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Thursday January 26, 2012

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WVU raises sexual assault awareness by mackenzie mays city editor

In light of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the West Virginia University President’s Office for Social Justice is asking students to take extra precautions and know the signs of potential harassment.

“With most students, their parents have protected them for a long time – and, all of a sudden, that protection is gone. Young people can be vulnerable,” said Executive

Officer for Social Justice Jennifer McIntosh. “Sometimes they feel like they don’t have any place to turn, but that’s not true. There are many places here to help support students who need it.”

The President’s Office for Social Justice, the University Police Department and the Office of Student Affairs work together to support sexual assault victims by providing physical and emotional care, taking disciplinary actions against perpetrators and of-

fering safety tips to students.

“It’s our job to make sure the victim is protected and made to feel as whole as possible. It’s important they get well and deal with the issues that come with assault,” McIntosh said.

“We encourage students to take advantage of the numerous avenues to get assistance because you just can’t do it on your own. It’s hard to heal.”

Last year, 13 sexual assault cases were reported by WVU students. Twenty-seven assault cases were reported the

year before.

McIntosh said students who spend a lot of their time walking around campus after hours should strive to be alert and stay aware of their surroundings in order to prevent potential attacks.

“You’re supposed to have a good time – you’re students.

But, when you add alcohol into the mix people do stupid things they wouldn’t normally do. There are simple, sensible things you can do to avoid danger, like going out as

a group. There is truly safety in numbers,” she said. “Don’t walk the streets alone at 2 a.m. – it’s just not smart, even if you’re coming from the library. Nothing good happens at that time of night.”

McIntosh said many people think that sexual assault has to involve extremely violent behavior, but it’s important to realize it can happen to anyone in a variety of ways.

“This isn’t something that’s cut out one certain way. It’s a very broad spectrum of be-

havior that’s criminal and hurts a lot of people,” she said.

Another important aspect of sexual assault is to realize when it begins happening in order to prevent it from going further, McIntosh said.

“We need to make students aware that ‘no’ truly means ‘no,’ and at anytime a ‘yes’ can become a ‘no,” she said. “You end up in a terrible place. Victims could suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder or

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WELLWVU uses social media to ROOM TO GROW promote nutrition

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As part of ‘Freg Day,’ WELLWVU made vegetable soup, fresh-cut fruit, whole fruit, health guides and nutritional information available in the Mountainlair Wednesday afternoon.

by mackenzie mays city editor

West Virginia University is asking students to tweatWELL. WELLWVU: The Students’ Center of Health is using social media sites like Twitter to promote a unique, point-based network that encourages students to maintain a healthier lifestyle.

“We’re seeing a huge increase in student involvement.

They’re loving it, and it’s awesome to see that,” said Colleen Harshbarger, director of Wellness and Health Promotion.

WELLWVU hosted an informational booth in the Moutainlair Wednesday afternoon and provided free graband-go “freggies” to students.

The majority of WVU students do not consume the recommended five-to-nine daily

servings of freggies, or fruits and veggies, according to Harshbarger.

“It’s a new way of thinking for some. Some students come from homes where healthy meals weren’t really high on the radar, so we’re trying to help them understand how simple it is to eat healthy,” she said.

Students earn points by documenting their workout schedules or calculating the amount of freggies consumed online.

For example, students can earn two points for posting about a freggie they ate that day, or up to five points for posting a picture of what they ate or answering a question of the week.

“There’s a lack of awareness about why nutrition is

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Inventor and sophomore political science student Katherine Bomkamp announced Wednesday she would not run in the upcoming Student Government Association election.

Current Director of Safety and 2012 SGA presidential candidate Dave Small announced during a regular meeting Wednesday Bomkamp will no longer be a part of his presidential ticket.

“This past week Katherine (Bomkamp) received news from her business partners and the University that she has an offer where she has to focus on her business, academics and University affairs,” Small said.

“Katherine (Bomkamp) will not be able to take part in the 2012 SGA elections.”

Small also said he is currently in negotiations with a new vice presidential candi-

date for the Dark Knight Party.

“The Dark Knight Party is still 100 percent dedicated to reforming and improving the tarnished integrity and image of the SGA and the SGA elections and giving every student an opportunity to serve the student body,” Small said.

Small also said the incident on campus with the BB gun highlighted the necessity of the WVU text alert system.

“I’d like to commend the group efforts of the WVU police of informing the student body about Friday night’s events and also locking down the downtown campus very swiftly,” Small said.

Secretary Kristen Pennington announced on behalf of Bryanna DeFazio, the director of arts, that WVU students, faculty and staff can now attend West Virginia Symphony Orchestra concerts for free.

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West Virginia University hopes to open the new Greenhouse on the engineering campus in July.

by lacey palmer staff writer

Representatives from the West Virginia University Office of International Programs highlighted the best features of countries around the globe during the annual Study Abroad Fair held Wednesday in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.

The fair featured more than 50 faculty-led spring and summer programs and more than 30 different study abroad exchange programs.

In 2010 and 2011, more than 900 WVU students traveled to another country for study abroad programs, according to the Office of International Programs.

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trips and discussed the opportunities available through each trip or exchange. Staff and local travel agencies were also on hand to discuss other concerns with students, such as financial aid and travel arrangements.

The OIP offers programs and exchanges in countries all over the world, including Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, ItMallory Bracken/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM aly, Japan, Malawi, Czech ReLauren Camerieri, left, a senior marketing student, talks to Andrew Davis, right, a freshman public, Russia, South Africa, linguistics student, about the study abroad opportunities in Italy Wednesday.

South Korea, Spain, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the “I think the fair entices stu- said study abroad administra- United Kingdom, and Vietnam. dents to study abroad, but I tor Tara George-Jones.

Representatives from interRepresentatives showed vidthink it also showcases what WVU has to offer in this area,” eos and pictures of previous see abroad on PAGE 2

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The $8.8 million greenhouse construction project for the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design at West Virginia University is slated for completion in July.

John Sommers, construction manager for Facilities Management, said the project has begun the intensive construction phase, and the greenhouse structure is on schedule to be completed before the fall semester.

“The structure you can see now is called the head house. We have the brick facade in place,

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University plans to open new greenhouse in July

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Bomkamp withdraws from Dark Knight Party by kelsey montgomery

Construction continues on the West Virginia University greenhouse on the engineering campus Wednesday.

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A ROUGH NIGHT IN NYC The West Virginia men’s basketball team fell to St. John’s Wednesday night in Madison Square Garden 78-62.

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2 | NEWS

Thursday January 26, 2012

Stocks close higher on Fed promise of low rates (AP) — The stock market bounced to its highest close since last spring Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it expected to keep interest rates near zero for almost three more years.

Bond yields dropped sharply, then climbed back later in the day when investors began looking more closely into the Fed’s deliberations. The yield on the five-year Treasury note touched an all-time low.

The big moves in both markets came at 12:30 p.m. EST, when the Fed’s monetary policy committee said it was unlikely to raise interest rates before late 2014. It had previously said it expected to keep rates low into the middle of 2013.

“Unless there is a substantial strengthening of the economy in the near term, it’s a pretty good guess we will be keeping rates low for some time,” Chairman Ben Bernanke told reporters.

The Fed cut rates to near zero in December 2008, during the financial crisis, and has held them there ever since. The announcement was a sign that the Fed expects the economy, which is improving, to need

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Continued from page 1 “They are absolutely amazing, and anybody should take the opportunity to go,” Pennington said.

Steve Orlowski of the Athletic Council also announced a competition that will be held by both WVU residence halls and Mountaineer Maniacs. Students who live on campus are urged to attend the women’s basketball game against Rutgers Feb. 15.

“The winning residence hall will win a party donated by the Maniacs with wonderful gifts and prizes,” Orlowski said.

Governor Ryan Campione announced he is working on a plan with the library that will aid engineering students and students in other majors

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Continued from page 1 national institutions partnered with WVU were also at the fair.

Thomas Gutierrez, representative and student from the University of Guanajuato in Mexico, gave students information on his university at a booth during the fair.

“The University of Guanajuato is one of the best universities in the country, and is recognized as an Outstanding University for the

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Traders crowd the floor near specialist Jason Blatt, center, for the IPO of Guidewire Software, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday. significant help for three more years.

The Dow Jones industrial average was down as much as 95 points in the morning and about 60 points before the Fed announcement. It shot to a gain of 103 points during the afternoon.

The Dow closed up 81.21

points, or 0.6 percent, at 12,756.96. That’s the highest close since May 10. The Dow peaked for last year in April at 12,810. Before that, it had not been so high since May 2008.

In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note was at 2.05 percent an hour before the announcement and

with being able to have graphing calculators available at the library.

“As an engineering major, a lot of my classes require graphing calculators,” Campione said.

“By having these calculators available to be checked out at the library, it can help reduce costs for students instead of being made to buy one.”

Governor Tiffany Pratt announced that she would be absent from the SGA meetings for a few weeks due to annual military training in Germany. In light of her absence, Pratt also stated that she and Vice President Bates passed Resolution 2011-07 that supports granting absences for other military students who must go on military leave for a period of time.

Former SGA President Chris Lewallen also gave a few remarks to the SGA members as

their term draws to a close.

“Thank you again SGA for continuing to fight for the students’ and community’s rights,” Lewallen said. “As you go on your campaign trail remember the promises you made and the things you vowed to work on to define SGA and this administration.”

A new version of the SGA election code will allow candidates to form tickets and announce their intent to run for office from now until packets become available two weeks prior to spring break. The packets will be due March 23 at 5 p.m., and actual campaigning will begin April 2.

The general election will be held April 10-12. Candidates will not be allowed to campaign until after spring break.

National Consumer of Science and Technology, which means that all students going through our university are going to have scholarships for all their expenses,” Gutierrez said. “I hope the fair interests students in our university.”

He said they have not had a WVU student study there, and he hoped that would change in the future.

George-Jones said studying abroad is an opportunity for students to gain experience that could lead them to career opportunities in the future.

“There are so many benefits of studying abroad and overwhelming reasons why you should,” George-Jones said. “It broadens your horizons, you can learn or perfect a second language, it makes you more marketable when you go to apply for positions in the future, it makes you more independent and the list just goes on.”

For more information on study abroad programs, visit http://internationalprograms. wvu.edu.

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Representatives of various study abroad trips give information to students at the Study Abroad Fair Wednesday in the Mountainlair Ballrooms. Among the numerous study abroad opportunities are Ghana, France, Fiji and Costa Rica.

quickly fell to 1.92, a significant move. It rose to 1.99 percent two hours later.

The bounce-back happened at about 2 p.m., when the Fed released details of how the committee voted. Six of its 17 members had favored an interest rate increase this year or next — well before late 2014 in

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important and how simple it is to maintain,” Harshbarger said.

“With this system, there’s a level of increased accountability because they’re reporting it.”

Twitter users can text their posts to 40404 or hashtag freggie, while others can post directly to www.tweatWELL.com.

If students have accumulated at least 40 points for the week, they will be entered into a weekly raffle for a prize.

The program also offers “Healthy Tips of the Day” and nutritious recipes to help students get started on the right

either case.

The yield on the five-year Treasury note hit 0.76 percent, an all-time low. Bond yields fall when their prices rise.

The Fed’s extension of low rates signaled that it expects inflation to stay low. Low inflation makes Treasurys more attractive by helping to maintain the value of bond owners’ fixed returns. Rising prices would eat into those returns.

The announcement guaranteed that short-term loans will remain cheap, making it easier for investors to finance longer-term purchases, such as 10- and 30-year Treasurys, said John Canally, investment strategist and economist for LPL Financial.

Monetary decisions by the Fed can change the market’s momentum in the short term but rarely have a longer-term impact, Canally warned.

The market changed directions after 22 of the past 24 Fed policy announcements, he said, yet the change evaporates quickly. The market essentially has an equal chance of rising or falling in the five days after Fed meetings, he said.

“It’s a coin flip, really,” Ca-

nally said.

Keeping rates ultra-low for a longer period increases the likelihood that the Fed will engage in more bond-buying programs to help the economy, a policy known as quantitative easing, said Anthony Chan, chief economist with JPMorgan Private Wealth Management. Those tend to boost bond prices by increasing the overall demand in the market.

Chan called the Fed’s move insurance against the European debt crisis and a recession across the Atlantic Ocean.

Stock buyers, he said, were happy about the prospect of low inflation and a Fed leaning toward promoting economic growth.

The promise of lower rates pushed the dollar lower against other major currencies. Low interest rates make the dollar less attractive because they reduce the returns traders get on U.S. debt and other bonds priced in dollars.

Markets had opened mostly lower on fears about Greece’s slow progress in talks with bondholders aimed at reducing that nation’s crushing debt load.

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Simple tips such as opting to walk to class instead of driving and packing a lunch instead of going out can make a big difference, Harshbarger said.

“Think and plan ahead. It doesn’t have to be hard – just keep sandwich baggies in your apartment and pack your own.

Grab and go,” she said. “Something as simple as using your feet as transportation can add up to 20 minutes of exercise, which is a lot more than some students are getting.”

Harshbarger said with West Virginia leading obesity rates throughout the country, it’s important for college students to start changing their lifestyles

now.

“WELLWVU is all about trying to change the obesity stigma in the state, and I think that’s a part of it that really helps get students fired up about it,” she said. “They’re tired of all the negativity surrounding our state. West Virginia is a very proud state and we want to show that we like taking care of ourselves by exercising and eating right. Many organizations, especially in the Morgantown area, are working hard to do just that.”

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the windows will be going up in the next week or so, and they’re building the interior walls,” Sommers said. “Most of the mechanical and electrical infrastructure has been run, and it’s moving along really well.”

Sommers said construction on the project will continue during the spring semester, and construction on the actual greenhouse structure will begin in the coming weeks.

“As far as the greenhouse itself, the foundation walls are up and they’re getting the anchor bolts installed,” Sommers said. “We’ll begin to erect some steel probably here in the next week.”

The project will include an administrative building, classrooms, labs and state-of-theart horticultural facilities. Sommers said the University would reach “substantial completion” of the project in mid-June, and would complete the project in July.

“The reason for the delay is because there are always a lot of small items that you can identify at the end of a project that need to be resolved,” Sommers said. “We try to allow a period of time to get things ready, and once we’ve completed it, we’ll move in users into the building and prepare them for classes in the

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Construction continues on the West Virginia University greenhouse on the engineering campus Wednesday. fall.”

The greenhouse is the first phase of the $159.5 million Evansdale Campus building project slated to take place through 2014.

The greenhouse will replace an old structure on the same site, Sommers said, and will support research from the Plant and Soil Sciences department. It will encompass more than 28,250 square feet and feature more advanced heating and cooling systems.

“It will be a much better teaching environment,” Sommers said. “The conditioning of

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the structure will be accessed through digital monitoring and automated controls. Heat, humidity and cooling will be much more controlled. It will be a much more energy efficient building.”

The United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service will contribute 25 percent of the construction cost for the new structure, and a portion of the growing area will be dedicated to USDA research. A significant portion of the 19,000-square-foot growing area will be allotted to the Davis College for research.

“The new greenhouse will expand the college’s capabilities in terms of control,” Sommers said. “They’ll have a greater range – they can shift the environment in the building from arctic to equatorial to more tropical. They’ll be able to isolate their plants to avoid cross-contamination. It’s a much more controlled environment because all of those things are critical. It will be a state-of-the-art greenhouse facility.” lydia.nuzum@mail.wvu.edu

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Applications will be available from Jan. 20 - Feb. 3. Applications may be returned to the E. Moore Hall main desk or to twerner1@mix.wvu.edu no later than 3pm on Feb. 6 to be considered

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Continued from page 1 drop out of school, and the person who committed the crime becomes a sex predator for life. This is serious stuff.”

To contact the Carruth Center, call 304-293-4431.

To contact UPD, call 304-293-2677.

A sexual assault survey form can be downloaded at http://wellwvu.edu. mackenzie.mays@mail.wvu.edu

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Thursday January 26, 2012

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A daring raid, and US, Danish hostages on way home MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Held captive since last fall, an ailing American woman and a Danish man are safely on their way home after a bold, dark-ofnight rescue by U.S. Navy SEALs. The commandos slipped into a Somali encampment, shot and killed nine captors and whisked the hostages to freedom.

The raid’s success was welcome news for the hostages and their families, for the military and for President Barack Obama, who was delivering his State of the Union speech as the mission was wrapping up Tuesday night. He did not mention it in his address but dropped a hint upon arriving in the House chamber by telling Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, “Good job tonight.”

It was the second splashy SEAL Team 6 success in less than a year, following last May’s killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

The SEALs apparently encountered some degree of resistance from the kidnappers at the encampment. One U.S. official said Wednesday that there was a firefight but the length and extent of the battle were unclear.

Pentagon spokesmen said they could not confirm a gun battle, although one defense official said it was likely that the SEALs killed the kidnappers rather than capture them because they encountered armed resistance or the threat of resistance.

The Pentagon was mostly tight-lipped about details on Wednesday, citing a need to preserve the secrecy that can give SEALs and other special operations forces an edge against the terrorists, criminals and others they are ordered to kill or capture around the world under hazardous and often hostile conditions.

Special operations forces, trained for clandestine, smallteam missions, have become a more prominent tool in the military’s kit since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The Obama administration is expected to announce on Thursday that it will

invest even more heavily in that capability in coming years.

After planning and rehearsal, the Somalia rescue was carried out by SEAL Team 6, officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a secret mission. The same outfit did the bin Laden mission, the biggest counter-terror success of Obama’s presidency. It was not clear whether any team members participated in both operations.

One official said the SEALs parachuted from U.S. Air Force aircraft before moving on foot, apparently undetected, to the outdoor encampment where they found American Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Poul Hagen Thisted, a 60-year-old Dane, who had been kidnapped in Somalia last fall. The raid happened near the town of Adado.

Pentagon press secretary George Little said the captors were heavily armed and had “explosives nearby” when the rescuers arrived on the scene, but he was not more specific.

He declined to say whether there was an exchange of gunfire and would not provide any further details about how the rescue was completed beyond saying all of the captors were killed by the Americans.

The American raiders caught the kidnappers as they were sleeping after having chewed the narcotic leaf qat for much of the evening, a pirate who gave his name as Bile Hussein told The Associated Press by phone.

Hussein said he was not present at the site but had spoken with other pirates who were, and that they told him nine pirates had been killed in the raid and three were “taken away.”

A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Capt. John Kirby, said U.S. officials could not confirm that the kidnappers were engaged in piracy. He referred to them simply as “criminals.”

Little said the decision to go ahead with the rescue was prompted in part by rising concern about the medical condi-

tion of Buchanan. He said he could not be specific without violating her privacy but did say U.S. officials had reason to believe her condition could be life-threatening. Mary Ann Olsen, an official with the Danish Refugee Council, which employed Buchanan and Thisted in de-mining efforts in Somalia, said Buchanan was “not that ill” but needed medicine.

Danish Foreign Minister Villy Soevndal told Denmark’s TV2 channel, “One of the hostages has a disease that was very serious and that had to be solved.” Soevndal did not provide any more details.

U.S. officials “within the last week or so” had collected enough information to “connect the dots” that led Obama to authorize the mission on Monday, Little said.

A Western official said the rescuers and the freed hostages flew by helicopter to Camp Lemonnier in the nearby Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the information had not been released publicly. Panetta visited Camp Lemonnier just over a month ago. A key U.S. ally in this region, Djibouti hosts the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, a U.S.-led group organized under U.S. Africa Command.

In a statement after the rescue, Africa Command said Buchanan and Thisted were being held for an undisclosed ransom. It said the rescue team managed to confirm the hostages’ presence in the camp before launching the assault. The mission was directed by Army Gen. Carter Ham, head of Africa Command, from his headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany.

Panetta and other members of Obama’s national security team monitored the mission from the White House before traveling up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol for the president’s annual message to Congress and the nation.

Obama, Panetta and Ham all praised the skill and courage of the SEALs and expressed gratitude for the safe return of the

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This handout photo provided by the White House shows President Barack Obama, accompanied by first lady Michelle Obama, during a phone call from the Capitol in Washington Tuesday immediately after his State of the Union Address, informing John Buchanan that his daughter Jessica was rescued by U.S. Special Operations Forces in Somalia. hostages.

“We should remember that Mrs. Buchanan and Mr. Thisted were working to protect the people of Somalia when they were violently kidnapped,” Ham said in a written statement. “It is my hope that all those who work in Somalia for the betterment of the Somali people can be free from the dangers of violent criminals.”

The Danish Refugee Council confirmed that Buchanan and Thisted were “on their way to be reunited with their families” on Wednesday.

Minutes after Obama completed his State of the Union address he was on the phone with Buchanan’s father to tell him his daughter was safe.

“As commander in chief, I could not be prouder of the troops who carried out this mission and the dedicated professionals who supported their efforts,” Obama said in a statement released by the White House on Wednesday.

“The United States will not tolerate the abduction of our people and will spare no effort to secure the safety of our citizens and to bring their captors to justice.”

The Danish Refugee Council had been trying to work with Somali elders to win the hostages’ freedom but had found little success. The head of the council, Andreas Kamm, said he would have preferred to see the two hostages freed peace-

fully “but we’re happy with the outcome. This is a day of joy indeed.”

Buchanan lived in neighboring Kenya before Somalia, and worked at a school in Nairobi called the Rosslyn Academy from 2007-09, said Rob Beyer, the dean of students. He described the American as quick to laugh and adventurous.

“There have been tears on and around the campus today,” Beyer said. “She was well-loved by all her students.”

Several hostages are still being held in Somalia, including a British tourist, two Spanish doctors seized from neighboring Kenya and an American journalist kidnapped on Saturday.

Al-Qaida says US withdrew to save money Brazil air travel triples since 2002

Security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Sadr City eastern of Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday.

BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. pulled its troops out of Iraq because its economy is collapsing and it needed to save money, an al-Qaida front group said in a message posted on its website Wednesday, its first online comment since the U.S. completed its pullout last month after nine years of war.

Al-Qaida was one of the main U.S. enemies in Iraq.

It was behind some of the deadliest attacks on U.S. soldiers, Iraqi security forces and American-backed government institutions. Since the U.S. pullout, al-Qaida and other Sunni militants have stepped up attacks on Shiites, killing more than 170 people since the beginning of the year and raising concern that the surge in violence and an escalating political crisis might deteriorate into a civil war.

In an audio message, a spokesman for al-Qaida’s Islamic State of Iraq who identified himself as Abu Mohammed al-Adnani said “America has been defeated in Iraq.”

“They pulled out because its economic and human losses were unbearable,” alAdnani said. “America’s bankruptcy and collapse is imminent. This is the real reason behind the withdrawal.” .

Al-Adnani also called on former al-Qaida fighters who

switched sides and fought the group with Americans not to “abandon jihad” now that the U.S. withdrawal has been completed. He threatened more attacks on the Shiite-led government, saying that “our explosives are at the door” of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

He told his followers not to be deceived by the number of the Iraqi government troops and its Shiite supporters, saying “they are merely beetles and flies.” Sunni extremists consider Shiites as not real Muslims.

Al-Adnani called on former Sunni fighters who switched sides and fought al-Qaida to return, promising to forgive “whatever their crime was.”

Despite the bombast, the appeal was a sign of the group’s problems. In July, alQaida in Iraq made an online appeal for new fundraising ideas, saying they were in dire need of money to help thousands of widows and children of slain fighters.

At the height of Iraq’s insurgency, tens of thousands of Sunni fighters, most of them members or sympathizers of al-Qaida, switched sides and joined U.S. and government forces. Their support created a crucial turning point in the war against al-Qaida in 2007.

Since then, many members of the pro-government

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Sunni militias known as the Awakening Councils say they haven’t been given jobs fitting to their contribution in the war and still feel they’re viewed with suspicion by the Shiite-led government.

After the government disarmed thousands of Awakening Council fighters and sent some to jail, al-Qaida launched a series of attacks, killing dozens of them and leading others to return to the insurgent group.

On Tuesday, one of the Council’s leaders was killed in a drive-by shooting in western Baghdad, according to police and hospital officials. Mullah Nadhum al-Jubouri fought the Americans with al-Qaida, but then switched sides.

In 2009, al-Jubouri was detained in a joint U.S.-Iraqi raid on suspicion of carrying out attacks three years earlier, including downing a U.S. helicopter. He was later released.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Demand for flights in Brazil has nearly tripled in the past decade, authorities said Wednesday. That is straining a system that is under pressure to prepare for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.

Brazil’s civil aviation agency said demand for air travel rose 194 percent in 10 years. Demand in 2011 alone increased 16 percent over the previous year.

In 2002, airlines flew 34.3 million passengers on flights originating in Brazil. That rose to 107.8 million last year, the agency reported.

While airlines are enjoying the boom, air travelers are suffering from packed airports, jumps in ticket prices, and routine delays often caused by woeful airport infrastructure, from poor runways to problems with radar systems that air control operators rely upon.

At least seven airports in the nation require substantial work to make improvements Brazilian officials promised in winning the right to host the 2014 World Cup and 2016

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Olympics. The work on the airports is expected to be the most expensive part of Brazil’s preparations for the events.

Officials have said the total investment on airport upgrades has jumped from 5.5 billion reals ($3.2 billion) at the beginning of 2011 to 6.4 billion reals ($3.7 billion) by the end of the year.

The government has said all airport upgrades will be finished in time for the World Cup, but none will be fully

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Thursday January 26, 2012

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Political debates should promote solutions What has politics in this country become?

It is unrealistic to ask all Americans to agree on political issues, but can’t people act at least somewhat decent to each other?

Shortly after the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 8, 2011 shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at a campaign rally in Tucson, Ariz., five Missouri state senators – all Democrats – found stickers on their office doors resembling rifle crosshairs.

It is safe to say that most Americans do not wish violence toward others, espe-

cially our elected officials. But, when reading the comments on CNN’s website regarding the story, one might think the opposite.

“Crosshairs need to get a bit closer; then maybe we will get Congress to remember who they work for,” commented one reader who posts under the alias “luckylemmons.”

Debates between Democrats and Republicans are common on the website, but one would hope that petty political differences could be put aside and people would show more concern for the threatened politicians than hateful political

rhetoric.

But, heated political debates continued, and followers of both parties posted insensitive comments.

“It’s (the) Republican’s policy. Their way to conduct business is ‘It’s my way or no way.’

They claim they believe in God, but they turn Christ’s teaching upside down. Instead of helping the poor, they take from the poor and give to the rich. It’s sad but it’s true,” wrote wcnea567.

While the reader may not praise the threats sent to the senators, the person is generalizing all Republicans to be radical and violent.

Although many readers did defend traditional American values, the number of insensitive posts (as well as number of “likes” of such posts) is alarming.

Why can’t Americans have an intelligent debate about politics? The readers who are unable to post a thoughtful comment as to why they want their political party to win should either educate themselves or simply keep out of political debates.

Encouraging violence is not the way to a better America.

Use your voice to vote for worthy candidates, not to promote a lynching.

Whether or not it sinks, we are in this boat together. Americans must consider party affiliations as minor differences between one another and look at each other as Americans, instead of as Democrats or Republicans.

We all want to elect leaders with effective solutions to fix our economy and improve education – among other issues – so “debate” politics, don’t argue.

As the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will die together as fools.”

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Decentralized structures create and protect freedom tomas engle columnist

Oh, what a difference a week makes. Just more than a week ago, college students have literally gone from the darkest of times – a Wikipedia blackout – to basking in the light of victory – the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in Congress.

But, before we move on from this temporary victory and go back to our usual business online of memes and sharing party pictures, we need to appreciate how truly powerful the Internet’s impact is in our daily lives and why.

Like an immune system responding to a foreign agent in the body, the Internet defended itself well from the onslaught of SOPA/PIPA. While we all use the Internet to varying degrees, the hard-core users were able to creatively use the system itself to raise awareness to lighter users and those not privy to the day-to-day machinations of our Congress. From Facebook and Twitter, to even Tumblr and Wikipedia, word of danger spread among users like meerkats popping up and squeaking on the savanna.

The months-long squeaks of danger came to a thunderous roar on Jan. 18 when the “blackout” protests began. No longer was this just a pet issue for some, but became common knowledge for anyone using the Internet that day as such mainstays of the system – Google and Wikipedia – protested with their own methods. Google simply blacked out their famous image on their Web page, and informed users why, but still let users operate their search engine.

Wikipedia, on the other hand, gave users a taste of what the Internet would be like if SOPA/PIPA passed – they completely disabled their site and left up a black screen that allowed users to contact their representatives in Congress to vote against SOPA/PIPA. It is situations like these that

A protestor raises a sign in opposition to the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act, which recently failed to become law. make the Internet great. So often lost in the praise of it being a communication medium that connects the world at the click of a button, is the equally important – if not more important – manner in which these connections happen in the first place.

The radically decentralized nature of the Internet, in the way it communicates among users and operates as a system itself, is what makes it so powerful and unique.

This anarchic system of computers and servers is so strong through its seemingly weak structure, that communication and behavior within the system became a reflection of it.

Since its explosion of popularity in the 1990s, the Internet has enabled people of so many varying niches of lifestyles, tastes, ideas and interests to find one another online. All this coordination and building of websites and forums dedicated to these niches has all gone along essentially uncoordinated.

And then much like the differing methods of protest from Google and Wikipedia, when differences arise, they are allowed to coexist.

Mandated uniformity goes not only against the grain of how Internet culture operates, but is not even necessary for it function as a system.

As soon as a discrepancy arises within any community, large or small, a new community develops to accommodate it. The antagonism between groups and communities can still exist online. They are, after all, groups created by humans who are flawed and prone to conflict, but none of it endangers the system as a whole from functioning.

Not only can the Internet survive from fallouts of communities, it can even thrive with disparate groups unifying around a central issue.

From the current SOPA/ PIPA reaction to the presidential campaign of Congressman Ron Paul, the Internet is at the

top of its abilities when a myriad of different groups can coalesce around a central, unifying theme that still allows for differences.

Add in the traditional benefit of the Internet – worldwide communication at the click of a button – and you have all the ingredients for positive, longlasting changes to our “offline” world of politics and society.

Fittingly enough, roughly a year ago the Internet helped bring about positive change in just this manner, when people from all backgrounds united in rebellion against the tyrannical political system in Egypt.

We have now seemingly honored this tradition in our own

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country by using the Internet to fend off a tyrannical system from being implemented in the first place. This is the lesson the Internet has for our generation, here and around the world.

In defeating SOPA/PIPA, the Internet has not only taught us how to defeat future onslaughts on its freedom, but on our own as well.

Only if we keep each other informed, agreeing on broad fundamentals as a group – but agreeing to disagree when differences arise – and operating as a decentralized array of activists with no over-arching leader or group structure, can we hope to attain universal freedom in our own lifetime.

Unpaid internships for students are still worth the struggle erin lengas minnesota daily University of minnesota

Ask any college student and most will admit that getting a job after graduation is on their mind.

This conundrum constantly lingers in the back of the mind, but it should really be at the forefront.

However, before students can even think about their future job, they must gain experience, usually through an internship.

For already broke college students, spending a semester at an unpaid internship is difficult to accept.

How can companies expect students to have the ability or desire to give up an income

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for such a significant amount of time?

These situations cause some to wonder if the companies that offer internships are taking advantage of students’ desperateness for experience by refusing to pay for their labor or if they are instead doing students a favor by taking them in and grooming them for a future career.

While I like to think it’s the latter, future interns need to realize that these companies aren’t completely selfless.

Employers might welcome interns to avoid expenses for payroll and benefits that they would have to provide for actual employees. Meanwhile, the companies pass internships off as a necessary experience for students.

But the high learning potential, connections and resumé benefits that intern-

ships offer make the free labor worthwhile.

Prospective employees need such experience to compete in the job market. Suffering a little now will pay off later when sights are set on a real paying job.

Some companies, fair or not, pressure interns into performing menial tasks and jumping through hoops. Students will do whatever they’re told to reach star intern status.

However, while many interns are eventually hired by the companies they intern for, that’s not always the case, no matter how many hoops they jumped through.

This shouldn’t discourage anyone from performing their best and impressing their employer, though.

The company might have a job opening in the future that would be a perfect fit.

At the very least, if interns impress they can earn an influential letter of recommendation.

It’s never too early to begin the search for an internship. Sometimes, earlier is even better. As a sophomore, I have applied to positions for the upcoming summer.

Because I am still in school, I don’t need to stress about being offered a job when I am finished. I am solely looking for a place to contribute the skills I already have while learning new ones. In other words, I want experience.

I recognize it as something valuable for my future.

While the internship system is not without flaws, most positions do have the potential to turn out more highly skilled, professional and experienced interns.

If a student receives an in-

ternship in an industry they dream job. are excited about, it should Is that silly? Maybe, but I’d feel less like a missed oppor- rather be silly now and secure tunity to make bank and more later. like an opportunity to grow.

Department of Labor regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act state that all internships in the “for-profit” sector will usually be considered employment (subject to minimum wage laws) unless they meet specific guidelines.

These guidelines that allow unpaid internships discuss the training benefits interns gain from their experience and specify that the internship is for the intern’s advantage, not the employer’s.

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THE WEEK AHEAD TODAY JANUARY 26

THE TABLE TENNIS CLUB meets from 7–10 p.m. in Multipurpose Room A of the Student Recreation Center. For more information, call 301-788-7266 or email cmcgill2@mix.wvu.edu.

A CLIMATE CHANGE SEMINAR,

by Dr. Eric Toman of The Ohio State University, takes place at 1 p.m. in Room 308 of Percival Hall.

Toman will present “Complexity and Wickedness: The Role of Humans in (Addressing) Climate Change.” The seminar is free and open to the public. For more information, call 304-293-3825 or email jim.anderson@mail. wvu.edu.

THE SUNCREST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH presents a free showing of the movie “Courageous” every night this week at 5:30. The church is located on Van Voorhis Road across from the new WVU Alumni Center.

Everyone is welcome. For more information, call 304-692-6351.

FRIDAY JANUARY 27

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.

TOMCHIN PLANETARIUM, located in 425 Hodges Hall, will present “Stars of the Pharaohs” at 7 p.m. and “Origins of Life” at 8 p.m. The event is free, but reservations are required and can be made by calling 304-293-4961.

Tomchin Observatory, located on the 4th floor of Hodges Hall, will be open at about 7:30 p.m. for viewing on the same night if the sky is clear. Jupiter should be visible.

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. New members are always welcome.

THE WVU YOUNG DEMOCRATS meets at 7 p.m. in the Blackwater

all pertinent information, including the dates the announcement is to run. Due to space limitations, announcements will only run one day unless otherwise requested. All nonUniversity related events must have free admission to be included in the calendar.

If a group has regularly scheduled meetings, it should submit all

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 304598-6094 or email rfh@wvuh.com.

information along with instructions for regular appearance in the Campus Calendar. These announcements must be resubmitted each semester.

The editors reserve the right to edit or delete any submission.

There is no charge for publication. Questions should be directed to the Campus Calendar editor at 304-293-5092.

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 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 CONDOM CARAVAN is held in 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.msnap.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 304293-4431 or email tandy.mcclung@ mail.wvu.edu.

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

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

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

HOROSCOPES

BY JACQUELINE BIGAR

appearance.

Tonight: Enjoy the one you are with.

BORN TODAY You have a very appealing manner that draws many people to you. However, because you are surrounded by so many admirers, often jealousy comes into play. Be careful as to what you promise, and make sure you are clear about your expectations and desires. If you are single, you might commit to someone, only to suddenly find the bond volatile. Try to avoid commitment this year. If you are attached, the two of you often find that you disagree.

Learn to respect your sweetie’s perspective, and peace will be restored. PISCES spends money differently than you do.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH You see a situation much differently than a partner. Through what might be animated conversation, you come to terms.

If you detach, you see this person’s caring. Otherwise, anger could be the result. Know you are cared about. Tonight: Catch up on calls.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH Take a serious look at a schedule change.

You clearly cannot do as you desire with your present commitments. Though you may not see the path immediately, it is there. Brainstorm with a buddy. Tonight: Buy something for your home or roommate.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Be sensitive to your needs financially. A close partner might have a different perspective and interests. This person has a very caring manner that often ropes you in.

Know your limits, and be willing to say “no.” Tonight: Go with a suggestion.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Make calls, schedule meetings and do not forget to make or confirm weekend plans. You could be overwhelmed by all that you have to do. News coming in from a distance could trigger a strong reaction.

Sort fact from fiction. Tonight: You don’t have to go far,

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH You might want to pull back and get a better understanding of a friendship. This person sometimes goes overboard. Anger develops when you least expect it.

Could someone expect more than you can give? Tonight: Get some R and R. TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHHH Being driven points a venture toward success. Another person’s creative idea might backfire. No matter how nice you are when you nix this concept, the end results could be volatile. Do not spend too much energy on this issue. Tonight: Find your friends.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHH Be as upbeat as you can when dealing with a higher-up or boss. Listen to feedback.

On a personal level, your home life could be disruptive. Do not take the events here into your professional life. Focus on your public image. Tonight: A must

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHH Recognize how easily triggered you are. Pull back rather than lose your temper. Words spoken could cause a problem and cannot be taken back. A partner or another person you are financially tied to triggers strong reactions. Tonight: The only answer is yes.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH Sitting on strong feelings could be difficult.

Pick and choose the timing to release your aggravation. Go back to the original issue. Others keep requesting your help with various projects. Toss yourself into at least one. Tonight: Squeeze in some exercise.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH You are all smiles, no matter how you look at a situation. A friend might be aggressive about you pursuing a certain path. You know how to say no, but in this case, it might not be heard. Trust your judgment.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH Only you can decide what to do with your funds. You do not always have to defer to a partner. You care a lot about this person, regardless of how volatile he or she might be, yet you do not have to say yes all the time. Tonight: Make sure your budget is in the plus column.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHHH Beam in others. Make a decision about who would be best to go to an event or begin a project with. Honor what you feel, and it all works out. One person could become quite irritated. You cannot change his or her reaction, but you also do not need to react! Tonight: Do your own thing.

BORN TODAY Army general Douglas MacArthur (1880), black activist Angela Davis (1944), guitarist Eddie Van Halen (1955)

COMICS

Pearls Before Swine

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F Minus

by Tony Carrillo

Get Fuzzy

by Darby Conley

Cow and Boy

by Mark Leiknes

PUZZLES DIFFICULTY LEVEL MEDIUM

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

WEDNESDAY’S PUZZLE SOLVED

ACROSS 1 Utah’s state gem 6 Stable newborn 10 Emblem 14 “Don’t try to be ___” 15 __ jure 16 Slicer’s warning 17 See 38-Across 20 Passed down, as folk mus.

21 Shop gripper 22 Four Holy Roman emperors 23 ‘40s-’50s pitcher Maglie 24 Tangle of hair 25 P.D. alert 26 See 38-Across 33 Silver and gold 35 Absorb, as a loss 36 Via, ˆ la Burns 37 “__ you clever!”

38 Clue for 17-, 26-, 43- and 57-Across 39 Intersect 40 Unlike Wellesley College 41 Board partner 42 Downloadable media player 43 See 38-Across 46 Clunker 47 Cruet fluid 48 Corn serving 51 That and that 54 Proverbial equine escape site 56 Sharp part 57 See 38-Across 60 Plotting 61 Head start?

62 Neutral shade 63 Dry run 64 No sweat 65 Being pulled DOWN 1 Knave of Hearts’ loot 2 Fictional plantation owner 3 Guitar played with hands and feet 4 Dry 5 San Diego attraction 6 Having limits 7 Makes a choice 8 U.S. Open stadium 9 Rickey broke his stolen base record in 1991 10 “Assuming that’s accurate,” biblically

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Sundance doc traces Simon’s ‘Graceland’ hit album PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Paul Simon recalls his return to South Africa like a family reunion musical brothers getting back together after decades apart.

The trip last summer to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his “Graceland” album was a far more joyous occasion than some of his earlier travels on behalf of the record.

The Sundance Film Festival documentary “Under African Skies” chronicles the creation of “Graceland,” its overnight success and the furor it caused as critics accused Simon of impeding progress to abolish South Africa’s system of racial segregation known as apartheid.

Simon said he was surprised by protests that sprang up on his “Graceland” tour in the 1980s. But looking back, he said the album and tour with South African musicians raised awareness that helped end apartheid in the 1990s.

“Once I saw it had an immediate acceptance and that people loved it and had great affection for the music, I thought that the tour and

the album were going to be a very effective way of showing just how evil apartheid was,” Simon said in an interview alongside “Under African Skies” director Joe Berlinger.

The film shows Simon’s South African musical colleagues enjoying their first taste of success outside their oppressed nation on the “Graceland” tour. But critics charged that the tour violated a United Nations cultural ban meant to pressure South Africa’s white minority into doing away with government policies of segregation against blacks.

There were protests and even bomb threats, resulting in tight security as the tour progressed around the world.

Even today, there is lingering bitterness against Simon. “Under African Skies” includes a sometimes-uneasy exchange last summer between him and Dali Tambo, the son of African National Congress leader Oliver Tambo and the founder of Artists Against Apartheid.

Dali Tambo had remained a harsh critic of Simon.

The joint interview ar-

ranged by filmmaker Berlinger helped clear the air between Simon and Tambo, who ended their meeting with a warm hug on camera.

That meeting was part of Berlinger’s aim to examine both the musical origins of “Graceland” but also its unpleasant political fallout.

“I made it clear I didn’t want a puff piece, a Paul Simon puff piece, and he didn’t want a Paul Simon puff piece,” Berlinger said.

“We established that we’re going to do an honest exploration of these issues and also go deeply into how this music was made, which, to me, is actually the more interesting part of the film.

“The political story is relevant and has resonance in today’s world as well, but how this album was made, the dissection of that music and that achievement to me was as interesting, or more so, than the political story.”

The film traces the creation of the album, from early recording sessions Simon did in South Africa to capture the raw material for many of the songs, to a London studio session with vo-

cal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, to an early performance on “Saturday Night Live” that enchanted the audience months before “Graceland” was released.

“Under African Skies” also follows Simon on his return to South Africa last summer, when he and musicians from the album reunited for a performance.

Simon had a gracious welcome there, reminiscent of a trip back to South Africa he took a few years after the “Graceland” tour, when apartheid had ended and South Africa’s new president, Nelson Mandela, invited him to come and perform.

Ma n d e l a’s i nv i t at i o n amounted to the “official announcement that was nothing about `Graceland’ that the ANC saw as harming the cause. In fact, the opposite,” Simon said. “We all felt particularly honored to even meet Nelson Mandela. I think of him as one of the great, great leaders of the 20th century. One of the great teachers. To be in his presence actually was extraordinary. We felt great AP about it.”

Singer Paul Simon, left, and director Joe Berlinger, from the film ‘Under African Skies’

‘28 Days Later’ star Cillian Murphy makes Sundance return after nine years PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Nine years later, Cillian Murphy is back at the Sundance Film Festival, where he got such great exposure that people finally learned to pronounce his name.

The Irish actor whose first name begins with a hard K sound was a breakout star at Sundance in 2003 with the horror hit “28 Days Later.”

The film about a London man who wakes from a coma to find the land overrun by a plague that has turned people into raging zombies already was a hit in Great Britain when it played at the festival.

The rousing reception at Sundance built U.S. buzz for AP the film and for Murphy, who Cillian Murphy, Elizabeth Olsen and Rodrigo Cortes at the “Red Lights” Dinner Party at the Grey Goose Blue Door at Sundance Film Festival went on to appear in Chris-

topher Nolan’s “Batman Begins,” “The Dark Knight” and “Inception” and returned to this year’s festival with the thriller “Red Lights.”

“When it was well-received here, that had a big impact on its release in the States,” said Murphy, who had a handful of credits behind him when director Danny Boyle (“Trainspotting,” “Slumdog Millionaire”) cast him in the lead of “28 Days Later.”

“I think that was my first time in a film with a real, proper director, a name director. And it was a nice part, so I guess people attempted to pronounce my name after that. That was definitely the watershed.”

Along with roles in No-

lan’s blockbusters, Murphy went on to star in Boyle’s science-fiction tale “Sunshine,” Neil Jordan’s transgender story “Breakfast on Pluto,” Wes Craven’s airline thriller “Red Eye” and Ken Loach’s Irish historical drama “The Wind that Shakes the Barley,” which earned the top prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

In writer-director Rodrigo Cortes’ “Red Lights,” Murphy and Sigourney Weaver play researchers who debunk phony claims of the paranormal, while Robert De Niro costars as a superstar psychic.

Millennium Entertainment announced Wednesday that it has picked up the U.S. theatrical rights for “Red Lights.”

Sundance documentary ‘The Invisible War’ examines rape in US military PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The Department of Defense estimates that more than 19,000 military men and women were sexually assaulted by fellow troops in 2010 while serving in the United States armed forces. At least 20 percent of servicewomen and 1 percent of men an estimated 500,000 troops have experienced sexual trauma while serving.

These troubling statistics motivated documentarian Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering to make “The Invisible War,” a film that examines the epidemic of rape within the military, how it affects victims and why so few cases are prosecuted. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it is a contender in the U.S. documentary competition.

The statistics “were just so astonishing that at first we didn’t believe it,” said Dick, adding that he was equally surprised that no film had been made on the subject.

Through interviews with rape survivors and military officials, “The Invisible War”

suggests that it’s not just the violence and harassment that traumatizes victims but the absence of impartial justice and personal retaliation they often experience after reporting the incident. A rape survivor’s first step toward judicial recourse is to report the attack to her commander - even if he was the attacker - and it’s his decision whether to investigate and prosecute, regardless of the evidence.

“If they investigate it, and the investigator comes back and says, `I’ve got a slamdunk case. I can put this serial perpetrator behind bars,’ the commander can, on his or her own, decide, `No, we’re not going to send this case to court martial,’” Dick said.

A 2009 study shows that only 8 percent of military sex offenders are prosecuted.

“The Invisible War” introduces viewers to Kori Cioca, who left the Coast Guard after being beaten and raped by her supervisor. Five years later, she still suffers from post-traumatic stress and has yet to receive Veterans Ad-

ministration approval for the surgery she needs to repair the injuries she suffered during the attack. The perpetrator, who continues to serve in the Coast Guard, hit her so hard that he permanently dislocated her jaw.

Viewers also meet Marine Corps 1st Lt. Ariana Klay, who served in Iraq before being gang-raped by a senior officer and his friend while stationed at the elite Marine Barracks in Washington, D.C. Klay’s husband, also a Marine, cried as he described his concern and fear that his wife would commit suicide.

Other rape survivors shown in the film, including Cioca, said they also contemplated suicide.

Hannah Sewell, who comes from a military family, said she has trouble convincing herself that she is still a virgin after being raped while serving in the Navy. Her father, wearing his own military uniform, recounts the story through tears.

Dick and Ziering traveled the country to interview some

70 survivors of military rape.

“We weren’t really ready for all the stories we heard,” Ziering said. “Each one had a lot of similarities and all were equally horrific.”

Ziering said she was encouraged to learn that in units where commanders did not tolerate any kind of sexual harassment, rape at the hands of military colleagues was not an issue. That helped her and Dick to remain optimistic throughout the project. The filmmakers were also gratified by the film’s reception at Sundance, where politicians such as U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer of California; U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, Lt. Gov.

Gavin Newsom and U.S. Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio attended the premiere. Grammy winner Mary J. Blige has also pledged to write an original song for the film.

“Our great hope was and continues to be that capturing (survivors’) experience and their trauma will help change things for hundreds of thousands of men and women who are in the armed forces,” Dick said.

There’s also “a history of hope,” he said, because when the military set out to banish the segregation and racism that reigned among troops in the early 1960s, they made significant strides in just over

Producer Amy Ziering, left, and director Kirby Dick, from the film ‘The Invisible War.’

a decade.

“They can do the same thing with this,” he said.

So why don’t they?

“They don’t take it seriously enough,” Ziering said. “They don’t really see, and what we’re hoping the film will show is the repercussions of it. They don’t understand the amount of damage this is doing and how it really is a national security issue, and also costing taxpayers billions of dollars in just caring for people with this kind of trauma.

“Once that message gets through to them, they will be motivated to make a change, because it’s a no brainer. They have to do something.”

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Armisen, Brownstein a match made in comedy heaven Laura Ciarolla

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“The dream of the ’90s is alive in Portland.”

This line – featured in a satirical music video in episode one – pretty well sums up Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s sketch comedy show, “Portlandia.”

Dry humor and sarcastic wit combine in this new series to create an uproariously funny portrayal of Portland, Oregon,

and the complex individuals who live there.

When I think of Portland, I think immediately of hippies and hipsters. Add in a passe punk element, and I was right on the money, according to Armisen and Brownstein.

Their sketches feature hilarious characters such as a couchpotato couple who find it impossible to leave their living room until after finishing the “Battlestar Gallactica” series, two extreme feminists who run a “Women & Women First” bookstore and a specialty shop that sells anything you can think of

– as long as they can “put a bird on it!”

In one sketch the duo play a couple with relationship problems, but reverse gender characters (Armisen plays the woman and Brownstein the man) for no reason evident in the script. It made the scene 10 times funnier.

These actors take limits to the extreme in mocking the city of Portland, but their over-the-top portrayal of punks and hipsters are relatable to any city, even our somewhat less diverse one.

I may not know anyone quite as extreme as any of Armisen’s characters, but I can certainly re-

late to the humor of exaggerated personality quirks and qualities I see every day.

Brownstein is a more-thanpleasant surprise in the series.

This is her first mainstream entrance into the acting and comedy world, having spent most of her life as a singer and guitarist for bands Sleater-Kinney and Wild Flag.

She first worked with Armisen in their comedy duo “Thunderant” in several video comedy skits, and the two are now regularly collaborating for comedy magic.

So far, the cast has featured a

number of surprisingly diverse guest stars including Sarah McLachlan, Aimee Mann, Jeff Goldblum, Edward James Olmos and more. And – other than Goldblum, who plays a knot enthusiast – the three above-mentioned stars basically play themselves, thrust into hilarious and awkward situations.

I can’t recommend this show enough to fellow fans of the sarcastic comedy genre.

Armisen, who I must say has never before stood out to me comedically, is a hit in almost every single skit. Unlike his previous show, “Saturday Night Live,”

these sketches don’t run too long or become too inappropriate; they may cut back to sketches throughout the episode, but it leaves viewers with perfect timing to not tire of the joke and find it even more hilarious on a callback.

Armisen and Brownstein are a comedic match made in heaven, and their show is worth your time and laughs.

“Portlandia” has just entered its second season this January.

It airs every Friday at 10 p.m. on IFC. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

New exhibit explores Thomas Jefferson’s slave ownership WASHINGTON (AP) —Thomas Jefferson wrote “all men are created equal” to declare U.S. independence from Britain, yet he was also a lifelong slave owner who freed only nine of his more than 600 slaves during his lifetime.

That contradiction between ideals and reality is at the center of a new exhibit opening Friday as the Smithsonian Institution continues developing a national black history museum. It offers a look at Jefferson’s Monticello plantation in Virginia through the lives of six slave families and artifacts unearthed from where they lived.

The exhibit, “Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox of Liberty,” was developed with Monticello and will be on view at the National Museum of American History through midOctober. It includes a look at the family of Sally Hemings, a slave.

Most historians now believe she had an intimate relationship with the third president and that he fathered her children.

Museum Director Lonnie Bunch said his staff can test ideas by building exhibits before the National Museum of African American History and Culture is finished.

It will be the first museum added to the National Mall since 2004. A groundbreaking is planned for Feb. 22, and it’s scheduled to open in 2015 near the Washington Monument.

Bunch said museum officials want to see how the public responds to subjects, such as slavery, as they try to present history for the widest possible audience.

Slavery, he said, is still the “last great unmentionable” in public discourse but central in shaping American history.

“This is a story we know we have to tell, and this is a story we know is going to be difficult and going to be challenging, but this new museum has to tell the story,” he told The Associated Press. “In many ways, the Smithsonian is the great legitimizer, so if we can wrestle with slavery and Jefferson, other people can.”

A portion of the exhibit devoted to the Hemings-Jefferson story marks the first time the subject has been presented on the National Mall.

Curators stopped short of making a definitive statement in the exhibit about the relationship, but they wrote that it was likely an intimate one, based on documentary and genetic evidence.

“On the one hand it’s not a breakthrough for scholars.

We’ve known this for a long time,” Bunch said. “I think that the public is still trying to understand it.”

Many artifacts, including tools and kitchen ceramics, are on public view for the first time, exploring the work and lives of slave families who lived on Jefferson’s plantation.

Among the pieces on display is a hand-crafted chair built by John Hemings, Sally Hemings’ brother, to replicate a set of French chairs at Monticello.

While such items may have been seen by 450,000 people a year at Monticello, they are accessible to millions of visitors at the Smithsonian, curators said.

In the exhibit, oral histories from descendants of Jefferson’s slaves reveal stories passed down through families for generations, along with detailed records kept by Jefferson.

For example, Jefferson bought George and Ursula Granger and their sons as slaves in 1773, and Ursula became a “favorite housewoman” of his wife. Jefferson eventually made George Granger the overseer of Monticello, the only slave to rise to that position and receive an annual wage.

Later, the first baby born in the White House was the son of Wormley and Ursula Hughes, who belonged to Jefferson.

“We can begin to understand slavery, not as an abstraction but through the stories of individuals and families who were surviving within a system that denied their humanity,” said Leslie Green Bowman, president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation that runs Monticello.

A related website will showcase the “Getting Word” oral history project.

Curators also explore the importance of slavery in early U.S. history and Jefferson’s views on enslavement, which he called an “abominable crime.”

The small laptop portable desk he used to draft the Declaration of Independence is placed front and center in the exhibit, borrowed from the Smithsonian’s permanent presidential gallery.

Shannon Lanier, 32, of New York City, a ninth generation descendant of Jefferson and Hemings through their son

Madison Hemings, said he has known about his ancestors for years from stories told by his mother and grandmother.

Having such an exhibit at the Smithsonian is a breakthrough, he said, because it’s past time for more people to know about Jefferson’s history with slavery.

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‘Jersey Shore’s’ Deena Cortese to visit Morgantown Saturday

BY Christina Gutierrez A&E WRITEr

The “Jersey Shore” is notorious for big hair, tan skin and crazy parties. This Saturday night, “Jersey Shore” star and self-proclaimed “party in a body,” Deena Cortese will get a taste of how the Mountaineers party.

Local radio station WVAQ is bringing Cortese to The Buddha Lounge at Dragonfly on Chestnut Street Saturday.

With their fame, the reality stars have made their appearances everywhere from award shows to commercials.

Cortese recently appeared on a local radio station WVAQ and shared some of her expectations for the visit.

“WVU come on out and get meatball wasted!” Cortese said.

During her time in Morgantown, Cortese will not be taking any tours of the WVU campus. She will be here strictly for partying.

“We’re going to have a blast,” Cortese said. “You’ll find me in the corner with a bottle of SoCo.” On any episode of the “Jersey Shore,” “The Walking Holiday” Cortese is guaranteed to experience a range of emotions from laughter to tears to complete sickness.

West Virginia University senior communications student, Virginia Nardi, ashamed to admit that she is entertained by the Jersey Shore star.

“She’s such a s--t; but I can’t help but like her,” Nardi said.

Nardi said that Cortese will feel right at home on the streets of Morgantown.

“Deena acts just like a fresh-

man, and they’re probably going to be the first ones in line to see her,” Nardi said.

Deena is sure to bring a large crowd of people to the lounge Saturday. As is, a huge number of Jersey residents live in the area and many more that might as well be.

For these devoted fans, there will be a contest for the most impressively “Jerseylicious” ensemble.

Sponsored by WVAQ, there will be a $250 cash prize and G.T.L. package for the winner of the “Jersey Shore” LookAlike Contest.

Though she may be starting her own festivities around noon, the lounge won’t be open until the evening. Deena will be available to meet guests and sign autographs. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Local acts Sleepwalker, Single Dads to play 123 tonight

by Hunter Hoimstek A&E WRITER

123 Pleasant Street is set to host a nostalgic evening of indie rock tonight with local bands Sleepwalker and Single Dads playing alongside noted performers One Hundred Year Ocean and Empire! Empire!

For fans of indie rock and emo, tonight’s show is can’tmiss event.

Headlined by local acts Sleepwalker and Single Dads, the show promises to pull on the heartstrings of those who grew up and mature with bands like At the Drive-In, Cursive and Saves the Day.

“Each band has a kind of nostalgic feel for the music from the early 2000s,” said David Bello, guitarist and vocalist.

“The sound is something I feel a lot of people can relate to.”

Since its formation in May 2011, Sleepwalker has been on a rapid ascent up the ranks of the local music scene. This quick progression as a group is a testament to the members’ musical prowess and their ability to execute and relate to the musical styles they find important.

“We have elements of that nostalgic sound, but we also have qualities of heavier rock at times,” Bello said.

This blend of genres has al-

ready proven to be a favorite in the Morgantown music scene, and tonight’s show will serve to reinforce, justify and propel the group’s development.

Like Sleepwalker, Single Dads’ sound reflects on the indie groups of the but also incorporates elements of heavier rock. To separate themselves from other groups of the genre, Single Dads incorporates more complex song arrangements and technical musicianship.

“They remind me a lot of the band Cursive,” Bello said. “All three of the guys in the band are extremely precise in playing their instruments in a technical way.”

This delicate balance of complexity and cohesiveness is what makes Single Dads’ sound unique in today’s music scene, and the group’s set is sure to impress and please the music fans in attendance tonight.

Bolstering tonight’s show are national acts Empire! Empire! and One Hundred Year Ocean.

With a wealth of experience between them, these groups will bring a mature and refined sound to the stage.

Derrick Shanholtzer, the frontman and leader of One Hundred Year Ocean, has lent his talents to the groups The World is a Beautiful Place and I am no Longer Afraid to Die,

and is now enjoying success with OHYO. “He’s the best lyricist I know personally, and he yells better than anyone else live,” Bello said.

Empire! Empire!, like One Hundred Year Ocean, is an established act in the indie rock scene. Led by vocalist and guitarist Keith Latinen, Empire!

Empire! is a blast back to the early 2000s. The group epitomizes emo music of that time and gives an honest and intimate listening experience.

“They just have really honest lyrics and melodic riffs with soft parts and loud parts switching off quickly,” Bello said.

Tonight’s show at 123 Pleasant Street is sure to be a hit with fans of the emo and indie rock groups. With national acts playing alongside local favorites, tonight’s performance will not disappoint those looking for an entertaining and skillful display of musical abilities.

There will be a $5 cover charge for the show, and concert-goers must be 18 years old to attend, 21 to drink. Doors open at 9 p.m. and music starts at 10 p.m.

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The 25-year-old star of “Glee” is following in the high-heel footprints of former brand spokeswomen Britney Spears and Fergie, among others. Michele says she particularly liked Spears’ old ads. “I think they’re fun and flirty and show off her body great.”

She has become a “get” for designers eager to show off their gowns on a hot, young starlet. At the recent Golden Globes, she wore a silver Marchesa gown that was straight from the runway.

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West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins yells during the game against Cincinnati Saturday.

West Virginia falls 78-62 to St. John’s at Madison Square Garden Wednesday

By John Terry Managing Editor

The West Virginia men’s basketball team tried to make it interesting late in the second half against St. John’s Wednesday night, but it couldn’t find a way to come back from a 20-point second-half deficit.

The Mountaineers, fresh off of a win against Cincinnati, were blown out against St. John’s, losing 78-62.

“We got an inflated value of self-worth,” said West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins in his postgame radio show. “We don’t have great shooters. Our greatest concern was, ‘Can we make some shots against a zone?’ Coupled with not being a very good shooting team, we don’t pass the ball very well.”

West Virginia senior Truck Bryant hit a three-point shot to pull within nine points – 68-59 – with 2:48 to play, but St. John’s

responded with a 10-3 run to end the game and secure the win.

The loss also snapped a threegame winning streak against St. John’s at Madison Square Garden.

“I don’t know how to change people’s mental approach,” Huggins said. “I didn’t know what to do. We have spent more time shooting the ball and mor e time passing the basketball ball than anytime since I’ve been there.”

West Virginia, which shot 35.4 percent from the field, was led By Kevin Jones, who scored 26 points and collected 14 rebounds for his 14th double-double of the season.

St. John’s had four players in double-figure scoring, but only seven players played.

Freshman Moe Harkless led St. John’s with 23 points and 13 rebounds, while D’Angelo Harrison was 19 points, including a 3-of-6 mark from three-point range.

“He intimidated us around the basket,” Huggins said.

Both Phil Greene and Amir Garrett finished with 11 points.

St. John’s jumped out to an early lead in the first half. The Red Storm used a four-minute scoring drought to jump out to a 12-4 lead. The Mountaineers committed four turnovers in the first five miniutes of the game.

West Virginia was forced to call its second timeout of the game at the 11:11 mark after St. John’s increased its lead to 16-6.

But, it didn’t help.

St. John’s continued to pour it on and led 21-6 at the 7:57 mark.

West Virginia started to show life following a pair of Jabarie Hinds’ three-pointers in the Mountaineers’ 10-2 run, pulling them to a 23-16 deficit.

St. John’s was able to finish the half the way it started, and entered the locker room up 36-20.

The Mountaineers didn’t score a point in the final 2:19.

West Virginia struggled shooting just 25.9 percent from the field in the first half including a 2-of-10 mark from the first half.

St. John’s, which shot 45.7 percent, out-rebounded the Mountaineers 25-17.

West Virginia made a run in the beginning of the second half, following seven straight Kevin Jones’ points to pull the Mountaineers within 46-32, but the Red Storm wouldn’t budge.

A Bryant-blocked layup which would’ve pulled the Mountaineers within 12, turned into a St. John’s layup. And, on the next possession, another Red Storm three-pointer gave them a 51-32 advantage.

Bryant finished with 16 points, but was just 4-of-13 from the field.

WVU outrebounded St. John’s 44-40, including 22-15 on the offensive glass. john.terry@mail.wvu.edu

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Mountaineers head to Penn State by amit batra sports writer

The West Virginia track and field team returns to State College, Pa., for the Penn State nationals this weekend.

The meet, which will take place at Horace Ashenfelter III Indoor Track, will include athletes and schools from all over the country. WVU will have many representatives in the competition.

The competition is quite important for relay runner Shakiyla Cosby this weekend.

“I want to work as hard as I can this week to get ready for the 4x400 and help the group qualify for the Big East,” Cosby said.

Cosby didn’t run at Penn State when the team visited PSU a few weeks ago. She hopes this race will benefit the team.

“The first meet was good

for us because we saw where we were and how good we needed to be. I was unattached, but the team did pretty Cleary well. I didn’t run at Penn State, but I was able to run in the 4x400 at last weekend’s meet, and I think we’re getting better.

“My time’s getting better, so as the season progresses, it will just keep dropping and we’ll all have the confidence to do better.”

Obviously, anytime a team is familiar with a surface or surrounding they will have an advantage.

“It helps a little bit that we’ve competed there and are familiar with the facility,”

Cosby said.

“It is a nice facility and a nice track, so that will also help with our time. If we’re fast, we can do well on any track.”

Coach Sean Cleary is excited for the opportunity to return to State College and make some impact.

“This weekend will provide a great opportunity for our team,” Cleary said. “We will have the chance to see in excess of 60 schools. Many Big East, Big Ten and ACC schools will be among those.”

Many of the jumpers have NCAA marks on their minds leading up to the next month.

“As of late, our jumpers have been leading the way,” Cleary said. “Our jumpers have all qualified for the Big East and take aim at NCAA marks over the next few weeks. We will slowly begin to move our distance runners into compe-

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West Virginia senior forward Kevin Jones had his 14th double-double of the season, leading the Mountaineers with 26 points and 14 rebounds against St. John’s Wednesday.

tition. Our depth should be better over the next few weeks.”

That’s not to say that other girls won’t have the opportunity to advance at Penn State this weekend.

“I am also looking forward to seeing our throwers and vaulters take advantage of the opportunity they are presented,” stated Cleary.

“Should they simulate in competition what they are doing in practice, they will add new names to our Big East roster.

“Practice is continuing to gain momentum. We have started a little slower than usual, but I feel certain that we will be much better in the next month.”

The Penn State Nationals will happen on Friday and Saturday afternoon. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

My day with the WVU rifle team alex sims sports WRITER

They make it look so easy.

Then again, I suppose that’s the reason they are athletes in a program that has more national titles than any other program in the sport.

Of course, when I say “they,” I mean the No. 3 West Virginia rifle team, and when I say “it,” I am referring to the sport of target shooting.

Junior Petra Zublasing made it look like child’s play when she shot a perfect 600 in air rifle against No. 4 Army and then again when she shot a perfect 400 as a guest at Stage I of the US Olympic Trials, practically redefining the word “precision”in the process.

It’s a pretty simple concept.

You just shoot the gun at the target. Everyone, theoretically, can do it.

Of course, it isn’t that simple, which is why I set out to

understand the intricacies of the sport that can only truly be appreciated through experience.

The first step, knowing where the WVU rifle range is actually located, is hard enough. Too many students and Mountaineer fans, its whereabouts are about as well known as those of El Dorado or Atlantis.

Before I began covering the team, I had only been there on one occasion: a simple stroll through the second floor of the Natatorium to catch a glimpse of the display case outside the range full of national championship trophies, which is something you don’t see every day.

Then, as I began covering the team and became a regular visitor to the range, I continued to wonder what it’s like to take aim down the WVU rifle range at the little black dot, so far way.

I figured the best, and maybe the only, way to figure this out was through head coach Jon Hammond.

see sims on PAGE 12

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10 | SPORTS/CLASSIFIEDS

Thursday January 26, 2012

nba

Love signs 4-year extension with T-Wolves

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Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love reacts after hitting a game-winning shot against the Los Angeles Clippers Friday.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kevin Love watched his friends Derrick Rose and Russell Westbrook sign five-year extensions this season with their respective teams and was ready to do the same with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

As the clock ticked down toward the deadline, it became abundantly clear that owner Glen Taylor and president of basketball operations David Kahn did not want to go that far.

So the two sides found a middle ground.

Love signed a four-year maximum extension on Wednesday worth more than $60 million that allows him to opt out after three years.

The deal offers the financial flexibility and protection from injury that the Timberwolves were seeking while giving the 23-year-

old Love the freedom to become an unrestricted free agent in 2015 if he so chooses.

“Did I want the five years? Of course,” Love said on a conference call from Dallas, where the Timberwolves were facing the Mavericks on Wednesday night.

“It was something I felt strongly about. But at the end of the day, a four-year deal is still great.”

Under the new collective bargaining agreement, teams can offer one player on their roster a five-year deal with annual raises of 7.5 percent, which is one year longer and three percentage points higher than any other team can offer.

Love has emerged as the new face of the franchise in the postKevin Garnett era, an All-Star who led the NBA in rebounding last season and is off to an even

better start this year. He is fifth in the NBA in scoring (24.9 points per game), second in rebounding (13.9) and first in minutes (39.4).

Coupled with the additions of coach Rick Adelman and point guard Ricky Rubio, Love has helped form a promising foundation that has the Twin Cities swelling with optimism. Still, Love can leave if he doesn’t like the direction the organization is headed in three years.

“The early termination keeps my options open and I want to see where this team is going to head,” Love said. “I feel that we are (on the right track), and that we’ll get there. ... I’m looking at this as a four-year deal and we’ll go from there.”

With this grueling, lockoutshortened season still only a quarter of the way finished, Kahn said he and Taylor felt that extending a player even as accomplished as Love for five years was more than they were comfortable doing.

“In a perfect world, we would have been able to do five years and not have any risk and not leave ourselves vulnerable,” Kahn said. “But it’s not a perfect world.

The main thing is Kevin is a max player and he deserves max money. I’m very pleased for him that he can have financial security that this contract provides.”

The team had until 11 p.m.

Wednesday to sign him to a deal and prevent Love from becoming a restricted free agent in July.

Oklahoma City gave Westbrook a five-year, $80 million deal and Chicago signed Rose to a fiveyear, $94 million deal under a provision that Rose earned by winning the MVP last season.

“They’re in totally different positions,” Love said, pointing out that the Thunder and Bulls are both considered champion-

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ship contenders while the Wolves haven’t been to the playoffs since 2004.

Even after all that he accomplished in his first three seasons — the first 30-point, 30-rebound game since 1982, becoming one of the rare big men who can shoot reliably from 3-point range and finally giving the franchise a star player that fans could cheer for after Garnett was traded — there still was some debate entering the season about whether Love deserved a max extension.

Skeptics noted that Love wasn’t the kind of player to create his own shot in late-game situations and struggled on the defensive end, which meant that all the gaudy numbers he was piling up rarely led to victories.

But as this lockout-shortened season has opened, the Love quickly showed that the only debate left about his value to the Timberwolves was the length of the contract. He showed up to training camp 25 pounds lighter and in superb shape, which has served him well.

He’s also added a step-back jumper and a turnaround bank shot that allows him to create space between himself and the defender and is improving as a help defender on the other end.

He drilled a 27-foot 3-pointer at the buzzer to beat the Clippers in Los Angeles.

“Kevin’s just become a worldclass player,” said Rockets coach Kevin McHale, who was the GM of the Timberwolves on the night they acquired him in a draftnight trade with Memphis in 2008. “Believe me, he’s exceeded what everybody thought. You knew he was going to be a good player. You start talking 25 and 15, come on. ... You see Dwight Howard in high school, you don’t say, ‘25 and 15.’”

The four-year deal gives the Timberwolves some flexibility going forward and keeps that “designated player” fiveyear option available for point guard Ricky Rubio, No. 2 overall pick Derrick Williams or another player down the road.

All three players could have their contracts up in the summer of 2015.

“It’s good to have our centerpiece,” Williams said. “We need a guy like him to put up 25 and 10 every night. ... I had a feeling he would stay with the fan base he’s built.”

Even though his play may not have indicated it, Love said the situation was wearing on him as the deadline approached. He said he was relieved that it was all over and would playing “with a chip on my shoulder” after not getting the five-year deal.

“I understand his position,” Kahn said. “It was a very close call. I don’t believe, however, that Kevin will be affected by it. I believe that Kevin, deep down, cares about one thing and one thing only, winning. And I think that he understands that, to the extent that this might help us achieve some team objectives, that he’s OK with it.”

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

12 | SPORTS

women’s basketball

Thursday January 26, 2012

DYNAMIC DUO

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Junior center Asya Bussie is averaging 12 points and 6.2 rebounds per game this season.

Juniors Bussie, Dunning making impact inside for West Virginia this season by cody schuler sports writer

When opposing teams begin scouting for West Virginia, it is inevitable that they start game planning from inside the paint.

The tandem of junior center Asya Bussie and redshirt junior forward Ayana Dunning are dominating forces on the court for the Mountaineers.

Standing 6-foot-4 and 6-foot-3 respectively, the pair of post players create matchup problems for opponents on a nightly basis.

Bussie, who has started all 89 games in her career as a Mountaineer, leads the team in field goal percentage and blocks, and she is the second leading scorer at 12 points per game.

The Randallstown, Md., native also averages 6.2 rebounds per contest – second on the team to Dunning.

Dunning, who averages eight rebounds per game, has grabbed double-digit rebounds in five games – including three in which she grabbed 15. While she doesn’t score as much as Bussie (7.0 ppg), she does create a plethora of scoring opportunities for her teammates.

Defending the combo of Bussie and Dunning is among the toughest tasks any defensive unit faces in the Big East.

While they don’t put up some of the eye-popping stats you might see elsewhere, the two attract so much attention inside that it opens up opportunities for players outside.

“I think we know where our strength is, and it’s inside,” said

head coach Mike Carey. “I think our guards realize that and are willing to give the ball up to our inside (players).

“That being said, our inside does a good job kicking it back out; anytime you go inside-out, you usually get a better shot on the perimeter.”

Sophomore guards Brooke Hampton and Taylor Palmer are primary beneficiaries of this.

“For a shooter, that’s what we love,” Palmer said. “All teams are going to key in on (Bussie) and (Dunning) because we have big size. That just opens it up for me and (redshirt sophomore guard Christal Caldwell) and (Hampton) and the shooters.”

Carey thinks that while the duo provides a big boost across the board, it takes a full team effort to maximize their potential.

In West Virginia’s 51-48 loss to Providence, the 11th-year head coach commented on how tough defensive pressure affected the success of Bussie and Dunning.

“Asya Bussie played extremely hard against Providence. We just have to get other people to be consistent and take care of the basketball,” Carey said.

“Bussie and Dunning are hard to guard, but we’re not getting the ball down into them because they’re pressing us, and we’re turning it over.

We have to do a better job on the press no matter who we play.”

Against Georgetown, Bussie and Dunning were held to just 1-of-7 shooting from the field.

Head coach Terri WilliamsFlournoy saw that her team needed to make a drastic switch on defense

after the Hoyas went into the locker room trailing 24-23. The key to its eventual 64-54 win started with shutting down Bussie and Dunning.

“We changed our defense, Williams-Flourney said. “The press that we were in, we felt that we could switch to another press and take away the middle a little bit better and put a little bit more pressure on the guards up front.

“Once we did that, we were able to get a few more turnovers and get more offensive possessions for us.”

While Georgetown was able to contain the duo, few other teams have been able to replicate their success. The Hoyas’ disruption of the West Virginia frontcourt shows just how important solid play out of Bussie and Dunning are to the team’s prospects moving forward.

Carey knows one night doesn’t necessarily indicate a trend, and he knows the packed-in pressure Georgetown played Tuesday night won’t work every game. “(Georgetown) sagged, but you know what, we have to be able to do – when they’re sagging – is kick it to the side they’re sagging from and hit that three or let (Bussie) shape up and get it from the wing,” he said. “(Dunning has) to move her hands if they hare pressuring her and (Bussie) has to shape up and we still have to be able to execute that.”

While the two are far from a finished product as a pair, the effectiveness and importance of their combined efforts has, so far, led to impressive results. charles.schuler@mail.wvu.edu

club sports update

Table tennis, ultimate Frisbee successful over weekend by jon fehrens

sports correspondent

West Virginia’s most unnoticed programs, such as table tennis and ultimate Frisbee got an opportunity to shine this weekend.

The West Virginia table tennis team is having its first tournament of the semester this week in Charleston, W.Va., where they will participate in the Inner City Tournament.

The Mountaineers will be sending two of their three teams to the event. The team hosts practice every Friday at 7 p.m. in the Student Rec Center and is always looking for more members regardless of their skill level.

The men’s ultimate Frisbee club team had an extremely busy weekend, playing in an overnight indoor tournament at Mount Union College.

The Mountaineers’ first game of the night was a 15-8 victory against Le Moyne College. The

first loss came at the hands of Akron, and the team followed up with a win against the hosting Mount Union team.

As tournament play began, the first game was against Bowling Green University, where the Mountaineers managed to pull together a 13-11 win.

West Virginia ended up falling in the semifinal round to the eventual tournament champions, Kent State, 11-7.

WVU ended up taking home third place after beating Akron 13-6 in the third-place game.

Alex Panger was solid on defense and made the play of the day when he laid out to make a defensive stop.

Jesse Holloway, one of the maing handlers on the team, was the leading scorer for the Mountaineers. Four of his goals came from the “hammer throw.”

The ultimate team has one more indoor tournament that comes up in February, then three to four outdoor tourna-

ments before the conference championships in April.

The No. 23 men’s hockey team is getting back into the thick of things. The past weekend is one that the team would like to forget. Only one goal was scored against Penn State in two games.

After getting shut out during the first game 8-0 Friday, Tod Camara managed to net a breakaway goal in Saturday’s 6-1 lost.

They look to bounce back Friday while traveling to Youngstown State University and then coming home to play against John Carroll.

If both teams win out in league play there will be a huge showdown against the Panthers at the end of the year to determine the regular season league champions.

The regular season champion gets an automatic berth to the ACHA national championship. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Junior Ayana Dunning had 10 rebounds against Georgetown Tuesday.

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Continued from page 9 One day, I asked senior shooter Justin Pentz if he thought Coach Hammond would allow me to shoot sometime, and he was sure that his coach would agree to let me shoot.

When I made the request to Hammond later that day, he said it would be no problem at all. He even seemed excited about the idea.

When the day finally came, naturally, I was all business. I was only there to take part in a bit of field research to help understand the sport I cover.

OK – maybe I was just a little bit excited to shoot with the best rifle program in the country.

He set me up shooting downrange seated with an Anschutz 8002 air rifle, which retails for about $2,400.

The rifle shoots a .177 caliber lead pellet and is a single shot, meaning it must be reloaded after each shot that is taken.

The electronic target stands ten meters (about 33 feet) away and the bullseye, or “10dot,” is only half a millimeter wide.

The West Virginia rifle team has won 14 national titles.

The sight is an empty circle, so all you have to do is place the 10-dot downrange in the very center of that circle and pull the trigger.

It all seems pretty straightforward until, after aiming down sights too long, tunnel vision sets in, and the dot and the circle come together to form one blurred spot at the end of the rifle.

Then, a simple squeezing of the trigger turns a 10-point shot into a seven-point shot, and the frustration begins to set in.

This unmasks the true villain in the sport of shooting: the mind of the shooter on the range.

Focusing for 60 consecutive

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shots on each shot individually is no easy task, even for the most experienced shooters.

And, doing it again for the small-bore category in the same match with a different gun, from three different positions, with the target 20 feet further away, makes things even more challenging for the competitive shooter.

I tried my best to make it look easy, though.

I even fired five consecutive 10-point shots, so maybe it is just that easy.

And maybe Coach Hammond will offer me a scholarship if I have the chance to shoot again. dasports@mail.wvu.edu