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SGA welcomes incoming members by kelsey montgomery staff writer

Outgoing West Virginia University Student Government Association members said their good-byes and welcomed the 2012 representatives at Wednesday night’s “changing of the seats” ceremony.

“I don’t think it has hit me completely until standing here right now,” said recently elected SGA President Zach Redding. “I’m excited to get

started.”

The 2012-13 board of governors will become official April 29 at the SGA Inauguration at the Erickson Alumni Center at 2:30 p.m.

Outgoing president Jason Bailey presented his final executive report and wished the future administration good luck.

“It’s been a great year, and I think that this group has accomplished more than people know,” he said.

Bailey represented WVU

this weekend at the Inaugural White House National Campus Leadership Summit, where he met with the Undersecretary of Education, university presidents and leaders from all over the country.

“Many leaders and I worked with the Obama administration this weekend to relay our ideas and thoughts about today’s issues,” Bailey said.

Outgoing vice president Rashad Bates said SGA has become like family to him.

“It’s weird to think on Wednesdays at 7:30 next fall that I won’t be sitting in this chair,” Bates said. “To the incoming board, SGA can get rough at times, and you’ll often hear the word ‘No.’ It’s up to you because you and your causes define SGA – SGA does not define you.”

Vice Chair Allison Rollins said the final farewell was an emotional experience for her and credits student government for transforming her col-

lege career.

“I can’t describe in words something that has defined me for years,” Rollins said. “SGA has honestly been one of the best experiences of my life.”

Ben Seebaugh was awarded Governor of the Year for his ongoing fight for social justice on campus.

Seebaugh, who was recently named a Truman Scholar, made strides for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning com-

munity through anti-bullying initiatives.

“We all have our own platforms and causes, but he (Seebaugh) is accomplishing social justice,” said Governor Ray Zane. “He has made the biggest change among all of us, and he’s done it within this year.”

Seebaugh will speak at the SGA inauguration to address the newly elected administration and offer them advice on

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Green Dot program combats sexual assault

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by Bryan bumgardner staff writer

For the Green Dot organization, sexual assault and violence prevention isn’t just about awareness – it’s about taking action.

WELLWVU: The Students’ Center for Health hosted a presentation about Green Dot – a new approach to violence and sexual assault prevention. The Green Dot program focuses on motivating individuals to take action in situations where others are at risk for violence.

Sam Wilmoth, a WELLWVU intern, said in most instances of sexual assault or violence, witnesses don’t take action.

“Nobody wants to imagine that this is a problem in their community,” he said. “But awareness is not enough.

We’ve got to start talking about action.”

Wilmoth said a “Green Dot” is the moment when a person decides to take action to prevent violence or accidents. This could be making sure someone gets home safely after a night out or educating others about violence.

A small action could prevent years of pain, Wilmoth said.

“In reality, you have two choices – to do something or do nothing. If you decide to

walk away, it keeps happening,” he said. “The solution is the moment in time when you make a decision to do more than passively disapprove.”

Wilmoth said he believes widespread action will change attitudes toward violence in the same way the civil rights movement changed attitudes about ethnic equality.

“These are seismic shifts that can happen in a single lifetime; I’m asking if we can do it again,” he said.

During the presentation, students were given suggestions on how to take action. Direct methods include things such as intervening in a domestic dispute, while indirect methods include things like selecting a designated driver, Wilmoth said.

“I think the best part about this is that it can be one little action that changes everything,” said WELLWVU Health Education Specialist Judy Murnan Zullig.

Even the most timid people can find ways to prevent violence, she said.

“All of us can do at least one thing, even if it’s just speaking up. That’s what makes this so great,” she said.

Nnenna Minimah, Sexual Assault Response Team Coordinator with the Rape

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Lecture highlights need for land-grant colleges by joann snoderly matt sunday/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

TOP: Sigma Kappa’s Erin Thomas performs a mid-air stunt after being tossed vertically by members of Theta Chi and Pi Kappa Phi while practicing for the ‘Air Bands’ competition in the Shell Building. ‘Air Bands’ is scheduled for today at 4 p.m. on the Mountainlair Green. BOTTOM LEFT: Thomas Rice of Pi Kappa Phi performs a stunt with Erin Thomas of Sigma Kappa. BOTTOM RIGHT: Anthony Cifre of Theta Chi executes a lift with Chelsea Arvin of Sigma Kappa.

Students host event to benefit Ryan’s Rally by carlee lammers staff writer

For a group of West Virginia University public relations students, school spirit means reaching out and giving back to fellow Mountaineers in times of need.

A silent auction fundraiser was held Wednesday at Dragonfly to benefit former WVU student Ryan Diviney.

Diviney was brutally attacked outside the Willey Street Dairy Mart in November 2009 and remains in a coma-like state.

“Ryan is one of my good friends, and we wanted to have this event to raise awareness

against violence,” said senior public relations student Hannah Ellis.

Proceeds from the auction and a portion of the night’s meal and martini proceeds will be donated to the Diviney family.

WVU sociology professor Daniel Brewster said he hoped the event, which served as the public relations students’ capstone project, would raise awareness and prevent future acts of violence in the Morgantown area.

“These students felt that the University and the city of Morgantown were almost distant

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Students participate in a silent auction to benefit Ryan’s Rally at Dragonfly Wednesday evening.

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The Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Land Grant Act by hosting a lecture highlighting the importance of land-grant colleges in the 21st century.

The lecture, titled “Educating the Nation: 150 Years of Land-Grant Colleges,” was given by Aaron SheehanDean, Eberly Family Professor of Civil War Studies at West Virginia University.

The lecture gave attendants a broader understanding of the history of land-grant colleges across the United States, including WVU. The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 was named for its sponsor, Rep. Justin Morrill of Vermont. It was created to supplement existing higher education curriculums with practical skills like agricultural science and engineering. These skills proved useful in growing the nation’s economy, Sheehan-Dean said.

“Morrill knew that paving roads, digging canals

and laying railroad track required more than just monetary capital. It required people trained in the arts and sciences necessary to its development,” Sheehan-Dean said.

Land-grant colleges were also designed to train young men in the fundamentals of military service. By 1915, land grant colleges furnished three times as many officers to the United States military as West Point, Sheehan-Dean said.

Under the act, the federal government donated land to states for the construction of higher education facilities that teach a wide range of subjects.

In 1863, the West Virginia legislature took advantage of this opportunity and acquired land west of the Mississippi river under the Morrill Land Grant Act. This land was sold, and the funds were used to establish WVU in 1867.

Sheehan-Dean said the Morrill Land Grant Act is just as important today as it was

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Multiple agents out in wake of Secret Service scandal WASHINGTON (AP) — Moving swiftly, the Secret Service forced out three agents Wednesday in a prostitution scandal that has embarrassed President Barack Obama. A senior congressman welcomed the move to hold people responsible for the tawdry episode but warned “it’s not over.”

The agency announced three agents are leaving the service even as separate U.S. government investigations were under way.

The Secret Service did not identify the agents being forced out of the government or eight more it said remain on administrative leave. In a statement, it said one supervisor was allowed to retire and another will be fired for cause. A third employee, who was not a supervisor, has resigned.

The agents were implicated in the prostitution scandal in Colombia that also involved about 10 military service members and as many as 20 women. All the Secret Service employees who were involved had their security clearances revoked.

“These are the first steps,” said Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, which oversees the Secret Service. King said the agency’s director, Mark Sullivan, took employment action against “the three people he believes the case was clearest against.” But King warned: “It’s certainly not over.”

Three men arrested for starting fires Three men – two West Virginia University students and an athletic tutor – face malicious burning charges for setting fire to a Morgantown dumpster.

Morgantown police served warrants to Brendan Schweer, Michael Howell and Corey Burns, all 23, this weekend for the fire set March 11 near their home in Sunnyside.

The three were seen pouring gas on a dumpster fire at the corner of Beverly Avenue and Fourth Street around 3 a.m.

They are charged with malicious burning – a misdemeanor. If convicted, a minimum $1,000 fine is required, in addition to a reimbursement to the city for any costs of fighting the fire.

All students and staff involved in any malicious burning will face expulsion or termination, according to WVU officials.

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President Barack Obama speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex in Washington.

King said the agent set to be fired would sue. King said Sullivan had to follow collective bargaining rules but was “moving as quickly as he can. Once he feels the facts are clear, he’s going to move.”

The embarrassing scandal erupted last week after 11 Secret Service agents were sent home from the colonial-era city of Cartagena on Colombia’s Caribbean coast after a night of partying that report-

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Continued from page 1 and Domestic Violence Information Center, said Green Dot is a good app roa ch to violence prevention.

“It’s different because it’s something that students can do every day,” she said.

Many students are overwhelmed by the idea of spreading awareness, and

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“In some respects, we have different contemporary needs, but in a broader sense our needs are quite fixed,” he said. “We will always live in a built environment that requires design and planning. The original act addressed and, in some measure, helped the country through its most dangerous era. The modern legacies of that act will help us do the same in the face of modern challenges and problems.”

Brittany Hoffman, a junior agricultural business student, said the pre-

edly ended with at least some of them bringing prostitutes back to their hotel. The special agents and uniformed officers were in Colombia in advance of President Barack Obama’s arrival for the Summit of the Americas.

A White House official said Wednesday night that Obama had not spoken directly to Sullivan since the incident unfolded late last week. Obama’s senior aides are in close contact with Sullivan and the agenGreen Dot gives them an easier choice, she said.

“They can do little Green Dots and get satisfaction from doing something positive,” she said.

Another Green Dot presentation will be held April 24 at 7 p.m. in the Shenandoah room of the Mountainlair. For more information, visit www. livethegreendot.com. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

sentation gave her insight into the origins of her own education.

“I learned a lot about the importance and history of the Land Grant Act,” she said. “Especially being a Davis student, it really plays a role in my everyday life.”

Allyson Perry, a graduate history student, said the lecture provided an abundance of uncommon information.

“He really teased out a lot of the history of land-grant institutions. There are not many books that speak specifically about the topic,” she said. “To have a very concise presentation was wonderful.”

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cy’s leadership, said the official, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

In Washington and Colombia, separate U.S. government investigations were already under way. King said he has assigned four congressional investigators to the probe. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, led by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sought details of the Secret

Service investigation, including the disciplinary histories of the agents involved. Secret Service investigators are in Colombia interviewing witnesses.

In a letter to Sullivan, Issa and Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the committee’s ranking Democrat, said the agents “brought foreign nationals in contact with sensitive security information.” A potential security breach has been among the concerns raised by members of Congress.

The incident occurred before Obama arrived and was at a different hotel than the president stayed in.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said news of the three agents leaving Secret Service was a positive development.

“I’ve always said that if heads don’t roll, the culture in a federal agency will never change,” the Iowa lawmaker said in a statement. “Today’s personnel actions, combined with the swift removal and investigation, are positive signs that there is a serious effort to get to the bottom of this scandal.”

New details of the sordid night emerged Wednesday.

A 24-year-old self-described prostitute told The New York Times that she met an agent at a discotheque in Cartagena and after a night of drinking, the pair agreed the agent would pay her $800 for sex at the hotel. The next morning, when the hotel’s front desk

called because the woman hadn’t left, the pair argued over the price.

“I tell him, ‘Baby, my cash money,’” the woman told the newspaper in an interview in Colombia. She said the two argued after the agent initially offered to pay her about $30 and the situation escalated, eventually ending with Colombian law enforcement involved. She said she was eventually paid about $225.

The tawdry episode took a sharp political turn when presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said he would fire the agents involved.

Romney told radio host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday that “I’d clean house” at the Secret Service.

“The right thing to do is to remove people who have violated the public trust and have put their play time and their personal interests ahead of the interests of the nation,” Romney said.

While Romney suggested to Ingraham that a leadership problem led to the scandal, he told a Columbus, Ohio, radio station earlier that he has confidence in Sullivan, the head of the agency.

“I believe the right corrective action will be taken there and obviously everyone is very, very disappointed,” Romney said. “I think it will be dealt with (in) as aggressive a way as is possible given the requirements of the law.”

Romney, Obama battle over economy CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Their battle joined, challenger Mitt Romney savaged President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy on Wednesday while the commander in chief commiserated up close with victims of the recession and warned that Republicans would only make matters worse.

“Obama is over his head and swimming in the wrong direction” when it comes to the economy, Romney said in a scorching speech delivered across the street from

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Resolution 2012-05 was also passed at the meeting, which will encourage the WVU Department of Athletics to promote Men’s and Women’s Lacrosse to Division I level programs.

The resolution was written

the football stadium where the president will deliver his Democratic National Convention acceptance speech this summer.

“Even if you like Barack Obama, we can’t afford Barack Obama,” the former Massachusetts governor declared, an evident reference to the president’s ability to transcend at least some of the public’s dissatisfaction with the pace of the recovery. Romney quoted liberally – and mockingly – from Obama’s 2008 campaign pledges to repair the economy.

At the same time, Obama sketched his case for re-election in swing-state Ohio, where he met with unemployed workers who have enrolled in job training programs. Then he spoke at the Lorain County Community College.

“Right now, companies can’t find enough qualified workers for the jobs they need to fill” locally, he said. “So programs like this one are training hundreds of thousands of workers with the skills that companies are looking for.

And it’s working.”

by Governor George Weaver, a member of the men’s lacrosse club team.

“Lacrosse is one of the fastest-growing team sports in the United States,” Weaver said.

“No university within the Big 12 has a Division I lacrosse team. This provides WVU a chance to have the first Division I program in the conference, raising the bar for our peer institutions.”

The resolution also has the

support of more than 700 students – 2.4 percent of the student body – who signed a petition calling for the addition.

“Governor Weaver has really been a force with the writing of this resolution,” Rollins said. “This has been a process since September, and the passing of this resolution will be a great way to get the ball rolling.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Friends gather at Dragonfly Wednesday night to benifit Ryan’s Rally

from the crime,” he said. “They get to learn about public relations and educate people here in the area on the issue. Ultimately, the hope is that education will eliminate these types of violence.”

Brewster also teamed up with the Mountaineer Maniacs to host a 5K race Sunday to benefit Diviney, raising nearly $2,500.

Following the attack, Diviney’s family created the website, Ryan’s Rally as an opportunity for friends to show their support and donate to Ryan’s Wish List, a list of medical items needed to further his health care.

Brewster said Ryan’s Wish List would be showcased at the event so that those who made donations could see exactly how their money could help.

For more information, visit www.ryansrally.org. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Breivik wants freedom or death for massacre OSLO, Norway (AP) — The right-wing fanatic on trial for massacring 77 people in Norway says he wants either freedom or death, calling the country’s prison terms “pathetic” and arguing for the return of capital punishment, which was last used here to execute Nazi collaborators after World War II. In the third day of his terror trial, Anders Behring Breivik was grilled by prosecutors about the anti-Muslim militant group he claims to belong to.

He rejected their suggestions that the “Knights Templar” doesn’t exist, but admitted he had embellished when describing the network in the online manifesto he published before the bomb-and-shooting rampage on July 22.

“In principle it is not an organization in a conventional sense,” he said, describing it as a leaderless group consisting of “independent cells.”

Prosecutors told reporters after Wednesday’s hearing that they didn’t believe the group is real or that the meetings Breivik claims took place in Liberia, Britain and the Baltic countries ever happened.

The issue is of key importance in determining Breivik’s sanity, and whether he’s ultimately sent to prison or compulsory psychiatric care for carrying out Norway’s worst peacetime massacre.

If found sane, Breivik could face a maximum 21-year prison sentence or an alternate custody arrangement that would

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Defendant Anders Behring Breivik with his lawyers during the third day of proceedings in Courtroom 250 in the courthouse in Oslo, Norway Wednesday. keep him locked up as long as he is considered a menace to society. If declared insane he would be committed to psychiatric care for as long as he’s considered ill.

“Acquittal or the death penalty are the only logical outcomes of this case,” the confessed killer said. “I view 21 years in prison as a pathetic sentence.”

According to Amnesty International, the only country in Europe that still applies the death penalty is Belarus; two young men were executed there last month.

Norway abolished capital punishment in peacetime

in 1905 but retained it for war crimes until 1979. After World War II, Norway executed 24 Norwegians, 13 Germans and one Dane. The last execution was in 1948.

“I think we have managed to hang on to the central humane values since then, with short sentences and a relatively speaking humane penal system,” said Thomas Mathiesen, a professor of sociology of law at the University of Oslo.

Breivik described himself as a resistance fighter ready to die for his cause. He said there were too many “keyboard warriors” among Europe’s far-right militants, and that they have a lot to

learn from al-Qaida, including its methods and glorification of martyrdom.

The 33-year-old Norwegian claims Muslim immigrants are colonizing Europe, with the tacit approval of liberal “multiculturalist” regimes. That’s why he says he chose to attack the government headquarters in Oslo and the annual summer camp of the Labor Party’s youth wing.

Eight people were killed in the Oslo bombing and 69, mostly teenagers, were slain on Utoya island outside the capital.

“If I had feared death I would not have dared to carry out this operation,” he said.

Survivors and relatives of

those killed have expressed concern that the trial is giving Breivik a platform to express his radical views. A lawyer for the bereaved on Wednesday questioned him about his faith.

“I am a militant Christian,” Breivik replied, though he added he wasn’t “particularly religious.”

Asked by one of the five judges of his thoughts on Nazis, he called himself an “antiNazi” and a “national conservative.” The difference, he said, is that “I have a more liberal view on ethnicity” than Nazis. As an example, Breivik said he would find it acceptable if 2 percent of the population was not ethnic Norwegian.

According to government statistics, 12.2 percent of Norway’s population are immigrants or children of immigrants.

The prosecutors seized on inconsistencies in how Breivik had described meetings of likeminded “knights” in Liberia, London, and the Baltic countries in his manifesto, and in interrogations with police.

“What is it you’re getting at?”

Breivik snapped at a prosecutor, then answered the question himself, saying prosecutors want to “sow doubt over whether the KT network exists.”

Breivik claimed to have met a Serb “war hero” during a trip to Liberia in 2002, but he refused to identify him. He also refused to give details on what he claims was the founding session of the “Knights Templar” in London in 2002.

He conceded, however, that he embellished somewhat in the manifesto when he described members at the founding session as “brilliant political and military tacticians of Europe.”

Breivik testified that he had used “pompous” language and described them instead as “people with great integrity.”

Prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh challenged him on whether the meeting had taken place at all.

“It’s not something you have made up?” she said.

“I haven’t made up anything.

What is in the compendium is correct,” he said.

Later, he answered with more nuance.

“There is nothing that is made up, but you have to see what is written in a context. It is a glorification of certain ideals,” Breivik said.

He also said he had used “pompous” language when describing meetings in Estonia and Lithuania in 2004 as a “training course” but declined to elaborate.

Breivik’s defensive answers contrasted with the assertive posture he took Tuesday when he read a prepared statement to the court, boasting that he had carried out the most “spectacular” attack by a nationalist militant since World War II. On Wednesday, he seemed irritated at times, but never lost his calm, and smiled to his defense lawyers when the hearing was over. The trial is expected to last 10 weeks.

French pres. candidate Le Pen defends anti-Islam fight Canada considering request NANTERRE, France (AP) — She calls herself the “voice of the people,” the anti-system candidate who will ensure social justice for the havenots and purify a France she says is losing its voice to Europe and threatened by massive immigration and rampant Islamization.

The message of far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has seduced thousands, kept her consistently in third place in polls and clearly scared President Nicolas Sarkozy as he seeks a second term.

The conservative Sarkozy is trying to woo those who would vote for Le Pen in Sunday’s first round of balloting to bridge the gap with frontrunner Francois Hollande, a Socialist whom all polls show will win the election in the May 6 final round.

In an interview Wednesday on BFM-TV, Sarkozy named her directly, asking, “The vote for Marine Le Pen serves whom? Francois Hollande.”

Le Pen says Sarkozy is a hasbeen. “Nicolas Sarkozy has lost. He won’t be re-elected,” she said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press.

Le Pen has almost seamlessly taken the helm of the extreme-right National Front party founded by her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1972, its standard-bearer, and given it another, softer face.

As part of the process dubbed “un-demonizing,” the 43-year-old mother of three promotes women and workers and even comes down on the side of animal rights. Above all, she vociferously condemns anti-Semitism, which got her father court convictions.

But like her father, she is combative, and she calls rival candidates her “adversaries.”

Yet, the basics have not changed. Marine Le Pen, putting the accent on patriotism, deplores what she says is France’s loss of sovereignty to the European Union and to globalization, the nation’s perceived loss of identity and what she claims are real dangers hidden within France’s Muslim community, which at 5 million is the largest in western Europe.

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French far-right leader and National Front Party candidate for the 2012 French presidential elections, Marine Le Pen prior to an interview with The Associated Press at the party headquarters in Nanterre, outside Paris, Wednesday.

Le Pen wants France, and other euro zone nations, to give up the euro currency. She wants to drastically reduce the number of immigrants – to 10,000 a year – and, a top theme, to crack down for good on what she claims is the growing footprint of Islamic fundamentalists in France.

“They are advancing in the neighborhoods. They are putting pressure on the population. They are recruiting young boys” to train for jihad, she said.

Le Pen insisted that fighting so-called Islamization won’t breed a mass killer such as Anders Behring Breivik, the anti-Muslim extremist who is now on trial in Norway after confessing to killing 77 people.

The fight must not stop “out of fear of a crazy man,” she said.

Le Pen cites as proof of the Islamist threat in France the case of Mohamed Merah, a young Frenchman of Algerian origin who last month killed three French paratroopers, a rabbi and three Jewish schoolchildren before he was shot dead by police trying to capture him.

She predicts the euro zone, struggling with a financial cri-

sis, will ultimately break up, so she wants a “concerted, well reflected exit” with other European countries.

She also refuses to be categorized as extreme right, saying that her party is populist.

The image Marine Le Pen projects is less linked to the extreme-right than that of her father, said Nonna Meyer, an expert on the extreme-right vote at the prestigious university Sciences Po. “She’s younger, she’s a woman, she condemns antiSemitism. She often says things differently than her father,” Meyer said. “She says she is tolerant, it is Islam that is intolerant. She upends the discourse.

“But the foundation of the program is the same,” she said.

“If you look at the values her party defends, it is a system at once authoritarian and rejecting of others, rejecting the difference.”

At a rally Tuesday night in

Paris, Marine Le Pen enthralled a crowd of some 6,000. She focused on “the invisible, the forgotten ... those who are always last” and can be protected only by the “nation-state.”

“I don’t defend the workers of the world. I defend French workers,” she said to stomps and cheers.

“No, we are not xenophobes.

We are passionately francophile,” she said.

In the interview with AP, Le Pen said the “real line of fracture” between the National Front and the system is not left-right but with forces who support globalization and Europeanization.

Meyer said that it is impossible at this point to predict how Le Pen will fare in Sunday’s balloting because there are too many unknowns, including the level of voter turnout.

“I think there really is no chance that Marine Le Pen will be in the second round,” she added.

TORONTO (AP) — Canada said Wednesday that the U.S. wants to send back the last remaining Western detainee at Guantanamo, and the Canadian government must now decide whether to take him.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is considering repatriating Omar Khadr, the ministry said in a statement. It did not say when a decision was expected, but a U.S. official suggested it could be soon.

Khadr, 25, pleaded guilty in 2010 to killing a U.S. soldier and was eligible to return to Canada from Guantanamo Bay last October under terms of a plea deal.

Khadr was 15 when he was captured in 2002, and he has spent a decade in Guantanamo. He received an eightyear sentence in 2010 – but only one year had to be served at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

John Norris, Khadr’s Canadian lawyer, said Khadr likely would be imprisoned in Canada and serve out his sentence under Canadian law. He thinks that would make Khadr eligible for parole as early as the spring of 2013.

It will be up to Canada’s national parole board to release him, he added.

At the U.S. State Department, meanwhile, spokesman Mark Toner told reporters that the U.S. and Canada were in talks over Khadr.

“We’re not going to be able

give you a transfer timeline, but we’re working quickly and deliberately to close this process out,” Toner said.

A Canadian government official said the U.S. asked Canada to repatriate Khadr as a diplomatic favor, and Canada previously agreed to look favorably at the request. The official said the U.S. would pay to move Khadr to Canada.

The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, spoke on condition of anonymity.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has steadfastly refused to request the return of Khadr, the youngest detainee held at the prison. The reluctance owes partly to Canadians’ ambivalence toward the Khadr family, which has been called “the first family of terrorism.”

The son of an alleged al-Qaida financier, Khadr was convicted of throwing a grenade that killed Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer during a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan.

Defense attorneys have said Khadr was pushed into war by his father, Ahmed Said Khadr, an alleged al-Qaida financier whose family stayed with Osama bin Laden briefly when Omar Khadr was a boy.

The Egyptian-born father was killed in 2003 when a Pakistani military helicopter shelled the house where he was staying with senior al-Qaida operatives.

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University should address low salaries According to a report recently published by the Chronicle of Higher Education, average professor salaries at West Virginia University are significantly lower than the national median.

This is troubling for a number of reasons, and the University’s administration should be committed to offering professors more competitive salaries to improve WVU’s standing in these rankings.

The national average salaries are $118,054 per year for professors, $81,266 per year for associate professors, and $69,777 per year for assistant

professors.

WVU’s averages are lower in each of these categories.

Full professors at WVU earn an average of $106,496 per year, associate professors earn $78,416, and assistant professors make $62,232. These numbers put WVU in the 28th percentile for professors’ salaries nationally.

WVU is also well behind most of its peers in the Big 12, ranking in the bottom third of the conference.

While these disparities may not seem significant, a difference in salary of several thousand dollars would un-

doubtedly be critical to any prospective employee’s decision on where to accept a position.

The reality is, professors are the driving force behind any university and school administrations shouldn’t hesitate to invest in recruiting the best and brightest of them.

By offering professors higher salaries, the University would recruit and retain higher quality teachers, thus improving its academic reputation.

These professors would then generate positive publicity for the University with their research publications. Quality

teachers also attract quality students, who would then go on to improve the University’s academic standing with their own accomplishments.

Clearly, this would be a worthwhile investment for the University.

Another important issue to consider when having this discussion is the WVU Board of Governors’ proposal to increase tuition for the 2012-13 school year. If this proposal passes, tuition for in-state students will increase by $294 while out-of-state tuition will increase by $892.

University administrators

have said increased revenue generated from these tuition increases will, in part, go toward professors’ salaries.

If the proposal passes, the administration should fulfill this commitment and provide professors with more competitive salaries.

Teachers are the backbone of any academic institution.

WVU’s current ranking in average professor’s salaries is unacceptable and resolving this issue should be on the top of the WVU administration’s list of priorities.

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Students only get the representation they deserve tomas engle columnist

This has been the last West Virginia University Student Government Association election I have had to endure before graduating in May, and the tendency to wrap them all up into a coherent lesson is unavoidable.

This election, though, truly has been an aggregate of all of them combined – not any worse, but neither was it any better.

The same old stuff: The desperate petitioning to be on the ballot in the Mountainlair and the handing out of candy in the free speech zone.

OK, the stretch Hummer was different. Handing out candy, coasters and koozies are one thing, but a party transporting voters to the polling station in a stretch Hummer limousine with the capacity for a fully-stocked wet bar?

That’s going from a regular level of political pandering and jumping to absolute Daley family and Chicago machine levels in a single bound.

The sheer amount of ridiculousness this one vehicle represents is so staggering to comprehend and so immense to behold, that ironically only a stretch Hummer limo could manage to fit it all in.

The fact that many people agreed the renting of the limo was a good idea and that the whole expense – including the rental itself, the driver’s salary and paying for the gas used – totaled only $175 result in an agreed-upon madness makes me think someone put “something” in the Evive water stations.

Conversely, who is the bigger fool? The person impressed enough by a stretch Hummer limo ride to the voting booth to vote for that party, or the person who blew that much money to begin with? Morgantown-area stretch Hummer limo rentals range from $750-$1,260 – in-

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Candidates for the 2012 Student Government Association election face off during a debate in the Mountainlair April 9. cluding gas.

It’s not like SGA has any credibility to lose or power to gain, but going through all that to pad a resume is just sad.

Why rent the monstrosities, pay through the nose for them and then obfuscate their origins to fit within your legally allotted election budget, when you could have easily just joined other student organizations for free and not do anything as well?

Both are resume builders, but one involves substantially less time, money and effort in not accomplishing anything in re-

ality and yet being able to use it in job interviews to make yourself look better.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that I don’t really hate SGA for being corrupt, incompetent and power-hungry, but they do it in such a dumb and sloppy manner. Newt Gingrich has really set my bar high for sociopaths, and frankly, I refuse to lower it.

The only saving grace of the United Party has been that they were at least savvier in courting the one voting block that matters – international students.

With paper vote totals – inter-

national students can only vote via paper ballot – going about 35 to 1 in favor of the winner, the Golden Ticket really only had themselves to blame for losing.

That student government elections so closely mirror real elections, with vital voting blocks, buying of votes and unreported expenditures – all without any actual power of course – should come to no surprise. And like all political systems, not only is SGA made up of voters, they are literally a reflection of our voting body as a whole.

So it’s no wonder that it starts out so promising and yet woefully inept each and every year; they are us and we are them.

Constant hopes for the best, dashed on the rocks of realism, disappointing all.

With the one golden child (pun not intended) throughout – Ryan Campione – shining through as always, a paragon of quiet competence in a sea of loud, brash inadequacies. Campione doesn’t prove that the system works, he only proves that he works.

Ultimately, Campione will be

able to be proud of his achievements – because they actually exist – and how he achieved them. People like Campione exist in politics – obligatory Ron Paul reference – but they are the exception, and not the rule.

This should be the lesson learned for all SGA elections – past, present, and future. The words of journalist and Sage of Baltimore, HL Mencken, sum up our more important elections well: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”

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Tea for two, but none for you: Marginalized at the Diversi-tea event paula prentice graduate teaching assistant Department of Psychology

Tea parties, teddy bears and stories about women knitting.

What do these things bring to mind? If celebrating diversity did not come to mind for you, then you might share my confusion about the Diversi-tea event held Wednesday, April 11 in the Mountainlair.

My goals in attending this event were two-fold. The first was to see a friend honored for her efforts toward equality on

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campus, and my second was to hear from others on campus facilitating positive change and growth.

I hoped to learn more about how to promote acceptance of diversity from people who have been successfully doing so for years.

These goals were partially accomplished as I heard Robert Pirner speak of his experiences as a leader in Native American studies and community. The segment in which we heard about diversity and social justice lasted approximately 20 minutes.

The remainder of the event was severely disappointing, as

it was unrelated to diversity and social justice in any way.

However, it was clear that a lot of effort went into preparing the entertainment and environment, and that effort shouldn’t go unmentioned.

The event was minimally advertised as a celebration and promotion of diversity by the President’s Office for Social Justice.

However, it centered more on tea than social justice. Events included a tea trivia game, door prizes and a tea-centered story and skit.

Though there were teas provided from a variety of cultures, we heard nothing from

the students who made the tea.

This left me with an uncomfortable feeling as I accepted tea from the silent individuals who perhaps should have been directing the event.

The entertainment was light-hearted, but it served only as a distraction from the goals stated by the President’s Office for Social Justice in creating the Diversity Leadership Award.

This award seeks to recognize “individuals or groups on campus who promote cultural understanding within the diverse populations of our community and enhance

the appreciation of different abilities, races, cultures and ethnic groups within our community.”

Note that sexual orientation was not included in the description for this award, though one of the award winners is a member of the LGBTQ community.

Those in attendance heard this event described as a way to “get people away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life” in a stress-free environment.

Rather than raise awareness of pivotal social justice issues and instigate change, the goal was to make people feel happy

and calm.

This was a patronizing pat on the head for people who truly seek to make a difference. As a member of the LGBTQ community, I felt marginalized and ignored rather than celebrated and understood.

As a woman, I was offended and angered by the patriarchal tone of the story that was chosen as entertainment.

Though the organizers claimed to be honoring people who strive for progress, in reality the event itself pointed out just how far behind our campus is in recognizing, celebrating and understanding diversity.

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THE WEEK AHEAD TODAY APRIL 19

DR. LUD GUTMANN, professor of neurology, will sign copies of and discuss his new book, “Richard Road: Journey from Hate” in the main floor Ruby Hospital Gift Shop from 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. The memoir describes his family’s leaving Nazi Germany in 1937, buying a farm in New Jersey and becoming Americans.

AN OVERVIEW PRESENTATION ABOUT GREEN DOT takes place from 7-8 p.m. in the Shenandoah Room of the Mountainlair. Green Dot is a new approach to preventing sexual assault, stalking, bullying and partner violence. For more information, call 304-293-3571 or email judy.murnan@mail. wvu.edu.

FRIDAY APRIL 20

A JOINT STUDENT PERCUSSION RECITAL by Tyler Shreve and Brad Bell takes place at 8:15 p.m. in the Antoinette Falbo Theatre of the Creative Arts Center. For more information, call 304-293-4359 or email charlene. lattea@mail.wvu.edu.

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NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meets from 6-7 p.m. in Room 106 of Woodburn Hall. For more information, call 304-692-0038.

CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS, a 12-step program to assist participants in developing healthier relationships of all kinds, meets at 7 p.m. in the conference room of Chestnut Ridge Hospital. For more information, call Mary at 304-296-3748.

LUTHERAN DISASTER RESPONSE COLLEGIATE CORPS meets at the Lutheran Chapel at 8 p.m. The LDRCC responds to regional and national disasters. No experience is necessary.

For more information, visit www.lutheranmountaineer.org/disaster.

MUSLIM STUDENTS ASSOCIATION hosts a weekly Islam and Arabic class at 6:30 p.m. in the Monongahela Room of the Mountainlair. For more information, call 304-906-8183 or email schaudhr@mix.wvu.edu.

THE MORGANTOWN CHESS CLUB meets from 7 p.m. in the basement of the First Christian Church at 100 Cobun Ave. Meetings will not be held the last Thursday of every month. For more information, visit www.morgantownchess.org.

CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST holds its weekly CRU meetings at 9 p.m. in Room G24 of Eiesland Hall.

People can join others for live music, skits and relevant messages. For more information, email roy.baker@ uscm.org or visit www.wvucru.com.

UNITED METHODIST STUDENT MOVEMENT meets at 7 p.m. at the Campus Ministry Center on the corner of Price and Willey streets.

For more information, email wvumethodist@comcast.net.

WVU CLUB TENNIS practices from 9-10 p.m. at Ridgeview Racquet Club. For carpooling, call 304906-4427. New members are always welcome.

THE WVU YOUNG DEMOCRATS meets at 7 p.m. in the Blackwater Room of the Mountainlair. For more information, email kross3@mix.wvu. edu.

WVU WOMEN’S ULTIMATE FRISBEE team meets from 7-9 p.m. at the Shell Building. No experience is necessary. For more information, email Sarah Lemanski at sarah_lemanski@ yahoo.com.

TRADITIONAL KARATE CLASS FOR SELF-DEFENSE meets at 9 p.m. in Multipurpose Room A of the Student Recreation Center.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ORGANIZATION meets at 8 p.m. at the International House on Spruce Street.

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TRANSGENDER MOUNTAINEERS meets at 8 p.m. in the Laurel Room of the Mountainlair. For more information, email bigltm.wvu@gmail.com.

CHESS CLUB meets from 6-9 p.m. in the food court of the Mountainlair.

Players of all skill levels are invited to come. For more information, email wvuchess@gmail.com.

THE CATALAN TABLE will meet at 4 p.m. at Maxwell’s restaurant. All levels welcome. For more information, call 304-293-5121 ext. 5509.

INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP meets at 7 p.m. in 316 Percival Hall. For more information, call 304-376-4506 or 304-276-3284.

FREE ARABIC/ISLAM CLASSES will be hosted by the Muslim Students’ Association from 6-8 p.m. in the Kanawha Room of the Mountainlair.

To register, email schaudhr@mix. wvu.edu.

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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 304-293-2311 or visit www.well.edu.wvu/medical.

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

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

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

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-on-one community-based and school-based mentoring programs. To volunteer, call Sylvia at 304-983-2823, ext. 104 or email bigs4kids@yahoo.com.

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

LITERACY VOLUNTEERS is seeking volunteers for one-on-one tutoring in basic reading and English as a second language. Volunteer tutors will complete tutor training, meet weekly with their adult learners, report volunteer hours quarterly, attend at least two in-service

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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.

THE WELLWVU CONDOM CLOSET 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 all-volunteer nonprofit that promotes spay/ neuter to reduce the number of homeless pets that are euthanized every year. M-SNAP needs new members to help its cause, as does ReTails, a thrift shop located in the Morgantown Mall. For more information, 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 304-293-4609 or email wattsmuseum@mail.wvu.edu.

HOROSCOPES

BY JACQUELINE BIGAR

some much-needed downtime.

BORN TODAY This year you discover that there is often a side benefit to whatever you do. Whether this asset existed before or it’s the result of increased awareness makes no difference. Resist pondering this issue. If you are single, you could become unusually possessive.

Your desirability will increase when you lose that trait. Learn how to become more confident in yourself. If you are attached, the two of you work together to achieve a goal. The warmth will intensify between you. TAURUS can help you spend your money well.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH Demands and responsibilities pour upon you.

You could feel unusual pressure and wonder which way to go. Loosen up and recognize that you might need to delegate. By the afternoon, you’ll focus and feel much better. Tonight: Where you can find fun people.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHH Step back if you do not want to get involved in an argument or some sort of collision. You could be quite me-oriented in the morning. By the afternoon, you could look at the same situation differently. You are poised and direct. Tonight: Whatever works best for you.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHH Push comes to shove far too quickly in the morning. Be smart, and refuse to make a judgment just yet. By the afternoon, you’ll feel better and probably will react differently. Pat yourself on the back for having left that option open. Tonight: Act with confidence.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHH Use the morning for key matters. A partner might not agree on an important issue.

After the fact, you will weigh the pros and cons. Your decision could be a lot different, given some space. Be willing to make a kind gesture if you’re wrong. Tonight: Get

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHH The quality of your preparation comes out in the afternoon. You might have a last-minute chance to do some research or quiet work in the morning. From the afternoon on, you are on stage no matter where you are, and all eyes look to you. Don’t worry.

You are in your element. Tonight: Could go quite late.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH Someone you need to listen to gives you an earful. You might feel like it is this person’s way or the highway. Detach some from that reaction. Be willing to take an important step forward on your own, after you are sure of your information and sources. Tonight: In your head.

pletion of an errand or chore could make you more enthusiastic. You could be easily distracted by others from midday on.

Tonight: In the whirlwind of networking.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH You’ll proceed with a smile. For now, bypass a difficult financial matter with a creative idea. In the afternoon, you’ll dedicate time to getting your job, errands or meetings done. Once more, your imagination will come into play. Tonight: Add dance to your exercise routine.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHH If you feel you can handle important details or projects from home, do. You could be a little difficult or controlling at the moment. The less contact you have until this mood passes, the better. Tonight: Try loosening up a little.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH You can come up with very unusual expressions to say what you think. Others delight in this ability, so much so that they could miss your message. Try to state your case boldly, and remain positive. Tonight: Ask for what you want.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHH You are used to being flexible, but today this ability will be tested. Pressure builds around a personal matter, but others need your attention now. Delegating or postponing decisions might work if you cannot flex as you might like. Tonight: A long-overdue talk.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHH You might have difficulty handling a friend who seems to have an impact on your spending. Use a little self-discipline and detach as much as you can. By the afternoon, your words will be heard, and you can clear up a problem. Tonight: Where friends are.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHH You know better than anyone what must be accomplished and what might be holding you back. Having a fun reward for the com-

BORN TODAY American Prohibition agent Eliot Ness (1903), fashion designer Paloma Picasso (1949), actress Ashley Judd (1968)

COMICS

Pearls Before Swine

by Stephan Pastis

F Minus

by Tony Carrillo

Get Fuzzy

by Darby Conley

Cow and Boy

by Mark Leiknes

PUZZLES DIFFICULTY LEVEL MEDIUM

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

WEDNESDAY’S PUZZLE SOLVED

ACROSS 1 Historical novel, usually 5 CCCII x III 9 Digital camera option 13 Show signs of age, as wallpaper 14 Gray with age 16 Ohio tribe 17 Ventura County city 18 Prepare to transplant, as to the garden 19 Swig 20 Phenoms 23 Trip letters 24 Breezed through 25 Cut 29 “Death, that hath suck’d the honey __ breath”: Shak.

31 Fitting 33 10-Down suffix 34 Peace in the Middle East 36 Ginormous 38 Env. info 39 Sardegna o Sicilia 41 Mine entrance 42 A little too clever 44 Physicist Tesla 46 64-Across spec 47 Shell game need 48 Durable cloth 49 Africa’s northernmost capital 51 Suffragette who co-founded Swarthmore 52 “Conan” airer 55 Trochee and iamb 59 Tombstone lawman 62 Fishing boot 63 Private jet maker 64 Nine West product 65 Muscat native 66 Periodic table fig.

67 It may be rigged 68 “After the Thin Man” dog 69 Oft-misused pronoun DOWN 1 Tough guy’s expression 2 How roast beef may be served 3 Some living legends 4 “Put __ on it!”

5 Exemplars of poverty 6 Capuchin, e.g.

7 Lacking sharpness 8 Waffle maker 9 Last critter in an ABC book

The Daily Crossword

10 Raw mineral 11 Fry cook’s supply 12 Bumped into 15 Abbr. in a CFO’s report 21 “Do I dare to __ peach?”: Prufrock musing 22 This, in Tijuana 26 Some molars 27 Cybercommerce 28 Sedimentary formation 30 “Charlotte’s Web” setting 31 Chat room inits.

32 Museums for astronomy buffs 34 “Full House” actor 35 “Farewell, cherie” 36 Coquettish 37 Munro’s pen name 40 Reggae relative 43 __ dixit: unproven claim 45 IOC part: Abbr.

48 Museum guide 50 Drive forward 51 Cursed alchemist 53 Lotto variant

54 Pol Thurmond 56 Couple 57 Avatar of Vishnu 58 Weak spot 59 Last letter in most plurals (but not in this puzzle’s six longest answers, which are the only plurals in this grid) 60 Word of discovery 61 Palais resident

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Thursday April 19, 2012

‘TRUSTING THE SCHEME’

West Virginia defense on the rise as the final week of spring practice comes to a close

By Ben Gaughan

Associate Sports Editor

As good as the West Virginia offense has been during head coach Dana Holgorsen’s second spring with the football team, the defense has started to exceed expectations of its own.

New defensive coaches Erik Slaughter and Joe DeForest, as well as Holgorsen, have been impressed with the effort and progress of the defense over the last few weeks.

Specifically, the Mountaineer defense has been frustrating the offense within the 20-yard line, something that will be crucial against other high-powered offenses in the Big 12 Conference.

“We’re all close with each other. We all know each others’ responsibilities,” said junior linebacker Doug Rigg.

“So, we understand what’s going to happen in the red zone. We have great defensive calls, as well. We stop the run at first cost.

When it comes to the pass, our DBs are doing a great job helping us out while we’re stopping the run. It’s just working together as a team.”

The defense has become more consistent as a unit over the last few weeks, and everyone seems to be on the same page with the scheme.

The biggest thing players said about their progression was everyone buying into the new defensive scheme DeForest and the other coaches brought to the team.

“It helps the guys get more comfortable,” said redshirt junior defensive end Will Clarke.

“Trusting the scheme, I would say – knowing that it actually can work and will work.

“We’re all in. Everybody has bought in since the new coaches got here and carried that on.”

The confidence of the defense has helped them slow the offense down, which is why it

has had trouble consistently scoring in the red zone.

Clarke said Slaughter has taught the players to give full effort, but in a different way.

“We’ve always known effort, but he always says to be abnormal. Just try to give abnormal effort,” he said.

They say with more effort comes fewer mistakes. That’s what’s happening to the young Mountaineer defense. They have progressed every day and are having fewer problems on the practice field as a result.

So much so that some players aren’t even seeing a large deficiency in the defense right now, despite having questions about the defense’s depth at the beginning of spring camp.

“Honestly, I don’t really see anything that we lack at,” Clarke said. “As long as we keep working hard, we’ll be fine. Depth seemed like it could have been a problem, but we’ve rotated so many guys and moved so many guys around, it doesn’t even seem like we have depth problems when we’re out there on the field practicing.”

The coaches gave the players a great deal of information in the beginning, but the players have embraced their roles and taken on their assignments with a positive attitude and willingness to learn, which has caused them to be ahead of where they thought they would have been at this point. “(The coaches) proved to us that giving good effort every day and focusing and being positive and paying attention really does wonders to a defense and really brings us together,” Riggs said.

“I think we’re all going to play hard, and it’s going to be an exciting spring game. It’s not going to be a game where people just want to get it over with. People are really out here to prove something.”

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Senior defensive end Will Clarke, left, goes up against a WVU offensive lineman during spring practice. Clarke started 11 games last season.

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Manning, Broncos open vs. Steelers NEW YORK (AP) — The nation won’t have to wait long to see Peyton Manning in a Broncos uniform.

Manning’s first game as Broncos quarterback will come in prime time as Denver hosts Pittsburgh on the opening Sunday of the NFL season. The four-time MVP was released by Indianapolis after missing the 2011 season following neck surgery. After conducting a four-city lottery for his services, Manning landed in Denver, which hasn’t won a Super Bowl since his new boss, John Elway, was behind center.

“We’re excited about that.

Anytime you have a guy behind the center named Peyton Manning, you’re going to get a lot of attention,” Elway said.

Manning won’t have an easy assignment against the Steelers, who ranked first in overall defense and against the pass last year.

“The opening game in Denver obviously will be an interesting way to start the season,” Steelers President Art Rooney said.

“There will be a lot of attention paid to Peyton Manning’s first game with the Denver Broncos, so it’ll be exciting to start out that way.”

Pittsburgh’s season ended in Denver in January when Tim Tebow threw an 80-yard TD pass to Demaryius Thomas on the first play of overtime in their wild-card playoff game. Manning presents a whole different challenge.

“Hopefully we can back up

the playoff game that we had last year,” Elway said.

Steelers at Broncos is one of four prime-time games in the league’s kickoff week, Sept. 5-10.

The schedule, released Tuesday, has the Super Bowl champion Giants hosting the Cowboys in the first Wednesday NFL game since 1948; the league moved the game to avoid a conflict with President Barack Obama’s Thursday night speech at the Democratic National Convention.

“We will have a week-in and week-out challenge, not only in who we play, but with the different elements of our schedule,” Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. “We play on four different days and we have five night games. Our first three games are Wednesday-Sunday-Thursday.

We play two road night games early, come home for a week and then go to San Francisco. Our people are going to have to be really good about it.”

The now-traditional Monday night opening doubleheader has Cincinnati at Baltimore, followed by San Diego at Oakland.

A juicy opening-day matchup features San Francisco at Green Bay; the teams combined to go 28-4 in 2011. New Orleans, still awaiting league punishment to its players for the bounty program that targeted opponents for dangerous hits, hosts Washington.

The Saints have a bye after their fifth game, which means interim coach Joe Vitt will actually miss seven weeks during his

WVU travels to Larry Ellis Invitational by amit batra sports writer

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Denver Broncos quarterback Manning addressed questions after working out with the team. Manning and the Broncos will play the Pittsburgh Steelers to start the 2012 season. six-game suspension for his role in the bounty system.

A 14-week package of Thursday night games begins in Week 2 with Chicago at Green Bay. All but one of those games will be on NFL Network, which now has games from September until December instead of just the second half of the schedule.

The other Thursday night game is on Thanksgiving on NBC: New England at the New York Jets, Tebow’s new team.

Earlier that holiday, Houston is at Detroit, then Washington at Dallas.

Two Sunday games will be played outside the United States. St. Louis hosts New England on Oct. 28 in London, while Buffalo hosts Seattle on Dec. 16 in Toronto.

Byes occur from Weeks 4 through 11. Beginning in Week

11, the league will have flex scheduling for the Sunday night game. Tentatively scheduled for the first prime-time game that could be flexed are the Ravens at Steelers.

Houston has one of the stranger schedules, with a month at home (Green Bay, Baltimore, bye, and Buffalo), and three straight road games (at Detroit on Thanksgiving, at Tennessee, at New England). Plus, the Texans play the Colts twice in the last three weeks.

“Those division games just carry so much weight,” coach Gary Kubiak said. “We’ve always had some big games against those guys. Hopefully, we’ve got ourselves in position right there, that those games are really, really big games for both of us and we can take care of our business.”

In the peak of the outdoor season, the West Virginia track and field team heads to Princeton, N.J., for the Princeton Larry Ellis Invitational held at Weaver Stadium.

WVU head coach Sean Cleary hopes for the Larry Ellis Invitational to help with the team’s form.

“We hope to achieve continued consistency,” Cleary said. “This will be the last competition for the majority of the team. We are looking to put ourselves a step closer to be ready for the Big East championships.

“This meet will serve as a chance for our coaches to best determine where to place our group for the Big East meet.

We have decisions to make in terms of the travel roster. The competition should help create a clearer picture.”

Cleary wants to see this meet serve as the final stage in determining what needs to be done before the larger meets in May. He wants to see more girls earn qualifying marks as well.

“Each week we add a few more names to the roster to the championships,” Cleary said. “I expect a few more to make the qualifying marks for both the Big East champion-

arthur

Continued from page 8 But times have changed.

The Mountaineers are now in the Big 12 Conference.

A conference that contains some of the most loyal fan bases in the country with the likes of Oklahoma and Texas.

The Longhorns had 45,000 at their 2011 spring game, while the Sooners announced a crowd of 25, 598.

Head coach Dana Holgorsen said earlier this spring that he would like see 30,000 in attendance for the Gold-Blue Game.

Not just because he wants to compete with other Big 12 schools with fan base loyalty, but mainly because of the reason for the spring game.

“I would challenge you to find one coach across the country who gets a kick out of

ships and the NCAA championships. The weather forecast looks good. We are looking forward to the competition.”

For most of the team, the Princeton Larry Ellis Invitational will serve as one of the last meets in preparation for the Big East championships.

“We hope to go to the Princeton Larry Ellis Invitational to put ourselves up against some great competition before the Big East Championships in Tampa, Fla.,” said high jumper Sydney Cummings.

“Our team is always working hard to improve, and as long as we all keep working hard, I believe we will peak just in time to capitalize on the Big East championships and NCAA Regional meet. We also hope to qualify more girls for the Big East championships.”

Some of the participants will include Stephanie Caruso and Jessica O’Connell in the 3,000-meter run; Meghan Mock, Stormy Nesbit and Chene Townsend in the long jump event; Heather Adams and Terina Miller in the hammer throw competition; and Stephanie Aldea and Sarah Martinelli in the 1,500-meter run.

Action gets underway Friday and continues Saturday. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

the spring game,” Holgorsen said. “You’ve got to do it. We want to do it for the fans.”

Holgorsen and his staff could easily continue to do what they’ve been doing all spring – holding closed scrimmages not even viewable to the local media.

But this is an event that is put on as a show for you guys – the fans.

So I’ll say this.

This spring season is one of the most exciting that I can remember. A BCS bowl victory is in the rear-view mirror and a potential top-10 preseason ranking looms through the windshield.

Head over to the Milan Puskar Stadium Saturday and get to know your 2012 edition of the West Virginia football team.

Dana Holgorsen expects you to be there.

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Thursday April 19, 2012

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across the country

Summitt steps aside, Warlick new Tennessee coach (AP) — Pat Summitt, who won more games than anyone in NCAA college basketball history, stepped down Wednesday as coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols, less than eight months after revealing she had early-onset dementia. “I’ve loved being the head coach at Tennessee for 38 years, but I recognize that the time has come to move into the future and to step into a new role,� the 59-year-old Hall of Famer said in a statement issued by the school.

Longtime assistant Holly Warlick will take over for Summitt, who will become head coach emeritus.

A news conference is scheduled Thursday afternoon at the school in Knoxville.

When the Lady Vols lost in a regional final to eventual national champion Baylor, Warlick’s tears were a telltale sign of how draining the season had been and also that it likely was Summitt’s last game. “She is an icon who does not view herself in that light, and her legacy is well-defined and everlasting,� athletic director Dave Hart said. “Just like there will never be another John Wooden, there will never be another Pat Summitt. I look forward to continuing to work with her in her new role. She is an inspiration to everyone.�

Summitt will report to Hart in her new role while assisting the program she guided to eight na-

tional titles since taking over in 1974.

Tennessee said that Summitt’s responsibilities will include helping with recruiting, watching practice, joining staff meetings, helping coaches analyze practice and games and advising the Southeastern Conference on women’s basketball issues and mentoring players. “Pat’s vision for the game of women’s basketball and her relentless drive pushed the game to a new level and made it possible for the rest of us to accomplish what we did,� UConn coach Geno Auriemma said in a statement. “In her new role, I’m sure she will continue to make significant impacts to the University of Tennessee and to the game of women’s basketball as a whole. “I am thrilled for (Warlick) as this opportunity is well deserved and Pat will be a huge asset to her moving forward,� he said.

Warlick, a three-time AllAmerican who played for Summitt, was her assistant for 27 years.

Hart said he watched Warlick grow this season under what he called “unique circumstances� and that she is deserving of the head job. “Her mentor will be available for insight and advice, but this is Holly’s team now,� Hart said.

Warlick said she was thankful for all Summitt has done in preparing her for this opportunity as her coach, mentor and friend.

“We will work as hard as we possibly can with the goal of hanging more banners in Thompson-Boling Arena,� Warlick said.

One of Summitt’s former stars, Tamika Catchings, saw the news on TV during a meeting. “Everyone in the back of their minds was thinking this was going to happen anyway. Holly will do a good job,� she said.

Last season, while Summitt devoted more attention to her health, Warlick took the lead during games and handled postgame interviews, while the entire staff handled recruiting and practices. Even so, Summitt still managed to put on her trademark icy stare a time or two during the tournament. “As I’ve said many times, Pat Summitt is a pioneer in basketball,� Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Her amazing career accomplishments are among an elite group of leaders. Very few people leave a lasting legacy in their chosen professions and Coach Summitt has done just that at the University of Tennessee and in women’s basketball.

She raised the level of commitment, pride and notoriety of her sport. I am honored to call her a friend.�

Summitt’s diagnosis came during one of the Lady Vols’ most disappointing stretches — by Summitt’s lofty standards, anyway. Tennessee hasn’t won a national championship since 2008 and hasn’t even reached the Fi-

nal Four, which ties for its longest such drought in program history.

Tennessee’s five seniors were part of the team that lost in the first round of the 2009 NCAA tournament, the only time in school history the Lady Vols had bowed out on the first weekend.

Those seniors promised they would win a ninth national championship this season — not just for Summitt, but as center Vicki Baugh put it, “ ... for everyone who has Alzheimer’s.�

But they couldn’t make it back to the Final Four, losing to Baylor and Brittney Griner, a player Summitt couldn’t convince to come to Knoxville.

As I’ve said many times, Pat Summitt is a pioneer in basketball. Her amazing career accomplishments are among an elite group of leaders. Very few people leave a lasting legacy in their chosen professions and Coach Summitt has done just that at the University of Tennessee and in women’s basketball. She raised the level of commitment, pride and notoriety of her sport. I am honored to call her a friend.

Summitt’s career ends with a 1,098-208 record, 16 regularseason Southeastern Conference championships and 16 SEC tournament titles.

During her time, Tennessee never failed to reach the NCAA tournament, never received a seed lower than No. 5 and reached 18 Final Fours.

Her impact reaches beyond

AP

Pat Summitt, college basketball’s winningest coach, is stepping aside as Tennessee’s women’s basketball coach and taking the title of “head coach emeritus,� the university announced Wednesday. wins and losses. Every Lady Vol player who has completed her eligibility at Tennessee has graduated, and 74 former players, assistants, graduate assistants, team managers and directors of basketball operations are currently among the coaching ranks at every level of basketball. “You think about the Univer-

sity of Tennessee and you think of Pat Summitt,� Catchings said. “You don’t think of anyone else.

The great players that have come and gone, coaches that have come and gone, but the legacy that she built for herself and for the university. It’s amazing how far women’s basketball has come.

Her legacy isn’t over yet.�

Drogba leads Chelsea to Colts make decision on No. 1 pick 1-0 win over FC Barcelona

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Chelsea’s Didier Drogba reacts after scoring a goal against Barcelona during their Champions League semifinal first leg soccer match Wednesday.

LONDON (AP) — Didier Drogba scored in the second minute of first-half stoppage time, and Chelsea held on to beat defending champion Barcelona 1-0 Wednesday night in the first leg of the Champions League semifinals.

Lionel Messi lost possession of the ball in midfield, and Frank Lampard passed to Ramires for a counterattack. Ramires’ cross was swept into the goal by Drogba, who scuffed his shot but still beat goalkeeper Victor Valdes.

Barcelona had 72 percent possession, with Alexis Sanchez hit-

ting the crossbar in the ninth minute and Pedro Rodriguez striking a post in second-half injury time.

Just before Drogba scored, a shot by Cesc Fabregas was cleared off the goal line by Chelsea’s Ashley Cole. Fabregas had fluffed a shot wide with much of the goal to shoot for in the 17th minute.

The second leg of the totalgoals series is at Barcelona on Tuesday. In the other semifinal, Bayern Munich has a 2-1 lead over Real Madrid heading into next Wednesday’s second leg in

Spain.

Chelsea defender Gary Cahill was outstanding alongside center-back partner John Terry to repeatedly deny Lionel Messi, who failed to score for only the second time in his last 15 matches.

With the “Clasico� against Real Madrid in the Spanish league to come on Saturday and then the return leg against Chelsea three days later, Barca has little time to regroup if it wants to reach the Champions League final for the third time in four years.

Chelsea is unbeaten in its last five games against Barcelona.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Indianapolis Colts have decided who to take with the No. 1 draft pick.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just not planning to let the secret out until April 26.

After months of speculation, scouting and scrutinizing, Colts general manager Ryan Grigson finally told reporters Wednesday that the Colts have a plan for their first No. 1 overall selection in 14 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve known for a little while.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done all our due diligence,â&#x20AC;?

Grigson said during a 30-minute news conference. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unless thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an unforeseen problem or something like that, we know what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing.â&#x20AC;?

Team owner Jim Irsay has repeatedly said the team will choose Peyton Manningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s successor, presumably either Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Andrew Luck or Baylorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Robert Griffin III, the Heisman Trophy winner. If the Colts take Luck, the Washington Redskins are expected to take Griffin with the second pick next Thursday night.

Luck was expected to go No. 1 in 2011 before returning to school for his fourth college season. His resume looks like an exact replica of Manningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x201D; both stayed in school one year longer than expected, both finished as Heisman Trophy runner-ups and both had fathers who played quarterback in the NFL. While the Colts sent a larger contingent of scouts to Griffinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pro day

in Texas than Luckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pro day at Stanford, Luck had a personal workout for the Colts and traveled to Indianapolis for a personal interview.

Griffin was advised by his agent to do neither and, apparently, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only reason Griffin didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come to town. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You get to a point where you know what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to do,â&#x20AC;?

Grigson said.

Grigson would not say whether the Colts have started negotiating with either player.

In an email sent to The Associated Press, Luckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agent, Will Wilson, declined to comment on whether the Colts had told him of their decision or whether contract talks had begun. Luckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father, Oliver, also did not provide those answers.

Luck has been attending classes at Stanford, and is trying to finish one architectural course that is offered only in the spring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have not had any communication with any of the folks with the Colts. I stay out of all that,â&#x20AC;? Oliver Luck said in a phone interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll keep my conversations with Andrew private.â&#x20AC;?

Whether the Colts would start talking about a contract over the next week, in hopes of having a deal in place before next Thursday, remains unclear. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve kicked it around. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what the true advantage is to go early,â&#x20AC;? Grigson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At this point,

weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re focused on picking the guys.â&#x20AC;?

The Colts are still trying to figure out where they are in their massive offseason overhaul, too.

Grigsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comments came less than an hour after the Colts wrapped up another voluntary workout at the team complex, a practice that included perennial Pro Bowl receiver Reggie Wayne, who usually stays in Miami for workouts until the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mandatory offseason mini-camp.

Wayne altered his traditional plans because of all the changes Indy has made.

Grigson replaced the father-son front office tandem of Bill and Chris Polian in January, then brought in new coach Chuck Pagano to replace the fired Jim Caldwell. Pagano has almost an entirely new staff, and some players have even found new spots for their lockers.

The biggest change, of course, is not seeing No. 18 around town.

Manning was released March 7, a move designed to help quicken the rebuilding process, and eventually signed with Denver. Two days later, the Colts cut a handful of other veterans including defensive captains Gary Brackett and Melvin Bullitt, Pro Bowl tight end Dallas Clark and running back Joseph Addai. Longtime center Jeff Saturday, emerging receiver Pierre Garcon and backup tight end Jacob Tamme all left in free agency.

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THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE by greg madia multimedia editor

Heading into the 2012 season, a lot of the talk surrounding the West Virginia football team has focused on senior quarterback Geno Smith, senior inside receiver Tavon Austin and redshirt junior wide receiver Stedman Bailey.

Yet, hardly anyone has talked about a talented, experienced Mountaineer offensive line that could help pave the way to WVU’s success this season. Anchoring the middle of that offensive line is senior center Joe Madsen.

The only player on this year’s roster to start every game of his career at West Virginia, Madsen has the chance to emerge as one of the premier centers in the nation in his final season in Morgantown.

Madsen, a Chardon, Ohio native, led the Mountaineers with 55 knockdowns in 2011 and was named ESPN’s first team all-Big East Conference center.

“Joe Madsen is a leader, and he’s doing a fantastic job,” said West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen.

“He’s a great player.”

Throughout the spring, Madsen has benefited from having other veteran interior offensive linemen surrounding him. Left guard Josh Jenkins returns from injury and Jeff Braun slides from left to right guard – his more natural position.

Because of the experience they all have, the Mountaineer line is already fundamentally sound, they just have to clean up little problems and focus in on the playbook as WVU wraps up spring practice.

“It’s about assignments, knowing where we have to go and who we have to block. The only thing from there is building effort and knocking guys down,” Madsen said.

There’s a good chance that Madsen will be one of the names on the Rimington Award Watch List, the award given to the best center in the nation, when it comes out this summer.

The 6-foot-4, 310-pound center admits winning the award is something he’s thought about.

“Ever since I’ve been moved to center, that’s always been a goal of mine,” Madsen said. “It’s not like I strive to do that. I always try to play the best I can every down, so if that happens that’s what I want.”

The senior would like to see individual success but it isn’t the top priority.

Madsen’s clear objective is just to help himself and his teammates succeed, especially his fellow interior linemen, Braun and Jenkins. It seems that throughout the spring, Madsen has sensed that comfort.

“It’s been smooth; Josh (Jenkins) jumped right in,” Madsen said. “We work perfectly. We got some big boys in the middle and we’re ready to lock stuff down.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Senior center Joe Madsen has started every game in his career at West Virginia. He will help lead a Mountaineer offensive line that returns four starters from last year’s team.

nick arthur sports WRITER

West Virginia spring game great for fans College football spring games attract different levels of excitement around the country.

Some top-tier programs, such as Alabama and Nebraska, attract crowds close to that of a regular season game.

The spring game helps coaches determine depth charts and decide who may be receiving a red shirt, as well as help the team continue to build cohesion.

The annual West Virginia Gold-Blue Spring Game is one that brings excitement to a rather dead time of year on the athletic calendar in Morgantown.

With only baseball season for Mountaineer fans to follow, which is a bit down this year to say the least, West Virginia fans seem to always enjoy the break from boredom.

If you’ve never had the opportunity to take in the action at Mountaineer Field in April, this would be the year to do so.

The Mountaineers, fresh off a record-setting Orange Bowl victory, are returning basically their entire offense from last season, and expectations haven’t been this high during a spring since 2007.

Also, and possibly most importantly, the spring roster is full of young and new faces – all with the opportunity to make an impact next season.

With all of the hype surrounding the program, why not attend?

Last season, West Virginia had the most attended spring game in the Big East conference, with 22,000 watching the action.

see arthur on PAGE 6

THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

Thursday April 19, 2012

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | 9

School of Art and Design to host Short Film Festival

by Noelle Harris A&E WRITER

The West Virginia University School of Art and Design will be screening the third annual West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival on campus April 20-22.

The festival opens Friday in the Gluck Theater of the Mountainlair from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Films will be screened in the Creative Arts Center Saturday from noon – 4 p.m. in the Antionette E. Falbo The-

atre and from 7:30- 11:30 p.m. in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall.

The festival will conclude Sunday with the awards ceremony from 2-4 p.m.

During the course of the weekend, the film festival will be showing approximately 100 short films from five different categories: narrative short, documentary short, student submissions, animation/experimental and the theme category this year, which features works that look at our political

‘Calliope’ reading tonight West Virginia University’s magazine “Calliope” will host a reading of their 20112012 publication this evening in Colson Hall.

The magazine accepts submissions from undergraduate students from any program and narrows the submissions down to the best 10-12 poems and 4-5 pieces of fiction and nonfiction prose.

The publication not only features students’ writing; it also includes photographs and original art pieces .

The Calliope reading will be a night for the published authors to read their pieces in front of an audience. Nat-

discourse.

The range of works in the theme category is extremely diverse, even including a film that focuses on the Occupy Wall Street movement.

“What I’m really excited about is the sheer diversity,” said Gerald Habarth, the organizer of the festival.

Not only will the festival feature films and videos from these categories, but many of them are international offerings.

The festival will feature original works from many

countries, including Russia, Poland, France, India, Spain and Belgium. These international pieces give attendees the chance to see the world of independent filmmaking from a global perspective.

While most of the submissions are either narrative or animation, Habarth said that there really is something for every taste.

“Whether you’re interested in a more fine arts approach to film or narrative, there is something for everybody,” Habarth said.

In addition, the festival is not only an opportunity for WVU students. Students from other universities will also be featured during the film festival.

The festival gives attendees a chance to experience something completely new.

“We tend to see things that are blockbuster productions that cost millions of dollars to produce that are usually characterized by special effects, which is great,” Habarth said. “But the festival is a different view. It gets back

A&E WRITER

alie Carpini, editor-in-chief of “Calliope,” will also be using the reading as a chance to show gratitude for the combined efforts of the “Calliope” staff and the English Department.

This event will be an opportunity for those interested in contributing in the future to come see what “Calliope” is about and network with current staff members.

“It’s a great way for undergraduates to be published,” Carpini said.

The reading will be held in Colson Hall Room 130 today at 7:30 p.m.

—cng

This week, local soon-tobe West Virginia University graduate Logan Venderlic released his self-titled debut album.

Venderlic’s short album has been in the works for some time.

Last year, the fan favorite, “A Walk with a Girl,” prompted a music video ,which debuted on YouTube with more than 13,000 hits.

One of Venderlic’s newest video sensations is the album’s first single, “Jerkwater Town.”

On the day of the release, the video was featured as AOL Spinner’s Video of the Day. In addition, AOL Music will be featuring a week-long Full CD Listening Party for the release of Venderlic’s album.

Venderlic has gained a lot of notoriety in Morgantown, playing shows at popular venues like 123 Pleasant Street and Black Bear Burritos.

This month marks a new beginning for Venderlic. As he prepares to wrap up his final weeks of college, he will kick off his summer tour.

Venderlic will be playing Rockwood Music Hall in the Lower East Side of Manhattan Friday in support of the release.

“I can’t wait to get out on the road. I’m eager to see what people think of this kid from West Virginia,” Venderlic said.

Venderlic is pleased to introduce his unique brand of music. His sound is a genre he refers to as “folk wave.”

Folk wave is a blend of several genres including folk, indie and New Wave.

Venderlic is aware and excited that his small-town look and sound may raise a few eyebrows in the big city.

“I realized a couple years ago that no one was going to be looking for me. I wasn’t ever going to just be ‘discovered,’ so I’ve been kind of hustling ever since,” he said.

As Venderlic prepares to finish his time in college, he won’t be jumping into suits and work attire just yet.

“I don’t expect that I’ll ever be rich and famous, but that doesn’t mean I can’t do what I love. I’m vigilantly fighting a war against the day job,” he said.

The Logan Venderlic na-

Scavenger hunt offers last tickets The Avett Brothers have sold out their Friday show at the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t still go.

The WVU Arts and Entertainment department will host a scavenger hunt for one fan to win a final pair of tickets to see the indie folk rock group.

Clues for the scavenger hunt will be released through the Arts & Entertainment’s Twitter ac-

Local musician Logan Venderlic has released his self-titled debut album. tional tour continues just four days after his graduation from WVU. Logan Venderlic has high hopes for the tour and the success of his album.

For information on Venderlic’s music and tours, check out his Facebook and Twitter pages.

The “Logan Venderlic” al-

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bum is currently available for sale in many places, including iTunes, Amazon and Bandcamp. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

‘Kinect: Star Wars’ fails to capture the full experience of films

Nick wesdock A&E writer

“Kinect: Star Wars” for Xbox 360 dropped April 3 amid high expectations.

The much-anticipated game received just mediocre reviews – and for good reason.

“Star Wars” fans have long been waiting for a game that allows them to put their Jedi

count, @wvuevents.

Instructions will be released today starting at 11 a.m., so be sure to follow now to stay up to date on the search.

The tickets will be awarded to the winner when he or she finds them.

If you want to see the Avett Brothers in action but haven’t secured your tickets yet, this is your last chance.

—hah

Police arrest guard, recover Tom Petty guitars CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP) – It was a heartbreaker for Tom Petty and the band when someone stole five of their precious guitars from a soundstage, but it was music to their ears when police in Southern California announced Tuesday that the instruments had been recovered and a security guard was under arrest.

Police identified the arrested man as Daryl Emmette Washington, 51, of Los Angeles, a private security guard at The Culver Studios lot.

Police Chief Don Pedersen said the break in the case came when the suspect pawned one of the guitars at a Hollywood pawn shop for $250.

“Mr. Petty would have joined us, but he’s preparing for a concert in Denver,” said Pedersen, who described the stolen guitars as collectively worth $100,000.

A message seeking comment from the band’s publicist, Jim Merlis, was not immediately returned.

The instruments were reported stolen last Thursday from The Culver Studios, a sprawling complex of soundstages west of downtown Los Angeles where Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had been rehearsing for an upcoming tour.

The instruments were Petty’s blond 1967 maple 12-string Rickenbacker and his Gibson SGTVJunior, Mike Campbell’s blue Dusenberg, Ron Blair’s Fender Broadcaster and Scott Thurston’s 1967 Epiphone Sheridan.

On its website, the band offered a “no questions asked” $7,500 reward for information leading to the return of the instruments.

Their return comes as the band prepared to kick off their tour Wednesday in Broomfield, Colo.

The band is known for a string of hit singles, including “American Girl”, “Don’t Do Me Like That” and “Breakdown.”

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‘Kinect: Star Wars’ for XBOX 360 falls short of the popular film series. skills to the test, and “Kinect: Star Wars” failed in its attempt to do so.

In the campaign, which follows a simple storyline, there are five modes. The player’s character moves through the game on rails, moving from task to task without giving the player any options.

During these tasks, the game presents unique features, but unfortunately the player’s control is limited, and even the control they do

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to storytelling as an art form.”

The festival is meant to provide a different cinema experience for viewers, and give artists a chance to show their work.

Each film has a maximum running time of 20 minutes, and viewers can come and go as they please.

For more information on the third annual West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, visit www.mountaineerfilmfest.org.

have is not quite precise. This makes lightsaber battles and other Jedi tricks extremely frustrating.

Along with the limited move set comes boredom. Action seems too slow, and players aren’t as involved as they would like to be.

To combat this, the battles are broken up by very simple and basic tasks such as manning large guns to shoot down enemy spacecrafts. These simple tasks gave the game a very

childish feel, even though it’s rated T for Teen.

Overall, the campaign felt very repetitive. Most of the tasks were very similar in their execution and objective.

However, players do have the option of choosing other game modes, such as podracing, rancor rampage and more.

Galactic Dance Off mode was interesting to say the least.

This mode featured dance moves similar to Xbox 360’s “Dance Central,” except per-

forming the moves were “Star Wars” characters such as Han Solo.

The game wasn’t all bad. It has its unique features, and it’s a great game for younger kids, but when it counted, the live action wasn’t executed well and offered little diversity.

Combined with other graphic and synchronization glitches, the game really didn’t live up to all the hype. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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America’s New Year’s host Dick Clark dies of heart attack at age 82 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Clark, the ever-youthful television host and tireless entrepreneur who helped bring rock `n’ roll into the mainstream on “American Bandstand,” and later produced and hosted a vast range of programming from game shows to the New Year’s Eve countdown from Times Square, has died. He was 82.

Spokesman Paul Shefrin said Clark had a heart attack Wednesday morning at Saint John’s hospital in Santa Monica, where he had gone the day before for an outpatient procedure.

Clark had continued performing even after he suffered a stroke in 2004 that affected his ability to speak and walk.

Long dubbed “the world’s oldest teenager” because of his boyish appearance, Clark bridged the rebellious new music scene and traditional show business, and equally comfortable whether chatting about music with Sam Cooke or bantering with Ed McMahon about TV bloopers.

He thrived as the founder of Dick Clark Productions, supplying movies, game and music shows, beauty contests and more to TV. Among his credits: “The $25,000 Pyramid,” “TV’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes” and the American Music Awards.

For a time in the 1980s, he had shows on all three networks and was listed among the Forbes 400 of wealthiest Americans. Clark also was part of radio as partner in the United Stations Radio Network, which provided programs – including Clark’s – to thousands of stations.

“There’s hardly any segment of the population that doesn’t see what I do,” Clark told The Associated Press in a 1985 interview. “It can be embarrassing. People come up to me and say, `I love your show,’ and I have no idea which one they’re talking about.”

The original “American Bandstand” was one of network TV’s longest-running series as part of ABC’s daytime lineup from 1957 to 1987. It later aired for a year in syndication and briefly on the USA Network. Over the years, it introduced stars ranging from Buddy Holly to Madonna. The show’s status as an American cultural institution was solidified when Clark donated Bandstand’s original podium and backdrop to the Smithsonian Institution.

Clark joined “Bandstand” in 1956 after Bob Horn, who’d been the host since its 1952 debut, was fired. Under Clark’s guidance, it went from a local Philadelphia show to a national phenomenon.

“I played records, the kids danced, and America watched,” was how Clark once described the series’ simplicity. In his 1958 hit “Sweet Little Sixteen,” Chuck Berry sang that “they’ll be rocking on Bandstand, Philadelphia, P-A.” As a host, he had the smooth delivery of a seasoned radio announcer. As a producer, he had an ear for a hit record. He also knew how to make wary adults welcome this odd new breed of music in their homes.

Clark endured accusations that he was in with the

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Dick Clark, host of ‘American Bandstand’ and the Times Square New Year’s Eve countdown, died at age 82 of a heart attack. squares, with critic Lester Bangs defining Bandstand as “a leggily acceptable euphemism of the teenage experience.” In a 1985 interview, Clark acknowledged the complaints. “But I knew at the time that if we didn’t make the presentation to the older generation palatable, it could kill it.”

“So along with Little Richard and Chuck Berry and the Platters and the Crows and the Jayhawks ... the boys wore coats and ties and the girls combed their hair and they all looked like sweet little kids into a high school dance,” he said.

But Clark defended pop artists and artistic freedom, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame said in an online biography of the 1993 inductee. He helped give black artists their due by playing original R&B recordings instead of cover versions by white performers, and he condemned censorship.

His stroke in December 2004 forced him to miss his annual appearance on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.” He returned the following year and, although his speech at times was difficult to understand, many praised his bravery, including other stroke victims.

Still speaking with difficulty, he continued taking part in his New Year’s shows, though in a diminished role.

Ryan Seacrest became the main host.

“I’m just thankful I’m still able to enjoy this once-a-year treat,” he told The Associated Press by e-mail in December 2008 as another New Year’s Eve approached.

He was honored at the Emmy Awards in 2006, telling the crowd: “I have accomplished my childhood dream, to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams come true.

I’ve been truly blessed.”

He was born Richard Wagstaff Clark in Mount Vernon, N.Y., in 1929. His father, Richard Augustus Clark, was a sales manager who worked in radio.

Clark idolized his athletic older brother, Bradley, who was killed in World War II. In his 1976 autobiography, “Rock, Roll & Remember,” Clark recalled how radio helped ease his loneliness and turned him into a fan of Steve Allen, Arthur Godfrey and other popular hosts.

From Godfrey, he said, he learned that “a radio announcer does not talk to `those of you out there in radio land’; a radio announcer talks to me as an individual.”

Clark began his career in the mailroom of a Utica, N.Y., radio station in 1945. By age 26, he was a broadcasting veteran, with nine years’ experience on radio and TV stations in Syracuse and Utica, N.Y., and Philadelphia. He held a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University. While in Philadelphia, Clark befriended McMahon, who later credited Clark for introducing him to his future “Tonight Show” boss, Johnny Carson.

In the 1960s, “American Bandstand” moved from black-and-white to color, from weekday broadcasts to oncea-week Saturday shows and from Philadelphia to Los Angeles. Although its influence started to ebb, it still featured some of the biggest stars of each decade, whether Janis Joplin, the Jackson 5, Talking Heads or Prince. But Clark never did book two of rock’s iconic groups, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Elvis Presley also never performed, although Clark managed an onair telephone interview while Presley was in the Army.

When Michael Jackson died in June 2009, Clark recalled working with him since he was a child, adding, “of all the thousands of entertainers I have worked with, Michael was THE most outstanding.

Many have tried and will try to copy him, but his talent will never be matched.”

Clark kept more than records spinning with his Dick Clark Productions. Its credits included the Academy of

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Country Music and Golden Globe awards; TV movies including the Emmy-winning “The Woman Who Willed a Miracle” (1984), the “$25,000 Pyramid” game show and the 1985 film “Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins.”

Clark himself made a cameo on “The Fresh Prince of BelAir” and a dramatic appearance as a witness on the original “Perry Mason.” He was an involuntary part of Michael Moore’s Academy Award-winning “Bowling for Columbine,” in which Clark is seen brushing off Moore as the filmmaker confronts him about working conditions at a restaurant owned by Clark.

In 1974, at ABC’s request, Clark created the American Music Awards after the network lost the broadcast rights to the Grammy Awards.

He was also an author, with “Dick Clark’s American Bandstand” and such selfhelp books as “Dick Clark’s Program for Success in Your Business and Personal Life” and “Looking Great, Staying Young.” His unchanging looks inspired a joke in “Peggy Sue Gets Married,” the 1986 comedy starring Kathleen Turner as an unhappy wife and mother transported back to 1960. Watching Clark on a black and white TV set, she shakes her head in amazement, “Look at that man, he never ages.”

Clark’s clean-cut image survived a music industry scandal. In 1960, during a congressional investigation of “payola” or bribery in the record and radio industry, Clark was called on to testify.

He was cleared of any suspicions but was required by ABC to divest himself of recordcompany interests to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest. The demand cost him $8 million, Clark once estimated. His holdings included partial ownership of Swan Records, which later released the first U.S. version of the Beatles’ smash “She Loves You.” In 2004, Clark announced plans for a revamped version of “American Bandstand.” The show, produced with “American Idol” creator Simon Fuller, was to feature a host other than Clark.

He was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 1994 and served as spokesman for the American Association of Diabetes Educators.

Clark, twice divorced, had a son, Richard Augustus II, with first wife Barbara Mallery and two children, Duane and Cindy, with second wife Loretta Martin. He married Kari Wigton in 1977.

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A&E Avett Brothers to perform at CAC 12

Thursday April 19, 2012

CONTACT US 304-293-5092 ext. 3 | DAA&E@mail.wvu.edu

by Emily Meadows A&E WRITER

The Avett Brothers will play a sold-out show at the CAC Friday.

www.bluegrasstoday.com

North Carolina-based folkrock trio The Avett Brothers will be performing a sold out show at the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center Friday night at 7:30 p.m.

The much-anticipated concert sold out in just 21 minutes and is expected to bring a big buzz to Morgantown Friday.

John Scherch, a sophomore music student, waited in line for nearly two hours to acquire 11 student tickets for the show.

“It was actually not that bad of a wait because I got there early and was pretty far up in line,” Scherch said.

“But it was worth it because I was able to get tickets for my friends, and now we will all be able to sit together and have a good time.”

Often recognized for their

unique musical style of meshing bluegrass with folk rock, alternative and pop melodies, the band has generated a wave of dedicated fans and has brought Americana into the mainstream, as well as to the forefront of alternative.

Since the 2009 release of the highly successful major label debut “I and Love and You,” the Brothers have been touring practically non-stop across the United States, including a performance at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards alongside Bob Dylan and Mumford and Sons in 2011.

The band has additionally gained popularity by making their rounds in the latenight television circuit, including appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and a performance at Austin City Limits in 2010.

Brothers Seth and Scott

Avett, founding members and the primary creative masterminds for the band, have been working on music together since childhood, but did not adopt their signature sound until the release of their self-titled EP “The Avett Bros,” in 2000.

The duo stated in an interview with Rolling Stone that they have been working diligently on their new album that will include at least 24 newly recorded tracks and is set for release sometime in 2012.

For those who were unable to purchase tickets for the Morgantown show, tickets are still available for their May 20 performance in Pittsburgh at Stage AE. For more information on The Avett Brothers, visit their website at www.theavettbrothers.com. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

‘Burn the Floor’ to bring ballroom dancing to the stage

BY Caitlin Graziani A&E editor

The international dance sensation “Burn the Floor” will visit the WVU Creative Arts Center May 2.

The show is taking a break from its place on Broadway to tour around the United States.

The ballroom dancing that the world recognizes today is competitive ballroom dance, sometimes known as “dancesport.” It is comprised of ten dances, which can all

be danced in “closed ballroom” hold. The style danced in “Burn the Floor” is called “international style” and has been danced in competition since 1920.

International-style ballroom dance consists of ten dances, split into five Latin American dances and five ballroom dances.

Each “Burn the Floor” dancer has spent a lifetime training to compete against other dance couples.

Dancer Trent Whiddon has been part of “Burn the

Floor” since 2002. Originally from Australia, he participated in “Dancing with the Stars: Australia” and “So, You Think You Can Dance: Australia.”

With this experience, he has noticed differences between each country’s version of the show.

“Everything in the U.S. is done on a much larger scale – it’s much more extravagant,” Whiddon said.

The New York Times calls the show’s performance, with its 20 champion danc-

ers, “dazzling!”

Joining the dancers of “Burn the Floor” on stage will be “So, You Think You Can Dance: Australia” champion Robbie Kmetoni. Kmetoni will be performing some contemporary dance numbers.

“We begin with two weeks of rehearsal to get the show together. We work on choreography, spacing and moving as one,” Whiddon said.

“On this tour we have five new cast members that are joining the cast for the first time– they are joining a

whole new world. Many of them have not performed outside of competitive ballroom dance.”

Aside from dancing, audience members can also expect to see beautiful and detailed costumes on every dancer. The ladies will have outfits that range from modern designs to more elegant costumes, depending on the dance. There will be 15 costume changes throughout the show.

For those interested in attending, tickets are available

through Ticketmaster, the Mountainlair and CAC box offices. Prices range from $27 to $54 depending on seat location. caitlin.graziani@mail.wvu.edu

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