a WVU junior social work student, has been friends with Spickler since the two attended Jefferson High
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into Towers on Friday and said she had been in town with her family for two days prior to the move in. She was guarding her belongings while waiting for a cart and room key. Her family had just started their move in at around
School in Shepherdstown, W.Va. “She was so vibrant and excited and kind to everyone and everything,” Judd said. “Once we got D.P. Dough, and she was a vegetarian, and her calzone accidentally had meat in it. She started sobbing because she was so upset she had taken a bite of meat. It was adorable how heartbroken she was,” she said. “She was the epitome of good energy and beauty.” Danielle Bailey, a junior accounting student, was Spick1 p.m. “I’m really excited about WVU, but it’s sort of nerve-racking,” she said. “I’m also excited to meet new people and see the town.” Denise Riner, of Fayetteville, W.Va., took a moment to “take it all in” outside of Boreman North as her daughter was buying books and exploring the Mountainlair. “I’m going to miss her terribly. She’s already saying ‘I want to go home, I want to go home,’” she said. “I think she’ll be fine once she gets up here. It’s a new chapter in her life, and I think
ler’s Alpha Omicron Pi sister. The two met during a pledge class for the sorority last spring. “Emily was a vivacious, loving, bright and fun girl to be around. No matter what we did or where we went, she was always having a good time and always had to be laughing,” Bailey said. “Her death has been such a shock that it’s hard to imagine that she won’t be coming back. She was a great friend and sister and is truly missed.”
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it will be a good experience for her.” About 5,600 WVU newcomers attended the official University Welcome held in the Coliseum on Saturday. The Mountaineer mascot Brock Burwell, President James P. Clements, Provost Michele Wheatly and Student Government Association President Jason Bailey were in attendance to welcome the new students, teach them about Mountaineer traditions and give advice about the next four years of college life.
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to avoid the area,” he said. “The people who work during the day will already be gone.” Maiden Lane will be closed from 5:00 p.m. Monday until Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. Only northbound traffic will be allowed on High Street during the same hours. No parking will be allowed on West Prospect Street or North High Street until Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. Free parking will be available in the upper level of the Mountainlair parking garage after 5:00 p.m. Monday.
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Clements said the most important thing for freshmen to keep in mind is the reason they are here. “You’re here to get an education; you’re here to finish your degree and become whatever it is you’re studying,” he said, “but you have to find a balance.” Clements said he encouraged students to get involved around campus and to experience as much fun as possible, but he cautioned students not to lose sight of what is truly important. “Don’t forget, ultimately, you are here to get a degree,” he said. Back charles.young@mail.wvu.edu
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us to make these newspapers more easily available to them,” Forbes said. One of the main focuses in digitizing the newspapers from West Virginia is the differing perspective of the North and South during the Civil War. Since West Virginia was a part of Virginia until 1863, and the grant calls for papers from 1836 to 1922 to be digitized, the WVU Libraries have begun collaborating with the Library of Virginia in Richmond. In addition, NEH is interested in highlighting the development of the coal industry and associated labor movements in West Virginia. NEH has also urged the WVU libraries to pay special attention to minority and foreign language newspapers released in West Virginia during this time period to gain the perspective of a minority. “This grant gives us the opportunity to take another major step in the direction of providing access to important West Virginia sources in digital format,” Ford said. Currently, those involved believe the website will launch in 2013. “This grant will enable us to provide an incredibly valuable service to West Virginians everywhere,” Cuthbert said. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu
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W.Va. remembers native son killed in Afghan crash
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PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginians paid homage Sunday to a highly decorated sailor who was among 30 U.S. servicemen killed in an Aug. 6 helicopter crash in Afghanistan. Hundreds of people, many holding American flags, lined the street outside Parkersburg South High School as a private memorial service was held inside for Nicholas H. Null, the News and Sentinel reported. Acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin ordered flags lowered to half-staff in memory of Null.
Null, who was 30, was an explosive ordnance disposal technician. He served in Iraq and Afghanistan and earned two Bronze Stars, one with valor. Null joined the Navy in 2000 and had been stationed in Virginia Beach since 2007, reporting to a SEAL team in 2009. Tammi Griswold came out to support Null’s mother. She said she lost a son in a car accident. “I know what a mama feels when she loses her child,”
Marcellus issue awaits legislators attention CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Barring any problems with their recently crafted redistricting plans, West Virginia lawmakers may now devote more attention to new rules for the state’s share of the Marcellus shale field. Wrapping up the redrawing of legislative and congressional districts could not have come at a better time. A special House-Senate committee has hit a rocky patch as it considers regulations for this rich natural gas reserve. The committee unveiled and began amending a draft proposal earlier this month. Committee members hope to reach sufficient consensus to justify a special session for Marcellus this year. But the members are at odds over whether they can reach that goal. They even disagree over when the committee should meet. Another factor that could help lawmakers: the emergency Marcellus rules ordered earlier by acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin. The Department of Environmental Protection could issue them as soon as this week, according to state officials and stakeholders. These rules are expected to cover several key areas. One involves permits for the horizontal drilling method that often accompanies Marcellus development. Another is oversight of the large volumes of water withdrawn from area supplies, and of the chemicals mixed with that water before it is pumped underground to
break up the shale and release the gas. Environmental groups remain concerned about this hydraulic fracturing process, also known as fracking, and the large pools of tainted water left over afterward. Other areas include standards meant to ensure that gas wells, once drilled, don’t contaminate nearby water sources or coal seams by leaking methane or fluids. The rules are also expected to detail the safety and evacuation plans that operators must make available to local first responders. But environmental and surface owner groups question whether Tomblin’s executive order goes far enough. They’re holding Monday events both in Charleston and Morgantown to draw attention to what they consider shortfalls in the scope of the expected emergency rules. Industry groups also agree that the emergency rules won’t eliminate the need for legislation. Corky DeMarco, executive director of the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association, said only lawmakers can update definitions in state law to reflect the unconventional Marcellus methods. The same is true for a revenue source so DEP can hire the additional inspectors needed for the Marcellus field. “We fully support a higher fee for permits,” DeMarco said. “Having said that, I don’t think it’s fair to the West Virginia industry to make it three or four times what is being paid in
other parts of this basin.” And while environmental and surface owner advocates support the seven or so amendments added to the draft bill, the industry objects to several of them. DeMarco singled out the final amendment approved by the committee Aug. 2. It requires drillers to detail the residency, wages and other information about its overall workforce and its employees assigned to West Virginia operations. The change reflects concerns that companies aren’t hiring in-state for the flood of jobs that’s accompanied the pursuit of natural gas in the Marcellus field. “No other industry has to submit to that,” DeMarco said. “To think that after that whole process, we still have a bunch of people who are forcing amendments. I’m frustrated. I don’t have a lot of confidence about getting something through in special session.” The committee’s House cochairman, Delegate Tim Manchin, isn’t giving up on a special session before 2012. He cited how the committee’s House members held a series of three public hearings in late July that drew ever-increasing crowds in Wheeling, Morgantown and Clarksburg. “That’s what my constituents want, clearly, back home,” the Marion County Democrat said. The committee also held two, multi-hour sessions during August’s interim study meetings, but had to cancel a third be-
cause of the special redistricting session. Manchin also said the panel’s Senate members have had difficulty scheduling more. “We requested to meet twice during this special session. They’re not available,” Manchin said, referring to the follow-up redistricting session that ended Sunday. “We requested that we meet three times during September interims. I’ve been told that they’re willing to meet twice.” Manchin said the committee has around 13 proposed changes to the draft bill left to consider. “You have to have time to work those amendments,” he said. “I can’t get anywhere without meeting time.” Manchin’s Senate counterpart, Co-Chairman Doug Facemire, said the two September meetings might be enough to finish the draft bill. But he also believes the emergency rules will provide some breathing room just in case. “Quite honestly, if we don’t have anything done before October, you’re only two months before the regular session starts. I don’t know that it would be wise after that to have a special session just for Marcellus,” said Facemire, D-Braxton. Facemire also noted that while he and other senators on the committee generally support the amendments approved so far, the panel must still find sufficient approval for a final draft among both chambers.
Griswold said. “My heart goes out for that mom and that is who I am here for.” Matthew Richards said he went to school with Null and his wife, Tanya. “We thought we owed it to them to be here,” he said. Sue Knight, whose husband is a veteran, said she came out of respect. “I appreciate him giving his life for us,” she said. “I felt like this was where I needed to be.” Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W. Va., said his office presented
W.Va. lawmakers end 2nd redistricting session CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — It’s taken two special sessions, but West Virginia lawmakers hope they’ve finished the once-a-decade redrawing of legislative and congressional districts. The Senate voted 15-14 Sunday to send acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin a corrected redistricting plan for the House of Delegates. The House passed the bill 55-38 Saturday. Lawmakers ended their special session Sunday. The plan is much like the one approved during a fiveday special session earlier this month. Tomblin vetoed that bill because it overlapped delegate districts in two counties. But he’s signed that session’s state Senate and congressional redistricting plans. The House plan fixes the
he said. “We’ve got to make sure that a student’s graduation gift is not debt.” Several speakers at the governor’s business session Sunday debated the value of jobspecific training versus a more liberal approach to post-secondary education. ‘There is something to be said for learning for learning’s sake, without regard to how it relates specifically to a job,” said Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe. “We have heard that what companies want is not necessarily someone with a specific skill, but somebody who can think and change directions from job to job and year to year.” The study looked at 16 southern states plus Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It shows that 52 percent of employers in 2011 reported difficulty filling specific jobs within their operations, compared with 14 percent just a year earlier. Middle-skill level occupations were named frequently among the top 10 hardest-to-fill jobs. Among those rising fastest were heating and air conditioning technicians, dental hygienists, environmental engineering technicians, firefighters and medical technologists. The study showed that highly educated job seekers in North Carolina outnumbered available job openings, while middle-skill job openings exceeded the number of qualified workers. The study also indicates that the shortage will continue to rise unless efforts are made
to promote more training and education programs at the two-year colleges and technical schools. Perdue said North Carolina is working to identify business clusters where job demand is highest and partnering with public and private schools to train workers to gain those specific skills. The report to the governors group noted that nearly two-
thirds of the projected workforce in 2025 are already working today, underlining a need to retrain adults long past high school age. Sunday’s sessions concluded the three-day Southern Governors Association meeting. Puerto Rico Gov. Luis G. Fortuno assumed chairmanship of the group from Perdue. Next year’s meeting will take place in Puerto Rico.
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Study: South has ‘middle-skills’ worker shortage ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The South has a shortage of workers to fill middle-skills jobs such as medical technicians and computer support workers, even as many four-year graduates struggle to repay student loans, according to a study released Sunday. The report released by the National Skills Coalition during the Southern Governors Association meeting in Asheville shows that 51 percent of all jobs in the American South fall into the “middle-skills” category, requiring education and training beyond high school but less than a fouryear degree. Highly skilled jobs make up 29 percent of the job market; low-skill occupations make up 20 percent. “What we are calling middle skills can actually be highlevel skills, with some jobs paying $50 an hour,” North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue said. “That’s why I prefer to call them career-skill sets.” In North Carolina, 51 percent of available jobs fall into the middle-skills category. The study says 43 percent of job seekers are able to meet those qualifications. Panelist James Wiseman, of Toyota Motors Corp., said his company struggles to find qualified workers for jobs as electricians, maintenance, and tool and die technicians – jobs that often pay between $50,000 and $75,000 a year. The region’s average among all jobs for annual full-time pay is $38,900, according to the report. Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri decried the expense of higher education, saying it forces many students to take on large student loans. Nixon said many college graduates spend five to 10 years repaying loans, and as a result cannot buy cars, homes or consumer goods. A report last fall indicated that student debt in America had reached $850 billion, nearly $25 billion more than the nation’s consumer credit card debt load. “It’s hurting our economy,”
Null’s family with a flag that flew over the U.S. Capitol on the day he was killed. “Courageous people like him, driven by a desire to serve our country, selflessly volunteer to take on some of the most dangerous and important missions to protect their fellow troops and the American people from harm,” Rockefeller said in a statement. “Nick did that for all of us, and West Virginians everywhere should pause today in reflection of his sacrifice.”
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Stay on top during the new school year Now that the 2011-2012 school year has officially began, its now time to evaluate past mistakes and make a strong effort to correct them. The key to staying on top is to do just that – don’t get behind. It’s easy to procrastinate, especially when the semester just started and it seems like an eternity until midterms. But in order to prevent nervous breakdowns and elevating blood pressure, take
the time now to become organized. This does become impossible with out the proper tools though. Starting today, make sure a datebook of some sort is at hand at all times. Writing down every responsibility that is required will make life much easier. This concept should be simple and understood, but surprisingly many students will go to class with out them.
Also, keep up with all reading assignments. Don’t ignore them as if they aren’t mandatory, even if it is possible to slide without doing them. Staying in the habit of reading the material everyday will only ensure a solid college career and believe it or not, lead to a more relaxed and less stressful environment. Waiting until a few days before the exam will not prove as efficient. That period of time should be for review, not
learning. When the game of playing catch-up begins in college most students end up losing. Keep a file box in where all important information can be kept safe. Losing important documents can be a disaster. The easiest way to stay on top is to go to class. Everybody must miss at some point, so choose wisely. Missing a class for no reason will come back to bite
you. Save the days for when they are truly needed. Being organized will not only help during college years, but in the work force all well. There isn’t an employer out there who doesn’t want a more prepared worker. The more organization one has, the greater the chances for a successful career, regardless of the profession.
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Republicans will have a bright future if Paul wins brandon muncy columnist
Maybe you do not agree with his foreign policy of peace and non-interventionism. Perhaps you heard some sort of distortion that he wants to legalize heroine when, in reality, he wants to leave that decision rightfully, and Constitutionally, up to the states. The fact is, this presidential election is neither about heroine nor entirely about foreign policy. It is about the economy, and no Republican candidate knows economics better than Texas Congressman Ron Paul. Small government Conservatism is all the rage with Republicans these days, and no candidate better represents that movement than the founder of the Tea Party himself, Ron Paul. In commemoration of the Boston Tea Party, a moneybomb was held on December 16, 2007, when Ron Paul raised $6 million in a 24-hour period. This was the very beginning of the Tea Party movement. Yet, the undeniable fact of the matter is, Paul still does not win over mainstream Republicans. Many, who in fact claim to be passionate Tea Party members, think of Paul as a “kook” or “crazy.” But still many of these people parade as small government aficionados and rave about the foul taste Obama has left in their mouths, while simultaneously writing off the single candidate who truly believes in freedom and small government in favor of establishment figures such as Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Palinesque Michele Bachmann. Paul has been ahead of the curve on economic issues. He was the first to raise questions about the Federal Reserve and its effect on the economy through the business cycle. Now, the business cycle discussion is being talked from newer angles and much more intellectually. Paul has been a different kind of politician in that, namely, he has shown integrity throughout his time in
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Congressman Ron Paul gives a speech. Washington. Indeed, he has been the most consistent politician in, perhaps, American history. Paul has stood true to his principles and convictions through the decades, being the lone “no” vote in Congress numerous times. Not once in his decades of political service has Paul once voted to raise taxes. Social conservatives need not fret. Paul is vehemently anti-abortion and favors repealing Roe v. Wade. Additionally, he defines marriage as being between a single man and a single woman. However, what separates Paul from the other candidates on these issues is that he does not allow his per-
sonal views to come into conflict with his views on the role of government. Make no mistake, while Paul is a social conservative, he is a small government proponent first. That means allowing antiabortion and pro-gay marriage laws at the state level if such laws are passed. Maybe that infuriates you about Paul, but it shouldn’t. It is a sign of true principle and love of the Constitution. No other Republican candidate for the presidency can claim to have such fondness of the Constitution or of limited government. That’s what Republicans want these days, isn’t it? In actuality, a person cannot
truly be in favor of small government if he only favors it in the realms that appeal to him. Social freedom and economic freedom go hand-in-hand, and this is reflected in Paul’s ideology. And that is exactly why Ron Paul is the best choice for the Republican nomination. He truly represents what Republicanism and Conservatism are all about. Principle and conviction are not all this Congressman has to offer. Paul stands the best chance of beating Obama in 2012. In such an election, he would have the Republican vote locked up, courtesy of all the anti-Obama journalism of the past three years.
Furthermore, he wins many left-leaning voters who are disenfranchised by the lost promise of “change.” While his relatively high popularity with the Left may surprise some, it is as Paul optimistically proclaims, “Freedom brings us together.” There is something special about a candidate who can bring people of typically differing political views together. Detractors claim that Paul appears “unpresidential,” yet there’s something undeniably very likable about him, something refreshing. Conjecture abound, maybe it’s his integrity and honesty, or maybe it’s the freshness of a candidate who has real principles that do not change with
the election cycle. Maybe it’s the way he refuses to go with the grain for political gain. Whatever the case may be, Ron Paul is not only the best candidate for the Republican nomination, but he is the best choice for President of the United States. But he has to get that far first. All that really keeps him from being considered a top tier candidate by mainstream outlets is his foreign policy. For the next election, Republicans should put aside their beliefs on foreign policy and elect someone with integrity, intelligence and real knowledge of economics. Not another talking-point spewing figurehead. That way, we all win.
Drilling must be done in a way that protects our state dee fulton guest columnist
In recognition of the urgency of the Marcellus shale situation, in May 2011 a Department of Energy Natural Gas Subcommittee was given 90 days to identify any immediate steps that can be taken to improve the safety and environmental performance of fracking. The Subcommittee conducted public meetings and received over 25,000 public comments expressing concerns. The draft report warns, “there are serious environmental impacts underlying these concerns and these adverse environmental impacts need to be prevented, reduced and, where possible,
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eliminated as soon as possible. …. With anticipated increase in U.S. hydraulically fractured wells, if effective environmental action is not taken today, the potential environmental consequences will grow to a point that the country will be faced with a more serious problem. Effective action requires both strong regulation and a shale gas industry in which all participating companies are committed to continuous improvement.” Let’s do it right this time, West Virginia. Require complete disclosure of fracking chemicals. Adopt a life cycle approach to water management and manifest all fluid transfers. Require specific best practices for cementing and casings so our waters are not fouled by methane and chemicals.
Provide funding through fees and severance taxes adequate to meet the expanded staffing needs of our Department of Environmental Protection. Require drillers to comply with the Natural Gas Star Program’s best practices, which would include reduced emission completions during the flowback stage. Require reductions in emissions of methane and other hazardous chemicals from compressors and other equipment per Environmental Protection Agency recommendations. Ban frack pits, and require closed loop systems to eliminate both leaks of toxic fluid from frack pits and the release of hazardous air pollutants. Public forests, parks, and wildlife management areas need to be reserved as NoDrill zones. One of the most important
areas of concern identified by the DOE report is the cumulative adverse impacts that intensive shale gas production can have on communities and ecosystems. We have to turn our gaze to Wetzel Co. to see the adverse impacts to the quality of life in this formerly quiet rural community. “A living hell” is how resident Ed Wade describes it. Our state must not only be a place to work, but also, and more importantly, a place to live, a place to raise our families, a place to go outside and play. We must not allow our wild and wonderful state to be transformed into a heavy industrial zone for the next 40-50 years – maybe longer if or when it becomes financially feasible to drill the Utica Shale underlying the Marcellus. Our property values will
suffer and our enjoyment of the outdoors, which brings such spiritual solace, will be compromised. Limits must be set on the intensity of shale gas development in both rural and urban settings. And if you’re thinking you’ll be safe in a city, think again. Behold Morgantown, where Marcellus gas wells are being drilled within sight and sound of one of the nicer established neighborhoods, and the wells will be located within proximity of the public water intake on the Monongahela River. The WV Surface Owners’ Rights Organization has a good slide show on their website demonstrating the effects of industrialization in W.Va. Finally, the recommendation of the nonprofit, nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities should be codified. A special fund
should be established with severance fees to provide for stimulating economic diversity after the shale boom is followed by the inevitable bust. A committee of the West Virginia Legislature is currently charged with developing regulations for the Marcellus shale industry, and it is anticipated that a bill will be passed during a special session this fall. Contact the governor and your state legislators to let them know that the issues surrounding Marcellus shale gas production are urgent and require strong action. Visit wwwfrackcheckwv.net and click on the “Take Action” tab for information on how to contact your representatives. Dee Fulton is the editor of FrackCheckWV.net
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Monday August 22, 2011
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Term limits on Congress would allow our nation to reunite jeremiah yates opinion editor
United we stand, divided we fall. These words have been pounded into the minds of every school child in our country for generations – and for a very good reason. In a brief phrase, these words clarify the dangers of tearing apart the unity we all feel as Americans. But it seems that today’s political leaders and the national media are hell-bent on division and ignoring the lessons taught to us during our years of innocence. Problems plaguing our country, such as having an enormous debt and rising unemployment, are ones that all Americans face, not just Democrats or Republicans. But the leaders of both parties never seem to put the problems into the proper context. When watching any national news channel, all that is heard is how these problems are going to affect Democrats and Republicans. Questions rise such as “How will Democrats attack the debt?” or “Will Republican policies increase employment?” This is where the problem starts. Although policy-makers must be held accountable for their decisions, the blame seems to be shifted from the individual to the political party in general. It seems all that is heard is Republicans have done this, and Democrats do that. What we need is for the parties to come together and find real solutions to real problems facing our country before it’s too late. Regardless of their party affiliation, it is safe to say the majority of Americans are tired of the fighting and bickering in Washington. There could be a couple of ways to fix the problem of party politics. One would be to do away with them all, and let individual candidates fend for themselves. To some this idea is appealing, but it would result in disaster.
For one, our current party system does a good job of weeding out the crazies. Without the political parties, the possibility of a persuasive speaker with radical and tyrannical goals could be elected into power during times of high emotion, which is what happened in Germany when the Nazis seized power (Hitler was elected through a democratic process.). Another problem with eliminating our party system is it would only allow the higher class
citizens to be elected. With the extremely high cost of an election, only the ones with millions of dollars at their disposal would have the resources to win. This would leave many strong candidates who have the capability to lead in the dust. Further, the compassion for the lower class would be pretty much obsolete. When the super rich are the only ones ever allowed to remain in power, they would be unable to relate to the common citi-
Choose your college major wisely caitlin murad the arkansas travler
Every year thousands of freshmen enter their first year of college undecided about which major to pursue. Even 50 percent of those who do declare a major will change their major before they graduate, according to a study by Dr. Fritz Grupe, founder of MyMajors.com. Graduating with a bachelor’s degree is an invaluable advantage in the workplace, but according to a recent study done at Georgetown U. called What’s It Worth, some majors provide more potential earnings than others. In fact, the difference in potential earnings between one major and another can be more than 300 percent, according to the press release on the What’s It Worth study. Those with a major in engineering can expect to make $1,090,000 more in a lifetime than they would have without a bachelor’s degree, while education majors can expect a $241,000 lifetime advantage. The major that generates the most yearly income is engineering, according to the study. The median earnings are $99,000 for those with a graduate degree and $75,000 for engineers with a bachelor’s degree. Graduates with majors in psychology and social work can expect a lower median income of about $42,000 to $60,000 per year depending on their degree, whereas graduates with liberal arts degrees tend to make $50,000 to $65,000 per year. Despite this, Dr. Robin Roberts, dean of the U. Arkansas Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, believes there is more to choosing a major than just the earning potential. “Many experts agree that the job market in the future will reward critical thinking, the ability to write effectively, and flexibility,” Roberts said. “Liberal arts degrees offer these important skills to students.” The Association of American Colleges and Universities found that the vast majority of employers favor analytical thinking, teamwork and communication skills – the well-rounded
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abilities available through a liberal arts education – in its most recent employer surveys. The study emphasizes the increase in financial earnings for people who have earned graduate degrees. Although this may be true, some major groups are more likely to obtain a graduate degree than others. The Biology and Life Science group are the most likely to obtain an advanced degree, while those in the communications, journalism, industrial arts and consumer services fields are the least likely, followed closely by business, according to the press release. In addition to exploring the potential wages of certain majors, the study includes statistics on whether or not graduates end up working in the field of their degree. Health majors are the most likely to end up working in their specific field at 72 percent. Education majors follow closely behind with 55 percent working in the education field, while the remaining population of education majors work in health services and retail. Agriculture and natural resource majors are the least likely to work in the field of their major with only 13 percent working in their field, with about 11 percent of agriculture majors working in public administration and nine percent in retail. The report also reveals a larger percentage of women in the fields of health, education and psychology. Men are more likely to work in the fields of agriculture and business. There is a slight difference in pay between men and women throughout every field. The largest difference in pay is in the field of business, where the male median earnings were $66,000 per year and female earning were $50,000 per year.
Education and liberal arts majors experienced the smallest difference ($8,000) between the income of men and women in the same field. However, regardless of area of study, college graduates have a greater yearly income than those with only a high school level of education. “On average, college graduates make 84 percent more over a lifetime than their high school-educated counterparts,” according to the press release. Yet, despite what the study may say about the value of a college major, a student’s major should be something enjoyable and about which they are passionate. “In choosing a major, students have to consider their interests, skills, and personal satisfaction in a future career,” Roberts said.
zen who struggles for every day essentials. The solution is putting term limits on every person who holds office. The president has term limits, and the executive branch isn’t even the largest branch of government. Why, then, doesn’t Congress? If members of the House and Senate had only a short time to serve our country, they would be more worried about making change for the better in a shorter
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amount of time. As it stands, they only want to be reelected. Politicians hide behind their party and play the game safe. I refuse to believe that our nation of over 350 million people can’t produce a fresh batch of intelligent and capable leaders every few years. The term limits could be designed to give the person in office a fair chance to learn the job, but it would also allow them not to sour. It would give politicians more
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Monday August 22, 2011
Financial aid process for students need to be more efficient jarrod barry columnist
West Virginia University, like any major educational institution, was founded on the principles of educating the next generation, encouraging the pursuit of academic achievement – and making sure there’s as much red tape as possible along the way. Anyone who’s ever had to sign up for payroll or sort out a problem with their housing knows that getting things done around here can be like wrestling a bull. And no area of the University is more bogged down by the quicksand of bureaucracy than where higher education intersects with government – the Fi-
nancial Aid Office. Let’s be honest – no one really understands the financial aid process. After 3 years and countless visits to the office, I’ve long since given up any hope of figuring out how my financial aid is determined. I’ve spoken to graduates who don’t understand the system, and I’ve even had financial aid officers admit to me they don’t completely understand the system themselves. I think it’s fair to say that when the people who are supposed to be leading the blind are lost, the rest of us are screwed. I’ve begun to explain the whole process the way ancient people explained the movement of the sun and moon – that somewhere out there, there’s a mystical Financial Aid God who determines how much money you get by His personal will. He disburses how much He wants
to whomever He wants, whenever He wants. His ways and means are too mysterious for the rest of us to comprehend. If you have a poor refund check this semester, it’s for the same reason ancient farmers had poor crop yields in a season – you’ve angered the Financial Aid God. And He is a vengeful God who does not forgive easily. I know that I must anger Him a lot. Every semester, it seems, I find myself once again in the Financial Aid Office, sorting out one issue or another. Either this loan hasn’t come through or that grant has been inexplicably canceled. Rare is the semester when all my aid clears without getting held up by red tape or misplaced paperwork. Those few semesters are the ones when the Financial Aid God smiles upon me.
And no matter who I ask, there’s never an answer. Why was the grant I had last month suddenly canceled? Who knows! How does someone with a full-ride qualify for work study? Beats me! How do they decide how much money I get in refund? We pull numbers out of a hat, of course! Can I get more money? That depends – How many sheep did you sacrifice last year? Don’t get me wrong, I understand why. Whenever you deal with money changing hands, there are going to be a lot of regulations and rules. And a great deal of financial aid, whether it be loans or grants, comes from the government, so you can always count on it being done in the slowest, most inefficient way possible. But it doesn’t excuse the fact the system is convoluted, and worse, the school does a poor
job of explaining it to students and helping them figure out the ropes. I’ve had aid disbursement delayed because a piece of paper was put in the wrong folder. I’ve had grants canceled because of “lack of academic progress,” despite having 34 credit hours the previous year, only to have them suddenly reinstated the next day. I’ve heard stories of loans canceled out of nowhere, or people who won a scholarship only to see their grant canceled while their loans remain. Sure, it’d be much more sensible to keep the grant and do away with the loan, but this is financial aid; nothing is ever sensible. Trying to get my aid approved for my study abroad trip last year was a nightmare. I had to run back and forth between three different offices in search of the right person to
sign my paperwork, because putting Financial Aid, Student Accounts, and Undergraduate Scholarships all under the same roof would be too easy. And in the end, I still had my refund check held up for two weeks because of misplaced paperwork. And so, my advice to all the incoming freshmen is this: Good luck and Godspeed! May your voyages through the bog of bureaucracy be easier than mine have been. Because the truth is, unless you’re one of the lucky few who can pay their tuition in full every semester, you’ll have to deal with financial aid sooner or later. There’s no way to get around it, unless you rob a bank. And some days, as I wait in line at the Financial Aid Office for what seems like the 500th time in three years, I wonder if that wouldn’t be an easier task.
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WikiLeaks contradicts itself by slamming its supposed spin-off zac smith oklahoma daily
Online whistle-blower WikiLeaks on Sunday accused spinoff project OpenLeaks of stealing its concepts — an ironic claim to make for an organization devoted to freedom of information. WikiLeaks threw the U.S. political elite into a frenzy by publishing thousands of confidential U.S. documents in November 2010. These documents exposed many previ-
ously concealed crimes, such as the shooting of Iraqi children by U.S. troops. Since then, the American political establishment has called for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s blood, which has only served to increase his credibility as a defender of the public good and a threat to bourgeois power. Following this high-profile success, numerous independent projects inspired by WikiLeaks emerged. Most prominent among these was OpenLeaks, founded by activist Daniel Domscheit-Berg. Domscheit-Berg was one of several WikiLeaks employees to depart
the organization after clashes with Assange, whom Domscheit-Berg describes as brilliant but domineering. Domscheit-Berg aspires to make OpenLeaks a more transparent and democratic alternative to WikiLeaks, though whether this will be accomplished remains to be seen. WikiLeaks has previously slung mud at other whistleblower programs, such as the Al-Jazeera Transparency Unit, for failing to provide adequate protection for their sources. This is an abundantly valid concern, particularly in light of the imprisonment and torture of alleged whistle-blower
Bradley Manning. However, the basis for WikiLeaks’ criticism of OpenLeaks is the notion that OpenLeaks has somehow stolen ideas from WikiLeaks. The irony of this accusation is unavoidable: WikiLeaks, an organization devoted to the free dispersal of information, is now roaring with indignation over a violation of its supposed exclusive right to the “WikiLeaks concept.” In fact, in order to pursue its stated goal of assisting “people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations,” WikiLeaks must encourage others to appropriate its concept.
The more centralized whistle-blowing efforts are, the easier it will be for the repressive powers of the world to eliminate them. However, a decentralized network of independently operating pro-transparency organizations might tear away the shroud of secrecy that has, until now, helped insulate the U.S. government from accountability for its crimes. In order for WikiLeaks’ vision to be realized, no organization can monopolize whistle-blowing operations. Of course, it’s possible that whoever updates WikiLeaks’ Facebook and Twitter pages is an ideologically myopic Assange fanboy whose opin-
ions do not represent those of WikiLeaks leadership. And, hearteningly, the hypocrisy of the anti-OpenLeaks position seems not to be lost on most of the pro-WikiLeaks community. “Who cares? As long as the info spreads, who cares?” one commenter asked. “That’s what it’s all about, isn’t it?” Assange and DomscheitBerg’s personal disagreements aside, WikiLeaks cannot oppose OpenLeaks’ right to exist without sacrificing its core principles. WikiLeaks cannot maintain a monopoly on information vital to the public good any more than the White House can. As the hacker maxim goes, information wants to be free.
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Monday August 22, 2011
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US NEWS
Two shot in SF parking lot after Raiders-49ers game
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police interviewed witnesses and looked for suspects Sunday after two men were shot and wounded following a San Francisco 49ers-Oakland Raiders preseason game, while the NFL and the mayors of the two cities jointly called for an end to “intimidation” and acts of violence at sporting events. Saturday night’s shooting in the parking lot at Candlestick Park evoked memories of another recent disturbing act of post-game violence involving two rival California pro sports teams – the near-fatal beating this spring of a San Francisco Giants fan outside Dodger Stadium. In Saturday’s attacks, a 24-year-old man, who reportedly was wearing a “F--- the
Niners” T-shirt, remained hospitalized in serious condition Sunday after being shot several times in the stomach. He managed to stumble to Candlestick Park stadium security for help despite the severe injuries, police said. A second victim, a 20-yearold man, was treated for less serious wounds in a separate shooting, also after the game. Sgt. Mike Andraychak said Sunday that police are looking for “a person of interest” connected to at least one of the shootings. He would not specify which shooting. A motive for either attack – including whether either was influenced by emotions surrounding a game involving fiercely rival teams — also wasn’t known.
Apart from the shootings, a third victim was also hospitalized in serious condition Sunday after he was knocked unconscious in a stadium bathroom during the football game. That attack appeared unrelated to the other two, authorities said. The victims’ names have not been released as the violent spree overshadowed the 49ers’ 17-3 victory over the Raiders. The crimes prompted San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Oakland Mayor Jean Quan to issue a joint statement saying that violence at stadiums in both cities will not be tolerated. “The incidents .... are completely unacceptable and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” the mayors said. “Fans come to our stadi-
ums to enjoy an afternoon of football, not to be subjected to intimidation or violence. “These games are family events and the types of images we witnessed last night have no place in our arenas.” NFL spokesman Greg Aiello echoed similar comments in a statement released Sunday. “We deplore the activities of a handful of fans at last night’s game and pledge our full support to Mayors Lee and Quan and to state and local law enforcement agencies,” Aiello said. “We are carefully reviewing the events to make sure we have a full understanding of the facts. “We will continue to work closely with our clubs and law
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Kansas City air show resumes day after crash that kills Minn. native KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City’s annual air show took to the skies again Sunday, a day after spectators were sent home when a stunt pilot crashed to the ground while performing loops and spirals in his small plane. Sunday’s performance opened with a tribute to pilot Bryan Jensen, including a rendition of taps and planes flying in missing man formation. The day’s show was dedicated to him. The Minnesota native was killed Saturday afternoon when his biplane named “The Beast” failed to pull out of a dive and crashed into a fiery ball on the grass next to a runway at Wheeler Downtown Airport. Thousands of spectators at the Kansas City Aviation Air Show fell into a hush after Jensen’s plane hit the ground, and event organizers immediately shut performances down for the day. Jeff Caddell said he met Jensen four years ago and considered him to be an extraordinary pilot who loved interacting with people as much as he did flying.
“Bryan was nothing but a class act kind of guy. He loved people so much and loved seeing them have a great time,” said Caddell, who organizes the annual Wings Over Ashville air show in Alabama. “I would see Bryan take special time out with the public to answer questions, and he did it on a level that made you feel special – unlike how some public figures do.” Authorities have not released Jensen’s age and hometown. Caddell said Jensen often participated in air shows with his girlfriend, C.C. Gerner, who also is a stunt pilot. According to Gerner’s website, she was scheduled to be at
the Kansas City air show this weekend. When The Associated Press reached Gerner by phone Sunday afternoon, she said she wasn’t ready to talk about Jensen’s crash. Jensen announced on his website, www.beastairshows. com , in January that he had been promoted to captain with Delta Airlines. A spokeswoman with Delta told the AP on Sunday she knew about his crash but couldn’t confirm he
worked for the airline because there was no human resources staff available to verify it. According to Jensen’s website, he had more than 23,000 hours of commercial flight time and had been flying aerobatics for 15 years. Caddell said his last memory of Jensen was after an air show when a little boy came up to talk to him. “Bryan got on one knee to have a picture made with the boy and stayed kneeled down
to talk with him for a bit,” Caddell said. “That was Bryan. “Someone would come up to him and ask a basic question that a lot of people would hesitate to ask. He would take the time to answer on a level that anyone would understand. A lot of times other guys would blow you off.” The National Transportation Safety Board and Fed-
eral Aviation Administration are investigating the crash, but show director Ed Novallis said there’s nothing to indicate that weather or other outside factors contributed to the crash. Officials said Saturday’s fatal crash was the first ever recorded at the Kansas City air show. Sunday’s show went off without any problems.
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Monday August 22, 2011
ODD NEWS
Moohunt: Runaway cow captures German hearts BERLIN (AP) — A runaway cow named Yvonne is on the loose in Germany and the manhunt – or moohunt – for the Bavarian bovine has captivated the country. The freedom-loving cow ran away from a little farm in Bavaria in May and has managed to hide successfully in the forests of southern Germany ever since – despite her sturdy 1,500-pound (700-kilogram) figure. Locals have reported a few sightings of the brown dairy cow with the white head, but every time search teams have
tried to capture her, Yvonne had already hoofed it from the area. A helicopter equipped with a thermal camera used in searchand-rescue missions returned Thursday empty-handed. Searchers have tried to lure Yvonne into the open with food, with the bellows of her son Friesi and her sister Waltraud, even with a prospective mate named Ernst. Scores of volunteers are combing upper Bavaria’s woods for her. The six-year-old animal would have never made national headlines if it hadn’t been for a near-collision with a
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police car days after she broke away. The rural district office in Muehldorf reacted by labeling the big-eyed bovine a public danger and ordering her shot on sight. That prompted animal-rights activists to rally to her defense. A Facebook page calling for Yvonne’s rescue had morethan 23,000 “likes” by Friday, and Germany’s biggest-selling newspaper, Bild, has offered a euro 10,000 ($14,369) award on its front page for anyone who helps find Yvonne. In the wake of all the attention, the order to shoot Yvonne has been suspended. A Bavarian animal sanctuary has bought Yvonne from her former owners – sight unseen, of course – and is taking the lead in trying to rescue her. “We’re hot on her tail,” it reported Fr Meanwhile, a song by local band Gnadenkapelle has become an instant radio hit. “Why don’t you leave Yvonne alone, she’s only a runaway cow... You wild cow, don’t let them take your freedom,” they sing. W.Va. man says chicken laid tiny egg CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Raleigh County man is laying claim to one of the world’s smallest chicken eggs. Whether
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Gus Douglass. “I’m very pleased that Rev. Russell and others are keeping agriculture alive in the Mountain State, and that he takes obvious pride in being a West Virginia farmer.” Cemetery snake now up for adoption in Pa. HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — A six-foot boa constrictor that crashed a funeral a few months ago has been nursed back to health and is ready to be adopted. Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary tells The Patriot-News of Harrisburg that the snake, Cocoa, is now healthy enough for a new home. Animal welfare workers took Cocoa into custody in May after people attending a memorial service at Hershey Cemetery spotted her. Police believe Cocoa’s owner dumped the snake after being unable to care for her. The Patriot-News reported on Thursday says police never discovered who abandoned Cocoa. NY man, 61, suing over skimpy lifeguard trunks LONG BEACH, N.Y. (AP) — A 61-year-old New York man says he lost his job as a lifeguard when he refused to wear skimpy swim trunks for the annual swim test. Roy Lester tells the New York Daily News he was forced out of the job after 40 years in 2007 when he wanted to take the swim test in biking shorts instead of the tiny swim trunks. He filed a lawsuit against the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation in 2009. The lawsuit had been dismissed but was reinstated by an appeals court last week. Lester is a triathlete, but says no one his age should be wearing tiny trunks. He says the bathing suit requirement was aimed at getting rid of older lifeguards. State officials declined to comment.
Snake bites man in car after yard sale purchase DUNCANSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Police say a Pennsylvania man picked up more than he bargained for at a yard sale. Duncansville police Chief James Ott tells the Altoona Mirror that a small snake bit Donald Forshey on the leg Wednesday as he and his girlfriend were driving home from a yard sale. Ott says the snake likely slithered into a milk crate containing items the couple had purchased. The pair bailed out of the car on Interstate 99 and called 911. A state trooper was unable to help them find the snake, which Forshey tried to pin to the floor with a crutch he uses. An ambulance was called as a precaution, but Forshey is OK. Authorities believe it was either a garter snake or a copperhead that didn’t inject any venom when it struck. Bat causes stir at NH selectman’s meeting EPPING, N.H. (AP) — Maybe the bat just wanted to air its concerns to the board. The Board of Selectmen in Epping, N.H., was discussing road signs this week when the meeting was interrupted for about two minutes by a bat that swooped and flitted over the panel, causing members to duck and chuckle. The bat was eventually chased out the door. Selectman James McGeough calls the wildlife encounter a comedy of errors, and jokingly suggested police shoot it. Board Chairwoman Karen Falcone tells WMUR-TV the meeting became a “frenzy.” Town officials have long known that bats live in the tower above town hall, but this was the first time one made an appearance at a meeting.
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FREE ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE ADVANCED CONVERSATION GROUP meets at 6 p.m. at the Blue Moose Cafe for conversation, friendship and free English conversation lessons. New friends are always welcome. For more information, email Erin at mclv_advanced_conversation@yahoo.com. STUDENTS TAKING ACTION NOW: DARFUR meets at 7 p.m. in the Mountain Room of the Mountainlair. STAND is active in planning events to raise money and awareness on the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan. For more information, contact Felicia at fgilber@mix.wvu.edu or 732-674-8357. FEMINIST MAJORITY LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE meets in the Blackwater Room of the Mountainlair at 7:30 p.m. For more information, email rsnyder9@mix.wvu.edu. WVU FENCING CLUB hosts beginners fencing practice from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Stansbury Hall Gym. For more information, email wvufencing@gmail.com or visit www.fencingclub.studentorgs.wvu.edu. WVU CLUB TENNIS practices from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Ridgeview Racquet Club. For carpooling, call 304906-4427. New members are always welcome. CHESS CLUB meets from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the food court of the Mountainlair. Players of all skill levels are invited to come. For more information, email wvuchess@gmail. com. TRADITIONAL KARATE CLASS FOR SELF-DEFENSE meets at 9 p.m. in Multipurpose Room A of the Student Recreation Center. THE WVU EQUESTRIAN TEAM meets in Room 2001 of the Agricultural Sciences Building. The Western Equestrian Team will meet at 7 p.m. and the English Equestrian Team will meet at 8 p.m.
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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 5 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-on-one community-based and school-based mentoring programs. To volunteer, contact Sylvia at 304-983-2823, ext. 104 or email bigs4kids@yahoo.com. ROSENBAUM FAMILY HOUSE, which provides a place for adult patients and their families to stay while receiving medical care at WVU, is looking for service organizations to provide dinner for 20 to 40 Family House guests. For more 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. MOUNTAINEER SPAY/NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM is an all-volunteer nonprofit that promotes spay/ neuter to reduce the number of homeless pets that are euthanized every year. M-SNAP needs new members to help its cause, as does ReTails, a thrift shop located in the Morgantown Mall. For more information, go to www.m-snap.org. THE CONDOM CARAVAN will be in Room G304 of the Health Sciences Center on Mondays and the Mountainlair on Thursdays from noon to 2 p.m. The caravan sells condoms for 25 cents or five for $1. INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP is an interdenominational student-led organization that meets weekly on campus. Everyone is welcome to attend events. For more information, email Daniel at ivcfwvu@ yahoo.com or visit the IVCF website at www.wvuiv.org.edu. THE ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE meets on the second Monday and fourth Tuesday of every month at noon at Hatfields in the Mountainlair. All students and faculty are invited. For more information, email amy.keesee@mail.wvu. edu.
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BORN TODAY You have a lot going for you. This is not the year to become shy or reticent. You are overly serious at times. Your determination to create much more of what you want comes through. Your charm works wonders, too! Do remember that. Take the lead and move forward. If you are single, you could meet someone through a friend or through work. If you are attached, work on the friendship that exists between you. It will bond you even more. VIRGO helps run your finances.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHHH Keep your cool when dealing with others. You might be a little too energized or carrying some anger from another situation. Keep others mellow rather than stress them out. A family member, as always, is challenging. Tonight: Give up worrying; it doesn’t help!
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH Surprises continue to dot the horizon. One would think that by now you would be used to this unpredictability. Still, somehow you manage to be thrown out of kilter for a brief period. You are relaxing more, seeing the potential in these mini life tremors. Tonight: Go off and enjoy yourself. TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHHH Ingenuity greets you early this morning. With this extra gift in your pocket, your confidence is enhanced. You know you can handle whatever you come across. News could test this innate resourcefulness. Tonight: Seek out the experience you want. GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHH You just might wake up and decide to cancel Monday. Though this thought is great, you realize the best you can do is clear your schedule of everything that is not a must-do. Check out a new item for your home or just for you. Tonight:
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHH Expand your focus, especially if you’re dealing with financial matters. Not everything is as tidy as you might like. Expect to see a new possibility once you are clear. You have the ability to move into more effective thinking. Tonight: Your treat. VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH You are much less energized on Monday. You will understand if some people shy away from you. Your creativity comes out. You become verbal in a meeting. A child or loved one acts up. You know exactly how to handle this issue. Tonight: Do exactly what you want. You will anyway. LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHH Take a deep breath and understand what you need in order to follow through on a personal matter. You can’t worry any longer, as you need to act. Realize not acting is a decision in itself. Do you want to toss away your power like that? Tonight: Do some quiet reflecting. SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHHH Meetings, networking and perhaps a fun late lunch could make this day one you smile about for a while. Remem-
ber, don’t mix business with pleasure. It is a discreet but important line. Keep reaching out for someone. Tonight: Find your friends. SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH Someone makes a strong impression on you. The issue might lie in the fact that you must respond to this person. You could be re-evaluating your interaction. Follow through on what you must. Tonight: Could be late. CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH News floats through, no matter which way you proceed. Stay on top of your work, as you will have other, more interesting matters to deal with sooner rather than later. Take in new information carefully. Tonight: Relax your mind. AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHHH You might want to open up to potential change. Listen to feedback that heads in your direction. Relate to individuals rather than in meetings. You will gain more support and understanding that way. You breed loyalty. Tonight: Have a much-needed conversation. PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHH Realize what is happening with others. A partner, as well as work-related associates, wants to dominate. Do you really care? Go off and do what you want for a change. Let someone else carry the weight you generally do. Tonight: Say “yes.” BORN TODAY Pianist, singer, songwriter Tori Amos (1963), author Dorothy Parker (1893), blues singer, songwriter John Lee Hooker (1917)
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8 Small fruit pie 9 Mantric syllables 10 Italian sandwich 11 *Like unreliable short-term businesses 12 Olds Cutlass model 13 The devil 21 Canyon edge 22 “Come on, we’re late” 24 Goal in checkers 25 Read, as a bar code 26 Treaty partner 27 *Do some scheming 29 Flying toys 30 U-turn from WSW 32 Stable sounds 35 Available for a date 36 Puts in a lawn the fast way 39 River of Spain 40 “... or __ thought” 45 Beat in a Western showdown 47 “__ Fideles”: carol 48 Conan of “Conan” 49 Simpsons neighbor Flanders
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NJ community grieves after 4 teens killed in crash LINWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Grief shrouded the tree-lined neighborhoods around Mainland Regional High School on Sunday, a day after four high school football players were killed and four were injured when their SUV crashed on Garden State Parkway on their way to have brunch with some teammates. Mainland Mustangs’ football field was still. A solitary jogger looped the track. Tackling dummies in the nearby prac-
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enforcement agencies to support our fan conduct and stadium security initiatives,” Aiello said 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh, who also once was a coach in the Raiders organization, said he was saddened to hear about the spate of violence. “I didn’t know anything was going on during the game. I wasn’t aware of that,” Harbaugh said. “I feel bad for the people who got injured and the people who had to see that, for those who had to witness it.” Andraychak said police were interviewing witnesses Sunday, and encouraged others who may have tips or who saw the violence to come forward. The attacks come about five months after San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow was severely beaten by two men in Los Angeles Dodgers gear outside Dodger Stadium after the archrivals season opener March 31. Two suspects have been charged in the case. Police Sgt. Frank Harrell said Saturday that the man shot wearing a T-shirt referring to the 49ers with an obscenity, drove his truck to a gate and stumbled to stadium security. The other man was shot before that in the parking
tice field stood undisturbed. Superintendent Thomas Baruffi said he hoped an evening candlelight vigil, scheduled at the stadium, would give people a place to come together and grieve. He said he has been through student deaths before, but never multiple deaths at the same time. “They’re always tragic,” he said. “You know there’s nothing you can say or do that’s enough.” lot and had superficial face injuries, Harrell said. Harrell told reporters outside the stadium that the two shootings were being treated separately “but we believe they are related.” He did not elaborate. In the attack on Stow, the Giants fan beaten nearly to death almost five months ago, the two men charged in the beating, Louie Sanchez, 28, and Marvin Norwood, 30, have pleaded not guilty. Stow, 42, a Santa Cruz paramedic, suffered severe brain injuries and remains hospitalized in serious condition. Doctors say while the father of two has made “significant improvement,” it’s still unclear how far Stow’s recovery will take him. That attack drew widespread attention and focusing the spotlight on security at Dodger Stadium, and the intense rivalry among Dodgers and Giants fans. Christian End, an assistant professor at Xavier University in Cincinnati, who specializes in sports fan behavior, said there are several factors for unruliness at sporting events. Those factors include the magnitude of the game, if it is between arch rivals, adrenaline and alcohol. There’s also “deindividuation,” when fans supporting a particular team adopt a group mentality and may become uncivil.
Under New Jersey law, drivers under 18 generally are not allowed to carry more than one passenger unless a parent or guardian is in the vehicle. The eight boys in the SUV ranged in age from 15 to 17. State police continued to investigate and did not release details Sunday on how fast the SUV was moving before the crash or whether the occupants were wearing seatbelts. The teenagers were on their “The anonymity of large crowds can afford some fans the opportunity to act in a way that they typically wouldn’t because there’s less accountability and less fear of repercussion,” End said. “In sporting events, our norms and mores are different than how we would act in everyday life.” End said violence between fans of opposing teams can typically begin with light banter, followed up by “one-upping” the other usually with statistics or other quirky chatter that could draw a crowd. That could lead to trash talking. “Then it could be taken up a notch where the fun aspect is gone and it just escalates,” End said. End said he doesn’t believe fan violence has increased in the last 10 years but may appear that way partially due to all of the new technology at hand. “There are more cameras covering games and more fans using their smartphones,” End said. “Any acts of aggression have a higher probability of being captured and being shown over the Internet and on television. “It would give the impression that, ‘Boy, fans are engaging in all of this aggressive behavior.’ But you have to remember that a vast majority of them are not.”
way to meet other players at the Old Country Buffet in Mays Landing, one of several places players often go to eat. Sgt. Julian Castellanos, a state police spokesman, said the driver, 17-year-old Casey Brenner of Northfield, apparently lost control of the vehicle about 11:45 a.m. Saturday as it went around a crest on the parkway and came upon heavy traffic. The vehicle overturned sev-
eral times, ejecting two passengers, one of whom was struck by a passing car, Castellanos said. All eight teenagers played for the school in Linwood, where filling bleachers at Friday night games is an autumn pastime. The Mustangs have won six state championships, including five since Bob Coffey became head coach in 1986. Before the crash, perhaps the greatest trial for the team
came when it had to forfeit four games last year for using a player who transferred from another school and suited up without all the proper paperwork in place. The victims’ teammates planned to don game jerseys for the first time with their names stitched above the numbers to attend the evening vigil. And they expected to be together for funerals in the coming days.
GOP may approve tax increase that President Obama hopes to block WASHINGTON (AP) — News flash: Congressional Republicans want to raise your taxes. Impossible, right? GOP lawmakers are so virulently antitax, surely they will fight to prevent a payroll tax increase on virtually every wageearner starting Jan. 1, right? Apparently not. Many of the same Republicans who fought hammerand-tong to keep the George W. Bush-era income tax cuts from expiring on schedule are now saying a different “temporary” tax cut should end as planned. By their own definition, that amounts to a tax increase. The tax break extension they oppose is sought by President Barack Obama. Unlike proposed changes in the income tax, this policy helps the 46 percent of all Americans who owe no federal income taxes but who pay a “payroll tax” on practically every dime they earn. There are other differences as well, and Republicans say their stand is consistent with their goal of long-term tax policies that will spur employment and lend greater certainty to the economy. “It’s always a net positive to let taxpayers keep more of what they earn,” says Rep. Jeb Hensarling, “but not all tax relief is created equal for the purposes of helping to get the economy moving again.” The Texas lawmaker is on the House GOP leadership team. The debate is likely to boil up in coming weeks as a special bipartisan committee seeks big deficit reductions and weighs which tax cuts are sacrosanct. At issue is a tax that the vast majority of workers pay, but many don’t recognize because they don’t read, or don’t understand their pay stubs. Workers normally pay 6.2 percent of their wages toward a tax designated for Social Security. Their employer pays an equal amount, for a total of 12.4 percent per worker. As part of a bipartisan spending deal last December, Congress approved Obama’s request to reduce the workers’ share to 4.2 percent for one year; employers’ rate did not change. Obama wants Congress to extend the reduction for an additional year. If
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President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Obama cited the payroll tax in his weekend radio and Internet address Saturday. not, the rate will return to 6.2 percent on Jan. 1. Obama cited the payroll tax in his weekend radio and Internet address Saturday, when he urged Congress to work together on measures that help the economy and create jobs. “There are things we can do right now that will mean more customers for businesses and more jobs across the country. We can cut payroll taxes again, so families have an extra $1,000 to spend,” he said. Social Security payroll taxes apply only to the first $106,800 of a worker’s wages. Therefore, $2,136 is the biggest benefit anyone can gain from the one-year reduction. The great majority of Americans make less than $106,800 a year. Millions of workers pay more in payroll taxes than in federal income taxes. The 12-month tax reduction will cost the government about $120 billion this year, and a similar amount next year if it’s renewed. That worries Rep. David Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, and a member of the House-Senate supercommittee tasked with finding new deficit cuts. Tax reductions, “no matter how well-intended,” will push the deficit higher, making the panel’s task that much harder, Camp’s office said. But Republican lawmakers
haven’t always worried about tax cuts increasing the deficit. They led the fight to extend the life of a much bigger tax break: the major 2001 income tax reduction enacted under Bush. It was scheduled to expire at the start of this year. Obama campaigned on a pledge to end the tax break only for the richest Americans, but solid GOP opposition forced him to back down. Many Republicans are adamant about not raising taxes but largely silent on what it would mean to let the payroll tax break expire. Republicans cite key differences between the two “temporary” taxes, starting with the fact that the Bush measure had a 10-year life from the start. To stimulate job growth, these lawmakers say, it’s better to reduce income tax rates for people and for companies than to extend the payroll tax break. “We don’t need short-term gestures. We need long-term fundamental changes in our tax structure and our regulatory structure that people who create jobs can rely on,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander, RTenn., when asked about the payroll tax matter. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., “has never believed that this type of temporary tax relief is the best way to grow the economy,” said spokesman Brad Dayspring.
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Why Should the U.S. Fund the Terrorist Group Hamas? Congress now sends nearly a billion tax dollars annually to the Hamaslinked Palestinian Authority: Is this a smart use of U.S. foreign aid?
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half of all murders in Gaza are “honor killings” of women. Homosexuality is illegal in Gaza, and In May 2011, in an effort to circumvent peace Christians are often harassed. Against all international negotiations with Israel, the Palestinian Authority law, kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit has been (P.A.) inked a deal to merge with Hamas. This sudden held incommunicado by Hamas for five years with no reconciliation enables the P.A., now representing both access to the Red Cross. the West Bank and Gaza, to present the illusion of a Hamas opposes the Israeli-Palestinian peace viable, unified governing body to the United Nations in process. Hamas stands order to obtain the U.N.’s openly by its goal to unilateral declaration of a “We will not deal with nor in any way fund a conquer every inch of Palestinian state. Because Palestinian government that includes Hamas.” Palestine, cleanse it of Hamas is an avowed U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Jews, and establish a enemy of the United States fundamentalist Islamic and because the U.S. and caliphate. Since Israel’s withdrawal of security forces Israel believe direct negotiations with the P.A. and residents from Gaza in 2005, Hamas has fired represent the only sustainable path to peace, both more than 8,800 missiles on Israeli cities and civilians. nations oppose such a move in the U.N. Just a few months ago, the group’s rocket attack on an Hamas, headquartered in Gaza, with a political Israeli school bus killed a 16-year-old boy. Above all, leadership office in Damascus, Syria, was founded in Hamas refuses to accept the state of Israel and 1987 as an arm of Egypt’s Islamist Muslim condemns any efforts to negotiate peace—a complete Brotherhood. In 1999 the U.S. State Department put repudiation of the efforts of the United States and the Hamas on its list of foreign terrorist organizations. No Quartet on the Middle East (consisting of the United wonder: According to its own charter, Hamas is Nations, the European Union, Russia and the U.S.) to dedicated to creating an Islamic state in all of Palestine, resolve the decades-long dispute between Arabs and destroying the state of Israel and exterminating Jews. Israelis. Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar Because of its long history of attacking civilians recently confirmed that “Our program does not through bombings, kidnapping and rocket attacks, include negotiations with Israel or recognizing it.” Hamas is also considered a terrorist organization by Time to stop U.S. aid to terrorists. In April, 2011, Canada, the European Union, Israel and Japan. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated, “We will not Hamas’ funding comes primarily from Iran, Saudi deal with nor in any way fund a Palestinian Arabian benefactors and Palestinian expatriates. government that includes Hamas unless and until Palestinian refugees and their descendants in Gaza also Hamas has renounced violence, recognized Israel and receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the United agreed to follow the previous obligations of the Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Now, with Palestinian Authority.” In July, 2011, both houses of Hamas’ recent agreement to unite with Fatah, the Congress overwhelmingly passed resolutions that terrorist group will have influence over and access to threaten withdrawal of aid from the Palestinian billions of dollars more in aid from the U.S., the Authority if it persists in efforts to circumvent direct European Union and dozens of individual donor negotiations with Israel by turning to the United nations. Nations for recognition—which it continues to pursue Hamas rules the people of Gaza with a brutal, aggressively—and if the Palestinian Authority shares totalitarian hand. Since Hamas violently seized control power with Hamas. In fact, annual U.S. foreign of Gaza in 2007, it has permitted no elections and operations appropriations bills expressly forbid allows no freedom of press, religion or speech. funding for “assistance to Hamas or any entity Palestinian women in Gaza are repressed according to effectively controlled by Hamas or any power-sharing strict Islamic custom. More than half of Gazan women government of which Hamas is a member.” report having been victims of physical violence, and It’s clear that the Palestinian Authority, by forming an alliance with the terrorist group Hamas, abandoning peace talks with Israel, and taking its case for statehood unilaterally to the United Nations, has no respect for the interests of the United States in the Middle East. In this time of financial crisis and soaring budget deficits, should we spend 825 million American tax dollars annually supporting the Palestinian Authority, now allied with an avowed enemy of peace, the U.S. and the state of Israel? This message has been published and paid for by
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South Dakota schools cut costs with 4-day school week IRENE, S.D. (AP) — When the nearly 300 students of the Irene-Wakonda School District returned to school this week, they found a lot of old friends, teachers and familiar routines awaiting them. But one thing was missing: Friday classes. This district in the rolling farmland of southeastern South Dakota is among the latest to adopt a four-day school week as the best option for reducing costs and dealing with state budget cuts to education. “It got down to monetary reasons more than anything else,” Superintendent Larry Johnke said. The $50,000 savings will preserve a vocational education program that otherwise would have been scrapped. The four-school week is an increasingly visible example
of the impact of state budget problems on rural education. This fall, fully one-fourth of South Dakota’s districts will have moved to some form of the abbreviated schedule. Only Colorado and Wyoming have a larger proportion of schools using a shortened week. According to one study, more than 120 school districts in 20 states, most in the west, now use four-day weeks. The schools insist that reducing class time is better than the alternatives and can be done without sacrificing academic performance. Yet not all parents are convinced. “The kids are going to suffer,” said Melissa Oien, who has four children in the school and serves as vice president of the parent-teacher organization. “Of course they will. They’re missing a whole day of school.”
The downsizing comes as schools in some larger cities are moving in the opposite direction. In Chicago, school officials hope to add school days so students will learn more and have better employment prospects. Irene-Wakonda’s predicament, like those of many other rural districts in the Great Plains, is compounded by declines in population and enrollment. The two towns, which are eight miles apart, combined their school districts in 2007 to save money. Wakonda got the elementary school and Irene the middle and high schools. Farming is the largest share of their economies, though some people commute to jobs in Yankton or Vermillion. Johnke, the superintendent, said the district will add 30 minutes to each day and
shorten the lunch break to provide more class time Monday through Thursday. In elementary school, recess and physical education classes will be shortened. The changes won’t entirely make up for losing Friday, Johnke said, but the district will still exceed the state’s minimum standard for class time and will teach all the required material. “We feel they’ll get the same instruction. It’ll have to be done a little bit differently,” he said. South Dakota’s Republican-controlled Legislature slashed aid to schools this spring by 6.6 percent to help close a $127 million budget gap. Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard said state revenue has not grown in three years while costs have risen for medical services for the poor.
He ruled out revenue increases. “I believe in shared sacrifice,” Daugaard said earlier this year. Education groups hope to put a tax proposal on the 2012 ballot. In South Dakota, the cut comes in a state that, according to recent census data, already ranked 44th in state spending per pupil. The Associated School Boards of South Dakota estimates another $233 million a year is needed to adequately fund schools. Many districts reduced staff or eliminated programs to make up for the lost money. The number of districts going to four-day weeks has nearly doubled in just two years. Wayne Lueders, the recently retired director of the Associated School Boards, said a four-day school week won’t actually save much because schools still must pay
salaries and benefits, “but every dollar counts in this current situation.” Schools can save on busing, food and other operations. South Dakota’s state education secretary, Melody Schopp, says schools that have switched to four days haven’t suffered in achievement tests. In Deuel, a 500-student district that shortened its week four years ago, Superintendent Dean Christensen said as much as $100,000 a year has been saved and the failure rate has declined, which he attributed to more time for tutoring and teacher training. “It’s not something to be scared of,” Christensen said. Woonsocket, a tiny eastern South Dakota district of just 185 students, plans to drop one Friday per month as an experiment, saving about $4,000 annually.
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This undated high-speed camera image shows a .22 caliber bullet hitting but not breaking the “bulletproof” skin created by Dutch artist Jalila Essaidi with the help of Utah State researcher Randy Lewis. Essaidi initially intended to fire .22 caliber bullets at the “skin” stretched in a frame. But she decided to place the “skin” on a special gelatin block used at the Netherlands Forensic Institute. Using a high-speed camera, she showed a bullet fired at a reduced speed piercing the skin woven with an ordinary worm’s silk But when tested with Lewis’ genetically engineered worm’s silk grafted between the epidermis and dermis, the skin didn’t break. Neither was able to repel a bullet fired at normal speed from a .22 caliber rifle. “We were more than a little surprised that the final skin kept the bullet from going in there,” Lewis said of the tests at reduced speed. “It still ended up 2 inches into the torso, so it would not have saved your life. But without a doubt the most exciting part for us is the
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fact that they were able to recreate the skin on top of our fibers. It’s something we haven’t done. Nobody has worked in that area.” Essaidi was intrigued by the concept of spider silk as armor, and wanted to show that safety in its broadest sense is a relative concept, hence bulletproof. “If human skin would be able to produce this thread, would we be protected from bullets?” she wondered on her blog. “I want to explore the social, political, ethical and cultural issues surrounding safety in a world with access to new biotechnologies.” She said it is legend that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel. “Will we in the near future due to biotechnology no longer need to descend from a godly bloodline in order to have traits like invulnerability?” she asked. Lewis downplayed the potential bulletproof applications of his research. “I certainly would not discount that, but I don’t see that as a tremendous application at the moment,” he said. He said bulletproof vests already exist. But being able to grow cells and use the material to replace large amounts of human skin could be significant for surgeons trying to cover large wounds, or treat people with severe burns. He said the material’s strength and elasticity would enable doctors to cover large areas without worrying about it ripping out – a big advantage over small skin grafts. Lewis couldn’t give a time frame for such a use because it would require FDA approval. But he hoped to do some animal testing within two years, and noted spider silk already has proven very compatible with the human body.
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Pentagon, scarred by 9/11 attack, adapts to new fight WASHINGTON (AP) — The Sept. 11 attacks transformed the Pentagon, ravaging the iconic building itself and setting the stage for two long and costly wars that reordered the way the American military fights. Compared with a decade ago, the military is bigger, more closely connected to the CIA, more practiced at taking on terrorists and more respected by the American public. But its members also are growing weary from war, committing suicide at an alarming rate and training less for conventional warfare. The partly gutted Pentagon was restored with remarkable speed after the hijacked American Airlines Boeing 757 slammed through its west side, setting the building ablaze and killing 184 people. But recovering from the strain of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan will take far longer – possibly decades. The Pentagon’s leaders will have to adjust to a new era of austerity after a decade in which the defense budget dou-
bled, to nearly $700 billion this year. The Army and Marine Corps in particular – both still heavily engaged in Afghanistan – will struggle to retrain, rearm and reinvigorate their badly stretched forces even as budgets begin to shrink. And the troops themselves face an uncertain future; many are scarred by the mental strains of battle, and some face transition to civilian life at a time of economic turmoil and high unemployment. The cost of veterans’ care will march higher. As Robert Gates put it shortly before he stepped down as defense secretary this summer, peace will bring its own problems. The problem was not peace on 9/11. At the time, the military was focused almost entirely on external threats. Air defenses kept watch for planes and missiles that might strike from afar; there was little attention to the possibility that terrorists might hijack domestic airliners and use them as missiles.
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This photo shows lights as they illuminate the 184 stone benches outside the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. Each bench bears the name of a person who died Sept. 11, 2001, in the terrorist attack on the Pentagon. That changed with the creation of U.S. Northern Command in 2002, which now shares responsibility for defending U.S. territory with the Homeland Security Department. Terrorism was not a new challenge in 2001, but the scale of the 9/11 attacks prompted a shift in the U.S. mindset from defense to offense.
The U.S. invaded Afghanistan on Oct. 7 in an unconventional military campaign that was coordinated with the CIA. That heralded one of the most profound effects of 9/11: a shift in the military’s emphasis from fighting conventional army-on-army battles to executing more secretive, intelligence-driven hunts for shadowy terrorists. That shift was
Preacher accused of raping women behind church LADSON, S.C. (AP) — Dale Richardson was saved at a tent revival 32 years ago, was called to preach the Lord’s word in 2006 and, for the past year, had served as pastor at Freedom Free Will Baptist Church, a modest red brick structure on a South Carolina side road running along a railroad track. Now he’s in jail, charged with kidnapping and raping three women at gunpoint – two of them in a trailer behind the church – and kidnapping a fourth who was not sexually assaulted. According to an incident report, about noon on a Saturday last month, Richardson picked up a woman and gave her a ride. When the 20-yearold tried to get out of the car, Richardson allegedly pulled a gun, bound her hands, covered her head and took her to the gray-blue trailer home behind the church. The report said he later dropped the woman in a wooded area, threatening to shoot her if she turned around. Police said the woman was able to identify Richardson from his picture on the church website, which also displays a short biography detailing how he became a Christian and then a pastor. Richardson has since been charged with two other similar sexual assaults, both of which occurred last year. He is accused of bringing one of those women to the church trailer. The third woman claims she was raped in a wooded area outside nearby Summerville, a bedroom community about 20 miles northwest of Charleston. He is also charged with kidnapping a fourth woman. Richardson said little last week when, dressed in a gray and white striped prison jump
suit with his ankles and wrists shackled, he appeared before a Dorchester County magistrate on the latest charges. He said he understood the charges against him and was denied bond when the magistrate said he was a danger to society. Richardson’s public defender said it’s too soon to comment on the case. During his initial bond hearing when he was first arrested, Richardson said he has a spotless record and will put up a strong defense. Maj. John Garrison of the Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office said serial rape cases are unusual in the area. He said this case is drawing particular interest because the suspect is a preacher. Garrison, then at the Charleston County Sheriff’s Department, helped investigate the so-called Lowcountry serial rapist that attracted national headlines two decades ago. Authorities believe Duncan Proctor, who was convicted of two rapes and burglaries and sentenced to life in prison, may have raped as many as 30 women between March 1990 and June 1992. Most neighbors on the quiet cul-de-sac where Richardson lived in a neat yellow house refused to talk last week. But Mary Milligan, who lives two doors away, came to Richardson’s defense. “I don’t believe any of this. I have never had a problem with him. He’s kind. He’s a member of this community. He mows the neighbors’ lawns. I am just blown away by all these accusations,” she said. There was no one home at the Richardson residence, where a paving stone beside the walkway is inscribed “Be-
both are to begin scaling back shortly. The Air Force and Navy, by contrast, got smaller. The Air Force lost about 20,000 slots since 2001 and the Navy lost about 50,000. In percentage terms, the biggest growth in the military has been in the secretive, elite units known as special operations forces. They surged to the forefront of the U.S. military’s counter-terror campaign almost immediately after the 9/11 attacks, helping rout the Taliban in late 2001 and culminating in May 2011 with the Navy SEAL team’s raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. And even though al-Qaida’s global reach has been diminished, the increased role of special operations forces is likely to continue. “It’s the most interesting and important change that’s likely to endure,” Michael O’Hanlon, a defense analyst at the Brookings Institution, said in an interview. “I haven’t heard too many people suggest that we can scale back to where we used to be.”
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Tropical Storm Irene barrels toward Puerto Rico ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (AP) — Tropical Storm Irene barreled toward Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday, packing heavy rains and winds that closed airports and flooded low-lying areas in the Leeward Islands. The fast-moving storm, tracking west-northwest at roughly 18 mph (30 kph), was taking an unpredictable path that left people in the islands of the U.S. Caribbean anxious about the winds and rain to come. On its current forecast track, the U.S. National Hur-
ricane Center in Miami said Irene was expected to pass near or over the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico later in the day. It’s expected to strengthen into a hurricane on Monday as it approaches Hispaniola, the island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti. More than 600,000 people in Haiti still live without shelter after last year’s earthquake. Hurricane conditions were expected late Sunday over Puerto Rico, including its outlying islands of Vieques and Culebra.
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Thousands of Israelis march during a protest against the rising cost of living in Israel, in central Tel Aviv, Israel. JERUSALEM (AP) — Security has traditionally trumped all other concerns in Israel. Now some social activists fear a sudden spike of violence with the Palestinians could overwhelm a spontaneous and surprisingly strong summer-long revolt against the country’s high cost of living. A deadly ambush that killed eight Israelis, and subsequent Israeli airstrikes and rocket
barrages from Gaza over the weekend, have abruptly shifted the country’s attention away from the economic protests that were coalescing into a serious threat to the government. Now the security situation is the center of attention again. The question is whether things will ever shift back to the brief period marked by
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U.S. forecasters had earlier expected the storm’s center to pass just south of Puerto Rico’s southern coast, but now said it could pass over the island of nearly 4 million inhabitants. “The storm is wobbling a little bit. It is moving more to the west-northwest than we anticipated earlier,” said Cristina Forbes, an oceanographer at the center. Sustained winds must reach 74 mph (119 kph) for the storm to be classified as a hurricane. Most forecasts have Irene hitting southern Florida by
the end of the week. By Sunday afternoon, Irene was about 185 miles (300 kilometers) east-southeast of the southern Puerto Rican city of Ponce, where most businesses were closed and some homeowners were putting storm shutters on their windows. Edgar Morales, owner of a roadside food stall in southeastern Puerto Rico, was one of the few business owners who opened Sunday despite the approaching storm.
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Surfers jump off the rocks into the ocean as tropical storm Irene approaches the island in Luquillo, Puerto Rico, Sunday.
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Three stable, 12 dead condition after Arctic plane crash RESOLUTE BAY, Nunavut (AP) — Three survivors of a plane crash in Canada’s Arctic region were recovering from their injuries Sunday as investigators sifted through the wreckage to determine what caused the Boeing 737-200 jet to slam into a hill in foggy weather, killing 12 people. First Air charter flight 6560 crashed Saturday afternoon as it was approaching the airport near the tiny hamlet of Resolute Bay in the Arctic territory of Nunavut. Local residents and soldiers from a nearby military exercise rushed to the scene in a effort to rescue survivors from the wreckage. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Angelique Dignard said two of the survivors – a seven-year-old girl and a 48-year-old man – were transported to a hospital in Ottawa from a medical facility in the Nunavut territorial capital of Iqaluit. A 23-year-old woman remains in a hospital in Iqaluit. Dignard said all three are in stable condition, but she would not comment on the nature of their injuries.
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Though the crash occurred in one of the most remote regions of Canada, the survivors received emergency medical treatment quickly after the crash, because of an unlikely coincidence. National Defense spokesman Daniel Blouin said that military had intended to stage a mock airliner crash rescue on Monday in the region and almost 500 military personnel were already in the community for the exercise. “It’s not often that this level of response is here at this location,” Blouin said. “The fact that we were able to get four birds in the air literally within minutes of the crash happening and use the helicopters to bring the people back to our unit medical center, to say that it helped is certainly safe to say.” First Air spokesman Christopher Ferris, his voice near breaking, said the cause of the accident has not been determined yet. He said all four crew members were killed in the crash. “Our thoughts and focus are with the families and friends of the passengers and crew and the community of Resolute
Bay,” Ferris said. “We would like to thank the Canadian military, whose onsite presence and immediate response was instrumental in the rescue efforts.” Ferris said the airline is fully co-operating with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, whose investigators arrived at the scene shortly after Saturday’s crash because they were already in the region for the military exercise. The RCMP said the plane’s two black boxes with flight recordings had been recovered from the crash site. Forensic identification officers have been sent to Resolute Bay to identify the bodies and assist in the investigation. Aziz Kheraj, the owner of the nearby South Camp Inn, said he had chartered the flight from Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories to Resolute Bay every three weeks for the past six months to bring food and passengers to his hotel. The plane was scheduled to continue on to Grise Fiord on Ellesmere Island. “It’s a bad time,” said Kheraj,
prices, not Palestinians, rockets and airstrikes. Thousands of Israeli erected protest tents in city centers and hundreds of thousands took to the streets in mass demonstrations that became a weekly Saturday night ritual this summer, sending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambling to find solutions and keep his
government together. This Saturday, however, with cities in southern Israel under fire, organizers called off plans for a mass protest and made do with a subdued vigil of several thousand people in Tel Aviv. A man in the southern city of Beersheba, where a large protest was held a week ago, was killed by a rocket earlier in the day.
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A member of the Canadian Forces watches a helicopter in front of a plane that crashed in the hills in Resolute Bay, Nunavut. The company that owns the passenger jet said Sunday it doesn’t know why the Boeing 737 went down, killing 12 and injuring three. who lost friends and family in the crash. “We lost quite a few people on that plane, so it’s pretty tough. We lost six staff.” Kheraj told The Associated Press by telephone that his two granddaughters were on the plane, but only one of them
survived the crash – the 7-yearold girl hospitalized at Ottawa General Hospital. Kheraj said the crash site remained cordoned off Sunday as investigators continued their work. “They haven’t moved any-
body until the coroner shows up,” Kheraj said. “They’ve got everybody covered on the crash site.” Ferris said counselors have planned visit. Johnston’s events scheduled for Sunday have been cancelled.
Stav Shaffir, one of the protest movement’s leaders, said Sunday that protesters in several of the movement’s tent encampments in southern cities were forced to seek cover in bomb shelters. Given this, she said, it was only natural to maintain a low profile while guns were roaring. But she insisted the attacks would not derail the protests.
“The rockets are a short term danger,” she said. “The disintegration of a society is a longterm threat ... we have to keep going. We can’t let the security situation erode us from within.” Adar Stern, a protest leader in Beersheba, said the local protesters have moved their tents close to bomb shelters but have no plans to go home. The protesters will not al-
low the government “to say that because of this we can’t make changes and that we need a budget only for security,” Stern told Israel’s Channel 2 TV. “We want education and health and taxes, and a fair government, and I think this is no less important.” The protests, which began after a relative lull in Israeli-Palestinian violence, initially targeted soaring housing prices, but quickly evolved into a sweeping expression of rage against a wide array of economic issues, including the cost of food, gasoline and education, the country’s spending priorities and a seemingly inexorable shift to Americanstyle capitalism. Israel emerged from the global financial crisis relatively unscathed. The economy has enjoyed rapid growth, and unemployment is at its lowest point in decades.
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Libyan rebels move to edge of Tripoli TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The trappings of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime crumbled Sunday as hundreds of euphoric Libyan rebels overran a major military base defending the capital, carted away truckloads of weapons and raced to the outskirts of Tripoli with virtually no resistance. The rebels’ surprising and speedy leap forward, after six months of largely deadlocked civil war, was packed into just a few dramatic hours. By nightfall, they had advanced more than 20 miles to the edge of Gadhafi’s last major bastion of support. Along the way, they freed several hundred prisoners from a regime lockup. The fighters and the prisoners – many looking weak and dazed and showing scars and bruises from beatings – embraced and wept with joy. Thousands of jubilant civilians rushed out of their homes to cheer the long convoys of pickup trucks packed with rebel fighters shooting in the air. Some were hoarse, shouting: “We are coming for you, frizzhead,” a mocking nickname for Gadhafi. In villages along the way that fell to the rebels one after another, mosque loudspeakers blared “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is great.” “We are going to sacrifice our lives for freedom,” said Nabil alGhowail, a 30-year-old dentist holding a rifle in the streets of Janzour, a suburb just six miles west of Tripoli. Heavy gunfire erupted nearby. As town after town fell and
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Rebel fighters speed towards the front line fighting in the village of Mayah, some 30 kilometers west from Tripoli, LIbya, Sunday. Libyan rebels said they were less than 20 miles from Moammar Gadhafi’s main stronghold of Tripoli on Sunday, a day after opposition fighters launched their first attack on the capital itself. Gadhafi forces melted away, the mood turned euphoric. Some shouted: “We are getting to Tripoli tonight.” Others were shooting in the air, honking horns and yelling “Allahu Akbar.” Inside Tripoli, widespread clashes erupted for a second day between rebel “sleeper cells” and Gadhafi loyalists. Rebels fighter who spoke to relatives in Tripoli by phone said hundreds rushed into the streets in anti-regime protests in several neighborhoods. Libyan state television aired an angry audio message from Gadhafi Sunday night, urging families in Tripoli to arm them-
selves and fight for the capital. “The time is now to fight for your politics, your oil, your land,” he said. “I am with you in Tripoli – together until the ends of the earth,” Gadhafi shouted. The day’s first breakthrough came when hundreds of rebels fought their way into a major symbol of the Gadhafi regime – the base of the elite 32nd Brigade commanded by Gadhafi’s son, Khamis. Fighters said they met with little resistance. Hundreds of rebels cheered wildly and danced as they took over the compound filled with eucalyptus trees, raising their
tricolor from the front gate and tearing down a large billboard of Gadhafi. Inside, they cracked open wooden crates labeled “Libyan Armed Forces” and loaded their trucks with huge quantities of munitions. One of the rebels carried off a tube of grenades, while another carted off two mortars. “This is the wealth of the Libyan people that he was using against us,” said Ahmed alAjdal, 27, pointing to his haul. “Now we will use it against him and any other dictator who goes against the Libyan people.”
and poorest of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Early Sunday, the storm churned up rough surf along a group of small islands in the eastern Caribbean that includes Antigua & Barbuda, St. Kitts & Nevis, Guadeloupe, and St. Maarten. The storm caused some flooding in low-lying areas, and several countries and territories reported scattered power outages, but there were no immediate reports of serious damage or injuries. The storm was expected
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She added that she didn’t know whether things might change “in the distant future, but at this point ... eurobonds are exactly the wrong answer – they would lead us into a union of debt and not into a union of stability.” Merkel insisted that “every country must attend to reducing its own debt” and pointed to possible legal issues with eurobonds: a need for European treaty changes that could “take years” and to address whether they would be compatible with Germany’s constitution. “Politicians cannot and will not simply follow the markets,” Merkel said. “The markets want to force certain things; we will not do that. Politicians must instead ensure that we make ourselves unassailable.” Merkel’s junior coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party of Vice Chancellor Philipp Roesler, has been particularly keen to stiffen the government’s resistance to eurobonds.
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Three breweries will provide alcohol in 51 locations at Milan Puskar Stadium Predicting by john terry the offensive position battles managing editor
Following West Virginia’s scrimmage Saturday, head coach Dana Holgorsen said he’s continuing to get closer to figuring out who will be his team’s starters will be at certain positions. He’s not there yet, but it’s getting closer. Earlier this week, he named junior Tyler Bitancurt the Mountaineers’ field goal kicker over fellow junior Corey Smith to put an end to the first of the many position battles going on throughout fall camp. There are still plenty left to figure out, though and Holgorsen said that will be what they focus a lot of energy on before the team begins preparation for Marshall. So, let’s take a look at some of the most notable battles still happening on the offensive side of the ball. Freshman Vernard Roberts vs. freshman Andrew Buie vs. freshman Dustin Garrison vs. sophomore Trey Johnson for starting A-back This has been arguably the most talked about of all the po-
see carvelli on PAGE 23
West Virginia University Athletic Director Oliver Luck released the details about the beer sales debuting this season during football games at Milan Puskar Stadium. Three breweries will be used to provide alcohol – Anheuser-Busch, MillerCoors and the Morgantown Brewing Company – at 51 locations throughout the stadium. While specific price points were not named, Matt sunday/The daily athenaeum Luck said the beer will be West Virginia Athletic Director Oliver Luck said that beer from three breweries, including priced at $7, $8 and $9 dethe Morgantown Brewing Company, will be providing the beer at Milan Puskar Stadium. pending on the type.
Beer sales will end at the 7:30 mark in the third quarter, and no beer will be sold in the areas behind the student section. Additionally, there will be no mobile vendors as all beer sales will take place at the concession windows. “It’s a real privilege for our department to be able to offer our fans the choice to be able to purchase beer,” Luck said. “It’s a big responsibility, and we’ve spent considerable time in the last couple of months to make sure we consider every option and any unintended consequences with the different issues we have faced.” The three companies will also be sponsors for the West
Virginia Athletic Department allowing the department to better fulfill its mission, Luck said. The sale of beer was approved, despite some public opposition, by a nine-to-five vote at June’s WVU Board of Governors meeting. The Athletic Department said it is expecting to make anywhere between $500,000 to $1.2 million. The beer sales inside the stadium will be handled by Sodexo, which has been the running the concessions and catering at the stadium for 15 years. Paul Laky, district manager
see bEEr on PAGE 23
Three true freshman running backs battling for starting job by cody schuler sports writer
Often, it is commonplace to associate experience with positioning on the depth chart. The two entities seem to be directly related to one another, with room for variability depending on the specific circumstances. Two quick assumptions are made when a team starts a true freshman. Either the team is extremely weak at that position, or the true freshman is talented and ready to contribute immediately. For West Virginia, the case at running back is
certainly the latter – only in this case, there are three true freshmen. “The last three years we have had a true freshman who is either the guy or is one of the main guys,” said head coach Dana Holgorsen. “Running back is a position that is pretty easy to develop. It’s probably the one position you can do that in.” To describe the amount of running backs on the team as bountiful would be an understatement. Whether it is speed, strength or a combination of both, the qualities present in a suc-
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Freshman running back Andrew Buie runs through a drill in practice. Buie is one of three freshman running backs competing for the starting job this fall.
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Wake transfer making most No. 10 Virginia scores late goal of final season at West Virginia to defeat No. 13 WVU, 2-1 women’s soccer
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The No. 13 West Virginia women’s soccer team was defeated 2-1 by No. 10 Virginia in a hard-fought match at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville, Va., Friday. The game was the season opener for the Big East Conference American Division preseason favorite Mountaineers. The Mountaineers struck first with an eighth minute goal by senior defender Erica Henderson. However, Virginia countered just 15 minutes later with a 23rd minute goal of their own by freshman midfielder Morgan Brian. Brian was the 201011 Gatorade National Female High School Athlete of the Year. Cavalier forward Gloria Douglas then gave Virginia a 2 -1 lead in the 89th minute after the game had been tied for over 60 minutes of play. West Virginia head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown thought playing No. 10 Virginia this early was a great way to measure the status of her team. “A team like that is definitely
going to show us where we need to get better, and that’s the focus right now,” Izzo-Brown said. The first game of the season was also an opportunity for Izzo-Brown to judge her team’s depth. With 16 Mountaineers checking into the game Friday night, the team may have a unique quality. “There is some nice depth here. A lot of different players bring different things,” IzzoBrown said. “Right now, 16 of them can bring different expectations and dimensions to the game.” The Virginia game was just one of many throughout the season, and Izzo-Brown is confident the team can use this defeat as a building block. “This Virginia team is the 10th best team in the country. For us to be at our best at the end of the year, they showed us why they’re 10 and we’re 13 and how we need to get better.” West Virginia will play their home opener Sunday against Big Ten Conference foe Purdue at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium. Coach Izzo-Brown would like to see some improvements in
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The West Virginia women’s soccer team fell in its first game of the season on Friday night. certain areas. “Taking care of the ball, making sure that we are connecting our passes and we’re not giving the ball over in dangerous spots,” Izzo-Brown said. “Creating more and more opportunities to put the ball in the back of the net and keep our shape offensively and defensively.” nicholas.arthur@mail.wvu.edu
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Growing up, Devon Brown and former West Virginia cornerback Brandon Hogan were like family. In fact, when the two were in high school, their goal was to go to the same college to play football. But, when Hogan received his scholarship offer to WVU and Brown didn’t, that put a hitch in their plan, and the two ultimately went their separate ways. Instead, Brown went to Wake Forest, where we went on to stand out for the Demon Deacons. For the past two seasons, Brown led the team in receptions and in 2010, finished with 39 catches for 302 yards and a touchdown. While he was there, though, Brown made sure to keep an eye out for his old friend. “I had been following West Virginia, even when I was at Wake, because of Brandon,” Brown said. “I liked what they did with their receivers. I saw myself in that offense and fitting in well.” And, when head coach Dana Holgorsen and his offensive staff took over after last season ended, that was when Brown made his move, contacting inside receivers coach
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Senior inside receiver Devon Brown catches a pass during practice. Brown led Wake Forest in catches the past two seasons prior to transferring to West Virginia. Shannon Dawson to tell him he was interested in making the move to West Virginia for his final season. “Once I got my release and everything and everything was official for me to start talking to people, I actually took it upon myself to get in touch with a couple of college coaches,” Brown said. “When I was coming out of high school, I almost went to (James Madison) and my recruiting coordinator from there, we have a good relationship, and I still talk to him from time to time and he knew Coach Dawson and gave me his number and everything
took off from there.” Brown will be a fifth-year senior who will be eligible to play in the 2011 season thanks to the NCAA rules permitting graduate students to transfer somewhere if they do so for a post-graduate program that is not offered at their former school. “You talk about a kid that’s happy to be here playing in this offense and making the most of it,” Holgorsen said. “I’ve coached a bunch of seniors that this is their last goround, and you get a lot out of
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touchdowns. He led his team to a state title in arguably the toughest prep competition in the nation. He won countless awards throughout the Houston area. Dozens of scholarship offers followed, and he was one of the most soughtafter prospects in the country. Everything about that description was true – except for the last part. Garrison wasn’t even a blip on most teams’ recruiting radars. He was overlooked, underappreciated and dismissed by most coaches and recruiters. Then again, Dana Holgorsen and running backs coach Robert Gillespie aren’t most coaches. At 5-foot-8, 160 pounds, Garrison wasn’t exactly the prototypical running back recruit. He is the first person to tell you that. “I think it was just a lack of size,” Garrison said. “Football for a lot of people is about
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Freshman running back Dustin Garrison goes through a ball security drill with running backs coach Robert Gillespie during practice. size. For me, being a shorter, not-so-big back, it was kind of hard for me. I still had to push on and push through and work a lot harder than guys who naturally have that size.” That hard work is starting to pay off for the true freshman that, as of Thursday, is
second on the depth chart at running back. Garrison has exponentially improved, both technically and physically, since he arrived in Morgantown this summer. The wiry 160-pound frame he showed up with has quickly blossomed into a 180-pound body capable of withstanding the physicality of a season of Big East conference play. “The first week, it came really fast,” Garrison said of the weight gain. “I remember the first day, after the first workout, the next day I was six pounds heavier. That first week, it was really tough, but after a while, it slowly started catching on.” Gaining twenty pounds seems like it would be painfully difficult, or at least alter his running game somehow. Neither, however, seem to be the case. “It really hasn’t affected my running game,” he said. “I still have the quickness I had before. 180 (pounds) is just something to put on so when I’m carrying I have extra weight with me.” Adjusting to the speed and size of the college game was somewhat of a tricky task for the first couple of days. It didn’t take long for the decorated prep star to realize this is a place where he not only belonged, but a place where he could prosper. “The offense is pretty much the same; I ran the same thing in high school, it’s just the speed and the size is what’s really getting to me, but I’m starting to catch on, it’s staring to get a lot easier. “I’ve always been playing against bigger guys, but once I got to the college level and seeing the players here it surprised me, but I still have to press on and still work hard. Whether it’s in the weight room or outside of practice I still have to work harder.” Despite his preconceived notions of finding his own way amongst the experienced members of the team, Garrison was pleasantly surprised that he would be a contribut-
see garrison on PAGE 24
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WVU volleyball allowing de Jong to experience USA by sebouh majarian sports writer
West Virginia volleyball head coach Jill Kramer continued her overseas recruitment this year, adding two girls to the roster from Netherlands a year after recruiting Lisa Riedel from Germany. Coming to Morgantown are sophomore Carlijn Oosterlaken, a six-foot outside hitter from Tubbergen and junior Anke de Jong, a 6-foot-3 outside hitter from Groningen. Oosterlaken’s arrival has been slightly delayed as she will arrive in town Sunday after
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Continued from page 21 sition battles up to this point in camp, and for good reason. In the spring, it was Roberts and Johnson who turned a lot of heads with their performances. But, Buie and Garrison – two late additions to the Mountaineers’ 2011 recruiting class – have come on incredibly strong so far during camp. When the media was allowed to watch the first 30 minutes of practice, it was Buie and Garrison who probably stood out the most throughout the drills we got to see. But, that’s not to say Roberts or Johnson won’t be the starters. I can’t help but feel like Buie will be the guy when the season starts, though. He’s quick, can catch the ball and could end up being the best fit for this offense. Junior Ryan Nehlen vs. sophomore Ivan McCartney for starter at Z receiver Holgorsen called this battle one of the more fun ones to watch in camp. Nehlen emerged as one of the team’s most consistent receivers when he broke out in the spring, and he hasn’t dropped off any since fall camp started. McCartney started off slowly and had a disappointing spring, but Holgorsen and the receivers coaches have said over the
having difficulty with her visa paperwork. The Mountaineers will need to wait a year to see Oosterlaken take the court, as she will have the year medically redshirted. She is coming off a recent ACL injury. So far, de Jong who is an economics major, thinks playing here is harder than playing back in Netherlands. She stated that the level of professionalism is a lot higher here which has been something she needed to adjust to but believes will lead to her learning more. De Jong made the trip across the Atlantic because she wanted to experience somelast few weeks that his consistency has gotten a lot better since they started practice. It will likely be Nehlen to win this one, but possibly the biggest loser in this battle is not McCartney, but rather senior Brad Starks. Starks has missed most of camp and, if both receivers continue progressing before he gets back, he could find himself losing out on a lot of playing time this season. Sophomore Pat Eger vs. redshirt freshman Quinton Spain for starter at right tackle Holgorsen didn’t hold back when asked about how this battle has been shaping up. “It’s going terribly. Both of them still have a long way to go,” he said. In Saturday’s scrimmage, it was Eger who ran with the first string at the position, and it’s the only starting spot left on the offensive line that still hasn’t been filled. That fact could make it all the more important for one of these two to step up and solidify themselves as the starter fairly soon. Spain has a slight size advantage on Eger, standing at 6-foot4, 338 pounds, but it seems like it’s been Eger who has really been coming on strong lately, and he should be the one who emerges from this one.
she expected Oosterlaken to be around so they could help each other adjust. “It would be easier because I would have someone to go to and talk to, for now I talk to William (Kramer) because he speaks Dutch, but he isn’t around all the time so that’s when I could go to Carolijn,” de Jong said. The Groningen native doesn’t want to use her lifeline too much as she wants to learn and adjust independently. “I really want to learn English, so if I go to her too much then I won’t learn as much, but I’m sure she’ll support me
thing new and better herself outside the lines. “I really want to experience American life and culture and speak better English, because mine isn’t good right now,” de Jong said. “I want to get a different experience and develop myself with a good team.” De Jong prides herself on practicing hard and being very competitive. “I really try to give everything at practice because you have to try and try to do your best and be perfect, and I really want to get the best out of me.” The transition has been a bit of an adventure for de Jong as
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when I need just as I’ll help her if she needs,” de Jong said. The outside hitter is excited for preseason to end and for the season opener to get underway. “We’re working very hard, and in these first few weeks we’ve grown a lot and I really think we can make it to Big East. Especially if we keep practicing the way we’ve been practicing,” she said. Kramer and the team have greeted de Jong with open arms and have been helpful in her transition from almost 4,000 miles away. “Jill’s been very supportive,
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one appears intoxicated. “Our overall goal is to enhance the fan experience,” Laky said. “This is an opportunity with the new policies in place that we can responsibly serve beer, let people enjoy the game and protect the people that don’t consume.” University Police Chief Bob Roberts said that security staff will be stepping up screening at the games. Intoxicated individuals will not be allowed in, and individuals who become intoxicated may be asked to leave. “We don’t want people to be out of the game, we want them to be in the game,” Roberts said. “But, we want them file photo to be respectful.” He also said that security This season will be the first time fans will be allowed to purchase beer during West Virstaff would be more strict ginia football games at Milan Puskar Stadium. than in year’s past. “As long as people are responsible, no one will have any issues at the stadium or in the parking lots,” Roberts said. “The problem is when Follow us on Twitter for breaking news updates and you drink to much and draw give feedback. attention to yourself, and then we have to address the issues.”
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and she really helps me and tries to do everything she can for me, especially if I don’t understand something she has no problem explaining it again,” de Jong said. The two haven’t played on the same team before, although they have squared off against one another once with Oosterlaken’s team coming out victorious. The Mountaineers hope that the Dutch duo will be able to contribute with the help of de Jong this year and both of them next.
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Holgorsen not satisfied following first scrimmage By Ben Gaughan
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The West Virginia football team participated in its first real scrimmage at practice on Saturday afternoon. Let’s just say, with two weeks left before the opener against Marshall, the Mountaineers still have some work to do. “This is the hottest day that we’ve had,� said West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen. “You know, we put them in a bunch of situations, we got a lot of snaps, guys started getting tired.� Albeit a hot day, Holgorsen was able to get a feel for which players were physically and mentally stronger than others. “In a scrimmage situation, where this is really our first scrimmage situation where we can drive the field, we noticed a few guys who aren’t tough enough physically to be able to maintain focus and be able to do
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Continued from page 22 ing factor to the offense this season. “I was expecting to let the older guys do their thing, and me and (true freshman running back) Andrew (Buie) would sit in the back and watch,� he said. “When me and (Buie) got here, we were the ones taking most of the reps.� Garrison has successfully caught the eye of Holgorsen and Gillespie, much like he did when he was coming out of high school. Gillespie recruited Garrison at Oklahoma State knowing his style of play fit well with then-offensive coordinator Holgorsen’s scheme.
the right thing,� Holgorsen said. The coach stressed that the team will go back to the film room and talk about pushing through adversity in game situations when it’s hot and the guys are getting tired, basically being in a normal football game day. “It has nothing to do with what their conditioning was in the summer; it’s the difference between being in good shape and being in good football shape,� Holgorsen said. “Being in good football shape is totally different than lining up and running ten 100’s. It’s totally different because you’re getting smacked in the mouth, and then when things go wrong, mentally weak people tend to shut it down a little bit.� Even after the scrimmage, the team does not have a definitive depth chart at most positions. Work still needs to be done for many players before the coaches decide on the starting roster, according to Holgorsen. “A few of them have estabWhen Gillespie found out Holgorsen was bringing him along to Morgantown, he made sure Garrison knew. “He set me up with a visit, I came here and I loved the place,� Garrison said. “It was the first time I had seen actual, real snow, which was a little surprise. I liked it here – the people, the town and atmosphere was nice. It was beautiful.� Now, Garrison is getting the opportunity to impress Holgorsen in practice. He contributes his ascension up the depth chart to a trait that helped land him in Morgantown. “I think it’s my patience. When I get the ball, I’m trying to find a hole and I can tell (coach) Holgorsen really sees that in me,� he said. “When I get the ball, I’m waiting for
lished themselves as starters, but we’ve still got another week,â€? he said. “We’ll practice the heck out of them for another week and then make our mind up prior to game week on who’s going to play.â€? The day was not all negative. Certain veteran players stood out such as redshirt junior offensive lineman Jeff Braun and senior linebacker Najee Goode. “The guys who have been there and done it are the guys who typically rise up and are able to handle the situation,â€? Holgorsen said. On the offensive side of the ball, the team pushed the ball well down the field, but apparently had trouble executing in the red zone. “The offense did a decent job of moving the ball, but once we got in the red zone, we couldn’t score,â€? Holgorsen said. “That is why you practice, though. That is why we put them in those situations to get better at that.â€? a hole.â€? Garrison isn’t worried that his stature will hinder his ability to succeed at the college level. Even a task such as blocking, which he isn’t as familiar with, is something he can pick up and eventually excel at. “We’ve got some big linebackers, and for little guys like me ‌ it’s hard to block those guys. But (Coach) Gillespie, he shows us technique, what we need to do and how to do it. And, if we do it the right way, it can be done.â€? “As a freshman, I feel I have to prove a lot, to the coaches and to the linebackers.â€? It wouldn’t be the first time Garrison has had to prove himself, and it certainly won’t be the last.
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Holgorsen credited his defense for making plays and shutting the offense down on the short part of the field, which seems positive considering the large amount of underclassmen on the defense going up against Holgorsen’s tough offensive scheme. “When you flip to the side defensively, they did a good job of putting up the wall.â€? Holgorsen feels the team is not completely ready as a unit yet, but did about as good for a first scrimmage as they ever could. “This is the closest we’ve come to what it’s going to be like two weeks from now,â€? Holgorsen said. “That’s the way we want to be. You can’t just sit here and put them in this situation all the time, you have to practice ‌ go in and watch it, you make the corrections and try to put them in some more situations a week before the first game.â€? ben.gaughan@mail.wvu.edu
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Continued from page 22 them.� It has certainly seemed to be that way for Brown so far in camp, as he’s been impressing since the first day and could contribute in big ways, not only in the passing game, but on special teams, as well, as a return man. For him, he’s just happy to be in an offense where he can truly play like himself, which was something he wasn’t able to do much at Wake Forest. Like former WVU and Wake Forest offensive coordinator Jeff Mullen’s offense, when Brown was with the Demon Deacons, he was running a lot of underneath routes and caught his fair share of bubble screens. He feels the offense Holgorsen and the Mountaineers run will be much better to suit his style of play. Brown also said another big plus of playing in this offense, as opposed to what he’s been used to his first four years in
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West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen said his team still has a lot of work to do before its ready to start the season against Marshall on Sept. 4. college, has been the fact that he really has the freedom to do whatever he wants. If he sees there’s something in the coverage he has the ability to exploit and get open quicker, he has the freedom to make that read and switch up his route. “They just say find grass,� he said. “They try to give you a distance – say between 12 and 14 yards – and just find grass wherever there’s an open spot. That definitely gives you a lot of freedom and lets you do what you can to utilize your ability and skills.� But, with that freedom comes an adjustment period, especially for a transfer, where the receiver needs to be able to get on the same page as his quarterback because if the quarterback doesn’t know what the receiver’s going to do, it doesn’t matter how good the read is. “That’s going to happen from time to time, but those mistakes have definitely diminished from the beginning of camp to now and hopefully they keep getting better,� Brown said.
Brown has been compared to former West Virginia wide receiver Jock Sanders by a lot of his teammates who say the two run their routes the same and have many other similarities in their games. He’s expected to split time this season at the “Y� inside receiver position with senior Tyler Urban. The Ashburn, Va., native said he feels the two of them rotating in and out of the game could present a lot of matchup problems for opposing teams and possibly translate into more success for the WVU offense. “We’re like two completely different receivers,� Brown said. “He can do a lot of things I can’t do, and I can do things that he can’t do, so I think it’ll definitely be a good change and something different for the defenses to see. “They won’t be able to key in on one thing because if they start keying in on something, we can just make a sub and put someone else in, and it’s a completely different game. It keeps the defense off-balance.� james.carvelli@mail.wvu.edu
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Continued from page 23 cessful running back are sure to be found between the seven players vying for playing time at the position this year. Holgorsen’s offense is known as a pass-heavy attack that racks up yards and points at an astounding rate. What most people tend to overlook, however, is the contribution made from the running game. Last season’s edition of Holgorsen’s offense at Oklahoma State averaged over 174 yards rushing per game – 14 yards more than last year’s West Virginia backfield. The “A” back slot in Holgorsen’s offense is the primary ball carrier and identifies as a traditional running back. The aforementioned true freshman trio of Vernard Roberts, Andrew Buie and Dustin Garrison are competing with true sophomore Trey Johnson for carries. Roberts enrolled in school last January and played dazzlingly in the Spring Game. Johnson carried 15 times last year for 42 yards last year and is the lone member of the group with game experience. The two combined for 227 total yards and two touchdowns in April’s Spring Game. Roberts benefited from the increased exposure and workload and found himself at the top of the depth chart when preseason camp broke. Buie and Garrison arrived this summer and have quickly picked up the offensive scheme. As of Thursday, they have emerged as the top two on the depth chart. Garrison, who scored 46 touchdowns for 5A Texas state champion Pearland High School, reported to camp at 160 pounds but has since added 20 pounds to his 5-foot-9 frame, which should serve him well as he enters his first season of Big East conference play. Buie, a four-star recruit from Jacksonville, Fla., is regarded as the quickest of the group and continues to regularly impress Holgorsen in practice. The starting job is his to lose, but there is still plenty of time remaining before the season opener. As fluid and deep as the position is, anything can happen. “The running back (competition) is still going,” says Holgorsen. “A guy will have a good day, then a bad day. It just takes time to see who figures it out. You just have to keep evaluating. It may be even after the Marshall game before we figure things out.” The “B” back slot in Holgorsen’s offense is a fullback that primarily serves as a passblocker. Last year, fullbacks rushed for a total of 588 yards and nine touchdowns. Both of those numbers figure to see sharp decreases, as Holgorsen will supply the “A” backs with the majority of the carries. Redshirt junior Ryan Clarke led the group last year with 291 yards and a team-leading eight touchdowns. He, along with ju-
water bottles at them, the score tied at 64. Coaches and players representatives from the two teams met at Beijing's airport Friday to reconcile. "Yeah, we just got together and shook hands and their coach and me talked about things other than basketball, about families, and we both are ready to move on," Thompson said. While the Hoyas were originally scheduled to play the Rockets again on Sunday in Shanghai, that match was canceled prior to Thursday's fight. Instead, Georgetown will face the Liaoning Dinosaurs. "We expect good competition against a very difficult team," Thompson said. Manning’s availability for season opener in doubt INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Count Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay among those worried about Peyton Manning’s neck. On Saturday morning, Irsay used his Twitter account to acknowledge there is a possibility the Colts will start the season without their No. 1 quarterback. “We r evaluating the QB sitch, (hash)18 healing but we must 2 b prepared 4 early season possibility without him, defense has 2 pick it up, big time!,” Irsay wrote. It’s a notion that will undoubtedly make Colts fans cringe and, until now, seemed inconceivable. Manning, who signed a fiveyear, $90 million contract last
month, is the only four-time MVP in NFL history. Since being the No. 1 overall pick in the 1998 draft, Manning has started all 208 regular-season games and 19 more in the playoffs. His streak of 227 consecutive games is the second-longest for a quarterback in league history behind only Brett Favre. But the recovery from May surgery, the second operation on his neck in 15 months, has been slow. Manning attributed part of the problem with not being able to work out with team officials during the 4½-month lockout. The only other time one of his starts appeared to be in jeopardy was in 2008 when Manning needed two operations to remove an infected bursa sac from his left knee. He missed all of training camp and the entire preseason, then struggled early in the regular season before winning his third MVP Award. With Manning, the Colts have been a perennial Super Bowl contender. Without him, well, the Colts’ hopes of becoming the first team to play the NFL’s title game in their home stadium would certainly take a hit. Backup Curtis Painter has started both preseason games and has completed 8 of 16 passes for 95 yards with no touchdowns and one interception. In Friday night’s 16-3 loss to Washington, Painter managed only one first down and couldn’t get the offense past its 29-yard line despite
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The Georgetown men’s basketball team and China’s Bayi Rockets fight during their exhibition game in Beijing, China on Thursday, Aug. 18. playing the entire first half. Painter hasn’t played in a regular-season game since relieving Manning in the final two games of the 2009 season – after the Colts had already locked up homefield advantage throughout the playoffs. His career numbers are 8 of 28 for 83 yards with no touchdowns, two interceptions and a quarterback rating of 9.8. The only other quarterbacks on the roster are Dan Orlovsky, who has played in 13 games in six NFL seasons – though none with the
nior Shawne Alston, saw regular running the football. Redshirt junior and Parkersburg, W.Va., native Matt Lindamood and senior Ricky Kovatch are supplemental options and blocking specialists who could factor into goal line sets. Alston, who Holgorsen has playfully referred to as “Alstott” – due to his neck roll and style of play – is regarded as the best blocker of the bunch, and at 200 pounds he still totes a surprising amount of speed. Clarke has retooled his skills to become a better blocker, rematt sunday/the daily athenaeum cently drawing praise from Hol- After spring practice, freshman Vernard Roberts was listed as the starting A-back on the gorsen for doing so. Holgorsen depth chart. has made clear he doesn’t expect the “B” backs to get too many carries, although Alston – and possibly Clarke – still may get some occasional work as runners. “(Clarke’s) not getting the ball,” Holgorsen said Thursday. “He could because he’s carried the ball around here a lot, but with the system we’ve got right now, we’d rather have guys who are space players. He’s getting in there and helping the team as much as he can from a blocking standpoint, and he’s doing well.” By the time the season starts, Holgorsen hopes to have found three primary ball carriers along with the stable of blocking backs. While it is not evident how Holgorsen will employ each running back, he has clarified that those who are able to make plays and contribute will find time on the field. True freshmen running backs have found success at West Virginia (see: Slaton, Steve and Devine, Noel). Regardless of who is on the field at running back for the Mountaineers, one thing can be certain – they have earned the playing time. charles.schuler@mail.wvu.edu
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Colts – and undrafted rookie Mike Hartline. Irsay quickly dispelled one possible move – taking former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor in Monday’s supplemental draft. “Not taking Pryor...what VET QB would u vote 4 to sign that’s out there? If sum1 has 2 hold the fort early season,who u going with?” Irsay wrote. But with only three weeks left until the Sept. 11 season opener at Houston, anybody the Colts bring in will have to learn on the fly. The Colts rely on lots of au-
dibles when Manning is behind the center, and they don’t want to change the whole offense. That’s why they have traditionally relied on their own experienced quarterbacks, such as Painter and former Colts player Jim Sorgi, to fill in when Manning is not on the field. When could Manning return? Nobody is saying. During a conference call with reporters Saturday, coach Jim Caldwell reiterated the same point he’s made since the Colts held their first training camp practice Aug. 1 – it’s up to the doctors.
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Oklahoma No. 1 in AP preseason top 25 NEW YORK (AP) — Being voted preseason No. 1 is a tradition at Oklahoma, and this season is no different. The Sooners will start out top-ranked in The Associated Press college football poll for the 10th time, more than any program in the country. The defending Big 12 champions received 36 of 60 firstplace votes and 1,464 points in the Top 25 released Saturday. Auburn, last season’s national champion, will start the season No. 23, one spot behind where it began in 2010. If the rankings are any indication, the national title race could be a scramble. No. 2 Alabama, one of a record eight Southeastern Conference teams in the preseason poll, wasn’t far behind OU, receiving 17 first-place votes and 1,439 points. No. 3 Oregon got four firstplace votes, No. 4 LSU received one and No. 5 Boise State got two. Florida State was No. 6, the Seminoles’ best preseason ranking since starting the 2004 season at No. 5. Heisman Trophy favorite Andrew Luck and Stanford were No. 7. Rounding out the top 10 are Oklahoma’s Big 12 rivals, Texas A&M (No. 8) and Oklahoma State (No. 9), and Nebraska (No. 10), in its first season in the Big Ten after leaving the Big 12.
No. 16 Notre Dame is ranked for the first time since early November 2009. As for Oklahoma, no matter where it lands in the preseason, it always expects to make a run at a national championship in the end. It hasn’t won it all, however, since 2000. That’s when coach Bob Stoops led the Sooners to their seventh AP national title in his second season in Norman. Since then, Oklahoma has lost three BCS championship games. The Sooners have won the AP national title four times when they were preseason No. 1 (1956, 1974, 1975 and 1985). The last time they started a season top-ranked was 2003. That season, they lost the BCS championship game to LSU. “We’re very matter of fact,” Stoops said this week. “All we think about is doing the work. “We’re also very aware we’re not much different than about 12, 15 other teams that’ll be competing for it that have legitimate chances to win it. What are we going to do differently to separate ourselves?” Having the combination of quarterback Landry Jones and receiver Ryan Broyles is a good place to start. Jones passed for 4,718 yards and 38 touchdowns last season, his second as a starter, and Broyles was his favorite target. The senior had 131 catches for 1,622
yards and 14 touchdowns. Jones was forced into a starting role two years ago as a redshirt freshman when Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford went down with a shoulder injury. That was a tough season for the Sooners, who started ranked third but finished it 8-5. Bradford was one of several key players Oklahoma lost to an injury that season, and Jones wasn’t the only underclassman who played a bigger role than expected. “Now two years from that they have benefited from the maturity and the experience gained from being on the field at an early age,” Stoops said. “Our (offensive) line was young and now two years later they’ve got experience and some maturity to them. Same with Landry Jones. Same with Ryan Broyles.” Earlier this month, Sooners fans must have had flashbacks to Bradford’s injury when linebacker and leading tackler Travis Lewis hurt his left foot in practice. He likely will miss at least the first four games, including a road trip to Florida State on Sept. 17. “It’s a big blow to us, there is no denying it,” Stoops said.
Oklahoma has also been coping with the death of linebacker Austin Box, a would-be starter who overdosed on prescription painkillers in May. “He’s very close to so many guys and ... it wouldn’t be right to brush it to the side,” defensive coordinator Brent Venables said. “We’re trying to move forward and deal with it as best we can.” The SEC has won five straight BCS title games and has plenty of candidates to make it six. “We want to come out and win a national championship, to be undefeated,” Alabama safety Mark Barron said. “Every time we step out on the field, one of our motivating factors is to be special.” South Carolina (No. 12), Arkansas (No. 15), Georgia (No. 19), Mississippi State (No. 20) and Florida (No. 22) give the SEC more teams in the preseason poll than any previous conference. The Big Ten placed four teams in the rankings. Joining Nebraska are Wisconsin (No. 11), Michigan State (No. 17) and Ohio St. (No. 18). With No. 21 Missouri, the Big 12 had four teams, too.
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ference (Boise State and No. 14 TCU. The Big East, which finished last season with no ranked teams, had one team in the preseason poll, No. 24 West Virginia.
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LSU’s Les Miles says players’ behavior was ‘unacceptable’ BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU coach Les Miles says players have “been involved in behavior that’s unacceptable to meâ€? after starting quarterback Jordan Jefferson and several unidentified teammates were implicated in a fight at a local bar early Friday morning. Miles addressed the media about the incident for the first time Saturday. A group of 22 players who make up the fourthranked Tigers’ Unity Council accompanied Miles for a terse 6½-minute session that included an apology from senior offensive lineman Josh Dworaczyk. “I can tell you that the last couple of days have been miserable for us, that we’ve been involved in behavior that’s unacceptable to me, certainly unacceptable to our team – guys that broke team rules and violated curfew,â€? Miles said. “I can tell you and assure you that this will not happen again. I can tell you that there’s a remorseful team here. “I personally want to apologize for the actions of my team.â€? Miles said a “relatively large groupâ€? was involved in the incident, mentioning senior lineman T-Bob Hebert and Jefferson by name. Miles said all team members were accounted for at a 10:30 p.m. curfew check Thursday night. No charges have been filed, nor have there been any arrests. The Baton Rouge Police Department’s investigation was ongoing Saturday. Police spokesman Sgt. Don Stone said four people were taken to local hospitals after the fight, none of them football players. Stone also said the four people taken for medical attention indicated they intended to press charges. Athletic director Joe Alleva released statement saying “we will not tolerate student-athletes whose irresponsible actions tarnish the good name of a great university.â€? “LSU student-athletes are expected to behave with the understanding that they represent their school, their fellow students and the long history of this program, regardless of the time of day,â€? he said. “Coach Miles has already begun taking disciplinary action. It is critical that we are deliberate in determining the facts surrounding this incident and as coach Miles said, when the facts are clear, additional and appropriate disciplinary action will be taken if necessary.â€? Miles said he already began disciplining the team Friday after a hastily called team meeting. He said the entire team was punished, not only the group of players involved. “We’ve started disciplining our team because this was a team violation,â€? Miles said. “This was not just a guy. This was the team. We ran them and we’re running them.â€? Miles said he won’t levy any punishments, including suspensions, against specific players until the details of the fight are collected and revealed. “I want to find out more what went on,â€? Miles said. The fourth-ranked Tigers start the season playing No. 3 Oregon on Sept. 3 at Cowboys Stadium. “As miserable as I am about this, as disappointed and as mad, I recognize I’ve got a good group of men who understand the mistakes that were made and I suspect that they will make the appropriate changes,â€? Miles said. “I will instruct them along those lines, I promise.â€? Pryor says he won’t appeal suspension GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Terrelle Pryor worked out for 17 NFL teams Saturday and said afterward he wouldn’t appeal his five-week suspension at the start of the NFL season. With the former Ohio State quarterback trying to prove he should be taken in Monday’s supplemental draft, spectators included Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin and director of football operations Kevin Colbert and Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay. Pryor, appearing in top shape, worked out at a high school stadium near his hometown of Jeannette, Pa. He ran the 40-yard dash
LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson was allegedly involved in a fight at a local bar in Baton Rouge, La., early Friday morning. in 4.36 seconds and threw an array of passes. “I would like the opportunity to play quarterback,� he said, “but I’ll do anything that a team needs me to do to win.� Former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel also made an appearance, supporting his former star player after resigning under pressure amid an NCAA investigation that Pryor and others improperly sold memorabilia. Pryor left school for the NFL after Tressel’s departure. “Did great,� Tressel said of the 6-foot-5, 232-pound Pryor. “He would help lots of teams.� The NFL allowed Pryor into the draft Thursday with the caveat that he wouldn’t be allowed to practice for the team that selected him until Week 6. The quarterback would have faced a five-game suspension had he stayed at Ohio State. Pryor’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, told The Associated Press on Thursday that “we accept that voluntarily.� But the player’s attorney, David Cornwell, told ESPN Radio on Friday that it was “likely� the five-game punishment would be appealed once Pryor signed an NFL contract. Pryor said Saturday there would be no appeal. He also said he would sign with any team that picked him in the supplemental draft instead of trying his chances again in the regular draft in the spring. Prosecutors want second shot at Clemens trial WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors pursing a perjury conviction against baseball star Roger Clemens acknowledge they made a critical error that ultimately doomed their high-profile trial but asked a judge for another chance to convict the pitching
standout of lying about using performance-enhancing drugs. The U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia filed arguments Friday disputing Clemens’ position that a second trial would violate his constitutional protection against double jeopardy by making him face the same charges twice. The filing is the prosecutors’ first public admission of fault in the mistrial and first explanation of what went wrong. The prosecutors wrote it was their duty to make sure that evidence was not included in their exhibits. “The government accepts responsibility for its oversight, and regrets the burdens that error has placed on this court and defendant,� they wrote, but argued the mistake was due to the press of other trial matters and was not intentional. They said it was an oversight that they showed jurors evidence that U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton had ruled inadmissible – evidence that the defendant’s teammate told his wife that Clemens had admitted using performance-enhancing drugs. Clemens had argued the showing of the evidence was a deliberate ploy to invoke a mistrial because the prosecutors’ case was going badly. But the prosecutors say their case remains strong and Clemens wants to “gain an unwarranted windfall from this inadvertent error.� That’s an important point for the prosecutors to make to the judge, who has scheduled a Sept. 2 hearing on the retrial debate. Normally, when a defendant requests a mistrial, a second trial is not considered double jeopardy. The exception would be when the judge finds prosecutors intentionally provoked a mistrial. But the prosecutors pointed out the sudden ending to Clem-
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for the Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Yankees and Houston Astros. Clemens was the most prominent player accused of using drugs in a December 2007 investigative report to Major League Baseball led by former Sen. George Mitchell. Clemens went before a House committee in February 2008 to fight the allegations. He is charged with lying under oath by telling lawmakers he never used the drugs. The quick end to his trial came when prosecutors were showing jurors a video of Clemens’ testimony. In the video, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., was questioning Clemens and pointed out that his good friend and teammate Andy Pettitte says Clemens admitted using human growth hormone in a private conversation in 1999 or 2000. Clemens responded that Pettitte “misheard� or “misremembered� their conversation. But Cummings said Pettitte’s wife, Laura, has given lawmakers an affidavit saying that her husband told her about the conversation with Clemens at the time it happened. Walton had ruled the day before the trial began that Laura Pettitte’s comments were inadmis-
sible hearsay because she didn’t speak to Clemens directly. When prosecutors aired the video, Walton sent jurors out of the courtroom and scolded the government attorneys for a move that a “first-year law student� would have known to avoid. Clemens attorney asked for a mistrial and Walton granted the motion, saying Clemens couldn’t get a fair trial with a jury that had seen the video. Prosecutors pointed out that Walton’s ruling on Laura Pettitte’s statement came the day before the trial began, long after their exhibits had been prepared and as they were preoccupied with jury selection, opening statements and other trial matters. But the prosecutors acknowledged they should have redacted their exhibits to comply with Walton’s ruling. “Unfortunately, neither government counsel additionally focused on whether the substance of Laura Pettitte’s testimony might be embedded in a question of one of defendant’s congressional interlocutors,� said the filing. The prosecutors said the reference to Laura Pettitte “would have been removed had government counsel adequately focused on it.�
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West Virginia University will host the 16th annual Fall Fest tonight on the Mountainlair Plaza. As with years past when big names such as Ludacris and Maroon 5, this year’s Fall Fest is no exception providing an array of artists in almost every genre. 3 Doors Down, who is playing at Fall Fest for the second time, headlines this year’s event. In 2003, they appeared along with Black Eyed Peas and Default. The expected 20,000 students and guests in attendance tonight can look forward to hearing favorites like “Time of Your Life” and “Kryptonite” to go along with some of their
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newer songs released in the their recently debuted album, “Time of My Life.” The new album shot to the No. 1 spot of iTunes less than 24 hours after its release. Rap artists Big Sean and upand-coming artist from Pittsburgh Mac Miller will also be on hand. Miller was recently named “Hot Star of the Week” by Pollstar. Big Sean, a protégé of Kanye West, had his record debut at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 top albums chart and received his first ever MTV VMA award nomination for Best New Artist. Elise Beyer, an agribusiness management and rural development major, said Miller’s
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3 Doors Down excited to come to WVU By Jake Potts
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West Virginia University’s Fall Fest has been in operation since 1995, providing students a safe alternative to partying following the first grueling day of classes. WVU has always gone out of its way to provide its students with the most up-to-date and popular entertainment groups, and that trend doesn’t differ when it comes to rock group 3 Doors Down. With one Fall Fest appearance under their belt, the group is excited to return to Morgantown’s rowdy crowd, according to guitarist Chris Henderson. “College students always know how to get crazy,” Henderson said. “And, if it is going to be anything like our last time at Fall Fest, we’re really looking forward to it.” The guys of 3 Doors Down grew to love the city of Morgantown during one of their first tours as a group, according to Henderson. “We came into West Virginia for one of the first stops of our tour and played at 123 Pleasant Street, and that crowd got insane,” Henderson said. “That has to be one of our favorite shows.” The group plans on incorporating a lot of the music from their new album, “Time of My Life” into their set list but also plans on going back to their
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Henderson is excited about the lineup and looks forward to performing alongside these groups. “It’s been my experience that rappers really get the crowd going,” Henderson said. “With our style, there’s not too much slam dancing or crowd surfing, but in a place like Morgantown, who knows what will happen.” The history of Fall Fest spans back for almost two decades and has become one of the most popular events in the Mountaineer’s year. The performances headlining Fall Fest have always held up to the “go big” reputation of Morgantown and West Virginia University students, and 3 Doors Down makes no exception.
HOW DID 3 Doors down begin? Forming in 1996, the members of 3 Doors Down united in the town Escatawpa, Miss. With a progressive rock style, the group started its climb to success by playing cover songs and singles throughout the state of Mississippi, but as time went on, their own style emerged from the band. The band achieved stardom in 2000 after releasing the chart-topping track “Kryptonite.” Since then the band has released five separate albums.
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Bonnaroo. Their track “Opposite of Adults” created instant buzz and led to a record deal with EMI/Parlophone. Mac Miller has become one of the Morgantown’s new favorites. The 19-year-old Pittsburgh native has everyone talking about his unique hiphop style. Philadelphia native Jessica Crum, a senior agribusiness management and rural development major, is also pleased to see a hometown favorite make the trip down to Morgantown. “Chiddy Bang is a great band straight out of Philly, they really give you that homey feeling,” Crum said. Morgantown DJ Jeremy Ikto Wriston will be playing in the Mountainlair ballroom at 9 p.m., along with Rocky “Grumpy Bear” McDonald. The concert will be held Monday, in the Mountainlair. Gates open at 6 p.m. The show begins at 6:30 p.m.
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Monongalia Arts Center hosts reception for artist by christina GUTIERREZ a&E writer
The Monongalia Arts Center will be hosting a public reception for its current exhibit by artist, Sharon Goodman from 6-8 p.m. on Friday. Detroit native and current resident of South Park, Sharon Goodman, is currently displaying her work at the MAC in the Benedum Gallery. The exhibit began August 5 and will be taken down on Saturday, following the reception. The MAC has served as a
home for Morgantown artists and art lovers for many decades, proud to acknowledge local talent. Goodman is a former WVU art student and dancer, uses her creative past as well as nature itself to inspire her work. “My paintings are immediate and energetic,” she said. The exhibit features about 20 pieces of Goodman’s original artwork. She uses paint, encaustic, pastel, paper and canvas. The pieces are all complete and able to stand alone but are strategically arranged into groupings. The “Mostly...” pieces (works entitled “Mostly Green,” “Mostly Yellow,” “Mostly Blue” and “Mostly Red”), for example, share a common thread but are meant to be appreciated as This piece is called ‘Mostly Yellow’ individuals. Whereas, the four-part cob Motz, admits he is a little display entitled “Prayer Flags confused by the work but inin the Dark” shows different trigued nonetheless. “They seem so spontanerepresentations of the same thing. ous,” he said. “It looks like she WVU Graduate Student, Ja- sat and said ‘I’m going to paint
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something right now’ and did, finishing it with one chain of thoughts,” Motz said. He said he was most interested in one painting from a pair, “Fret on a Blue Ground,” which is an oil and encaustic piece. After examining it for several seconds, he said he decided that it resembles a picture of a blue brain. Goodman will be available for explanation, representation or conversation at the reception. Both the exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. The paintings are available for purchase. The pieces range in price from the smallest at $300 to the largest one at $3,000. For more information, visit or call the Monongalia Arts Center located at 107 High St. christina.gutierrez@mail.wvu.edu
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Morgantown has plenty of opportunities for those caffeine addicts who need that extra shot of espresso to jump-start their morning. The town plays host to several Starbucks locations, one on Van Voorhis Road, one in the downtown West Virginia University Barnes & Noble bookstore and one in Target at the University Towne Center. The city also offers many great locallyowned coffee shops and cafes which are easily accessible in what I like to call the “bean belt,” because Morgantown has so.zo, The Blue Moose Cafe and Jay’s Daily Grind, on High Street, Walnut Street and Willey Street, respectively. So.zo offers organically grown, fair-trade and shade-grown coffees. They also have cereals, free Wi-Fi access and plenty of couches to read or study on. So.zo also has concerts and open mic nights. The Blue Moose Cafe is probably one of my favorites because I live less than a block away from it. They have great breakfasts and have many vegetarian options like “fakin” bacon and tofu scramble. They also have lunch and dinner. The corner cafe has coffee, espresso and teas along with its menu. Jay’s Daily Grind is closer to campus, which might be faster to get to from class to get lunch. They have a wide variety of coffee and teas along with sandwiches. The city’s coffee is easily available to any student needing a fix.
Take a chance to try some international cuisine, especially if you haven’t tried it before. There are plenty of international cuisine hot spots to explore, and I certainly don’t claim to be an expert on all of them. I am still discovering them after three years of living in Morgantown. My recommendation is to go to Volcano (Patteson Avenue near the Evansdale campus) or Ogawa (University Avenue near Pierpont and Towers) with a friend who has had sushi before, so they could help you decide what to order. Half of the fun with eating at a Japanese restaurant is the experience. Japanese culture is fantastic, and a restaurant is probably the best place you could experience that culture. I first had sushi when I was in middle school, and I saw things like octopus, eel and raw fish, which to a 12-year-old kid was kind of a turn off. I went with friends who had regularly eaten sushi and were familiar with it, so they assured me these things were okay to eat and directed me to what was good. Morgantown also offers several Chinese restaurants and buffets that offer delivery or take-out for those late night study sessions. Morgantown is also host to Kenyan Cafe, which serves mostly organic or natural food and is very vegetarian-friendly.
There are a lot of great places to find a good, juicy burger in Morgantown. The newest addition to Morgantown is Tailpipes - a trendy, diner-style restaurant that has any type of burger you could want. It has burgers featuring everything from grilled pineapple to taziki sauce to sliced ham and fried egg. If one of the specialty burgers doesn’t appease you, you can build a burger and put anything you want on it. A burger with pineapple, cole slaw, hot sauce, and avodado could become a reality. To go along with the burger make sure you get one of the specialty milkshakes. With flavors ranging from maple bacon to Nutella to Coco Puffs shake, you’re bound to find something you like. Tailpipes is conveniently located right down High St., and is open until 4 a.m. on Friday and Saturday’s. Another popular burger destination is the Boston Beanery. While a much more traditional restaurant with a much more traditional menu (won’t find any grilled pineapple on these burgers), it’s a great place to watch sports, drink a beer, and enjoy a delicious burger. Boston Beanery also makes some delicious crispy fries that go perfectly with any type of burger. Boston Beanery has two locations - one at the end of High St., and the other near the Evansdale campus.
Morgantown may not have a lot of Italian restaurants, but the ones it does have sure are worth the time. They’re not quite up to par with actual Italian cuisine from the streets of Napoli or Florence (you can take my word I lived in the country for five months,) yet again what Italian restaurant in any other city in America is. My personal favorite is Oliverio’s. There are two locations in Morgantown. One, on Van Voorhis road and the other in the Wharf District, right on the waterfront. But let’s get to the food. There are several types of pasta, from pasta pomodoro and ravioli, to salmon and penne pasta. Not only that, but customers can get great oven-baked pizza, Sonny’s Original is delicious. The lasagna is my absolute favorite. It’s homemade with Oliverio’s famous meat sauce that makes the whole meal. For many of the college students that will come to Morgantown, Casa D’Amici is one of the best places to go for pizza, anytime of the day or night. The High St. restaurant pretty much has any type of pizza you could want. The quality is good and the taste is even better. From the “Maui Wowi,” covered with pineapples to the “Buffalo Chicken Pie,” there’s a slice for everyone. So, whether you’re a new freshman just moving into Morgantown or a super senior, and love the taste of Italy, there’s a place to go if you’re hungry.
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Dance team hoping for another Championship by leighann mclurg correspondent
Shows like “America’s Got Talent” and “So You Think You Can Dance” are not the only people who show dance skill. The talent of the West Virginia University dance team will not only blow you away, but will make you want to get up and mimic every controlled move. WVU Dance Team Head Coach Sarah Swartz is extra proud of her team this year. The team competed in Daytona Beach, Fla., at the National Dance Alliance Collegiate Nationals in April and brought home the proud score of 9.934. “They had the highest score of the entire (NDA) Collegiate Nationals, including all cheer and dance teams,” Swartz said. “This was their second consecutive championship in Open Dance Division IA.” The team is centered around energy, dedication and control, Swartz said. With two practices a week, mandatory workouts and per-
formances on campus and at sporting events, the girls stay pretty busy. To be on the team, you must be a student at WVU, hold a 2.0 GPA, and you must complete 12 hours of classes each semester. Tryouts are held in the spring and dancers are encouraged to send in their video auditions in hopes of joining the team. These girls not only put tremendous hard work and dedication into their workouts, competitions and games, they also have to work hard at getting enough money to buy their costumes and uniforms, earning travel expenses, camp costs and fees. “Any donations or fundraising opportunities are more than appreciated. We also love being asked to perform at events on campus,” Swartz said. So the next time you see the girls dressed in sparkling gold and blue who are light on their feet, cheer them on and congratulate them. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu
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For some reality TV stars, turmoil follows fame LOS ANGELES (AP) — Reality came crashing in on Russell Armstrong. With the second season of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” set to premiere in a few weeks, and a pending lawsuit and divorce, the venture capitalist-turned reality personality hanged himself. Armstrong left behind no note explaining why, leaving others to indict and defend a genre that has seen its share of off-screen turmoil that often dwarfs the drama caught on camera. The headlines include a murder, drug trafficking, overdoses, financial ruin, and custody disputes and divorces that play out in the tabloids as much as they do courtrooms. Experts caution reality TV is not solely to blame, but the full impact on its participants and audience is not yet known. At least temporarily, Armstrong’s suicide has shaken one of the genre’s brashest franchises. Bravo, which airs “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” is re-editing the show’s second season, which had planned to focus on the marital strife between Armstrong and his wife, Taylor. The network did not say how it would alter the unaired episodes, or whether it would incorporate any mentions of suicide prevention resources. Beyond “Housewives,” few people, including Russell Armstrong’s own attorney, expect the suicide to have broad implications for the reality show industry. “I don’t think it’ll make any difference at all,” attorney Ronald Richards said in an interview. He said he hoped the show would remove Armstrong from its storyline altogether, but said his client had been warned of the pitfalls of appearing in a reality series before signing on. “Housewives” has since its debut in 2006 thrived on the divorces, foreclosures and tempers of its well-heeled cast members’ lives. The Washington, D.C., version starred a couple accused of crashing a state
dinner at the White House, and the first season of the New Jersey version ended with one housewife angrily calling a fellow cast member a “whore” and overturning a table while the woman’s children looked on. Stars of current hit shows such as “Jersey Shore” have reveled in bad behavior, while even those that aim to help have been rocked by offscreen tragedy. Two alumni of “Celebrity Rehab” – actor Jeff Conaway and former Alice In Chains bassist Mike Starr have died after their seasons aired. Richard Hatch, the winner of the first season of the U.S. version of “Survivor” has waged a years-long battle over unpaid taxes and is currently in prison. Also incarcerated is Adam Jasinski, the winner of “Big Brother 9” who is serving a four-year sentence after pleading guilty to possession with attempt to distribute oxycodone and failure to file a tax return for the year he won the reality show’s $500,000 prize. The precise impact of the shows on their stars’ later lives is difficult to determine, yet the Armstrongs are just one of many couples whose relationship failures have been chronicled by reality TV. The TLC-series “Jon and Kate Plus 8” was upended after it was revealed the couple’s marriage was in shambles; the reconfigured show “Kate Plus 8” was recently canceled. Younger parents are also fair game, with shows such as “Teen Mom” showing not only the custody struggles of young mothers, but a street fight that have ended with charges being filed. “It’s really hard to know what would have happened to these people otherwise,” said Karen Sternheimer, a sociology professor at the University of Southern California. “We don’t have a control group of other drama queens.” During his sentencing, Jasinski pleaded with a judge for leniency, saying he was being treated for bipolar disorder and had squandered his winnings.
“Give me a chance to get out and find out who I really am,” he begged a judge in January before being sent to prison. Richards said he believes the show contributed to Russell Armstrong’s problems, but he doesn’t think producers or its network, Bravo, can be sued or punished. “These are adults,” he said. “I think they have their own obligations.” Most reality shows do some background checks on participants, but mistakes happen. Screening of Ryan Jenkins, a participant on the VH1 series “Megan Wants a Millionaire,” failed to turn up records that he had assaulted an ex-girlfriend in Canada. His checkered past was not revealed until after he was charged with killing his wife, a model whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase in Southern California with her teeth and fingers removed, in 2009. After evading authorities and reaching Vancouver, British Columbia, Jenkins killed himself in a hotel room. Major productions use psychological testing to try to predict how participants will respond to the pressures of the show. “That’s where the biggest problem lies as a psychologist,” said Dr. Richard Levak, who helped develop psychological testing for early seasons of “Survivor,” ‘’The Amazing Race” and “The Contender.” “You don’t know how they’re going to unravel,” he said. Producers often want people on their shows who happen to have histories of being abused, depression or other issues. “The most colorful and interesting people were often the ones who have psychological issues,” he said, adding that sometimes the shows can be cathartic. Levak no longer does psychological consults on reality series. “It just became too stressful for me to keep getting the equation exactly right,” he said. Bravo did not respond to an inquiry about whether it screened “Beverly Hills” participants or offered them any
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Television personality Taylor Armstrong (left) and husband Russell Armstrong attend a Super Bowl party in Dallas. Russell Armstrong, the estranged husband of “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Taylor Armstrong, was found dead in his Los Angeles home on Monday, Aug. 15. counseling during or after taping. Conflict and competition have been staples of the genre since its beginning, with documentary-style shows now seemingly trying to fill a quota of cast members who fit specific roles and will take a no-holds barred approach to everything from their drinking to their love lives. The series credited with being the first reality show, “An American Family,” featured its share of upheaval. The eldest son of the Loud family revealed during the series that he was gay, and his mother announced her intention to get a divorce while the cameras rolled. Both made for groundbreaking television, and the show differed radically from today’s heavily-marketed fare. “American Family” aired on PBS in the early 1970s. Levak, whose practice is based in the coastal city of Del
Mar, Calif., said he fears the drive to produce new, more compelling shows is causing some producers to cut corners. Doing a psychological evaluation on each participant is expensive, and Levak doubts many shows are spending the money. Each show is trying a new angle, and the pool of people willing to put their lives on screen has been diluted by this point, he said. “You’ve got this perfect storm scenario where you’re looking for more and more twists, more kind of sensational TV. Your pool of eligible (participants) gets smaller, (there are) more shows and shows that are doing it on a shoestring and don’t test,” he said. “We’re going to see more casualties.” Sternheimer, the USC sociologist who recently released a book titled, “Celebrity Culture and the American Dream: Stardom and Social Mobility,”
said the desire to appear on reality shows is linked to the longstanding American ideal of success. “It reinforces this notion that there’s an endless amount of economic opportunity in the U.S.,” she said. “Reality is, most of them are not going to really see the big payday,” she said. Reality TV participants – those who appear in front of the camera – aren’t supervised or covered by unions or entertainment industry watchdogs. They exist in a gray area in Hollywood – and increasingly in other – of the country – that allows many reality shows to be produced for much less than a scripted show starring professional actors. During the Writers Guild strike in 2007-2008, reality shows blossomed as networks put the brakes on scripted shows and plugged their scheduling holes with reality fare.
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‘The Help’ should work harder to entertain by jamie carbone associate a&E editor
Period films are always very hit or miss, in my opinion. When a movie goes back in time to tell a story, it must do its best to recreate that era for the audience or people will never be able to get past that and into the movie’s premise. So, while “The Help” does a good job of recreating the 1960s, the story it tells could use some work. Based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Kathryn Stockett, “The Help” tells the story of three women in Jackson, Miss., during the civil rights era. The film mainly focuses on Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis), a black maid in a white household where she acts as a mother to the child she takes care off. The story also focuses on Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer), a maid in another household where her boss Hilly Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard) wants her to use a separate bathroom. Finally, there is Skeeter Phelan (Emma Stone), a recent college graduate who wants to make it big as a professional writer. Her idea is to interview maids around town and focus on their perspective and give them a voice they’ve never had during those turbulent times. Throughout the story, the women debate whether what they are doing is the right thing and what might happen to them if they continue. Each of the three main characters also have their own side stories, such as dealing with an over-bearing mother or teaching a housewife how to cook properly, with these
stories crossing over into the main plot as well. The main story is easily the best part of the film and, as it focuses on the stories the maids have to tell about their jobs, it really does a good job. However, the sub-plots could use work, as they frequently felt like they were fighting with each other for which one was more important. They were good for characterization but as stories themselves go, they were weak. As acting goes, both Stone and Davis did great jobs, but occasionally it felt like Spencer wasn’t sure what to do with herself when she wasn’t talking, almost like a living cardboard cut-out. Howard also did a great job of being a great combination of passive-aggressive and snootiness that was needed for the film’s villain. However, the best performance belongs to Jessica Chastain, a housewife who doesn’t seem to fit in with the local girl’s club, but is really just looking for a friend. Surprisingly, the original score composed by Thomas Newman was one of the best things about this movie, but I wouldn’t expect anything less from the man who had worked on “The Shawshank Redemption” and “Wall-E.” So, “The Help” isn’t perfect, but it does a fine job of recreating an important time in American history and is a story that is worth being heard at least once. I just wish the plot wasn’t so busy.
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Mexico’s president becomes television adventure guide MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Felipe Calderon is figuratively going out on a limb – and literally down a sinkhole, up a river (with a paddle) and over the top of a few pyramids – in an attempt to boost Mexico’s flagging tourism industry. The balding, 49-year-old leader is personally trying to change his country’s violent reputation by appearing as a sort of adventure tour guide in a series of TV programs to be broadcast starting in September on Public Broadcasting Service stations in the United States. The president dons an Indiana Jones-style hat and a harness and descends a rope into the 1,000-foot-deep (375-meter) Sotano de las Golondrinas cavern, accompanied by Peter Greenberg, host of the “The Royal Tour” TV series. Calderon also straps on scuba tanks to lead Greenberg into a sinkhole lake known as a cenote in Yucatan. And he helps a Lacandon Indian paddle a boat down a river in a jungle in southern Chiapas state. In the 30-minute videos, Calderon breaks from his image as a lawyerly policy wonk best known for launching a bloody, controversial offensive against drug cartels. He plans to attend a premiere of the show within a few weeks, according to Tourism Department spokesman Roberto Martinez. “I have other duties that are more dangerous,” Calderon jokes, dangling midair in a cavern as a rope lowers him hundreds of feet to the bottom. The site is in the Gulf coast region of Mexico known as the Huasteca, which is covered in jungle and dotted with caverns, waterfalls and crystalline pools. Calderon swaps the explorer hat for a helmet with a headlamp for the descent into the Golondrinas cave, named for the huge flocks of birds that live inside. Calderon also appears in underwater footage from the stalactite-studded cenote in Yucatan, where he flashes the camera an “OK” signal from behind his dive mask. Analysts say the videos represent a distinct break from the solemn treatment that has long characterized the Mexican presidency but fit in with Calderon, who has emphasized using the media to get his message across, and who has sought to project a forceful image. “That’s always been his objective, the whole macho thing,” said John Ackerman, of the legal research institute at Mexico’s National Autonomous University. In 2007, soon after putting the army on the front line of his offensive against drug cartels, Calderon departed from presidential tradition by putting on an olivegreen army jacket that was a few sizes too big for his short frame, an image that has been widely lampooned in newspaper cartoons ever since. “From the very beginning, using the military uniforms and saluting, it’s always been his kind of thing,” Ackerman said. “It doesn’t quite fit with his physical appearance.” Drawing criticism, Calderon’s administration took the image-building a step further this year by funding a privately produced television miniseries glorifying the federal police, which was broadcast by the country’s largest network. On Friday, the navy told local news media that it is letting private
producers use navy locations to make a miniseries about the force, but that the navy is not financing any of the production. Calderon’s message in the latest videos is that Mexico is safe for tourists. “This is part of a strategy to promote the country abroad,” said Martinez. Nobody argues that Mexico’s tourism needs a boost. According to the country’s central bank, overall foreign tourism in 2010, not including borderarea visitors, was still 6.3 percent below 2008 levels, and the first half of 2011 saw a 2 percent decline from the same period of 2010. Cruise ship visits in the first half of the year declined 9.3 percent, after several cruise lines canceled Pacific port calls in Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta. Analysts blame the drops on the world economic downturn hitting many countries’ travel industries, but also pointed to Mexico’s drug violence, which has claimed between 35,000 and 40,000 lives since Calderon took office in late 2006. While foreign tourists have not been targets of the violence, a point Calderon is eager to make, it has had some undeniable effects. For example, the border highway that many U.S. visitors once used to travel to the Huasteca region where Calderon went cave-diving is now considered so plagued by highway holdups and shootings that the U.S. State Department has issued warnings about traveling there. The Huasteca remains a beautiful and largely safe region, but most tour operators recommend foreigners fly to a nearby Mexican airport rather than drive down from the border. Some argue that Calderon’s stint as a television travel guide might be ill-advised, both because it compromises the dignity of the presidency and comes just months before campaigning opens for the 2012 elections to choose his successor. Mario di Costanzo, a congressman for the leftist Labor Party, says he has requested information on how much Mexico spent to film the series. Calderon’s office said the videos’ U.S. producers paid production costs on the trips, but Mexican presidential and military helicopters can be seen ferrying the ‘presidential tourists’ around. “We are questioning the legality of the president’s actions,” Di Costanzo said. “Never in the history of the country has the image of the president been used to promote tourism.” “We see this as a promotion of Felipe Calderon’s own image, for the benefit of his own party, rather than an institutional image of the country as a tourism destination,” Di Costanzo noted. Greenberg has previously traveled with the king of Jordan, the president of Peru, and the prime ministers of New Zealand and Jamaica on similar programs. Congresswoman Leticia Quezada of the Democratic Revolution Party said her party objects to Calderon using government vehicles and personnel for the series, and said he has been spending too much time and money on television. “We’re going to start calling him Felipe Calderon Productions,” she quipped.
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Monday August 22, 2011
Miss. judge asked to reconsider ‘The Help’ .JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An African American housekeeper wants a judge to reinstate a lawsuit that claims Kathryn Stockett, author of the bestselling novel-turned-movie “The Help,” used her likeness without permission. “The Help” is based on relationships between white families in Mississippi and the black women who worked for them in the 1960s. It was made into a movie that opened last week, debuting at No. 2 nationwide and bringing in $26 million. Ablene Cooper, who works for Stockett’s brother, claims a character in the book, Aibileen, was based on her likeness. Her lawsuit seeks $75,000 in damages. Hinds County Circuit Judge Tommie Green ruled Tuesday that a one-year statute of limitations elapsed between the time Stockett gave Cooper a copy of the book in January 2009 and the time of the lawsuit’s filing in February of this year. Cooper’s lawyer, Edward Sanders, filed a motion for reconsideration on Wednesday, saying the clock should not have started ticking on the statute of limitations until Cooper read the book in the summer of 2010. Sanders argued that Cooper didn’t read it sooner because Stockett said in a handwritten note that, despite the similarity in names, the character wasn’t based on Cooper. Sanders submitted to the court a copy of the handwritten letter along with his motion for reconsideration. In the letter, Stockett says she only met Cooper a few times, but was thankful she worked
for the writer’s brother because his kids love her so much. The letter was sent to Cooper with a copy of “The Help,” court records said. “One of the main characters, and my favorite character, is an African American child carer named Aibileen,” the letter said. “Although the spelling is different from yours, and the character was born in 1911, I felt I needed to reach out and tell you that the character isn’t based on you in any way.” The letter goes on to say the book is “purely fiction” and inspired by Stockett’s relationship with “Demetrie, who looked after us and we loved dearly.” The letter is referring to Demetrie McLorn, the Stockett family’s housekeeper, who died when the author was a teenager. An affidavit that accompanies the letter said Cooper knows Stockett, has kept her child before, and had no reason not to trust her. Stockett was not in court this week in Jackson – the same city where the book is set – when the lawsuit was dismissed. Cooper was in court and was obviously upset by the ruling. She wiped away tears leaving the courtroom and launched into a tirade outside the courthouse. “She’s a liar. She did it. She knows she did it,” Cooper screamed. The judge did not make any determination on whether Cooper was the basis for the character, saying the statute of limitations trumped those matters. Stockett’s attorney, Fred Banks, had no comment on Friday.
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Barrington North Prices Starting at $605 304-599-6376 www.morgantownapartments.com
EFF: 1BR: 2BR: Now Leasing For 2011 OFF-STREET PARKING EVANSDALE / STAR CITY LOCATION LOCALLY OWNED ON-SITE MAINTENANCE MOST UNITS INCLUDE: HEAT, WATER, and GARBAGE SECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIRED
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Scott Properties , LLC Downtown (Per Person) 1 Bd Lorentz Ave. 1 Bd First St. 2 Bd Spruce St. 3 Bd First St.
Evansdale (Per Person) 4 Bd Bakers Land
AVAILABLE NOW 1 & 2 BEDROOM Apartments W/D, AC & Parking
304 - 291 - 2103 AFFORDABLE LUXURY 1 & 2 Bedroom 1 & 2 Bath Prices Starting at $485
Bon Vista &The Villas
304-599-1880 www.morgantownapartments.com FIVE (5) 1/BR APARTMENTS NOW available. West Run, Morgantown. $600/mo each plus $300/dep. NO PETS. Call Jess: 304-290-8572. NICE NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCKS FROM campus. 2BR recently remodeled. Deck view. $700 electric included. Pet OK. 615-419-6967.
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ROOMMATES FEMALE ROOMMATE FOR townhouse. 21 Oceanview Drive. Looking for 1 roommate for the 2011-2012 school year. Great townhouse in a quiet neighborhood off Maple Drive across from Ace Hardware, within walking distance of the Health Sciences Center (and the football stadium) and a short drive to the Law School. Off-street parking available. Townhouse has a large kitchen and livingroom. WD. 2½-BAs Deck. Partially furnished. Smoking/Pets not permitted. Female professional/grad student preferred, but other students are welcome to contact me. $590/mo includes utilities. A $500 security deposit required. Contact Hope Bragg: 304-444-5384 (C) or hbragg1@mix.wvu.edu MALE ROOMMATE WANTED. Grad-student. Private bedroom. Close to Evansdale campus. $210/mo+ ½utilities. Call: 304-292-3807.
MUST SEE MALE/FEMALE ROOMMATE NEEDED close to Arnold hall excellent condition, W/D & parking. Individual lease. $395-$450 all utilities included. 304-288-1572 or 304-296-8491.
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MOBILE HOMES FOR SALE 1989 2BR/2BA MOBILE HOME. Located 15-20min from campus. Many updates. $12,900. All appliances to stay including microwave and vacuum. 304-692-3487. 2005 FLEETWOOD. 16 x 80. In Morgantown in Canyon Village mobile home park. For information please call 304-358-2297 or 304-777-9384.
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE CASH PAID!! WE BUY CARS and trucks. Any make! Any model! Any condition! 282-2560
HELP WANTED BARTENDING UP TO $300 A DAY potential. No experience necessary. Training courses available. Age: 18 plus. 800-965-6520 Ext. 285 BFS FOODS INC IS NOW TAKING applications for Assistant Manager and Crew Members for Charley’s Grilled Subs located at the Cheat Lake BFS. All Shifts available. Apply in person at 169 Fairchance Rd. Morgantown, WV. No phone calls please. EOE BUCKET HEAD PUB. BARTENDERS WANTED. Will train.10-mins from downtown Morgantown. Small local bar. Granville.304-365-4565. All shifts available. COME BE A PART OF THE NEW COACH’S BAR AND GRILL! Taking applications NOW for bartenders, servers, AND cooks! Call 304-599-4545TODAY to schedule an INTERVIEW! Leave voicemail if no answer. JERSEY SUBS - HIRING DAYTIME CASHIER 11-2p.m. Also cooks & drivers. All shifts. Experience preferred. Apply: 1756 Mileground. MARIO’S FISHBOWL NOW HIRING cooks and servers. Apply in person at 704 Richwood Ave. MEDICAL DEBT COLLECTION REPRESENTATIVE. Part-time Monday-Friday 8am-12noon or 1pm-5pm. Must possess strong communication skills. Excellent salary, commissions and paid leave. Email resume to LW@LABS.NET
Friends of the Cheat (FOC), a non-profit watershed group based out of Kingwood, WV is seeking a new OSM/VISTA (Office of Surface Mining/Volunteer in Service to America). The position is a full time one-year commitment beginning fall 2011 consistent with the Americorps/VISTA rules and regulations within the Appalachian Coal Country Team (www.accwt.org). ALL OSM/VISTA applicants must have a Bachelor’s degree and be computer savvy. Job responsibilities include chemical and biological water monitoring throughout the lower Cheat Rive Watershed; database and GIS mapping work; recruiting, training, and coordinating volunteer Marcellus monitors; grant writing and funding research; youth education and community outreach; event planning including the annual Cheatfest 5K; and some administrative tasks. A successful candidate will work well in a team atmosphere, enjoy being outside, have excellent communication skills, be self-motivated and flexible. Previous field work, GIS, and grant writing experience is beneficial but not mandatory. FOC is currently accepting applications from interested candidates through September 2 with interviews planned the week of September 5. FOC will make its selection no later than September 12 with a start date of November 1, 2011. To apply submit a resume, cover letter, and writing sample to FOC Executive Director, Amanda Pitzer at Amanda@cheat.org. Hard copy submissions can be mailed to: Friends of the Cheat, 119 S. Price St. Ste. 206 Kingwood, WV 26537 RECEPTIONIST/ OFFICE SUPPORT needed. Part time, flexible hours and some Saturday mornings required. Must have good math skills and be familiar with quickbooks. 304-376-1940
BIG BRANDS BIGGER OPPORTUNITIES Hiring for FT/PT AM/PM Appointment Setters for our Marketing Call Center. We call homeowners offering free estimates on home imporvement products. Candidates must be self motivated and customer centric. Top 10 Appointment Setters are averaging $13.70/hr(base/bonus). Interested? Call 304-296-9112 or www.searsholdings.com/careers/jobs/ entrylevel_hourly.htm
Under home services group, search requisition 98803br. We require Drug Test/Background checks/EOE
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UNFURNISHED HOUSES 2BR/1BA HOUSE. $700/MONTH plus utilities. Fenced Back yard. detached garage. unfinished basement W/D included. 304-692-9733 3BR TOWN HOMES AVAILABLE. Convenient to all campuses. $400each +utilities. WD/DW. CAC. Off-street parking. Very nice. Lease/deposit. No Pets. Available May 2011. 304-692-6549.
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