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Tuesday December 4, 2012

Volume 126, Issue 70

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Tech, funding issues delay meters By carlee Lammers City Editor

The West Virginia University Department of Transportation and Parking has delayed implementing new parking meters in two short-term campus parking lots because of technical and funding difficulties.

In September, the department said it planned to introduce new pay parking meters in the Mountainlair

garage and short-term Parking Area 9 on Fine Arts Drive across from the Creative Arts Center.

Rates were projected to remain the same; however, Assistant Director of Parking Management Eric Rosie said the new meters would be more user-friendly.

“The current meters don’t give change and don’t take credit cards. The meters are not customer-friendly with modern times,” he said.

Entrepreneur to lecture on business success by caroline peters staff writer

The West Virginia University College of Business & Economics will host guest speaker Joseph A. Hardy III today at 10:00 a.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms as part of the B&E Distinguished Speaker Series. The event is free, and refreshments will be served.

Hardy is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where he obtained a degree in industrial engineering.

He opened a “cash and carry” lumber yard in 1956 in the small rural town of Eighty Four, Pa. He was fond of the town’s name and decided to name his company 84 Lumber.

84 Lumber has proven to be a success and ranks as the third-largest home improvement chain in the United States.

Jose Satarelli, Milan Puskar Dean of the WVU College of Business & Economics, said Hardy’s entrepreneurial spirit is a good characteristic for students to emulate.

“Mr. Hardy is a business icon: a highly successful businessman who has shown what can hap-

pen with determination, opportunity and business sense,” he said. “The University community will greatly benefit from him sharing his experiences, and we are thrilled that the founder of these internationally recognized businesses can be part of our speaker series.”

Hardy also founded Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, which earned the prestigious AAA Four Diamond and Forbes Travel Guide 4 Star resort awards.

The resort is also home to the Nemacolin Woodlands Spa, a shooting academy, three hotels, 36 holes of golf, a variety of award-winning restaurants and the Mystic Rock golf course.

Hardy’s success hasn’t stopped with those two ventures. His desire to create jobs and help the community led him into politics.

He was elected for Fayette County Commissioner in 2003 and served as vice chairman of the Board of Commissioners until 2007.

Students of all majors are welcome to attend, regardless if they have an interest in entrepreneurial endeavors.

“They don’t take credit cards. Everywhere you go today takes credit cards.”

The new meters will also feature a pay-by-space method.

“Right now, you could technically receive a citation on your car while you’re in the process of buying a permit,” Rosie said.

“With the pay-by-space feature, you will no longer need to print a permit for your dashboard.”

Rosie said the new meters would also have a text message parking extension feature.

The new system will send a text message to students when their parking time is nearing expiration. Students will then have the option to extend their parking time by replying to the text message.

However, the new pay

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NOTHING DEAD ABOUT IT

Students fill the Downtown Library computer stations to prepare for semester’s end.

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The West Virginia University Art Museum is working to give the WVU community an “up close” sneak peek at some unique artwork this semester.

The museum will host its final “Art Up Close!” event for the fall semester today.

The presentation, which is sponsored by The Friends of the Art Museum, will focus on Blanche Lazzell’s white-line color woodblock print “The Graveyard.”

Robert Bridges, assistant professor of art at WVU and art museum curator, said the event provides members of the WVU community with an opportunity get an in-depth explanation of the work and its history.

“We take an individual work of art from the uni-

versity’s museum’s art collection, and we focus on one piece of art for the evening,” he said. “We have various individuals talking and giving their personal view of that work of art. This time, I will be doing a recent acquisition to the collection, which is a color woodblock print by Blanche Lazzell entitled ‘The Graveyard.’”

Bridges will deliver a PowerPoint presentation about the work, in which he will go into detail about the art’s history, as well as its artistic significance to the museum’s collection.

“It’s our hope that people will take the time to really study the work of art.

We talk about the various types of research that go into a study of an art collection,” he said.

“The Graveyard” is a

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The Downtown Library will soon be bustling with students preparing for their upcoming final exams.

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DEAD HEADS

GAMEDAY GALLERY

INSIDE

AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’ deserves your attention.

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Check out additional photos from WVU’s latest game on The Daily Athenaeum’s Facebook page.

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Students rush to campus libraries to prepare for semester’s end exams

Series gives ‘up close’ look at unique art

By Ashley Tennant

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A short-term parking meter sits unwrapped in the Mountainlair garage.

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ON THE INSIDE Senior quarterback Geno Smith has played his last home game as a Mountaineer, but the Miramar, Fla., native still has a bowl game left to shine in.

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For many West Virginia University students, the last week of classes before final exams is spent tying up loose ends and pulling all-nighters to complete large projects.

Coined “dead week” because of the lack of academic obligations, the last week of classes has become the busiest for students.

After dead week at WVU, many students report feeling exhausted or “dead”.

“I have three exams and four papers due this week,” said sophomore student Nicole Curtin. “I will definitely be dead by the end of this week.”

Some students believe dead week is more frustrating and detrimental because of the increased amount of work and effort.

Senior Danielle Masol said she believes dead week would be much less exhausting if professors wouldn’t teach new material while students are trying to retain and recall the information taught throughout the rest of the semester.

“My dead week is just as busy if not busier than any other week,” Masol said.

“I wish professors would make sure the material you need to learn for the semester was all taught before dead week so students wouldn’t have to study for finals and learn new material.”

According to the WVU Undergraduate Course Catalog, “practical laboratory tests, make-up examinations, and regularly scheduled short quizzes are the only tests permitted for day classes during the week of classes preceding finals week.”

The clause goes on to say that a final exam is allowed to be given during the last week of classes only if the “faculty member petitions the associate provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs and the petition is approved by the beginning of the second week of the

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BATTLE IN THE CAPITAL The No. 23 West Virginia women’s basketball team will face in-state rival Marshall tonight in the annual Capital Classic.

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2 | NEWS

Tuesday December 4, 2012

Explosives plant cleanup disrupts Louisiana town

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Law enforcement personnel stand at a roadblock along Hwy 163 just south of Doyline, La., Saturday.

DOYLINE, La. (AP) — The cleanup of 3,000 tons of explosives haphazardly stored at a munitions plant has frayed the nerves of residents who evacuated, closed the high school and spawned a criminal investigation of the company that owns the materials.

Authorities said about half the town’s 800 residents had heeded requests that they leave during the cleanup that started Saturday, but some appeared to be trickling back to their homes. Some displaced residents were exasperated by the sheer volume of explosive material, which is more than authorities initially estimated. Adding to the uncertainty was a forecast of thunderstorms Tuesday that could slow efforts to move the propellant used in artillery shells to safer storage sites.

“We got outside the evac-

uation area when they said there was a million pounds.

Now it’s six million,” said Frank Peetz, 71, who was staying with his wife in a camper among several displaced residents at a nearby state park. “Maybe we ought to be up in Arkansas somewhere.”

State police say some of the propellant was found spilling out of boxes crammed into buildings, and they have opened a criminal investigation into why the materials were not stored in bunkers at the state-owned site, leased by Explo Systems.

Weather could complicate the transfer of roughly 6 million pounds of explosives. If lightning is spotted within five miles of the site, authorities will suspend efforts to move the artillery propellant, Lt. Julie Lewis said. No lightning was expected Monday, but thun-

derstorms were forecast for Tuesday.

Col. Mike Edmondson, commander of Louisiana State Police, said the material is stable and would need an ignition source to explode. The precautions were taken because officials fear that any spark could set off a huge explosion of the material, which they said was stored improperly in a relatively small area.

Edmondson was hesitant to estimate when it would be safe for Doyline residents to return home. He also said state police weren’t sure how much damage an explosion of the material could cause, even after consulting with Department of Defense officials.

“Nobody can tell you what 6 million pounds of explosives would do if it went up,” Edmondson said in a telephone interview. “And I don’t want to find out.”

Police have checkpoints on roads leading into Doyline, though residents are allowed to come and go. The evacuation was voluntary, and some residents elected not to leave their homes in the town that has been used to film some scenes for the HBO vampire series “True Blood.”

Edmonson said that Explo Systems leases and controls about 400 acres of the 15,000-acre Camp Minden, a former ammunition plant that now is a state-owned industrial site and home to a National Guard training facility. He estimated that the M6 propellant was stored in an area of less than 10 acres.

It was discovered there, stored indoors and outdoors, sometimes in containers that had spilled open, by a trooper following up on an October explosion at the facility.

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Celeste Rosencrance, a sophomore Biology student, studies during dead week for her upcoming final exams.

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Continued from page 1 semester in which the final exam is to be given.”

All final exams must be given according to the final examination schedule unless otherwise approved by the University.

The WVU Office of the Registrar website states “the only tests permitted during the week of classes preceding finals are final examinations for evening classes.”

Although the clause is in the undergraduate catalog, many students believe it does nothing for the issue at hand: an overload of work during the week before finals.

“Giving exams a week early isn’t the problem.

It’s all the papers, projects, homework and what-not,” said sophomore Marena Royal.

Sara Tresser, a senior student, said it’s difficult for students to be studying for cumulative finals during dead week while also trying to complete other projects.

“Dead week should truly be ‘dead’ with no class, assignments or exams so students can dedicate their time to studying for the cumula-

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Continued from page 1 Laura DeMarco, a business student and Treasurer of the Society for Human Resource Management club, said every academic discipline will benefit from listening to Hardy’s presentation.

“Accounting majors and other business majors might not think they should go,” she said. “It’s good for any stu-

tive finals they have in every class,” Tresser said. “A few of my professors did a great job of planning the coursework this semester, and now, instead of cramming this week, we are reviewing the entire semester. I think if all professors plan everything out ahead of time, then we wouldn’t have an overload of work the week before finals.”

Many students think a universal policy should be enforced at the administrative level to help students have more time to study for finals and to limit the amount of work professors can assign during dead week.

“I think that the professors should not be allowed to have anything due during the last week of class and should not be allowed to teach new material during the last week of class as well,” said Ashley McCulla, a senior student.

S ome universities throughout the country receive days without classes to study – usually the Thursday and Friday prior to the week of final exams. Others formally recognize dead week, unlike WVU. Although the WVU Libraries schedule says “dead week,” it is a phrase that is not used anywhere else within

the University.

The University makes an effort to ensure students approach the semester’s end with help.

One effort students seem to appreciate most is the extended library hours. The majority of the next two weeks the Downtown Campus Library and the Evansdale Library are open 24 hours. The entire library schedule can be viewed at http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/hours.

Hilary Fredette, Head of Access Services at the Downtown Library, said staffing the extended hours is not a problem, because many staff members adjust their schedules to enable them to do so.

“The students actually asked the dean to have the library open all hours on a survey that was given a number of years ago,” Fredette said.

“There are always many students taking advantage of the overnight study hours.”

Fredette said the coffee shop in the library, Eliza’s, helps out during these next few weeks by providing free drinks and snacks to students after midnight.

dent in the business school – not just entrepreneurs – because he is going to talk about how he started his businesses.

“The companies he started are huge, so he can definitely offer students guidance and advice in our competitive field.”

Hardy made a lifetime donation to the WVU Foundation in 2004 of $100,000 per year to support the West Virginia University Fayette

County, Pennsylvania Scholarship fund.

Five $5,000 scholarships are awarded annually to students from all high schools in Fayette County to attend West Virginia University.

For more information on Hardy and the B&E Speaker Series, visit be.wvu.edu/ speaker_series/joe_hardy. htm.

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parking meters have yet to be implemented.

“The hold up initially was a tech problem with the equipment,” said Hugh Kierig, Director of the WVU DOT. “Some machines use cellular technology to transmit data. The problem is we didn’t have a strong enough signal in this market to operate the technology.”

Kierig said while the technology issues have been resolved, the department is working to solve a funding issue that has recently surfaced.

Kierig said the department is currently waiting on cash funds from the

“It was stuffed in corners.

It was stacked all over,” Edmonson said.

Just outside the evacuation area, Doyline High School teacher Linda Watson stopped Monday to buy chicken strips at D&H Hardware, which has a small kitchen serving fare that also includes burgers.

Watson said she has not evacuated and has no plans to. Like some others around here, she’s accustomed to living near an ammunition plant.

“I’ve been there the whole time. I’ve lived here all my life and we used to have the ammunition plant,” she said.

Her main concern is the school having to tack on days to the end of the year to make up for classes being out during the evacuation. The school was to remain closed Tuesday.

John Finklea, who was

working the register at the store his family owns, said business is down because of the evacuation. He said there’s too much being made of the situation.

“I understand people get scared,” he said, adding that he considered leaving but ultimately chose not to.

Explo has not publicly commented on the investigation. Neither a company executive nor an attorney who represents the company returned calls Monday. Its website says the company has been in existence for seven years and that its management has been “demilitarizing” and recovering explosives and propellant for 15 years.

Authorities had initially estimated the total of M6 stored at the site at 1 million pounds after the first investigator saw cardboard boxes on long rows of pallets behind a building.

state to place in each meter so they are capable of giving change to patrons.

“We’re just waiting on cash funds from the state to load cash into the meters,” he said. “We’re expecting it to come any day now.”

While Kierig said the new meters are projected to be in use within a few days, many students are angered by the delay and the inconvenience it has created.

Sophomore student Kayci O’Neil said she relies heavily on parking available in the Mountainlair and was frustrated by the delay.

“The fact that the school promised us credit and debit card parking in the lair back in September is extremely frustrating,” she said. “Many students rely on parking in the garage

and need exact change back. The meters we have now do not do so. You may not think a quarter here and there is a lot, but eventually the costs add up.”

Rosie said the department is excited to debut the new meters and hopes it will alleviate any concerns or complaints those parking in the Mountainlair may hold.

“Hopefully, this will cut down on the complaints and the issues in the Mountainlair garage,” he said. “Over the next five years, we’re hoping to place the meters in all of the short-term lots.”

For more information, call the parking office at 304-293-5502. carlee.lammers@mail.wvu.edu

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The current machines in the Mountainlair garage, pictured above, do not dispense change.

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Continued from page 1 colored woodblock print, which may also be called a white-line print, or Provincetown print.

Bridges said the style received its name based on the method of white-line woodblock printing that began in 1915 in Provincetown, Mass.

“Lazzell’s ‘The Graveyard’ was produced in 1918. It was her third print that she did in that method, so it’s a very early print. The University has a very elaborate and indepth collection of the artist’s work,” he said. “In fact we have the largest public collection of her work anywhere. So, this early colored woodblock print is very important to show how her style developed.”

Bridges said he encourages those interested in historic artwork to attend the event as an opportunity to catch a firsthand glimpse of some of the museum’s pieces.

“People who attend will actually be able to see the print. I will do a lecture and give some of the background of the print and some of the research involved in locating and obtaining this from the collection,” he said.

Bridges said the research has been an ongoing project at the University, and it gives individuals an opportunity to see works of art from the collection prior to the museum’s opening.

“Right now, the community does not have access to a lot of these works, because the museum is not open. So, the idea is we are

giving people the access to the works and trying to get more interest and excitement around the opening of the museum,” he said.

The “Art Up Close!” presentation will be held 5:306:30 p.m. in the Museum Education Center, which was formerly the Erickson Alumni Center.

The center is adjacent to the WVU Creative Arts Center. All the events are free and open to the public.

The “Art Up Close!” series will continue in the spring semester. Following each presentation, a reception will be held with light refreshments.

For more information about “Art Up Close!”, contact the Art Museum of WVU, or visit www.ccarts. wvu.edu/art_museum. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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‘Twilight’ author brings new novel to silver screen madeline carey a&e writer

As even the lowliest movie critic can and will tell you, some of the worst and most hyped movies of our generation are none other than the trilogy that seemed never ending until just last month.

Yes, you guessed it.

I speak of the poison that infected the hearts of both teens and sexually frustrated moms everywhere – “Twilight.”

If making a film adaptation of “Twilight” wasn’t bad enough, Stephanie Meyer’s (author of the “Twilight” series) second failed attempt at tolerable literature, “The Host,” is now set to hit the big screen in 2013.

Just when “Twilight” mania ended, Hollywood decided to suck even more blood out of the fantasy writer’s endeavors. Oh, joy.

Though this is Meyer’s lesser-known tale, it actually tells a more adequate story than any of the “Twilight” novels, which says a great deal for Meyer but relatively little in the grand scheme of literature.

Set in the future, this story depicts earth overrun by aliens who take over human bodies and create their own utopian society out of a world that the humans have practically destroyed.

While most of society has been overrun, there are a few stragglers who survive on the outskirts of civilization with only one goal: to survive.

Here Meyer introduces her two favorite literary devices: an incredibly flawed heroine and a seriously messed up love triangle.

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A character reacts violently toward heroine Melanie after learning her body is inhabited by an alien.

Melanie Stryder, who has been on the run for some time, has just been caught.

An alien has taken over her body, but something unexpected has happened.

She is stronger than anyone has anticipated, and she survived inside her own mind and is willing to do whatever it takes to fight

back.

Though she might be able to fight off aliens, outsmart and outrun trained specialists and the like, who could blame her for losing her mind when it comes to the love of two fellow refugees?

Meyer, you just couldn’t help yourself, could you?

The truth is, once you get past the almost pathetic romance that Meyer attempts to weave throughout even the simplest of plot devices, the general story is okay.

With the absence of both Robert Pattinson and the ever-shirtless Taylor Lautner, though, “The Host” will more than likely lack the

same following the “Twilight” films brought to the theaters.

It’s probably for the best, considering even the preview looked sad and horribly made.

For a film with a $44 million budget, the production crew seems content with giving the audience a

show unworthy of the price of even the cheapest movie ticket.

I know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but I’m judging the book by, well, the book here and predicting “The Host” will be an absolute failure. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Will and Kate expecting a baby, UK palace confirms

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Britain’s Prince William meets with a young member of the public as she arrives at the Guildhall during a visit to Cambridge, England.

LONDON (AP) — Britain doesn’t have to wait any longer: Prince William’s wife, Kate, is pregnant.

St. James’s Palace made the announcement Monday, saying that the Duchess of Cambridge – formerly Kate Middleton – has a severe form of morning sickness and is currently in a London hospital. William was at his wife’s side.

The news drew congratulations from around the world, with the hashtag “royalbaby” trending globally on Twitter.

The couple’s first child will be third in line to the throne – behind William and his father, Prince Charles – leapfrogging the gregarious Prince Harry and possibly setting up the first scenario in which a female heir could benefit from new gender rules about succession.

The palace would not say how far along the 30-yearold duchess is, only that she has not yet reached the 12week mark.

Palace officials said the duchess was hospitalized with hyperemesis gravidarum, a severe form of morning sickness that affects about 1 in 200 women and can lead to dehydration or worse if left untreated. They said she was expected to remain hospitalized for several days and would require a period of

rest afterward.

Until Monday’s announcement, the duchess had shown no signs of being with child. She was photographed just last week bounding across a field clad in black high-heeled boots as she played field hockey with students at her former school.

Still, speculation has swirled about when she and William would start a family from almost the moment they were wed on April 29, 2011, in a lavish ceremony at Westminster Abbey.

The attractive young couple is immensely popular – with William’s easy common touch reminding many of his mother, the late Princess Diana – and their child is expected to play an important role in British national life for decades to come.

For months, Kate’s every move has been scrutinized for clues about a possible pregnancy – from each time she touched her stomach to whether her outfit choices hinted at a baby bump.

In September, tongues wagged over why she might be avoiding alcohol when the duchess opted to toast with a glass of ice water instead of champagne during a banquet in Singapore.

Last week, the rumor mill kicked into high gear when a beaming William accepted a baby out-

fit from a well-wisher that bore the phrase, “Daddy’s little co-pilot.”

“I’ll keep that,” he reportedly said.

The confirmation of Kate’s pregnancy caps a jam-packed year of highs and lows for the young royals.

They have traveled the world extensively as part of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations and weathered the embarrassment of a nude photos scandal, after a tabloid published topless images of the duchess.

Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty magazine, said the news ended a year that saw the royal family riding high in popular esteem after celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 years on the throne.

“People enjoyed the royal romance last year and now there’s this. It’s just a good news story amid all the doom and gloom,” he said.

In the chilly night air at London’s Camden market, concertgoers and shoppers seemed surprised by the news – though all agreed that it had been widely anticipated.

“It feels a lot like a Christmas present for the nation!” said Ravian Van Den Hil, a Dutch student studying in London. “It makes me feel quite happy.”

Others wondered why Britain continues to spend so much to support the royal family. “I don’t think it’s a good thing,” said Stephen Jowitt as he strolled down Camden High Street. “It reinforces a class system.”

The palace said the royal family was “delighted” by the news.

British Prime Minister David Cameron admitted he got a heads-up about the pregnancy, saying he found the news “quite difficult” to keep to himself and expressing confidence the young couple will make “absolutely brilliant parents.”

The pregnancy comes after a 2011 decision by the leaders of Britain and the 15 Commonwealth nations endorsing new rules that give girls equal status with boys in the order of succession. Those changes make Kate’s pregnancy all the more significant for the royal family, said Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine.

“This is the first child who will be an heir to the throne, whatever sex they are,” she said. “It’s a new beginning.”

Like Kate, William’s mother, Diana, also reportedly suffered from morning sickness for months, and was the subject of constant media attention after

she became pregnant just four months after her wedding to Prince Charles. “The whole world is watching my stomach,” Diana once said.

According to Britain’s Department of Health, severe morning sickness most often affects women early in their pregnancy, and is more common in young women, women who are pregnant for the first time and those expecting multiple babies.

Dr. Daghni Rajasingam, a spokeswoman for Brit-

ain’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said women with severe symptoms – including dehydration, dizziness and persistent vomiting – need to be hospitalized for treatment, including being given fluids intravenously.

“However, this usually only means a few days in (the) hospital,” she said in a statement. “The best advice for anyone suffering from (severe morning sickness) is to get plenty of rest and drink lots of fluid.”

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OPINION

Tuesday December 4, 2012

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Surviving the last two weeks Dead week is upon us again, which is why, as a courtesy, The Daily Athenaeum would like to encourage the students of West Virginia University to step back, take a deep breath and shake it out.

Many students have probably already made a schedule of their finals and prepared a study plan, if not a contingency plan that involves border crossing and a box of hair dye. To avoid a “drastic times call for drastic measures” scenario, here are a few tips for conquering dead week – and the week beyond.

1. Make a study plan Studying can be hard. To complicate matters, the luck of the draw can load students

down with several tests in the same one- or two-day span.

To avoid unneeded mental breakdowns, students should be sure when each of their tests is happening and plan accordingly.

The schedule for final exams can be found on the registrar’s website, registrar.wvu. edu/current_students/finals.

Exam times are organized according to class, section and time.

Once you know where and when, it becomes a question of how. Marking times for studying specific material, as well as communicating with classmates and organizing study groups, are effective ways of making the most of

the week.

2. Be prepared Studying is great, but it all falls apart pretty quickly when you’re caught without a scantron or a No. 2 pencil. Every instructor has different expectations when it comes to administering finals – some will offer take-home exams;,other, larger classes might opt for computer based testing but many exams require the old standards: a scantron (not just any scantron, either. Check the syllabus.), No. 2 pencils and a valid WVU ID. A calculator might be nice for a math test, and a magical talisman is probably prudent if you’re turning in your capstone paper.

3. Relieve stress Stop freaking out. Seriously, stop. It’s fine.

WELLWVU: The Students’ Center of Health is offering different programs throughout the week as part of its chillWELL campaign. The program has organized another chillWELL day Thursday in the Mountianlair from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Hearts of Gold therapy dogs will be present for students to interact with, along with tea brewing, PlayDough and other activities.

For more information on WELLWVU events and opportunities, visit www.well. wvu.edu.

4. Take advantage of WVU extended hours

The Downtown Campus Library and the Evansdale Library are open around the clock from 9 a.m. the Monday of Dead Week until Friday at 10 p.m. Dormitories will institute 24-hour quiet hours in the residence halls, and students who are considered too disruptive or loud may be fined double during dead week.

Eliza’s coffee shop, located on the 4th floor of the Downtown Library, offers late-night snacks for after-hours library goers.

So, plan accordingly, and breathe some life back into dead week.

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Thomas Barr, left, a sophomore journalism student, and Christopher Hammack, right, a Morgantown resident, wait in queue to play a match of League of Legends at Save Point on High St.

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PAUSE: Local gaming spot ‘Save Point’ to temporarily close kirk auvil columnist

Morgantown’s gamers will suffer a serious blow Dec. 21. The LAN café and gaming center Save Point, located in the South High St. Station, will be shutting its doors. Save Point has been serving area gamers for just over two years, bringing console and PC gamers together in harmony. And now, it is close to going the way of the dodo.

Save Point’s owners, Sarah Baucom and Owen

Raudenbusch, cite their location’s steep rent as a chief factor in their closing. The couple opened the business when they got tired of their nine-to -five jobs and decided to follow their dreams. But rather than give up after this setback, Sarah and Owen are seeking a new location for Save Point.

They plan to reopen early next year, if they find a suitable spot and sufficient interest to revive the game center.

Save Point faced many challenges during its lifetime, not the least of which was lack of publicity. Even

now, it’s likely that many people reading this article never even knew that Morgantown was home to such a place. And while Save Point most certainly had its own devoted cast of repeat customers, in the end their patronage alone was not quite enough to keep the lights on.

But what did Save Point bring to the community?

Well, first and foremost, it was a living rebuttal to the idea that gamers are antisocial creatures. Even when they were not able to stop long enough to actually game, many folks would come in during the

day just to hang out and chat a bit. It eliminated the conundrum of being forced to partner with fellow gamers online and provided an element of personal connection not always present in an online setting.

Save Point also served as a host for many video game tournaments, drawing gamers from out of state to come and compete. Whether they were Super Smash Bros. tournaments for bragging rights or in-store credit or StarCraft II tournaments for cash prizes, Save Point made each event into

a true spectacle, with a cheering audience watching players’ every move.

The passing of Save Point is also particularly sad on a personal level, gaming center aside. Sarah and Owen are small business owners, the sort of people whose story is often romanticized by politicians of both parties. But as it turns out, making it as a small business can be harder than it might seem.

The couple has worked at their gaming center nearly every day since it opened, tending shop from 1 p.m. until 1 a.m. on weeknights and 3 a.m. on weekends.

Nearly every part of their lives was beholden to the place, in one way or another. They even changed apartments to be closer to the store at one point.

So, if you believe that this kind of place has a home in Morgantown, if you believe that Sarah and Owen deserve a second chance and if you think Save Point should get another shot, just hop on Facebook and tell them so on their official page.

They would most certainly appreciate it, and you can keep tabs on what they do moving forward. Don’t bet against them, though.

Peace in Palestine no longer seems to be realistically possible eric justin the harvard crimson

When pressed to make predictions, pundits sometimes retort that they are “not in the prediction-making business.” They say this, of course, because they don’t want to leave their results-disoriented business.

The trick is to make a prediction so far in the future that no one could check if you were right anyway. With that in mind, I predict that there will not be an independent Palestinian state by 2040.

Three major events happened over the last month in Palestine: Gaza and Israel waged an eight-day battle, Palestine became a non-member observer state at the United Nations, and Israel simultaneously cut their aid to the Palestinian Authority and expanded the construction of settlements

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in East Jerusalem. Collectively, these actions symbolize another lost generation on the never-ending path to peace and Palestinian statehood.

Let’s look at each event individually.

There are a couple of very bad ways to understand the conflict in Gaza. Unfortunately, these are also the most popular ways. The first one is to count dead bodies and then use them to make an argument about “ethics.”

If you are seeking the laziest moral standard possible, just remember, whichever side had the lowest number of people die is automatically the bad guy!

Another fallacious way to understand the conflict is to ask who started it. Israel technically broke a peace agreement when it killed Al-Jabari, Hamas’s military commander. But Hamas is officially committed to Israel’s destruction, so all peace deals are temporary.

Al-Jabari himself led an operation that smuggled hundreds of rockets from Iran into Gaza through Sudan and Egypt.

The latest battle between Gaza and Israel really revolves around the development of military technology over the last 10 years, not to mention Iran’s pivotal role in that development. Whereas Gaza’s rockets in the 2008 engagement with Israel were highly inaccurate and faulty, often with a range under 10 miles, the new Fajr-5 rockets weigh more than 2,000 pounds and are capable of reaching Tel Aviv. Although Israel and Gaza arrived at some sort of peace agreement, Hamas’s new access to high-level Iranian military technology raises the stakes both within Palestine and across the region.

Unlike the conflict in Gaza, the “achievement” of non-member observer state status by Palestine’s presi-

dent, Mahmoud Abbas, could probably be described as a charade. Crowds in the West Bank greeted Abbas like a conquering hero, which a cynical observer could describe as the only concrete goal of the vote at the United Nations.

Abbas claimed that his effort to receive non-member observer state status for Palestine was motivated by the stalled status of peace negotiations with Israel and the continued developments of settlements. That’s half nonsense. The Palestinian Authority’s longtime president desperately sought public support as Gaza slipped further from his sphere of influence and he appeared helpless in the face of Israeli settlement construction. Regardless of whether one wants to attribute Abbas’s move to Israeli intransigence or his own motivation to stay in power, the move unequivocally sets back the peace process.

Regardless, Abbas will need all the public support he can garner in the West Bank, too, if the International Monetary Fund’s economic predictions are correct. The IMF’s mission chief for the West Bank, Oussama Kanaan, predicted in September that the Palestinian economy would soon experience an economic slump and a spike in unemployment. He blamed Israel’s limits on Palestinian trade and a severe drawback in donor money from the Arab world.

This brings us to the latest event. In the aftermath of the vote at the United Nations, Israel quickly responded. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized the planning and zoning for construction in the area of West Bank town, Ma’ale Adumim.

Building in that area would “make it nearly impossible to create a contiguous Palestinian state.”

Yesterday, Israel chose to withhold its transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority, accusing them of violating peace deals by upgrading their status at the United Nations. This will only exacerbate the social unrest engendered by the West Bank’s economic slump.

In the coming decades, observers will ask themselves how the region slid from the promise of the Oslo Accords to these lows. They may discover that this last month’s events were the watershed moment when both sides committed their next generation of youth to the never-ending conflict.

As someone with close Israeli and Palestinian friends, I sincerely hope that the passing of time will prove me wrong. History may prove once again that pundits should avoid the prediction-making business.

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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR BORN TODAY Extremes mark your year. Sometimes you go way overboard enjoying yourself. You also become very demonstrative and expressive. If you are single, hold back a little, as a new person might not understand where you are coming from.

If you are attached, your loved one could be taken aback by this change.

This person initially might be oversensitive, but after he or she makes an adjustment, a great time will be had by all. Excessive communication seems to be happening all around you. Try to avoid misunderstandings by confirming what you hear and also by clarifying anything that does not make sense.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHHH Express more of your feelings. Someone could respond with total confusion. You might not understand what eludes this person. Consider that it might just be that this person does not know how to take you. Tonight: Let the fun begin.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHH You could come across as being irritable or tenacious when you are teasing several friends. Be careful! Someone else might not read this behavior as it is intended. Your actions could be the source of a misunderstanding.

Laugh and lighten up. Tonight: Play it low-key, please.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHH You have the ability to express yourself clearly. You can’t seem to get past a hassle or a problem, which is a result of others not understanding you.

Invite those who seem confused into a conversation in order to figure out

where the mix-up lies. Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHH You will buy a loved one a gift or a token of affection, which could be separate from this person’s Christmas present. Your thoughtfulness makes a big difference, yet there is an element of confusion surrounding this gift. Listen and share openly. Tonight: So what if you overindulge?

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH You experience clarity with your feelings, and it opens you up to new possibilities and exciting changes. Nevertheless, in a discussion about a particular topic today, you might feel as if you are wading in quicksand and that someone is not getting your message. Tonight: All smiles.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHH You might feel as if you are playing a game of “Who’s on first, What’s on second” with someone. You just can’t seem to get clarity, as nearly every question leads to more questions.

Say little, and become the observer in order to get more answers. Tonight: Do a vanishing act.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH You might want to approach a situation in a different way. You’ll deal with others better and will succeed more often if you work within groups. The confusion that mounts will be shortlived. Perhaps someone involved just needs to relax. Tonight: Where your friends are.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHH Take a look at the amount of work or errands you need to complete before making other commitments, as enticing as they might be. A long lunch

CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Ho-hum time 5 Ship’s command post 9 Zip preceder 14 Really-really 15 Verdi’s “Celeste Aida,” e.g.

16 Hypothesize 17 Quits worrying 19 Oohed and __ 20 “Luncheon on the Grass” painter 21 Law firm bigwigs 23 Group with many golden agers 26 Failed firecracker 27 Like 56 minutes of each hour of The Masters telecast 34 Federal Web address ending 35 Office betting groups 36 Cura ao neighbor 37 TV’s talking horse 39 Drum kit drum 41 “Want the light __ off?”

42 “Stick Up for Yourself” nasal spray 44 Glittery topper 46 Molecule with a + charge, e.g.

47 “Get off my back!”

50 Mischief-maker 51 Hose fillers?

52 Wide-awake 57 Wanted poster word 61 Longish skirts 62 Unfinished business, or, in a way, what 17-, 27- and 47-Across have in common 65 Temporarily unavailable 66 Sask. neighbor 67 Macro or micro subj.

68 Help desk staffers, usually 69 Hornet’s home 70 Tebow throw, say DOWN 1 Quarter of a quad, perhaps 2 Perlman of “Cheers” 3 Part of YMCA: Abbr.

4 Pep rally cry 5 Possess, in the Hebrides 6 Christian __ 7 Speech impediment 8 Honduras native 9 Patty turner 10 How a pendulum swings

11 Tennis great Arthur 12 Row at Wrigley 13 LAX guesstimates 18 Email doesn’t require one 22 Nutritional abbr.

24 1920s-’30s Flying Clouds, e.g.

25 Chop-chop 27 Greek vacation isle 28 For all to see 29 Insurance case 30 Knesset country 31 Written in mystical letters 32 Kindle download 33 Deservedly get 34 Former car-financing org.

38 Dwindle 40 Hebrides tongue 43 Archrivals 45 Aquarium accumulation 48 One seeking intelligence 49 In dreamland 52 Leave out

53 “Ponderosa” tree 54 PTA’s focus 55 Lust for life 56 Charitable distribution 58 Machu Picchu resident 59 Fusses 60 Federal IDs 63 Extra NHL periods 64 Did nothing

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with a loved one could make you very happy. A touch of chaos adds to the day’s intrigue. Relax. Tonight: Could be late.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH You are right in your element and are willing to gain a better sense of what is needed. A partner or an associate might be vested in adding confusion, which makes it necessary and wise to postpone your decision. Look at the big picture. Tonight: Read between the lines.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Work through and deal with a problem involving a partner.

Expressing compassion could be difficult amid all the confusion. You might want to rethink a decision that seems like a good idea. Give yourself time to come up with an adequate conclusion. Tonight: Chat over dinner.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH Defer to someone else, and remain sure of yourself. You want to understand where he or she is coming from. Let this person follow the natural course that is determined by his or her thinking, and both of you will be pleased with the end results.

Tonight: Just do not be alone.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHH Pace yourself, and know what your expectations are. A loved one might try to determine exactly what it is that you want. His or her questions make little sense to you. Follow through on what you know to be best, yet be kind to this person.

Tonight: Try a relaxing activity.

BORN TODAY Actor Jeff Bridges (1949), rapper Jay-Z (1969), Tyra Banks (1973)

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Not watching ‘The Walking Dead’? Here’s why you need to start now Hunter homistek a&e editor

AMC’s hit series “The Walking Dead” has captured the hearts and minds of zombie lovers worldwide since its inception in 2010.

After a disappointing second season that featured more melodrama than your grandma’s favorite afternoon story, “The Walking Dead” needed to step up its game to avoid a sharp decline into a pit of irrelevancy.

I’ll be honest: I was one of the many viewers who

was down on this show after its lazily written, lowbudget second season left me craving the show of old. I wanted more zombies, I wanted some legitimate tension, and I wanted a reason to care about the characters on my television screen.

After a nearly flawless mid-season finale, I can confidently say this series has totally redeemed itself.

With new characters, a change of scenery and a completely refocused cast, “The Walking Dead” gave me a reason to tune in every Sunday to watch my favorite brain-bashing, skullcrushing heroes go to work on the undead flesh-sacks

that populate their world.

For me, this season of “The Walking Dead” is the best showing for the writers of the series to date.

They masterfully worked two separate stories together, and each week, these divided plotlines became increasingly involved with each other.

This sense was heightened in the mid-season finale, when the two camps quite literally overlapped and became entangled in a blaze of gunfire and utter chaos.

This served as the perfect culmination of a season’s worth of plot development, and the execution of this climactic siege was

brilliant.

Season three also presented the transformation of several characters’ personalities, and this added a new dynamic to the show and released the viewers from the stale character traits.

I’m not sure how many more times I could watch Rick and Lori awkwardly babble about their nowirrelevant pasts or how many more instances of Carl’s disregard for authority I could stomach, but the third season rectified these problems and reshaped the cast’s motivations and desires.

You see, “The Walking Dead” is less about zom-

bies and more about humans. While it is technically a show about a zombie apocalypse, the real content is found in the humanto-human interactions.

How will people act when everything they have known and will ever know is gone? Can people change their ways and adapt, or will their stubborn, me-first tendencies lead them to the grave?

By restructuring the characters for season three, “The Walking Dead” has reopened these questions and provided us with many more to sink our teeth into as the show moves forward.

I, for one, cannot wait to see how the remainder of

this intricate web of love, loss, hope and despair is spun, and I cannot contain my excitement for the show’s future.

“The Walking Dead” is every bit as good as you have heard.

I was ready to hate it and laugh at the mindless zombies who adored it after season two left me disappointed and disgusted, but the writers just will not let that happen.

Now, here I sit, remote in one hand, a tiny snack of cerebellum in the other, anxiously awaiting the February return of my postapocalyptic friends. hunter.homistek@mail.wvu.edu

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West Virginia University has partnered with the Boy Scouts of America to provide exciting learning opportunities in the STEM disciplines at the 2013 National Scouting Jamboree, July 14-July 25. Two opportunities are available, one related to Forensic Science and a second related to the Science Behind Cycling. Student volunteers are needed to facilitate the learning experience for the Scouts. Training, transportation, meals and lodging will be provided for each volunteer.

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Michonne (pictured) has emerged as one of the series most interesting characters in season three.

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“All this time running from walkers, you forget what people do.”

These words, spoken by Maggie in “Made to Suffer,” the mid-third season finale episode of “The Walking Dead,” offer a pretty clear indication of this season’s theme.

One of the first things that really attracted me to this series was the uniqueness of these characters’ situation and subsequently their reactions to it.

They exist in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by hostile creatures, and they are forced to literally fight for their lives on a daily basis.

However, this season, we are presented with a forgotten foe: humanity.

In the midst of this new hostile world, people have

forgotten the extent to which man’s cruelty can reach. And as Maggie points out, The Governor has arrived in the form of a brutal reminder.

The series’ most recent episode featured a lot of plot action, just like the rest of the season.

The war between Rick and The Governor has finally begun, and Sunday we witnessed the first battle.

Andrea’s side is still undecided, however, and we’ll have to wait until next year to see if she’ll come to her senses (if she ever had any).

Rick doesn’t fully trust Michonne yet, which is disappointing but understandable, I suppose, especially considering she’s always showing up covered in blood and talking in that creepy whisper voice.

On the other hand, Michonne trusts them all too much, in my opinion, which she demonstrates when she lets Andrea off the hook for getting in between her and The Governor.

The beloved character from the comics, Tyreese, finally showed up with his iconic hammer and a group of characters who will probably die by the end of the season. And lastly, Daryl and Merle Dixon are reunited once again, but they find themselves in a rather hopeless situation.

Overall, the mid-season finale was both rewarding and unnerving. Although basically everything I wanted to happened in this episode happened, we were still left with an incredibly frustrating cliffhanger.

It seems all of the events were setting us up for the next half of the season, when Rick and The Governor will truly engage in battle.

And judging by the events so far this season, there is now a question of whether or not Rick is up to the fight. A promo for the next half of the season hinted that Rick may begin to consider the possibility of not leading the group,

a change that would alter the entire landscape of the show.

His character hit a breaking point recently, and his group seems to be faltering without his emotional support. This season, they’ve all proven to have mastered killing walkers, but I don’t think they’ve ever been able to truly deal with the rest of this world’s harsh realities.

If you’ve been enjoying all of the action so far this season, you’ll be happy to hear there’s much more on the way. Even though so much has happened, we’re just getting into the meat of the story, and the second half of the third season has the potential to be the most eventful yet.

Danai Gurira, who plays Michonne in the series, reassures us of this in an interview with amctv.com.

“Please don’t think anything slows down,” Gurira said. “There’s more and more and more.” daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Head coach Mike Carey talks to the West Virginia women’s basketball team during a timeout earlier this season. The Mountaineers will take on Marshall Tuesday night in the Capital Classic.

West Virginia women look to extend winning streak vs. Marshall in Capital Classic by shea ulisney sports writer

The No. 25 West Virginia women’s basketball team will take on in-state rival Marshall in the Chesapeake Energy Capital Classic.

This will be the 52nd meeting between the two teams. Marshall has fallen to WVU in the past seven meetings, including a 69-57 defeat last season.

“It’s always great to get back here. We had a great crowd here last year, and hopefully we will have a great crowd here this year too,” said head coach Mike Carey. “It’s a good game.

It is a rivalry between two state schools; it is a great game to have, and we always look forward to it.”

This past weekend the Mountaineers improved their record, 4-2, after pulling off a win against Virginia 54-47 at Paul Jones Arena.

The win came at a muchneeded time for West Virginia, as it got the Mountaineers back in the win column following backto-back losses to LSU and Iowa in the FIU Thanksgiving Classic.

Marshall head coach Matt Daniel is in his first season with a Herd team

that returns six of its top nine scorers from 2011.

The Herd finished third in the EKU Comfort Suites tournament at Eastern Kentucky during the weekend, falling to Jackson State 6763 and defeating Presbyterian College 59-51, improving their record to 4-3.

Sophomore guard Shay Weaver hit five 3-points in each of those games and currently averages 12.7 points per game.

Weaver was named to the All-Tournament team. She tied a career high in the win against Presbyterian, scoring 19 points while going 5 for 6 in 3-pointers. Weaver

finished the weekend with 36 points.

Sophomore forward Chukwuka Ezeigbo leads the Herd, averaging 6.4 rebounds per game. Ezeigbo ranks No. 40 in the nation in blocked shots, 2.14 per game. Senior guard/forward Veronica Ruiz leads the Herd in defensive rebounds averaging 3.7 per game.

“They are very organized and well-coached,” Carey said. “They have some athletes, have some shooters and have a couple post players that can score in the paint. We will change it up a little defensively,

QB Smith’s final home game at West Virginia ‘as good as it gets’ by nick arthur

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Geno Smith experienced it all in 2012.

Going from the Heisman Trophy frontrunner to taking the burden for West Virginia’s unexpected five-game losing streak, he’s dealt with it just about as much as you can ask a 22-year old college kid to deal with.

“The finger pointed at him a lot when we weren’t doing specific things well,” said Mountaineer head coach Dana Holgorsen.

“He’s a great kid and will be remembered around here for a long, long time.”

Despite the rough road Smith experienced during his senior campaign, he found a perfect way to end his career.

The senior captain completed 23 of 24 passes for more than 400 yards and three touchdowns while tying the single-game FBS completion percentage record.

“It’s about as good as it gets, I guess,” Smith said after the 59-10 rout of Kansas Saturday. “It was just an accumulation of everyone out there executed the game … That’s what football is about – guys making plays. And today we did so.”

Smith’s only incompletion, which was intercepted by Kansas, technically wasn’t an incompletion, due to the fact it didn’t hit the ground.

“Any time you can throw for over 400 yards and not throw an incompletion, that’s pretty good,” Holgorsen said. “He didn’t have a ball hit the ground all day.”

Smith hit some lows during the season, including only throwing for 143 yards and two interceptions against Kansas State amid the aforementioned five-game slide.

But Saturday against Kansas, Smith may have ended his regular-season career with his most impressive performance yet.

“I really challenge myself every game to not throw any incompletions. I try not to let that ball hit the ground because every play is critical and every down counts,” Smith said. “As long as the ball is in my hands, I need to do my job to get it to the playmakers that we have.”

Smith’s illustrious career as a Mountaineer includes more than 11,000 yards passing and 96 passing TDS to just 21 interceptions.

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and I think it will be a good game.”

After defeating Virginia this past weekend, the Mountaineers look to keep their winning momentum rolling.

Leading the Mountaineers in scoring is the outstanding duo of Palmer and Caldwell. Palmer leads WVU with 66 points, averaging 11 points per game.

Caldwell recorded 62 points and averages 10.3 points per game.

In West Virginia’s win against Virginia, the Mountaineers forced 23 Cavalier turnovers, capitalizing 21 points off the turnovers.

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Geno has bright future in NFL doug walp sports WRITER

Senior quarterback Geno Smith runs out of the tunnel on Senior Day before West Virginia’s victory against Kansas on Saturday.

Sophomore forward Averee Fields led WVU in stealing with four of the team’s 14 total steals.

Senior center Ayana Dunning averages 9.7 points per game and currently leads the Mountaineers with 7 rebounds per game.

West Virginia’s defense averages 13.3 steals per game.

The game will be televised on three different networks, including WPBY, WNPB, and WSWP. General admission tickets will be sold for $7.

For about two years now, I’ve been confident that Geno Smith would be able to start for an NFL team one day.

The Mountaineers’ senior quarterback has a powerful and yet accurate right arm, a great understanding of offensive systems, as well as a myriad of intangibles, including his notoriously unshakeable resolve.

But as I watched the New York Jets’ Mark Sanchez dejectedly head to the bench at Met Life Stadium late Sunday afternoon, showered by a wave of thunderous boos, it became clear that Smith can possibly make an impact as a quarterback in professional football right away.

Sanchez is just one example of the quarterback futility that’s plagued a number of NFL teams this year. The Arizona Cardinals, Jacksonville Jaguars and Minnesota Vikings, to name a few, have also been the victim of miserable quarterback play this season, and it’s hard to

imagine that the four players who started taking snaps for those teams Sunday will be around in a starting capacity next season. They’ve just been too consistently awful.

In fact, the current starters of those three teams combined with Sanchez for an average quarterback rating of a mere 37.3 this Sunday.

Let that sink in for a bit.

Four NFL quarterbacks couldn’t surpass a collective rating of 40, even with Jacksonville’s Chad Henne inflating the group’s average with a rating of 57.8 against the 5-7 Buffalo Bills.

Sure, all of those quarterbacks are already more seasoned than Smith will be when he enters the league next season, but is that even a relevant point to make anymore with the way rookies are impacting the NFL now?

For example, Indianapolis’ Andrew Luck and Washington’s Robert Griffin III began their rookie seasons as starters this year despite having never taken a single snap at the NFL level, and they’ve been two of the most outstanding quarterbacks in the entire league, on teams

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Tuesday December 4, 2012

A-Rod needs hip surgery, will miss start of season NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Alex Rodriguez will start the season in what’s become a familiar place: the disabled list.

The New York Yankees said Monday the third baseman will have surgery on his left hip, an injury that could sideline him until the All-Star break and may explain his spectacularly poor performance during the playoffs.

“It’s a significant blow,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. “But we’ve dealt with significant blows and, hopefully, we’ll be able to deal with this one, as well.”

A 14-time All-Star and baseball’s priciest player at $275 million, Rodriguez has a torn labrum, bone impingement and a cyst.

He will need four to six weeks of physical therapy to strengthen the hip before surgery, and the team anticipates he will be sidelined four to six months after the operation.

This will be Rodriguez’s sixth trip to the disabled list in six seasons. A-Rod had right hip surgery on March 9, 2009, and returned that May 8.

“It is a more complicated surgery with a longer recovery time because there is a little bit more

that needs to be done,” Cashman said, citing the bone impingement. “I don’t think it’s age related.

Butt at the same time, the older you are, the slower you’re going to recover regardless. But the bottom line and the message I’ve been receiving is that this is a solvable issue.”

Rodriguez, who turns 38 in July, complained to manager Joe Girardi of a problem with his right hip the night Raul Ibanez pinch hit for him – and hit a tying ninth-inning home run – against Baltimore during Game 3 of the AL division series in October. He went to New YorkPresbyterian Hospital’s emergency room and was checked out then.

“Up to this point, there was no complaints of any nature at all from his hip, or anything really,” Cashman said. “At that point Joe went to Alex in the dugout and said, ‘I’m going to pinch hit for you and we’re going to pinch hit Ibanez,’ and Alex said to Joe at that moment, ‘OK,’ he said, ‘I’ve got to talk to you about something. I think my right hip needs to be looked at.

I just don’t feel like I’m firing on all cylinders.’”

Cashman said the test on the right hip “was

clean” and the left hip was not examined.

“I can tell you if a patient shows up in the emergency room with a complaint, they’re going to focus on where the complaint is, not something else,” he said.

Rodriguez, owed $114 million by New York over the next five years, remained a shell of his former self on the field. He was benched in three of nine postseason games and pinch hit for in three others. He batted .120 (3 for 25) with no RBIs in the playoffs, including 0 for 18 with 12 strikeouts against right-handed pitchers.

A-Rod broke his left hand when he was hit by a pitch from Seattle’s Felix Hernandez on July 24.

He returned Sept. 3 and hit .195 with two homers and six RBIs over the final month of the regular season.

Cashman said Rodriguez’s left hip injury was detected last month when he had an annual physical in Colorado with Dr. Marc Philippon, who operated on the right hip 3 1-2 years ago. Rodriguez got a second opinion from Dr. Bryan Kelly of New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery, who will operate on A-Rod next month, and

AP

New York third baseman Alex Rodriguez will have surgery on his left hip and will miss the start of the season and possibly the entire first half. the injury was made public Monday by the New York Post.

Cashman said “they’re not your typical injuries” but wouldn’t speculate whether they are related to steroids use. Rodriguez admitted in 2009 that he used steroids while with the Texas Rangers from 2001-03.

“It doesn’t matter what I wonder,” Cashman said.

With Derek Jeter, who turns 39 in June, coming

off surgery to repair a broken ankle, the left side of the Yankees’ infield could be even more of a defensive problem.

Jeter expects to be ready for opening day. Eric Chavez, who filled in for Rodriguez for parts of the last two seasons, is a free agent and Cashman said there are few options on the market.

Rodriguez had a strained quadriceps in 2008, the hip surgery in 2009, a strained

calf in 2010, knee surgery in 2011 and the broken hand this year. While he is fifth on the career list with 647 home runs, he had just 34 the last two seasons.

“When he’s healthy – obviously at one point he was spectacular,” Cashman said. “One player doesn’t make a team, and so we have a full roster of guys plus our farm system behind that that’s going to have to fill in. We’ve done it before.”

LeBron James named SI’s Sportsman of the Year

Miami Heat forward LeBron James, center, laughs with guards Mario Chalmers, left, and Dwyane Wade as they sit on the bench during the end of the second half of the Heat’s win against the Brooklyn Nets Nov. 7.

MIAMI (AP) — When LeBron James learned he was Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year, the Miami Heat star was surprised.

Not because he thought his achievements in 2012 weren’t worthy, but because he figured what happened in 2010 was still holding him back.

Apparently, that’s no longer the case. The magazine announced its annual choice Monday, with James becoming the first NBA player to win the award since Heat teammate Dwyane Wade in 2006. ‘’I remember just like yesterday when I signed here

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and basically, like the roof caved in,’’ James told The Associated Press, referring to the fallout from his infamous ‘’Decision’’ to leave Cleveland for Miami in 2010. ‘’To see that I and my team and everyone around me was able to patch that roof up, to come to this point, to come to this point and receive such a prestigious award, it’s huge.’’

Past winners include Muhammad Ali, Jack Nicklaus, Wayne Gretzky, Arthur Ashe, Tom Brady, Derek Jeter and Michael Phelps.

College basketball coaches Mike Krzyzewski – James’ Olympic coach – and Pat

Summitt shared the honor last year.

Time Inc. Sports Group editor Paul Fichtenbaum said one thing separating James this year was that when Miami needed him most ‘’he came up the biggest.’’ In particular, Game 4 of the second-round series at Indiana and Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals at Boston. ‘’LeBron kind of made it easy on us,’’ Fichtenbaum said. ‘’In a year that had really high standards, he just stood taller than everybody else.’’

James won essentially all he could win in 2012:

He became an NBA champion for the first time, won the NBA Finals MVP trophy, helped the U.S. win Olympic gold for the second time and picked up his third NBA MVP award.

Fichtenbaum said James was the choice not only for his play but also because of his charitable work, especially involving schoolchildren in his native Akron, Ohio. ‘’I do think there has been some sort of closure maybe not entirely in Cleveland, but across the nation,’’ Fichtenbaum said. ‘’LeBron’s jerseys are now the No. 1-selling jerseys. I think

there’s a reason for that. I think people really appreciate him for everything he can do.’’

This is the 18th time James will be on SI’s cover, the magazine said. His first time was as a high school junior in February 2002, when the magazine famously dubbed him ‘’The Chosen One’’ and touted how he would have been an NBA lottery pick even then.

The first 17 covers were different: Only this one has James wearing an NBA championship ring.

James said the sportsman honor was humbling considering this was year in

AP

which Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, Gabby Douglas and Missy Franklin starred at the London Olympics, Miguel Cabrera became baseball’s first Triple Crown winner in 45 years and Roger Federer captured Wimbledon for the seventh time. ‘’Do I need it? I don’t need it,’’ James said. ‘’I don’t ever look for individual accolades. I do what I do because I love it and I want to continue to get better at it.’’

The Dec. 10 issue of SI is out Wednesday, the same day James will be honored at the magazine’s Sportsman of the Year awards gala in New York.

College basketball coach Rick Majerus dies ST. LOUIS (AP) — At Rick Majerus’ final stop, the lone concession to the coach’s health woes were the footstools stationed at each corner of the practice court.

Close by anytime he needed a breather. Close enough, too, to jump up for some hands-on assistance with the proper stance or to lead a quick walkthrough.

The jovial, basketballobsessed coach who led Utah to the 1998 NCAA final and had only one losing season in 25 years with four schools, died Saturday. He was 64.

Utah industrialist Jon Huntsman, the coach’s longtime friend, confirmed in a statement released through The Salt Lake Tribune that Majerus died of heart failure in a Los Angeles hospital. The coach had been hospitalized there for several months.

Players remembered Majerus, who got his start as an assistant under Al McGuire at Marquette, as a coach who was exacting and perhaps a bit unorthodox at times, but always fair. Majerus was known for

assembling rosters with an international flair, and his final team at Saint Louis had players from Australia and New Zealand.

“It was a unique experience, I’ll tell you that, and I loved every minute of it,” said Saint Louis guard Kyle Cassity, who was mostly a backup on last season’s 26win team after starting for Majerus earlier in his college career. “A lot of people questioned the way he did things, but I loved it. He’d be hard as hell on you, but he really cared.”

At the postgame news conference following Saint Louis’ four-point loss to top seed Michigan State in the NCAA West Regional, Majerus and his players wept.

“Coach has done so much,” Brian Conklin said back then. “Being his first recruiting class, he told me that we were going to help him build something special here. He’s a great coach. I couldn’t imagine playing for a better coach, a better person. He doesn’t just teach you about basketball, it’s about life.”

Saint Louis athletic director Chris May said in

a statement that what he would remember most about Majerus “was his enduring passion to see his players excel both on and off the court.”

“He truly embraced the term ‘student-athlete,’ and I think that will be his lasting legacy,” May added.

The school announced Nov. 19 that Majerus wouldn’t return to Saint Louis because of the heart condition. He ended the school’s 12-year NCAA tournament drought last season, and bounced back from his only losing season, with a team that won its opening game and took top regional seed Michigan State to the wire. The Billikens were ranked for the first time since 1994-95.

Majerus was undergoing evaluation and treatment in California for the ongoing heart trouble and the school announced he was on leave in late August.

“That’s a tough one for me,” Boston coach Doc Rivers, a former Marquette star, said after the Celtics’ loss in Milwaukee. “He’s the one that gave me my nickname. I knew before

(the game) that he wasn’t going to make it through the night. I don’t want to talk much about it.”

San Diego State coach Steve Fisher first met Majerus at a camp when Majerus was a graduate assistant at Marquette and Fisher was coaching at the high school level in Chicago.

“Rick would hold court at night with a case of beer in the basement,” Fisher said. “Phenomenal coach, a better person, cared about family, cared about people. He will be missed by everyone.”

Loyola of Chicago coach Porter Moser, an assistant under Majerus at Saint Louis from 2007-10, tweeted, “RIP to my friend and mentor Coach Majerus. I learned so much about the game and life.

We lost One of the best! My heart is heavy tonight.”

Missouri coach Frank Haith said it was a “sad day for all of college basketball.”

“Coach Majerus was a tremendous coach and one of the all-time great personalities in our profession,” Haith said. “Our

hearts and prayers go out to Rick’s family and friends and all the wonderful student-athletes and staff at Saint Louis University.”

Majerus had a history of heart and weight problems dating to 1989 that persisted despite a daily constitutional of a mile swim.

He had a stent inserted in August 2011 in Salt Lake City and missed some games in the 2011-12 season after gashing his leg in a collision with players.

He backed out of a commitment to coach Southern California due to heart problems.

Majerus was 95-69 in five seasons at Saint Louis and had a 25-year record of 517-216, with 15 20-win seasons and two 30-win seasons. He had his most success at Utah, going 32395 from 1989-2004. He was at Marquette from 198386, and Ball State from 1987-89.

Ball State was 29-3 in 1988-89 under Majerus, including the school’s first NCAA tournament victory.

At Utah, Majerus produced 10 conference championships in 13 seasons.

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track and field

Mountaineers set records, start indoor season strong

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Junior Chene Townsend won the 60-meter dash and 60-meter hurdles in the Marty Pushkin Track Classic.

by Kevin hooker

sports correspondent

Led by record-setting performances, the West Virginia University track and field team kicked off its 2012-13 indoor season at the Marty Pushkin Track Classic Saturday.

Other schools from West Virginia, including Wheeling Jesuit University, and Glenville State College competed in the meet.

Stormy Nesbit, a junior, posted the fourth-best triple jump in school history with a mark of 11.89 meters while senior Heather Adams recorded the third-best weight throw in school history with a distance of 16.53 meters.

Junior Chene Townsend also impressed and took first place in the 60-meter dash and 60-meter hurdles.

“It was a nice rust buster,” said WVU head coach Sean Cleary. “The girls have been training hard all fall, and it’s nice to get inside and start getting fired up for winter (season).”

The Mountaineers took the top

three spots in the 400-meter dash as well. Junior Shakiyla Cosby won the race with a time of 59.8 seconds while freshman Brianna Kerekes finished in second place with a time of 1:01.53. Hannah Stone, also a freshman, finished third with a time of 1:04.45.

The track team also took the top four spots in the 500-meter dash.

Peyton Hampson, Alyssa Scherich, and Arielle Gaither, all running unattached, took the top three spots, respectively. Freshman Shannon Daly finished fourth.

The Moutaineers earned the top three spots in the 800-meter dash.

Junior Allison Tyree won the event with a time of 2:27.42, while freshman Christa D’Egidio and senior Lauren Moskal came in second and third, respectively.

In the field, WVU won all possible events, led by Stone, who finished first in the high jump with a leap of 1.7 meters. The team took the top four spots in pole vaulting, with junior Katlyn Shelar taking first place.

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Freshman Kiley Defibaugh placed second while sophomore Caitlin Walton and senior Lindsay Kopenhaver tied for third.

While Cleary was happy for Nesbit and Adams, who set records for the Mountaineers, he said he wasn’t too surprised by his team’s performance in the first meet of the year.

“We have some very good athletes on this team,” he said. “I would expect a few (records) to be broken by year’s end.”

The track team is now off until Jan. 12, and Cleary hopes the team will remain busy during its break.

“The key to our teams success will be how focused we remain through the holidays,” he said. “We will either be prepared or come back disappointed. Our destiny is on our own hands.”

The Mountaineers will travel to Kent, Ohio, for a meeting against Kent State University for their next meet. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU builds confidence in U.S. Winter Nationals by austin seidel sports writer

As the halfway point of the West Virginia swimming and diving season passes, head coach Vic Riggs is left to reflect on his team’s performance in the U.S. Winter Nationals this past weekend.

The Mountaineers left their mark in Austin, Texas, during an extended invitational event in which several WVU swimmers saw top 10 performances in an event that carries Big 12 Conference Championship connotations.

“Coming off the last two meets, we have some great confidence,” Riggs said.

“And now we need to carry that on and fine tune what each athlete needs to get better by February. I think they are ahead of where we as a staff thought we would be at this time of year.”

Senior swimmers Rachael Burnett and Mandie Nugent commanded the attention, as both swimmers placed themselves in the finals of their respective events. Burnett placed fifth in the 1650 meter freestyle event with a time of 16:09.92 while Nugent placed sixth in the women’s 200m fly event with a time of 1:58.10. In the 1650m freestyle consolation finals, senior swimmer Kata Fodor placed eighth to help bolster the Mountaineers’ top 10 efforts.

On the men’s side of the event, sophomore swimmer Daeton Davenport placed 12th in the 1650m freestyle while the young relay team of freshmen Andrew Marsh and Ross Glegg and sophomores Julien Vialette and Nathan Cobbe took a ninth place finish in the 400m freestyle relay event.

“They have come together really well and are continuing to make the steps needed to compete well,” Riggs said of his young male swimmers. “I am starting to see some leadership from them that will direct this team in a positive direction as we get closer to our championship

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Continued from page 7 His final trot onto Mountaineer Field was a memorable one.

However, No. 12 admits he probably won’t be hit with the realization of his career at home being over for quite some time.

“Many things went through my mind. It hasn’t hit me yet,” Smith said. “I’m going to look back at this game, this season; every single time I stepped out on this field, and I’m going to be appreciative.”

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that were both just horrific last year.

Both Griffin III and Luck, taken No. 1 and 2 in last year’s draft, had tremendous collegiate careers at their respective universities, as the two combined for 19,726 passing yards and 160 touchdowns in their seven college seasons (Luck skipped his senior season at Stanford).

Lofty numbers, to put it lightly.

But Smith has actually completed a higher percentage of his passes for more yards and more touchdowns than either RG III or Luck, although it should be noted that Luck probably would have edged Smith in yards and touchdowns had he returned for his senior season.

Still, Smith’s numbers speak for themselves. The school’s most prolific passer now holds the records for most completions, passing yards, and touchdowns in a single game, an entire season and in a career for any player in WVU history. It should also be pointed out that Smith rewrote some of those records multiple times.

Some critics will still say Smith still has to prove he can move out of Dana Holgorsen’s shotgun spread offense and operate an NFL, pro-style offense before they’ll hand down their ap-

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The Mountaineer swimmers were not joined by their diving cohorts, but West Virginia diving coach Michael Grapner returned to his alma mater with his team in tow as the young WVU diving squad took part in the Miami (Ohio) Invitational.

Entering the event the expectations held by Grapner for his divers were on par with the expectations held by Riggs and his swimmers. Grapner’s team in Miami, Ohio consisted of just a pair of juniors as the remainder of the men’s and women’s team consisted of sophomore and freshman divers.

Don’t tell the West Virginia divers they lack experience, however, as sophomore diver Haily VandePoel and freshman diver Christian Parker each took top 10 finishes in their respective one- and three-meter board events as Parker and several other members of the diving team took part in their first major meet in their collegiate careers.

Fellow freshman Lindsay Schmidt also claimed a pair of top 10 finishes with her sixth- and seventhplace finishes in the oneand three-meter events, respectively.

While the youth of the team shined, junior Richard Pokorny went about the invitation in the “business as usual” mindset, claiming fifth in both the one and three-meter board events despite carrying one of the most technically difficult dive sets.

The swimming and diving teams will each have a layoff until Jan. 12, 2013, but Riggs has faith in his team’s ability to prepare and maintain focus during the extended break.

“They are stepping up to each challenge as presented to them very well,” Riggs said. “We have the second half of the season to go, but I feel they are in a very good position to get themselves ready for Big 12s and NCAAs.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

Following the victory against Kansas Saturday, Smith found his way into the crowd to sing “Country Roads” with members of the West Virginia student body.

It was a moment he will never forget.

“It was just spur of the moment. I wanted to go out on a high note,” Smith said. “Just to be able to stand up there and sing ‘Country Roads’ in the student section; I hope that becomes a tradition.

It’s one of those feelings you don’t actually know until you’re a part of.” nicholas.arthur@mail.wvu.edu

proval, but Smith’s transition to an NFL offense won’t be as difficult as the naysayers would have you believe.

Holgorsen himself has already said on numerous occasions that Smith is perfectly capable of taking snaps under center, and honestly, this year’s NFL season has shown that more teams are willing to adopt the up-tempo offense than at any other point in the league’s history.

So in essence, Smith may actually be more prepared than the average NFL quarterback to take on the evolving responsibilities of the position when he gets to the league.

Regardless, Smith has demonstrated an excellence over his career at WVU that can’t be ignored come 2013’s NFL draft. He can make any throw at practically any time and will come to work each day with the exact same mentality – an integral trait for a quarterback playing at the highest level.

This excellence, paired with the abysmal play from a number of incumbent NFL starters this year, ultimately means that there’s at least a decent chance Mountaineer fans will be treated to another season of watching Smith light up opposing defenses next year.

It’ll just be a day later than when they’re normally used to. dasports@mail.wvu.edu