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Univ. researchers address local fracking by bryan bumgardner staff writer
West Virginia University researchers are working on a study to address the effect of natural gas drilling on water supplies. Nicolas Zegre, forest hydrologist in the Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry & Consumer Sciences; and Shika Sharma, a geochemist in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, have come together to lead the project. The
project will investigate methane levels in well water in the Monongahela National Forest before and after hydraulic fracturing activity. The research is made possible by a $27,500 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service and is expected to begin in March. Hydraulic fracturing is the pumping of pressurized fluids underground in order to fracture bedrock, which allows for easier extraction of
natural gas. The process has been used throughout the Marcellus Formation, a deposit of natural gas stretching from Pennsylvania to Eastern Tennessee. Concerns have been raised about the effect of hydraulic “fracking” on groundwater throughout the Marcellus Formation, including issues of runoff fluid and possible contamination of groundwater aquifers with methane, a flammable gas. However, there are no con-
clusive studies to show the before and after effects of the drilling. This study should provide both, Zegre said, giving an accurate picture of environmental impact. “I think our study has the opportunity to fill lots of knowledge gaps related to the shale,” Zegre said, adding that scientific evidence is needed before decisions concerning policies can be made. “It’s important to first understand what’s going on. Our study is going to offer infor-
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mation on how drilling affects these wells,” he said. Zegre and Sharma will be studying water samples from six wells that provide water to campgrounds near Sutton Lake. This will allow the project to establish baseline levels of methane gas in the wells. Hydrofracking activities will then take place in the area, and the researchers will return to take additional samples. Comparing methane levels using the two samples will
reveal any possible effects of the drilling. This will allow for a more accurate hydrological model of environmental impact. Patrick Eisenhauer, a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in forest hydrology, is assisting in the project. Eisenhauer said he believes this research is necessary as well as controversial. “No such research has ever been done before,” Eisenhauer
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Historic mine museum ‘defies the darkness’
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The Watts Museum displays historical artifacts about the evolution of mining safety and mine illumination. In the foreground stands a Baldwin Carbide Lamp with a patent stamp – just one of many pieces displayed in the museum.
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Donors give blood with the assistance of American Red Cross specialists at the Mr. and Ms. Mountaineer Blood Drive Thursday afternoon in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.
Mr. and Ms. Mountaineer celebrate National Blood Donor Month by partnering with Red Cross by kelsey montgomery
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Timothy Sioson, a sophomore industrial engineering student, left, registers to give blood with the help of Ms. Mountaineer, Katlin Stinespring, center, and Mr. Mountaineer, Ryan Butler, right. The students partnered with the American Red Cross Thursday afternoon in the Mountainlair Ballrooms to host its annual blood drive.
WVU doctors travel state to help those in need by jessica lear staff writer
West Virginia University doctors at the School of Medicine have been traveling to areas across southern and rural West Virginia to provide care to underserved residents. Physicians John Brick, his twin brother Jim Brick and Judie Charlton travel to the town Gilbert in Mingo County every month. John is the chair of the Department of Neurology for the School of Medicine. Jim is a rheumatologist and the chair of the Department of Medicine, and Charlton is an ophthalmologist and the WVU Healthcare chief medical
officer. Jim said the School of Medicine encourages its physicians to perform outreach across the state to improve the lives of citizens who may require additional or supplemental health care. “My brother and I have always been involved in outreach since we became faculty here,” Jim said. “It has been part of the culture here for decades.” Jim said traveling to provide health care to rural areas reflects the views of the WVU School of Medicine, which strives to serve residents across West Virginia. “The West Virginia University is for all of West Vir-
ginia,” he said. “That’s what former Governor Okey Patteson wished for when he put the medical center in Morgantown.” The WVU School of Medicine has been serving people in many areas of West Virginia, and he hopes it will continue into the future. “The School of Medicine does outreach in many areas around the state, and we would like to see this grow,” he said. “West Virginia is a rural state, and it’s part of our mission. It’s the right thing to do.” The Gilbert clinic is an extension of that service to the state of West Virginia, he said, which began almost five years
ago. The clinic started when James H. “Buck” Harless, a native of Gilbert, W.Va., urged WVU physicians to come to Gilbert to help provide supplemental medical care to the area. “We started in Gilbert because Mr. Harless challenged us to do more for health care in southern West Virginia,” he said. “We both see service to West Virginia as a primary mission of WVU.” Harless has been an important part of West Virginia’s lumber and coal industries since the 1940s and now works as a philanthropist
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Students contribute to local high school program, gain real world experience
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For Mountaineers, giving blood is more than an act of charity – it is a gift of hope. The 2011 Mr. and Ms. Mountaineer, Ryan Butler and Katlin Stinespring, hosted their second blood drive of the academic year in the Mountainlair Thursday. “It’s important for people to donate blood because it contributes to saving lives,” Stinespring said. “Here, it’s a convenient way for everyone on campus to be involved with the community and to do their part.”
For hundreds of years, West Virginia miners have faced the dark depths of the mines to light the homes of families everywhere. Efforts to provide miners with safe and sufficient lighting within the mines have remained, for centuries, a constant struggle. The West Virginia University Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts Museum’s latest exhibition, “Defying the Darkness: The Struggle for Safe and Sufficient Mine Illumination”
showcases the industry’s evolution of lighting techniques and highlights the often disastrous struggle for adequate lighting in the mines. “The exhibit shows the history of mine lighting from about the late 19th century to the early 20th century,” said museum curator Danielle Petrak. “There was an overlap of technologies used by miners at this time to light the mines. They were using anything from candles to early battery-powered lamps and everything in-between.”
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INSIDE THIS EDITION The West Virginia women’s basketball team travels to Pittsburgh Saturday for the Backyard Brawl. SPORTS PAGE 9
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When entering the job market, one of the best assets you can have is experience. On Saturday mornings, students in the West Virginia University Master of Arts in Education with Certification program are receiving this real-world experience by working with Upward Bound, a valuable education program in the area. Upward Bound is a collegereadiness program for students in rural West Virginia high schools who may be of low income backgrounds or are hoping to become the first in their families to attend college. WVU graduate students help Clay-Battelle, Grafton and Preston high schools by collaborating with the Upward Bound staff to create interactive lessons in a variety of subject fields and assist them with test preparations. Matt Anderson, MA+ program coordinator, said the program can enrich the lives of students who don’t usually
BACK TO THE BIG EAST The West Virginia men’s basketball team welcomes Cincinnati to the Coliseum Saturday. SPORTS PAGE 9
have the resources available and help keep them on the right path. “It’s a win-win situation. Students in the Upward Bound program get college students to help make their learning more interesting and that alone brings the connection to college,” Anderson said. “But, it is also beneficial to our students because they are gaining experience in designing lessons to engage and interest students.” WVU students have helped create many fun educational activities for the program, like using paper airplanes in a physics lesson to test aspects of flight such as thrust. “My main goal in partnering with Upward Bound is to be sure our students have experience teaching and get outside of the textbook to actually work with real students,” Anderson said. “It helps our students receive experience in creating these interesting and fun lessons and not just simply read about it.”
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GOP campaign turns bizarre in SC; debate is next NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The race for the Republican presidential nomination is veering toward South Carolina surreal. Mitt Romney was stripped of his Iowa caucus victory Thursday, then was stung by Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s withdrawal and endorsement of Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who was stunningly accused in turn by an ex-wife of seeking an open marriage so he could keep his mistress. “Newt’s not perfect, but who among us is,” said Perry, abruptly quitting the race shortly before an evening de-
bate and less than 48 hours before the polls open in Saturday’s first-in-the-South primary. His decision to end a oncepromising candidacy left Romney, Gingrich, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Texas Rep. Ron Paul the remaining contenders in the race to pick a Republican to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama this fall. Recent polls, coupled with Perry’s endorsement, suggested Gingrich was the candidate with the momentum and Romney the one struggling to validate his standing as front-runner. Whatever else
the impact, the day’s events reduced the number of contenders vying to emerge as Romney’s principal conservative alternative. The former Massachusetts governor had other challenges in a state where unemployment approaches 10 percent. He adamantly refused to explain why some of his millions were invested in the Cayman Islands, how much was there or whether any other funds were held offshore. Under pressure from his rivals to release his income tax returns before the weekend – a demand first made by Perry in a debate on Monday – he told
reporters it wouldn’t happen. “You’ll hear more about that. April,” he said. Gingrich grappled with problems of a different, possibly even more crippling sort in a state where more than half the Republican electorate is evangelical. In an interview scheduled to air on ABC News, Marianne Gingrich said her ex-husband had wanted an “open marriage” so he could have both a wife and a mistress. She said Gingrich conducted an affair with Callista Bistek – his current wife – “in my bedroom in our apartment in Washington” while she was elsewhere.
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The need for safe and sufficient lighting within the mines came about when the early use of open-flamed candles lead to a series of deadly mine explosions after the mixture of flames and explosive gases, she said. Petrak said government reformers took action and raised the demand for adequate lighting in the mines after the series of disasters, and understood the grave financial and safety issues proposed by the current lighting situation. “Defying the Darkness” displays hundreds of lighting technologies used in the industry throughout the ages. The exhibit also showcases historical photographs depicting the faces of those working in the mines and their daily workings, as the struggle for sufficient lighting continued. Petrak said she was thrilled for the public to have the opportunity to view the exhibit and catch a firsthand glimpse of the struggle in the mines throughout time. “We have a significant collection of mining lamps – there’s over a hundred of them,” she said. “But, they have always just sat in my storage room. They are really old and valuable – it’s a shame people haven’t gotten
The blood drive was organized through a partnership between the American Red Cross and the Mountaineer Maniacs. The American Red Cross was founded in 1881 and serves as the nation’s premier emergency response organization. The organization has 600 Red Cross chapters, 36 Blood Services regions and 58 Service to the Armed Forces stations in operation. American Red Cross representatives said the donations received during the drive
“He was asking to have an open marriage and I refused. That is not a marriage,” she said in excerpts released by the network in advance of the program. Gingrich declined to respond to his ex-wife’s comments, telling reporters his two daughters from the first of his three marriages had sent a letter to ABC “complaining about this as tawdry and inappropriate.” In fact, the letter made no such accusations. Instead, Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman wrote ABC that anyone who has endured a failed marriage “understands it is a
personal tragedy filled with regrets, and sometimes differing memories of events.” A short while later, R.C. Hammond, a spokesman for the former speaker, said of Gingrich’s ex-wife’s account: “It couldn’t be any more opposite of the truth.” The interview with the second of Gingrich’s two exwives and the evening debate weren’t the only political events in the run-up to the Saturday primary. Television commercials for the remaining candidates and their allies ran virtually without letup, generally designed to diminish each other’s support.
would serve 90 hospitals in 100 counties across the country, in states including Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. “It’s a really great cause. They say the statistic is that every single pint can save up to three lives,” Stinespring said. The blood drive was hosted from 1-7 p.m. and was open to the public. By 5 p.m., 71 donors from the WVU campus had visited the drive and donated blood to the Red Cross. “The student turnout has been good so far. We’ve had a lot of walk-ins, which I have been pleasantly surprised with,” Butler said.
Although many students registered, Stinespring said walk-in participants really helped the success of the drive. “The walk-ins have really boosted it up. We had a lot registered already, but the word-of-mouth going in the Mountainlair really helped get the numbers up,” Stinespring said. The blood drive is just one of the responsibilities of Mr. and Ms. Mountaineer during their yearlong reign. They also have an opportunity to be a part of “Dancing with our Mountaineer Stars” later in the academic year. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu
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Mining law books from the early 1900’s are on display in the Watts Museum. the chance to see them.” The museum is located in Room 125 of the Mineral Resources Building on WVU’s Evansdale campus. The museum is dedicated to preserving and promoting the social, cultural and technological history of the coal, oil and natural gas industries of the state of West Virginia through the collection, preservation, research and exhibi-
tion of objects relevant to these industries. “Defying the Darkness” will be on display through July 2012. The museum is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1-4 p.m. For more information, contact the museum at wattsmuseum@mail.wvu.edu or call 304-293-4609. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu
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The MA+ students are also partnered with North Marion High School’s “Innovation Zone.” North Marion’s attendance rate increased after restructuring their ninth grade around the project-based learning program, which uses handson projects, group work and real-world applications for a new learning experience, Anderson said. For example, while learning about ancient Greece, ninthgraders created advertisements to redesign and make
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ancient Greece more interesting to their fellow students – pushing students to learn all about the history of Greece. “I actually sought out this program at North Marion High School because it’s so unique,” Anderson said. “I wanted our students to get to see what that project-based learning is like, so hopefully they can become teachers that implement that too. It gets them into an actual classroom so they actually have real experiences.” The MA+ education degree is for professionals with bachelor’s degrees looking to pursue a career in teaching and make a positive impact on education by helping spread innovative Gilbert is a small town of a few hundred people and is not far from the Kentucky state line. These trips to Gilbert allow the residents to get specialty care they otherwise would have had to travel for hours to receive. The School of Medicine doctors work closely with the primary care physicians and pharmacists of Gilbert to make sure they best care possible is provided for their patients. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu
techniques. Anderson said this is one of the most diverse graduate degrees at WVU, but one of the most difficult to market because of its wide range of students enrolled in the program. “It’s unique because this program is often used as a career changer,” he said. Students can immediately enroll in the program after receiving any bachelor’s degree. For more information, contact Program Coordinator Matt Anderson at 304-293-2302 or email matthew.anderson@ mail.wvu.edu. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu
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Continued from page 1 said. Although companies and environmentalists are eager for answers, the study could take several years, he said. “I could definitely see this going on for quite a while. This is controversial, but our results are too preliminary to draw any conclusions,” he said. Eisenhauer also said the team has a responsibility to maintain objectivity throughout the process. “It’s important that we focus on the process, and that will help us be objective. That’s the most important thing,” he said, danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu
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Cuba set to explore offshore as oil rig arrives HAVANA (AP) — A huge drilling rig arrived Thursday in the warm Gulf waters north of Havana, where it will sink an exploratory well deep into the seabed, launching Cuba’s dreams of striking it rich with offshore oil. The Scarabeo-9 platform was visible from Havana’s sea wall far off on the hazy horizon as it chugged westward toward its final drill site about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the capital, and 60 miles (90 kilometers) south of Key West. Spanish oil company Repsol RPF, which is leasing the rig for about a half-million dollars a day, said it expects to begin drilling within days to find out whether the reserves are as rich as predicted. “The geologists have done their work. If they’ve done it well, then we’ll have a good chance of success,” Repsol spokesman Kristian Rix said by phone from Madrid. “It’s been a long process, but now we’re at the point where we discover whether our geologists have got it right. It’s a happy day.” It’s been a long, strange journey for the Scarabeo-9, Repsol and Cuba, a process shadowed at every step by warnings of a possible environmental debacle and decades of bad blood between Cuba and the United States. The U.S. trade embargo essentially bars U.S. companies from doing oil business with Cuba and threatens sanctions against foreign companies if they don’t follow its restrictions, making it far more complicated to line up equipment and resources for the project. To avoid sanctions, Repsol chose the Scarabeo-9, a 380-foot-long (115-meter), selfpropelled, semisubmersible
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Alfonso Arias rides his horse next to an oil pump operated by the state oil company Cuba Petroleos, Cupet, in Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba. A Chinese-built oil rig has arrived to Cuba in January to start exploratory drilling beneath the waters off Cuba’s northern coast. behemoth capable of housing 200 workers. The rig qualifies for the Cuba project because it was built with less than 10 percent U.S.-made parts, no small feat considering America’s dominance in the industry. While comparable platforms sat idle in the Gulf of Mexico, the Scarabeo-9 spent months navigating through three oceans and around the Cape of Good Hope to arrive in the Caribbean at tremendous expense. Even after the rig is in place, the embargo continues to affect just about every aspect. The Scarabeo-9’s blowout preventer, a key piece of ma-
chinery that failed in the 2010 Macondo-Deepwater Horizon disaster, is state of the art. But its U.S. manufacturer is not licensed to work with Cuba so replacement parts must come through secondary sources. It’s also more complicated to do things like the maintenance necessary to keep things running smoothly and decrease the chances of something going wrong. If it does, Cuba would be hard-pressed to respond to a major spill on its own, and getting help isn’t as simple as making a phone call to Washington. The embargo would require li-
censes to be issued for all manner of equipment and services for an emergency response. Few U.S. companies so far have gotten permission to work with the Cubans in the event of a spill – representing just 5 percent of all the resources thrown at the Macondo blowout, according to an estimate by Lee Hunt, president of the International Association of Drilling Contractors. Two U.S. companies have received licenses to export capping stacks, crucial pieces of equipment for stopping gushing wells, but related services like personnel and transportation have not been green-lighted,
Hunt said. “So what you have is a great big intelligent piece of iron without a crew,” he said. “You can’t just drop it on the hole and hope (the spill) will stop. It’s not a cork.” Even Tyvek suits worn by cleanup crews cannot currently be exported to Cuba because potentially they could be used for the construction of bacteriological or chemical weapons, Hunt added. Meanwhile cooperation between the two governments, which often struggle to see eyeto-eye on things as basic as delivering each other’s mail, has been only bare-bones. “With any other country – Mexico, Canada or Russia – we would already have in place agreements between the coast guards of the two countries,” said Dan Whittle, Cuba program director for the Environmental Defense Fund. “There would be contingency plans written and publicly available. There already would have been drills, a comprehensive action plan for responding to a spill.” “We don’t have that yet.” There has been some movement. U.S. inspectors examined the rig last week in Trinidad and gave it a clean bill of health, though notably said that did not constitute any certification. And American representatives at a regional oil meeting last month in the Bahamas were left impressed by their Cuban counterparts’ openness and willingness to share information. But the countries’ proximity has increased fears of a disastrous spill with the potential to foul not only Cuba’s reefs and gleaming, white-sand beaches, but also, swept up by the Gulf
Stream, the coast of Florida and the Atlantic Seaboard up to North Carolina. Curiously, those fears have been cited by people on both sides of the embargo issue: Some say the prospect of environmental disaster shows the U.S. needs to lift the embargo and work with the Cubans in the interest of safety; others say the fact that the trade ban failed to prevent Cuba from drilling shows it needs to be made even tougher. Some of the harshest criticism has come from CubanAmerican members of Congress such as House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who recently accused the Obama administration of dropping the ball on Cuban drilling. “Oil exploration 90 miles off the Florida coast by this corrupt, unaccountable dictatorship could result in horrific environmental and economic damage to our Gulf Coast communities, in addition to enriching the Castro tyranny,” RosLehtinen said. The exact size of Cuba’s offshore reserves, estimated at 5 billion to 9 billion barrels, is still unknown. And production would not come online for years, so any windfall is still on the horizon. But island officials are hopeful of a big strike that could inject much-needed cash into their struggling economy, and they’re not asking anyone for permission. “Cuba is going through its own change regardless of American foreign policy,” said U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the U.S. Senate who met with Cuban officials in Havana this week on oil and other matters.
Interpol chief says countries not using Pope hits out at ‘radical secularism’ databases to protect against attacks LONDON (AP) — Interpol’s chief sounded an alarm Thursday that countries are still failing to check identity documents against its database – a warning that comes just months ahead of the 2012 Olympics. Ron Noble, secretary-general of the international police agency based in France, said out of the 1.1 billion travelers last year, ID documents of some 500 million people were not checked against Interpol’s database, which is one of the world’s most detailed. “It will take a tragedy – a specific kind of tragedy – for behavior to change,” Noble told The Associated Press after speaking to foreign correspondents in London. Noble has said Britain is the only EU country to systematically check passports against those registered with Interpol as missing worldwide. Britain carried out 140 million checks last year against the database – more than the rest of Europe combined. Last year, he said more than 11,000 people were caught trying to enter the U.K. using lost or stolen passports. France carried out the second-highest number of checks at 10 million. “The only problem the U.K. appears to have is the number of people at immigration posts,” Noble said. He was not voicing concerns over the Olympics. A special Interpol team will be sent specifically for the Olympics, helping British authorities determine whether anyone trying to enter the U.K. is wanted, whether their documents have been listed as lost or stolen and whether they are considered a threat. “We know terrorists use fraudulent ID documents,” Noble said. The U.K. Border Agency faced intense criticism last year after passport checks were relaxed during the height of the summer tourist season to lessen lines at London’s Heathrow Airport, Europe’s busiest. A government report on Thursday blamed poor communications, a lack of supervision and other shortcomings for the problems. Olympics security has been a primary concern since 1972, when 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were killed at the Munich Games. Noble said while there was no specific intelligence that the games would be targeted, such events provide an array of opportunities for criminals, including pickpocketing, forced prostitution,
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Ron Noble, secretary-general of Interpol poses in central London Thursday following a press conference. Noble, secretary-general of the international police agency based in France, said Thursday there is no specific intelligence the 2012 Olympics will be targeted. illegal Internet betting rings and hoaxes. And then there is still the threat of terrorism. Noble said while al-Qaida’s ranks had been depleted, affiliates were actively recruiting in places like Somalia. Another fear that Noble said “keeps him up at night” is the threat of a nuclear or biological attack. Interpol has been alerted to some 2,715 instances where there were questions of whether there had been illicit trafficking of nuclear material. Noble stressed, however, that didn’t mean there were more 2,000 cases of trafficked nuclear material. While most of the cases involved non-nuclear radioactive material cases – 2,535 – there were 200 cases involving nuclear material. Only four cases involved the attempted sale of highly enriched uranium, Noble said. The United States, he said,
had the most cases in the database – mostly because of its reporting through the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Council. After that, Eastern Europe has had the most and some of the most significant cases of concern in terms of criminality, Noble said. As for whether terror groups were becoming more capable of unleashing biological attacks, Noble pointed to advances in both technology and biotechnology. He said the risk was increasing – partially because technology can be misused – but that did not mean there was an increased likelihood of a bio-terrorist attack. “It’s so easy to think about how an attack can be carried out because the screening of passengers doesn’t focus on that at all,” Noble said. “That’s why it’s important to identify people who are engaged in conduct that is suspicious or illegal.”
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI says Roman Catholics in the U.S. need to understand the “grave threats” to their faith posed by what he calls radical secularism in the political and cultural arenas. He addressed visiting U.S. bishops Thursday and used the same language in warning that attempts are being made to erode their religious freedom. Benedict did not explicitly mention it, but the bishops have complained their religious freedom is eroding in the face of growing acceptance of gay marriage and attempts to marginalize faith. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has recently formed a committee on protecting religious liberty and hired attorneys and a lobbyist to work on the issue. The pope said many of the bishops have complained about attempts to deny conscientious objection with regard to cooperation in “in-
trinsically evil practices.” U.S. church leaders have been pressing for a broader religious exception to part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul that mandates private insurers pay for contraception. The Obama administration has not yet made a decision on the policy and the timing is uncertain. Bishops also are pressing for broader religious exemptions in U.S. states that have legalized same-gender civil unions or marriage. The vast network of Catholic social services in the United States includes adoption and fostercare placement. Bishops in some states have either shut down adoption programs or have lost their government contracts after refusing to place children with same-gender couples. Benedict also expressed appreciation that bishops have been more outspoken about American Catholic politicians who don’t follow church
Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing during a general audience he held in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican Wednesday.
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teaching on abortion and other issues. The pope said Catholics in political life have a “personal responsibility to offer public witness to their faith, especially with regard to the great moral issues of our time.” American Catholics have bitterly debated the obligations of Catholic lawmakers to oppose government policies that go against core Catholic teaching. In recent years, a small but growing number of local bishops have publicly told Catholic lawmakers who support abortion rights not to present themselves for Holy Communion because of their stance on the issue. The White House had no response to the pope’s remarks. Officials of Catholic-affiliated institutions that have asked for a broader conscience exception to the birth control coverage requirement are frustrated that the administration has yet to make its ruling.
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Texting bill is necessary but needs work Lawmakers in Charleston have been in the process of introducing a bill that could outlaw texting and talking on a cell phone while driving. It is easy to find people who are guilty of the offense, but it is difficult to find someone who’ll admit they consider it a safe practice in a vehicle. However, as the bill stands, it won’t make an impact on creating safer roadways for travelers in West Virginia. There are too many holes in the legislation and questions that simply
aren’t answered. For one, the bill states that using a cell phone while driving would be a secondary offense, which means that a police officer cannot stop someone for the offense. They can only receive a citation after being pulled over for another reason. Supporters of the bill claim that most people observe and obey the law – which is true, to an extent. The new law will not hold this statement true for many citizens. Most people put laws
and consequences into their own perspective. For example, pretty much everyone knows jaywalking is illegal. But, those who are familiar with Morgantown know that many people in the city do not adhere to this law because few (if any) citizens receive citations for the offense. Similar logic applies to any new law dealing with cell phones and driving. If people know they will most likely not be cited for using their cell phone while driv-
ing, then how will they be deterred from the crime. Isn’t deterrence the major motivation behind a paternalistic law such as this? If the bill is going to make any difference for the safety of driving conditions in West Virginia, it must be written as a primary offense. Another issue regarding the bill is that many people use their cell phones for other activities that aren’t its focus, such as navigation and music. If they are to completely out-
law phone usage, then will navigation devices and car stereos be outlawed, as well? These are devices that do not hinder driving capabilities if used properly and should not be outlawed. Before the bill is discussed any further, these questions must be answered publicly. We applaud legislation that creates a safer atmosphere, but only ones that are thought out thoroughly and are effective.
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To win in 2012, Obama needs to sell his positions michael levy columnist
President Barack Obama released the first ad of his 2012 re-election campaign yesterday, setting broad themes for the campaign. The ad focuses on four big E’s: energy, environment, economy and ethics. Those four areas are central to our nation’s well-being, and if Obama can stake claim to success in those four domains, he’ll win the election. But, to win debates in those four areas, Obama needs to go beyond positioning himself at the center of public opinion. He needs to do what Republicans have been so successful at: He needs to drive public opinion. Energy and the Environment The president’s first ad of 2012 positions him as having reduced dependence on foreign oil and created millions of clean energy jobs. I applaud the president’s leadership in promoting renewable energy sources and encouraging energy efficiency, but he needs to go further – both in policy and in rhetoric. Energy efficiency standards (like the 54.5 miles per gallon cars will average by 2025) are great, and we need more. Likewise, investment in renewable energy is critical. But beyond securing extra funding for renewable energy research, Obama needs to convince voters of the threat posed by climate change and other environmental problems, and of the role technological leadership in clean energy will play in our future economic prosperity. Specifically, the ad comes just after the administration rejected a permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would have been a climate disaster.
But the administration failed to make that case, instead squabbling over its particular route and the GOP’s effort to rush approval of the permit. If the administration can’t frame the pipeline debate in terms of its disastrous environmental – and hence economic – consequences, the Republicans will frame it as liberal elitists killing jobs, and that will kill his campaign. The good news for Obama is that the public is already overwhelmingly on his side. Twothirds of Americans want a big effort made to reduce carbon emissions, even if it has serious or moderate economic effects. On many issues, public opinion lines up with Democratic positions. Taking action on climate change can win elections for Democrats, if they have the fortitude to stand by it. Economy The economy, of course, will be the central issue of the campaign. As we move into 2012, the economy is in bad shape, but it is better now than it was when Obama took office. The recession reached its depth during President George W. Bush’s final quarter in office. Since then, the trend has reversed; we’ve just had nine straight quarters of economic growth. Many talking heads forecasted the downfall of the Obama campaign based on the current 8.5 percent unemployment rate. They point to the fact that no president in the last 75 years has been reelected with unemployment above 7.2 percent. That may be misleading, though. In 1984, Reagan was reelected with unemployment at 7.2 percent, and he was elected by a huge margin, suggesting that his campaign could have withstood higher unemployment. More telling is Roosevelt’s reelection. Roosevelt took office
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President Obama released his first campaign advertisement yesterday in 1933, at the peak of the Great Depression, when unemployment was 19.8 percent. By 1936, unemployment had dropped to 16.6 percent – still staggeringly high, but the trend of recovery was enough to convince the voters to stick with the guy who had got things going in the right direction. Obama’s situation is similar. When the Great Recession officially ended in summer 2009, unemployment was approaching 10 percent. The most recent figure has it down to 8.5 percent after several years of consistent
– if slow – jobs growth. Ethics Ethics – specifically the influence of money on politics – is the cornerstone underlying all other political issues. As long as Wall Street firms and huge energy corporations can threaten politicians with unlimited advertisement buys targeting them if they push policies that are against the company’s interests, meaningful change is all but impossible. In 2008, Obama seemed inclined toward that sort of change. During his first presi-
dential campaign, he pledged to ban lobbyist gifts to executive employees and to close the revolving door between government employees and contractors. However, while upholding the ban on lobbyist gifts, he’s issued wavers to allow a number of former lobbyists to serve in his administration. He needs to go further. On ethics and corruption, more than any other issue, the president needs to use his bully pulpit to convince us of the importance of reform.
The first line of the first advertisement of the campaign describes “secretive oil billionaires attacking President Obama with ads fact checkers say are not tethered to the facts.” Tying Republicans to big money is a piece of cake. If President Obama can convince the public that he would push for meaningful reform of money’s influence on our elections it would win him a tremendous amount of support, and it would help heal our democracy.
GOP candidates are in denial over US foreign policy garrett hunter columnist
“Treat others as you would want them to treat you.” This simple instruction is known as the golden rule. It’s one of the first moral lessons we’re taught as children, and it’s easy to see why. It’s short, it’s clear, and it’s just good advice. No one in his right mind would argue against this moral maxim. That is, of course, unless you’re a South Carolina Republican. In Monday night’s GOP presidential primary debate, held in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Rep. Ron Paul suggested the United States apply the golden rule to its foreign policy: “If another country does to us what we do others, we’re not going to like it very much. So I would say that maybe we ought to consider a golden rule in foreign policy. Don’t do to other nations what we don’t want to have them do to us. We endlessly bomb these countries
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and then we wonder why they get upset with us?” The suggestion received a thorough round of boos from the audience. By contrast, Newt Gingrich’s straightforward plan for America’s enemies – to “kill them” – received thunderous applause. This event highlights a disturbing trend that has been developing within the Republican Party for at least the last thirty years. More and more, top Republicans tend to form their foreign policy positions in a vacuum. They willfully disregard the undesirable consequences of American actions abroad. Judging from comments like Gingrich’s, this has led to a “bomb first, ask questions later” mentality. Such blissful ignorance never makes for good government policy. Decision makers in D.C., have a moral obligation to objectively assess the full effects of their actions, including inconvenient realities. The warmongering rhetoric flowing from the Republican establishment shows they have completely shirked this responsibility.
The GOP’s folly is displayed most prominently in the poorly conceived War on Terror. Since 9/11, we Americans have been told over and over that radical Muslim jihadists hate us because of who we are and what we stand for – freedom, equality, prosperity ... you name it. The reality isn’t nearly that simple. In fact, evidence suggests that shortsighted U.S. policies were at least one of Osama bin Laden’s key motivators leading up to 9/11. In a 2002 “letter to America,” bin Laden plainly laid out his rationale: “Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple – because you attacked us and continue to attack us.” Furthermore, the 9/11 Commission Report found U.S. foreign policy to play a role in bin Laden’s appeal to Middle Easterners: “[bin Laden’s] rhetoric selectively draws from multiple sources – Islam, history and the region’s political and economic malaise. He also stresses grievances against the United States widely shared in the Muslim world. He inveighed against
the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam’s holiest sites. He spoke of the suffering of the Iraqi people as a result of sanctions imposed after the Gulf War, and he protested U.S. support of Israel.” Whatever extremist ideology may have driven bin Laden himself, it’s clear that much of his support was fueled by American intervention in the Middle East. To be clear, I’m in no way suggesting that America “deserved” the 9/11 attacks. They were evil atrocities committed against innocent citizens, and such attacks can never be justified under any circumstances. But, to ignore the international resentment the United States’ overseas interventions foster, especially in the Middle East, is to ignore reality. In our efforts to defend our perceived national interests, we have pursued a hodgepodge of shortsighted policies that have longterm consequences. This is especially true with Iran today. In 1953, the U.S. and the United Kingdom orchestrated the overthrow of
Iran’s democratically elected government and installed a U.S.-friendly authoritarian leader to replace it. Thirty years later, in the IranIraq war, the U.S. provided considerable military and economic aid to Saddam Hussein in his fight against Iran. Combine these policies with growing sanctions and threats against Iran, and is it any wonder anti-American sentiment can find a foothold in the Iranian government? Americans would do well to heed Ron Paul’s advice and apply the golden rule to our actions overseas. I doubt many U.S. citizens would cheer if the Chinese military began establishing bases throughout the United States, whatever their reasons. At the very least, we must recognize actions have consequences. War tends to foster resentment, even if that war is waged in the name of freedom. It astounds me that the same conservatives who constantly condemn the federal government’s incompetence at home suddenly place blind faith in that very government when it
threatens, sanctions or invades other countries. Contrary to what these conservatives claim, American security demands that our country scale back its international meddling and focus on actual defense. Once we do, we’ll surely find the world is a much less threatening place than we’d believed.
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The exhibit foJohn University Parish at 4:30 p.m. on cuses on the history mining lights, and displays a wide variety of mine lighting weekdays. THE CONDOM CLOSET is held in the implements. The Exhibit is open MonKanawha Room of the Mountainlair ev- days, Wednesdays and Fridays from ery Wednesday from 11 a.m. to noon. 1-4 p.m. and by appointment. For The closet sells condoms for 25 cents more information, call 304-293-4609 or email wattsmuseum@mail.wvu.edu. each or five for $1.00.
HOROSCOPES BY JACQUELINE BIGAR BORN TODAY This year you often switch from being gregarious and open to being closed off and in deep thought. As you live in this pendulum, others often question when to approach you. In a sense, they see you as a wild card. If you are questioning strange attitudes, know where they are coming from. If you are single, forming a bond in such a changeable period could be interesting. If you are attached, your significant other could be reticent at times, as he or she might try to judge what your mood is! Be patient with others. CAPRICORN might understand you too well! ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH Others depend on you being responsive and open to suggestions. You are, but you also can be stern with reason. Today, dealing with a key person demands that attitude. Creativity can only flow with understanding. Tonight: TGIF! Lead the gang out of work. TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHH Tension builds if you don’t detach. Use an ability to look at the big picture, and make decisions accordingly. Everything might not be as you would like, but it is doable. Ask yourself if negativity might be coming from boredom or fatigue. If so, you know what to do. Tonight: Try feeding your mind some candy. GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHH Try another situation or do something totally differently after a discussion. Find someone in the know who often gives insightful feedback. Trust in your ability to internalize.
You will know which way to head. Tonight: Wherever you are, music can be found. CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHHH Dance to a new tune with the help of an avant-garde associate. When you start to see situations, people and events differently, new pathways are exposed as well. What do you have to lose? Discussions can only be insightful. Tonight: Talk over dinner. LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHHH Focus more on the individual; you could see a problem emerge otherwise. Others want their voices heard, and each individual has his or her own tonality. Though you could feel restrained, go 125 percent on this level. The results will prove to be worthwhile. Tonight: Where the fun is. VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH Ideas pop up from out of nowhere. You particularly enjoy being this innovative. Deal with an unexpected development more openly. Sometimes you close down when interacting in odd and unanticipated situations. Trust in your abilities to understand and move forward. Tonight: Opt for an adventure. LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHH Tension builds because of a snap judgment that has become an attitude. You need not greet an unexpected jolt with negativity. Few like being tossed into a new playing field. Be positive, and you can emerge a better person as a result. Tonight: No more resistance, please. SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHHH No one understands the power of communication as well as you do. Why sit on the back burner? Walk in another person’s foot-
steps. You will understand how you need to speak to this person. Within a meeting, a discussion comes up where you need to take the lead. Tonight: Loving the moment. SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHHH What is occurring with your spending? Certainly a gift is a nice way of demonstrating your caring. Remember there are touching ways of expressing your caring without spending. A child or new friend makes a choice that stuns you. Tonight: Paint the town red. CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHHH As a natural leader, you take the podium of life. Someone clearly becomes unusually responsive. Be aware of the effort that is involved to clear out a domestic or personal issue. You, too, must greet an element of the expected. Tonight: Make change OK within the bigger picture. AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH You always have a lot on your plate. You enter a phase in which you express unusual vitality. Others sense this energy. Look at recent past issues. How have you been blocking yourself? Tonight: Do absolutely what you want. PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHHH Zero in on what you want. Others might not have the same mind-set to pursue your chosen course. Make it OK to follow through on your own. Surprised friends or associates might decide to join later. Your creativity surges. Tonight: Enjoying visiting with friends. BORN TODAY TV host Bill Maher (1956), guitarist Paul Stanley (1952), actor George Burns (1896)
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Murdoch to pay Jude Law, 36 others for hacking LONDON (AP) — Rupert Murdoch’s media empire apologized and agreed to cash payouts Thursday to 37 people - including a movie star, a soccer player, a top British politician and the son of a serial killer - who were harassed and phone-hacked by his tabloid press. The four Jude Law, Ashley Cole, John Prescott and Chris Shipman were among three dozen victims who received financial damages from Murdoch’s British newspaper company for illegal eavesdropping and other intrusions, including email snooping. Lawyers for the claimants said the settlements vindicated their accusation that senior Murdoch executives had long known about the scale of illegal phone hacking and had tried to cover it up. News International, the parent company of Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers, said it did not admit that senior staff knew of the wrongdoing and tried to cover it up but it said that “for the purpose of reaching these settlements only, News Group Newspapers agreed that the damages to be paid to claimants should be assessed as if this was the case.” Financial details of 15 of the payouts, totaling more than 640,000 pounds (about $1 million), were made public at a court hearing Thursday. The amounts generally ran into the tens of thousands of pounds although Law received 130,000 pounds (about $200,000), plus legal costs, to settle claims against the nowshuttered News of the World tabloid and its sister tabloid, The Sun. Law was one of 60 people who have sued News Group Newspapers, claiming their mobile phone voicemails were hacked. Others whose settlements were announced
Thursday at London’s High Court included former government ministers Chris Bryant and Tessa Jowell, rugby player Gavin Henson, Princess Diana’s former lover James Hewitt, singer Dannii Minogue and Sara Payne, the mother of a murdered girl. It was the largest group of settlements announced yet in the long-running hacking scandal, which has shaken Murdoch’s global empire, spurred the resignations of several of his top executives and reverberated through Britain’s political, police and media elite. Law, the star of “Sherlock Holmes” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” said he was “truly appalled” at the scale of surveillance and privacy invasion that his case had exposed. “No aspect of my private life was safe from intrusion by News Group Newspapers, including the lives of my children and the people who work for me,” he said in a statement. “It was not just that my phone messages were listened to. News Group also paid people to watch me and my house for days at a time and to follow me and those close to me, both in this country and abroad.” News Group Newspapers admitted that 16 articles about Law published in the News of the World between 2003 and 2006 had been obtained by phone hacking, and that the actor had also been placed under “repeated and sustained physical surveillance.” The company also admitted that articles in The Sun had misused Law’s private information although it didn’t go as far as to admit hacking by that paper. Law said Murdoch’s tabloids had been “prepared to do anything to sell their newspapers and to make money, irrespective of the impact it had on people’s lives.
“I changed my phones, I had my house swept for bugs but still the information kept being published,” Law said. “I started to become distrustful of people close to me.” The slew of settlements is one consequence of the revelations of phone-hacking and other illegal tactics at the News of the World, where journalists routinely intercepted voicemails of those in the public eye in a relentless search for scoops. Murdoch closed the 168-year-old paper in July amid a wave of public revulsion over its hacking of the voicemails of missing 13-yearold Milly Dowler, who was later found murdered. More than a dozen ex-Murdoch employees have been arrested by police investigating phone hacking and bribery. British politicians and police have also been ensnared in the scandal, which exposed the cozy relationship between senior officers, top lawmakers and Murdoch newspaper executives. A government-commissioned inquiry set up in the wake of the scandal is currently investigating the ethics of Britain’s media and its links to police and politicians. Law’s ex-wife and actress Sadie Frost received 50,000 pounds (about $77,000) in damages for phone hacking and deceit by the News of the World. Bryant received 30,000 pounds (about $46,000), while Prescott a prominent member of the Labour Party who was Britain’s former deputy prime minister accepted 40,000 pounds (about $62,000). After each statement, News Group lawyer Michael Silverleaf stood to express the news company’s “sincere apologies” for the damage and distress its illegal activity had caused. Many of the statements ended with victims saying they felt vindicated after years
Sundance Film fest opens with 4 films PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A fresh dusting of snow over Park City heralded the opening of the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday. For 11 days every January, Sundance becomes the focal point of the independent film world as established directors and stars mix with up-andcoming talent, while theatrical distributors prowl the festival looking for the next indie hit and film lovers just have a good time being the first audiences to see new movies. “You can’t make a film with a festival in mind, and it’s not something I would have expected or taken for granted. But it’s always kind of the dream in the back of your mind,” said Lauren Greenfield, who premiered her debut documentary “Thin” at Sundance in 2006 and returns this time with one of the opening-night films, “The Queen of Versailles,” chronicling the housing-bust story of a couple that tried to build a palatial 90,000-square-foot mansion. “I think it’s this really magical environment, a place that’s such a nurturing, supportive influence for independent films. Even when you’re out there making your film, I think that you think about Sundance, and it just
in which Murdoch’s company denied phone hacking had been widespread at the News of the World. The company had initially vowed to fight the claims in court. “Today’s court decision at long last brings clarity, apology and compensation for the years of hacking into my telephone messages by Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers,” Prescott told his local newspaper, the Hull Daily Mail. “It follows years of aggressive denials and a cavalier approach to private information and the law.” In a statement, the claimants’ lawyers said that “News Group has agreed to compensation being assessed on the basis that senior employees and directors ... knew about the wrongdoing and sought to conceal it by deliberately deceiving investigators and destroying evidence.” The claimants described feeling mistrust, fear and paranoia as phone messages went missing, journalists knew their movements in advance or private information appeared in the media. Frost said the paper’s activity had caused her and Law to suspect one another. Henson said he accused the family of his then-wife, singer Charlotte Church, of leaking stories to the press. Other claimants included Guy Pelly, a friend of Prince William who was awarded 40,000 pounds (about $62,000), and Tom Rowland, a journalist who wrote for one of Murdoch’s own newspapers, the Sunday Times. He received 25,000 pounds ($39,000) after News Group admitted hacking his phone. In a handful of cases the company admitted hacking into emails, as well as telephone voice mails. Christopher Shipman, whose father, Dr. Harold Shipman,
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Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper company agreed Thursday to pay damages to 36 high-profile victims of tabloid phone hacking, including actor Jude Law. was a notorious serial killer thought to have murdered more than 200 of his patients, had emails containing sensitive legal and medical information intercepted by the News of the Word. He was awarded “substantial” undisclosed damages. The settlements announced Thursday amount to more than half of the phone-hacking lawsuits facing Murdoch’s company, but the number of victims is estimated to be in the hundreds. Mark Lewis, a lawyer for many victims, said in an email that the fight against Murdoch’s media empire wasn’t over. “Fewer than 1 percent of
the people who were hacked have settled their cases,” he said. “There are many more cases in the pipeline. ... This is too early to celebrate, we’re not even at the end of the beginning.” Many victims had earlier settled with the company, including actress Sienna Miller whose on-again, off-again romance with Law generated widespread press interest and the parents of murdered teenager Dowler, who were awarded 2 million pounds (about $3.1 million) in compensation. Ten further cases are due to go to court next month, though lawyers said more settlements are likely.
Trial set for man accused of killing Hudson family
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In this film image released by Sundance Film Festival, Melanie Lynskey is shown in a scene from “Hello I Must Be Going,” opened Thursday. kind of gives you motivation.” Also opening Thursday is “Hello I Must Be Going,” actor-turned-director Todd Louiso’s U.S. dramatic entry which centers on a love story between a 19-year-old man and a 35-year-old divorcee that stars Melanie Lynskey.; the world-cinema drama “Wish You Were Here,” a dark story of a vacation gone wrong from Australian filmmaker Kieran Darcy-Smith that stars Joel Edgerton and Teresa Palmer; and Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul’s world-cinema documentary “Searching for Sugar Man,” a portrait of promising 1970s singer-songwriter Rodriguez and his fade into obscurity. Sundance also is a launch
place for films that already have distributors, who show off their films hoping to build buzz among audiences and the legions of cinema journalists and bloggers who attend the festival. “All the film press in North America is at Sundance to discover films,” said Michael Barker, co-president of Sony Pictures Classics, which is showing director Nadine Labaki’s Lebanese drama “Where Do We Go Now?” and Gareth Huw Evans’ Indonesian action tale “The Raid” at the festival. “Sundance is like the best place to set up a film for release. You have instant press junkets at Sundance.” The Sundance Film Festival continues through Jan. 29.
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A trial has been set against William Balfour, the man accused of killing the mother and two other family members of American Idol Winner Jennifer Hudson. CHICAGO (AP) — A judge on Thursday ordered a man charged in the 2008 Chicago slayings of Jennifer Hudson’s mother and two other family members to stand trial in April, despite the objections of his attorney, who said she was not ready. After listening to William Balfour’s attorney say she’s still building her case, a clearly exasperated Cook County Judge William Charles Burns said it didn’t appear she was making any progress and set a date. Burns, who suggested he wanted to start the trial next month, instead ordered jury selection to start April 9 and testimony to begin April 23. He said he expected the trial to last about three or four weeks.
Amy Thompson, a deputy public defender, said despite working 12 to 14 hours a day on the case, she could not answer that she was ready for trial, as prosecutors had done. “We’re not prepared for trial at this time,” she said. Balfour, 30, is the estranged husband of Hudson’s sister, Julia Hudson. He is charged with first-degree murder in the October 2008 slayings of the Hudson sisters’ mother, Darnell Donerson, their brother, Jason Hudson, and Julia Hudson’s 7-year-old son, Julian King. Prosecutors allege that Balfour, using a gun he stole from Jason Hudson, shot the three in a jealous rage because he was angry that Julia Hudson had been dating another man.
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He is accused of shooting Donerson and Jason Hudson in their South Side home, and then grabbing the boy and shooting him inside Jason Hudson’s SUV. The boy’s body was found three days later in the vehicle on the city’s West Side. In 2008, Balfour’s attorney at the time said that there was no fingerprint, blood or other forensic evidence linking Balfour to the slayings. But prosecutors have said there is evidence linking Balfour to the slayings of the Oscar winner’s family members, including gunshot residue on the steering wheel of his car. They also have said detectives have disproven some statements Balfour made to them. Thompson left quickly after Thursday’s hearing and did not immediately return a call seeking comment. At Thursday’s hearing, Assistant State’s Attorney James McKay objected to a defense motion to turn over Jennifer Hudson’s home address and telephone numbers to Balfour’s attorneys out of concern for her privacy. He did agree to make Hudson available to defense attorneys to be interviewed.
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It’s all about the accessories
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“Today I’m wearing boots from ALDO, an Urban Outfitters jacket, a blue jean Levi’s button-up from H&M and this scarf, which I got in the men’s section at Forever 21. I’d describe my style as sort of grungy and girly, kind of a MaryKate Olsen vibe. The Olsens are my fashion icons.”
“I describe my style as classic and clean-cut. I get good deals on stuff that looks like it might be expensive but I never buy anything expensive, I shop cheap. I picked up this belt and my bag from J.C. Penney. My style icon is Princess Diana, but I also pay attention to Emma Watson a lot.”
“I got this jacket when visiting in New York. The shoes are from a brand called Supra, which I got online from their website. Right now I’m dressing pretty formal but casual at the same time by wearing the sneakers. I take my time and enjoy picking out my outfits. Today, I felt like going pretty formal, I’m actually wearing a tie underneath my jacket.”
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Being a budget-savvy fashionista takes time, planning, patience Christina GuTIERREZ
A&E WRITER
Do you ever look at trendsetters like the Kardashians and Paris Hilton and wish that you had their clothes— and, maybe more importantly, their fortunes? Well, so does everyone else. It seems that the only way to accomplish high fashion is to pay extremely high prices. For young adults who work to pay their rent or school, being
runway-ready seems nearly impossible. Fortunately, it’s just not true. There is a way to create the illusion of spending a lot of money on your clothes without having to do so. The first step is to keep your eye out for sales. This may seem obvious, but it’s easier said than done. Any amateur can spot a sale at their local mall, but those who are really committed are willing to go the extra mile. Literally. In a place like Morgantown, there are little opportunities for high-fashion finds, especially at
affordable prices. One way to get around this is to travel a little. Make a trip to your nearest big city and treat yourself. However, the money you’ll be spending on gas may counteract the great sales you’ll potentially encounter. For this reason, online shopping is great. Most places have free shipping on orders more than $50 or $100. Shop around, and compare which stores have the best stuff for the best prices. You may be skeptical about this and don’t want to travel so far for the uncertain chance that you may get lucky. Because, let’s
face it, we always find the best stuff when we’re not looking and vice versa. So, if you want to stay local, there is a trick to maintaining your fashion without emptying your bank account. Try unlikely places – like unpopular or overstocked department stores. Goodwill is another great place to find unique pieces for an extremely low price. These places are often overlooked by shoppers, especially younger ones concerned with labels. You’d be surprised with what you’ll find. They are
chock-full of designer labels and trendy looks. Many people are hesitant to shop in charity stores like Goodwill or Christian Help because of the thought that someone else has worn them. But these are the places that merchandisers are going to find the rare, “vintage” items that they charge hundreds, and even thousands, of dollars for. Knowing which items are steals and which are marked down for lack of interest is a skill that is essential to great bargain hunting. Now, you’re wondering how
it’ll work if they don’t have your size, but truthfully sizes aren’t that rigid. In most items besides shoes and jeans, going up or down a size won’t make a huge difference. It may not look exactly like it did on the mannequin, but part of being a fashion trendsetter is to take what’s popular and make it your own. Any real fashionista knows that spending less to look great is way more brag-worthy than spending a celebrity’s fortune to achieve a similar effect. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu
Foer novel ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’ brings relatable feelings to tragedies Madeline Carey
A&E Writer
Since the early days of Hollywood, directors have been adapting books to fit the big screen. Timeless classics such as “Dracula,” “Frankenstein,” “Harry Potter,” and – I hate to say it – “Twilight” have hit it big
time among moviegoers. The latest book to step into this realm is Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.” The book is centered on a 9-year-old boy, Oskar, who loses his father during the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Oskar, a boy way beyond his years, gives voice to the victim we don’t normally expect when we think of the events of that
day. When Oskar comes across a key in his father’s closet, he sets out on a journey to find what exactly the key might open. As he scours New York City, making friends with a 103 year-old man, he comes across people who – like him – fight off grief every day. In the end, he finds those who are closest to him are those who grieve the most.
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The story is about what it’s like to be a human in a world full of both happiness and grief, shine’s light on the perspective of the boy trying to find his place in the world. It also puts emphasis on the power of words and each person telling his or her individual story. Throughout the book, the lives of so many people are described through the writings of
those around Oskar. Whether it be through letters or memoirs, stories of both joy and sorrow are told and the timeless struggle of living with both. Oskar, in the end, finds out that his own grandmother has had to live with the loss of her own family since the 1945 bombing of Dresden, Germany. “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” brings a personal aspect to tragedies that
everyone can relate to. The movie, starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock as Oskar’s parents and newcomer Thomas Horn as Oskar, comes out in theaters today. The film, which seems to have caught the attention of Alist actors, is sure to be one that will keep the audience enraptured and leave them in tears. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu
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Inside one of Morgantown’s favorite independent eateries CASSIA KING
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This February marks the nine-year anniversary of Black Bear Burritos, a Morgantown restaurant specializing in “burritos of all ethnic cuisines.” On a cold winter day, Black Bear offers a relaxed environment filled with warm fresh food or some all-natural coffee from Washington, Pa. However, in the evening the quaint restaurant welcomes the nightlife with a full bar and live local music on weekends. Upon entering the cozy restaurant, customers can grab a menu at the door and seat themselves at one of the many wooden tables or booths. After placing an order, guests are given a “table marker,” which at Black Bear means a Fisher Price toy, to set on their table while they await their meal. Ayla Nett, general manager and employee of three years, said the restaurant’s specialties are burritos and homemade salsa. Their mild salsa has a unique fresh taste, with a slight kick that isn’t too spicy for most guests, but more adventurous customers will be satisfied by the strong kick of Black Bear’s spicy variety. “I ordered spicy salsa, and I’m very pleased. It’s spicy, but it still has that fresh taste,” said Caitlin Lokant, freshman biology student. Nett introduced the kiwi salsa and seasonal apple salsa as “sweet and good on anything.” The apple is a chunky
salsa, and has a mild flavor with hints of cilantro sprinkled throughout, whereas the kiwi is smooth, sweet and tangy. Black Bear’s most popular appetizer is freshly fried chips served with roasted red pepper queso, Nett said. The cheese dip is warm, smooth and full of flavor. For the main entree, Black Bear offers a variety of options including burritos, quesadillas, salads and lettuce wraps. “Our most popular entree is probably the Bear Trap burrito,” Nett said. “People really love our special sweet-honey mayonnaise, and the honey is from the local ThistleDew Farm in Proctor (W.Va.).” The Bear Trap is filled with fresh crisp lettuce, roma tomatoes, swiss cheese, sweethoney mayonnaise and the customer’s choice of smoked turkey and crispy bacon or tofu and Fakin’ all wrapped in a honey wheat tortilla. Another popular choice is the Irie Member, said Nett. This burrito has a Jamaican twist and comes supplied with a jerk sauce, pineapple and jicama. Nett said the owners of the restaurant, Matthew Showalter and Jason Coffman, had pride in the freshness of the ingredients. Black Bear always obtains whatever ingredients they can from areas in West Virginia and nearby areas. They also recycle everything they possibly can and use eco-friendly materials whenever possible, she said. The restaurant not only maintains an attitude of giving back to the community by buying local and recycling, but also by supporting local
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The tasty chicken quesadilla from Black Bear. artists and musicians. The restaurant is decorated with visual art from locals, where they promote and try to sell their work. “I have had the best work
experience here,” Nett said. “Matt and Jason are the most kind and caring people, and because we have a small group it’s like being a part of a family; we have pride in what
we want to do for the community and the environment.” Black Bear is located at 132 Pleasant Street and opens Monday through Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. They
The vegetarian version of the Bear Trap Burrrito, one of Black Bear's most popular choices.
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Passion led to West Virginia win For years, the stigma surrounding the Capital Classic has been that it matters a lot more to one team than it does to the other. On more than one occasion, the game has been touted as “Marshall’s Super Bowl,” while when WVU loses or struggles against the Herd, it’s because it overlooked them or didn’t come out with the same amount of energy. That certainly wasn’t the case Wednesday night. After losing to Marshall in a disappointing fashion last season, the Mountaineers entered the Capital Classic with a chip on their shoulders and the mentality of an underdog. I’m not sure how long you’ve been following West Virginia athletics, but when a Mountaineer team comes into a game with those two things in mind, it’s usually pretty hard for an opposing team to come away with a win. And that proved to be right once again Wednesday when an inspired West Virginia came away with an emphatic 78-62 win over Marshall in Charleston. “We definitely wanted to come out with that passion and fire, which I don’t think we did last year,” said West Virginia senior forward Kevin Jones. “We kind of took them for granted and took this game for granted (last year). We definitely didn’t do that this year.” Like it usually is, the game went back and forth throughout the first half. Both teams would be quick to go on runs and the other would answer just as quickly. In the past – especially in last year’s matchup – when the pace got like the way it was in the first half, it wouldn’t play into the Mountaineers’ favor. At the beginning of this season, things could have gotten out of hand, as well. But that’s where the maturity of this team is beginning to show more and more. The more adversity thrown at the team, the more they’re able to continue getting better at handling it. And where did such a big improvement come from? What is it about this team that lets them step up and succeed in such big situations? Well, head coach Bob Huggins thinks it reflects pretty highly on his two seniors and the way they have been able to help bring along this young WVU team this season. “(The freshmen) look at (senior guard Truck Bryant) and K.J. because they’ve been through it so many times,” Huggins said. “Our young guys rely on them a lot.” When West Virginia was able to get the game going at its pace in the second half, things started turning around. Jones and Bryant had a lot to do with that. The experienced duo scored a combined 32 points in the second half, matching Marshall’s team total in the last 20 minutes. “It was just a total team effort,” Jones said of WVU’s second-half performance. “We were able to get it done. We knew what happened last year with the big lead they had, and we just didn’t want that same feeling.” Honestly though, it wasn’t surprising to see Jones and Bryant take over when the Mountaineers needed them to. That’s something they’ve been doing all season anyway. What was really impressive was the emotion with which the team played. West Virginia looked like this was its most important game of the year. I’m not saying it was, but it just looked like they were playing harder than Marshall – which didn’t happen last year. That was just what they wanted to do after such a disappointing loss a year ago. While it doesn’t take away the fact that they lost, Wednesday’s win definitely helped.
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Battle with the Bearcats
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Senior guard Truck Bryant dribbles the ball against Rutgers Saturday. Bryant has averaged 18.1 points per game this season.
West Virginia to fight for second place in Big East play as it takes on Cincinnati By John Terry managing editor
West Virginia will be battling for second place in the Big East Conference when it welcomes Cincinnati to the Coliseum Saturday afternoon. The Bearcats (15-4, 5-1 Big East) have won three straight games including wins against ranked Georgetown and Connecticut teams. A win by either team would
put them trailing behind No. 1 Syracuse for the conference lead. “It means a lot – we’re trying to win our league,” said senior guard Truck Bryant. “We have to get back to the drawing board and get ready for Cincinnati.” West Virginia 14-5, 4-2 Big East) is fresh off of a 78-62 win over in-state rival Marshall, which took place Wednesday night in the Capital Classic. The Mountaineers have
won four out of five games, with its only loss coming to Connecticut Jan. 9. The Bearcats have been hot since their brawl resulting in numerous suspensions against then-No. 8 Xavier back on Dec. 10 going 10-1. “They’ve gone on a pretty good roll since the suspensions,” said West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins. Sophomore guard Sean Kilpatrick leads Cincinnati with 16.2 points per game
along with 4.7 rebounds. Bearcats senior Yancy Gates, who missed six games because of a suspension following the Xavier game, leads the team with 9.8 rebounds and is averaging 12.4 points. Fellow senior Dion Dixon has stepped up in his senior year scoring 13.9 points. West Virginia will have to rely a lot on senior Kevin Jones. Jones is leading not just the Mountaineers, but the entire Big East with 20.4
points and 11.4 rebounds. The senior scored 25 points against Marshall. “I didn’t do it alone,” Jones said. “It’s just a total-team effort.” That same total-team effort might be needed against Cincinnati on Saturday, too, as West Virginia will most likely be without starting center Deniz Kilicli. Kilicli was injured in
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Carey, WVU prepare for intense Backyard Brawl by Nick arthur sports writer
A rivalry game is full of passion, energy and pride. The teams involved exert maximum effort and are left physically, emotionally and mentally strained. Just four days after playing its in-state rival Marshall, the West Virginia women’s basketball team will travel to the Peterson Even Center Saturday at 2 p.m. to take on its other rival, Pittsburgh, in the Backyard Brawl. Following the Mountaineers 69-57 victory over Marshall Tuesday night, West Virginia sophomore guard Christal Caldwell had four choice words to describe her feelings headed into Pittsburgh. “Right back at it,” she said. The Panthers may be 0-6 in Big East Conference play this season, but have played three straight ranked opponents – The most recent being a 12044 loss to the Notre Dame. West Virginia head coach Mike Carey isn’t overlooking the panthers. “We’ve got a lot of work to do. We’ve got Pitt Saturday. That’s my concern,” he said. The Mountaineers lead the all-time series against their rivals to the north with 24-19 – and have won three of the last four meetings. West Virginia enters the game with a 13-5 overall record and are 3-2 in conference play. This is the type of game the Mountaineers must win if they hope to separate themselves from the bottom of the Big East Conference standings.
It will be Caldwell’s first Backyard Brawl, but she knows exactly what needs to improve before Saturday. “Playing together as a team and getting our offense going (need to get better),” Caldwell said. “We still had a lot of turnovers that we shouldn’t have had (against Marshall). The Mountaineers had 20 turnovers Tuesday night. “We need to follow our scout and just be prepared to play,” Caldwell said. “It’s going to be tough on Saturday.” The redshirt sophomore is averaging 10.1 points and 7.6 rebounds per game so far, in her first season with the Mountaineers. The turnovers in the Marshall game were related to the physical play. One can only expect a similar physical game Saturday. “The emotions and intensity that we had (against Marshall), we definitely need to bring into Saturday,” said West Virginia sophomore guard Taylor Palmer. Pa l m e r, a l o ng w i t h Caldwell, have been streaky shooting the ball, but have helped the scoring when other players are struggling. Five of the Mountaineers’ next eight games will be against ranked opponents. It is critical for Palmer and her teammates to take advantage of a struggling Pittsburgh team. “It’s a big rivalry,” Palmer said. “We’re just going to focus in practice, go over their sets and just come out Saturday and try to be the better team.” nicholas.arthur@mail.wvu.edu
Redshirt sophomore guard Christal Caldwell takes a shot against Seton Hall Jan. 10.
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Mountaineers starting to believe in themselves by robert kreis sports writer
Thanks in part to head coach Tina Samara and her coaching staff, the West Virginia women’s tennis team will have a different mentality from the one it had in the spring, when it travels to Ohio State Saturday than they did in the spring season. “(The coaching staff ) believes that they can compete at the same level, it’s just a question of whether everyone out on the court believes that,” Samara said. “I think (the team is) certainly in a better place now as far as where their confidence is, and how well they think they can compete against the ranked teams that we will be facing.” Ohio State enters the match ranked No. 55, and just coming off a defeat to No. 42 South Florida. Samara believes it may only take one win for the Mountaineers before the mo-
mentum starts rolling. “I think it is going to take getting that one win that maybe they were not sure they could get,” she said. “I really feel like if we can do that, things will start happening.” In Samara’s second season as head coach, she is instilling a newer and more confident mentality in the program, and that confidence starts during preparation. “I feel like the easiest way and most real way to (gain confidence) is if you know everyday you’ve worked as hard as you can. And when you walked on the court against your opponent, you know you have worked harder than they have,” Samara said. “You start expecting to win, instead of hoping to win.” Samara has been instilling that mentality in both old and new Mountaineers. The oldest and most experienced Mountaineers are senior Veronica Cardenas and
junior Emily Mathis. The duo produced 35 combined wins for West Virginia in the fall season, but it is the experience the two have gained over the years that really excites Samara, even if it may not be at the level Samara has them now competing. “I don’t care if it is any easy match or hard match, anytime you have a lot of matches under your belt, it logically should help you compete,” Samara said. “I think the key for them is to embrace the challenge, and look at it as an opportunity and not something to be afraid of.” Another member who gained valuable experience in the fall is sophomore Mary Chupa, who will join Mathis on the doubles court. The only other upperclassman on the roster is senior Catie Wickline, a former walk-on. The Mountaineers also feature an international player on the squad. Ikttesh Chahal
is a freshman from Chandigarh, India who competed in the fall. “Ikttesh has a much more international experience than the rest of the team,” she said. “What (international players) bring more than anything is different cultures, and I think it is nice for the American kids to also get to know what experiences someone from the other side of the world has.” The final Mountaineer who will get a taste of her first action against the Buckeyes is freshman Madison Hromada. Samara wants to see Hromada ease into college tennis, and take what she can get. “(Hromada) has to really just control the things she can control, and work her way into college tennis,” Samara said. “She is very capable; she has a big game, but is definitely still learning when how to use it.” robert.kreis@mail.wvu.edu
Manning returns to practice, ready for 49ers EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Tough luck, Frisco fans. Eli Manning’s tummy is just fine. The New York Giants quarterback was back at practice Thursday after missing part of the previous day’s workout with “a stomach bug.” “I’m 100 percent,” Manning said after practicing for Sunday’s NFC title game against the 49ers in San Francisco. “I had a full practice today, did everything, took every rep. I feel good.” Manning felt sick after waking up Wednesday. He “toughed it out” and attended team meetings and took part in the walkthrough portions of practice before letting backup David Carr handle the live snaps. “It wasn’t going well so I tried to be smart,” said Manning, who received intravenous fluids after leaving practice Wednesday. “It was fortunate it happened on a Wednesday and not later in the week.” Manning texted coach Tom Coughlin late Wednesday evening and told him he was feeling better. “When he got to work today, he had a nice breakfast and seemed to do fine,” Coughlin said. “He is not quite himself, but almost.” There was almost no chance Manning would miss the game because of a stomach virus. After all, his streak of 128 straight starts, including playoffs, is tops in the NFL. A shoulder injury in 2007 didn’t sideline him and a foot injury two years later couldn’t keep him off the field. Manning took over as the active leader in consecutive quarterback starts at the beginning of the season when his brother, Peyton, was sidelined after neck surgery. Manning downplayed his illness and the fuss it created. It
marked the first time this season that he was listed on the team’s injury report. “I didn’t watch too much TV so I didn’t see the attention it was getting,” he said. “You know, when you get into big games like this any little thing that pops up people make a big deal about. We can put it behind us now and focus on the game.” Kevin Gilbride said that Manning took great offense when the offensive coordinator told him he looked pale before practice Thursday. Manning shot back that’s the way he always looks in the winter. “We did everything with him,” Gilbride said. “Maybe we slowed down a couple of the drills between our work sessions, where the defense is up and we normally do a lot of drills. We did a couple, not quite as many. For the most part. He participated in everything and did everything we normally do.” For much of the season, Manning has carried the Giants. He threw for a career-best 4,933 yards. His 29 touchdown passes and 92.9 percent quarterback rating were the second highest in his eight NFL seasons. Six of the Giants’ nine wins in the regular season came in games in which he engineered fourth-quarter drives. Tackle David Diehl said there has been a little bug going around. “We’re just glad he’s back out here, and ready to go,” Diehl said. “We’re not surprised. We’re sure he was sitting there breaking down film while resting and getting ready for today. We know that he is going to do everything he can to be prepared for this one.” Manning took every snap for the Giants this season. He also has taken most of the snaps in prac-
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New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning warms up in practice Wednesday Jan. 18. tice, while Carr directs the scout team during the defensive portions of practice. Carr said that Manning’s absence was not a big deal since he knows the offense as well as anyone on the team.
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Continued from page 9 practice Monday and was sitting on the bench in sweats against Marshall. Huggins said he didn’t know if Kilicli would be available against the Bearcats, but it sounded doubtful. If the Turkey native can’t go, redshirt freshman Kevin Noreen will be called upon to fill his spot. Redshirt freshman Kevin Noreen started the first game of his West Virginia career against Marshall and responded well. He had six points and five rebounds in 29 minutes – the most minutes he’s played since coming to college. “He gives us some things Deniz (Kilicli) doesn’t give us,” Huggins said. “Kevin passes the ball and keeps the ball moving for us.” Tip-off for Saturday’s game is scheduled for 3 p.m. john.terry@mail.wvu.edu
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Continued from page 9 “There were a lot of emotions bottled up inside that we had from last year that just kind of never went away,” Jones said. “I think they’re going away a little bit now.” james.carvelli@mail.wvu.edu
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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
12 | SPORTS
Friday January 20, 2012
rifle
No.3 West Virginia to stand tall against No. 5 Alaska-Fairbanks by alex sims sports writer
The No. 3 West Virginia rifle team has breezed through its schedule so far this season and currently sits at 7-0 with only five matches remaining before the postseason. A series of tests still stands between the young Mountaineers and their shot at earning national title No. 15. Friday, the second-winningest program in collegiate rifle, No. 5 Alaska-Fairbanks, will head to Morgantown, looking to be the first team to knock
off West Virginia. “There are a number of teams that we may shoot against and be a 100-point favorite,” said West Virginia head coach Jon Hammond. “There are only a few matches where we will really have a good match, and Alaska is definitely one of them.” The Nanooks (5-3) have won a total of 10 national titles, second to only WVU, and took on No. 15 Navy Thursday in Annapolis, Md., in the first leg of their road trip. Either WVU or UAF has finished first or second in 31
NCAA rifle championships, which is all except for one in 2005 when Army edged Jacksonville State by one point to win the title. The dominant duo has finished as the top two teams in the nation on five separate occasions. The Mountaineers will have to deal with their old rival without the services of the nation’s best shooter. Junior Petra Zublasing, who holds the top individual score in the NCAA in both air rifle and smallbore, will miss Friday’s match to rest a nagging
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knee injury and to deal with some personal issues at home. Hammond will use the absence of his outstanding Italian shooter to see how his team will fare against tough competition without the assistance of one of the most prolific shooters in the world. “She’s such a strong shooter, it gives them almost a safety net,” Hammond said. “When you take that away the other five and the team have to step up and be responsible, so it’s going to be a great challenge for them to see how they respond. “The rest of the team is going
to have to put in a really good performance for us to pull out the win, but that’s exactly the type of experience that’s going stand them in really good stead down the line for the remainder of the season.” After its first test of the weekend, WVU will travel to Columbus, Ohio, the site of this year’s NCAA championships, to take on No. 12 Ohio State (3-1). Zublasing will make a return Sunday against the Buckeyes to take advantage of the opportunity to gain experience at the range where the Mountaineers will compete for title
No. 15. Only senior shooters Justin Pentz and Mike Kulbacki have shot at Ohio State, so the experience will be crucial for the rest of the athletes, with the postseason now less than a month away. “That’s too much valuable experience to miss,” Hammond said. “Seeing the venue and seeing the range, so when you go back for championships you have that familiarity, and you have been there and seen it.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu
wrestling
WVU to take on Bowling Green Turnbull to face alma mater
Clarion this weekend
Members of the WVU gymnastics team huddle up during a match last season.
by sebouh majarian sports writer
Since the start of the preseason, the West Virginia gymnastics coaching staff has been pushing for the team to fight adversity and come together. This weekend will be the team’s first test to prove how far they’ve come as they take to the road for the first time. The No. 21 Mountaineers (2-1, 2-0 EAGL) might not be competing against the toughest of opponents in Bowling Green (1-3, 0-1 MAC), but for a team constructed of mostly underclassmen, the trip to Ohio could be troublesome. With his team second in the Eastern Atlantic Gymnastics League, first-year coach Jason Butts is highly anticipating the team’s first real venture outside of Morgantown since the team traveled to Pittsburgh for the GoldBlue Meet. “It’s more a sense of excitement to get this team on the road, and none of us have ever seen Bowling Green. So, we get to go see somewhere different, and it gives us the opportunity to really focus on bringing ourselves into a group,” Butts said. Becoming nationally ranked this week has given the team some added swag heading into the meet. WVU is also ranked in the top 20 on floor (No. 9), vault (No. 16) and beam (No. 18). “We’re hitting our routines and fighting through, and that’s been our focus all pre-
season,” Butts said. “I think that the reason they’re ranked so high is because they’ve really bought into that theory, and 21 is where we are, but I’d like to see us go higher.” Freshmen Dayah Haley, Beth Deal and Lia Salzano have made great contributions along with sophomore Bethany Yurko. The caveat is that those four gymnasts lack experience on the college level with this being their first year of competitive action. “We’re there,” Butts said. “We’re definitely showing everybody this is where we deserve to be, and, in fact, we deserve to be in that top 18.” The Falcons are coming off of a season high 191.95 mark in a losing effort against Central Michigan while the Mountaineers took three of the four events in a 193.425191.65 win over Rutgers. The Mountaineers beat the Falcons in their last meeting two years ago 193.05-191.95 and hold a slight 7-5 advantage in the all-time series. “Like us they are a young team with a lot to prove, and sometimes those are the most dangerous teams – the young ones,” Butts said. The uneven bars are the only event the Mountaineers aren’t ranked in the top 20, as they come in at No. 37. Butts stuck with the same lineup last weekend as he did in the opener against Maryland and No. 9 Penn State. “On bars we’ll be finding whatever cohesive group can get out and get us a little more consistent on that
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event,” Butts said. Sophomore Hope Sloanhoffer ranks the highest individually for the Mountaineers on the national level. The Cornwall, N.Y., native is 20th on vault (9.875), 25th in the all-around (39.063) and 39th on floor (9.825) to lead WVU. Senior all-arounder Tina Maloney also received national attention as she is tied with Sloanhoffer for 39th on floor while also ranking 47th in the all-around with a mark of 38.713. West Virginia also made some noise within the Southeast Region placing ahead of powerhouses such as No. 6 Georgia and No. 8 Florida on the floor by taking the top spot with a score of 48.975. Of the nine teams in the region the Mountaineers placed third on vault and beam while coming in sixth on the uneven bars. Though they are off to a strong start, Butts doesn’t want his team to settle or to be satisfied yet. “Twenty-first is great considering we started the year ranked 36th, not anywhere close to the top 25 and to be able to jump that much and start off in that position is very exciting,” Butts said. West Virginia must make the most of the travel and discomfort of playing outside the Coliseum as they travel to Ann Harbor, Mich., to face No. 11 Michigan after next weekend’s meet with George Washington and Towson. sebouh.majarian@mail.wvu.edu
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Head coach Craig Turnbull is happy with his team’s momentum heading into this weekend’s matchup.
by amit batra sports writer
The West Virginia wrestling team will be back in action this weekend against Clarion and Bloomsburg at the Coliseum. The Mountaineers face the No. 10 Bloomsburg Huskies on Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m. and return the following day to take on the Clarion Golden Eagles. Most recently, the Bloomsburg Huskies posted its biggest shutout victory in over 20 years. They defeated Millersville 54-0 last Wednesday night at the Nelson Field House. It was their biggest shutout since the 1984-85 season against Delaware State.
A key wrestler for Bloomsburg will be Frank Hickman, who is sixth in his weight class. He has 21 wins on the season. Bloomsburg won 10 straight matches after the win against Millersville and was 12-3 on the season at that point. However, the Huskies saw their winning streak come to an end in a 30-3 loss against the Pittsburgh Panthers. The Huskies had only one win at 285 pounds. Bloomsburg fell to 12-4 on the season. Clarion, on the other hand, started 0-3 on the season with three losses to top 25 teams. The Golden Eagles, coached by first year man Matt Dernlan,
have lost on the road to No. 8 Lehigh to start the season by a score of 27-12. Clarion has also fell to No. 7 Illinois 34-13 and finally to No. 23 Edinboro 37-12. The Golden Eagles were finally able to earn a win against Indiana Tech with a dominating performance of 46-3, and then fell to Eastern Michigan last weekend. Clarion’s James Fleming, ranked sixth in the nation at 157 pounds, dominated Aaron Sulzer of Eastern Michigan with a 11-2 decision, improving to 16-2. The Golden Eagles also earned a solid performance by their 165-pound wrestler Bekzod Abdurakhmonov 12-2. He is ranked eighth in the nation at 165. This weekend will be the third and fourth bout for Nathan Pennesi at 133 pounds. Pennesi is still adjusting to his new weight class after his change from 141 to 133. “The new weight class was a struggle at first, but after each week, it is getting easier,” Pennesi said. “The start boosted our team big.” Bloomsburg and Clarion will possess a similar challenge to the Spartans. “We’re not taking them lightly,” Pennesi said. “We are going to attack them as every other opponent.” Coach Craig Turnbull, a graduate of Clarion, feels that the win against Michigan State could bring some confidence in his squad for this weekend. “It was a good team win for us, Turnbull said. “The momentum started early.” Turnbull acknowledged the loss that Bloomsburg faced against Pitt could bring the Huskies best performance to Morgantown. “They’re well-coached, and they’re going to battle really hard,” Turnbull said. “After taking a tough loss like that, they’ve probably been challenged in a week of practice. I think we’ll probably get their best shot.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu