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Davis College debuts greenhouse

By Carlee Lammers City Editor

After years of planning and development, West Virginia University’s Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design dedicated its newly reconstructed green house Thursday. “This is a great day for WVU and the Davis College,� said dean of the Da-

vis College Daniel Robison. “This is a result of a lot of work by many, many people.�

The green house project marks the first completed project in the Evansdale redevelopment plan.

For the last few years, the Davis College has planned for an overhaul of its more than 50-year-old green house facilities to better accommodate the learning

Student political clubs ‘busier than ever’

By Evelyn Merithew correspondent

The 2012 presidential election is around the corner, and the West Virginia University College Republican and Democrat clubs are busier than ever.

Each organization is unique in its own way, with both their ideals and their goals. The WVU Chapter of Young Democrats is part of a national organization, and is the largest chapter in the state. “Our meetings are largely a way to relay information to our members and to offer volunteer opportunities,� said club president Tyler George. “We set aside a portion of our meetings to talk politics and allow people to speak freely.�

George, a senior from Elkins, W.Va., has been involved in the WVU Democrat organization since his freshman year.

The organization – with approximately 40 members – was larger than George anticipated and had to move its meetings to a bigger room to accommodate everyone’s needs.

George said his organi-

needs of its students. “The new green house facilities will enable us and is vital to the work that we do,�

Robison said. “I guarantee if you put the students in the new facilities they will be able to do more work than in the old ones.�

Robison said the green house is a prime example of the prominence of agriculture in today’s society. “When you go home and

eat dinner tonight – it’s about agriculture,� he said. “It takes lots and lots of work and the green house truly represents that.�

Assistant professor of agriculture Nicole Waterland said she was excited for the education, research and collaboration opportunities the new space will provide.

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zation has been actively participating in the 2012 presidential campaign. “Right now we are making phone calls to Ohio voters. We call the people that visit our website and that express an interest in voting,� he said. “Then we help them with their paperwork and make sure that they are able to vote and have the proper identification.�

The group also will be helping WVU students register to vote. They are focused on reaching out to freshman dorm residents, as they will be eligible to vote – provided they have lived instate for 30 days. “Though we are part of the democrat society, we try to help students register and vote in a non-partisan manner,� George said.

One of George’s proudest moments during his four years as a member was when he, along with his peers, helped more than 2,000 students register to vote in 2010. “It means a lot to me to be the president because I’ve been involved since I was a freshman,� he said. “I’ve seen the organization

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Classes offer insight The Terps are into Arabic culture coming to town

BY Shelby Toompas Staff Writer

West Virginia University students interested in learning a new language at a slower pace and in a fun atmosphere are encouraged to consider taking an Arabic course.

After Sept. 11, 2001, the WVU Muslim Student Association and professor Sohail Chaudhry started an Arabic class in the hope of reaching out to students and teaching them the language and culture.

Chaudhry said he came to WVU as a student, and later developed the idea for the course in 2001 and began teaching it. “After discussing the idea with MSA, they liked it a lot, and we started the course right away,� Chaudhry said.

Even though there are other classes for credit

through WVU, this course requires no pre-requisite and is taught in a stressfree environment once a week,� he said. “We offer two Arabic classes: 101 and 102,�

Chaudhry said. “Arabic 101 is based on reading and writing, and Arabic 102 is more language and conversation.�

Chaudhry said students are able to take these courses either together or in separate semesters.

Pre-speech pathology and audiology student Olivia Plazak said while registering for courses, she was interested in taking a class like this one prior to attending WVU. “Arabic is a long-term course and I’ve had students in the past that have been with me

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Daniel Robison, dean of the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, speaks at the opening ceremony of the new WVU greenhouse Thursday.

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Students promote Alzheimer’s awareness

By Lacey Palmer Staff Writer

Students across campus today will be wearing the color purple to take action and create awareness.

Today is Alzheimer’s Action Day, sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association.

People across the country have been asked to wear purple to promote awareness for the disease.

Alzheimer’s is an irre-

versible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, and eventually the ability to carry out simple, everyday tasks.

Symptoms usually develop slowly, beginning with memory loss and getting worse over time. “The primary goal of Alzheimer’s Action Day is to raise awareness about the 5.4 million Americans and the 48,000 West Virginians

with Alzheimer’s disease,� said Carisa Collins, regional coordinator of the Alzheimer’s Association, West Virginia Chapter.

Collins said Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States and, for people older than the age of 65, it’s the fifth leading cause. “The thing that shocked me when I first came to the Alzheimer’s Association is that Alzheimer’s is the only

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disease in the top 10 leading causes of death that cannot be prevented, cured or even slowed in its progress,� Collins said.

Before beginning the job with the Alzheimer’s Association, Collins said even she didn’t understand the reality of the disease. “My great-grandmother had Alzheimer’s, but I was a kid so I didn’t really know

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Continued from page 1 continuously for more than five semesters,” Chaudhry said.

For a fee of $50, students can have access to an informal, intimate languagelearning environment.

“We started the fee more so because we had seen that some students would join, but they wouldn’t be committed,” Chaudhry said. “The money also goes to the Islamic Center of Morgantown or local charities.”

So far there are 13 students enrolled in 101 and nine students in 102; however, students are still welcome to join or wait until

next semester.

Chaudhry said he enjoys learning the diverse reasons behind students’ interest in the course.

“Some students might be working in the military and feel that they will use Arabic, and others just want to learn the more about the Middle Eastern culture,” Chaudhry said.

Plazak said learning a language such as Arabic for the military after participating in the Air Force ROTC on campus can result in a higher pay grade.

In addition to the altered pace of the class, the style of teaching is very unique.

“For instance, when learning Arabic we take four or five letters from the alphabet and study them at a time before we

move on, and we practice having conversations with one another,” Chaudhry said.

“After taking these Arabic classes, I hope that students will be able to introduce themselves, communicate basic needs and also appreciate the richness and depth of the language.”

Plazak said she believed the courses are beneficial to her major and personal interests.

“I took the class for two semesters last year and we covered quite a lot of material, from colors, places, to conjugations and the most important part – read and write the alphabet,” Plazak said.

Plazak said another unique thing about the Ara-

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bic language is that it reads right to left, and as opposed to the English alphabet, there are 28 characters in the Arabic alphabet.

“It’s a fun and involved class, it’s a lot of work but worth the time and effort you put in,” Plazak said.

“Writing Arabic is a beautiful art form in itself,” Chaudhry said. “And with practice, students can see that.”

The classes are held each Wednesday in the Monongahela room in the Mountainlair at 6 p.m. for 101 and 7 p.m. for 102.

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The new WVU greenhouse is now open after Thursday’s dedication ceremony.

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Continued from page 1 grow, so I have been able to pick out flaws and things we did right and incorporate them together.”

Anyone interested in joining the WVU Chapter of Young Democrats should email president.wvuyd@ gmail.com or attend a meeting at 7 p.m. Thursdays in the Greenbrier room.

Jared Bedekovich, President of The College Republicans of WVU, said his program is committed to the ideals his party.

“Our goal is getting more people involved in Republican ideals and spreading that message around campus,” he said.

Bedekovich, a senior from Williamstown, W.Va., transferred from Marshall and has been at WVU for two years. He has been involved in the republican organizations at both campuses.

College Republicans of WVU has about 35 members.

“We help out local, state and national republican candidates and the greater Morgantown community,” Bedekovich said.

In the next month, Republican club members will head to Pittsburgh to knock on doors and spread

the word about the Romney campaign.

For the past two months, the club has also knocked on doors to help West Virginia congressman David McKinley in his re-election campaign.

“Since it’s a presidential election year, the main focus is on Romney. We want to get as much information out as we can to persuade people to vote for him,” Bedekovich said.

The organization also frequently participates in community service, though most of the work will begin after the election.

The College Republican National Committee covers the cost of being a member at WVU, so there are no dues or fees to join.

“It is a nice responsibility to be able to go out and show college-aged kids – who are usually liberal – facts and statistics that help them realize that Republican ideals would better suit them,” Bedekovich said.

“It also gives me the opportunity to be involved in something that I really care about.”

Anyone interested in joining the College Republicans of WVU should email wvcollegerepublicans@ gmail.com or attend a meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesdays in the Greenbrier room.

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The new WVU greenhouse on the Evansdale Campus.

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“More opportunities will lead for added collaboration with universities and research partners, not just in West Virginia – but across the globe,” she said. “Having a facility like this is crucial.”

Senior horticulture student John Wagers said he was excited for the opportunities the new space will provide for him and the college’s future students.

“I had a great experience learning in the old facilities, but I want the new students to have an even greater experience than what I have had in my four years here because of this great space,” he said.

The new greenhouse space will allow students to study biological energy development and climate changes and its effects on plants, among other research opportunities.

“This facility brings us to the cutting edge of where we can be in the green

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house industry,” said Braton Baker, director of the division of plant and soil sciences. “It impacts our livelihood and culture and holds all the potential for all of us.”

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln passed the Morrill Land-Grant Acts, which allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges and universities on federal land across the nation.

WVU was established as the Agricultural College of West Virginia. The college has had an interest in a greenhouse technology since 1925.

Robison said the University’s original green house was attached to Martin Hall on the downtown campus.

“The greenhouse is a very important and critical part of our history as a landgrant University,” said WVU President James Clements.

“This is the perfect time to make a big statement like this about our commitment to agricultural sciences.” carlee.lammers@mail.wvu.edu

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UG literary magazine to hold info session A meeting will be held for those interested in working with the 2013 edition of Calliope, West Virginia University’s undergraduate literary magazine, Monday at 7:30 p.m. in Colson Hall Room 130.

Calliope’s editor-inchief, Natalie Carpini, and faculty adviser, Mark Brazaitis, will speak with undergraduate students interested in the fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art editor positions. Students interested in contributing to the editorial and pub-

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Founded in 1980, the Alzheimer’s Association is the leading global voluntary health organization in Alzheimer’s care and support, as well as the largest private, nonprofit founder of Alzheimer’s research. Its mission is “to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease through the advancement of research, to provide and enhance care and support for all affected, and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health.”

“We are always looking for great volunteers here at the Alzheimer’s Association, West Virginia Chapter,” Collins said.

The association also has a 24/7 helpline that can be reached at 800-272-3900.

The money raised by the West Virginia chapter goes directly to people within West Virginia, Collins said. The funds make it possible for the chapter to continue the 24/7 helpline, support groups, community workshops, outreach and free care consultations throughout the state.

“We need to help those people who are right here in our own backyard,” Collins said. “Defeating Alzheimer’s takes an entire village.”

“We still don’t know what causes it, how to prevent it, and what to do about it, so that’s why we need to raise awareness.

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what was going on,” Collins said. “I just remember that Grandma didn’t know my name from time to time, and now that I’m starting to talk with people more and more, it’s almost that everyone seems to have a connection with the disease.”

Not only does the Alzheimer’s Association help those suffering from Alzheimer’s, it also offers support for the caregivers.

In the United States, there are more than 15 million unpaid Alzheimer’s caregivers and more than 108,000 caregivers in West Virginia alone.

Collins said its important to remember that the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease are not just a normal part of aging.

“In order to fight this disease, society needs to change it’s perspective and decide that Alzheimer’s is a serious, fatal disease,” she said. “We need to support those around us suffering from the disease and support those caregivers and loved ones because Alzheimer’s can tear a family apart if they don’t reach out for help.”

Progress is being made and new information is discovered about Alzheimer’s all the time, Collins said.

“Research is coming up, but we still have a long way to go,” Collins said. “In order to find a cure, we need to devote more time, more energy and more dollars to research.”

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Islam and tolerance debated in Prophet film’s wake

A Libyan man holds a placard in English during a demonstration against the attack on the U.S. consulate that killed four Americans, including the ambassador, in Benghazi, Libya Sept. 12.

CAIRO (AP) — Behind the anger over a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad, public protest is giving way to measured debate over free speech in the new Muslim world.

But while many crave more openness, few if any will go so far as to say that includes the right to blaspheme.

Angry shouts of “No, no to America!� and “No to Israel!� have been balanced by voices condemning the week-long violence that has targeted U.S. and other Western embassies and left more than 30 dead in seven countries, including Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. “Muslims should know that Islamic extremist groups bear some responsibility for the uproar taking place now, and for the collision of the world cultures,� said Sheik Hameed Marouf, a Sunni cleric in Baghdad. “The moderate people and clerics in the Islamic world should do their best to isolate and stop such groups that do not represent the true moderate values of our religion.�

Religious extremists – whether Muslim, Jewish or Christian – “will lead only to more killings and more blasphemous acts,� he said.

Anger is still palpable

over the anti-Islam video made in California, as well as French political cartoons that denigrate Muhammad, but most of the Arab world has not seen protests for much of this week.

The streets around the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, where clashes raged for days, were relatively quiet Thursday. Egyptian security forces patrolling the area casually leaned their rifles against the same compound walls that were scaled by angry protesters just last week.

The easing of the violence reflects the balance that Egypt and other Islamic nations are trying to find as they work to nourish democracy in societies where blasphemy is a crime. “There is no doubt that most Muslims take offense at anyone mocking the prophet,� said Mustafa Alani, an analyst at the Geneva-based Gulf Research Center. “The great divide is over the response. The vast majority of Muslims understand that the world is now interconnected and all kinds of material – good or offensive – pours in.� “What we see now is a rage against both the film and, indirectly, the interconnected world,� he said.

The violent backlash stretched from Indonesia to Morocco, but nowhere

did Muslims take to the streets en masse to protest the film.

In Cairo, there were never more than 2,000 demonstrators o u tside the U.S. Embassy at any point during four days of protests. And most were believed to be ultracons er vative Is lamists, known as Salafis, although U.S. officials say the crowd shifted over time and eventually was galvanized by gangs of rowdy teenagers. Salafis are seeking the creation of an Islamic state founded on a strict interpretation of Shariah law. “The whole thing, our reaction, was way, way over the top,� said Ali Abdel-Halim, a 22-year-old business graduate from Cairo, who did not participate in the clashes but said he visited the area around the embassy to watch them. “I think the film is meant to provoke us as Muslims,� he said. “My personal view is that we should have ignored it. It received much more attention than it deserves. Really, it was not worth people dying for.�

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sembly and religious freedoms that had been held in check by authoritative regimes for decades.

Khalil al-Anani, an expert on Islamist movements, predicted it will take a generation or more for Mideast nations to fully develop a working democracy that respects individual rights and Muslim values. “The Arab world is on the edge of choosing between joining the modern world and political development, or to remain as in the last few centuries,� he said. “There shouldn’t be a trade-off. But it’s an enormous challenge, and it will take time.�

Iraq was the first Mideast country to embrace democracy after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, but it is arguably more unstable than ever. “The Muslims are taught to die for God, not to live for God, so I think that the chances of moderation are limited in our Islamic world,� Baghdad businessman Hassan Rahim said Thursday. “The West should accept the fact that Muslims might tolerate a specific level of criticism on Islam, but not mockery or blasphemy.�

In Egypt, al-Anani said, the government should encourage progressive thinking by pumping more fund-

ing into religious schools that offer a range of interpretations of Islamic texts – and not just conservative views.

Salafi influences rose in Egypt over the last decade, in part because of the schools and growth of satellite TV, which conservative clerics use to promote extremist views and, often, hate speech against Christians and Jews.

The anti-Islam video, like Danish cartoons mocking Muhammad several years back, is believed by some to be part of a conspiracy against Muslims to provoke them into acts of violence.

But even the voices of moderation on the issue are in agreement with the militants that the film, the latest French cartoons demeaning Muhammad and the Danish caricatures before them cannot be tolerated as freedom of speech.

At the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, which is considered to be the primary seat of Sunni Muslim learning and a traditional voice of moderation, Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb is calling for an international law that ensures respect for religions and criminalizes blasphemy.

Judicial authorities in Egypt, meanwhile, have said they would try those behind the film in absen-

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tia before a criminal court.

The approach to religion is dividing Egypt, creating a fault line between Islamists and secularists as well as between various shades of Islamists. That Salafis spearheaded the protests is evidence of that schism.

The Muslim Brotherhood, from which Islamist President Mohammed Morsi hails, has stayed away from the protests, only condemning the film and calling for peaceful demonstrations.

M o r s i ’s government also stepped up its policing of the riots after President Barack Obama called Egypt neither an ally nor an enemy, but “a new government that’s trying to find its way.� Washington began airing ads in Pakistan this week condemning the video in an olive branch to the Muslim world.

In Gaza City, Shukri Abu Fadel, a 42-year-old teacher, proudly said he joined protesters who were demonstrating peacefully – a basic tenet of democracy. “We sent our protest message in a civilized and modern way, and it should be known that this movie has unified Muslims and Christians in the Middle East, and has unified all strong believers in God all over the world,� Fadel said as he left a mosque.

OPINION Organization key to success

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Friday September 21, 2012

It is hard to believe it has already been five weeks since the beginning of the fall semester.

For freshmen, the focus of this past month has been acclimating to the college life. For many, going off to college is their first taste of true independence, and with this newfound freedom comes new responsibility. From doing your own laundry to not having anyone to drag you out of bed in the mornings, this new lifestyle can take time to get used to.

For upperclassmen,

these first few weeks are all about adjusting to harder courses and continuing to work toward the ultimate goal of earning a degree.

Regardless of which camp you fall into, after five weeks, the adjustment phase gives way to a more critical part of the semester.

With midterms right around the corner, make sure you are keeping up with your schoolwork.

This all-important part of the semester – which will hit you with a wave of exams, projects and midterm papers – can make or break

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your grade point average.

Be sure to write down all the upcoming exam and due dates in one easily accessible place to ensure none of them sneak up on you.

It’s also crucial that you don’t procrastinate. It’s easy to ignore those upcoming exams and due dates until they are a couple of days away, but you’ll get overwhelmed eventually if you fall into this trap.

As obvious and redundant as this advice may sound at this point, it’s probably the most important tip you

can follow. Most students go through their entire college career without developing good organizational and study habits. This lack of skills will undoubtedly catch up to them during their post-graduation quest for a job.

As we go further into the semester, it also becomes easy to fall into the habit of skipping classes. Again, do this at your own peril.

By skipping class, you’re likely missing important material that will show up on your exams, possible extra credit opportunities

and important information about changes to assignment or exam dates.

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An Indian drug addict gets a shot of heroine from a needle, on a street in New Delhi Thursday.

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These days it seems like substance abuse is everywhere. It’s not uncommon to attend a party that has not only alcohol, but marijuana and a variety of other drugs, too.

Heading out to the clubs?

It’s likely someone there has taken a hit of “molly”– a psychoactive drug that is similar to ecstasy. Even in the libraries, dorms, homes and apartments, Adderall is abused for those cram sessions before exams.

These drugs are prevalent not just at West Virginia University, but on campuses everywhere.

But what makes the lure of drugs so strong for students? You can thank your childhood health classes.

Beginning in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, then-first lady Nancy Reagan attempted to eradicate drug abuse by creating and implementing the “Just Say No” campaign, a catchall phrase that applied not just to drugs but to cigarettes, alcohol, premarital sex and whatever other terrible things a middle schooler’s mind could imagine.

The goal was essentially to nip the issue of substance abuse in the bud by encouraging elementary and middle school-aged students to “just say no.”

The campaign was adopted by many U.S. schools in the hopes of restraining the “wicked ways” of children, and studies have shown that drug abuse did decline in the ‘80s – though there is no significant evidence that the Just Say No campaign was directly in-

volved in this decrease. This contributed to the creation of more anti-drug programs, such as Drug Abuse Resistance Education (more commonly referred to as DARE), which was focused on adolescents and taught by police officers.

But in the ‘90s, a federallyfunded annual Monitoring the Future survey revealed that higher amounts of young people were using drugs – basically, the effectiveness of the Just Say No and DARE campaigns had worn off.

Why did these programs backfire? Because the “Just Say No” campaign was too simple. Students grow up being bossed around by their parents and teachers enough as it is, and the “because I said so” attitude of the Just Say No and DARE programs was bad enough to produce the opposite of

the desired effect. Furthermore, these campaigns revealed a forbidden fruit.

Whether it’s alcohol, sex, drugs or cigarettes, by telling adolescents what they can’t do, an equal-but-opposite effect occurs: these same individuals, who are entering a period of growth defined by rebellion, angst, and independence, will do whatever it is they’re told they shouldn’t do.

And now that these same students are in college, where the availability of the forbidden fruit is high and the overbearing authority figures low, drug and alcohol abuse has become a major issue on campus.

Some may be inclined to think that our country is doomed to become one big, drunken drug cartel, but that’s not necessarily true. Because, cliché as it is, knowledge is power and

that’s exactly what we’ve been keeping from our health classes. By instead giving students the whole picture of why people take drugs or drink alcohol (namely for the sake of fun or to cope with reality) and then informing them about the consequences of these decisions – addiction, disease and death – students get the full, unsugarcoated story and the facts to be able to make their own, informed decision at an age when that is what they want to do the most.

So the next time drugs are being passed around at a party, a student knows the pros and cons of the choice, not just the consequences.

Humans are naturally curious, and simplistic approaches and slogans that leave out the reasons why people use these substances in the first place

only makes us want to find out for ourselves.

So for every student here who’s driven a friend to the hospital for alcohol poisoning, or has known someone who has died from a drug overdose, remember what inadvertently encouraged these people from the start.

Remember that you were once an impressionable kid who sat in a health class and were told to simply ignore any temptation that came your way without knowing specifically why you were saying no in the first place. But most of all, remember this when you’re a parent: that children are smart enough to make their own decisions, as long as they’re given all the facts.

And keeping knowledge away from the youth of our country? To that, I just say “no.”

Reports of Romney’s demise are exaggerated – this election isn’t over yet sam dulik the hoya georgetown university

“It’s over for Mitt Romney.”

If you paid any attention to the news this past week, that was the refrain bandied across cable channels and the front pages of newspapers. According to conventional wisdom, a postconvention bounce for the Democrats and a series of unfortunate events for the Romney campaign have permanently hindered Republican aspirations – remaining month and a half of the campaign be damned.

I frequently argue that Romney should be the next president of the United States, and today I want to push back on this groupthink to submit that he very much still can. A regrettable characteristic of today’s media is journalistic

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interdependence, in which a provocative theme is adopted and promoted across media outlets without real scrutiny or debate. Campaigns are kinetic and fickle beasts that rarely obey such prognostication. Were they not, Jimmy Carter would have been re-elected in 1980, and Michael Dukakis would have been victorious in a 1988 landslide — such were the prevailing narratives in media res.

Unfortunately, politics is more complex. The outcome of an election can be predicted by the impact of various factors, either institutional – primaries, platforms, conventions and debates – or organic – bombshell stories, national economic performance and unforeseen crises.

Organic factors inherently cannot be predicted.

Therefore, the remaining month and a half of the campaign offers opportunity aplenty for un-

planned events to shape this race. Further erosion of the jobs market, instability in the Middle East or a latebreaking piece of muckraking journalism could potentially recalibrate the nature of this campaign as it enters its final stretch.

Institutional factors are easier to evaluate. Indeed, many of them have already revealed themselves. The vim of the conventions has dissipated, the tickets are locked down and competing policy proposals are increasingly stark.

However, not enough of these institutional factors have come to fruition for it to be appropriate to declare a winner in this unstable and permanently tight race.

The four national debates – three between Gov. Romney and President Obama and one between Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Vice President Joe Biden – loom largest on this list. Americans will have a spectacular oppor-

tunity to contrast the candidates as they stand side by side and make their case to their potential employers – the American public.

I personally believe that the Republican ticket will perform exceptionally well in these forums. Romney and Ryan are both slightly nerdy policy wonks who can speak with passion and fluency on economic affairs. Provided they channel the urgency felt by so many tired and anxious Americans, I expect them to be able to ardently prosecute the Obama presidency.

Those who would wring their hands over an impending Romney defeat or preemptively celebrate an Obama reelection make one massive error: They would have you believe that voter attention to the campaign is a constant value, unchanging from the Iowa caucuses to Election Day. While for many, this type of hyper-engaged democracy

is wishful thinking, it is not reflective of America’s political reality.

Instead, for the vast majority of voters, especially those critical undecideds, focus on the presidential race can be plotted exponentially over time. Come October, many will be just beginning to tune into campaign coverage and the debates. A daunting mass of voters will make up their minds only days, or even hours, before they enter their polling booths on Nov. 6.

The argument that Obama has this race in the bag is intellectually dishonest, since we simply have not met enough institutional benchmarks to arrive at a conclusion about the outcome of the election. The remaining undefined variables in this race are staggering, and I believe they contain glimmers of hope for the Republicans.

The Romney campaign

continues to hold more cash on hand than Obama’s, and it will deploy its funds expertly in both advertisements and get-out-the-vote operations. Coupled with the overwhelming upper hand that Republican outside groups wield over the Democrats, this imbalance has the potential to swing the race hard to Romney in the campaign’s last month.

Furthermore, a continually weak economy will plague President Obama’s prospects. Nov. 2 – the day the final jobs report is released – could arguably be a more important date than Nov. 6 if it conveys the same depressing news as its predecessors. The Democrats could be in serious peril.

Is this race a challenge for Romney? Unquestionably.

Can he still achieve a victory? Without a doubt. Be careful with media groupthink, and buckle up for a wild few weeks as we count down to Election Day.

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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

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Students congregate outside the Mountainlair Tuesday afternoon to listen to a street preacher talk about his views on religion.

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FEATURE OF THE DAY WVU WOMEN’S SOCCER will host its first Big 12 Conference match tonight against Texas Tech at 7:00 p.m. The Mountaineers will then host defending Big 12 champion and No. 7 Oklahoma State Sunday at noon.

EVERY FRIDAY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

EVERY SUNDAY

TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH offers services at 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. The church is located on the corner of Spruce and Willey streets.

MOUNTAINEERS FOR CHRIST hosts a supper at 6 p.m. and a bible study at 7 p.m. at the Christian Student Center at 2923 University Ave. CHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP hosts free dinner at 6:15 p.m. followed by a worship service at 7 p.m. at 2901 University Ave. For more information, email Gary Gross at grossgary@ yahoo.com.

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

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CONFIDENTIAL COUNSELING SERVICES are provided for free by the Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatric Services. A walk-in clinic is offered weekdays from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Services include educational, career, individual, couples and group counseling.

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

NEW FALL SEMESTER GROUP THERAPY OPPORTUNITIES are available for free at the Carruth Center. The groups include Understanding Self and Others, Sexual Assault Survivors Group, Mountaineer Men: An Interpersonal Process Group, and Know Thyself: An Interpersonal Process Group. For more information call 293-4431 or contact tandy. mcclung@mail.wvu.edu.

DAILY HOROSCOPES

BY JACQUELINE BIGAR

BORN TODAY This year you focus on your domestic and personal life, though all aspects are important. Excitement comes in from a close friend or loved one who is a walking jackin-the-box; you never know what will happen next. Hopefully, you can deal with a little stress. Others would like you to be more active, and they will not hesitate to let you know. If you are single, you will gain a sidekick.

Whether you let more than that develop is your call. If you are attached, the two of you need to loosen up more and enjoy the moment. SAGITTARIUS loves to romp with you.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHHH Let your imagination lead the way. Be ready to take off at the drop of a hat. Others tap into your ideas and use you as a resource. You might want to break free, and perhaps you’ll do just that. Maintain a high level of detachment, or you could feel drained. Tonight: Go for something unique.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHH You deal with others directly, particularly a key person in your life. You could enhance a financial option through a discussion. A family member lets you know how much you mean to him or her. If there has been a rocky element in your domestic life, attempt to fix it.

Tonight: Make it cozy.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHHH Realize where you are heading and defer to someone else. You understand that not everything is one way or the other. This realization helps you to loosen up your relationships with some potentially difficult people. To-

night: Play away.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH You are one of the few people whose focus is less on getting into the weekend and more on completing errands and/or a project. For those of you who are working Moon Children, you will want to clear out your desk. Think about being totally free this weekend.

Tonight: Only what you want.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHHH Allow more creativity to come forward.

Through a meeting, you’ll see many possibilities. Opportunities arise from this group of peers, especially through one person who is unusually upbeat.

You emanate compassion and concern. How can anyone resist you? Tonight: Start the weekend right.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH Center yourself, and you will open the door to many more opportunities. Someone in your personal life -or someone who wants to become a part of it -- shares some deeper feelings. A friend you look up to also gives you positive feedback. Tonight: Head home early.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHHH How you say what you think has much to do with the manner in which the words are received. You, more than most other signs, understand the art of diplomacy and the need to use it in a difficult situation. Touch base with a dear friend or loved one. Tonight: To your favorite haunt.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH You might want to reconsider an option that could encourage less stress.

In order for that to happen, you’ll need to trust a partner or close friend. A boss

ACROSS 1 Collected 5 Tilting tool 10 Swift 14 Apple application no longer in use 15 Eponymous William’s birthplace 16 Gospel writer 17 One who illegally brings home the bacon?

19 God in both Eddas 20 The orange kind is black 21 Tape deck button 23 Uno e due 24 Fairy tale baddie 25 Mistakes in Dickens, say?

33 Sound, perhaps 34 Insect-eating singers 35 Rapper __ Jon 36 Lasting impression 37 Just a bit wet 38 Stove filler 39 “__ American Cousin,” play Lincoln was viewing when assassinated 40 Go green, in a way 41 Linney of “The Big C” 42 When to send an erotic love note?

45 English class assignment word 46 Ottoman title 47 Remote insert 50 By oneself 55 Big-screen format 56 “Something’s fishy,” and a hint to this puzzle’s theme 58 Pantheon feature 59 “Fear Street” series author 60 Modernize 61 Tools for ancient Egyptian executions 62 16th-century English architectural style 63 Zombie’s sound DOWN 1 Andy of comics 2 Soothing agent 3 Bird symbolizing daybreak 4 ‘70s TV teacher 5 Idle 6 Farm unit 7 Sports gp. with divisions 8 Garfield, for one

9 Budding 10 Blossom 11 European wheels 12 Crispy roast chicken part 13 Take care of 18 1996 Reform Party candidate 22 Messes up 24 Short tennis match 25 Biker helmet feature 26 Provoke 27 Nurse Barton 28 Willing words 29 Stand 30 Not just mentally 31 Papal topper 32 Soothe 37 Lauded Olympian 38 One might keep you awake at night 40 Fishing gear 41 By the book 43 Prehistoric predators 44 Like Everest, vis-ˆ-vis K2

47 Musical with the song “Another Pyramid” 48 Hebrew prophet 49 Pitch a tent, maybe 50 Enclosed in 51 TV host with a large car collection 52 Circular treat 53 Bupkis 54 David Cameron’s alma mater 57 Early Beatle bassist Sutcliffe

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Get Fuzzy

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Cow and Boy

by Mark Leiknes

likes what he or she sees. You likely will see the benefits soon enough. Tonight: Allow someone to treat you.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHHH You are nearly unstoppable. A few associates also could have a similar amount of energy pushing them forward. Others seem ready to jump in and make what you need happen. You might be toying with the idea of taking a mini-vacation soon. Tonight: Whatever you want.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHH Something is going on behind the scenes. Rather than snoop around, as others might expect you to do, just go about your business as usual. You will reverse the trend and make others wonder what is going on. A friend or loved one gives you a gift. Tonight: Not everyone needs to know what you’re thinking.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHHH Meetings charge you with enough energy to complete a project, but a call from a friend also encourages you to take a bold step.

You are the sign of friendship, and you’re only too pleased to go along with this person’s suggestion. Tonight: Where people can be found.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHH You might want to take that extra step toward helping a special person in your life. This person will be very grateful, even if he or she does not express the gratitude you might like. Remember, everyone has a different style. Tonight: You are the lead actor.

BORN TODAY Actor Bill Murray (1950), author Stephen King (1947)

Pearls Before Swine

by Stephan Pastis

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TENNIS

Mountaineers ready for ‘Horns by robert kreis sports writer

The West Virginia women’s tennis team will get their first taste of Big 12 tennis action this weekend when they travel to Austin, Texas, to compete in the Longhorn Invitational.

According to head coach Tina Samara, the tournament, hosted by the University of Texas, will feature a higher level of competition than any other tournament in which the program has competed.

“From what I know, (the Longhorn Invitational) is the strongest fall tournament West Virginia has played in,” Samara said.

“Our spring season will be full of that, so we might as well get used to it now.”

Aside from allowing the Mountaineers a preview of what is to come this spring, Samara expects her team to focus on developing their own games. At the end of the tournament, the coach wants to have a good understanding of exactly where the Mountaineers stand.

“We are focusing just on what we are doing,” Samara said. “Obviously, at the end of it all, we will kind of get a good idea of where we are at in that grouping.”

Joining West Virginia at the Invitational this weekend will be fellow Big 12 schools Texas, Oklahoma and TCU. LSU, North Texas, UTSA, SMU, Houston, Rice, Denver and Tulane will make up the other schools that will send a total of 64 players to compete in the weekend’s tournament.

Despite the high level of competition, Samara is eager to see her ladies compete, especially against some Big 12 teams. The third-year coach said she hopes her team is as fired up as she is.

“As a coach, and players that are ambitious, that is what (we) look for, that’s what (we) want,” she said.

“Hopefully, everyone here wants that.”

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Head coach Tina Samara and the West Virginia tennis team travels to Austin, Texas this weekend to begin Big 12 Conference play.

Samara wants to see her team embrace the challenges that come with playing such standout competition.

“If you want to win just because your competition is not good, then that is not ambitious,” she said.

Samara will send all six Mountaineers to Austin this weekend to participate in the Longhorn Invitational, featuring four draws. Freshman Hailey Barret, seeded six, and senior Emily Mathis, seeded 11, will compete in the Black Draw. The Fuschia Draw will feature freshman Irinka Toidze, who shares the Mountaineers’ highest seed at two, and fellow freshman Vivian Tsui.

Toidze shares the highest seed with senior Ashley Wooland, who is seeded two in the Orange Draw, while sophomore Ikktesh Chahal rounds out the

tournament in the White Draw, seeded 14.

Doubles will have two separate draws. Barret and Wooland will team up in the Orange Draw, seeded 11, to take on a duo out of Tulane.

The White draw will feature Toidze and Tsui competing as the four seeds, and Chahal and Mathis, who played doubles together last year, as 10 seeds.

Despite the small number of team members the Mountaineers feature, Samara is thrilled to watch her team compete this weekend and as the season progresses.

“Everyone’s doing well,” Samara said. “Really I can’t complain; it is small, but a solid group.

“We are very excited.

We’re just trying to keep ourselves healthy so we can last the whole year.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

Sports bettors watch the screens in the race and sports book at Wynn Las Vegas on March 15, 2009.

AP – Las Vegas casinos think this weekend’s NFL games will be the highest-scoring ever thanks to the league’s replacement officials.

Oddsmakers say casinos are changing their expectations as interim referees add new variables to the game, changing its pace and the approaches taken by players and coaches.

Casinos haven’t fully changed lines yet because there have been only two weeks of games and referees might adjust how they call games based on weekly feedback from the league.

But oddsmaker Mike Colbert of Cantor Gaming says home teams will deserve an extra half-point in their favor if games are called all year the way they were officiated in Week 2.

“It’s starting to concern us a bit,” Colbert said. “(Officials) should have no influence on the total or the side.”

Penalties were skewed in favor of home teams during the first two weeks this year, with visitors getting 55.1 percent of 419 penalties. Last year began in a similar fashion – visitors took 54.8 percent of 407 total penalties through the first two games – before evening out over the rest of the season. Penalties were relatively even between home and road teams for all of 2010 and 2011, and it’s anybody’s guess how this year’s penalties will split.

Sports books make money by encouraging balanced betting action; they get it by using point spreads to account for the advantage one team has over another. In Week 2, home teams went 11-4-1 after going 8-8 in Week 1.

Future lines with interim officials will take a

lot of guesswork, said Colbert, whose company runs sports books in six Las Vegas casinos and provides betting lines for the vast majority of Nevada sports books.

“You’ve got to use prior experience – I don’t know if anyone has prior experience with something like this,” he said.

NFL teams generally get a 3-point edge in sports books just for playing at home. An extra half-point added to that would be the equivalent of a team having a superstar receiver or running back on the field or an opponent missing its star because of injury, gambling expert RJ Bell of Pregame.com said.

“That’s a strong statement that the people are really considering this to be a legitimate phenomenon,” Bell said. “When you’re taking hundreds of thousands of dollars per game, those half-points are really meaningful.”

In the two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl earlier this year, oddsmakers said Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski would shift the line a half-point depending on whether he appeared in the game. He played but caught only two passes in the loss to the Giants.

Public perception makes a big difference in a sports betting world built on complex math and opinion markets – even if popular opinions don’t entirely match what’s happening on the field.

Statistically, there were few differences from last year in the way the first two weeks of this season were called. The average number of penalties is down and player safety calls like roughing the passer have been about the same. But

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defensive pass interference calls are up; there were 44 defensive pass interference calls in the first two weeks this year compared with 30 in the first two weeks last year. And games are taking about six minutes longer on average.

Casinos expect an average of 46.1 points scored per game for Week 3 – the highest projected total ever for Vegas casinos, Bell said.

Bell said the jump can’t just be another sign of a pass-happy league with rules designed to foster offense.

“What else has changed other than the referees,” he said.

SportsBettingOnline.ag, a Costa Rica company that takes bets online, is taking referee bets directly to fans, allowing them to wager on different kinds of penalties league-wide, including the number of pass interference calls, how long games will last and whether home teams will take fewer penalties than visitors. Online sports gambling is illegal in the United States, and such bets wouldn’t likely fly in Las Vegas.

Colbert said Cantor plans to allow bettors to wager for the first time ever on total points for the entire league. The over/under line was set to open Thursday morning at 732.5 points, an average of 45.8 points per game.

Colbert said that while it’s high, it’s lower than the totals of each of 16 games added up, in part because he thinks some casinos are overreacting to the referees and inflated their numbers.

But he said that might not matter to bettors, who notoriously love high scores.

“My gut instinct is they’ll bet over,” he said.

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Continued from page 8 up against better teams and more talented defenses, but I don’t think we’ll see any significant drop-off from Smith because he’s already proven he can perform the same way against some of college football’s most elite defenses.

Smith set a school record for completions and passing yards against the national championship runner-up LSU Tigers last season. And this season, the Mountaineers aren’t slated to face a single SEC defense unless in a bowl game.

Instead, Smith will have numerous opportunities to carve up the notoriously porous defenses of the Big 12 down the stretch of 2012 to further his case as college football’s most outstanding player.

But the senior won’t just be making his case for the 2012 Heisman trophy throughout the season. Every snap he receives, every pass he throws and ultimately, every move he makes will be under the watchful eye and intense scrutiny of a myriad of NFL scouts.

And rightfully so, as

Smith has evolved into much more than the rawbut-talented athlete who was recruited out of Miramar, Fla., four years ago.

Under offensive guru Dana Holgorsen, Smith has flourished more than any other player on the Mountaineers roster and has become, in my opinion, a prototype NFL quarterback.

And this year, after an entire offseason under the second-year head coach, Smith is discernibly better in executing almost every facet of Holgorsen’s offense.

It might initially seem like a strange thing to say, considering Smith indeed had one of the best quarterback seasons in the history of West Virginia University, but he still looks like a completely different quarterback this year.

Not only has Smith scored 10 total touchdowns and posted a ridiculous completion percentage through his first two starts of 2012, the senior hasn’t taken a single sack and hasn’t turned the ball over, which according to his head coach, is way more important than all the yards and touchdowns that Smith’s been recently associated with.

sadly mistaken.�

Smith’s went on to explain to his listeners and those at the Catfish Hole restaurant that he believes in positive language and that negative body language “exudes nothing but defeat.�

But the senior’s excellence extends past his supreme statistical significance, too.

Smith is one of the clear leaders for the Mountaineers, which is usually the case for the quarterback of a football team, but Smith takes it to another level. For example, he was one of the first Mountaineers’ players in the middle of the pregame fracas between Marshall and West Virginia in the teams’ season-opener Sept. 1, showing the rest of the team that he surely wasn’t going to be intimidated.

The quarterback is also one of the coolest college athletes in the nation when it comes to championship season expectations, Heisman hopes, or just fielding any of the numerous inquires he constantly faces from the collective local and national sports media.

It’s this overwhelming sense of confidence that I think is absolute integral to Smith’s personality and his success on the football field. “It’s called swagger,�

Smith told a reporter Tuesday evening. “You wouldn’t know anything about that.�

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Senior Bri Rodriguez and the West Virginia women’s soccer team will take on Texas Tech and Oklahoma State in its first two Big 12 Conference games of the season this weekend.

WVU opens Big 12 play by shea ulisney sports writer

The West Virginia women’s soccer team will get its first Big 12 Conference test this weekend, as it takes on Texas Tech Friday night, before squaring off against the league’s defending champion, Oklahoma State Sunday. “I’m excited to finally get to conference play so everyone can see what we’re all about,� said West Virginia head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown. “There is nothing to be nervous about at this point.�

Texas Tech head coach Tom Stone return for his sixth season at Texas Tech.

Eight starters join Stone’s return from a team that won 10 matches one year ago.

Texas Tech is coming off two wins on the West Coast, a double overtime victory against No. 20 Long Beach State 3-2, and a 2-1 win over Cal State Fullerton.

Midfielder Janine Beckie was named Big 12 Newcomer of the Week after scoring three goals last weekend. Beckie leads Texas Tech’s offense with six goals and two assists on team-best 48 shots.

All-American defender Jaelene Hinkle and sophomore goalkeeper Victoria Esson lead the defense for the Red Raiders.

Last year they allowed just 18 goals and that solid play has carried over to the 2012 season, as Texas Tech has four shutouts in its first nine games of the season. “They play a 4-4-2 at the box. Everyone’s system looks different and it’s going to be different than what we’ve seen,� IzzoBrown said. “They’re strong, big, physical.

They remind me of a team like Marquette.�

Oklahoma State head coach Colin Carmichael enters his eighth season with the team. Oklahoma State is coming off its best

season in school history with a 22-2-2 record and a trip to the NCAA Elite Eight for the second year in a row.

After entering the season with a 2011 Big 12 regular-season title, The Cowgirls return with six starters from last season.

The team has a 9-1-0 record, with its only loss to Oklahoma for the first time in seven years. OSU has been kept off the scoreboard only once this season.

All-Big 12 pick in 2011 forward Megan Marchesano, leads the offense with six goals and two assists.

Two-time All-American goalkeeper and U.S. Youth National Team member, AD Franch leads the Cowgirls’ defense. Joining Franch is returning player and All-league performer Carson Michalowski. Michalowski was a part of the 2011 back line that posted an NCAA-best 18 shutouts in 2011. “Big 12 attendance is one of the best in the country, it’s record breaking. We want to give the Big 12 a warm welcome and I hope we make their atmosphere just as difficult as it’s going to be for us next weekend going to TCU,� Izzo-Brown said. “I’m hoping everyone comes out so everyone in the Big 12 knows how difficult our crowd can be.�

Prior to Friday’s game against Texas Tech, the Mountaineer Maniacs will be hosting a pre-game tailgate with pizza courtesy of Papa John’s.

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No. 7 West Virginia hopes to keep rolling against Maryland by nick arthur

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With one final tune-up before Big 12 Conference plays begin Sept. 29, the No. 7 West Virginia football team will welcome its Atlantic Coastal Conference rival Maryland to Milan Puskar Stadium Saturday at noon.

The Mountaineers (2-0) are coming off a 42-12 victory against James Madison Sept.

15 at FedEx Field, while the Terrapins (2-1) lost a close game at home to UConn 24-21.

“We have a good, quality team coming to Morgantown Saturday,” said West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen.

“They’re 2-1, led by their defense. They have a lot of experienced guys on their defense, much like we have on offense. I’m excited about the week. We’re going to try to get a week better and focus on trying to win a game this weekend.”

West Virginia and Maryland have met 48 times, with the Mountaineers holding a 25-21-2 advantage all time in the series. The border rivalry has been embraced by the fans throughout the years, and Holgorsen understands its value.

“Every game is important, and I think from a fan base that this one is pretty important,” he said. “This series is

one of the few remaining rivalry games because it is a neighboring state, and we have a history with them.

This isn’t the last time we’re going to play; we’re going to continue to play. It’s going to mean a lot to a lot of different people for a lot of different reasons. From a regional standpoint, it’s very important.”

The game is also important for many members of the Mountaineer football team who are originally from Maryland, particularly senior inside receiver Tavon Austin.

“It’s a good feeling to play Maryland again,” Austin said. “For my family and my cousin. He went there,

so I’m always going for bragging rights going against him.

It should be a good game.”

WVU senior quarterback Geno Smith has been nearly perfect in his first two starts this season. Smith averages 367 passing yards per game, while the Terps have only allowed an opposing quarterback to pass for more than 100 yards just once in three games.

“They are talented. They have experienced guys on defense, they have talented secondary guys that tackle well and cover well. Their backers are physical, and they’re experienced,” Holgorsen said. “We want everybody’s best every week that

we play them. We expect to get everybody’s best, and we encourage them to bring their best.”

The Mountaineers have had success in recent years against the Terps. They have won each of the last six matchups and haven’t lost at home to Maryland since the 2002 season.

But this will be the first time this season West Virginia has faced an opponent from a BCS conference.

“This will be our first challenge,” Austin said. “We just need to step up to the plate and hope everything goes right.” nicholas.arthur@mail.wvu.edu

Doug Walp SPORTS WRITER

Geno worthy of Heisman hype West Virginia starting quarterback Geno Smith is doing a masterful job of running the Mountaineer offense through two games this season.

In fact, Smith’s stellar play has made him the current front-runner for the 2012 Heisman trophy, according to analysts at ESPN and the Scripps Heisman Poll.

Southern California’s golden boy Matt Barkley was the clear favorite heading into the season, but his dismal performance against Stanford, coupled with Smith’s nearly flawless performances in his first two games, have rightfully vaulted Smith to the forefront of the national discussion.

Smith has already thrown nine touchdowns to just nine incompletions in two appearances this season and is also already approaching 1,000 yards passing.

It should also be noted the senior play-caller has only played three quarters in each of West Virginia’s first two games because the leads have been so comfortable.

Some college football experts are concerned that Smith’s gaudy numbers will probably dip as the season progresses and as the Mountaineers are matched

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No. 18 WVU opens MAC play vs. FAU by amit batra sports writer

The No. 18 West Virginia men’s soccer team faces its first Mid-American Conference foe in Florida Atlantic at Dick Dlesh Soccor Stadium Sunday afternoon.

Florida Atlantic comes into Morgantown with a 1-4-1 record. The Owls’ singular win came against Jacksonville Aug. 31.

FAU has lost to Central Florida, North Florida, Coastal Carolina and Wofford and tied with UMKC due to poor weather conditions Friday.

“Whenever it’s a conference game, it seems like it’s always closer,” said WVU head coach Marlon LeBlanc. “We had a very significant breakdown of the film. American was arguably one of the best performances people have ever

seen. We still have to find a way to get better.”

Leading the Owls will be sophomore midfielder Deniz Bozkurt, who has two goals on the season thus far.

FAU has been competitive over the years with Kos Donev as head coach. In his 25 years as the coach for the Owls, Donev had his best season in 2007 when FAU went 6-0-1 in the Atlantic Soccer Conference. It was the program’s second regular season title and first tournament title.

In the four losses this season, the Owls have been outscored 7-2. That includes shutouts against North Florida and Coastal Carolina, and 2-1 losses to both UCF and Wofford.

“Playing at home is where we want to get the most wins,” said senior midfielder Uwem Etuk. “Never want to lose; never want to

tie; so it’s always good getting a big win.”

WVU has implemented various different lineups throughout the game to provide a well-balanced attack against the opposition.

While they may confuse or even get in the heads of opponents, the Mountaineers have been just as aggressive as in the past years.

With conference matches coming up, the level of play must be even higher.

One of the most noticeable aspects of Saturday night’s game was the amount of scoring opportunities and the excellent passing to set up chances.

“I think it’s familiarity,” LeBlanc said. “We’re getting better every game. I don’t think we’re doing anything necessarily different, but we’re getting better.

“I think one of the things that we’ve done better this year in comparison to years past is that the opponent really hasn’t mattered as much in regard to our performance. In years past, we would rise to the occasion against (top-ranked) UConn. So far we’ve been pretty consistent to our approach to the game.”

While that level of consistency is there right now, LeBlanc said he doesn’t want to see the highest level of play for his team just yet.

“This is the time of year where you want to start putting things together,” he said. “I don’t necessarily want to be at our peak right now. The ultimate goal for us was to go unbeaten in the NCAA Tournament.”

For the young guys, the first conference game in FAU will be a new experience. Even for the seniors and the upperclassmen, the squad isn’t necessarily familiar with the MAC. “It’s the same message that it was against Hartford, Carolina; forget who the opponent is,” LeBlanc said.

“Hold ourselves to the level we have to our expectations. At the end of the day, I think we are as talented as any team in America. I think player for player, we can match up with any team in America.

It’s a matter of consistently performing.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Avicii turns the tables on Coliseum crowd

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Swedish disc jockey Avicii performs at the WVU Coliseum Thursday night.

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Last night, a mammoth undertaking of a show came to fruition, with world-famous electronic dance music (EDM) superstar Avicii attempting to flatten every one in attendance at West Virginia University Coliseum.

In recent years, Morgantown has gained momentum along its journey to become a key player in the EDM explosion that has dominated U.S. music sub-culture, and Avicii is certainly the most acclaimed act of the genre to ever roll through town.

With such an act topping the bill at the Coliseum, Morgantown has officially begun to play with the big boys, and last night‘s show was a seminal moment for the city’s music scene.

While there were high hopes for what the performance would mean for the future, the show itself was, overall, a bit of a disappointment.

The setup was impressive – a massive stage took up a big portion of the floor and was besieged on all sides by lights that would put most high-budget rock concerts to shame.

When the opening act, DJ WHO, began his set, fog machines began to spurt plumes of smoke into the arena, creating a haze that slightly shrouded the names of West Virginia basketball greats Jerry West and “Hot Rod” Hundley as they hung proudly from the rafters.

A light show that would later prove to be dialed back in comparison with Avicii’s own started, creating blue and red circles that filled the floor, and this made the atmosphere positively electric.

Hundreds of neon-clad attendees filed in under this cover to the tune of some fairly generic, but nonetheless satisfactory EDM that had a few pockets of life moving and grooving.

The floor crowd undoubtedly enjoyed the first DJ’s set,

but those in the seats could hear what was a major problem with the entire event.

Electronic music with burgeoning bass and subbass lines simply does not mix well with a giant concrete dome. Muddying reverb turned eighth notes into quarter notes and crowded mixes into near-blurred walls of sound at its worst moments.

While the untrained and/ or intoxicated ear probably was not too concerned, many of those who are serious about sound quality probably felt a little cheated.

After a set spanning more than an hour and a half, the prevailing attitude among the crowd was that Avicii could not come out early enough to save the show from tanking.

Fans’ calls for the headlining act were answered at about 9 p.m., when the arena went completely dark and thunderous cheers filled the room.

Avicii emerged like a vic-

torious king with one arm raised in the air, stepping on to his own raised platform on the stage. Behind him a monumental screen came to life, displaying flaming letters spelling “Avicii,” and you could feel the energy in the room triple in this moment.

A heavy staccato line got things underway with a bang, eventually becoming intertwined with sections of grinding dubstep-esque sounds. Crowd participation doubled, and many in the seated sections rose to their feet and were compelled to

dance.

Avicii expertly transitioned from dark but catchy synth riffing to trippy, cosmic interludes, showing off his mixing prowess.

Lights from camera phones shone from nearly every seat, and blinding, seizure-inducing lights flickered, zoomed and transformed all over the place, creating an extremely stimulating visual experience.

However – despite the eye candy – Avicii, too, fell victim to the concrete dome’s shortcomings. Unlike the first act,

he was saved by his own music’s originality and managed to put on a great show, so not all was lost.

If this event had cost $30 or less, the sound could have been overlooked, but at $70 a pop for floor tickets, the show simply fell short.

In addition, a crowd divided between those in the seats and the floor really hampered the potential for one huge upswing of energy.

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Elton John wows fans in Wheeling, W.Va. Corey Zinn

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Sir Elton John surprised many West Virginians by appearing at the Wesbanco Arena in Wheeling, W.Va., Tuesday for his Rocket Man Tour 2012.

Even though Tuesday’s show was the 65-year-old man’s fourth night in a row, it might as well have been a Saturday night fight. No one would have had even a hint of suspicion John was suffering from bronchitis if he hadn’t announced an apology to the packed arena.

Although he didn’t hold back his energy and talent, it would have been nice to hear John talk more personally to the crowd. Nevertheless, the performance was full of great, booming music and captivating, starry light shows.

John was accompanied by an 11-member band, including original ‘70s members in guitarist Davey Johnstone and drummer Nigel Olsson. Four backup singers sang soulfully, including Rock and Roll Hall of Fameinductee Rose Stone.

Newly-added bassist Matt Bissonette filled in very well for Robert Wayne Birch, who died last month. Keyboardist Kim Bullard created enough beautiful atmospheres to excite any

electronic lover. Another drummer played auxiliary percussion, including bongos and cymbals, as well as performed backup vocals.

The two cellists warmed up the crowd with a few minutes of distorted covers of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

and “Highway to Hell.”

The man in the studded coat and blue shades played all his favorite hits, as well as some of his own choices.

You danced, you laughed, you cried and if you couldn’t yell out the lyrics to “Rocket Man” or “Tiny Dancer,” then

you couldn’t help but sing the “nanana” in “Crocodile Rock.”

All night the crowd jumped up and moved to upbeat jams like “Honky Cat” and “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting” swayed their lighters and phones to

“Candle in the Wind” and “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” and sat down with smiles, intently listening to “Holiday Inn” and “Daniel,” among many others.

Music lovers heard endless amounts of John and his band’s effortlessly impres-

PARIS (AP) — In its boldest development in a generation, the Louvre Museum has a new wing dedicated to Islamic art, a nearly (EURO)100 million ($130 million) project that comes at a tense time between the West and the Muslim world.

Louvre curators tout their new Islamic Art department, which took 11 years to build and opens to the public on Saturday, as a way to help bridge cultural divides. They say it offers a highbrow and respectful counterpart to

the recent unflattering depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in Western media that have sparked protests by many Muslims.

Still, one of the Louvre’s own consultants acknowledged that some Muslims could be “shocked” by three images of Muhammad with his face exposed in the new wing. Many Muslims believe the prophet should not be depicted at all - even in a flattering way - because it might encourage idolatry.

The galleries provide a

needed showcase one of the West’s most extensive Islamic art collections, some 18,000 artifacts that range from the 7th century to the 19th century.

But the wing does not dwell on the old: It is housed under a futuristic, undulating glass roof designed by architects Rudy Ricciotti and Mario Bellini that has garnered comparisons to a dragonfly wing, a flying carpet, even a wind-blown veil. It marks the Louvre’s biggest change since I.M. Pei shook up the famed

Paris museum with his iconic glass pyramid in 1989.

France, meanwhile, is bracing for possible disruptions at embassies across the Muslim world on Friday after the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo published lewd caricatures of Muhammad on Wednesday. The publication raised concerns that French interests could face violent protests like the ones targeting the United States over a video produced in California that ridiculed the prophet. Those

protests, which continued on Thursday, have left at least 30 people dead.

But could the new museum wing actually be good timing?

The Louvre collection’s mission is to foster understanding between the West and the Islamic world. Instead of highlighting Islam as one united religion, it celebrates the secular, tolerant and cultural aspects of different Islamic civilizations.

Sophie Makariou, head of the Louvre’s Islamic art de-

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Elton John performs at the Wesbanco Arena in Wheeling, W.Va., Tuesday.

sive improvisation.

The crowd sat at the edges of their seats during “Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding” as the keyboardist created fantastic clouds of sound and harmonic planes until each member of the band slowly joined in for an outstanding, instrumental introduction.

John dedicated “Mona Lisa and Mad Hatters” to the United States in honor of the 9/11 tragedy.

Throughout the night, John couldn’t hide his generosity and kindness. The smiling British man constantly got off his piano bench to point to the crowd and thank everyone for being there. He thanked and introduced his entire band to the audience.

Once he came back for his encore, he spent a good 15 minutes patrolling the stage, signing an immense amount of shirts, albums and signs. It was a sight to leave any fan delighted.

Finally, he sat back down and dedicated to everyone, “Your Song.” Whether he made the decision himself or not, it was a thrill to hear John in West Virginia before he went back to London.

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partment, hopes the new wing will teach lessons about tolerance and diversity.

“I like the idea of showing the other side of the coin,” said Makariou, standing at a wall decorated with colorful, flower-patterned tiles from the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. “We are talking about a diverse world that goes from the Atlantic, Spain and Morocco to India.

It brings complexity.

“We are suffering from simplistic views on the Islamic world . (Some) would make us believe that there is just one Islam, which is just not true.”

Indeed, an intricately engraved bronze lion from 13th century Spain stands proudly alongside a rare modeled-stucco head of a prince from medieval Iran.

The works presented were made not just by Muslims, but by Christian and Jewish artists as well.

In a sign of the political importance of the new collection, French President Francois Hollande attended an opening ceremony Tuesday, calling it a “political gesture in the service of respect for peace.” Saudi Prince Waleed Bin Talal and the president of Azerbaijan accompanied him.

“The best weapons for fighting fanaticism that claims to be coming from Islam are found in Islam itself,” Hollande said. “What more beautiful message than that demonstrated here by these works?”

The Louvre opened a department of Islamic art in 2003, under former President Jacques Chirac, who said he wanted to highlight the contributions of Muslim civilizations to Western culture.

Chirac, who vigorously opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, constantly pushed for the idea of a “dialogue of cultures” to break down misunderstandings between the West and the Muslim world.

The collection’s organizer decided to include images of Muhammad to show the evolution of Islamic art. In one instance, he appears as a veiled character in a 16th century manuscript. And in a multimedia projection, Mohammad is shown in three separate images with his face exposed - something almost unheard-of today.

“I think Muslims will be shocked,” said Charlotte Maury, a historical consultant for the Louvre. “That’s why we put it on the side.”

“We felt we had to use them, to illustrate (Islamic) history the way we see it,” she said.

Maury said Muhammad’s face was only covered up in Islamic art starting in the 15th century, when Muslim scholars decided to interpret the veiled figure as a more respectful image.

The Quran has no direct prohibition against depicting Mohammad, though it does contain verses saying that those who insult him are cursed.

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“The Largest & Finest Selection of Properties”

HERITAGE APARTMENTS, 2BR, 1bth, walk to Health Science Center. Prices starting at $650. 304-599-2328 or www.heritageapartmentswv.com

STAR CITY 2BR 1BTH. Large carpeted D/W, W/D, gas, AC. No pets/smoking. Off street parking. $575 plus util.

304-692-1821

“The Largest & Finest Selection of Properties”

UNFURNISHED HOUSES

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation of discrimination. The Daily Athenaeum will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

To complain of discrimination in West Virginia call HUD Toll-free at 1-800-669-9777

CAR POOLING/RIDES PARKING SPACES AVAILABLE. Top of High Street. 1/year lease. $120/mo 304-685-9810.

SPECIAL SERVICES “AFRAID YOU ARE PREGNANT?” Let’s make sure. Come to BIRTHRIGHT for free pregnancy test. Open Monday-Friday 10:00am-2:00pm. 364 High Street / RM 216 Call 296-0277 or 1-800-550-4900 anytime.

ADOPTIONS PREGNANT? Loving West Virginia family seeks infant adoption. Let’s help each other!

304-216-5839 or weparent@comcast.net. or www.parentprofiles.com/profiles/db28440. html

FURNISHED APARTMENTS 1 & 2BR APARTMENTS. $400/$550 plus utilities. A/C, no smoking, no pets.

304-296-5276

PINEVIEW APARTMENTS

Place your ads by calling 293-4141, drop by the office at 284 Prospect St., or e-mail to the address below. Non-established and student accounts are cash with order.

Classified Rates 1 Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.28 2 Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.68 3 Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.20 4 Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.60 Weekly Rate (5 days) . . . . . . . . . . . . .22.00 20-Word Limit Classified Display Rates 1.2”. . . . . . . . . . . . .22.68 . . . . . . . . . . . . .26.44 1x3 . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.02.. . . . . . . . . . . . .39.66 1x4 . . . . . . . . . . . . .45.36 . . . . . . . . . . . . .52.88 1x5 . . . . . . . . . . . . .56.70 . . . . . . . . . . . . .66.10 1x6 . . . . . . . . . . . . .68.04 . . . . . . . . . . . . .79.32 1x7 . . . . . . . . . . . . .79.38 . . . . . . . . . . . . .92.54 1x8 . . . . . . . . . . . . .90.72 . . . . . . . . . . . .105.76

24 Hour Emergency Maintenance & Enforcement Officer Off Street Parking

1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments Unfurnished 24 Hour Emergency Maintenance & Enforcement Officer Off Street Parking

Phone: 304-413-0900 INCLUDES ALL UTILITIES

DOWNTOWN PROPERTIES Phone 304-413-0900

Metro Towers

PLUS UTILITIES Glenlock Skyline

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Phone: 304-413-0900

2 BR APT AVAILABLE MAY 15. Located on Grant Ave. $700 + utilities. Parking available.

Monday-Friday 8am-4pm.

304-365-2787 or 304-777-0750.

2 BR Washer/Dryer Louise Ave: Parking Included. $900/month. 304-365-2787.

2 BR/2 BA. Stewarts Town Road. W/D.AC. Garage. $700/month. No pets. Available December. Text or call 304-288-6374. kjedwards2@comcast.net.

1-2BR APARTMENT South Park. New Central AC, W/D, New Kitchen, $425 & up/mth. NO PETS. 304-288-2052 or 304-288-9978 1BR-First St. $600 inclusive. 3BR-First St. $350/m/p + util. Jones Place-New 4BR 2.5ba $625/m/p. 304-296-7400 3BR APARTMENT (1 side of duplex), Large, W/D, Walk to Town&Campus, off street parking, $330/person, AVAILABLE NOW, call/text 304-290-3347.

AFFORDABLE LUXURY, 1 & 2 Bedroom/1 & 2 Bath, prices starting at $495.

Bon Vista & The Villas. 304-599-1880, www.morgantownapartments.com APARTMENTS FOR RENT: Three 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath, condos located on Creekside Drive, off West Run Road (North Hills) in Morgantown, within minutes of hospital and WVU. All kitchen appliances and washer and dryer in units. $600.00 per month with $300.00 security deposit. Telephone Jeff at 304-290-8571.

AVAILABLE NOW! 1 BR apt. $500.00 mo. plus utilities. 517 Clark St. Parking, NO PETS. 292-7272 or 376-7282. Dave Lingle.

BARRINGTON NORTH. 2BR, 1BTH. Prices starting at $605. 304-599-6376. www.morgantownapartments.com

PLUS UTILITIES Valley View Cooperfield www.metropropertymgmt.net

ABSOLUTELY NO PETS WWW.PRETERENTAL.COM

REDUCED RENT UNIQUE Apartment 3 BR Close to main campus.

Washer/Dryer, Dishwasher, Private Parking. Pets w/fee. 508-788-7769.

Bath Fitter, the nations #1 bathroom remodeler is looking to fill our District Marketing Manager position for the Morgantown area.

HILLSIDE COTTAGE, partly furn. Forest setting.,easy walk to dwnt. campus. 4 BR, 1 1/2 baths. W/D. Porch, deck, attic, cellar, lg. yard, off-st. pkg., garage. Nonsmkg. $1300, utils., yd.-care. Small pets OK. Deposit + last mo. rent. 304-906-9109

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ROOMMATES

FOR SALE AND OPEN HOUSE. 1080 Willowdale Rd. Unit 6. Beautiful Town House, across from Niosh building. 5 minute walk to Med School, Dental School, and Stadium. 2 BR 21/2 BA. Large living room and kitchen, utility room, garage, and security system. Freshly painted, like new condition. Priced for quick sale. Open House, Sunday Sept. 23, 1-4pm. Call 304-842-5642

MISC. FOR SALE JACUZZI 79” IN DIAMETER. Softub Hydromate II, w/jets and heat controls, rarely used. New $5000 sell $1500 firm pickup at Lakeview Resort 304-692-1821

AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE CASH PAID!! WE BUY CARS and trucks.

Any make! Any model! Any condition!

282-2560

Base Salary Bonus Plan Insurance and 401K Company Paid Cell Phone Company Paid Gas Card

To schedule an interview call Jeff at 304-634-5745 and email resume to

JUST LISTED! MALE OR FEMALE ROOMMATE for brand-new apt. Close to downtown. Next to Arnold Hall. WD, DW, AC, Parking. NO PETS. $420/mo includes utils.

Lease/Deposit 304-296-8491 or 304-288-1572

HOUSES FOR SALE

304-599-4407

District Marketing Manager

4BR 2.5BTH. NICE TOWNHOUSE. For rent on Castor Ave. Available immediately. $400/per bedroom. Call 304-594-9292 for details.

PRETE RENTAL APARTMENTS

Mountain Line Bus Service Every 10 Minutes and Minutes From PRT

BARTENDING UP TO $300 A DAY potential. No experience necessary. Age 18 plus.

Training available. 800-965-6520 Ext. 285

3BR, NEWLY FINISHED, $700 plus utilities and deposit, W/D hookup, no pets.

304-292-5290

MUST SEE MALE / FEMALE ROOMMATE NEEDED close to Arnold Hall, excellent condition. WD and parking. Individual lease. $395-450 all utils included.

304.288.1572 or 304.296.8491

UNFURNISHED/FURNISHED OFF-STREET PARKING EVANSDALE / STAR CITY LOCATION LOCALLY OWNED ON-SITE MAINTENANCE MOST UNITS INCLUDE: HEAT, WATER, and GARBAGE SECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIRED

BARTENDERS AND COOKS. Bucket Head’s Pub. 10-mins from downtown, Morgantown. Small local bar, All Shifts Avail.

No experience necessary. 304-365-4565.

341 MULBERRY STREET close to Suncrest Park. Two Bdrm/one bath, single car garage. $950 per. Mo./yr. lease.

304-685-3457

NOW RENTING TOP OF FALLING RUN ROAD Morgan Point 1+2/BR $590-$790+ utilities. Semester lease. WD. DW. Parking.

NO PETS. Call: 304-290-4834.

EFF: 1BR: 2BR: Now Leasing For 2012

HELP WANTED

jcovert@bathsaver.com

BLACK BEAR BURRITOS. Down town location. Hiring all positions. Experience preferred, not required. Full and part time. Apply at 132 Pleasant Street DENTAL OFFICE SEEKING PRE-DENTAL STUDENTS or students interested in the field of dentistry. Part-time.

Please e-mail resume and contact info; wisdomteeth4@gmail.com GARDENER; Organic Home Garden, weekly, 304-599-4836.

Mr. C’s WISEGUY CAFE looking for part-time cook and delivery driver. Phone 304.599.3636 or 304.288.2200 NOW HIRING WAITRESS’S AND DOORMEN apply in person after 8pm at 3395 University Ave. PAID BOYS AAU BASKETBALL COACHES. Practices Monday/Wednesday evenings. Tournaments on weekends. E-mail mohiganbasketball@gmail.com. Must have high school coach as reference.

RELIABLE, non mowing yard help. Now thru Oct. $8.25/hr. Vehicle. Contact: osage@mail.wvnet.edu YOUTH CRISIS SHELTER seeking part-time as needed employees. Interested parties should have skills necessary to provide support and guidance to adolescents and be willing to work all shifts, including holidays, as needed. Please email resume to: moncoysc3@comcast.net Equal Opportunity Employer

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ATTRACTIVE 1 & 2/BR APARTMENTS. Near Ruby and on Mileground. Plenty of parking. 292-1605 JUST LISTED, MUST SEE 3BR 2/BA. Close to Arnold Hall on Willey St. WD, DW, Microwave, Parking, Sprinkler and Security system. $485/person utils included. No Pets. 12 month lease.

304.288.9662, 304.288.1572, 304.282.8131 SUNNYSIDE 1 MINUTE WALK to campus.

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

Friday September 21, 2012

The Recipe to release CD at 123 Pleasant Street

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The Recipe will release their new album ‘Stir the Pot’ Saturday at 123 Pleasant Street.

BY Noelle harris a&e writer

The Recipe will be sharing its formula for great music as they perform a CD release show for their new CD, “Stir the Pot” Saturday at 123 Pleasant Street.

The Recipe formed in Morgantown in 1995.

Founded in “porch music,” the band is known for its songwriting and lyrics with an Americana/hippy hoedown sound. Their music combines acoustic and electric guitar, fiddle, saxophone, thumping bass and body-moving drums.

They have been around the block; they’ve toured the country and performed at All Good Music festival nine times.

But the band has gone through some recent changes.

Joe Prichard, guitarist and singer -songwriter, attributes this to a couple of factors and even said this is the best music they have produced.

The biggest change has been the lineup of the group. They have added another member, Shannon Jones, who writes, sings and plays guitar and keyboard.

“She’s a little younger than the rest of us, and she really brought a fresher side in than the rest of us,” Prichard said.

Prichard and the rest of the members recognized their hiatus had left them

a little washed out. Their break to have kids and a life outside of music did not help, and he even said they were still writing songs like it was 1998.

“At a certain moment in time, the lightning bolt strikes you, like we had,” Prichard said. “And the band went on to improve after it happened.”

Jones has given the group a new lease on music.

Because The Recipe has been together for so long, though, they know each other well. This has allowed them to grow as a group and improve musically.

“After years go by, when you do keep playing music, you get better,” he said.

The release of their new CD, “Stir the Pot,” is looking to be a great one.

“It’s the best CD we’ve ever done, in my opinion,” Prichard said.

This is their first CD since 2006, and their first CD release show in Morgantown since they did a release show for “Night of the Porch People” in 1998.

Come watch The Recipe perform the release show for their new CD at 123 Pleasant Street at 10 p.m.

Saturday.

For more information on upcoming shows and new music, check out The Recipe’s Facebook page, YouTube page, or visit www.reverbnation.com/ therecipemusic.

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