The DA 10-24-2011

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”

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Monday October 24, 2011

Volume 125, Issue 46

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Law panel to discuss career alternatives

SYRACUSE 49 | WEST VIRGINIA 23

DEJA ‘CUSE “We knew what we were getting ourselves into. They beat us today on all three sides of the ball. They outplayed us and outcoached us. It’s as simple as that.” — West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen

by mackenzie mays city editor

The West Virginia University College of Law and the Women’s Law Caucus will host a panel discussion today at noon in the Davis Gallery that will offer alternative career options for students pursuing a law degree. Jennifer Powell, assistant dean for Career Services, said the event will encourage students to “actively investigate” all of their employment options in and around the legal field through the use of self-exploration and personal interest. “We have a number of students who are interested in exploring how they can use their law degree to obtain other professional positions,” Powell said. “Law students possess a number of skills that can easily be translated into other careers, including excellent analytical skills, strong research skills and the ability to communicate persuasively.” The panel will feature a variety of speakers who hold law degrees from Jodi Cunningham, sales executive for LexisNexis, to Anna Carrier, owner of The Cupcakerie. “Students will have the opportunity to hear from law graduates who are working in a number of different fields to learn how those graduates either successfully transitioned or began alternative careers after graduating from law school,” Powell said. “We hope the variety of alternative careers presented will give students a number of interesting examples to learn how those panelists came to choose the careers they have. Students typically like these types of panels, as they give real life examples of career choices and transformation.”

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Pharmacy students celebrate American Pharmacists Month West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith and the offense were on the field for just 24:05 compared to the Orange’s 35:55 in Friday’s 49-23 loss.

by lacey palmer staff writer

Syracuse blows out No. 24 WVU behind offensive outburst

SCORING SUMMARY

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Eain Smith reacts after a Syracuse score in Friday’s 49-23 loss to the Orange.

FIRST QUARTER SYRACUSE 7, WVU 0 (4:15) Ryan Nassib 3-yard touchdown pass to Nick Provo. Syracuse 7, wvu 3 (1:06) Tyler Bitancurt 27-yard field goal. SECOND QUARTER Syracuse 14, wvu 3 (10:13) Ryan Nassib 1-yard touchdown run. Syracuse 14, wvu 9 (8:41) Geno Smith 64-yard TD pass to Stedman Bailey. syracuse 21, wvu 9 (8:28) Dorian Graham 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown. THIRD QUARTER syracuse 21, wvu 16 (10:07) Shawne Alston 1-yard touchdown run . syracuse 28, wvu 16 (7:21) Ryan Nassib 29-yard touchdown pass to to David Stevens. syracuse 35, wvu 16 (0:18) Ryan Nassib 10-yard pass touchdown pass to Nick Provo. FOURTH QUARTER syracuse 42, wvu 16 (11:29) Ryan Nassib 5-yard touchdown pass to Nick Provo. syracuse 42, wvu 23 (9:18) Geno Smith 25-yard touchdown pass to Brad Starks. syracuse 49, wvu 23 (5:26) Antwon Bailey 3-yard touchdown run.

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The No. 24 West Virginia football team fell to Syracuse for the second consecutive year for the first time since the 2001-02 seasons. Orange quarterback Ryan Nassib threw for 229 yards and four touchdowns in the victory, while tight end Nick Provo finished with three touchdowns. Read more from Friday’s game against Syracuse in Sports.

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October is American Pharmacists Month, and for West Virginia University pharmacy students, that means a month full of guest speakers, informative lectures and other activities following this year’s theme of “Know Your Medicine, Know Your Pharmacist”. “One of the main purposes of Pharmacy Month is to make people aware so that they speak with their pharmacist about their medications and ask any medication questions that they may have,” said Amy Newton, director of public relations and alumni affairs for the WVU School of Pharmacy. “Pharmacy month is an opportunity to promote our profession and celebrate pharmacists in all areas of pharmacy,” said pharmacy student Cory Weaver. Weaver and Sarah Grubb are pharmacy students who have organized events from an inter-class flag football tournament, to a Bartlett House canned food drive across campus to promote Pharmacy Month. “The flag football tournament gives everyone an opportunity to make friends between classes and escape from the stress of school and exams,” Weaver said. An American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Clinical Skills Competition was also held, which acted as an interactive, teambased competition of the pharmacy students’ skills.

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English professor conducts study on linguistic patterns of Appalachia by lydia nuzum

associate city editor

A team of graduate student researchers led by West Virginia University Professor Kirk Hazen have received a $239,742 grant to study sociolinguistic patterns in the Appalachian region. Hazen, a professor in the WVU Department of English and director of the West Virginia Dialect Project, served as a professor at North Carolina State

University, where he helped contribute to the North Carolina Language and Life Project, which gathered research information on the language varieties and related cultural traditions of the state. “That was a big effort to help preserve some of the rich heritage of the state and to teach people about how language works,” Hazen said.” When I came to WVU, I hoped to start something very similar.”

The West Virginia Dialect Project began in 1998 as an effort to understand language variation in Appalachia. Hazen said the project collects qualitative data, including personal interviews and attempts to analyze the language of contemporary Appalachia. “A number of traditional dialect features that were stigmatized have declined since World War II,” Hazen said. “Ones that are not socially noticed have not

declined at all. We’ve managed to draw a number of conclusions on how things are changing or not changing.” Hazen said a more scientifically geared research project began in 2007 to understand dialect changes in the region. The current grant awarded through the National Science Foundation will go to this research, he said, which is a 12-year project conducted in three stages. The first stage of the proj-

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ect, which involved conducting a number of oral interviews with native West Virginians, has been completed. The project is now in its second stage. “The second stage is more about acoustically analyzing the sounds produced and trying to fit the different dialect regions of West Virginia into the larger national map,” Hazen said. Hazen said that after the initial project, he hopes to even-

tually gather data from each county in West Virginia. “Someday we hope to gather people from every county in order to have an even distribution,” Hazen said. “Right now, we have people from the northern part of the state and from the southern part of the state, so we’ve been able to make a geographic distinction, but nothing

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CLINCHING WIN The No. 17 West Virginia women’s soccer team beat Pitt 1-0 to clinch the Big East American Division title. SPORTS PAGE 10


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