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‘Spirit Day’ honors fallen police officer

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‘OUT-TOUGHED’ “This is the worst defensive team I’ve ever had in 30 years. We don’t give help. We don’t get loose balls. We just don’t do the things that we’ve been doing for years and years.”

— West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins

by joann snoderly correspondent

Chick-fil-A on Patteson Drive is hosting a “Spirit Day” to benefit a scholarship fund in memory of fallen Monongalia County sheriff’s deputy Sgt. Michael Todd May. Ten percent of sales at Chick-fil-A today will be donated to the Monongalia County Deputy Sheriff’s Association. Donations will also be accepted, and deputies will be present during lunch and dinner hours to sell T-shirts to commemorate May. May was killed Feb. 18 when his stopped patrol SUV was struck by a hit-and-run suspect fleeing police on Interstate 79 near the Pennsylvania state line.

“We have a great relationship with the Sheriff’s Department and we were devastated by the loss of Sgt. May. We were trying to think of what we could do to help, and decided to do a ‘Spirit Day,’ ” said Shalane Koon, restaurant marketing director of the Patteson Dr. Chick-fil-A. Funds raised will be placed into a scholarship fund set up in May’s name. The scholarship will benefit students wishing to pursue a career in law enforcement, said Tammy Urick, secretary to the detective division of the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department.

“We wanted to do something that Todd would be proud of,” said Nick DeMedici, a detective at the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department and a friend of May. “He loved helping people in and outside of work.”

Another program that will benefit from Friday’s event is the Shop with a Deputy program, which May took part in every year, DeMedici said.

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Gonzaga shot 63.9 percent in the second half to shut down any comeback effort from the Mountaineers.

‘Run for Cover’ event to benefit homeless shelter by lydia nuzum

associate city editor

WVU ousted from tournament, falls to Gonzaga 77-54 Gonzaga blew West Virginia out of the gym in the first half, and the Mountaineers weren’t able to recover. The Bulldogs were 9-of-17 from 3-point range en route to its second round blowout victory.

Read more from Thursday’s game against Gonzaga in Sports.

Senior forward Kevin Jones had 14 points in his final game as a Mountaineer.

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Run for cover, and take comfort in helping those in need.

The 6th annual “Run for Cover” 5K will be held Sunday and all proceeds will benefit the Bartlett House, a local homeless shelter and resource center that provides transitional and supportive housing.

“The Bartlett House is full of really wonderful people, and it’s great that we can give back to the community in this way,” said Kacie Kidd, a second year medical student at West Virginia University and chairperson for the event.

“It’s great that there is something we can do to help right here in Morgantown – right where it’s needed.”

The event is sponsored by the American Medical Women’s Association and the American Medical Association student chapters at the WVU School of Medicine.

“One of our core principles as medical students is to give back to the community, both professionally and in our personal lives,” Kidd said. “This is a great opportunity, both for medical students and for everyone in the community to really get behind a community organization that helps people here in Morgantown.”

The race will begin at 2:30 p.m. at the Star City Rail Trail, and participants will run 1.5

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‘Greek Grind’ event brings sororities together for friendly competition by lydia nuzum

associate city editor

West Virginia University sororities got out and got down Thursday during the first “Greek Grind” held on the Mountainlair Green.

The event featured four teams composed of two sororities each. Teams participated in a dance competition to promote Greek unity and learn more about other sororities on campus, said Kate Wilkinson, WVU Panhellenic Council vice

president of technology.

“It’s really been amazing, because everyone’s gotten closer during this, which is exactly what we wanted to achieve by it,” Wilkinson said.

Each team completed a choreographed, four minute routine during the event. The teams that participated in the “Greek Grind” included Delta Gamma and Alpha Pi; Pi Beta Phi and Chi Omega; Alpha Xi Delta and Kappa Kappa Gamma; and Alpha Omicron Pi and Sigma Kappa.

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Wilkinson said the teams were paired randomly to encourage each member to create new connections with sisters outside her own sorority.

“They were chosen by a random drawing,” she said. “We wanted to be fair in how each sorority was paired up.”

Each team was judged on its performance by representatives from the Panhellenic Council, the governing body for the eight National Panhellenic Council sororities at WVU. The winning team was Alpha Omicron

Pi and Sigma Kappa, and second place was awarded to Alpha Xi Delta and Kappa Kappa Gamma.

“It was really a great way to have all of the sororities work together and get to know each other, other than ‘Oh, that’s a girl in Alpha Pi’ or ‘that’s a girl in Alpha Omicron Pi’,” said Hayley Clover, a sophomore broadcast journalism student. “I met a lot of new people, and it was lydia nuzum/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

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ON THE INSIDE The West Virginia football team put the pads on for the third day of spring drills at Milan Puskar Stadium. SPORTS PAGE 14

Alpha Omicron Pi and Sigma Kappa sororities were declared the winners of the ‘Greek Grind’ Competition Thursday.

TOO MUCH BULLDOG The West Virginia men’s basketball team lost 77-54 to Gonzaga in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

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5K

Continued from page 1 miles before turning around and returning to the starting point. The event has 87 registered runners, and individuals interested in participating in the event can register on race day.

More than 20 local businesses and individuals donated funds or items to the event, including a $1,000 donation from The Domain at Town Centre, a new off-campus apartment complex in the University Town Centre and the main sponsor of the event.

“Because we were able to lease so quickly this year, we’ve been given a chance to get into more community involvement, which is what we’ve been trying to do this year,” said Alex Abernathy, leasing and marketing specialist for The Domain. “We want to get involved with as many things as we can to get involved not only with the University, but the commu-

nity as well.”

Abernathy said The Domain wanted to establish itself in the Morgantown community by giving back to a nonprofit organization like the Bartlett House.

“What we’re trying to do as an apartment complex is not just establish ourselves with the students, but try to establish ourselves within the community,” he said. “We want to give back to the Morgantown area just as much as the Morgantown area has given to us.”

Bartlett House, Inc. was founded in 1985 as a nonprofit organization to meet the needs of the homeless population in Monongalia County, W. Va., and surrounding areas. The Bartlett House is open 24 hours a day yearround and can house up to 72 men, women and children.

Individuals interested in participating in the “Run for Cover” 5K can visit www. medicine.hsc.wvu.edu.

Alpha Xi Delta and Kappa Kappa Gamma perform during Thursday’s ‘Greek Grind’ competition on the Mountainlair Green.

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Through this program, underprivileged children are given money during theChristmas season to spend while shopping with a Sheriff’s deputy.

“Todd always took pride in his role in the program,” DeMedici said. “He loved helping those who were less fortunate.”

“Spirit Day” is a program offered through the Chick-filA franchise and individual locations can choose to support

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programs or causes that are important to them by donating a portion of the day’s sales, Koon said.

“You have to think that the police officers put their lives on the line every day for us.

I think it is important for the community to show support for them,” Koon said. “I don’t even think it is so much about the money but just about showing them that we support them.”

Chick-fil-A will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. today for “Spirit Day.”

just really fun to get together.”

Clover, a dancer on the Alpha Omicron Pi and Sigma Kappa team, said she and her fellow teammates worked hard to prepare for the competition, and she met several new students through the event.

“We worked really, really well together,” she said. “We had a lot of fun. We were out here on the Green almost every night practicing, and we got it down pretty good. I think it went really well.”

Wilkinson said the event also encouraged each team to come together to perform community service projects with their part-

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ner sorority.

“They also do community service,” Wilkinson said. “The girls who aren’t dancing do community service with the other sorority. One sorority painted Toms shoes to send to Africa; another helped the Girl Scouts celebrate their 100th anniversary in West Virginia.

They were given the freedom to choose any kind of community service they wanted.”

The winners of the contest received 100 points toward “Best Sorority On Campus,” and second place received 50 points.

To learn more about Greek sororities at WVU, visit www. panhellenic.studentorgs.wvu. edu. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Alpha Omicron Pi and Sigma Kappa perform during ‘Greek Grind.’

EPA: Water quality OK in Pa. gas drilling town W.Va. cracker site encroached on casino SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Federal environmental regulators said Thursday that well water testing at 11 homes in a northeastern Pennsylvania village where a gas driller was accused of polluting the aquifer failed to show elevated levels of contamination.

The Environmental Protection Agency, which is sampling well water at dozens of homes in Dimock, Susquehanna County, said initial test results “did not show levels of contamination that could present a health concern.”

Dimock has been at the center of a fierce debate over the environmental and public health impacts of Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale drilling industry.

State environmental regulators had previously determined that Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. contaminated the aquifer underneath

homes along Carter Road in Dimock with explosive levels of methane gas. Residents who are suing Cabot assert their water is also polluted with drilling chemicals. Many other residents of Dimock say that the water is clean and that the plaintiffs are exaggerating problems with their wells to help their lawsuit.

The federal environmental agency began testing the water in January, more than a month after the state Department of Environmental Protection allowed Cabot to stop delivering replacement water to about a dozen families.

The EPA said water samples from six of the 11 homes for which it received initial test results showed sodium, methane, chromium or bacteria, but at levels that did not exceed primary or secondary drinking water standards. Arsenic was found in the well

water of two homes, but at levels that did not present a health hazard, regulators said.

Of the 11 homes, EPA has been delivering fresh water to three homes where it said prior test results had showed alarming levels of contamination. EPA said it will continue supplying water to the homes “while we perform additional sampling to ensure that the drinking water quality at these homes remains consistent and acceptable for use over time.”

Dimock resident Scott Ely, who is among the plaintiffs suing Cabot, disputed the EPA interpretation of his test results. He said the results showed a range of contaminants at unsafe levels, including sodium and arsenic.

“We’ve had hundreds of tests done out here, and we’ve had so many different scientists say you have bad water here, there’s not a doubt about it. And yet when the state and feds test our water, they say we can drink it,” said Ely, who plans to meet with the EPA to review the test results. “Absolutely not.”

Cabot said in a statement that it is pleased by the EPA test results and that it is “steadfastly committed to environmental stewardship, collaboration with state regulators, and compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws.”

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia lost the battle to attract Shell’s multibillion-dollar chemical plant because of the costs of relocating a casino that occupies the company’s instate choice for a site, sources told The Associated Press.

Shell announced plans Thursday to build the so-called “cracker” plant in Monaca, Pa., about 12 miles from the West Virginia border. Two individuals with direct knowledge of the negotiations with Shell, but who were unauthorized to speak publicly about them, said the company’s preferred West Virginia location encroached on Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort.

Houston-based Shell, the U.S. subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, is planning a facility that can convert or crack a byproduct of nearby Marcellus shale natural gas drilling into a widely used chemical compound The Mountaineer complex sits along the Ohio River in nearby Hancock County and includes a large, flat oval racetrack. Besides the costs of building a new facility, Mountaineer would face a countywide vote on whether to permit its video slot machines and table games if it were required to relocate outside of Hancock County.

A new location may have also pushed Mountaineer into competition with one of the state’s three other racetrack casinos in Kanawha, Jefferson and nearby Ohio counties.

Officials from Mountaineer did not respond to requests for comment Thursday.

Shell is looking to take over the 300-acre Monaca site from a zinc factory that’s slated to shut down by 2013 and move to North Carolina. Emily Oberton, a Shell spokeswoman, said the company deemed several factors necessary for

“a world scale petrochemical complex and potential future expansions.”

These included “good access to liquids-rich (Marcellus) shale gas resources, water, road and rail transportation infrastructure, power grids, economics, and sufficient acreage,” Oberton said in a statement.

“The preferred site in Pennsylvania is near liquids-rich shale acreage and has superior transportation logistics.”

West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and Commerce Secretary Keith Burdette both declined to comment on any specific locations that Shell considered in West Virginia.

AP has reported that Shell was looking at parcels near Mountaineer. Tomblin did say Thursday that a company owned Shell’s preferred West Virginia site, while Burdette said securing that site for Shell would have required relocating its current occupant.

“At the end of the day, it was all about the site,” Burdette told The Associated Press.

Tomblin and Burdette said they were disappointed with Shell’s decision, but the nearby location of the Pennsylvania site means West Virginians will likely help build and operate the facility.

West Virginia also is well-positioned for the much-touted “downstream opportunities” that include jobs supplying the plant and making products from what it processes, they said.

“I believe West Virginia will benefit greatly, given the close proximity,” Tomblin told reporters.

Bill Maloney, Tomblin’s likely Republican opponent in this year’s gubernatorial election, blasted Thursday’s outcome.

“For months, Earl Ray Tomblin has said that this was his

number one priority as Governor. Well, he failed,” the Morgantown businessman said in a statement. “This administration has done nothing to fix the fundamental problems that job creators face in West Virginia.”

Hancock County Administrator Chuck Svokas said he was “extremely disappointed” by the announcement.

“We’re somewhat deflated now,” he said, “and we have to figure out ... what do we do next?”

But Tomblin noted that the state remains in the running for at least one additional cracker plant. Administration officials have been negotiating with an as-yet-unidentified company that’s reviewing sites along the Kanawha River and in the Parkersburg area. Aither Chemical, meanwhile, has lobbied West Virginia officials for help building a smaller-scale cracker facility in the state. A spokesman for Bayer Corp., which owns West Virginia industrial parks along the Ohio River, has also said his company has had discussions with more than one company that’s interested in building a plant.

“There are other companies that are still looking to locate a cracker,” said Karen Price, president of the West Virginia Manufacturers’ Association.

“West Virginia has good sites, and the state is in good shape ...

The downstream opportunities will be there for West Virginia to grow our manufacturing base in the Northern Panhandle.”

But West Virginia aggressively sought to land Shell’s cracker. The first bill to pass during this year’s legislative session was Tomblin’s proposal to slash property tax rates for 25 years in exchange for at least $2 billion worth of investment toward a cracker facility.

Pennsylvania offered 15 years of tax breaks, while Ohio also reportedly courted Shell with major incentives. Ohio Gov. John Kasich flew to Houston late last year. Tomblin traveled there in February after the Legislature approved West Virginia’s tax incentive.

“We worked very hard. We put together a very competitive package,” Tomblin said.

Charlie Burd, executive director of the Independent Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia, agreed that “all is not lost.” Burd pointed to a Toyota plant in Georgetown, Ky., as an example of how a factory can spur jobs and prosperity far from its location. “(The) absolute reality is that the entire region — 100 miles in any direction — is going to directly benefit from the location of those plants,” Burd said.

Mike Dotson is a city councilman in Chester, W.Va., about 20 miles west of Monaca. He said his area is already seeing benefits from the booming gas drilling industry.

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Jury finds Virginia Tech negligent in ‘07 shootings CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — The parents of two Virginia Tech students killed in a 2007 campus massacre worked for years to prove university officials were negligent for waiting to warn students of a gunman on campus, and a jury agreed with them on Wednesday.

It took jurors three and a half hours to find that university officials botched their response to the April 16, 2007, massacre that left 33 people – including the gunman – dead.

The jury determined in the wrongful death lawsuit against the state that the parents of Julia Pryde and Erin Peterson each deserved $4 million. The award likely will be sharply reduced because Virginia law requires such awards to be capped at $100,000.

The lawsuit was the last pending litigation over the mass shootings and it’s not clear if any additional lawsuits will be filed. The state is expected to appeal the verdict, as it did a separate fine handed down by federal education officials. No criminal charges were brought in the shootings.

“We were looking for truth for a long time,” Harry Pryde said outside the courthouse that’s less than 10 miles from Tech’s Blacksburg campus.

“We persevered and we got some truth today.”

After the verdict, the parents said their persistence is what their daughters would have wanted. They were the only eligible families to reject their share of an $11 million dollar settlement in 2008, instead taking the state to court in a wrongful death lawsuit.

The $11 million settlement was split between 24 families, excluding other disbursements such as $1.9 million set aside in a hardship fund. The state could not immediately provide a per-family breakdown of the settlement.

The families who sued the state, however, said getting answers mattered the most.

They argued that lives could have been spared if school officials had moved more quickly to alert the campus after the first two victims were shot in a dorm.

The massacre ended later in

the morning with the deaths 31 more people, including the gunman, in a classroom building.

“When you know that something is right you’re not deterred from your course,” said Celeste Peterson, whose daughter Erin died in the mass shooting that was the deadliest in modern U.S. history.

“We wanted the truth from the very beginning and we got it.

All I know is today we got what we wanted.”

The state, which was the lone defendant in the case, argued the university did all that it could with the information available at the time.

President Charles W. Steger and other university officials said they initially believed the first two shootings were isolated instances of domestic violence, based on what police investigators told them.

“The university’s contention has been all along, to quote president Steger, ‘We did everything we could do,’” said Robert T. Hall, an attorney for the parents. “Obviously the jury didn’t buy that.”

The verdict was met by sobs from Celeste Peterson, while her husband Grafton appeared to quietly weep at the plaintiff’s table. They later embraced each other. The Prydes were stoic, as they were most of the eight-day trial.

Circuit Judge William Alexander said it was the hardest case he had been a part of.

“My heart goes out to all of you,” he said to the families of victims.

Virginia Tech spokesman Mark Owczarski said after the verdict that the school would review the case with the attorney general before deciding on any further options.

“We are disappointed with today’s decision and stand by our long-held position that the administration and law enforcement at Virginia Tech did their absolute best with the information available on April 16, 2007,” Owczarski said in a statement.

The attorney general’s office said it was discussing “our options” with the Tech administration on an appeal and maintained trial evidence “established that it was the unan-

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Grafton Peterson, father of shooting victim Erin Peterson, reacts as a seven-person jury in Montgomery County Circuit Court finds that Virginia Tech was responsible for the death of his daughter, Wednesday in Christiansburg, Va. Jurors deliberated for 3 ½ hours before siding with the parents of two students who were killed on April 16, 2007, in the most deadly mass shooting in modern U.S. history. imous decision of three law enforcement agencies that the mass shooting was simply not foreseeable.”

One of the state’s attorneys, Peter R. Messitt, said before the verdict that Tech officials could not be expected to anticipate the killing spree, calling the slaughter unprecedented “in the history of higher education” and “one of the most horrible days in America.”

“What happened at Norris Hall was not reasonably foreseeable,” he told jurors during closing arguments.

Outside of court, Hall disagreed: “It’s so clear that a warning should have been given. The amount of the verdict speaks to that end.”

During the trial, the attorneys for the Prydes and Petersons portrayed campus police as leaping to the conclusion that the first two victims were shot by a jealous boyfriend, and that the gunman was not a threat to others.

They presented evidence that campus leaders, includ-

ing Steger, heeded the police conclusion without question, then waited two and a half hours before sending a campus-wide warning that a “shooting incident” had occurred. It did not say a gunman was still at large.

Police were pursuing the boyfriend of one of the dorm shooting victims as a “person of interest” at the expense of a campus-wide alert, the plaintiffs’ attorneys said.

Police stopped the boyfriend as he approached the Blacksburg campus and were questioning him as shots rang out at Norris Hall, where student Seung-Hui Cho chained shut the doors to the building and killed the students and faculty. He then killed himself.

Tech officials issued a specific warning that a “gunman is loose on campus” through emails to 37,000 at 9:50 a.m., nearly 10 minutes after Cho began the Norris slaughter.

The parents’ attorneys also accused Steger and other administrators of trying to cover

up their missteps by building official timelines that suggested they reacted more aggressively to the first shootings. Tech administrators said mistakes in the timelines were made in the fog of a horrific tragedy.

The state presented witnesses, including experts in campus security, who said Tech police and administrators acted properly when they concluded the dorm shootings were domestic. The shootings occurred in an isolated area of the dorm, and the victims were a man and a woman clad in their undergarments and sleepwear.

Steger testified that he delayed sending a specific warning to avoid a panic and to allow the university to notify the victims’ parents. He said the advice to delay a specific warning came from a member of his Policy Group who has since died.

S. Daniel Carter, a campus safety advocate, called the verdict a “vindication for all of us

who have said more should have been done to protect the Virginia Tech campus.”

The trial, he added, was also “a vital opportunity to set the record straight about exactly what happened, and when.”

A state panel that investigated the shootings concluded that officials erred in not sending an alert earlier.

The lag in issuing a campus warning also brought Virginia Tech a $55,000 fine from the U.S. Education Department, which the school is appealing.

As far as Wednesday’s jury award, Hall said that only actions by the governor, attorney general or General Assembly could raise it above $100,000.

Some parents have questioned why no one at Tech was held accountable for their actions, and Hall said the verdict sends a message to the university’s board.

“The board of visitors will not be able to ignore the verdict,” he said. “How they react to it is up to them.”

Schools plan to drop ‘pink slime meat PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The lunch lady won’t be serving up “pink slime” anymore at several school districts around the country.

Under a change announced Thursday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, districts that get food through the government’s school lunch program will be allowed to say no to ground beef containing an ammonia-treated filler derisively called “pink slime” and choose filler-free meat instead.

Several school systems said they will change their cafeteria menus when the move takes effect next fall. What’s not yet clear is how much the switch might cost and whether it could lead to price increases for school lunches.

“Our district has long advocated for purity and disclosure in food products. And we will definitely be moving to the pure ground beef when that becomes available in the fall,” said John Schuster, spokesman for Florida’s Miami-Dade school system, the nation’s fourth-largest district with 345,000 students.

He could not immediately speak to the cost, noting that the district is on spring break. An Agriculture Department spokeswoman did not return a call for comment.

The change came after a furious online campaign to rid school cafeterias of what the meat industry calls “lean, finely textured beef.” The low-cost filler is made from fatty meat scraps that are heated to remove most of the fat, then treated with ammonium hydroxide gas to kill bacteria such as E. coli and salmonella.

It has been on the market for years, and federal officials say it is safe. The National Meat Association has also noted that ammonium hydroxide is used in baked goods, puddings and other processed foods But the USDA announced that, in response to requests from school districts nationwide, it will offer schools a choice: 95 percent lean beef patties made with the filler, or less lean bulk ground beef without it.

The Philadelphia school district serves one product with the additive – a beef patty – in

its high schools only, according to spokesman Fernando Gallard.

He said he was unaware of any complaints.

“We have full confidence in the products that are given to us by the USDA,” Gallard said. But given the choice next year, he said the 146,000-student district will consider the alternatives.

In New York City’s 1.1 million-student school system, officials said they are working with food vendors to phase out pink slime products. They said they have heard concerns from parents and food advocates.

The Agriculture Department sets national nutritional standards for school meals, but districts make the decisions on what food to serve to meet the guidelines. On average, districts

in the National School Lunch Program buy about 20 percent of their food through USDA, with the remainder coming directly from private vendors.

There are no precise numbers on how prevalent the filler product is, but one industry official estimates it is in at least half of the ground meat and burgers in the U.S. Tony Geraci, executive director of child nutrition for the schools in Memphis, Tenn., said the 110,000-student district hasn’t used the product at least since he arrived in October. Geraci said that while he understands the food industry doesn’t want to waste any part of an animal, pink slime is “a horrible product” not fit for human consumption.

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WVU Student Fashion: Street Style Joni Koay

Sophomore | Public relations “I’m wearing a maxi dress, with a maxi skirt over it. I liked how you can kind of see the pattern (of the dress) through the skirt. Both the dress and the skirt are from Forever 21 and the belt is a vintage piece that was my mom’s. I’d describe my style as dainty with an urban twist.”

Megan Salvail

Sara Walter

Freshman | Exercise psychology “I dress for looks and comfort. I like to have something decent and presentable on always. Today I went with a spring dress and riding boots. This spring, if I can get the courage to wear one, I want to try wearing a fedora.”

Freshman | Political science

“I’m wearing lipstick because I was bored and playing around in my make-up bag. My style is, well I think about it, but not to the point wear I am thinking of wearing a certain type of style. I really just go with the weather.” photos and reporting by BROOKE CASSIDY

Flawless fashion: Adding accessories is a great way to prepare for spring Christina Guitierrez

A&E WRITER

With the warm weather the need for layers and layers of clothing is fleeting.

So as we count down the days until when short shorts and bandeaus are appropriate, we must consider the ways to keep the nearly-nothing fun and fashionable.

While we all have our staple pieces and go-to accessories, we should try hard not to completely replicate a look too often.

Some of the best accessories that provide versatility without actually changing are those semi-permanent ones. Nail polish, hair color and makeup are all great additions or alternatives to chunky necklaces and bold belts.

When you don’t have the time or energy to plan out an outfit, a neat manicure or pedicure can help grab attention.

Because of the recent interest and innovations in nail technology, being manicured has become more than a trend – it is a necessity.

The best thing about learning to paint your own nails is that it is completely you, and it is completely free. Well, once you buy the materials of course.

The colors are obviously

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important but what you do with them is where the fun begins.

Fashion guru, Kimora Lee Simmons said that using three similar colors to create a faded look is very “in.”

“Find three shades in the same color scheme. Paint both thumb nails with the lightest shade, the pointers and middle fingers with the middle shade and the darkest on the ring and pinky nails,” Lee said.

Lee demonstrated with shades of pink and red but this look can be used to convey any style. Use shades of blue or green for something a little funkier or white, grey and black for a more avantgarde look.

If you’re really feeling adventurous and artistic, try creating your own designs. All you’ll need is a shade or several shades, a toothpick and something to mix your colors on.

Index cards are perfect for blotting fat paint bubbles on to.

Dip your toothpick in the color bubble and dab paint into any designs you’d like.

If you’re apprehensive about being so meticulous, start out with polka dots or simple five-petal-flowers.

Make sure not to hold back; go crazy with color!

That goes for hair also. The summer is a time for bright-

ness, and that definitely includes hair color. If you’re one of the lucky ones who is or can pass for a natural blonde, this is your season.

This is the time of year when you can really teeter the line between natural blonde and bleached blonde without judgment.

And if you’re willing to go for that clearly unnatural look, bright-colored highlights will be a great way to spice your do.

A strip or layer of blue, pink or purple will have you looking like a stylish mermaid on the beach.

To really play that up, throw a few random braids in your hair. A few braids, some thick and some thin, will add texture and interest to your look.

Plus, they’ll last for a few days if you do decide to just lounge out in the sun all day.

Bringing us finally to everyone’s favorite summer accessory – a great tan.

Moisturizer and sun block are an absolute must, but once you get a good base, that sun-kissed look will be the best makeup any girl could ask for.

Luckily, the warm weather allows for our best assets to shine. So get creative and use these fun accessories to spruce up the undeniable beauty the sun will bring. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Friday March 16, 2012

CONTACT US 304-293-5092 ext. 4 | DAperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

Be responsible on St. Patty’s Day St. Patrick’s Day is Saturday, which means the people of Morgantown will take to the streets in a mass of green. This is one day of the year when everyone, regardless of their culture or ethnicity, can celebrate the history and traditions of Ireland.

Today, St. Patrick’s Day has lost much of its religious meaning in the U.S., and the holiday now represents the celebration of Irish culture.

The holiday, which is always

celebrated on March 17, was originally a day to commemorate Saint Patrick and the coming of Christianity to Ireland.

Many local bars will be offering up green beers and other Irish-themed drinks for the holiday, but it’s important to steer clear of binge drinking and to know your limits.

Some may sport pins or tshirts with slogans such as “I’m not Irish, but I’ll keep drinking until I am,” but don’t feed into dangerous ideas and

childish drinking practices.

It’s a great holiday to participate in, but one that can overwhelm its participants. Make sure you do not take the festivities too far, and behave in a responsible manner.

Since the weather has been so nice, and St. Patty’s Day falls on a weekend, many will be tempted to start drinking alcohol earlier in the day.

West Virginia University’s WELLWVU: The Students’ Center of Health suggests to

eat before and during the consumption of alcohol, alternate alcohol with water and spread out drinking over time. To find out more, visit http://well. wvu.edu.

If you do choose to drink, drink responsibly. Plan ahead and choose a designated driver who will be responsible for getting you and your friends home safely.

If you have to, take advantage of Morgantown’s many buses and cabs instead of

getting behind the wheel intoxicated.

There should be no reason for anyone to drive under the influence and everybody should be able to enjoy St. Patrick’s Day. It might be tempting to go over the top and binge drink if there’s an occasion, but it’s safer for you know your limits.

Enjoy the warm weather and St. Patrick’s Day responsibly. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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New abortion law is overreaching and ridiculous carol fox copy desk chief

On March 7, Virginia governor, Republican Bob McDonnell, signed into law House Bill 462, which states that women considering abortion must receive an external ultrasound of the fetus before being given consent for the procedure. They are also required to wait 24 hours after their ultrasound before the abortion is allowed to be performed.

Apparently this law represents the most compromising draft of the bill. When it was proposed earlier in the year, an invasive transvaginal sonogram was the requirement rather than the external abdominal ultrasound. Even with the law as it is, doctors in Virginia are still required to offer the women the more invasive procedure.

An outpouring of indignation echoed across the United States when news of the original version of HB 462 spread throughout the media. Politicians and popular television shows such as “The Daily Show” and “Saturday Night Live” mocked the unnecessarily invasive bill.

This led Virginia lawmakers to rehash the bill and finally decide on the compromise of required external ultrasound, except in cases where rape or incest has been reported to police.

This compromise didn’t stop the public from expressing their distaste for the bill, as hundreds poured onto the Virginia State Capitol grounds in protest of the legislation. This silent protest led to the arrests of 31 people – 17 women and 14 men, who refused to leave the steps of the Capitol.

Approximately 40 protesters wait, arms linked, on the front steps of the State Capitol during a women’s rights march and rally in Richmond, Va., March 3.

Though it is a hotly debated ethical issue, abortion is actually a common procedure.

According to Planned Parenthood, greater than 1 in 3 women in the United States has an abortion by the age 45.

In fact, the results of a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll performed in 2011 show that 62 percent of people polled believe that abortion in the first trimester should be legal no matter the circumstances.

Personally, I was shocked when I read about this new law, as it is so clearly a manip-

ulative maneuver performed by the Virginia government.

Whether abortion is moral or immoral, the government should have no power to impose a specific morality on its citizens.

I was aware that there was legislation requiring doctors to inform their patients of the risks of and alternatives to abortions, but I was certain that this law must be the first of its kind.

Of course, I was wrong. According to the Guttmacher Institute, seven other states –

Ala., Ariz., Fla., Kan., La., Miss. and Texas – require similar ultrasound procedures before abortions will be permitted.

Texas even requires the woman to hear a verbal account of the image – except in the case of rape, court order or fetal abnormality – and it requires the abortion provider to offer a viewing of the image and audio of the fetus’ heartbeat.

In the statement he issued following his signature of the law, McDonnell said, “Women have a right to know

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all the available medical and legal information surrounding the abortion decision before giving legally effective informed consent.”

This is hard to argue with.

Women do have the right to be informed of all the ramifications that might come from such a procedure.

They don’t, however, deserve to be forced to undergo a procedure that performs neither function.

An ultrasound neither informs women medically or legally – instead it informs them

aesthetically.

Women are made to look at an image of a fetus, but the woman who wants to abort her fetus already knows what an ultrasound of one looks like. What this law operates as is a tactic to discourage women from getting abortions. By making a pregnant woman face her fetus, lawmakers are attempting to elicit an emotional response that may make the woman change her mind about abortion.

Also in his statement, McDonnell said both sides of the argument would agree that a woman’s decision to seek an abortion is “difficult, irreversible and life-altering.” Again, he’s right. But, the decision to carry a baby to term, even if a woman is going to have the child adopted after its birth, is also “difficult, irreversible and life-altering.”

Even if you believe that getting an abortion is immoral or never acceptable, you certainly don’t believe that the law should be instrumental in forcing emotional responses.

In addition, there is the problem of cost of the ultrasounds.

Under this law the patient will shoulder the costs for this mandatory procedure. Not to mention the $2,500 fine for the provider if they fail to comply with the law’s mandates.

This inclusion of ultrasounds could also be seen as a way to financially deter women from getting a legal medical procedure.

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said it best when she called this law “an appalling and offensive government overreach that is designed to shame women who are seeking legal healthcare.”

Because abortion is legal, the government should not sanction attempts to manipulate its citizens’ emotional responses.

News outlets should report on facts, not on suspicion jeremiah yates opinion editor

In March of 2003, evidence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) within Iraq was broadcasted to the American public. Our government officials were certain of this, and they assured the people that the only way to protect our “freedom” was to use military force to stop an evil regime from committing a global catastrophe.

Once Congress approved President George W. Bush’s proposal to invade Iraq, it was only a matter of months before our then president announced “mission accomplished” to the world – even though the conflict continued for almost another eight years and evidence of WMDs were never found on Iraqi soil. In fact, it was proven later that the Iraqi nuclear program had ended in 1992. There wasn’t much of an accomplishment.

Some lessons, no matter how clearly taught, are never learned.

CNN recently circulated reports of a suspicious building with the Parchin military site south of Tehran, Iran. In 2003,

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U.N. inspectors searched the Parchin site, but not the particular building in question.

From the images broadcasted on CNN, there isn’t much to indicate that nuclear weapons are being built or tested.

The only suspicious features mentioned in the report were fences and a berm around the complex.

Such suspicions should not be broadcast to the world without a proper investigation.

This type of rabble-rousing seems more like play to get support for further conflict in the region. The American people should not be lead to believe in suspicions; they are entitled to the facts.

The CNN report on the building is a clear attempt to cause concern over something that simply isn’t one. I’m not saying that Iran’s desire to obtain nuclear weapons isn’t a concern for our countries interests, but nothing in the picture seemed convincing.

It’s these kinds of reports that got us into the unfavorable Iraq War. According to a 2003 Gallup poll, 75 percent of Americans were in favor of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. But, in 2010, 55 percent of Americans felt that the conflict was a mistake.

The similarities between the situation in Iraq in 2003 and

the current situation in Iran should be apparent to most Americans.

In both instances, suspicions of the countries having WMD have flooded the media for sensational purposes without actual proof.

CNN and other news broadcasters must take responsibility when informing Americans of global issues. If the public is in a state of fear, conflict with Iran may become inevitable – the world knows Israel would appreciate it.

Especially during our economic situation, fighting another war is not feasible for our country. U.S. intelligence was wrong in 2003, and who’s to say they are not wrong now?

Just to be clear, there has been no proposal of military action within Iran, but conflicts start with instances such as this.

When the national media sets the emotions of Americans on fire, they expect action.

The United Nations Security Council is proposing that Iran allow an inspection of the suspicious facility – as well as others in the area – to clarify the purposes for the inspection.

Hussein allowed U.N. inspectors in his facilities multiple times to show the world that he had no WMD, and the inspectors found nothing.

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This Aug. 13, 2004 satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe and the Institute for Science and International Security, shows the military complex at Parchin, Iran, 30 km (about 19 miles) southeast of Tehran Because of the long process of inspection, there was ample time for Iraq to alter its facilities and hide the evidence of its WMD, which is what many Americans believed to have happened.

If U.N. inspectors fail to find any evidence during their search in Iran, will that end suspicions? Or, will the American people be led to believe that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered

the removal of all incriminating evidence to another secure location.

While Iran has shown hostilities toward Israel, a U.S. ally, the issue should be dealt with carefully. There is reason to suspect Iran on building nuclear weapons, but those suspicions should not cause a rise out of the American public.

In all fairness, CNN didn’t create the suspicion involving the Parchin site; they only re-

ported the information given to them by the Institute for Science and International Security. But, it is clear that the pictures showed no proof, and thus it shouldn’t be a story for the news.

Respectable news channels should choose their coverage responsibly. In a democratic society, the media has an obligation to present factual information, not theories or suspicion.

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THE PNC PRACTICUM PROGRAM – ECONOMIC SEMINAR SERIES presents Arye Hillman from Bar-llan University in Israel.

It will be held in Room 441 of the Business & Economics Building from 3:30-5 p.m. For more information, email william.trumbull@ mail.wvu.edu.

EVERY FRIDAY

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

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

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

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

GLOBAL INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP AT WVU, a hospitable community for international students and scholars, meets at 6 p.m. for community dinner and Bible discussion. For more information, email sarahderoos@ live.com.

EVERY SATURDAY

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

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

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

EVERY SUNDAY

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

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

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

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

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

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

CHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP hosts free dinner at 6:15 p.m. followed by a worship service at 7 p.m. at 2901 University Ave. For more information, email Gary Gross at grossgary@yahoo.com.

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

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John University Parish at 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. All are welcome.

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

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

WELLWVU: STUDENT HEALTH is paid for by tuition and fees and is confidential. For appointments or more information, call 304-2932311 or visit www.well.edu.wvu/ medical.

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

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

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

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

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

WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN needs volunteers. WIC provides education, supplemental foods and immunizations for pregnant women and children under five years of age. This is an opportunity to earn volunteer hours for class requirements. For more information, call 304-598-5180 or 304-598-5185.

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS, a United Way agency, is looking for volunteers to become Big Brothers and Big Sisters in its one-onone community-based and schoolbased mentoring programs. To volunteer, call Sylvia at 304-9832823, ext. 104 or email bigs4kids@ yahoo.com.

ROSENBAUM FAMILY HOUSE, which provides a place for adult patients and their families to stay while receiving medical care at WVU, is looking for service organizations to provide dinner for 20 to 40 Family House guests. For more information, call 304-598-6094 or email rfh@wvuh.com.

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

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

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is held in the Kanawha Room of the Mountainlair every Wednesday from 11 a.m.-noon. The closet sells condoms for 25 cents each or five for $1.00.

THE WELLWVU CONDOM CARAVAN is held in the main area of the Mountainlair from noon-2 p.m. every Wednesday. The caravan sells condoms for 25 cents each or five for $1.00.

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

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

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

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

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

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

NEW SPRING SEMESTER GROUP THERAPY OPPORTUNITIES are available for free at the Carruth Center.

The groups include Understanding Self and Others, A Place for You, Sexual Assault Survivors Group, Social Anxiety Group and Solution Focused Therapy Group. For more information, call 304-293-4431 or email tandy.mcclung@mail.wvu.edu.

THE FRIENDS OF THE MORGANTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY are seeking new members and volunteers for weekly book sale inventory. For more information, inquire at the front desk on Spruce St., downstairs during sales every Tuesday and the first and third Saturday of every month or call 304-292-7579.

THE ROYCE J. AND CAROLINE B. WATTS MUSEUM, located in the Mineral Resources Building on the Evansdale Campus, presents its latest exhibit “Defying the Darkness: The Struggle for Safe and Sufficient Mine Illumination” through July 2012. The exhibit focuses on the history mining lights, and displays a wide variety of mine lighting implements. The Exhibit is open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 1-4 p.m. and by appointment.

For more information, call 304-2934609 or email wattsmuseum@mail. wvu.edu.

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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR BORN TODAY This year you visualize and, for the most part, manifest your desires. Make sure you really want what you wish for; otherwise, there could be a problem. You have a unique gentleness about you that attracts many people. If you are single, you could be dating a lot and could meet someone special in the next six months. If you are attached, as a couple you need to visualize a longterm goal. The process of making it real will bond you even more closely. Count on CAPRICORN. ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHH Hedge your bets, but also follow your instincts. You will stay on top of work, a community effort or other situation.

You’ll see rewards come forward for a job well done. Don’t hem and haw; instead, make fun plans. Tonight: A must appearance.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHH A meeting helps center you. You see beyond the immediate. Through associates and detachment, you visualize a fuller picture. Your efforts are greatly appreciated. You feel so much more connected.

Invite a friend to join you after work. Tonight: Let the good times roll.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHHH You are full of fun and life. You have a way of letting someone know exactly what your expectations are. At this moment in time, the response is likely to be positive and upbeat. Be careful about a new person you meet today. Tonight: Spend time with a special person.

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West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins answers questions after the Mountaineers 77-54 loss to Gonzaga Thursday.

West Virginia struggles shooting, falls to Gonzaga 77-54 in second round of NCAA tournament

By John Terry Managing Editor

Nothing went right for the West Virginia men’s basketball team Thursday night in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

The first-half collapse by the Mountaineers proved too much as they fell 77-54 to Gonzaga to abruptly end their season.

“They out-toughed us tonight,” said senior guard Truck Bryant, in his final game as a Mountaineer. “That’s just a bad way to end your career. We’ve never been out-toughed like that before.”

The Mountaineer offense

went stagnant, and the defense was nowhere to be found in the first half.

Gonzaga used a 16-1 firsthalf run to build a comfortable 27-10 lead with 7:53 remaining in the first half.

The Mountaineers didn’t have a field goal for more than eight minutes in the first half.

Freshman Gary Browne hit a 3-pointer at the 14:31 mark.

Their next field goal was a Kevin Jones field goal at the 6:16 mark to make it 27-12 in favor of the Bulldogs.

“This is the worst defensive team I’ve ever had in 30 years,” said West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins. “We don’t give help. We don’t get loose balls.

We just don’t do the things that we’ve been doing for years and years.”

Gonzaga took a 40-22 lead in the break. The major difference between the two teams in the first half was shooting.

The Bulldogs shot 50 percent, while West Virginia managed to shoot just 23.1 percent.

“We didn’t have time to be down at halftime,” Jones said.

“We were already down in the game.”

Gonzaga was 6-of-10 from behind the arc in the first half, which enabled it to jump out ot the lead. The Mountaineers made only one of the ten 3-pointers it took.

“They played great defense,”

said senior forward Kevin Jones, also playing in his final game. “They had confidence and they played well together.

We weren’t making open shots.

It was just a combination of things.”

Gonzaga continued to pour it on in the second half.

The Bulldogs out scored West Virginia 37-32 in the second half, and again used their shooting advantage to get there. The Bulldogs shot the ball better in the second half with 63.9 percent.

West Virginia shot 43.5 percent from the field, but again, was just 2-of-7 from 3-point range.

Gonzaga had four players

baseball

Mountaineers ready for 10-game home stretch

By Doug Walp sports writer

After a long stretch of tournament baseball away from home at the start of the season, West Virginia will now get to enjoy an 10-game home stand at Hawley Field, including a four-game set this weekend against the Manhattan Jaspers.

The Mountaineers kicked off the long-awaited home stand with a 2-1 win Wednesday afternoon against Eastern Michigan, improving to 2-1 at home but just 7-10 overall.

“It’s always good to play here at home,” said West Virginia head coach Greg Van Zant. “We put these guys through a really, really tough stretch of games on the road to start the season off.”

West Virginia had weathered the brutal road schedule early, going 6-6 before dropping all four games of the Nike Showcase Classic in Eugene, Oregon by a margin of 42-5.

“Over the years, we’ve played the first three weekends on the road and this year we went four weekends, and I didn’t like it,” Van Zant said. “I think it was one weekend too many – we should have played at home last weekend but it was a great opportunity to go to the Nike Showcase and I’m kind of glad we did it. It made us a better team.”

The Mountaineers will play host to a Manhattan team that has picked up only one win in 12 games this season.

The four-game series will kick off Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. and will feature West Virginia starter Cory Walter, who started strongly, but was not rewarded with any run support.

Walter (1-2) has a 4.84 ERA in 22.1 innings this season, striking out 10 and walking 11.

John Soldinger, the reigning MAAC pitcher of the year, is expected to start opposite Walter Friday for the Jaspers.

Soldinger (0-1) has held opposing hitters to a .242 average, while posting a team-leading 3.60 ERA, but has also walked 15.

Games two and three of the series will be played as a doubleheader, beginning at 1 p.m.

Saturday with a 30-minute intermission between games.

The Mountaineers will wrap up the four-game set against the Jaspers Sunday at noon.

Mike Giordano and Scott McClennan, who have both started three games, are expected to join Soldinger starting over the weekend against the Mountaineers, with either lefthanded freshman Nick Girardi or sophomore Kevin Bonanni filling in the last spot of the Jasper rotation.

Van Zant will likely counter with a combination of Caleb Ross, Marshall Thompson and Eric Hinkle as starters for West Virginia, depending on how the weekend plays out.

And although West Virginia hasn’t yet been able to break out consistently with the bats, they have experienced more success in the little time they’ve played at home, scoring almost as many runs in just three games at Hawley Field as they have in 14 games on the road.

Junior Brady Wilson, the Mountaineers’ leading hitter, feels the confidence in the offense within the team is still high.

“Guys seem a little more

finish in double-figure scoring.

Robert Sacre and Gary Bell Jr. each had 14 points. Kevin Pangos had 13 points and Elias Harris had 10.

“They just made shots,” Kilicli said, who finished with 10 points. “They had a hell of a game.”

Kilicli said the Achilles heel of this team – not being able to make open shots – was what came back to bite West Virginia against Gonzaga.

“Every team has weaknesses, and this was our weakness all year,” Kilicli said. “We have to make open shots and take what they gave us. That’s what the tournament is about. We deserved to lose.”

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comfortable; some of us are still going after some off-speed pitches in the dirt – which you can say it’s still early – but sooner or later it’s gonna come around. I feel like the more we get out here and practice, the better it’ll turn out. I’m just trying to fill my role, get on base and create some havoc,” said

Brady.

The Jaspers have certainly experienced their share of havoc this year, dropping 11 of their first 12, but won’t be overlooked after taking 2-of-3 from the Mountaineers at Hawley Field in 2010. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Head coach Greg Van Zant and the WVU baseball team play four games against Manhattan this weekend at Hawley Field.

The loss also marks the last time seniors Jones and Bryant suited up for the Mountaineers.

Jones finished with a 13 points and only four rebounds, while Bryant had 9 points on 2-of-9 shooting from the field.

Browne added 15 points on 10-of-11 from the free throw line.

“They played great defense on me,” Jones said. “There were three guys on me the entire time. That’s better than anyone else has done.

“It’s tough knowing that this is my last game. You just hope for the rest for the younger guys.”

This is a special weekend for West Virginia fans.

The University is representing itself in several ways. The men’s and women’s basketball teams are in the NCAA tournament. Although, the men lost 77-54 last night to Gonzaga.

The women’s basketball team is the No. 8 seed and faces No. 9 Texas Saturday in Norfolk, Va. If the Mountaineers beat the Longhorns, they will probably have to face the No. 1 seed Stanford Cardinal in the second round.

The WVU wrestling team is in the NCAA championships in St. Louis, Mo. The competition started Thursday and ends Saturday. Six members of the team were invited, including redshirt seniors Matt Ryan and Brandon Williamson, redshirt junior Lance Bryson, junior Shane Young, redshirt sophomore Nathan Pennesi and sophomore Michael Morales.

The women’s swimming team is sending four swimmers to the NCAA championships this weekend, including junior Mandie Nugent, who is the second seed in the 200-butterfly meet.

There’s certainly not a lack of “Mountaineer madness” to tune into this weekend. All of the teams are in postseason form and in their respective postseason tournaments, which should be exciting and competitive.

From what I’ve seen and heard, the four West Virginia squads all seem confident and

upbeat heading into the weekend. Anything can happen this time of year, so it definitely won’t be a disappointment to watch the Mountaineer teams in action.

I’ll be locked into the two basketball teams (if the men make it to Saturday’s second round) from my couch at home and possibly tune into the wrestling and swimming teams through the Internet.

There certainly won’t be a lack of electricity being used this weekend, but that’s how it is these days.

The men’s basketball team has never played Gonzaga in basketball, but head coach Bob Huggins and Gonzaga head coach Mark Few were asked about their “bromance” during press conferences this week.

The matchup of senior forward Kevin Jones and Zags big man Robert Sacre is very intriguing, both have different skill sets that make them unique.

The women have played in the state of Texas in the first round of the NCAA tournament, what seems like every year in recent memory. This year they’re just playing a team from Texas, who has made 25 NCAA tournament appearances, with three Final Four bids.

The men have made the tournament the last five years, and the women have made it five of the last six. You know the Mountaineers are going to give everything they have to win the games and move on, so if you’re a basketball fanatic, support the team in any way

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KJ and Truck close final chapter of WVU careers

BY MICHAEL CARVELLI SPORTS EDITOR

As the final seconds ticked off the clock in West Virginia’s 77-54 loss to Gonzaga in the second round of the NCAA tournament, seniors Kevin Jones and Truck Bryant shared a moment at midcourt.

It didn’t look like much; some might not have even noticed it.

But it was two teammates, who, through four years of battle with each other, had become brothers, trying to soak in their final moments on the same court as college teammates.

“It was very emotional just knowing that we were no longer teammates after that point,” Jones said. “We won’t have practice, won’t have weights anymore. It becomes so much a part of your life that I don’t think we’re going to know how to handle it at first.

“Knowing that that was my last time in a college basketball game and my last time being teammates with by best friend for four years and all these young guys who have made my life very crazy for this last year, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. These guys are great.”

The loss was even more bittersweet for the two Mountaineer seniors who entered their season with high hopes of getting to make one last trip to the Final Four before their careers in Morgantown were over.

But as they walked off the court Thursday for the last time in a WVU uniform, they didn’t get to hold any trophies. They didn’t get to make one last deep run in March like they hoped.

They just left the floor and went into the locker room, while another team celebrated

getting to move on to the next round.

“I actually cried. I didn’t cry all season, but I cried tonight,” Bryant said. “It was rough. I love these guys, I just don’t want to leave them.”

Thursday’s loss marked the end of an up-and-down final season for Jones and Bryant, one that started off looking extremely promising, before coming to a halt and ending in disappointment.

“The way this season was going, you never knew what could happen,” Bryant said.

“When I saw the lead get to 20, that’s when I knew it was going to be rough to try to come back from, though. There’s a difference when you’re trying to do that in conference play and in this game (in the tournament).”

With the loss, West Virginia dropped to 19-14 to end the season, finishing with fewer than 20 wins for the first time since the 2003-04 season.

It was a very different feeling than the success that Jones and Bryant, who had been a part of a 30-win team two years ago, are used to experiencing.

“It was tough on everybody,” Jones said. “Before, we never had to worry about whether we were going to make the tournament. It’s been hard.”

Even through all the hard times, neither ever quit leading this young WVU team.

When times got rough Thursday, like they had all season, Jones and Bryant did what they could to motivate their younger teammates.

“We just told them to keep on playing,” Jones said. “That’s all I was trying to do – just get everybody’s spirits up and tell them to go out there and keep on playing, regardless of the score.” james.carvelli@mail.wvu.edu

West Virginia seniors Kevin Jones and Truck Bryant share a moment at the end of the game against Gonzaga.

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WVU begins spring season Mountaineers open season against MLS’ Columbus Crew against Eastern Michigan Friday

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The Mountaineers will be without sophomore forward Andy Bevin against the Columbus Crew. Bevin is with the New Zealand national team preparing for the Olympics in London.

By Alex Sims Sports Writer

The spring season kicks off for West Virginia men’s soccer this weekend.

In what is the highlight of this year’s spring schedule, WVU will head to Columbus, Ohio to take on Major League Soccer’s Columbus Crew.

Saturday’s 1 p.m. game at Crew Stadium will be the Mountaineers’ second consecutive MLS spring destination, as they ended last season at Red Bull Arena in New York.

“I think our expectations every spring aren’t about the result,” said West Virginia head coach Marlon LeBlanc. “It’s about giving some guys opportunities to play and show us where they have gotten, and give ourselves a little bit better of a picture of where we are at going into the fall.”

In the grand finale of last spring season, WVU shut down the New York Red Bulls 1-0.

The Crew is currently 0-1 in the young MLS season, registering only a 2-0 defeat at the hands of the Colorado Rapids.

Columbus is a relatively young professional squad, with only four out of its 29 players over the age of 30.

Neither forward Andres Mendoza, the Crew’s leading scorer, nor assist-leading midfielder Robbie Rogers were retained from last year’s squad.

But, veteran forwards Emilio Renteria and Tom Heinemann

and 25-year-old midfielder Eddie Gaven return a combined 16 goals and four assists.

Prior to facing WVU, the Crew will host Michigan State at 11 a.m.

It is undetermined exactly which players will be in action for Columbus in either match, during what is a bye week on its schedule.

No matter which players participate Saturday, LeBlanc expects the match to be a true challenge.

“They’re all pros at this stage,” he said. “We’re going to see fewer mistakes, a team that deals better with pressure, a team that’s more patient when they are in possession, and a team that is combative in playing for their livelihoods.”

Meanwhile, WVU will be without multiple key players, most notably its leading scorer, sophomore forward Andy Bevin, who is training with the New Zealand national team in preparation to qualify for the Olympic Games in London.

Injuries will also keep three talented Mountaineers out this spring.

Last season’s point and assist leaders, senior Shadow Sebele and senior forward Peabo Doue are both still recovering from off-season surgeries, while redshirt freshman defender Jordan Moore will be out with a dislocated elbow.

WVU will be without another 2011 starter in junior midfielder Allan Flott, who will be away

from the team for the spring semester, to return this summer.

As a result, LeBlanc named multiple players who will see their first action against the Crew, including redshirt sophomore defender Greg Judge, two redshirt freshmen in forward Ryan Morris and defender Ryan Tauss, plus an early-enrollee, freshman defender Nick Raskasky.

“Quite a few guys who have never gotten an opportunity to play who are kind of going to be thrown into the fire,” LeBlanc said. “We are probably going to learn some hard lessons on Saturday, but at the end of the day hopefully it will help them grow and be better players.”

Even without a full squad, LeBlanc and his staff will take this spring season to try out a new formation in preparation for the fall season.

“It’s unfortunate because we’re missing quite a few of the pieces that make the puzzle complete,” LeBlanc said of his new formation. “We’ve got quite a few guys that are important in terms of how it clicks that aren’t going to be available.

“However, we do have guys who have played against the Red Bulls last year, and there’s that expectation that they’re going to be able to compete as well. We have future pros on our team, so you would hope they can handle a game like that, and I think they can.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

Junior Emily Mathis has been bothered by a stomach strain, and has been serving underhand for the last few matches.

By robert kreis sports writer

The 70-degree temperatures and clear skies have allowed the West Virginia women’s tennis team to start practicing outdoors, and weather permitting, will play their first home outdoor match of the season Friday against Eastern Michigan at 1 p.m.

“The plan is to be outside if the weather allows it,” said West Virginia head coach Tina Samara. “We practiced (Thursday) in the morning (outdoors), and the past few days we’ve (practiced at) random times with different people (outdoors).”

The Mountaineers played their first match outdoors last week when they lost to in-state rival Marshall.

Samara alluded to struggling with adjusting to the conditions last week, and is happy to get better prepred to the outdoors this week.

“Obviously you are dealing with the elements, whether it’s sun, or wind or both,” Samara said. “(Playing outdoors) is different in a lot of ways, but most of these kids grew up

playing more outside, it’s just a matter of getting used to it.”

Tennis players have to be able to compete both indoors and outdoors, although they may have a preference.

“A little bit of it is going to relate to what style of tennis you play,” Samara said.

“I think its good to be able to play in both, because there are different things that are easier to work on indoors where you don’t have to worry about wind and sun, and obviously it’s good to be outdoors and work on how you’re going to work in tough conditions.”

The Mountaineers are hoping after a week of practicing outdoors, they will be better adjusted to take on the elements when battling Eastern Michigan.

The Eagles currently sit with a 4-8 record and are on a three game losing streak.

West Virginia is currently suffering through a losing streak of their own.

The Mountaineers, who have been depleted with injuries, have lost five of their last six games, including three in a row.

Two Mountaineers have

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been struggling to get through injuries over the tough stretch.

Junior Emily Mathis, who played number one singles for a large part of the season for West Virginia, has struggled with a stomach strain.

Due to the strain, Mathis has been forced to serve the ball underhand. Samara is confidant Mathis will play Friday, but will not know about her serve until match time.

“With Emily we’re still waiting until tomorrow to see if she can serve (overhand) or not,” Samara said. “She is feeling a little bit better with the time off, but muscle strains are tricky.”

The other Mountaineer who has suffered with injuries is senior Catie Wickline.

Wickline’s shoulder has been on the mend after receiving a cortisone shot early last week.

The Eastern Michigan match will be the second to last home match of the season for the Mountaineers.

West Virginia will not return home until April 7, when they take on California, Pa. on senior day. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Mountaineers able to work out with pads as spring practices continue by cody schuler sports writer

Yesterday marked the third practice of the spring for West Virginia, which meant the team was able to put on pads and get physical for the first time.

While the players were ripe with excitement, they weren’t the only ones walking around practice with a little extra pep in their step.

The assistant coaches might have even been more enthused than the players.

For first-year defensive coordinator Joe DeForest, today was the first time he was able to see his new unit go full-speed – something he admitted was very impressive to see.

“I thought it was very exciting. These kids play hard,” he said. “Their practice tempo is amazing, and I’m very impressed.

“We just have to keep piecing different defensive fronts and whenever we put it all in, we’ll see what sticks on the wall and what we want to go with in the season.”

DeForest hopes the addition of pads will allow the defense to make great strides as it continues to get familiar with the new staff.

“When we saw them offseason, it’s just them running around doing drills. (The addition of pads) was a great step,” he said.

“They did an unbelievable job of handling the pads and handling their teammates and flying to the ball.”

Co-defensive coordinator Keith Patterson believes there is a clear difference in the at-

titude and focus of the team when it is wearing pads.

“There is just a difference on the first day with pads,” he said. “ I was very pleased with what we saw during parts of practice.

“I think we started strong and finished with the intensity that we needed to; we just need to keep bringing it because we can’t let one practice go by without making the most of it.”

Patterson and the rest of the defensive staff are in the midst of remodeling the defensive scheme, switching from the 3-3-5 to a more conventional defense.

Patterson installed a couple of things today, and overall, he thinks the switch won’t be too difficult to make.

“For the guys who have experience playing, and even at linebacker, it hasn’t been that big of a transition. We’re moving forward and I like where we are,” he said.

“We put in a new coverage and some of the concepts are different, but we’re facing different concepts everyday from our offense. We’re going out there cold turkey and you basically just have to react to it.”

Inside receivers coach Shannon Dawson noticed the heightened confidence the team has, particulary from the defensive side of the ball.

“I really sense it from the defensive side, I think those guys have good energy, and they really seem like they’re having a good time,” he said.

“That bleeds over to our side too and they just feed off each other. We try to create an at-

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Head coach Dana Holgorsen watches defensive drills during WVU’s third spring practice Thursday. mosphere where people are happy to play, so hopefully that shows.”

That same type of atmosphere is being developed amongst the coaches, something DeForest thinks is a byproduct of head coach Dana Holgorsen’s coaching hires.

“We’re getting along great.

We have great meetings and

we’re getting to know each other and our tendencies,” he said.

“I think we have a great staff put together, Dana did a great job, and I think as we work together throughout spring and fall camp it’s going to get much better.” charles.schuler@mail.wvu.edu

WVU closes out regular season against N0. 10 LSU sports writer

With seven freshmen and a new head coach, the 2012 season was one full of firsts for the West Virginia gymnastics program.

The Mountaineers (14-4, 5-1 EAGL) will close the regular season tonight on the road against No. 10 LSU (6-8, 2-7 SEC), the team’s second straight top-10 opponent.

Jason Butts was promoted to head coach after Linda Burdette-Good announced her retirement at the conclusion of the 2011 season.

Butts has had a successful debut season as the team knocked off No. 8 Arkansas 195.675-195.125 last weekend and set a program high score (195.1) for a season opener against then-No. 13 Penn State.

The team continued its slide in the national rankings, falling one spot to No. 29 after upsetting the program’s first top-10 opponent since 2007.

The poll rankings for the last three weeks have been based on regional qualifying scores.

The Tigers’ score is 196.44, ahead of the Mountaineers 194.81 RQS. West Virginia’s RQS increased from 194.695 after last week’s performances helping WVU rank No. 21 on floor (48.995) and vault (48.98).

Don’t expect a low-scoring meet as the teams combine to put out four of the country’s top-25 all-around gymnasts.

Hope Sloanhoffer leads the Mountaineers in the all-around ranking No. 25 nationally with an RQS of 39.165.

LSU has the other three starting with No. 9 Rheagan Cour-

ville (39.37), No. 11 Lloimincia Hall (39.315) and No. 17 Jessie Jordan (39.28).

Sloanhoffer had strange match a week ago, scoring a career-best 9.95 on beam before deducting points off her score for her first collegiate fall.

Last week, Butts took the team to the Jerry West monument trying to send a message through highlighting some of the obstacles and challenges West had to overcome.

“I wanted to bring them back down to earth, because were very fortunate and (the girls) work hard, and they need to remember that’s what Mountaineers do,” Butts said.

The Mountaineers remain winless against the Tigers in six attempts, but have a 2-0 record against SEC teams this season, defeating then No. 13 Auburn and No. 8 Arkansas last week.

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The last time the two teams met was in 2008. WVU lost 197.05-192.75 in Baton Rouge.

Juniors Kaylyn Millick and Alaska Richardson were each honored by the EAGL this week.

Millick was named Gymnast of the Week while Richardson was named Co-Specialist of the Week after a career-best 9.9 score on floor and tied a season high on vault with a 9.875.

Millick scored a career-best 39.175 a week ago finishing third overall and third on floor with a season-best 9.875 performance and also tied for second on bars with a 9.85.

West Virginia is No. 2 in the league, trailing only No. 20 NC State. The Wolfpack have a league-best RQS score of 195.6 while the Mountaineers trail with a score of 194.81. sebouu.majarian@mail.wvu.edu

gaughan

Continued from page 12 possible. They need everything they can get.

Obviously, the larger revenue sports tend to overshadow smaller sports like wrestling and swimming, but that doesn’t mean they’re not intense and fun to watch.

There are plenty of outlets for fans to catch statistics and follow the matches.

Four of the six WVU wrestlers are returning to the championships and are looking to improve their records.

The women swimmers placed No. 17 last year in the championships, so they’re motivated to get back and beat that by a long shot.

Wherever you are this weekend, whether it be on your living room sofa in Morgantown or traveling to watch the games live, root for your school’s teams and student athletes.

They put so much hard work and countless hours to get to this point in the season. They deserve to be supported by the fans who love them most. ben.gaughan@mail.wvu.edu

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VERY SPACIOUS 2BR, 2 full bath with large closets. Washer/dryer, dishwasher, microwave, Hard wood flooring. Conveniently located close to the campus, stadium and hospital $840 + Electric, Sorry No Dogs. 304-692-9296 or 304-288-0387 WALKING DISTANCE TO DOWNTOWN. 2BR, 1 1/2 BTH, Laundry Room, Parking Permit. 501 Beverly Ave. $800 plus util.

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2/BR APARTMENT FOR RENT. 500 EAST Prospect. Available now. $300/month per person + utilities. NO PETS. 692-7587.

LARGE 1BR APARTMENT located at 320 Stewart St. In very good condition and very near downtown campus. $425 + utilities. Call 304-288-3308

3BR 246 FIFE ST. NEXT TO LAIR WD DW Nice big rooms, parking available. $450+ utilities 304-685-3243. HTMproperties.com

1BR LARGE STUDIO APARTMENT Westover. Beautiful high ceilings wood and brick, all open floor plan. NO PETS. off st parking, AC. WD hookups. $600/month+utilities available May. 412-287-5418

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HOUSES FOR SALE 3BR 1BA COMPLETELY REMODELED HOME with new appliances. Located 372 Crawford Ave Star City. $129,900.

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HELP WANTED BARTENDING UP TO $300 A DAY potential. No experience necessary. Age 18 plus. Training available. 800-965-6520 Ext. 285

Lease and Deposit Campus Area - 3 BR Apt. behind Arnold Hall (last one) South Park - 1, 2, and 3 BR Apts.

FURNISHED HOUSES JEWELMANLLC.COM close to downtown, next to Arnold Hall. 3,4,5&6/BR houses. Excellent condition. A/C, W/D, parking and yard. Utilities included. No dogs. 12 month lease. 304-288-1572 or 296-8491

UNFURNISHED HOUSES * AVAILABLE MAY 2012 4 BR DUPLEX. 135-A Lorentz Avenue. Walk to Downtown Campus. W/D, Off-street parking. Utilities plus security deposit. Call 304-692-5845.

4 BR HOUSES walk to class. W/D. No Pets.

Available June 1,2012.

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3/BR, 2/BA RANCH ON 1 ACRE. CAC. 10 minutes from both hospitals. $900/mo.

NO PETS. Call 304-282-8769.

3BR LARGE HOUSE, 2 FULL BA. NEW UPDATES. WD, 3 minute walk to campus, $425/person + utilities. 304-685-7835.

3BR. + ADD. ROOM, 2 FULL BATH. W/D. Minute walk to town. $900/MONTH. call 304-983-2529.

4BR. $1600/mth. Included utilities. Available May 16th. 304-599-8329 6BR (2APTS) HOUSE IN SOUTH PARK. 2 kitchens. 2 baths. W/D. Utilities included. June 1 Lease. $435/person.

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AVAILABLE MAY 2012 3BR/ 2 BA DUPLEX. 135-B Lorentz Avenue. Walk to Downtown Campus. W/D, Off-street parking. Utilities plus security deposit. Call 304-692-5845.

BATTELLE AVE. 1/BR ($485/mo), AVAILABLE 6/1/12. All utilities included. Off-street parking. WD. NO PETS. Lease/deposit.

304-685-8170.

UNFURNISHED HOUSE. LARGE, 1-3 BR. Walk to class. Some parking + utilities paid.

W/D Starting $420 per person. 416 & 313 McLane. 340 Grant. PR-7, LLC 304-879-5059 or 403-680-2011.

MANAGEMENT OPENINGS Patteson Drive BK Please apply online www.mybktools.com EXPERIENCED BARTENDER FOR FINE DINING. Apply at Hotel Morgan, 127 High St after 5pm.

GOLF SHOP ASSISTANT. Gold Shop assistant wanted at the most exclusive, private club in the area. Duties to include, but not limited to taking players clubs from their cars to the driving range, setting up and attending to the driving range, assisting two PGA Professionals with their duties, player registration, assigning caddies, tournament operations, and the opening/closing of the golf shop. Excellent customer service and communication skills mandatory. Computer and retail experience helpful. Inquiries to Chris McGinnis at Pikewood National GC (304)846-3312.

HELP WANTED Front desk receptionist/ spa attendant at high end salon. Please call 304-598-9200.

MARIO’S FISHBOWL NOW HIRING cooks. Apply in person at 704 Richwood Avenue.

SUMMER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY The Health Sciences & Technology Academy (HSTA) is looking for WVU Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate Students to serve as Assistant Head Mentor and Mentors for WV High School Students during our Summer Institute Program. 2012 Summer Institute dates and training are July 12 to July 27.

For more information and an application see the HSTA Web site at www.wv-hsta.org or contact Wanda Stone at 304-293-1651.

A&E RHA to host annual talent show 16

Friday March 16, 2012

By Alex Panos A&E WRITER

It’s time to find out who’s got talent; the 11th annual West Virginia University Residence Hall Association talent show will take place tonight at 7 p.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.

Each residence hall on campus holds a talent show every year, with the top two acts in the hall qualifying to compete at the annual RHA event.

Residential Hall Coordinator for Lincold Hall Heidi Muller said a variety of talents

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are expected to be on display Friday.

“We have a lot of singing with acoustic guitars, dancing, a capella groups, etc.

“There will be about 21 acts.

We have a lot of really great people working on this, so everything is going to turn out awesome.”

The first place winner will be awarded a $500 prize, second will receive $300 and third will win $100. An honorable mention winner will take home $100 in prize money, as well.

The RHA committee of stu-

dents across campus chose a scene from the recent film “Zombieland” as the theme for the competition this year.

Decorations will be set up to recreate the final moments of the movie at the amusement park “Pacific Playland.”

Each dorm on campus also made posters to represent one of the rules – there were rules revealed throughout the motion picture on how to survive in “Zombieland” such as “Rule 1, Cardio Conditioning” to complete what Muller called a unique atmosphere.

“I think it’s great that the

committee members thought of this idea. It’s not a very common theme and I think the originality of it is pretty cool,” Muller said.

RHA President Walter Hardy said that in addition to a giving students a great opportunity to showcase talents, the competition is also a good chance for students to create new friendships all over campus.

“Since we have residence halls on both WVU campuses, students don’t always get the chance to interact with students in other halls,” Hardy

said in a press release. “The annual talent show gives residents a chance to meet others while showcasing his or her talents.”

The event is open to the entire public and there will be no charge to attend. Free refreshments will be provided to the audience throughout the event. Free prizes and other giveaways will also be distributed throughout the night.

In addition to the prizes and the fun evening the audience members usually experience during the annual talent show, Muller said that people

should also attend the show to provide moral support for the contestants.

“It’s really hard for the contestants to put themselves in the spotlight without any support, so everyone should come and cheer for their friends,” Muller said. “We’ve all worked really hard to put this together and it’s always a great time.”

People interested in the talent show may contact Alicia Moore at Alicia.Moore@ mail.wvu.edu for more information. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Celebrate St. Patrick’s with authentic Irish music and dance

by Emily Meadows A&E WRITER

If you are looking for a truly authentic way to spend your St. Patrick’s Day, come join the Morgantown Friends of Old Time Music Celebration Dance at the Marilla Center for a night of traditional Irish-themed music and dance.

Beginning at 7:30 p.m., the

participatory dance hosted

by Marianne O’Doherty and Kathy Fletcher will be offering instruction for pre-prepared dance routines to the live music of Wee Bluet.

“Some of the music may be familiar to dancers; there will be jigs, hornpipes and reels… the kind of music that inspires movement,” said Cindy O’Brien, one of the event’s

coordinators.

The organization regularly holds monthly dances throughout the school year and hosts an Ireland-inspired dance every March; it is the luck of the Irish that this year’s show falls on St. Patrick’s Day itself.

O’Brien says the dances are not hard to follow, but are difficult enough to keep them interesting.

“While the dancing requires some simple footwork, the focus is on moving to the music and simply having fun,” O’Brien said.

Lead instructor O’Doherty has years of experience in this style of dance, as she grew up dancing in her family at ceilis, social events that feature set dances and music, and no band could fit more effortlessly into

her technique than Wee Bluet.

The local band plays genuine Irish music using the fiddle, guitar, hammered dulcimer and bodhran, otherwise known as the distinctive Irish drum.

Refreshments including fresh scones and tea will be offered throughout the evening.

“You don’t need to come with a partner and you aren’t

expected to stay with the same person all night,” O’Brien said, “It’s a social event about having fun!”

The dance will be held Saturday March 17 from 7:30-10 p.m.

Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students, and can be purchased by calling 304-296-4954 or at the Marilla Center. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Bruce Springsteen gives music history lesson at South by South West festival

Musician Bruce Springsteen gives the keynote address at the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas on Thursday.

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — They call him The Boss for a reason.

Showing there’s no need for a backing band to bring out his outsized charisma on stage, Bruce Springsteen took a rapt audience on a personal music history journey.

He also gave young rockers insightful advice in an often hilarious tour-de-force keynote speech that was one of the most anticipated events at the South By Southwest Music Conference and Festival this year.

“Good morning, good morning, good morning,”

Springsteen said after taking the stage at 12:30 p.m. “Why are we up so (expletive) early.

How important is this speech if we’re giving it at noon? Every musician in town is asleep, or they will be by the time I finish this speech.”

The Boss on Thursday takes over Austin. Besides the speech, he’s putting on an exclusive show later in the evening.

He got off to an often riotous start as he name-checked all the musicians that have inspired him over the years from Elvis to James Brown and Woody Guthrie to Johnny Rotten. He marveled at the unfathomable diversity at SXSW and led a sing-a-long of “This Land is Your Land.”

Springsteen is hot with his new album, “Wrecking Ball,” debuting at No. 1 in 14 countries after its release last week and with a world tour scheduled. It’s the first step in his career without the late saxophonist Clarence Clemons, who died last year.

Those musicians who managed to wake up and catch the speech got a lesson in how to approach your career and a long list of influences to check out.

About 1,000 SXSW attendees filled a ballroom in the Austin Convention Center for the 50-minute speech and NPR carried it live via Internet stream.

Among those attending was Juanes, the Colombian rock star who saw Springsteen live for the first time just last Friday at The Apollo. He loved Springsteen’s riff on creativity most of all.

“It was great,” said Juanes, who sang in English in public for the first time during a tribute to Guthrie before the speech. “It was like a lesson if you go to a university. He’s got the whole career. I was thinking and thinking, it’s like inside me, many things that he was saying. I feel the same, how we’re so connected.”

Springsteen marveled at

the diversity in 21st century pop music, almost rapping a long list of genres that would have boggled the mind of that young boy in New Jersey in the 1960s who had just 10 years of rock `n’ roll history to draw his influences from.

“Just add neo- and post- to everything and mention them all again. Oh, yeah,” he said as an afterthought, “and rock `n’ roll.”

He talked about first seeing Elvis and his pelvis on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” the exquisite agony of Roy Orbison, the way The Beatles, Bob Dylan and The Animals set music free, and the rise of punk rock and soul music as forces of change in the 1970s.

He related often hilarious and poignant personal stories about each along the way.

Springsteen also talked about the profound importance of Guthrie and his personal idol Pete Seeger before leading the audience in a singa-long of a rare verse from “This Land is Your Land.”

Though Springsteen talked of their significance both to him and American history, he stayed away from discussing the social concerns that fill his new album.

In closing, he urged all “10,000 bands” in Austin to bring it hard every night. That, he said, is the key to success.

“Here we are in this town, young and old, celebrating each perhaps in our own way a sense of freedom that was Woody’s legacy,” Springsteen said. “So rumble, young musicians, rumble. Open your ears and open your hearts. Don’t take yourself too seriously and take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry.

Worry your ass off. Have ironclad confidence, but doubt. It keeps you awake and alert. ...

And when you walk on stage tonight to bring the noise, treat it like it’s all we have. And then remember it’s only rock `n’ roll. I think I’m going to go out and catch a little black death metal.”

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