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Volume 125, Issue 108

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SGA promotes sustainability awareness by kelsey montgomery staff writer

The West Virginia University Student Government Association is taking initiative to create a more environmentally-conscious campus with its upcoming Sustainability Awareness Week and a campus-wide dining hall waste audit.

SGA Governors Isabelle Shepherd and Zach Redding are the main proponents of

the green campus movement, and projects included in the audit are driving the governors to promote sustainability and reduce waste on campus.

The audit will monitor how much waste is generated within the dining halls and the results of the study could bring major changes to WVU dining, concerning the way food is prepared or thrown away, Shepherd said.

“The things we would be doing could involve posting

more advertisements in the dining halls that say ‘Take only as much as you need,’” Shepherd said. “When you make food, energy and water go into it, and when it’s wasted, we’re not only wasting food, but we’re wasting resources.”

Shepherd said she also hopes to help save the University money by eliminating the total waste and getting a biodigester for dining areas, which would convert organic wastes into a nutrient-rich liquid fer-

Int’l Student Org unites cultures across campus by mackenzie mays city editor

The West Virginia University International Student Organization is working to bring students of different cultures together through food.

“More Than Just Curry – a South Asian Feast,” the ISO annual international dinner will feature dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan.

However, the unique cuisine isn’t at the heart of the event, according to ISO President Ahmad Alashi.

“An event like this gathers people from different countries in the world and makes them understand different perspectives, cultures and lifestyles,” Alashi said, a senior industrial engineering student. “It’s not just a dinner – it’s activities that bring people together to one table.”

The ISO serves to foster understanding about diversity and the various cultures throughout the WVU community and provides a helping hand to new students getting oriented to the U.S., Alashi said.

“For international students, this is their first stop at WVU. By joining this organization, it helps students meet new friends, understand different cultures and help with the homesickness and learn

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For Mark Brazaitis, director of West Virginia University’s Creative Writing Program, inspiration and creativity have always sprung from personal experience and a fascination with particular images.

“As a writer, I’m always curious about where certain images or ideas will take me,” Brazaitis said.

The WVU professor is a recent winner of the University of Notre Dame’s Richard Sullivan Prize “The Incurables,” a collection of ten short stories about the impact of mental illness on the men and women in a small Ohio town.

Brazaitis said the book also includes stories of other incurable conditions, familial relationships that never seem to satisfy anyone involved and romantic relationships that offer as much heartache as pleasure.

“For the first story in the collection, ‘The Bridge,’ I had this vision of a couple throwing themselves off the side of a bridge, and I decided to pursue that idea,” he said.

new languages,” he said.

The ISO is a great opportunity for American students looking to learn about other cultures as well, Alashi said.

“A lot of WVU students cannot afford to study abroad. In this organization, they can meet people from the same country that they would like to visit and try to experience those habits and behaviors,” he said. “It’s important for students to take advantage of these opportunities and get to know the culture of others.”

Tickets for the International Dinner are available at the Office of International Students and Scholars in room 111 of Elizabeth Moore Hall and will also be distributed at an ISO booth in the Mountainlair Thursday from 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

“Student and community volunteers are looking forward to giving the Morgantown community a taste of their home cooking,” said Shishira Sreenivas, a member of the ISO planning committee.

Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students and $5 for children ages 5-12.

For more information about the International Student Organization, visit http://iso.studentorgs.wvu. edu. mackenzie.mays@mail.wvu.edu

Brazaitis said the story eventually became the tale of a small town in Ohio where the townspeople were continually jumping off a local bridge.

“The Bridge” is told from the perspective of the town’s sheriff, Brazaitis said, and highlights his reaction to the hysteria surrounding the town as its citizens continue to jump off of the bridge.

“These stories come from my fascination with an image, a line or a shape,” he said.

“Some of them are also inspired by my own personal journeys with depression.”

Brazaitis said while his stories take place in small Ohio towns, he receives much inspiration from his experiences in Morgantown.

“WVU is a great place to be a writer,” he said. “Even though the stories are set in Ohio, much of my inspiration comes from scenarios and experiences in Morgantown.”

While an undergraduate student, Brazaitis said he had a passion for journalism and said he wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps and become

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College of Business & Economics hosts 13th annual Etiquette Dinner and Seminar by joann snoderly staff writer

Which fork should be used for salad? When should you put your napkin in your lap?

On which side of the plate do your water glass and bread dish belong?

These questions and more were answered at the Lakeview Resort Thursday evening as part of the 13th annual Etiquette Dinner and Seminar presented by the West Virginia University College of Business & Economics Center for Career Development.

The seminar created an environment in which students could learn how to present themselves when trying to impress a future interviewer or business client.

“Ninety percent of business deals are made over the din-

ner table,” said Susan Robison, assistant director of the CCD. “Employers judge you based on manners, presentation and how you would present yourself to their client.”

Jose Sartarelli, dean of the College of Business & Economics, stressed the importance of both proper behavior and attire when it comes to business events.

“It’s not just the words that you say, but the way you look,” Sartarelli said. “You can walk in a room wearing a $800 suit, but if the behavior isn’t right, so what?”

Students in attendance were able to learn and practice proper etiquette while dining with employers from companies including Mylan Pharmaceuticals and United

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Tinickia Robinette, Lakeview Resort’s Banquet Captain, right, serves Jeff Kaiser, a junior accounting student, left, at the West Virginia University Etiquette Dinner and Seminar Wednesday evening at Lakeview Golf Resort and Spa.

Students prepare for upcoming midterm exams by bryan bumgardner staff writer

Students at West Virginia University have hit the halfway point of the spring semester and are preparing for midterm exams.

Emma Fredette, a graduate student who works as a librarian at the Downtown Library, said midterm week and finals week are the busiest times of the year.

“Even today, I couldn’t find a parking spot downtown. It’s crazy,” she said.

Fredette said with mid-

terms, comes extra stress and last minute preparation.

“During midterms, we always get people who are in a hurry. Usually people are looking for a book they need that day. Sometimes they’re cramming because they haven’t done their work at all,” Fredette said.

Junior computer science student Ryan Scott said it’s important to dedicate time to preparing for midterm exams to maintain the confidence to successfully finish

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cated, what SGA is and what platforms the parties are running on,” Rollins said.

Governor Matt Boczanowski organized the first Graduate Student Town Hall Wednesday to hear WVU graduate students’ interests on campus improvement, with topics including faculty and student relationships, academic expectations, orientation programs for prospective

West Virginia University students and representatives from Morgantown businesses visit before the Etiquette Dinner and Seminar Wednesday evening at Lakeview Golf Resort and Spa. The purpose of the event was to teach students proper manners and etiquette while at formal and business dinners.

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teer opportunity.”

Rollins also announced the upcoming SGA elections will be designed based on the organization Rock the Vote. Rock the Vote is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that was successful in engaging young adults to exercise their right to vote in both the 2004 and 2008 U.S. Presidential elections.

“It’s going to be a spin-off of MTV’s Rock the Vote by aiming to educate students about where the polls will be lo-

PRIM & PROPER

English professor receives literary award by carlee lammers

tilizer and biogas, a renewable source of electrical and heat energy.

The audit will run from March 5-9 and SGA will need a total of 175 volunteers for the project to be successful, Shepherd said. Students interested in helping campus dining create less waste can volunteer at www.tiny.cc/wasteaudit.

“The task of each volunteer will be simple and only takes two hours,” Shepherd said. “It is a timeless volun-

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Students study in one of the quiet reading rooms inside the Downtown Library Wednesday afternoon.

A BURSTING BUBBLE West Virginia didn’t help its chances for an NCAA tournament bid Wednesday when it fell to Notre Dame Wednesday night.

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Thursday February 23, 2012

Fiery charges: Romney, Santorum assail each other MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Primed for a fight, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum traded fiery accusations about health care, spending earmarks and federal bailouts Wednesday night in the 20th and possibly final debate of the roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination.

Santorum, surging in the race, also took his lumps from the audience, which booed when he said he had voted several years ago for the No Child Left Behind education legislation even though he had opposed it.

“Look, politics is a team sport, folks,” he said of the measure backed by Republican President George W. Bush and other GOP lawmakers.

With pivotal primaries in Arizona and Michigan just six days distant – and 10 more contests one week later – Romney and Santorum sparred more aggressively than in past debates, sometimes talking over each other’s answers.

Texas Rep. Ron Paul chimed in from the side, saying with a smile that Santorum was a fake conservative who had voted for programs that he

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Image consultant Susan Lawrence also attended the event to answer questions students may have about proper professional attire and give them the confidence they need to succeed in the real world.

“It’s like driving a car. You can watch all the videos on how to drive a car that you want, but until you practice, you are not going to learn,” Lawrence said. “What I want is for people to be able to say, ‘I’m a Mountaineer, and I’m doing it right.’”

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“I think the meeting was a great success,” Boczanowski said. “We had a great turnout and had an informative discussion regarding the graduate survey that was issued all 7,000-plus graduate students on campus.”

President Jason Bailey said he encourages SGA members and students to attend the Board of Governors-Student Government Association Constituency Meeting.

The meeting will be held

now says he wants to repeal.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acted almost as a referee at times.

On foreign affairs, all four Republicans attacked President Barack Obama for his handling of Iran and its attempt to develop a nuclear program, but none of the contenders advocated providing arms to the rebels trying to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The most animated clash of the evening focused on health care in the United States.

Santorum said that Romney had used government money to “fund a federal takeover of health care in Massachusetts,” a reference to the state law that was enacted during Romney’s term as governor. The law includes a requirement for individuals to purchase coverage that is similar to the one in Obama’s landmark federal law that Romney and other Republicans have vowed to repeal.

In rebuttal, Romney said Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, actually bore responsibility for passage of the health care law that Obama won from a Democratic-conFelicia Jankowski, a senior accounting and finance student, said she will take what she learned at the event with her after graduation.

“In the future, it will be useful in employment and working with clients,” Jankowski said.

Jason Gaspar, a junior business management student, said it was a great opportunity to help young adults avoid any common mistakes when entering the work force.

“It’s a chance to learn how to talk to people, eat right and not make a fool of yourself,” he said. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

Thursday at 4:30 p.m. at the Jerry West Lounge in the Coliseum.

Governor Benjamin Seebaugh announced there will be a “Speak Up” event concerning LBGT community issues on March 13 in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.

Bullying on campus will be a main topic of discussion with the LBGT panel at the event.

“Following this speak up we will be hosting a speaker about bullying in the fall,” Seebaugh said. “Situations like bullying in the work place will be discussed as well.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

trolled Congress in 2010, even though he wasn’t in office at the time. Romney said that in a primary battle in 2004, Santorum had supported then-Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who later switched parties and voted for the law Obama wanted.

“He voted for Obamacare. If you had not supported him, if we had said no to Arlen Specter, we would not have Obamacare,” Romney contended.

Santorum was the aggressor on bailouts.

While all four of the Republicans on the debate stage opposed the federal bailout of the auto industry in 2008 and 2009, Santorum said he had voted against other governmentfunded rescue efforts.

“With respect to Governor Romney that was not the case, he supported the folks on Wall Street and bailed out Wall Street – was all for it – and when it came to the auto workers and the folks in Detroit, he said no.

That to me is not a principled consistent position,” he said.

The debate had a different look from the 19 that preceded it. Instead of standing behind lecterns, the four presidential

rivals sat in chairs lined up side by side. Romney, Santorum and Paul recently announced they would not participate in another four-way appearance that had been scheduled in Atlanta, raising the possibility that the 20th debate might be the last.

There was another difference, as well, in the form of polls that underscored the gains that Obama has made in his bid for re-election.

An Associated Press poll released Wednesday found that Obama would defeat any of the four remaining Republican contenders in a hypothetical matchup. It also found that the nation is showing more optimism about the state of the economy, the dominant issue in the race.

But for two hours, Romney, Santorum, Paul and Gingrich had a different campaign in mind, their own race for the Republican nomination and the right to oppose Obama in the fall.

After a brief lull, the campaign calendar calls for 13 primaries and caucuses between next Tuesday, when Arizona and Michigan have primaries,

and March 6, a 10-state Super Tuesday.

Romney is campaigning confidently in Arizona, so much so that his campaign has not aired any television ads.

But the former Massachusetts governor faces an unexpectedly strong challenge in his home state of Michigan, where Santorum is hoping to spring an upset. Santorum’s candidacy has rebounded in the two weeks since he won caucuses in Minnesota, Colorado and a non-binding primary in Missouri.

The result is a multimillion-dollar barrage of television commercials in Michigan in which the candidates and their allies swap accusations in hopes of tipping the race.

In all, 518 Republican National Convention delegates are at stake between Feb. 28 and March 6, three times the number awarded in the states that have voted since the beginning of the year. It takes 1,144 to win the nomination.

The dynamic of the campaign – Santorum challenging Romney – made their clashes Wednesday night inevitable.

Romney said Santorum voted five times while in Congress to raise the government’s ability to borrow, supported retention of a law that favors construction unions and supported increased spending for Planned Parenthood. He said federal spending had risen 78 percent overall while the former Pennsylvania senator was in Congress.

Santorum retorted that government spending declined as a percentage of the economy when he was in the Senate, and he noted that when Romney was asked last year if he would support a then-pending debtlimit increase, “he said yes.”

There was a clash over federal spending earmarks, as well, and Gingrich sought to intervene as if serving as a referee instead of a debate participant.

He said he supported the earmarks that Romney had sought for the Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002, but then he accused Romney of observing a double standard by running television ads attacking Santorum for having voted for different earmarks.

Mayor: NYPD Muslim files ‘deeply offensive’ NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The mayor and police director of New Jersey’s largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark’s Muslim neighborhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it.

“If anyone in my police department had known this was a blanket investigation of individuals based on nothing but their religion, that strikes at the core of our beliefs and my beliefs very personally, and it would have merited a far sterner response,” Newark Mayor Cory Booker said.

In mid-2007, the NYPD’s secretive Demographics Unit fanned out across Newark, photographing every mosque and eavesdropping in Muslim businesses. The findings were cataloged in a 60-page report, obtained by The Associated Press, that served as a police guidebook to Newark’s Muslims. There was no mention of terrorism or any criminal wrongdoing.

Officials reacted strongly on Wednesday.

“It is deeply offensive for me to do blanket surveillance for no reason other than religious affiliation,” said Booker, who called on his state’s attorney general to investigate.

Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio, who was deputy chief of the department at the

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“I think any exam is worth studying for,” Scott said. “I like to study where there are no distractions and especially no music.”

Tyler Lemasters, a freshman political science student, works at the Media Services

time, said the NYPD asked to be shown around the city. New York police said it was part of an investigation but never revealed what it was about, DeMaio said.

“We really want to be clear: This type of activity is not what the Newark PD would ever do,” he said.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who was the top federal prosecutor in the state in 2007, said he didn’t remember the NYPD ever approaching him about surveillance in the city or a threat that would justify it.

He called the Newark report “disturbing.”

“The NYPD has at times developed a reputation of asking forgiveness rather than permission,” he said.

Such surveillance has become common in New York City in the decade since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Nearly 3,000 Americans died when alQaida terrorists hijacked airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon near Washington and a field where one crashed in Pennsylvania.

Police have built databases showing where Muslims live, where they buy groceries, what Internet cafes they use and where they watch sports. Dozens of mosques and student groups have been infiltrated, and police have built detailed profiles of local ethnic groups, from Moroccans to Egyptians to Albanians.

But the NYPD’s intelligence unit also operates far outside its jurisdiction and has worked to keep tabs on Muslims across the Northeast. The department has cataloged Muslim communities in Long Island, conducted undercover operations in New Brunswick, N.J., and has turned often innocuous Internet postings by Muslim student groups into police files.

The monitoring of Muslim college students across the Northeast drew sharp rebukes from administrators at Yale, Columbia and elsewhere earlier this week. But New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg issued his most vigorous defense of his police department to date.

“The police department goes where there are allegations.

And they look to see whether those allegations are true,” he told reporters Tuesday. “That’s what you’d expect them to do.

That’s what you’d want them to do. Remind yourself when you turn out the light tonight.”

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne did not respond to a message seeking comment on the Newark effort Wednesday.

He has previously denied the existence of the Demographics Unit.

The documents obtained by the AP show, for the first time in any detail, how the NYPD’s intelligence-gathering efforts stretched outside the department’s jurisdiction. New Jersey and Long Island residents

had no reason to suspect the NYPD was watching them. And the department is not accountable to their votes or tax dollars.

NYPD conducted similar operations in Suffolk and Nassau counties on suburban Long Island, according to police records. The NYPD frequently operates outside its jurisdiction without telling federal or local officials.

The report left Newark Muslims grasping for explanations as they saw pictures of their mosques and businesses in police files.

“All of these are innocent people,” Nagiba el-Sioufi of Newark said recently while her husband, Mohammed, flipped through the NYPD report.

Egyptian immigrants and American citizens, the couple raised two daughters in the United States. Mohammed works as an accountant and is vice president of the Islamic Culture Center, a mosque a few blocks from Newark City Hall.

“If you have an accusation on us, then spend the money on doing this to us,” Nagiba said. “But you have no accusation.”

The Newark police director at the time, Garry McCarthy, is now in charge of the Chicago Police Department. He said the NYPD initiated the operation and none of his officers participated.

The goal of the report, like others the Demographics Unit compiled, was to give po-

desk on the bottom floor of the library and said students take advantage of the variety of computers the library has to offer during midterms.

“People usually come down here for a cram session.

Everyone who comes down here keeps to themselves.

They usually just put in their headphones and work at computers,” he said.

Maha Skah, a political sci-

ence exchange student from Morocco, said she likes to visit the WVU libraries when preparing for exams because of the quiet time and free equipment.

“The computer system is great. The setup for printing is much better than the one at my other university,” she said.

“The bigger screens are better for looking at Powerpoints for class or for watching videos.”

As midterms continue and final exams approach, librarians and media services workers are available to help students locate books, operate software or secure a study room.

For more information about the library’s student services, visit www.libraries. wvu.edu.

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“Journalism is a great field. I love everything about newspapers, meeting deadlines and writing quickly, but I found that what I loved even more was inventing things,” he said.

“That doesn’t exactly lead to a healthy journalism career.”

After a tour in Guatemala while serving in the Peace Corps, Brazaitis earned his Masters of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Bowling

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Green State University.

Brazaitis will receive a $1,000 prize and a reading of “The Incurables” at the University of Notre Dame in the spring of 2013. The University of Notre Dame Press will also publish the stories in winter/spring of 2012-13.

“It’s always an honor to receive the praise of people you admire. I am very grateful for the people at Notre Dame for having chosen my work,” he said.

Brazaitis said he is thrilled for the opportunity to fulfill a dream held by many writers: to have others read his work.

“I’m grateful that the press will be putting this book out for the world,” he said. “It makes me feel like my work has some merit. You don’t just write for yourself – every writer wants to be read.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Stocks lower a day after Dow’s blip above 13,000 NEW YORK (AP) — A day after Dow 13,000, investors took a break.

Stocks closed lower Wednesday for the first time in four trading days. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 27.02 points to finish at 12,938.67.

The day before, it briefly passed 13,000 for the first time since May 2008.

Some investors worried about the details of a bailout deal reached for Greece this week. But analysts said investors were mostly in a holding pattern after seeing the market hit an important psychological mark.

“The market is pausing for the next slew of good news,” said Doug Cote, chief market strategist at ING Investment Management. “The real U.S. economy continues to march along while the attention is on

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Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York. U.S. stock futures falling Wednesday.

Europe.”

On Thursday, the government will give the latest reading on unemployment claims.

They have been declining

steadily and fell last week to 348,000, the lowest since March 2008.

The Dow has lost ground on just four of the past 11 trading

days. It’s been trading at or near four-year highs for three weeks and is up 6 percent this year.

Strong corporate earnings have been a key factor, Cote said.

On Wednesday, the Dow traded in a range of just 63 points.

Over the past year, it has had smaller trading ranges on only nine other days. The average daily range over that time has been 181 points.

Financial stocks led the market lower. Investors worried that a $170 billion bailout for Greece, announced Tuesday, would not be enough to keep the debt-laden country from eventually defaulting and possibly leaving the euro currency group.

Greece says the bailout, plus an agreement it hopes to secure from investors to take losses on Greek government

bonds, will keep it in the euro group. “There is no issue of the country’s financial collapse,” Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said.

The Greek economy is entering its fifth year of recession.

Fitch ratings agency downgraded Greece further into junk status Wednesday, to a rating of C, one notch above default.

In the U.S., the Standard & Poor’s 500 lost 4.55 points to close at 1,357.66. The Nasdaq composite index declined 15.40 points to 2,933.17. Volume was lighter than average, 3.6 billion shares.

All three major averages are well ahead for the year. The Dow is up 5.9 percent, the S&P 8 percent and the Nasdaq 12.6 percent.

“The market has done well in the face of some pretty low expectations,” said Todd Sal-

amone of Schaeffer’s Investment Research. “Right now we’re just seeing a few speed bumps.”

Salamone said he believes investors will keeping focusing on negative news overseas despite better news on the U.S. economy.

Last week, Congress extended a cut in the Social Security payroll tax, worth $1,000 for someone making $50,000 a year.

European markets closed lower. In Asia, stocks mostly rose even after a fairly weak Chinese manufacturing survey.

The dollar rose to a sevenmonth high against the Japanese yen. U.S. Treasury prices edged higher, and the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note fell to 2 percent from 2.05 percent.

Reporter Marie Colvin killed in Syria US Sen. McCain urges Libyan militias to join national army

LONDON (AP) — She was instantly recognizable for the eye patch that hid a shrapnel injury – a testament to Marie Colvin’s courage, which took her behind the front lines of the world’s deadliest conflicts to write about the suffering of individuals trapped in war.

After more than two decades of chronicling conflict, Colvin became a victim of it Wednesday, killed by shelling in the besieged Syrian city of Homs.

Colvin, 56, died alongside French photojournalist Remi Ochlik, the French government announced. Freelance photographer Paul Conroy and journalist Edith Bouvier of Le Figaro were wounded.

Colvin, from East Norwich, New York, had been a foreign correspondent for Britain’s Sunday Times for more than 25 years, making a specialty of reporting from the world’s most dangerous places. The newspaper posted her final dispatch outside the website’s paywall, so anyone could read her account from a cellar offering refuge for women and children. The report chronicled the horrors that eventually took her own life.

“It is a city of the cold and hungry, echoing to exploding shells and bursts of gunfire,” Colvin wrote. “There are no telephones and the electricity has been cut off. ... Freezing rain fills potholes and snow drifts in through windows empty of glass. No shops are open, so families are sharing what they have with relatives and neighbors. Many of the dead and injured are those who risked foraging for food.

“Fearing the snipers’ merciless eyes, families resorted last week to throwing bread across rooftops, or breaking through communal walls to pass unseen.”

Colvin often focused on the plight of women and children in wartime, and Syria was no different. She gave interviews to major British broadcasters on the eve of her death, appealing for the world to notice the slaughter taking place.

“I watched a little baby die today,” she told the BBC on Tuesday. “Absolutely horrific, a 2-year old child had been hit.

They stripped it and found the shrapnel had gone into the left chest and the doctor said ‘I can’t do anything.’ His little tummy just kept heaving until he died.”

In the 1990s, Colvin worked in the Balkans, where she went on patrol with the Kosovo Liberation Army as it engaged Serb military forces. She worked in Chechnya, where she came under fire from Russian jets while reporting on Chechen rebels seeking independence for their region. She also covered the conflict in East Timor after its people voted for independence in Southeast Asia.

She was one of the few reporters to interview ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi

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This is an undated image made available Wednesday by the Sunday Times in London of journalist Marie Colvin. in his final days before his death in October. Her mother, Rosemarie Colvin, of East Norwich, N.Y., told The Associated Press that her daughter knew Gadhafi well, and described her daughter as a passionate about her work, even when it got very hard.

“She was supposed to leave (Syria) today,” Rosemarie Colvin said, adding that her daughter had spoken yesterday with her editor who ordered her to leave because it was so dangerous.

“She had to stay. She wanted to finish one more story.”

The eldest of five children, Colvin is survived by her mother, two sisters and two brothers. Rosemarie Colvin invited reporters into her home, fighting back the tears.

“The reason I’ve been talking to all you guys is that I don’t want my daughter’s legacy to be ‘no comment ... because she wasn’t a ‘no comment’ person,’” she said. “Her legacy is: Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in. And do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can.”

A graduate of Yale University, Colvin had never planned to be a journalist. She had studied anthropology, later taking the rigorous study of people and places and putting it to good use writing about individuals caught up in suffering to relay the horror of war.

“Our mission is to speak the

truth to power,” she said during a tribute service for slain journalists at Fleet Street’s St. Bride’s Church in November 2010. “We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians.”

Colvin’s death comes only days after two other respected journalists died while reporting on the uprising against Syria’s president, Bashar Assad. Twotime Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony Shadid, a correspondent for The New York Times, died last week of an apparent asthma attack while slipping out of Syria.

Award-winning French TV reporter Gilles Jacquier was killed in an explosion in Homs on Jan. 11, becoming the first Western journalist to die since the uprising began. His colleagues believe he was murdered in an elaborate trap set up by Syrian authorities – a claim that Assad’s government has denied.

Colvin lost the sight in one eye during an ambush in Sri Lanka in 2001 but promised not to “hang up my flak jacket” and kept reporting on the world’s most troubled places. She was matter of fact about the injury during the tribute at St. Bride’s, as she described how authorities will try to keep the truth out of the headlines.

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Sen. John McCain urged Libya’s militias on Wednesday to integrate themselves into the country’s new national army and called for the reported abuse of prisoners held by the ex-rebels to stop.

McCain, a strong advocate of U.S. intervention to stop deposed leader Moammar Gadhafi’s crackdown on the country’s 2011 uprising, spoke to reporters after meetings with former rebel commanders and the chairman of the ruling National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, in Tripoli.

The senator said he raised the issue of alleged abuses inside makeshift prisons run by militias.

“We made clear to them that human rights organizations are reporting serious abuses and the world is watching. We know it is difficult but these abuses need to stop so Libya can be respected everywhere in the world,” he said.

He also said he advocated the collection of weapons by the authorities, saying that

if they “fall into the wrong hands, it would pose a very serious threat.”

The U.N. and other agencies have expressed concerns about the proliferation of weapons from the upheaval, fearful that it may feed instability throughout the region.

Hundreds of armed militias that fought against Gadhafi’s forces are the real power on the ground in Libya, wielding control over cities, neighborhoods and borders.

The country has been plagued by revenge attacks by those who suffered at the hands of Gadhafi’s forces during the brutal civil war.

Human rights groups have documented reports of widespread torture and killings of detainees.

The NTC in contrast has been unable to rein in fighters, rebuild decimated institutions or stop widespread corruption.

Underscoring the turmoil, scores of civilians have been killed in tribal warfare in southern Libya since Feb. 11.

McCain however noted

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“enormous progress and change that has taken place over the past months.”

He offered U.S. assistance in the country’s upcoming elections.

“The upcoming elections in June will prove to the world that the people of Libya are struggling for universal human values of democracy and freedom,” he said.

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Thursday February 23, 2012

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Ignoring issues won’t solve them It is always difficult for politicians to take a side on a controversial issue, especially during an election year.

But West Virginia legislators must at least discuss House Bill 4569, which would legalize same-sex civil unions in the state.

The bill, which was introduced by Jefferson County Delegate John Doyle, would give same-sex couples benefits they would otherwise not have, such as receiving medical coverage from a partner’s

employer.

Although Doyle doesn’t expect much from his legislation, he hopes to get lawmakers talking about the issue, since this is the first same-sex bill introduced in the state.

The issue of same-sex civil unions and marriages has been a hot debate topic recently.

As America waits for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if it will hear California’s Proposition 8 case, which may declare for same-sex marriage

bans unconstitutional, debates within other states – such as West Virginia – could perhaps sway the U.S. Supreme Court to at least hear Proposition 8.

Ignoring the issue will not make it go away.

According to www.publicpolicypolling.com, only 43 percent of West Virginians want some form of legal recognition for same-sex couples.

While the majority may not accept the idea of legitimate same-sex couples, it doesn’t

mean they shouldn’t have rights.

Same-sex couples do not harm society and there is no evidence supporting existing claims that they are unfit for raising children.

They only want the basic rights that are already given to heterosexual couples – such as tax breaks and health insurance.

While Doyle is realistic about the fate of his legislation, the topic must be discussed before any progress

can be made.

If some of the legislators don’t agree with the bill, they should have to explain why not. Simply ignoring it is a coward’s way out.

Forty-three percent may not be a majority, but it is a large percentage.

Although a democracy is normally ruled by the majority’s ideologies, the majority shouldn’t deny rights to the minority.

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People have liberty when states overrule the government tomas engle columnist

When the struggling economy or the several wars our government is engaged in aren’t hogging the headlines, it’s always the same kind of social issues.

Whether it’s gay marriage, abortion or the recent federal mandate concerning birth control and religious organizations, all debates are essentially fruitless.

All involve one group’s happiness over another – forcing their beliefs onto another on a national scale. While allowing and encouraging states to make their own decisions concerning these matters will not settle them completely, as the problem of living under another’s belief would still exist, the problem becomes more manageable.

Allowing states to draft their own laws in the areas they are entitled to under the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, would give citizens a good idea of which states follow their own values. No longer would we as a nation be forced to listen to another debate of the same social issues over and over again, as myriad options can be experimented with among the states.

The best part about giving states the power is that it doesn’t favor one ideology over another; it simply allows for citizens within a state to decide their own laws. A drawback, of course, is that you may end up living in a state in the national minority, but this is just a drawback our present system of federal dominance has to an even greater extent.

It is more than a little ironic that liberal opponents of states’ rights use this as an argument as if it were taken to its logical conclusion – no government could rule over anyone without their consent – would result in literal individual government. Not a bad idea at all, but a topic for another time.

So yes, states’ rights have

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Virginia tea party supporters rally for states’ rights. traditionally been identified with the political right, as the term has become synonymous with the conservative reaction to federal civil rights legislation. This is an unfortunate and sloppy association, as states’ rights are simply a vehicle for legislation and don’t have an inherent ideology, but the association does need to be addressed.

While more people are aware of state rights being used by Southern states to rebuff and nullify federal civil rights legislation during the 1950s and ’60s, it was

also used to nullify pro-slavery laws more than 100 years earlier. From Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, several Northern states attempted to block enforcement of the pro-slavery Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850.

Nullification is essentially a legal concept that fits hand in glove with states’ rights, it allows state supreme courts to declare any federal law unconstitutional. Using personal liberty laws within their own states as precedent, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin attempted to subvert federal

law and act as safe havens for slaves escaping their servitude in the South.

Despite both mentioned attempts of state nullification – positive and negative – failing ultimately, we shouldn’t be afraid of our own federal government. If anything, that concern should show us we do need states’ rights and the most powerful tool of nullification. Thomas Jefferson perhaps said it best: “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”

We should count ourselves lucky to be in a country that has democratic tools for when even our free society becomes only relatively free; we have the opportunity to change it.

Not only are there countries where people have had to spill their own blood for what we consider relative freedom, but there are also countries out there that have fought, bled and failed in their quest for self-determination.

With the current genocide going on in Syria and stillborn status of democratic government in Egypt, we as Amer-

icans should be ashamed of ourselves if we let our country slowly slip into the tyranny of a highly centralized federal government when we have democratic tools at our disposal.

Before our country becomes another regional season like the Arab Spring or European Summer, we have to not only realize the wrong path of looking to the federal government for all our answers; we must also utilize the democratic tools we have to let everyone live in relative peace and freedom.

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Atomic energy is not the answer for a safer, more efficient world Bryan washington the daily cougar university of houston

Once upon a time, nuclear energy was just a domineering question mark. Its variables, limits and potentials were only a matter of speculation, without any variables to draw from, and the more curious nations resembled first time bike riders.

Their neighbors, the tropical agriculturalists, tentative Easterners and cross-eyed Westerners would watch to see how they fared from their

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respective living rooms, while somewhat interested, but not enough to dip their toes in.

They saw single speeds, hybrids and city bikes, noting how they fared in traffic and the durability of the paint.

There would be mental notes when they fell, with crossed fingers at the intersections. Inevitably, in the face of an accident, the mantra rose that it wouldn’t ever happen to them.

The kids have grown and we’ve seen that. For all of our concerns with the nuclear activity on adjacent shores, we’ve turned blind eyes to our own.

Nuclear plants in this country resemble the aforementioned bikes, sans kickstands, breaks, or an adjustable steering wheel.

From the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona to our very own South Texas Nuclear Generating Station, the plants, as well as their surrounding areas, have almost certainly been accompanied with their own respective time bombs. The magic question isn’t if they’ll find themselves in jeopardy, but when.

If a reason is needed to reevaluate our nuclear stance, you’d only need to turn to the 1984 incident in Athens,

Ala., which resulted in a sixyear outage in the area, and was immediately followed by another incident in the same area the following year.

Or Plymouth, Mass. in 1986, yielding an emergency shutdown of the plant and a shadow that still looms over the area. Or Chernobyl, Ukraine; Idaho Falls; Leningrad Oblast or Oak Harbor, Ohio.

Most recently, the threefold disaster in Japan demonstrated the unforgiving nature of nuclear slip-ups, killing three workers, and rendering parts of the country unlivable for at least the next couple of

years.

Even still, there are opponents to a shut down, with their reasons in tow. “Nuclear energy is more efficient;” “It’s less wasteful in the long run;” “Once the ball’s rolling, the increase in productivity is exponential” and, maybe the most recurrent of all, “Nuclear energy is the future.”

But whose future, exactly?

More than negligent, it is stupid to say that these factors, along with countless others, justify the potential disarray our entanglement with nuclear endeavors entails.

After the incident on Three Mile Island in 1979, during

which radioactive gases and iodine were released into Dauphin County, Pa., the public’s nuclear endorsement dropped to 43 percent.

Last year’s “accident” in Fukushima knocked the bar even lower, so that “64 percent of Americans opposed the construction of new nuclear reactors.”

It’s a start, but if these are the magnitudes required to raise awareness, it’d be a tragedy to find out what would result in a unanimous approval.

With more than 100 nuclear plants still operating in the nation, it’s a terrible method for punctuating progress.

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THE VETERANS OF WVU will be meeting at 7 p.m. in the Mountain Room of the Mountainlair. For more information, call 304-841-4308.

THE UNDERGROUND COMEDY COLLEGE will be running a stand-up comedy workshop from 1-7 p.m. in the Mountainlair. Interested students can get tips from professional comedians on how to put together a short set of stand-up.

At 9 p.m., aspiring comics can perform at the Side Pocket in the Mountainlair as part of the weekly comedy series. For more information, visit wvucomedycollege.eventbrite.com.

THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CAFE LECTURE SERIES hosts Jessica Troilo from the College of Education and Human resources. Troilo will be discussing perceptions of different types of fathers based on parental status and sexual orientation. The discussion begins at 5 p.m. at the Morgantown Brewing Company.

For more information, email joshua.woods@mail.wvu.edu or visit http://soca.wvu.edu/faculty_staff/social-science-cafe.

A MEDICATION INFORMATION SESSION, hosted by secondyear students from the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy, takes place from 6-7 p.m. at the Morgantown Public Library, located at 373 Spruce Street. Community members who have questions about any medications they are taking are encouraged to attend. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, email khetrick@sole.wvu.edu or call 814-233-8679.

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

EVERY THURSDAY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

UNITED METHODIST STUDENT MOVEMENT meets at 7 p.m. at the Campus Ministry Center on the corner of Price and Willey streets. For more information, email wvumethodist@ comcast.net.

WVU CLUB TENNIS practices from 9-10 p.m. at Ridgeview Racquet Club.

For carpooling, call 304-906-4427.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WELLWVU: STUDENT HEALTH is paid for by tuition and fees and is confidential. For appointments or more information, call 304-293-2311 or visit www.well.edu.wvu/medical.

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

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

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

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

CONFIDENTIAL COUNSELING SERVICES are provided for free by the Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatric Services. A walk-in clinic is offered weekdays from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Services include educational, career, individual, couples and group counseling. Please visit www.well.wvu.edu to find out more information.

WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN needs volunteers. WIC provides education, supplemental foods and immunizations for pregnant women and children under five years of age.

This is an opportunity to earn volunteer hours for class requirements. For more information, call 304-598-5180 or 304-598-5185.

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS, a United Way agency, is looking for volunteers to become Big Brothers and Big Sisters in its one-on-one community-based and school-based mentoring programs. To volunteer, call Sylvia at 304-983-2823, ext. 104 or email bigs4kids@yahoo.com.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

COMMUNITY NEWCOMERS CLUB is a group organized to allow new residents of the Morgantown area an opportunity to gather socially and assimilate into their new home community.

For more information, visit www.morgantownnewcomers.com.

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

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

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

THE ROYCE J. AND CAROLINE B. WATTS MUSEUM, located in the Mineral Resources Building on the Evansdale Campus, presents its latest exhibit “Defying the Darkness: The Struggle for Safe and Sufficient Mine Illumination” through July 2012. The exhibit focuses on the history mining lights, and displays a wide variety of mine lighting implements. The Exhibit is open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 1-4 p.m. and by appointment. For more information, call 304-293-4609 or email wattsmuseum@mail.wvu.edu.

HOROSCOPES

BY JACQUELINE BIGAR BORN TODAY This year you forge a new path, but only after you are sure that the status quo does not work. Tension and sarcasm often mark your endeavors.

Are they a reason to move in another direction? Only you will be able to decide this, and you will. Deal with funds carefully. Your communication excels. If you are single, you will see the results of being able to present yourself well. Look for romance after June. If you are attached, the two of you work through some hot-button issues. Passion plays a significant role in your bond. ARIES always encourages you.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH If you are not sure as to which way to go, reach out to a trusted friend. Together, if you are open, you can figure out the proper path.

When you detach, you gain a better perspective about conversations and interactions. Tonight: Burning the candle at both ends.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHH Sarcasm marks the morning. Be smart, and avoid playing into this behavior. You know what you want and where you are going. Do not get caught up in trivial matters. Let your mind expand in order to grasp the details of a new situation. Tonight: Get away from the here and now.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHH Much might be going on at work and also within yourself. You could become angry, but try not to act on that feeling. Sarcasm could be a whole other issue. You probably just need time to yourself. A walk might work.

Close your door, if possible. Tonight: Perking up.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH Others continue to knock on your door, and will call and email you. You might be surprised at all the inquiries. Do not get shorttempered simply because you have too much on your plate. Instead, tell them what ails you. Close relating earmarks the afternoon. Tonight: Make nice with a favorite person.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHH You benefit in the daylight hours. Whatever you decide to do works out even better than you thought possible. Meetings work well. Ideas flourish when talking with a group of people. Surprises surround you.

Tonight: Make it early.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHH Focus on work and your accomplishments. You have so much to do and so little time. Your effectiveness emerges. Schedule distractions and meetings for as late as you can. An associate or co-worker could be a source of frustration. Tonight: Accept an invitation.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHH Conflict is possible with a boss. Honor your differences and remember who is in charge.

Your words could come off as harshsounding when dealing with this person.

Postpone an important conversation until dinnertime. Tonight: Where the fun is.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH Remove yourself from situations where you might not be energized or interested. Others will be able to see your lack of involvement. Focus on what is challenging. If you opt for a bohemian route, you will succeed. Sometimes a staid attitude does not

work. Tonight: Try to make it early.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHH You move slowly when dealing with a boss or older relative. You wonder why you have done what you have as of late, especially with another person’s attitude.

Stay centered, and remember that you also gain in this situation. Tonight: Paint the town red.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Make phone calls and schedule meetings.

Above all else, do not stand on ceremony -- especially with a key person. Rather than encouraging separation, you will melt down emotional walls. News involving travel and/or new information forces thought and possible action. Tonight: Mosey on home.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH Refuse to get involved with others financially, or to accept another person’s idea regarding your funds. You might not be right, but he or she might not be right either. Time is your ally, though you might feel pressured by a situation. Schedule a discussion with a respected adviser for later in the day. Tonight: Listen to the pros and cons.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHH Someone might be trying to push your buttons. Stay centered and nonreactive, and this person will stop. Now is not the time to clear the air. Get done what you must, then decide when you would like to clear the air. Tonight: Get another opinion and maybe one more. Then decide.

BORN TODAY Author John Sandford (1944), rock/blues guitarist Johnny Winter (1944), actor Peter Fonda (1940)

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Pearls Before Swine

by Stephan Pastis

F Minus

by Tony Carrillo

Get Fuzzy

by Darby Conley

Cow and Boy

by Mark Leiknes

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ACROSS 1 Payment option 5 The Arthur Ashe Award for Courage is one 9 Detergent target 13 Peek-__ 14 One-named singer of “Rolling in the Deep” 15 Creepy lake?

16 Joint Chevrolet/Kia vacation package?

19 Burns rubber 20 Sources of inspiration 21 Spy novelist Deighton 22 Pres. before RWR 23 Joint GMC/Hyundai vacation package?

32 Sheepshank, e.g.

33 Cleveland’s Quicken Loans __ 34 Blend 35 Elihu for whom an Ivy is named 36 Took the wheel 37 Colada fruit 38 Sidewall letters 39 Glistened 40 Feature of American paneling, but not British?

41 Joint Ford/Chrysler vacation package?

45 Chap 46 ICU workers 47 Two-time loser to Ike 50 Sought at auction 56 Joint Dodge/Toyota vacation package?

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‘Buried Child’ to Premiere Friday at CAC

By Alex Panos A&E WRITER

Audiences will be treated to the West Virginia University’s School of Theatre and Dance’s interpretation of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “Buried Child,” Friday, with recurring showings until March 4.

Since its debut in 1979, renowned playwright Samuel Shepard’s “Buried Child” has captivated audiences with a variety of emotions uncanny to typical drama.

“It’s hard to categorize because it’s not a traditional tragedy,” said Jerry McGonigle, the play’s director, and director of graduate acting at WVU. “One minute you can laugh and another be horrified. It shifts and changes.”

The play takes place on a farm, where violence, mystery and dark secrets surround a complicated family.

Insanity ensues when a mysterious grandson and his girlfriend arrive to join an alcoholic grandfather, a self-righteous grandmother and their two sons – an amputee with several problems and a former football star back from Mexico for unknown

reasons.

McGonigle describes his interpretation of the play with Dodge, the “dying king,”finding a successor before he dies. Dodge encounters obstacles in his journey to find the successor and ultimately resting peace.

Shepard has written dozens of plays in addition to his acting and directing career, but “Buried Child” is considered to be one of his most famous works. Multiple outlets, including the New York Post, New York Times and New York Magazine praise his talent, ability and playwriting brilliance.

McGonigle said Shepard’s writing style wins over audiences because his ability to alternate between humor and danger leaves the viewers with an “emotional catharsis,” a releasing of repressed emotions.

“Shepard is working on a mythic level – myths in a sense of truths,” McGonigle said. “Truths about living, family, survival, fertility, death, resurrection, sin and atonement.”

According to the play’s online blog site, theatre students Greg Holt, Sarah Lemanski, Ben Roberts, Brandon Chowen, Will Stout, McKenna Kirchner and Todd Berkich have been work-

ing diligently in rehearsal for over a month in preparation for Friday’s opening night.

McGonigle said he appreciates the opportunity to direct this play and has been a fan of “Buried Child” since he first saw it in 1979.

“Thirty-three years later, I am honored to work on this play,” he said. “I think it is Shepard’s best play, and it resonates as strongly now as it did then.”

The first show is this Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Gladys G. Davis Theatre and will show again Saturday at the same time.

The showings on Feb. 28 to March 3 will also begin at 7:30 p.m. The two Sunday shows, Feb. 26 and March 4, will be matinee performances, starting at 2 p.m.

Sunday Feb. 26 will also be interpreted for the hearing impaired.

Tickets are on sale now for $20 to the general public, $18 for WVU faculty and staff as well as senior citizens, $15 for students and $10 as a group rate for purchases of 10 or more.

Tickets are available at the Mountainlair Box Office, ticketmaster.com or by calling 304-293-SHOW. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU students performing in Sam Shepard’s ‘Buried Child’ are (left to right): Greg Holt, Will Stout, Ben Roberts and McKenna Kirchner.

Deathcore band Veil of Maya release fourth album ‘Eclipse’ JOSH EWERS

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Progressive deathcore legends Veil of Maya are set to release their fourth studio album, “Eclipse” on Feb 28.

Veil of Maya exemplifies a unique brand of deathcore that their label, Sumerian Records, has become well known for.

Sumeriancore, as it has been dubbed by the metal blog scene, expands deathcore beyond the rampant simplicity and redundancy of its song structures (e.g. breakdown after breakdown) and adds something new to the mix.

The band certainly continues to do so on its upcoming release.

The album starts out with “20/200.” This opening track is burgeoning with intensity; it’s all about the impacts here. This is how you open a metal album, no extra frills, just sheer hammer dropping brutality.

“Divide Paths” truly gets the album moving at a faster speed. The blast beats and double bass work of drummer Sam Applebaum take center stage, but guitarist Marc Okubo doesn’t stay hidden roaring in with technical start and stop riff and an apocalyp-

tic chord progression.

If all this talk of blast beats and technical guitar work isn’t your thing, wait until “Punisher” because that’s exactly what this track does.

The guitar part is entirely groove, and your head will find itself bobbing up and down 15 seconds in. Synth strings accompany a portion of the tune, but the band and producer did a good job of not making them seem corny or out of place.

Also noteworthy is the hilarious sample used as a time change transition (yes, there is such a thing) near the end of the song.

“Winter is Coming” is the first song that feels really progressive. It’s the first one that hasn’t been heard a million times by other Sumerian listeners. Blast beats coupled with riffing that sounds like it would be at home in the bridge to a Periphery tune make for a truly unique experience.

Add in the fact the song summarizes in a huge building progression featuring some far more black metal-like high pitched vocals from Brandon Butler and you’ve got yourself a winner of a track.

The beginning of the next track, “The Glass Slide,” marks the first time Danny Hauser’s bass work is really brought forward. He lays down an exotic line that works surprisingly well with the sheer heaviness

operating around it. It is possible to theorize at this point that the boys of Veil of Maya didn’t want to start out the album with their best material.

On first impression, “Enter My Dreams” seems like a song that is very familiar, because it’s been heard before, and The Black Dahlia Murder did it better on their album “Ritual.”

However, the song is saved from obscure filler track status thanks to a crushing palm mute section that makes the listener feel as though their spine is slowly being crushed (that’s a good thing for you non-metal fans).

Aside from the excellent lead work in the intro to “Numerical Schemes” the song is the most stereotypical deathcore track. For a long period of time, it features a simplistic riff (relatively speaking) followed by an Emmure-esque mini breakdown before transitioning into a gratuitous atmospheric synth section. This is a filler track unless you’re a devout fan of the genre’s cliches.

“Vicious Circles” is up on next. The only thing that stands out about this one is how boring it is. It lacks that third gear that can really save a song and give it a sense of direction. For the second-straight track, things seem really gratuitous. It’s like instead of writing a song that flows, they just wrote three or four sections

Progressive deathcore group Veil of Maya are set to release their fourth studio album ‘Eclipse.’ that sounded kind of cool and pasted them together.

“Eclipse” is a nice rebound, being one of the best instrumental pieces I’ve heard in a long time. Every note change is dramatic; every change in tempo transforms the feel of the song, and it all fits together to form a truly dynamic piece of music. The double bass is

also pulled back here, which is a refreshing change of pace.

Rounding out the album is “With Passion and Power,” which does so on a strong note. The blast beats and double bass are brought back in full force. The guitar work lends itself strongly to Meshuggah in all its low-tuned, bending glory before fading

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All in all, this album isn’t much different from Veil of Maya’s last album “[id],” but it is a solid album that continues to push the boundaries of a stagnating genre. For metal fans it’s worth a purchase. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Documentary on life of recently deceased rapper Heavy D to air WASHINGTON (AP) — The story of late rap pioneer Heavy D will be chronicled in a documentary airing Sunday on Centric TV. “Be Inspired: The Life of Heavy D” will feature inter-

views with the Jamaican-born rapper’s family and artists such as Will Smith, Mary J. Blige and Queen Latifah, according to Centric TV, the 24-hour channel that is part of the BET Network.

Heavy D, whose given name

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Centric said the documentary includes footage from Heavy D’s last televised performance, at the BET Hip-Hop Awards last October.

In addition to building his own successful music career, Myers was a big part of the careers of other black artists.

Queen Latifah discusses in the documentary being mentored

by Myers. Myers also was a record label executive who hired Sean “Diddy” Combs as an intern, and was producer to other rappers, such as Jay-Z. Myers’ talents went beyond the studio to the theater and television.

‘Be Inspired: The Life of Heavy D’ will premiere on BET.

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First Amendment crusader Barney Rosset dies NEW YORK (AP) — Barney Rosset was a publisher, not an author, and struggled for decades to write the story of his brave and wild life. But few over the past 60 years had so profound an impact on the way we read today.

The fiery and publisher Rosset, who introduced the country to countless political and avant-garde writers and risked prison and financial ruin to release such underground classics as “Tropic of Cancer” and “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” has died. He was 89.

Rosset died at a Manhattan hospital Tuesday night, said Kelly Bowen, publicity manager for Algonquin Books, which is to publish Rosset’s autobiography. Rosset had recently had heart surgery.

“Barney was a great, great American publisher,” said Morgan Entrekin, publisher of Grove/Atlantic Books, who called Rosset an inspiration and a publisher powerfully motivated by his feelings of social responsibility. “He was extraordinary. I would say that if there’s a Publishing Hall of Fame, he definitely is going in it.”

As publisher of Grove Press, Rosset was a First Amendment crusader who helped overthrow 20th century censorship laws in the United States and profoundly expanded the American reading experience. Rosset had an FBI file that lasted for decades and he would seek out fellow rebels for much of his life.

Between Grove and the magazine Evergreen Review, which lasted from 1957 to 1973, Rosset published Samuel Beckett, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Jean-Paul Sartre, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, D.H. Lawrence and William Burroughs. He was equally daring as a film distributor, his credits including the groundbreaking erotic film “I Am Curious (Yellow),” and art-house releases by Jean-Luc Godard, Marguerite Duras and others.

Rosset himself was the subject of a movie, “Obscene,” a 2008 documentary that included commentary from John Waters, Gore Vidal and Amiri Baraka. The same year, he received honorary citations from the National Coalition Against Censorship and from the National Book Foundation, which sponsors the National Book Awards.

His autobiography was tentatively titled “The Subject Was Left-Handed” and Algonquin’s Publisher Elisabeth Scharlatt said she hopes to release it within the year.

“While working on this book, Barney took great pleasure in digging up his rebellious ancestors and his

rebellious roots, from a badboy great-grandfather to his very progressive elementary school that he was sent to in Chicago,” she said in an interview. “I think that in looking at how he got where he got with his own rebellious attitudes, he could see that he was maybe even pre-ordained in some way.”

A bon vivant who enjoyed long lunches and strong martinis, Rosset was a slightly built man with a brisk, peppery voice; and a breathless laugh, often at his own expense. His longtime editor in chief at Grove, Richard Seaver, would remember him as “often irascible, a control freak, prone to panic attacks,” with a “sadistic element” that shadowed his “innate generosity.”

Rosset, interviewed by The Associated Press in 1998, called himself an “amoeba with a brain,” ever slipping into enemy territory.

“I’m half-Jewish and halfIrish, and my mother and grandfather spoke Gaelic,” he explained. “From an early age my feelings made the IRA look pretty conservative. I grew up hating fascism, hating racism.”

A Chicago native, he was the only child of a banker, a rich kid with a passion for the arts and a rage to make trouble. His hero was John Dillinger, the nation’s foremost bank robber. By eighth grade he was printing a newspaper called Anti-Everything and he had joined the left-wing American Student Union.

“By the time I was a sophomore in college, second year at UCLA, I had reports that government agents had entered my apartment and took books and that they followed my mail and who I sent things to,” he said.

“At the time it was not fashionable to be against Hitler. It was called `premature antifascism.’ Then I volunteered in the infantry and that confused them.”

Rosset’s first interest was film. Cinematographer Haskell Wexler was a childhood friend and during World War II Rosset met the directors John Huston and Frank Capra while attending the Signal Corps photographic school. After leaving the service, he moved to Manhattan and produced “Strange Victory,” a docudrama about racism in the post-war United States.

A minor investment changed his life, and changed the world. In 1951, he paid $3,000 for Grove Press, a publishing house with only three titles to its credit. Rosset put the books in a suitcase, carried them to his apartment and opened shop. The story of Grove soon became one of

turning the obscure and the forbidden into the best-selling and the essential, from Burroughs’ “Naked Lunch” to Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.”

Rosset waged long and costly war on behalf of free expression. When he started Grove, his wish list included two erotic books, both decades old, that had never been distributed unexpurgated in the United States: Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” and Miller’s “Tropic of Cancer.”

In 1954 a copy of “Chatterley” was mailed from Paris to New York. Officials seized it and charged Rosset with promoting “indecent and lascivious thoughts,” a policy that dated back to obscenity legislation passed in the 1870s.

Rosset sued the U.S. Post Office in 1959 and his attorney, Charles Rembar, crafted a defense based on a Supreme Court decision written two years earlier by Justice William Brennan that “all ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion have the full protection of the guarantees.”

A federal judge, Frederick van Pelt Bryan, ruled in Rosset’s favor. An appeals court upheld Judge Bryan and the government declined to take the case to the Supreme Court. The Post Office’s ability to declare a work obscene had effectively been ended.

In 1961, over a game of Ping-Pong, Rosset and Miller agreed to let Grove Press distribute “Tropic of Cancer.” The book sold a million copies in its first year, but led to dozens of court cases; Rosset himself was arrested, fingerprinted and taken before a Brooklyn grand jury.

“The district attorney said, `Do you realize that members of the grand jury have children who are buying that book at newsstands right near their school?’” Rosset recalled.

“And I looked at him and said, `If that’s true and they buy it and read it all the way through, you as parents are to be commended.’”

The jury refused to indict and in 1964 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for Grove.

“It’s hard to remember how puritanical America is and was,” Martin Garbus, a First Amendment lawyer and friend of Rosset’s, told the AP in 1998. “Barney was the guy who fundamentally broke down censorship barriers in this country. He put up the money. There’s a very famous picture of him in the Saturday Evening Post: Barney coming out of the sewer, lifting up the lid - the whole idea of him as this purveyor of filth.”

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Barney Rosset. Rosset died Tuesday in New York.

Grove was equally busy defending its film releases. It was sued in the 1960s by the State of Massachusetts for releasing “Titicut Follies,” Frederick Wiseman’s horrifying documentary about the abuse of patients at Bridgewater State Hospital. The film was kept out of circulation until the 1990s.

In 1968, Rosset attempted to distribute the erotic Swedish film “I Am Curious (Yellow).” The movie was seized by the U.S. Customs Office, screened in some communities and banned in others. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 4-4 on this case, with Justice William O. Douglas recusing himself because one of his books had been excerpted in Evergreen Review.

An appeals court later ruled the film could not be banned.

Other Grove books included “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” the anonymous erotic classic “The Story of O” and Che Guevara’s “The Bolivian Diary.” Rosset also attempted an ambitious union of film and avant-garde literature, short works written by Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Harold Pinter. The trilogy was never completed, but the project did lead to one of the movies’ most unusual collaborations, “Film,” released in 1965 with a script by Beckett and a cast featuring Buster Keaton, just a year before his death.

Rosset only enjoyed limited profits from his legal victories. Although “I Am Curious (Yellow)” made millions and “Lady Chatterley” and other books sold well, he had to cover not only his own legal bills, but those of stores that carried his publications.

Grove was also harmed by rival publishers who released cheaper editions of “Tropic of Cancer” and other works that had no copyright in the U.S. By the late 1960s, the times were outrunning Rosset.

When Grove employees attempted to unionize, he was enraged and fired the key organizers. The Grove offices were soon taken over by feminist protesters demanding that a union be permitted, among other concessions, and accusing Grove of treating women poorly. Rosset, the one-time upstart, called in the police. The occupiers left and the union was eventually voted down.

As longtime Random House editor Jason Epstein once observed, Rosset was “a gifted and courageous publisher and a terrible businessman.”

Using profits from “I Am Curious (Yellow),” he had overextended Grove, moving into fancy new offices the publisher couldn’t afford. In 1985, to his lasting regret, Rosset was persuaded by British publisher George Weidenfeld to

sell Grove to Ann and Gordon Getty. Rosset was supposed to remain president, but a year later he was fired. Grove, now Grove Atlantic Inc., still owns the list Rosset built.

In his later years, he ran the erotic publisher Blue Moon Books, although legal troubles left him nearly penniless.

He worked on a memoir, revived the Evergreen Green Review online and even started a blog. Upon receiving his honorary National Book Award, Rosset reviewed his long history of defiance and stated that the “principal that no one has the right to tell us what we can and cannot read is one that has always been dear to me.”

Rosset was married four times, including to the artist Joan Mitchell. He had three children, including a son named Beckett.

In 1988, the PEN American Center awarded him with its Publisher Citation for “distinctive and continuous service to international letters, to the freedom and dignity of writers, and to the free transmission of the printed word across the barriers of poverty, ignorance, censorship, and repression.” Last month, he was awarded the Literarian Award for outstanding service to American letters by the National Book Foundation.

Viewers give CBS’s ‘NCIS’ most-watched show last week with 20 million viewers NEW YORK (AP) — Viewers gave CBS the week’s mostwatched show along with 21 others in the top 30 ranking.

Fox was represented only by its two editions of “American Idol” which ranked second and third while NBC’s lone entry, “The Voice,” took fourth place, according to Nielsen Co. figures released Wednesday.

CBS’ durable drama “NCIS” won the top spot with a remarkable audience of nearly 20 million viewers.

For the week, CBS’ primetime average was 10.9 million viewers (6.8 rating, 11 share).

Fox had 8.7 million viewers (5.1 rating, 8 share), ABC had 6.7 million (4.2 rating, 7 share), NBC had 5.6 million (3.5 rating, 6 share), the CW had 1.1 million (0.9 rating, 1 share) and ION Television had 1.1 million (0.7 rating, 1 share).

Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision led with a 3.8 million viewer average (1.9 rating, 3 share),

Telemundo had 1.0 million (0.6 rating, 1 share), Telefutura had 660,000 (0.4 rating, 1 share), Estrella had 220,000 and Azteca 130,000 (both 0.1 rating, 0 share).

NBC’s “Nightly News” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 9.4 million viewers (6.2 rating, 11 share).

ABC’s “World News” was second with 8 million (5.4 rating, 10 share), while the “CBS Evening News” had 6.8 million viewers (4.5 rating, 8 share).

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Judge tells Lohan to keep up good work LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsay Lohan drew praise Wednesday from a judge who said the actress was one court hearing away from putting a long-running drunken driving case behind her.

“Ms. Lohan, you’re in the home stretch,” Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner told the actress. “The probation officer is pleased with your progress.”

The former Disney star has progressed under strict probation guidelines imposed by Sautner last year, including weekly stints working at the morgue and therapy sessions.

Lohan, 25, now has to work 14 days at the morgue and attend five therapy sessions before the judge ends her probation on a 2007 drunken driving case that has dogged Lohan for years.

She is due back in court on March 29 for what could be her final court appearance if she stays out of trouble.

Lohan would remain on informal probation for a case filed after she took a necklace

without permission in January 2011 but would no longer have to report to a probation officer or appear in court for frequent updates.

The model-actress is attempt-

ing a career comeback and is scheduled to host “Saturday Night Live” on March 3.

“You seem to be getting your life back on track,” Sautner told her.

1,147,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation’s estimated 114.7 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.

For the week of Feb. 1319, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: “NCIS,” CBS, 19.59 million; “American Idol” (Wednesday), Fox, 18.89 million; “American Idol” (Thursday), Fox, 18.71 million; “The Voice,” NBC, 16.28 million; “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS,

16.15 million; “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 15.65 million; “The Mentalist,” CBS, 13.55 million; “Person of Interest,” CBS, 13.16 million; “Two and a Half Men,” CBS, 12.45 million; “Criminal Minds,” CBS, 12.20 million.

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BUBBLE TROUBLE No. 18 Notre Dame pulls

away in second half to down West Virginia 71-44

By John Terry Managing Editor

Notre Dame guard Jerian Grant celebrates after hitting a shot during the Irish’s 71-44 victory over West Virginia Wednesday night.

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West Virginia was able to hang with No. 18 Notre Dame for a half, but that was it.

Notre Dame started the second half on a 30-8 run en route to a 71-44 rout against West Virginia Wednesday night at the Joyce Center.

It is the worst loss by the Mountaineers since Jan. 5, 2005 when they lost by 38 to Villanova.

“We’re just not very tough.

I hate to say that, but it’s the truth,” said West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins. “They can shoot. We can’t. (Our players) have no grasp on reality. No one cares. We just don’t fight through things.”

The Mountaineers were outscored 41-16 in the second half.

It’s the lowest point total in a half since they played Notre Dame back on Feb. 8, when they scored 16 in the first half.

The 44 points Wednesday and the 51 Feb. 8 against Notre Dame were the two lowest scoring games WVU has had against Notre Dame in program history.

Notre Dame was 9-of-16 from 3-point range, while West Virginia was just 1-of-11. It’s the first time since the Mountaineers lost to Xavier in the 2008 NCAA tournament that they made just one 3-pointer.

“You can’t let people get it going, and we let them get it going,” Huggins said.

The Irish were led by four double-figure scorers. Guard Jerian Grant scored a game-high 20 points including four 3-point buckets. Scott Martin added 15, while Jack Cooley and Eric Atkins each had 13 points.

West Virginia senior Kevin Jones led the Mountaineers with 15 points and 8 rebounds. Senior Truck Bryant had ten points.

Junior Deniz Kilicli had just 8 points and 5 rebounds in what Huggins called an “uninspired” performance.

Huggins also said following the game that freshmen Ke-

aton Miles and Aaron Brown didn’t play because they haven’t worked in practice.

The loss also drops West Virginia to just 1-12 when playing at the Joyce Center – the last win was in 1996.

The Irish scored the first six points of the second half, and then after four points from Jones and Kilicli, they scored ten unanswered off of two 3-pointers.

West Virginia jumped out to a quick start of the Irish scoring the first six points in the first three minutes after a Gary Browne layup and two Kilicli shots. After four Notre Dame points, Jabarie Hinds hit a 3-pointer to give West Virginia a 9-4 lead Notre Dame, though, wouldn’t let the Mountaineers pull away, and pulled the score to 13-11 at the 11:36 mark.

Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey picked up a technical foul with 10:58 remaining in the first half after the Irish were called for an illegal screen. Bryant hit both free throws to give West Virginia a 17-11 lead.

The Irish went on a 10-4 run to tie the game up at 21 with just over five minutes remaining in the first half. Notre Dame outscored the Mountaineers 60-39 after Brey’s technical foul.

A Jack Cooley layup would then give Notre Dame a 23-22 lead just a possession later – its first lead of the game. The Irish would extend its lead to 29-26 after the final media timeout following a pair of Colley free throws.

Notre Dame shot 61.4 percent from the field, while the Mountaineers managed just a 31.5 percent mark.

“I’ve never had a team give up 60 percent shooting in two halves,” Huggins said. “Never.

Not in 30 years.

“This game is so much a mindset. When your mind is not right, it’s hard. When it starts going south, it’s hard to get it turned.” john.terry@mail.wvu.edu

Early March wins Mountaineers excited for outdoor season key for WVU B-ball track and field

by amit batra sports writer

The West Virginia track and field team has just completed its indoor season following the Big East Indoor championships held in New York City last weekend.

After a successful indoor season following season-best and even career-best performances, the Mountaineers are looking forward to the outdoor season.

Thrower Heather Adams feels that the weekend was a success as was the indoor

season.

“I felt the track team as a whole had a solid performance this past weekend,” she said. “We can all be proud of how we did and look forward to the outdoor season with a positive mind-set.

“I feel the indoor season provided a good prediction to where we will get points in outdoor. It also makes everyone more confident about reaching our goal of winning the Big East Outdoor championships.”

Chene Townsend, who participates in 60-meter hurdles,

also felt that the competition was successful.

“I thought the Big East Indoor Championships went well,” Townsend said. “Quite a few had good performances, whether it was a season or personal best. Overall, I thought we all went out there and pulled our own weight.”

With a successful indoor season, the Mountaineers still have room for improvement and will look to focus on the outdoor season with a positive mind-set. There are still some areas to work on.

“The indoor season has

helped each of us see where we are in the conference,” Townsend said. “It helped us realize what we need to adjust for the outdoor season.

We have a good idea of where we stand. We know how much we need to improve, and we are on the right track.”

Some events the Mountaineers will participate in the outdoor season will consist of the Wake Forest Open, Texas Relays, Raleigh Relays, Stanford Invitational, Penn Relays and the Princeton Larry Ellis

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cody schuler sports WRITER

The Big East tournament is regarded as one of the premier conference tournaments in the country.

This year, 16 teams will enter the single-elimination tournament, and only one will emerge as champion.

Along with the pride and prestige a conference tournament champion gains, the winner is also guaranteed a berth in the NCAA tournament.

Although only one team may emerge as the champion, every team has an opportunity to prolong its season.

The unique setting and “win or go home” mentality can do a lot of good for a team. Teams are no longer trudging through the weekly conference schedule, immediately looking forward to the next opponent after each win or loss.

Instead, teams are gearing up for what could ultimately be the last game of the season.

A lot can be gained from entering a big stage like the Big East Conference tournament. The most important is momentum.

In the men’s tournament two years ago, West Virginia pulled out four consecutive wins and took home its first Big East conference championship in school history.

The Mountaineers’ season didn’t end until a loss to Duke in the Final Four almost a month later.

Last year, Connecticut and Kemba Walker followed the same path – winning four straight games and earning the recognition of Big East champions.

The Huskies would later finish the season as national champions.

I’m not saying teams that win the Big East conference tournament are guaranteed successful postseasons.

Pittsburgh won the conference tournament in 2008 and was knocked out in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

I’m not even saying you have to win a conference tournament to find success in the Big Dance.

What I am saying, though, is that one or two (or three or four) wins in early March against Big East battle-tested teams can go a long way.

I think when the men’s and

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WVU non-revenue coaches excited for move to Big 12

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WVU wrestling coach Craig Turnbull, left, tennis coach Tina Samara, middle, and gymnastics coach Jason Butts are among the many Mountaineer coaches who like the opportunity to get to play in the Big 12 Conference starting next year.

by alex sims sports writer

There is little debate about what was the driving force behind West Virginia’s move to the Big 12 Conference.

Pursuing a superior football conference and the money behind it trumped all other factors while the University was contemplating the transition.

So, when the Big 12 came knocking, ties were severed with the Big East Conference, and the move was made.

In a strange transformation, Connecticut changed into Oklahoma, Syracuse turned into Texas and Pitt became Iowa State for all sports, whether they liked it or not.

The move wasn’t perfect for all parties involved, but what’s done is done, so now let’s take a look at how some of the little guys fared in the big shift.

Of course even basketball, which is considered a “revenue-generating” sport was at the mercy of the higher-ups in

this decision-making process.

Fortunately for both men’s and women’s basketball, the move meant a simple shift from one strong conference to another.

Much was the same for head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown and the women’s soccer program.

Izzo-Brown and the Mountaineers were a perennially title contender in the Big East, and there is no doubt they will compete for titles in the Big 12, as well.

The Big East finished with five squads in the RPI top 50, while the Big 12 finished with four squads, but three of those finished higher than WVU. On the other hand, it is still yet to be determined where exactly the men’s soccer program will land, as the Big 12 does not currently field men’s soccer.

The ripple effect from conference realignment has hit Conference USA, making the decision more difficult for head coach Marlon LeBlanc.

Right now, it appears as though LeBlanc and his program will either end up independent, with the ability to schedule freely, or in the Conference USA or Mid-American Conference welcoming 2010 NCAA champion Akron to Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.

One of the most significant strides in the move will be made right next to Dick Dlesk at Hawley Field.

Along with some inevitable stadium upgrades, the WVU baseball program will be making the big step up from the Big East, which finished last season with three teams in the RPI top 60, to the Big 12, which finished with seven in the top 60.

Making perhaps an equally significant move is the wrestling program.

For head coach Craig Turnbull, the transition means a move closer to the wrestling Mecca that is the Midwest and away from the mediocre Big East.

across the country

“From a wrestling perspective, this is a tremendous advantage for us,” Turnbull said.

“Three of the best teams in the country – Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Iowa State – will now be in our gym every other year. We will have the chance to showcase some of the best wrestling in the country.”

Tennis head coach Tina Samara is equally happy to be joining the Big 12, which boasts two current top 15 teams, and leaving behind the unranked Big East.

“It’s a huge move for us,” Samara said. “It’s way more appealing for a tennis player with the Big 12 Conference schedule compared to the Big East.

That’s just a reality.”

Much in a similar situation is volleyball head coach Jill Kramer, who will also bolt from a conference that finished with no ranked teams into one with two in the top 10.

Head women’s track and field and cross country coach

Sean Cleary will see two different aspects in the move.

His track program will move from the Big East, which is currently represented by only Georgetown in the rankings, to the Big 12, which has four of the top 15 teams.

On the other hand, his cross country program will likely see the largest decrease in competition out of any WVU team in the move, leaving the Big East, which has earned the last three national titles, to a Big 12 conference in which only one school (Texas) can claim a national title.

West Virginia coaches, athletes and fans will all soon learn that what WVU was to the Big East, Texas is all that and more to the Big 12.

This year’s Big East women’s swimming Coach of the Year, Vic Riggs, will lead both the men’s and women’s squads into a Longhorn-dominated Big 12.

Both UT’s men’s and women’s teams finished in the top

five of last season’s rankings.

For rowing, the move is similar, as head coach Jimmy King will take his program from the Notre Dame ruled Big East to a Texas-governed Big 12.

Gymnastics will make a very different transition from other programs, moving from the Eastern American Gymnastics League leader to a three-team Big 12, paced by a perennial power in Oklahoma.

Head coach Jason Butts is hoping the move south will provide a boost to his recruiting efforts.

“It’s going to help us a lot with recruiting, because a lot of the best gymnasts in the country come out of Texas and that part of the country,” Butts said. “I’m excited we can finally say that we’re competing for a Big 12 title.”

Amit Batra, Sebouh Majarian and Robert Kreis contributed to this story. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Former UVA lacrosse player found WVU adds Patterson to staff guilty of second-degree murder by michael carvelli sports editor

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Jurors found a former University of Virginia lacrosse player guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday in the drunken, jealousy-fueled slaying of his ex-girlfriend, rejecting a verdict of first-degree murder and a possible life sentence.

George Huguely V, 24, stood straight, flanked by his attorneys, as jurors returned the verdict after approximately nine hours of deliberations. He was convicted in the slaying of Yeardley Love, who was found bloodied, beaten and bruised in the bedroom of her Charlottesville apartment in the early morning hours of May 3, 2010.

Huguely displayed no outward emotion as the verdict was read, while some sobbing could be heard in the courtroom filled with family and friends of Love and Huguely.

Jurors who returned the verdict immediately began deliberating a sentence, including a guilty finding on a charge of grand larceny. The second-degree murder conviction calls for a sentence of 5 to 40 years, while grand larceny's sentencing range is 1 to 20 years. Formal sentencing will occur at a later date.

Prosecutors said Huguely, of Chevy Chase, Md., killed the U.Va. women's lacrose player after a day of golf and binge drinking, incensed that she had had a relationship with a North Carolina lacrosse player.

Love's right eye was bashed in and she was hit with such power, her brain was bruised and she had wrenching head injury that caused bleeding at the base of her brain stem.

A coroner concluded she died of blunt force trauma.

Defense and prosecution experts offered different medical opinions on the lethal consequences of her injuries.

Prosecutor Dave Chapman, who described the night Love was killed as a scene from a horror show, said Huguely kicked a hole in Love's door to get in her bedroom and left his on-again, off-again girlfriend to die.

Huguely's attorneys said he only went to Love's apartment to talk before the encounter quickly turned physical. He said she banged her head against the wall of her bedroom, and she only had a bloody nose when he left.

A prosecution witness testified Love smothered in her

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George Huguely V, left, is escorted into the Charlottesville Circuit courthouse in Charlottesville, Va. own blood-dampened pillow.

Love's mother, Sharon, tearfully testified during the sentencing phase as Huguely cast his gaze down at the defense table. She described the death of her daughter as "unbearable."

Love's sister, Lexie, 28, described the absence of her kid sister.

"A song will come on the radio and I'll just burst out in tears," she said, sobbing. Her sister's death, she said, "left a large hole and nothing will fill it."

The defense did not present any witnesses at the sentencing hearing, "No person is the sum of the worst decision he ever made," one of Huguely's defense attorneys, Rhonda Quagliana, told jurors before they began deliberating his punishment.

The jury heard from nearly 60 witnesses over nine days to determine what happened to Love.

The jury of seven men and five women had to decide whether Huguely battered Love to death in a jealous outburst or if his intent to talk with her spiraled out of control and she died accidentally. They also suggested her own drinking and a prescription drug used for attention deficit disorder could have contributed to her death.

Besides her facial injuries, she had marks on her chest that suggested she was grabbed and had injuries around her

jaw and inside her mouth and neck.

Jurors heard testimony from lacrosse players who told of Huguely's escalating drinking problem and public spats between the two. The incidents included Huguely putting Love in a chokehold while they lie on his bed, and one in which Love accused him of flirting with two high school girls.

Friends and fellow players said the two were unfaithful to other and had a tempestuous relationship.

In a police interrogation video viewed by jurors, Huguely said he simply wanted to discuss their sputtering, twoyear relationship. Huguely admitted he may have shaken her but insisted he didn't grab her neck or punch her.

The prosecution painted a much more sinister scenario.

Huguely went to her apartment less than one week after he sent her a threatening email about her relationship with a North Carolina lacrosse player.

In the email, Huguely wrote that when he found out about the relationship, "I should have killed you."

In his closing arguments, defense attorney Francis McQ. Lawrence described Huguely as hulking, hard-drinking jock but no killer. He acknowledged Huguely had an unintended, accidental role in Love's death, arguing for a finding of involuntary manslaughter and a 10year prison term.

Former Pittsburgh defensive coordinator Keith Patterson was announced as the newest member of the West Virginia football coaching staff Wednesday afternoon.

Patterson comes to WVU after spending one season with the Panthers under former head coach Todd Graham and served as their interim head coach for the BBVA Compass Bowl when Graham left for the head coaching position at Arizona State.

West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen will announce Patterson’s coaching responsibilities once the final vacant spot on the WVU coaching staff has been filled.

“Working at a place like West Virginia University, with all of its history and tradition, is a great opportunity for me,” Patterson said in a statement.

“Coming off a conference championship and the Or-

track

Continued from page 8 Invitational.

For such a long and grueling outdoor schedule, the indoor season will benefit the Mountaineers in terms of getting mentally and physically prepared for the outdoor season.

Katelyn Williams, who participates in the high jump, will not be competing in the outdoor season, but is still satisfied with the performance through the indoor season.

“I felt that this weekend was much better than I expected,” Williams said. “I have come a long way since the beginning of the season, and I had my goals set high. Getting second was huge for me. I was disappointed that I was not able to win, but I came close and am happy with how everything

schuler

Continued from page 8 women’s brackets come out, West Virginia will be in both of them. All things considered, though, both teams ultimately still have a little bit of work to do.

The best place for a team to do a last-minute spruce up to a resume is the Big East conference tournament.

It’s pretty safe to say that nei-

ange Bowl win, it’s an exciting time here, and now we have an even greater opportunity as we head into our first year in the Big 12 Conference.

“I have great respect for Coach Dana Holgorsen and what he has accomplished, and I appreciate and look forward to being a member of the Mountaineer football staff.”

Last season, Patterson’s defense at Pittsburgh was ranked No. 3 in the country in sacks and was tied for No. 12 nationally in tackles for loss.

The Panthers were No. 38 in the nation last season in scoring defense as well, allowing a little more than 22 points per game.

Before his year at Pitt, Patterson spent the previous eight seasons at Tulsa, including five as the team’s defensive coordinator.

“Keith has had a lot of successful years coaching at some great programs, both at the college and high school

levels,” Holgorsen said in a statement.

“His years of experience in developing players and defenses will be an invaluable resource to our program, while his background in Texas and O k l a h o m a Patterson w ill only add to our recruiting efforts.”

Patterson entered the college ranks at Tulsa after coaching high school in Oklahoma and Texas for 16 years.

He graduated him East Central (Okla.) University in 1986 with a bachelor’s degree in health, physical education and recreation, while spending four years as a defensive back on the ECU football team.

turned out.

“I do not have outdoor eligibility, but I have seen several members of the team progress very well during the indoor season. I am excited to see how Heather Adams and Chene Townsend perform, and I believe that they will emerge as team leaders.”

The indoor season and Big East championships served their purposes in terms of competing at a high level in the outdoor events. The whole team contributed and will be able to reach for new goals.

“I feel that as a team, this weekend was a great stepping stone toward our main goal of being all we can be for the outdoor Big East championships,” said distance runner Sarah Martinelli.

“Everyone continued to improve their performances in their events. For me person-

ally, I feel that this weekend was a step towards me proving I’m ready for the next level of running.”

One of the most important things the indoor season provided was confidence for these young athletes.

“The indoor season has given many of our athletes confidence in our abilities as we’ve seen much improvement in our various events,” Martinelli said.

“Many of us have achieved new personal-best times and marks during the indoor season with only more to come as we head into the outdoor season.

“This indoor season has been about staying positive and continuing to improve, and I believe we’ve accomplished both these things.”

ther the men nor the women will be this year’s conference tournament champions – then again, nobody would have said that in 2010, so who knows?

What I can say is, as long as there is another game to play – no matter whom it is against or how unfavorable the odds may be – there is always a chance.

That hope – the feeling that anything is possible in the right moment – comes around at this time every spring.

Although things may not be looking the brightest right now, the hope of shining in that one opportunity to start clean and play every game as if it were the last is right around the corner.

With the Big East tournament nearly here, there will always be room for some optimism, no matter what has happened over the past few weeks.

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No. 23 WVU drops one spot heading into match with New Hampshire

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Sophomore Hope Sloanhoffer was named the league’s Co-Gymnast of the Week after taking the top spot on the podium for the second-straight week.

by sebouh majarian sports writer

The flashes of potential and high scoring outbursts are evidence that the No. 23 West Virginia gymnastics team possesses the pieces to be a contending team. With a long road trip to wind down the season, head coach Jason Butts feels it’s time for the team to put it all together.

Oddly enough the Mountaineers (10-3, 5-0 EAGL) dropped one spot in the rankings heading into New Hampshire (8-2, 2-1 EAGL) even though their season average rose to 195.52.

WVU is in the midst of a stretch featuring four out of five away from home. The late season road trip might work in the teams favor as the young Mountaineers learned the ropes and gained some consistency at home which will hopefully pay dividends on the road.

“If anything I don’t want them to be intimidated by being in somebody else’s facility,” Butts said.

“I know we’re comfortable here, but our big goals are not going to happen here this year, we’re not hosting the EAGL (championship), we’re not hosting regionals, so we

need to learn to compete a little more focused and intense on the road like we do here in the Coliseum.”

The Mountaineers started a three game road trip last week with a first place finish in a quad-meet with Maryland, Rutgers and William and Mary.

With a season-high score of 49.175, West Virginia took first on the bars last week while also finishing as the top beam team at the meet. The squad also placed second on vault and floor on its way to scoring 194.8 points.

With the team showing improvement on bars every

week the Mountaineers could soon complete the cycle and become ranked in the top 25 on all four events. WVU ranks No. 22 (48.543) on beam and dropped to No. 23 on vault (48.775) and floor (48.807).

Heading into Durham, N.H., the team is averaging 48.418 points per week on bars putting them 35th in the nation.

“We don’t keep making the same mistakes over and over, and I really like that because we can come in and fix those, whereas if it was the same mistake it would hammer away at their confidence,” Butts said.

“It’s working, we just need to make it all work at the same time this week.”

This is the final week the rankings will be based on the season average as next week they will be determined by the teams Regional Qualifying Score. The RQS is found by taking a team’s and an allaround competitor’s six best regular season meet scores (three of which must be away), eliminating the high score and averaging the remaining five scores.

Butts stressed the importance of the next two meets, saying that the team could raise its RQS score if they score 195 both weeks, eliminating their two lower scores on the road at Bowling Green (193.475) and Michigan (194.05).

Sophomore Hope Sloanhoffer was named EAGL CoGymnast of the Week after posting her sixth straight 39.0plus score and taking the top spot on the podium in the allaround the last two weeks. It was the third time the Cornwall, N.Y., native earned the award.

Junior Kaylyn Millick has come on strong competing in the all-around the last two weeks and also scored a career high 9.9 on bars last week.

The first-year coach has had the luxury of a deep roster, often giving him and the coaching staff trouble setting the lineups.

“The girls pushing seven through ten (on the lineup) are pushing hard to get in there, in the past we didn’t have that depth or once they got to the middle of the season they’d give up,” Butts said.

“This team is so motivated to be good that those in their spots even the No. 10 wants to be No. 9 because that’s taking the step in the right direction.

“In the gym their doing all kinds of extra stuff. We’re putting up the assignments and they keep going beyond what we’re asking them to do.”

In the EAGL West Virginia trails only No. 19 N.C. State, while the teams come third and fourth in the Southeast region behind No. 3 Georgia and No. 1 Florida.

WVU holds a 25-8 series lead against UNH, the team’s final EAGL opponent until the league championship on March 24. sebouh.majarian@mail.wvu.edu

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3BR, Downtown, First St. $400+ util.(per person), Scott Properties, LLC 304-296-7400 or scottpropertiesllc.com

A GREAT LOCATION. Minutes from town. $600/MO. WD, 2BR, 1BA. No Pets.

304-292-8102. No calls after 8PM.

UNFURNISHED APARTMENTS

Now Leasing 2012

3/BR, 2/BA TOWNHOUSE FOR RENT. Walking distance to downtown campus. $1290/mo, includes utilities. Call 304-282-8769. NO PETS. Visit: roylinda.shutterfly.com!

3BR, Downtown, First St. $400+ util.(per person), 2BR Evansdale, Bakers Land $425+ util.(per person). Scott Properties, LLC 304-319-6000 or scottpropertiesllc.com

UNFURNISHED APARTMENTS

Prices Starting at $605 2 Bedroom 1 Bath

24 Hour Maintenance/Security Laundry Facilities

UNFURNISHED APARTMENTS 1 and 2/BR APARTMENTS. UTILITIES INCLUDED. Also 2 and 3 bedroom houses. Downtown. 304-288-8955.

1 BR Downtown Location, Private Porch, Some utilities paid, $450+deposit lease, parking. 304-685-6565 or 304-685-5210.

1 BR DOWNTOWN, 2 ELK STREET. Includes W/D, DW, Microwave, Deck. $525+ elect & garbage.

304-319-1243 hymarkproperties.com 1, 2 & 3BR APARTMENTS & 4BR HOUSES. Close to campus and South Park locations. Utill. W/D included. Some with parking, Pets considered.

304-292-5714 2 BR 2 BA. Stewarts Town Road. W/D.AC. Garage. $700/month. No pets.Text or call 304-288-6374. kjedwards2@comcast.net.

2 BR. South Park. $600/month. W/D. No pets. Text or call 304-288-6374. kjedwards2@comcast.net 2 BR. WALK TO CLASS. Parking. Some utilities. No Pets. Available June 1, 2012.

Lease/Deposit.

Max Rentals 304-291-8423.

4 BR 1 BA. 332 Stewart St. $1600/month.

All major utilities included. No pets. Text or call 304-288-6374. kjedwards2@comcast.net 5 BEDROOM HOUSE in South Park across from Walnut Street Bridge. W/D. call Nicole at 304-290-8972 225, 227 JONES, 617 NORTH STREET. Apts & Houses 1,2,3,4BR, excellent condition. $325 to $395each plus utilities. NO PETS. All have off street parking with security lighting. E. J. Stout 304-685-3457

Minutes to Hospitals and Evansdale Bus Service

NO PETS

304-599-6376 www.morgantownapartments.com BEVERLY AVE. APARTMENT. 2-3-4/BR Well-maintained. Off-street parking. W/D. DW. A/C. NO PETS. Available 5/16/12.

304-241-4607.

If no answer: 304-282-0136.

AVAILABLE May 15, 2012

ALL SIZES ALL LOCATIONS

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Location,Location, Location!

BLUE SKY REALTY LLC Available May 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 Bedroom All Utilities Paid

1-2-3BR, (3/BR HAS 2/BA.) WD close by. Close to downtown. NO PETS. Available now. 304-276-0738. 304-594-0720.

Apartments , Houses, Townhouses

1BR IN GREAT CONDITION, large and convenient located at 779 Snider Street, free W/D facilities, parking. $500 all utilities included. 304-288-3308

D/W, W/D, Free Off Street Parking, 3 Min. Walk To Campus

1-3 BR APTS AND HOUSES. SOME include utilities and allow pets! Call Pearand Corporation 304-292-7171.

Shawn D. Kelly Broker 74 Kingwood St.

Look us up on Facebook

304-292-7990

2/BR APT. $375/MO/PERSON, UTILITIES INCLUDED. W/D, Pets w/fee Located on Dorsey Avenue. Available 05/15. One year lease + deposit. 304-482-7556.

CONDO FOR RENT. 2/BR-2/BA. June/2012. $875/mo plus electric/cable. Internet ready all rooms. Near Hospitals, Stadium. WD. Parking. Pets negotiable.

304-282-1184.

2BR APARTMENT IN WESTOVER. All utilities paid. W/D included, pets with deposit. $800 month. www.morgantownapts.com or 304-615-6071

FIVE (5) 1/BR APARTMENTS NOW available. West Run, Morgantown. $600/mo each plus $300/dep. NO PETS. Call Jess: 304-290-8572.

“The Largest & Finest Selection of Properties” Now Leasing for 2012-2013 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments Unfurnished 24 Hour Emergency Maintenance & Enforcement Officer Off Street parking

DOWNTOWN PROPERTIES Phone: 304-413-0900 STARTING AS LOW AS $510.00 PER PERSON PLUS UTILITIES

Glenlock 2BR 2BA $510/Person $1020

EVANSDALE PROPERTIES

Phone 304-598-9001 STARTING AS LOW AS $320.00 PER PERSON PLUS UTILITIES

Ashley Oaks 2BR Valley View 1 & 2BR Valley View 2BR/2BA Skyline

1 & 2BR

Copperfield 1 & 2BR Copperfield 2BR/2BA www.metropropertymgmt.net 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.

NOW SHOWING! 1,2,3,4BR Apartments Downtown for May 2012. Please NO PETS. 304-296-5931.

SCOTT PROPERTIES, PROPERTIES, LLC

Jones Place

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

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

3/BR, 2/BA RANCH ON 1 ACRE. CAC. 10 minutes from both hospitals. $1100/mo.

NO PETS. Call 304-282-8769.

6BR (2APTS) HOUSE IN SOUTH PARK. 2 kitchens. 2 baths. W/D. Utilities included. June 1 Lease. $435/person.

304-292-5714.

Mountain Line Bus Service Every 10 Minutes and Minutes From PRT

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

ABSOLUTELY NO PETS WWW.PRETERENTAL.COM

AVAILABLE NOW 3/BR. 2/Block to ‘Lair.

Recent renovations. WD. Parking. NO PETS. Quiet area. Lease/deposit.

304-288-8199.

304-599-4407

S M I T H R E N TA L S , L L C 1 and 2 Bedroom Apartments For Rent

AVAILABLE. 2/BR. 2/BLOCKS TO LAIR. WD. NO PETS. Quiet Street.

Lease/deposit. 304-288-8199.

LARGE 2BR HOUSE. EAST BROCKWAY AVE. Free Parking. Close to town. W/D. 1 1/2 Bath. Full Basement. Plenty of storage room. $900/month. 304-290-1332.

AVAILABLE MAY 2012 Check out: www.smithrentalsllc.com

(304)322-1112

THE SUITES AT WEST PARK UPSCALE STUDENT RENTALS. 2 BR 2 BA (one with steam shower one with Jacuzzi tub). Top of the line security system. Ample parking for yourself and visitors. Located close to both hospitals, stadium, shopping, health club, Evansdale campus, and WVU rec center. $575 per bedroom-utilities not included.

One year lease-May-May. Phone:304-598-2560 TWO APARTMENTS: 2/3 BR—W/D, Off-street parking. 3/BR—W/D. Leases start 05/15/12. Garbage, cable not included. 717 Willey Street up from Arnold Hall. No Smoking, No Pets 304-685-9550.

WILKINS RENTALS 304-292-5714

Got 5 Friends?

6 Bedroom House (2 Apartments) 2 Kitchens, 2 Baths, 2 Livingrooms Includes Utilities and Washer/Dryer Pets Considered Rent $435/mo per person Lease and Deposit Campus Area - 3 BR Apt. behind Arnold Hall (last one) South Park - 1, 2, and 3 BR Apts.

FURNISHED HOUSES 4/BR CONDO. PRIVATE BATH. Walk-in closets. W/D. $390/mo. per room includes utilities. Pool, Volleyball. Contact Yvonne: (302)270-4497 leave message.

AVAILABLE MAY 15TH FULLY FURNISHED 5BR/ 3BATH. On downtown campus. $300/person. Plus utilities. W/D/DW. lease and deposit required. Small pets ok with deposit.304-599-6001.

JEWELMANLLC.COM close to downtown, next to Arnold Hall. 3,4,5&6/BR houses. Excellent condition. A/C, W/D, parking and yard. Utilities included. No dogs. 12 month lease. 304-288-1572 or 296-8491 NEW HOUSE AVAILABLE MAY 15 ON Downtown Campus. 5BR, 3BA, family room, game room, living room, lease/dep required. NO PETS. Off st parking, DW, WD, etc. 304-599-6001

In Sunnyside 4 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath Unfurnished Townhomes With covered Parking $625 per person Now Leasing

WALK TO STADIUM AND DOWNTOWN! Super-convenient 3BR house has newer kitchen/bath, all built-in appliances, washer and dryer, 3 car off-street parking, $415/person/month available May 15th.

Call Steve at 304-288-6012...now!

304-296-7400 scottpropertiesllc.com

UNFURNISHED HOUSES

WALKING DISTANCE TO DOWNTOWN. 2BR, 1 1/2 BTH, Laundry Room, Parking Permit. 501 Beverly Ave. $800 plus util.

304-685-9300

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

Townhome Living Downtown

3BR. 2 FULL BATH. W/D. $900/MONTH. Please call 304-983-2529.

S m i t h R e n ta l s , L L C Houses For Rent

AVAILABLE MAY 2012 Check out: www.smithrentalsllc.com

(304) 322-1112

UNFURNISHED CONDO. 4 SPACES available. $400/space. Swimming pool, all appliances, river view. Call for details (304)-222-2329 or (757)-724-0265 A.V.

ROOMMATES MALE ROOMMATE WANTED. Grad-student. Private bedroom. Close to Evansdale campus. $210/mo+ ½utilities. kidwellmcclellan@yahoo.com & 304-292-3807.

MUST SEE MALE/FEMALE ROOMMATE NEEDED close to Arnold hall excellent condition, W/D & parking. Individual lease. $395-$450 all utilities included.

304-288-1572 or 304-296-8491.

ONE SERIOUS FEMALE ROOMMATE NEEDED for very nice modern apartment on Price Street. Close to downtown campus. Must be clean, quiet. Includes utilities, trash, WD, DW, AC, 1.5 bath, lighted parking. NO Dogs. Small pets considered. $420/monthly Starts May 15th .

304-379-9851.

WANTED TO SUBLET SHORT TERM SUBLEASE AT GREAT rate.

Shared living space with one male.

Furnished with laundry facilities and off street parking. Utilities included. Available immediately through July 27.

Call 412-554-0105.

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

Any make! Any model! Any condition!

282-2560

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

10-mins from downtown. Small local bar.

Granville. 304-365-4565.

CAREGIVER, FULL/PART-TIME for disabled young man. Could provide excellent experience for education/social science/or any medical-field students.

Call 304-599-6425, before 9pm. Leave message.

Fax resume/refs. to: 304-599-6929 JERSEY SUBS HIRING DELIVERY DRIVERS and pizza and line cooks. Apply in person at 1756 Mile Ground Rd. Must have experience.

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

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

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

THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

12 | SPORTS

Thursday February 23, 2012

swimming

rifle

Riggs named Big East women’s coach of the year

No. 8 WVU qualifies for NCAA tournament for fifth-straight year

by robert kreis sports writer

After his team’s third-place finish at the Big East Conference championships Saturday night, West Virginia swimming and diving head coach Vic Riggs was named the league’s Women’s Coach of the Year.

“It’s always an honor to have your peers recognize what your team has done,” Riggs said. “It’s been a great year for everybody and if (the team doesn’t) swim the way they swim, I don’t really earn that award.

“A lot of credit goes to the kids.”

Riggs was humbled by the award as more of a team award than an individual award for himself.

“The team swam collectively well, but also competed very well,” Riggs said.

“My award is based on their performance.”

Riggs does not take much credit for the honor, but does claim that the team as a whole deserved the prestigious award.

“I would be lying if I didn’t think our team swam, if not the best, among the best with the teams at the meet,” Riggs said. “I wasn’t expecting it,

but I felt I did the job that needed to be done.”

Although individual awards are nice additions to the trophy Riggs cases for recruits to see while making official visits to the school, attaining those awards are not goals that Riggs sets for himself at the beginning of the season.

“Our goals as a staff are to have both teams compete well at the end of the season,” Riggs said. “Then, of course second is getting kids to NCAA’s. Those are always my goals at the start of every season.”

Those goals dictate Riggs’ coaching mentality throughout the season. Riggs is not worried as much with winning dual meets throughout the regular season.

Instead he wants to see his team work extremely hard all season long in preparation for the Big East championship.

It’s that mentality that allowed such phenomenal finishes for the West Virginia swimming and diving teams at the Big East champion-

ships, as well as Riggs’ Coach of the Year Honor.

“The environment that we’ve created with our kids and our program, (the Big East championship) is where we shine,” he said. “It’s where we want to do our best.”

Another big reason Riggs has his team prepare all season for the Big East Championships is to show off some Gold and Blue school pride to fellow conference members.

“Of course you are competing against the best in your conference,” Riggs said. “We want to have the opportunity to show what the Mountaineers are and what we do here.”

More than the Coach of the Year award and Riggs’ teams stellar finishes at the Big East Championships, the coach’s most proud accomplishments of the season may be that he helped guide his first recruiting class through the program and on to graduation.

“To watch it come together for everybody at the same time, I couldn’t have wished for (better),” Riggs said. “This year to have that senior class finish they way they did, you can see the emotion that they were experiencing.

“It was a lot of fun.” dasports.mail.wvu.edu

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Junior Petra Zublasing shoots at targets during a practice earlier this month.

by alex sims sports writer

The 2012 NCAA rifle championship field was announced Wednesday.

For the fifth-straight year, the No. 3 West Virginia rifle team was one of the eight qualifiers.

WVU will be defending its 2011 air rifle title in its 28th overall NCAA championship appearance on March 9-10 in Columbus, Ohio.

Joining the Mountaineers will be Texas Christian, Kentucky, Army, UTEP, AlaskaFairbanks, Nevada and Jacksonville State.

The eight-team field is highlighted by the highest-averaging squad in the nation, TCU, and the defending national champion, Kentucky.

Jacksonville State is the only qualifier that was not in the top eight of the College Rifle Coaches Association

rankings before its qualifying match.

However, the Gamecocks’ 4,645 shot in that match was enough to oust No. 8 Mississippi from the qualifying field.

Many NCAA-sanctioned championships, most notably men’s basketball, have a designated selection committee, which chooses the tournament field.

However, rifle qualification is based solely on set criteria, specifically: scores.

Each school with hopes to qualify must first participate in 13 matches over the course of the season.

From those matches, the squad’s top three scores, recorded at three different venues, are averaged, for the regular season aggregate.

Finally, each team shoots a qualifying match during the third weekend in February.

The score from this match is added to the regular season

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aggregate, creating the final score.

The teams with the eight highest scores qualify for the NCAA championships.

Though they fell just short of qualifying, Ohio State will play host to this year’s championships.

The event will span two days, with smallbore being shot on the first day, and air rifle on the second.

Day one’s smallbore competition will take place at Converse Hall, OSU’s ROTC building.

Finally, the season will culminate at French Field House, home of the Buckeye men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams, for the air rifle competition.

The team with the highest combined air rifle and smallbore score will be the overall national champion. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

tennis

WVU staying loose heading into road matches with Cincy, Dayton by robert kreis sports writer

To combat the mid-season blues, West Virginia women’s tennis head coach Tina Samara is having her team practice another sport in preparation for this weekend’s Ohio road trip to take on the University of Cincinnati and the University of Dayton.

“Today (at practice) we threw the football around for a while,” Samara said.

“Which is great for your arm for serving, so it’s not like it’s a waste of time.”

It is the loose practices and an overall better atmosphere that has allowed the Mountaineers to post their first two victories of the season in their last three matches, even while playing one man down.

West Virginia has been playing one man down since the fourth match of the season, and, because of that, Samara is wary of her players getting injured.

“We are just trying to give everyone’s body time to rest and recover,” Samara said.

“We can’t do as much as I

would like because we only have five people, and if anyone gets hurt throwing a football, that would be pretty bad.

“Generally you are going to play well when you feel good, and I think everyone feels good and they’re enjoying it when we’re having more fun.”

Samara hopes the team will be able to relate the fun they are having at practice to success this weekend. Cincinnati and Dayton each come into the weekend with one win. Although Samara claims wins are important, she much rather see her players play to the absolute best of their ability consistently, no matter what the score.

“No matter what the circumstances, it’s nice to get two wins on the road,” Samara said. “What we need to do is try to put five people on the court that play as well as they can play.

“Even if we do that, we’re not guaranteed to win.”

Playing their matches one man down makes the doubles point vitally important

for the Mountaineers. In a college tennis match, a point is awarded to the team who wins two-out-of-three doubles matches, as well as one point each for the winners on singles courts one through six.

Since West Virginia is playing one man down, losing the doubles point means they have to win four of five singles matches, which is hard for any college program.

“The doubles point is huge for us because of our numbers,” Samara said. “We would very much like to get that doubles point to get some momentum heading into singles.”

Even with the pressure of playing one person down, Samara believes her team is playing the best tennis they have all season.

“I feel like right now we are in a place where (the team is) doing the best they can,” Samara said. “Everything they are doing is giving them the best opportunity they have to succeed.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu