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Advertiser shares life lessons by jacob bojesson correspondent

Jason Bender went from being a college graduate working at Kinko’s to finding success in advertising, and he came to West Virginia University to share this experience.

Bender is the executive creative director at RockFish Interactive, one of the world’s leading advertising

firms.

The title of Bender’s lecture in Ming Hsieh Hall Thursday was “10 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me.” He shared his stories of success and encouraged the student crowd to stay creative, take opportunities and work toward achieving their goals.

“It’s weird the world is not waiting for English

graduates to come out and do literary critiques for a living,” Bender said.

“I wanted to think s––– up for a living, keeping that in mind drove me to make the right choice a couple of years down the line.”

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by Jim Ebel, Professor of Integrated Marketing at WVU and President of Center Brain Partners, the position consulting firm from

Is Facebook a crucial part of relationships? by jacob bojesson correspondent

A popular saying with students – “It’s not official until it’s on Facebook,” – may be more accurate than people realize.

A study co-conducted by David Westerman, assistant professor of communication studies at West Virginia University, showed publicly displaying romantic relationships on Facebook is a sign of commitment.

“It’s very similar to wearing a wedding ring. You’re publicly showing people ‘look I’m connected to this other person. I’m letting everyone know,’” Westerman said. “If you show it publicly, it makes it that much more meaningful.”

Just as social media has become a way to connect with friends and family, they have also become a tool to build and maintain relationships.

“For me, it came about from seeing social networking sites as being this place where a lot of these things can play out,” Westerman said. “(How they are) providing opportunities for people who live apart but also who live relatively close to each other, to maintain relationships by communicating through these channels.”

Alongside Stephanie Tong of Wayne State University in Detroit, Westerman investigated how the nature of romantic relationships are affected by Facebook.

Westerman put up an ad on MIX in September looking for people currently involved in a romantic relationship with someone they are friends with on Facebook.

In the study, 306 participants were asked a series

which Bender’s career took off.

“My designer was at a Kinko’s one night and said – this guy is kind of smart you’d want to talk to him,” Ebel said. “He was clay ready to be molded. He was willing to do anything and that really made a big difference for me.”

Today Bender handles campaigns for some major corporations, the names of

which he wished to keep private.

Bender took opportunities as they came and didn’t hesitate to take initiative on his own.

During one frustrating moment in his career, Bender asked his boss if there were any accounts that she didn’t want.

She gave him a job for a healthcare multi–brand.

“It took about three

months to turn it into an actual thing. For the agency, it turned into millions of dollars over the course of the six- or eightyear span,” Bender said. “It all came from me saying – I’m frustrated; how can I take something that somebody else doesn’t want and just make it good, because I got a lot of creative energy

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of questions about how satisfied they were with their communication on Facebook and how supported they felt by their network.

“We asked them some questions about how they interact with their partner through the private parts of Facebook and through the public part,” Westerman said. “We wanted to see how they played some of these things out on Facebook.”

Westerman and Tong are still analyzing the results of the study, and no statistics have been released.

What the preliminary results of the study show is people who display their relationship more openly on Facebook tend to feel closer to one another than people who don’t.

Westerman believes the idea of being “Facebook official” may play more significant role than many think.

“If you’re doing this publicly, you’re showing that commitment,” Westerman said. “Everyone else in your network knows it, and they can call you on it if you do something stupid.”

The private interactions on Facebook, including messaging and chatting, don’t seem to play as big a role in relationships – to Westerman’s surprise.

“It might be that people don’t just do it very often,” Westerman said. “Facebook is meant to be a public channel, although it certainly has some private parts to it.”

Westerman said he is satisfied with the results of the study, as they prove much of the criticism of social networking sites is unwarranted.

“A lot of people say: ‘These kids today – they’re

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The Tilted Kilt is finishing construction in anticipation of its grand opening later this year. Unique vintage art has already been hung on the walls of the restaurant.

Tilted Kilt to bring something Morgantown ‘has never seen before’ By bryan bumgardner and shelby toompas da staff

A new pub and eatery is bringing a Scottish flavor to Morgantown’s bar and restaurant scene: The Tilted Kilt Morgantown.

The Tilted Kilt Morgantown is a Celtic-themed restaurant specializing in draft beer, fresh food and the world-famous “Kilt Girls.”

Since the first Tilted Kilt opened in Las Vegas, more than 50 locations have been created across the U.S. and Canada. According to owner Ed Hall, Morgantown is ready for The Kilt’s brand of energy and entertainment.

“This is something that Morgantown has never seen before, but it’s something that Morgantown is definitely ready for,” Hall said.

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Hall said this new, different pub and eatery atmosphere will surprise a lot of people.

“In order to open a Tilted Kilt in the area, we needed a large customer base and kitchen staff and fantastic ‘Kilt girls,’” Hall said. “Morgantown is the perfect place for all of that.”

After looking at locations in the Greater Morgantown area, Hall chose to renovate the former Damon’s Bar and Grill in Suncrest Towne Centre in May. Since then, The Kilt has been renovating the building and hiring staff. Instead of traditional interviews, general manager Wayne Park said he’s taken a different approach.

“Instead of holding interviews and reading about individuals on paper, we have auditions, because

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Meditation mob ‘chills well’ in front of Mountainlair by lacey palmer staff writer

Amid a hectic class change on West Virginia University’s Downtown campus, a group of students gathered in front of the Mountainlair Thursday for 15 minutes of solitude.

As part of WELLWVU: The Students’ Center of Health’s chillWELL campaign, students came together for a

unique surprise: a meditation mob.

“I have no idea what’s going on,” said junior education student Kati Baker. “It looks like they’re meditating to relax or calm themselves, and I think that’s awesome. I am 100 percent behind this.”

Senior public relations student Anthony Danko, developer of the meditation mob, sat with his mat first.

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peace within their lives, as well.”

Director of the Office of Wellness and Health Promotion Colleen Harshbarger discussed the meditation mob with Danko three months ago, and have been working to make it happen.

“We want students to realize they can help alleviate stress by focusing on the now,” said Meghan Phillips, Health Promotion Spe-

cialist for WELLWVU. “Our meditation mob is a symbol of energy – positive energy – that we want people passing through not just to see, but also feel.”

Danko said he hoped the event helped make students aware that meditation can help clear their mind.

“We’re never truly aware of how stressed out we are, and we’re always kind of in these battles, whether it’s

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joined Danko until approximately 30 others were meditating in front of the Mountainlair.

“I heard some people heckling it at first, but backlash is always expected,” Danko said. “Once everything calmed down and they realized what we were doing, I heard a lot of support, though, so hopefully it kind of triggered something in those students to find that

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class, social life, family life,” Danko said. “I think it’s really important to let people know that dealing with stress doesn’t always have to include nightlife resolutions or typical avenues we usually pursue – there are other ways to cope with it.”

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included food, a Halloween frame craft, games such as “pumpkin bowling” and “pin the heart on the skeleton,” – and candy, of course.

Many NSSLHA members donated candy and prizes to the event as a way to contribute to the fun.

“We invited all of our clients in the speech clinic to come to this event,” said Senior Rachel Halbritter, treasurer of the NSSLHA. We want them to see us and have fun outside of the clinic, since they usually see us for therapy.”

Twenty NSSLHA members attended the event – all in costume.

“This Halloween event is fun for the kids, and it is a great chance for them to get together,” said Megan Burgess, social chair of NSSLHA. Most of the kids who work with the WVU Speech Center come at least two times per week for therapy.

“It is great to see the

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Children participate in a Halloween party held by the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association in Allen Hall Thursday.

The West Virginia University National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association held a Halloween party in Allen Hall for its clients Thursday.

The NSSLHA treats patients ranging from a young age all the way to the geriatric stage. At the party, a $1,000 check was presented to the WVU Speech Center by the student organization.

“We were told that our organization had too much money to be considered nonprofit, so we donated as much money as possible to give back to our clients,” said Senior Staci LeMasters, president of the NSSLHA. One visit to the clinic costs each client about $30, so the check will help to cover numerous clients’ costs as well as some new therapy tools.

The money was raised through bake sales and clothing sales. The party

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English grad program to host ‘Book & Bake Sale’ West Virginia University’s English Graduate Organization and the Creative Organization of Writers will host their annual Fall Book & Bake Sale Monday.

The sale will take place 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in Room 130 of Colson Hall. There will also be a satellite location for the sale in the Free Speech Zone in front of the Mountainlair, which will feature

only baked goods.

EGO has been active at WVU since 1976 and provides English graduate students with a forum for expressing their concerns regarding University and departmental affairs.

COW, active at WVU since 2004, is a similar organization created to represent the interests of Masters of Fine Arts students at the

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pated in the mob and hopes the meditation sent a valuable message to the student body.

“I think at the least this sent the message that there is an organization on campus that is interested in students’ well-being,” Roth said.

“Our goal was to get students interested in meditating as well, so hopefully many will try it out.”

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Continued from page 1 we are looking for entertainers that have a special talent and that can show us their personality,” Park said. “To honestly say that we held back-to-back auditions and enjoyed every one, and mean it, really says something. We literally laughed and had fun for 11-12 hours a day.”

Parks said The Kilt is all

University.

A wide variety of books and baked goods will be available for sale Monday, and all are encouraged to come and support these organizations. The Book & Bake Sale is important for the groups, as it is one of their major fundraisers.

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According to the National Collegiate Health Assessment II, WVU students identified stress as the leading cause of decreased academic performance.

After receiving the results, WELLWVU initiated its chillWELL campaign to aid students in combatting stress.

Through the chillWELL program, WELLWVU encourages students to adopt a relaxed, chillWELL state of mind to reduce stress and optimize quality of life and performance.

According to Phillips, most stress is determined by individual perception, so chillWELL focuses on helping students see the world from a more positive point of view.

Senior Ali Jeney said she was also surprised to see the meditation mob.

“I think what happens a lot in students’ lives is that they forget that it’s okay to stop and take a minute to think about where they are and what their goals are and how they are feeling,” Jeney

about pleasing guests.

“When you’re at the Tilted Kilt, you will see the girls, what’s on the walls, the open kitchen and the fun atmosphere, because entertainment is what we bring,” Park said.

Aside from an energetic atmosphere, The Kilt will serve a diverse menu.

“We joke about it,” Park said. “But our goal is if you bring five or six people, everyone will be able to find something on the menu.”

The Kilt will feature traditional favorites like Shepherd’s Pie, 10-ounce burgers and grilled wings – all prepared fresh daily and never frozen.

“People are going to be so pleasantly surprised by the quality of our food,” Park said.

Aside from food, the pub will have a full bar and 32 draft beers on tap – a testament to The Kilt’s commitment to quality, he said.

“We have a lot of premium drafts, and people will be able to come in here and try some beer they haven’t seen in other places,” Park said. “The beer will be superb, and it will pour superb.”

The Kilt doesn’t just cater to groups. The Captain’s Table, a huge 33-seat dining table, allows solo guests to eat, drink and be merry together.

“If you come in by yourself, and the bar is full, and you want to have yourself a pint, why not sit by someone else who has the same mentality?” Hall said.

Amid public interest about their opening, Park explained why an opening date hasn’t been announced.

“We’re going to do it right,” Park said. “If we didn’t want to do it right we could have been open in September, but we’ve selected everything and everyone in the building, and when we do, open it will be a breath of fresh air.”

For Park, working at The Tilted Kilt is a labor of love.

“We’re entertainers,” Parksaid. “It’s the noise, it’s the open kitchen, it’s the

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to throw at this.”

Bender stressed academics don’t matter if you don’t know how to execute what you want to create.

“If I was standing in front of a room full of people at Harvard, I would say ‘I’m really sorry but it’s not going to matter as much as you think it’s going to matter’, ” Bender said.

“They are much more interested in your portfosaid. “Although I think that this may be an inconvenient spot for people to be sitting on campus, at the same time, I think it’s a great way to let students know that it is okay to stop and slow down.”

“What we are trying to teach students with chillWELL is that stress is very much related to how you perceive and interact with the world around you, and that is something you can change. The meditation mob was really a tangible, visible way to show stu-

kids come out together and watch them grow up and progress over the years that we’ve worked with them,” said Seneca Fox, vice president of the NSSLHA. To be a part of the NSSLHA, you must be a premajor, student or graduate student in speech, language or hearing. The club has approximately 100 members.

The kids who attended the event had smiles all throughout the evening, and no one went home without handfuls of prizes and candy.

“The NSSLHA has provided me with many opportunities. It is important to participate in these events and to give back, because this is my future,” LeMasters said.

“It is an honor to represent a great group of students – some of the most hardworking and enthusiastic students at the school,” she said. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

lio and see if you can get your head around whatever it is that you’re trying to get into.”

The lecture ended with a Q&A, in which students sought inspiration and advice about succeeding, specifically in advertising.

“He was just a big deal,” said Carly Stefanelli, an advertising student. “I feel like everything he talked about was pretty inspiring for my future.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

dents that taking a few minutes out of your day to sit and just breathe can make a big difference,” Harshbarger said.

The chillWELL campaign will launch Oct. 30 on Wellness Day during Mountaineer Week and will continue through Dec. 14.

To learn more about how to participate in chillWELL activities, visit well.wvu. edu or www.facebook.com/ WELLWVU. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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A 15-foot suit of armor, the second largest in the state, stands at the door of The Tilted Kilt in Morgantown, W.Va. big Captain’s Table. That camaraderie – that passion for the industry.”

Park said he believes the Kilt will become a wellloved part of Morgantown.

“You’re going to hear it, you’re going to see it, when you close your eyes you’re going to think about it,” he said.

“I think the state of West Virginia realizes

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there’s something special coming here to Morgantown.”

Construction on the location is reaching the final stages. For updates about new employees, events and announcements about the grand opening, search the Tilted Kilt Morgantown Facebook page. bbumgard@mix.wvu.edu

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Westerman and Tong are hoping to finalize their research by early November. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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NYC police officer charged in cannibalism plot NEW YORK (AP) — A city police officer dreamed up plots to kidnap, torture, cook and eat at least 100 women whose photos, names and addresses he pulled from a confidential law enforcement database, authorities said Thursday.

Gilberto Valle’s fantasies about cannibalizing women – in one, he said he hoped to “cook her over low heat, keep her alive as long as possible” – were retrieved in a trail of emails, computer files and instant messages in online fetish chat rooms, and authorities said he was arrested because he was taking steps to carry them out.

None of the women was harmed, although a prosecutor said some of the women knew Valle and he had stalked at least two of them at home or work – once in his police car in a “very intimidating fashion.”

Authorities said he had had lunch with one of them.

Valle’s estranged wife tipped authorities off to his chilling online activity, leading to his arrest, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about an ongoing case.

Valle, 28, was held without bail on charges including kidnapping conspiracy and unauthorized

use of law enforcement records. U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman called the charges against him “profoundly disturbing ... the most depraved, most dangerous conduct that can be imagined” and even more troubling because he is a police officer. Pitman said the charges of the steps Valle took to carry out the plot “suggest more than just talk.”

One document on Valle’s computer was titled “Abducting and Cooking (Victim 1): A Blueprint,” according to the criminal complaint. The file also had the woman’s birth date and other personal information and a list of “materials needed” – a car, chloroform and rope.

“I was thinking of tying her body onto some kind of apparatus ... cook her over low heat, keep her alive as long as possible,” Valle allegedly wrote in one exchange in July, the complaint says.

In other online conversations, investigators said, Valle talked about the mechanics of fitting the woman’s body into an oven (her legs would have to be bent), said he could make chloroform at home to knock a woman out and discussed how “tasty” one woman looked.

“Her days are numbered,” he wrote, according to the complaint.

That woman told the FBI she knew Valle and met him for lunch in July.

Valle, who could face life in prison if convicted, sat quietly in a red T-shirt and jeans at his court appearance, answering one question with “yes, your Honor.”

No one answered the door to his home Thursday in a quiet, middle-class Queens neighborhood.

Public defender Julia Gatto had asked for bail, saying the Valle was only guilty of a “deviant fantasy.”

“There’s no actual crossing the line from fantasy to reality,” Gatto said. “At worst this is someone who has sexual fantasies about people he knows and he talks about it on the Internet.”

But Valle was arrested because he was too close to carrying out the “grotesque and disturbing” plots, Assistant U.S. Attorney Hadassa Waxman said. He had “plans to kidnap, rape, torture, kill and eat the body parts of young women, some of whom the FBI has identified and they acknowledge knowing the defendant for a period of time,” she said.

Valle had created a computer catalogue with records of at least 100 women with their names, addresses and photos, the complaint says.

Some of the information came from his unauthorized use of a restricted law enforcement database, au-

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A man claiming to be the brother of New York City Police Officer Gilberto Valle is questioned by the media Thursday in the Queens borough of New York. The officer was charged in a ghoulish plot to kidnap and torture women and then cook and eat their body parts. thorities said. He claimed, according to the complaint, that he knew many of them.

“The allegations in the complaint really need no description from us,” said Mary E. Galligan, acting head of the FBI’s New York office. “They speak for themselves. It would be an understatement merely to say Valle’s own words and actions were shocking.”

The complaint alleges that in February, Valle negotiated to kidnap another woman – Victim 2 –

Obama pressures Romney to break his Mourdock ties CINCINNATI (AP) — President Barack Obama, seeking to shore up support among women, intensified his pressure Thursday on Mitt Romney to break any ties with a Republican Senate candidate who said that if a woman becomes pregnant from rape it is “something God intended.”

Romney ignored the emotional social issue, holding to an optimistic campaign tone as he fought for victory in crucial Ohio.

Obama, wrapping up a 40hour battleground state blitz, also headed to his hometown of Chicago and cast his ballot 12 days before Election Day. The stopover was more than a photo opportunity – it was a high-profile attempt to boost turnout in early voting, a centerpiece of Obama’s strategy.

The 2012 presidential contest was expected to cross the $2 billion fundraising mark Thursday, putting the election on track to be the costliest in history. It’s being fueled by a campaign finance system vastly altered by the proliferation of “super” political action committees that are bankrolling TV ads in closely contested states.

Back on the campaign trail, the president made repeated, though indirect, references to Indiana Republican Richard Mourdock’s controversial comment on rape and pregnancy.

“We’ve seen again this week, I don’t think any male politicians should be making health care decisions for women,” Obama told a crowd of about 15,000 on an unseasonably warm fall day in Richmond, Va. The president’s aides pressed further, using a web video to highlight Romney’s endorsement of Mourdock and to accuse the GOP nominee of kowtowing to his party’s extreme elements.

Romney, who appears in a television advertisement declaring his support for Mourdock, brushed aside questions on the matter from reporters throughout the day. He centered his efforts instead on turning his campaign’s claims of momentum into a more practical – and ultimately necessary – roadmap to winning the required 270 Electoral College votes.

Ohio is crucial to that effort.

“This election is not about me,” Romney told 3,000 people at a southern Ohio manufacturing company. “It’s not about the Republican Party.

It’s about America. And it’s about your family.” To an estimated 12,000 people at a high school football stadium in Defiance, Ohio, the Republican declared Thursday night: “We have a big election, and we want a president who will actually bring big changes. And I will and he won’t.”

Romney has disavowed Mourdock’s comments, but his campaign says he continues to support the Indiana Republican’s Senate candidacy.

Less than two weeks from Election Day, both candidates feverishly campaigned across the country in an exceedingly close race.

Opinion polls show Obama and Romney tied nationally. A new Associated Press-GfK poll of likely voters had Romney up 47 percent to 45 percent, a result within the poll’s margin of sampling error. But the race will really be decided by nine or so competitive states: Ohio, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nevada and Colorado.

The urgent task for both campaigns is to cobble together wins in enough states to cross the 270 threshold.

Obama advisers have identified at least three viable options. Winning Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin would put him over the top, as would winning Ohio, Iowa and Nevada. A five-state combination of Iowa, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Nevada and Colorado would also seal the deal for the president’s re-election.

Romney’s team has yet to publicly outline any specific pathways to 270. Without a win in Ohio, however, the Republican nominee would have to sweep every other competitive state.

That reality was the motivation behind Romney’s daylong swing through three Ohio cities Thursday. Obama finished his day in Ohio, too, with a 12,000-person rally on an airport tarmac – the final stop on his marathon, twoday drive for votes.

“Even though I’ve been

going for about 38 hours straight, even though my voice is getting kind of hoarse, I’ve still got a spring in my step because our course is right, because we’re fighting for the future.

I’ve come to Ohio today to ask you for your vote,” said Obama, speaking against the backdrop of Cleveland’s skyline and Air Force One. An upbeat Romney proclaimed his campaign had the momentum heading into Election Day. But there were signs in Ohio, as well as Virginia, that his surge following the first debate might have run its course.

In Ohio, internal Republican and Democratic campaign polls this week showed Obama with a lead, just outside the margin of sampling error.

The race in Virginia remains close. Romney has established a slim lead, but the shift toward him seen during the three weeks of debates has slowed or stopped, internal polls from both parties showed.

Romney is hoping to boost his electoral prospects in part by cutting into Obama’s long-standing advantage with women. The AP-GfK poll suggested that effort was bearing fruit, with Romney erasing the president’s 16-point advantage among female likely voters.

Obama advisers insist they’ve lost no ground with women. But their eagerness to highlight Romney’s connections to Mourdock indicated some degree of nervousness within the campaign.

A leopard shark dropped out of the sky on the 12th tee at the San Juan Hills Golf Club in San Juan Capistrano, Calif.

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. (AP) — Nobody yelled “Fore!” at a Southern California golf course when a 2-foot-long shark dropped out of the sky and flopped around on the 12th tee.

The 2-pound leopard shark was apparently plucked from the ocean by a bird then dropped on San Juan Hills Golf Club, Melissa McCormack, director of club operations, said Thursday.

No one was teeing up when the shark fell Monday afternoon, although some golfers had just left the area, she said.

A course marshal, who makes sure players maintain an appropriate pace, saw something moving around on the tee and went to investigate. He found the shark bleeding with puncture wounds, where it seems the bird had held it in its grasp.

The marshal put the shark in his golf cart and drove it back to the clubhouse.

“He went above and beyond,” McCormack said.

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She grabbed a photo of the shark before Stizer headed to the sea.

“When Brian put it in the water, it didn’t move,” she said, “but then it flipped and took off.”

It’s the first time anyone could remember a shark falling from the sky at the golf course.

“We have your typical coyotes, skunks and the occasional mountain lion, but nothing like a shark,” McCormack said.

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The marshal, McCormack and employee Bryan Stizer wanted to help the small shark, so they stuck it in a bucket of water.

Then somebody remembered it wasn’t a fresh water animal, so they stirred up some “homemade sea water” using sea salt from the kitchen, she said.

“We knew we had to get it to the ocean as fast as possible,” McCormack said.

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and wheeled out to my van.”

Cellphone data revealed that Valle made calls on the block where the woman lives, the complaint says.

An FBI agent interviewed the woman, who told them that she didn’t know him well and he was never in her home.

Valle, a graduate of the University of Maryland, where he studied psychology and criminal justice, was suspended from the police force after his arrest.

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for someone else, writing, “$5,000 and she’s all yours.”

He told the buyer he was aspiring to be a professional kidnapper, authorities said.

“I think I would rather not get involved in the rape,” the complaint said. “You paid for her. She is all yours, and I don’t want to be tempted the next time I abduct a girl.”

It says he added: “I will really get off on knocking her out, tying up her hands and bare feet and gagging her. Then she will be stuffed into a large piece of luggage

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President Barack Obama, second from the left, casts his vote during early voting, in the 2012 election at the Martin Luther King Community Center Thursday.

It’s finally here.

After months of being subjected to sensationalist horse-race coverage, annoying political attack advertisements and ill-informed rants in your Facebook and Twitter feeds, you can finally vote and move on with your lives.

However, Election Day is not for another week and a half, so truly moving be-

yond the madness that is the modern election season will have to wait until then. West Virginians now have the opportunity to vote thanks to the state’s early voting program. The program will continue until Nov. 3 at 5 p.m. If you do not vote by then, you will have to wait until Tuesday, Nov. 6 to cast your ballot.

Early voting provides

students with busy schedules and tendencies to procrastinate with multiple opportunities to cast their ballot.

This leaves students with no excuse not to take the time to vote. Between all the early voting dates and the fact the University is closed on Election Day, everyone with the slightest desire to participate in

the election will have the opportunity.

If you plan on voting early in Morgantown, stop by the voting stations in the Mountaineer Mall on Greenbag Road between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday through Nov. 3.

West Virginia is one of several states participating in some form of early

voting.

These programs are a step forward for our electoral process and should be adopted in all 50 states as they provide people who may be too busy to vote on Nov. 6 or who are hesitant to deal with the long lines associated with a single election day with the opportunity to participate in the political process. It’s a

shame there have been efforts to block early voting in some states, including Ohio.

Our democratic values dictate we should seek to provide our citizens the chance to cast their vote in the election.

Early voting is a step toward fulfilling those values. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

Paul Ryan’s hypocrisy on Keynesian fiscal policy chris nyden correspondent

When Congress has been in session since the beginning of September – 14 days for the Senate and 15 days for the House, one of the primary issues has been the forthcoming fiscal cliff.

The fiscal cliff results from the Budget Control Act, which was passed in 2011 at the height of the debt ceiling crisis. The law provided for a bipartisan debt committee in Congress to find solutions to cut the deficit. If the committee did not find compromise and pass a bill cutting at least $1.2 trillion over ten years, automatic sequestration cuts of $1.2 trillion would be instituted anyway.

Congress, as one would expect, did not reach a compromise and the federal budget is now subjected to these cuts unless Congress steps in.

Both Congressional Democrats and Republicans have balked at the automatic cuts to defense.

Rep. Paul Ryan has been especially outspoken. In an interview with CNBC’s Larry Kudlow, Ryan called the cuts devastating and said addressing the fiscal cliff would be the Romney administration’s first priority.

The R o m n e y - Ry a n campaign released ads claiming the defense cuts threaten 130,000 jobs.

Ryan has said 44,000 are at stake in Pennsylvania alone.

The problem is not the truth of these statements.

These cuts certainly will threaten a lot of jobs in a time when our economy is just starting to turn the corner. Some economists have even warned the cuts could lead to a double-dip

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Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan speaks to supporters during a rally at Universal Fiber Systems on Thursday in Bristol, Va. recession. But this type of rationale goes against everything Ryan has recently claimed about deficit spending and solving our nation’s debt problem.

Since the stimulus passed in 2009, many Republicans have long attacked it as wasteful and inefficient compared to private sector spending.

Ryan has called the stimulus a “wasteful spending spree” and a “failed neoKeynesian experiment.”

Usually, this is a valid argument. Government spending often crowds out investment spending by pumping taxpayers’ dollars into private markets.

However, in a recession, Americans as a

whole are saving more of their money. Less spending leads to less consumption and fewer jobs. The Keynesian school of economic thought then argues that in order to keep unemployment from increasing, government should not cut spending and actually increase it in most instances.

This was President Obama’s thinking in 2009 when he passed a bill largely aimed at building infrastructure, providing tax cuts, and giving aid to states with depressed budgets.

Today, Paul Ryan argues we should not reduce the size of the defense budget yet.

After the dot-com bub-

ble burst in 2000, we were left in a recession. Two mostly ineffective stimuli were passed by Bush and there was much debate over a third. Many Democrats in the House were opposed to this stimulus. A second-term Congressman from Wisconsin named Paul Ryan stood before the floor of the House in 2002 and said, “We’ve got to get the engine of economic growth growing again, because we now know because of recession, we don’t have the revenues that we wanted to, we don’t have the revenues we need, to fix Medicare, to fix Social Security.

To fix these issues, we’ve got to get Americans back to work.”

He also praised past Keynesian spending, saying, “What we’re trying to accomplish here is to pass the kinds of legislation that, when they’ve passed in the past, have grown the economy and gotten people back to work.”

When Ryan attacks “neo-Keynesian” policies, one has to wonder who he is really attacking.

Does the RomneyRyan plan to increase defense spending by $2 trillion through 10 years, even though US military leaders have stated they do not need the funding, count as wasteful?

Does he no longer support the Bush stimuli that he argued for in 2002? Or is he really attacking out

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of convenience, utilizing Keynesian thinking when beneficial to his party and opposing it when the other party opposes the bill?

This campaign has been filled with attacks on Romney’s constantly changing positions. After others have attacked Romney’s policies, he has reframed the debate by saying the policies attacked are not his, despite the plan already on his website.

Many of us believed that Ryan was a numbers guy – that he has a clear plan and vision for the future. It’s unfortunate that even he has discarded opinions when they are inconvenient.

At least, we can recognize Romney-Ryan for consistency there.

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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR BORN TODAY This year you swing from being wildly emotional to being peacefully calm. No one knows what to expect from you, which, on some level, you do not mind. You find that this keeps things interesting. If you are single, you could meet someone during the summer months or afterward. This bond will be deep and emotional. If you are attached, try to be less intellectual with your sweetie; instead, let your feelings flow. ARIES is more explosive than you ever could be.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH Make it OK to drag your heels in the morning. You will hear some news that might energize you and get you out of this lethargic mood. You blossom in the afternoon. Make choices and plans for the weekend based on your current charisma. Tonight: Whatever knocks your socks off.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HH Use the morning for whatever is important to you. By midafternoon, you might slow down and think about taking a nap. You could hear some news that might stop you in your tracks. Follow your instincts with a money decision. Test out a risk on someone. Tonight: Not to be found.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHH Clear out some last-minute errands and return calls in the morning. You will take care of these tasks quickly and allow yourself some more free time. Zero in on what you want to do in the afternoon. Your friends are likely to be involved. Tonight: Only where the action is.

C ANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH Your mind drifts to others who are not in your immediate environment. You might want to make a call or two. Make plans to take off ASAP. Being the good sport you are, you might be left holding the bag once more. Tonight: A must appearance.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHH You could be hard to find, except by certain people. In the afternoon, you might become available, but you could have difficulty staying in the moment. Your mind is anywhere but where you are. Why not just follow your mind out the door? Tonight: Let go and enjoy.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH Others make all sorts of demands.

Your immediate reaction is to say “no.” You have stretched yourself so thin for others that you might be fed up. Spend the afternoon with those you value or need to spend time with. Do for you. Tonight: Note a tendency to go overboard.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHH You work very hard. You are focused in the morning, but plan to spend the remainder of the day networking or socializing. Your people skills emerge once more. You will tend to go to extremes in some form, and you will love every moment. Tonight: Say “yes.”

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHH You could be a bit tired and worn out by someone’s high energy. Get creative and unleash this person, at least for a while. Own your day, and make plans that suit you. A secret admirer comes forward; the attention is quite flattering. Tonight: Get

ACROSS 1 Emulate a sous chef 5 Alcohol awareness-raising org.

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46 Donald, to Dewey 47 Masters statistics 48 Coffee go-with 50 Right on el mapa 51 IV-covered areas 54 Melancholy?

57 Consumed 58 Wall St. debuts 59 Reject, in a way 60 It’s “when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie” 61 Suffragist Lucretia 62 Catches on DOWN 1 Tom Brady’s team, to fans 2 Frat letters 3 Place to watch the 1-Down 4 Break noisily 5 “Marilyn: A Biography” author 6 Say yes 7 Barrel-bottom bit 8 Hi-__ 9 Party hearty 10 Skee-Ball spot

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH Once you get going, you will be full of energy. By midafternoon, you’ll know what you want to do, and you’ll have every intention of doing just that. Let your concerns fall to the wayside for now, and get into the next few days. Tonight: Aren’t you wild?

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH You have a lot on your plate before you even wake up. Handle as much as you can early in the day.

Do not allow someone to take up more time than you wish. Schedule some private or personal time in the evening. Tonight: Happiest at home.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH Curb spending, if possible. You might feel cornered by a stressful money situation, and there only seems to be one way out. Trust that you will find a different path with your ingenuity and imagination. Make an important phone call before the day is through. Tonight: Speak your mind.

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Syria commits to 4-day truce, but prospects dim

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A Free Syrian Army fighter watches over an enemy position as rebel fighters belonging to the Liwa Al Tawhid group carry out a military operation at the Moaskar front line, one of the battlefields in the Karmal Jabl neighborhood, in Aleppo, Syria. into late Thursday.

In an apparent setback for the regime, activists said rebel fighters pushed into predominantly Christian and Kurdish neighborhoods in northern Aleppo that had previously been held by pro-Assad forces.

“It was a surprise,” local activist Abu Raed said via Skype. “It was fast progress and in an unexpected direction.”

He asked to be identified only by his nickname for fear of reprisals.

The battle for Aleppo, a former regime stronghold and Syria’s business hub, has been largely deadlocked since rebels first captured parts of the city in late July. A complete rebel takeover could change the momentum of the war, although in recent months, front lines have shifted repeatedly and it was not clear if rebel fighters could maintain Thursday’s gains.

Activists also reported fighting and shelling by government forces near the capital of Damascus, and scores of people were reported killed nationwide.

Since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011, more than 35,000 people have been killed, including more than 8,000 government troops, according to activists.

Even as it lost some ground in Aleppo, the Assad regime said Thursday it would abide by the holiday truce. With Russia backing the truce and presumably bearing down on Damascus, such a step had been expected. Another Syria ally, Iran, welcomed what it called a “positive action” by Syria’s army.

But in endorsing the plan, the Syrian military added major loopholes, saying it would respond with force not only if attacked, but if it believes opposition fighters are reinforcing positions or smuggling weapons from abroad.

The regime also accepted the previous ceasefire plan – proposed by Annan – which called for an open-ended truce to begin April 12. But it failed to im-

plement major provisions, such as withdrawing troops and heavy weapons from urban centers. The truce soon collapsed.

Opposition leaders and rebel commanders dismissed Thursday’s announcement by the regime as empty talk. Some said opposition fighters would halt their fire but respond if attacked by regime troops.

Gen. Mustafa al-Sheikh, a commander of the Free Syrian Army, said that “the brigades operating under the umbrella of this council will respect the ceasefire, if the regime indeed stops operations.”

“However, we have experienced the regime’s promises and lies before, ... Unfortunately with such dictatorial and sectarian regimes, you cannot believe such promises will be kept,” he said.

The Syrian opposition is fractured and rebel fighters are organized in different groups, with rival agendas and command structures.

Jabhat al-Nusra, a radical Islamic group that has been fighting alongside the rebels and has taken a lead in the battle for Aleppo, said it won’t comply with the truce.

The U.S. put the onus on the Assad regime. “What we are hoping and expecting is that they will not just talk the talk of cease-fire, but that they will walk the walk, beginning with the regime,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi welcomed the cease-fire as a “positive action” in a telephone conversation with his Syrian counterpart, Walid alMoallem, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.

In Aleppo, it remained unclear how significant the rebels’ gains were, as their forces often push into new areas only to swiftly abandon them when the regime bombs their positions.

An Aleppo activist reached via Skype said rebel fighters had seized the predominately Kurdish neighborhood of Ashrafiyeh and were pushing

into Al-Siryan al-Jadideh, a nearby Christian neighborhood, where they were trying to capture a security office used as an army post.

The advance expanded the fight for Aleppo from the poorer, mostly Sunni Muslim neighborhoods on its eastern and southern sides – where the rebels can often count on support from the local population —– into a new section of the city farther north.

The city’s northwest has seen very little rebel activity since fighting in Aleppo began, and it was unclear how residents would react to the rebels, who are mostly from the countryside.

While the uprising has split Syria’s Kurds between the rebels and the regime, the country’s Christians have tried to remain neutral.

Abu Raed, the activist, said neither group had actively joined the uprising and that many were fleeing as the regime struck back.

“They have started leaving the neighborhoods because the shelling has started,” he said.

Amateur video posted online Thursday showed gray smoke rising from a cluster of apartment buildings in Aleppo. A narrator said the video showed the aftermath of government shelling in the Midan neighborhood. In another video, a rebel fighter fired a machine gun from the back of a pickup truck before the vehicle sped off to take him out of the line of fire.

The videos appeared to be genuine, matching activist descriptions of events.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists, said more than two dozen people were killed in the city Thursday, including eight Kurds who died when mortar rounds exploded in their neighborhood. It was unclear who fired them, it said.

The Observatory also said about 20 people were killed in shelling and clashes near Damascus, most of them in the restive suburb of Duma.

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The truce plan remained vague Thursday evening. It wasn’t clear when exactly it was supposed to begin, and there were no arrangements for monitoring compliance. Brahimi never said what would happen after four days, a potentially dangerous omission considering that Assad and those trying to topple him sharply disagree on a way forward. Assad refuses to resign while the opposition says his departure is a prerequisite for talks.

“It’s a longshot,” Beirut-based analyst Paul Salem said of the cease-fire.

“We are completely in war mode, at least for the next many months.”

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China. U.N. chief Ban Kimoon urged all countries and groups with influence in Syria to pressure both sides to stop the violence in the civil war, his spokesman said.

The holiday cease-fire was the least a divided international community could agree on after the failure of a more ambitious plan for an open-ended truce and political transition talks by Brahimi’s predecessor, Kofi Annan, in April.

Even the current truce, to begin Friday with the start of the Eid al-Adha holiday, appears in jeopardy from the outset. Neither side has shown an interest in laying down arms, instead pushing for incre-

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BEIRUT, LEBANON (AP) — The embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad promised Thursday to observe a U.N.-proposed truce during a fourday Muslim holiday, while rebels claimed major gains in the key battleground of Aleppo.

But prospects of the cease-fire taking hold are dim, given Assad’s history of broken promises and the rebel momentum in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, where fighters said they advanced into several regimeheld neighborhoods.

The truce plan by U.N.Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has been endorsed by the U.N. Security Council, including Assad allies Russia and

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hab and that kind of mentality is huge.”

Rodriguez is like a conductor playing the midfield, and the way she connected the backfield to the attacking forwards with such fluidity in her game against the Sooners looked like a masterpiece. And like most masterpieces, it took a while to come together.

“Early on, I kept telling her ‘look, it’s not a sprint; it’s a marathon,’”

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West Virginia women’s soccer head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown has preached all season about the importance of her team controlling its own destiny.

And when the Mountaineers sealed first place in the Big 12 Conference heading into the final game of the season, Izzo-Brown had one group of team members to thank.

“Let me talk about the senior

leadership,” Izzo-Brown said. “The seniors’ understanding how important controlling your own destiny (is) was critical for us this year.”

One senior Izzo-Brown is looks to see step up this weekend when the Mountaineers travel to Austin, Texas, to take on the Longhorns is midfielder Bri Rodriguez.

Rodriguez has been battling back from an ACL tear she suffered in the Mountaineers’ NCAA tournament game against Virginia Tech in 2012 all season. She

has played for West Virginia since the season began, but it was the Mountaineers’ most recent game in which she did the most damage.

“That game against Oklahoma was by far the best game I’ve seen Bri play (this season),” IzzoBrown said. “Nobody understands what this young woman has been through and how much she has done to get to that point.

“When you battle back from an ACL (tear) in less than a year from when it happened, that kind of re-

Offense must improve for WVU to get back on track Life hasn’t been easy for West Virginia’s defense.

Since the Mountaineers opened Big 12 Conference play almost a month ago – especially in their first two losses of the season – opposing offenses have been able to drive up and down the field whenever they have wanted to, putting up record-shattering performances in the process.

Through the first four conference games of the season, the Mountaineers have allowed 53 points per game and have given up more points in those four games than they allowed all season in 2010. while everyone can argue that the defense is a big problem and a reason West Virginia has struggled the last two weeks, it’s arguably not the most concerning thing that has happened.

To find that, one should look at the dramatic decline in production on the offensive side of the ball.

The offense that looked nearly unstoppable in the first few weeks of the season disappeared against Texas Tech and Kansas State.

Against the Wildcats last week, the Mountaineers gained just 243 total yards of offense. The last time they had fewer yards in a home game was in 2007 for their 13-9 loss to Pittsburgh.

After scoring on 33 of their 65 drives (51 percent) in the first five games of the year, the Mountaineers have scored just three touchdowns on their 22 drives in two losses.

Junior Frances Silva and the West Virginia women’s soccer team haven’t been defeated in 12 matches. The Mountaineers recently clinched the Big 12 Conference regular season title.

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The No. 20 West Virginia men’s soccer team continues a two-game road trip as it takes on Northern Illinois in Mid-American Conference play Saturday afternoon.

The Mountaineers (8-42, 3-1-1 MAC), coming off a loss to No. 3 Akron, will be looking to have some breathing room in the MAC standings, as the Huskies are right behind them with a 2-2-1 mark in the conference.

In its last conference meeting, Northern Illinois drew with Bowling Green in a 0-0 match. Senior goalkeeper Jordan Godsey recorded his fifth shutout of the season. The Huskies went to 3-8-3 overall.

Northern Illinois has struggled against its opponents thus far. The Huskies have equaled opponents’ shots with 193 apiece, but opponents have scored more goals with an 18-11 advantage.

Leading the Huskies into Morgantown will be junior midfielder Gael Rivera and junior forward James Stevenson. Rivera leads the team with four goals, while Stevenson has three goals and two assists on the season.

West Virginia will try to rebound after a close contest against MAC foe Akron Saturday night. Defeating the Huskies is now the top priority.

“We just have to come to training this week with the right mindset,” said senior defender Eric Schoenle.

“This will be a big game for us in terms of seeding for the MAC Tournament, so we

have to be sound. I thought we played well against Akron, and I think that if we play like that in each of these last three games, we will have some good results.”

The last three regular season games will be important for the Mountaineers. Two of those remaining games are conference opponents.

“It’s really important for us to finish off strong,” Schoenle said. “Hopefully we can pull off some good results in these last three games and get on a hot streak. Hopefully we can continue that streak into the tournament.”

After falling into a 2-0 deficit against Akron, the mindset is for WVU to continue to get off to a good start. Playing from behind is something West Virginia doesn’t look to do once again.

Head coach Marlon LeBlanc has emphasized this throughout the season.

“One of the things Marlon talks about a lot is getting the first goal in games,” Schoenle said. “It helps the game to open up for you if you score the first goal. On the flip side, you have to chase the game if you let in the first goal, so the first one is always important.

“We need to be focused right from the beginning this weekend to make sure we get the first goal.”

While Akron seems to be running away with the No. 1 seed for the MAC Tournament, West Virginia looks to make its mark as the second team to beat in the conference against Northern Illinois and Bowling Green in the last game of the season.

All the action will kick off at 2 p.m. Saturday. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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rifle

No. 1 WVU hopes to continue strong play vs. Navy by robert kreis sports writer

The No. 1 West Virginia rifle team will take the range Saturday against Navy for the first time since setting a new NCAA team score record of 4,717 in its last outing against Memphis Oct. 16.

Despite their record-setting performance against Memphis, the Mountaineers were quickly reminded the pressure is still on after No. 2 Kentucky posted a score of 4716 in its Oct. 21 match against Army.

“Kentucky went and shot a 4,716 – only one point less than what we shot, so any complacency that we might have had was destroyed pretty quickly,” said head matt sunday/the daily athenaeum coach Jon Hammond. “We The No. 1 West Virginia rifle team will shoot in its first match since setting an know that no longer can we look at that score as some NCAA record against Memphis last week when it takes on Navy this weekend.

volleyball

For the West Virginia volleyball team, a win against Texas Tech Saturday will serve as validation for weeks of adjustments and improvements. The Mountaineers have struggled, losing nine straight games since their last victory against Murray State Sept. 16.

“There are a lot of little pieces to the puzzle,” said West Virginia head coach Jill Kramer. “We have to make sure that we stay focused during the duration (of the match) and play with passion. If we play with passion and get a few positive plays to come together.”

The Mountaineers have learned and matured a great deal during the ninegame slide and have even taken it upon themselves to extend practices to work on specific areas of their game plan.

“They wanted to work on some extra stuff and get ready for the game,” Kramer said of her team’s request to extend Monday’s practice an additional 30 minutes.

“It’s my job, and my staff’s job to just make sure that they don’t do too much and overextend themselves

carvelli

Continued from page 7 Sure, the defenses they’ve faced have been quite a step up from the likes of Baylor and James Madison that West Virginia faced in those first five games of the season, but it hasn’t been the lack of execution and production that I have found to be disturbing.

With a night game in Morgantown against one of the best teams in the country and a chance to redeem itself after a tough loss the week before, West Virginia didn’t come out with the fire I thought it would when Kansas State came to town.

women’s

Continued from page 7 Izzo-Brown said. “We (have) to keep you healthy.

We (have) to get you to the point where your knee can handle all this, and she’s just been amazing.”

Izzo-Brown will look for Rodriguez to continue to be amazing as she and the rest of the seniors lead the Mountaineers into a rambunctious stadium against the No. 2 team in the con-

to come in and compete.

With a powerhouse program like West Virginia, that is the attitude Hammond expects. Hammond was not worried about the Mountaineers extended break, and he is not worried about them succumbing to the pressure of being a No. 1 team coming off an NCAArecord-breaking win.

“I think there is enough pressure on themselves that they want to be the best that they can be,” Hammond said. “That’s some of my job – to take (the pressure) away and take the focus on score away.

“It doesn’t matter what score we got last match or record we did shoot. We’re just moving onto this match and trying to shoot the best we can.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Mountaineers in search of first Big 12 win vs. Texas Tech sports writer

stepping up.

“It doesn’t necessarily need to be personal best or huge scores, but solid, consistent matches,” Hammond said. “Really just the way they shoot. Keep working on the things they’ve been working on in practice, whether it’s discipline or just how they approach the match.”

The Mountaineers have been on an 11-day hiatus since posting the recordbreaking score. Despite the break, Hammond was not worried about the No. 1 team lulling over the extended break.

“I think they look forward to the matches,” Hammond said. “I think they are excited to shoot a match. I think as soon as they get up on Saturday morning that match atmosphere will be there, and they’ll be ready

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The West Virginia volleyball team hasn’t won a match since Sept. 16.

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amazing, huge score that we shot.

“That can pretty quickly refocus you.”

With the record-breaking score behind them, the Mountaineers moved their focus to the Navy match this weekend. Hammond hopes to see more consistency from his Mountaineer squad against the Midshipmen.

“I really just want to see them continuing to perform well,” Hammond said. “It would be really good to start seeing us perform more consistently.

Last year, we were up-anddown in our scores. This year we’ve been at a higher level and more consistent, so I’d like to see them continue improving.”

Hammond wants to see a good team effort, rather than individual members

before a match. They are hungry for a win, and they are doing everything they can to do so.”

The Mountaineers spent an additional 30 minutes of practice to work on passing, striking and cardio prior to their Wednesday matchup with Kansas State.

West Virginia lost (3-1) to Texas Tech in their first match in the WVU Coliseum Oct. 13 and looks to make a much better second impression on the road as they travel to Lubbock, Texas, to face the Red Raiders on their home turf.

“We did not play very well against Tech the first time around, to be quite honest,” Kramer said. “So we want to come out and just do well this time around. We just want to play our game and come out stronger.”

The Mountaineers have managed just five set wins when facing Big 12 Conference opponents, including an opening-set win against the Red Raiders in their past matchup. Looking forward to Saturday’s match in Lubbock, West Virginia hopes to build off that set victory and come away with the complete match to which Kramer has alluded in recent weeks.

“We are prepared at ev-

ery position,” said West Virginia junior Arielle Allen. “We work hard in every practice, and we know what is expected of us. We are ready to get back to practice and continue to work on things before the next game.”

The team hopes to see a stronger showing by their attackers – the Mountaineers combined for just 26 kills while recording 24 attacking errors in Wednesday night’s loss to No. 14 Kansas State.

Freshman outside hitter Hannah Sackett maintains the kills lead for the Mountaineers thus far in the season with 222 in 23 matches this season and she is averaging just less than three kills per set.

Sackett is trailed closed by fellow freshman Nikki Attea who has 202 kills in the same number of matches for a 2.35 kills-perset average.

The duo looks to strike back against Tech Saturday and put West Virginia back in the win column and on track to finish strong in their inaugural Big 12 season.

Game time vs. Texas Tech is slated for 7 p.m.

It was the perfect opportunity to bounce back and make a statement that the Mountaineers deserved to be looked at as one of the best teams in the country.

Yet the offense came out flat, looked stagnant and didn’t make adjustments when they needed to.

The attitude surrounding this team – the offense, especially – wasn’t there.

There wasn’t that sense of confidence we had all seen when things were going well in the first five weeks.

A few weeks ago, after they lost to Texas Tech, I was optimistic. These Mountaineers looked poised to be different than teams in the past. I thought they’d be

able to bounce back after such a disappointing showing on offense against the Red Raiders.

But they didn’t.

And now I’m not so sure if this team really is different.

Maybe the bye week will be a good thing, giving them an extra week for the feeling of losing to sink in.

But saying you want to get things back on track is one thing. The real first step in getting back to the way they were is to come out and look like they did before these last two games when TCU comes to town in a week.

ference. Texas sealed the Mountaineers’ No. 1 spot when it lost to TCU Saturday, and Izzo-Brown knows a rowdy crowd awaits West Virginia upon their arrival.

“I have some people in Texas telling me there is a huge crowd coming,” IzzoBrown said. “We know that Texas draws a lot. That stadium is going to be rocking.”

But, of course, a packed house on the road is nothing new to the Mountaineers and may even seem

like a small obstacle after playing seven new conference opponents and refusing to lose a single conference game on their way to the regular season title. “(The Big 12) knows West Virginia has had success in the past,” Izzo-Brown said.

“We were going to bring that strong tradition into the Big 12, and I think the Big 12 coaches are happy we’re adding to the league and making us stronger.”

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NEW YORK (AP) — David Stern spent nearly 30 years growing the NBA, turning a league that couldn’t even get its championship series on live prime-time TV into a projected $5 billion a year industry.

Confident the NBA is in good shape and certain he has found someone who can make it even better, Stern is ready to end one of the most successful and impactful careers in sports history.

Stern will retire as commissioner Feb. 1, 2014, 30 years to the day after taking charge of the league, and be replaced by Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver.

“I decided that things are in great shape and there’s an organization in place that will ultimately be led

by Adam that is totally prepared to take it to the next level,” Stern said Thursday during a press conference following the league’s board of governors meeting.

It’s hard to be any better than Stern, perhaps the model sports commissioner.

Name an important policy in the NBA – drug testing, salary cap, even a dress code – and Stern had a hand in it. A lawyer by trade, he was a fearless negotiator against players and referees, but also their biggest defender any time he felt they were unfairly criticized.

“For all the things you’ve done for the NBA and for sports generally, I think there’s no doubt that you’ll

be remembered as the best of all-time as commissioners go and you’ve set the standard, I think not even just for sports league commissioners, but for CEOs in any industry,” Silver told Stern sitting to his left on a podium.

Stern told owners of his plans during their two days of meetings, and the board unanimously decided Silver would be his successor.

Owners will begin negotiations with the 50-year-old Silver in hopes of having a contract completed by their next meeting in April.

Stern, who turned 70 last month, became commissioner on Feb. 1, 1984.

He has been the NBA’s longest-serving commissioner, establishing the league’s brand around the world, presiding over team expansion and overseeing the establishment of the WNBA and the NBA Development League.

Seven franchises have been added along the way and the league has seen a 30-fold increase in revenues. Stern insisted the NBA have a presence on social media, and the league and players have more than 270 million likes and followers on Facebook and Twitter.

“There are all kinds of other business metrics we could look at that would define David as one of the great business leaders of our time,” Silver said.

Stern said he decided on his plans about six months ago, having guided the league through a lockout

that ended nearly a year ago.

He didn’t want to leave until the labor deal was completed or until he was confident there was a successor in place, and both are done.

Silver has been the league’s No. 2 since 2006, and both Stern and league owners praise his abilities.

“I don’t know what else to say other than to recite what I told the owners yesterday in executive session,” Stern said. “I told them that it’s been a great run, it will continue for another 15 months, that the league is in, I think, terrific condition.

“I feel great. I’m enjoying my job, but I’m looking forward to doing some other things. I’m stepping down, I’m not retiring.”

Stern is the one who got it there, taking over what was a second-rate league with little-to-no TV presence – the NBA Finals were on tape delay in the early 1980s – and making basketball one of the world’s most popular sports.

“A couple of things that stand out to me is that David has been, in my estimation, the type of commissioner that has set the standard not only for the NBA but for all of the sports,” said Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor, the outgoing chairman of the Board of Governors. “We have done so many wonderful things in the organization. The marketing, leadership, the brand recognition, going international way before our times, and David has led that.”

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Swimming

Mountaineers to face Villanova, JMU over weekend by austin seidel sports writer

The West Virginia swimming and diving teams will travel to face Villanova in a dual meet and the teams will also take on James Madison in double-dual meet action this weekend.

The meet against JMU will carry great weight for the Mountaineer women’s teams as WVU looks to redeem last season’s home loss to the Dukes, who enter Saturday’s matchup with a 2-0 record.

“Haily (VandePoel) and Jenn (Ray) are both going to benefit from what they’ve learned in their freshman year,” said West Virginia diving coach Michael Grapner. “I expect them to come out and put strong points

on the board. The bar has been raised for them this season.”

The Mountaineer divers come off a solid sweep of Penn State in which freshman Christian Parker and VandePoel came up big with victories for the men’s and women’s teams, respectively.

Parker’s victory in the three-meter board event was the first of his collegiate career and served as a great confidence booster for the remainder of the season.

“I think he’s realized that he can compete at this level,” Grapner said. “He’s come from being a big fish in a small pond, and he’s now seeing that there are really some great swimmers at this level of competition, and he’s responded well.”

The West Virginia swimmers will also have their work cut out for them against JMU and Villanova as they look to build off last year’s performance against Villanova, when the men’s and women’s teams defeated the Wildcats 190-100 and 166-131, respectively.

However, redemption will be ingrained in the mind of women’s swimmers as they look for a victory against James Madison, who defeated the Mountaineers last season 156-144.

“The team knows what is expected of them,” said West Virginia head coach Vic Riggs. “Things will be different this year. We’ve lost to Villanova in their pool, and we’ve beaten them here at home in recent seasons, so this is go-

ing to be a tough fight for our swimmers.”

Senior swimmer Rachel Burnett will look to lead the way for the Mountaineers as she hopes to build off victories in the 100-, 200- and 500-meter freestyle events against Penn State.

On the men’s half, sophomore swimmer Daeton Davenport will look to continue his collegiate progression after struggling to place in the top three against Penn State.

“Daeton has got a lot to learn yet,” Riggs said. “He’s a tough competitor, and he gives 100 percent each time he goes out there. I expect him to make great strides against Villanova and keep things going for our men’s swimmers.”

The Mountaineers will also look to strong performances from their freshman class as women’s swimmer Jaimee Gillmore and men’s swimmers Jay Hickey, Andrew Marsh and Wali Toulson look to anchor their respective relay teams and improve on their third-place finishes against Penn State.

“Our relay teams are very talented,” said Riggs.

“I’m very proud of what they’ve accomplished so far this season and what the upper-class members have done in seasons past. Looking down the road, I expect them to continue to improve. I like to see the older members of the team teach these young men and women the ropes.”

Burnett may prove to be the ideal teacher as she enters Saturday’s event with Big 12 Conference Women’s Swimmer of the Week honors on her resume after placing first for her 65th, 66th and 67th time in her individual career against Penn State.

VandePoel also carries Big 12 honors for her excellent diving performance at home against Penn State in which she recorded a school record of 300 points in the three-meter board event as well as qualify for the NCAA’s Zone “A” championships for 2013.

The events are set to begin at 9:30 a.m. Saturday with the women’s swimmers taking center stage. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Baseball’s best rarely finish on top in October SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Best in baseball? The Detroit Tigers and San Francisco Giants spent much of the season just trying to catch mediocre teams like the Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers just to win their divisions.

Those up-and-down regular seasons are distant memories now that the Giants and Tigers have raced through the playoffs and are getting ready for Game 2 of the World Series in San Francisco on Thursday night.

The Giants trailed the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West as late as mid-August before making a strong run to win the division and finish tied with the thirdbest record in the National League.

The Tigers were merely six games over .500 with three weeks left in the regular season and made the playoffs despite posting the seventh-best record in the American League.

“You know what, I think these are the best two teams and the hottest teams, too,” Tigers reliever Jose Valverde said.

“The first two months, you see Detroit is in last place.

Chicago, Cleveland, everybody’s laughing. What happened now?”

For much of its history, baseball was a grueling, six-month endurance test,

with only the top team in each league going to the postseason.

Now, with six divisions and four wild-card teams, it’s more a matter of just getting into the tournament and getting on a roll in October.

“I think ideally you like to see the teams that have the best record end up there,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. “But as we have mentioned many times, once you get to the playoffs it does become a little bit of a crap shoot, who’s playing the best at that time. You understand that. That’s why wild-card teams have done well. A lot of them are fighting to get there, but they’re also playing well at the right time.”

Both the Giants and Tigers got in as division winners but they were not the top teams in their leagues over the 162-game haul.

Washington finished with baseball’s best record this year with 98 wins but fell in the division series to the 88-win St. Louis Cardinals, who won it all the previous year as a wild-card team. The Cardinals won a one-game playoff under the new wild-card format just to get to the divisional series.

Detroit, with 88 wins, finished behind the other four AL playoff teams, as well as the Los Angeles An-

gels and Tampa Bay Rays despite playing in the AL’s weakest division. But the Tigers knocked off AL West champion Oakland in the first round and swept the New York Yankees, who had the AL’s best record, in the league championship series.

“You just need to get hot like the Cardinals did last year,” Tigers outfielder Don Kelly said. “You have to play your best baseball at the right time. But over the course of the year you have to keep yourself there, you have to keep yourself in it. You can’t get too far behind. That’s what we talked about a lot as a team. We just had to stay right there because we knew we could pull it out at the end.”

No team had ever finished this low in its league and made it to the Series.

The previous low was fifth, by three eventual World Series champions: Minnesota in 1987, the New York Yankees in 2000 and the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals, who beat the Tigers despite winning only 83 games in the regular season.

In the 18 postseasons since the playoffs expanded in 1995, the team with the best overall record in the regular season ended up as World Series champion just three times. The Yankees did it twice, in 1998 and 2009, and Boston accom-

plished it as well in 2007.

That one out of six rate is little better than if the champion was chosen randomly.

More common is a case like the 2004 St. Louis Cardinals, who won 105 games in the regular season but were swept by wildcard winning Boston in the World Series.

“Being on a team in St. Louis in 2004, which was a team pretty much wire to wire was a pretty dominant team, nobody felt sorry for us at any point when we didn’t pull it off in the World Series,” said Cardinals manager Mike Matheny, a catcher the ‘04 runner-ups. “But you take your chances, when a team rolls like that. Typically you have enough there to win it all.

It’s just a matter of the timing and guys taking advantage of the opportunities.”

This is not a phenomenon exclusive to baseball.

The NFL and NHL playoffs have often been about determining which team is hottest come playoff time.

The Los Angeles Kings won the Stanley Cup in June as an eight seed, the New York Giants were a No. 4 when they beat New England in the Super Bowl in February.

That wasn’t the case in baseball during the preplayoff days. The winner of the National League faced off each fall against the winner of the American League

AP

San Francisco Giants’ Barry Zito, left, and Hunter Pence celebrate after Game 1 of baseball’s World Series against the Detroit Tigers Wednesday. in the World Series. The team with the best record went 38-27 in those Series from 1903 through 1968, according to STATS LLC. The postseason turned into a bit of a crap shoot once the league broke into divisions, allowing four teams to make the playoffs.

The best regular season

team won in seven of those 25 seasons before wildcards were added in 1995.

“If you’re asking me, even if it’s not us, I always hope that the team that’s had the best year, they end up battling to win the World Series,” Bochy said. “But it’s a great game how we have it set up.”

Oklahoma’s Millard draws task of taking on Te’o NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — There was a time during Bob Stoops’ tenure as Oklahoma coach that the notion of letting the fullback run the ball was dismissed without much consideration. Why give the ball to a blocker when the running back had so much more playmaking potential?

Then Trey Millard came in and changed everything.

Millard has expanded his previous role of merely smashing into opposing defenders to clear room for others by displaying a wideranging skill set that makes him a threat as a ball-carrier and a pass-catcher. And for the eighth-ranked Sooners’ showdown Saturday night against No. 5 Notre Dame (70), Millard’s job will include finding a way to neutralize Manti Te’o, who’s garnering rare Heisman Trophy buzz at the linebacker position.

“That’s part of the reason you come here is to play with the best but also play against the best,” Millard said, grass stains on his pants from an afternoon at practice. “That’s definitely a matchup that I’m looking forward to.”

Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said the assignment of blocking Te’o will go to “whoever draws the unlucky straw.”

Millard expects he’ll be doing much of the dirty work, whether it’s trying to track down Te’o and open room for Oklahoma’s running backs or trying to get open against him to catch a pass from Landry Jones.

Regardless of the assignment, he knows it won’t be easy.

“He’s a great player. Everybody knows that,” Millard said. “An All-American guy.”

Millard had three touches

that yielded zero yards in a 24-19 loss to Kansas State last month. He then had a 73-yard reception on a short pass in the Red River Rivalry against Texas, leaping over one defender while shoving another away. He’s also caught a touchdown pass each of the past two weeks.

He’s part fullback, part running back, part tight end and part wide receiver. That versatility makes him a critical part of the offense for Oklahoma (5-1), which can line up in a variety of formations without substituting in its no-huddle offense.

“I like doing it all. I love being able to move around,” said Millard, listed at 6-foot-2 and 256 pounds. “It’s kind of funny. I don’t see it always in games against other guys but sometimes in practice, like during two-a-days, where we’re going against our own guys and they get confused and it’s kind of my fault. It’s kind of fun to know that you caused that and helped make a play for the offense.”

Millard hoped that he might grow into a key contributor when he came to Norman from Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Mo. The closest comparison to him during Stoops’ time is tight end Brody Eldridge, who went to the NFL after also serving as a fullback, H-back and even offensive lineman.

Millard doesn’t figure to move up front, but Eldridge was never as big of a threat with the ball in his hands.

“I knew coming in that I had the opportunity to do some of that stuff. Whether or not all of it would happen or not, you never know as a high-school kid,” Millard said.

“I think I’ve been blessed to have this opportunity for my

role to expand as much as it has and just try to continue on it.”

The Sooners will be counting on him to hold his own against Te’o, who averages about 10 tackles per game and also has four interceptions and one fumble recovery this season.

“I think his drive is part of what makes him so great,” Millard said. “He’s coming up snap after snap, hitting people in the mouth. ... He gets cut, gets knocked down, you can see him roll, get up, chase the play and get a tackle. He doesn’t have quit in him.”

Added Oklahoma center Gabe Ikard: “He’s extremely talented but he plays about as hard as you’ve seen anyone play on film. He runs around so much that guys don’t even touch him. A bunch of his plays, he’s not even being blocked. Just really gifted athletically, and just seems like one of those guys that just understands it.”

Millard said he lumps himself in with Oklahoma’s offensive linemen as the group that will be tasked with standing up to Notre Dame’s talented front seven, the bruising part of a defense that’s allowing only 9.4 points per game. Exactly what he does to get the job done doesn’t matter to Millard.

“I love making big blocks and I love springing guys. If I have the ball in my hands, I love doing that too,” he said.

“I definitely think if we have some of those longer runs, it definitely gets the whole offense kind of fired up, makes the play-action that much more dangerous, makes the wide receivers that much more dangerous.

“We know that we need Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o celebrates after an interception against BYU. that against this team.”

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Fletcher’s Grove concludes 123 residency in style by jack lake correspondent

123 Pleasant Street was bumping and grooving Wednesday night as Fletcher’s Grove played alongside the electronic duo TronBLAST! Dubbed Electro Grove for the event, the members of Fletcher’s Grove played their final show of the band’s four-week residency at 123 Pleasant Street. Each week, Fletcher’s Grove brought a different genre to the stage, which accentuated the diversity of styles and talent in their music.

The Grove’s partners in crime this week were TronBLAST!, bandmates Rocky McDonald (Grumpy Bear) and Jeremy Wriston (Ikto).

If the name sounds familiar, it should – the two opened for MiM0SA for FallFest 2011. “I feel like all of these nights has represented an extreme version of ourselves,� said Fletcher’s Grove percussionist and vocalist Matt Marion. “I think all of these kind of fit into who we are. Each night we are focusing more on a genre that is part of our sound and trying to keep it different every show.�

To the average person, the thought of a jam band with roots in rock, folk and bluegrass on stage with a pair of DJs with laptops and MIDI controllers would provide an awkward blend

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Fletcher’s Grove bassist Taylor Pratt wears a Bane mask as he performs at 123 Pleasant Street. of competing styles. “For TronBLAST!, I just say we do music that is heavily influenced in bass modulation and the way you use the bass to act as a percussive live instrument,�

Wriston said. “Honestly, we get up there and we are kind of making it up as we go.�

The collaboration displayed blended funky bass lines, guitar riffs and their

unique percussion with electronic beats and bass modulation to create an energetic atmosphere which the audience took advantage of with rabid dancing and moving.

The two groups covered songs such as Michael Jackson’s “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’,� as well as electronic-rock jam sessions, adding their special sound

to the numbers and making sure the crowd stayed moving on their feet. “I felt like the last couple weeks of practicing has been like being in my first band, trying to understand our roles and to fit into the mix,� Fletcher’s Grove singer/guitarist Ryan Krofcheck said. “I’m nervous and excited.�

Fletcher’s Grove and

TronBLAST! began their relationship five years ago when both groups were doing what they could to infiltrate the Morgantown music scene. “When they were starting out, we were actually playing at a lot of the same clubs like Octane, just trying to get our foot in the door, and it just kind of works well,�

Krofcheck said. “I see these

guys out all the time, and I know we’ve been talking about the possibilities of what to come.�

The first show of Fletcher’s Grove’s residency kicked off Oct. 3 with a show that most resembled “classic Fletcher’s.�

Though, when asked to nail down a description of what “classic Fletcher’s� is and sounds like, the members of the band laughed off any attempt to categorize themselves. “It’s that own unique sound,� Krofcheck said. “It is our sound; it’s the songs that make us. They are not really tailored to a specific genre.�

Following their first show, Fletcher’s Grove performed with another West Virginia favorite, the Davisson Brothers Band, known for their countryrock and bluegrass sounds.

The band, then unplugged as Shady Grove, played an acoustic set with the Rumpke Mountain Boys Oct. 17. “I’ve been to every show they had here [in October] ... I watched their first show, it brought me to the second, and their second one brought me here,� said WVU student Alex Cochran. “The reason I came this week is because they play everything but they play it all well. No matter what genre it’s in, it’s good.� daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Networks, AP changing exit poll strategy to combat election trends NEW YORK (AP) — A growth in early voting and tough economy for the media are forcing changes to the exit poll system that television networks and The Associated Press depend upon to deliver the story on Election Night, all with the pressure-filled backdrop of a tight presidential race.

The consortium formed by ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News Channel, NBC and the AP is cutting back this year on inperson exit polls while upping the amount of telephone polling. This is to take into account more people voting before Nov. 6 and households that have abandoned land lines in favor of cell phones. “It makes it trickier,� said Joe Lenski, executive vice president of Edison Research, the company that oversees the election operation for the news organizations. “It means there are a lot of different pieces to keep track of.�

On a perfect Election Night, Americans who are tracking results won’t notice all the work being done behind the scenes. The Associated Press reports actual vote counts nationwide and news organizations use those numbers, plus the exit polls, results from precinct samples in some states and telephone polls of absentee voters to do their own race calls.

But things haven’t always gone perfectly. The news organizations completely rebuilt their exit poll system after the 2000 embarrassment, when TV networks mistakenly called the race for George W. Bush when it wasn’t decided until a month later (the AP mistakenly called Florida for Al Gore, retracted it but, unlike the networks, never called the overall race for George W. Bush). In 2004, early exit poll results overestimated the strength of Democrat John Kerry.

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The affected states are: Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming, along with the District of Columbia.

Each is considered a nonbattleground state with polls showing a strong advantage for one of the presidential candidates. Some non-battleground states will get the full exit poll for other reasons, like Massachusetts and its hotly contested U.S. Senate race between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren. “What we are doing is taking our resources and using them where the stories are,� said Sheldon Gawiser, NBC’s elections director and head of the steering committee for the AP-network consortium.

Spending figures were not made available. News organizations have had a tough few

years financially, but the consortium noted that it is interviewing a total of 25,000 voters this year, up from 18,000 in 2008.

Because of early voting, there are no traditional exit polls in Oregon, Washington and Colorado. A phone poll is done prior to Election Day in those states, taking in a mixture of people who have and haven’t voted. Others states have a mixture of telephone polling and exit interviews.

California, North Carolina and Arizona are among the states where the percentage of telephone polls has grown because of more people voting early.

More people are interviewed on cell phones because it is the primary way to contact them. The consortium said cell phone interviews are twice as expensive as those on land lines because of manpower costs, in large part because it is harder to reach people and federal law requires the phone numbers to be manually dialed instead of done by computers.

In addition to the exit poll changes, the news organizations are taking steps to improve their ability to include actual vote counts in their decisions on when to call particular states as a winner for either candidate. This usually involves collecting sample precincts that reflect a state’s demographics.

Even this is complicated by local customs. Some states report precinct results more quickly than others. New Mexico, for example, sets up polling places where anybody from a particular county can cast a ballot; while this makes voting easier, it makes projec-

tions based on precinct samples more difficult.

Television viewers may notice that networks are being slower than in the past to project winners in certain states, but the consortium believes people won’t see a difference.

If the actual election is as close as the pre-election polls are suggesting, it will be a long night, anyway.

With all the factors increasing the difficulties and costs associated with exit polling, it’s worth wondering whether a time will come that the news organizations abandon them in favor of the pre-election polling. The experts say that

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Gawiser noted how the minds of voters can change, even up until the last possible minute. “It’s a story we want to be able to tell on Election Night and we want to be able to tell it accurately and rapidly,� he said. “I really don’t think it’s much different than any other story we tell.�

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The Hillbilly Gypsies to perform at WVU Mountainlair

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The Hillbilly Gypsies are set to bring their Appalachian bluegrass sound to the WVU Mountainlair tonight to kick off Mountaineer Week.

by emily meadows a&e writer

There’s no better way to start off Mountaineer Week than getting back to the heart of bluegrass.

West Virginia string band The Hillbilly Gypsies will return to Morgantown tonight to perform a free show for West Virginia University students.

The group will take the stage during WVUp All Night in the Mountainlair.

Mixing old-fashioned Appalachian bluegrass with contemporary string standards, the group is recognized for its fervent stage presence and remarkable live talent.

The group seamlessly integrates acoustic sets with bold fiddle tunes to create an inimitable set.

Most notably, the use of a single-diaphragm microphone during live performances adds a vin-

tage touch and a unique vibrancy.

“Even if you aren’t into bluegrass, you can still appreciate that they have a lot of talent,” said Todd O’Brien, former WVU student. “They’re genuinely a lot of fun to watch, because you can see how much fun they are having onstage.”

O’Brien, who attended a few of The Hillbilly Gypsies’ shows during his time at WVU, believes students should take advantage of the opportunity to see the band for no cost.

“It’s a great way to discover new music and really get a feel for the modern Appalachian music scene here in West Virginia if you’re from out of state,” he said.

Formed in Morgantown in 2001, the close-knit group has recorded and released five albums since, including two live albums.

The Gypsies always manage to stay busy with a consistent tour schedule, in which they visit various venues along the East Coast.

Tonight’s performance marks the first night of W V U ’s Mo u n t a i n e e r Week, the University’s seven-day tribute to West Virginia’s heritage and traditions.

For those interested in checking out more regional music, the Hoot’ N Holler String band will also take the stage at 8 p.m. in the Gluck Theater.

The show will begin at 9:30 p.m. in the Vandalia Lounge in the Mountainlair and is free to students with a valid student ID. For more information on the Hillbilly Gypsies, visit their website at www. thehillbillygypsies.com.

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West Virginia filmmaker introduces work Josh Lyons’ ‘Thaitanium Project’ details grave dangers of rock climbing in areas of Thailand, suggests ways we can work together to improve conditions in the region

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Filmmaker Josh Lyons poses to warn climbers of potential danger ahead.

by natalie snyder a&e writer

Filmmaker Josh Lyons showed his fundraising documentary film, “Thaitanium Project,” at the West Virginia University Recreation Center Thursday to promote the need for titanium equipment for rock climbing routes in Thailand.

Thailand is located in the Indochina peninsula where the tropical climate is a quality that does not go unnoticed.

Crystal blue waters and vibrant greenery define this place as paradise, and these blissful qualities draw travelers from all over the world.

A large portion of these travelers use the area for rock climbing, and Lyons’ film reminds us not only is rock climbing dangerous, but the equipment used there has

become unreliable.

Lyons graduated from Garrett College in West Virginia with a degree in adventure sports. After ascending his first rock climbing route at the New River Gorge, rock climbing at Cooper’s Rock and working as a guide at Seneca Rock for eight years, he began spending his summers in Thailand.

Lyons said he was always inspired by documentaries and wanted to make his own films.

“When we got comfortable saying all of our money needed to go into titanium, a lot of ideas were thrown around about how to buy these bolts,” Lyons said.

Thailand is well known for its unique rock climbing routes. When Lyons visited the country, he was not only in awe with the environment but also alarmed

by the dangerous climbing equipment.

“Thaitanium Project” demonstrates the corrosion steel bolts have undergone over time and also details how and why it has become an issue for the rock climbers.

These bolts’ purpose is to securely attach to the rock, a process achieved by manually drilling a hole where the bolt is then secured with heavy-duty glue.

Sam Lighter, a rock climber featured in the film, said everyone thought stainless steel would work because they make ships out of it.

For many years, rock climbers and scientists could not explain the steel bolts’ speedy corrosion time of just one year, and rock climbers began to worry Thailand would prohibit

climbing if someone was severely injured.

Scientists acknowledged the tropical environment of the country possibly affected these materials, noting that a tropical climate consists of high humidity and high temperatures usually accompanied by salt water.

Metallurgist Angele Sjong describes in the film the uniqueness of the steel corrosion.

This process creates stalactites, stalagmites and also corrosion – all pitfalls for a potential climber.

“This is the wrong material for this environment,” Sjong said.

Sjong continued to research this problem and found that titanium would solve the corrosion problem in Thailand.

“Titanium has superior

corrosion resistance,” Sjong said.

Internal corrosion was the more significant and less noticeable problem.

After failed attempts to ensure the security of the bolts using capsules filled with glue that isolated the bolts from the chemicals in the rock, ideas ran short.

It was recognized that if the environment would not change, the materials and methods would have to. Different types of steel were tested, including titanium.

Lyons said everyone was naturally suspicious and that it took time to become confident in the lightweight bolts.

“They looked fantastic,” Lyons said.

Lyons stresses the necessity to replace the equipment in order to make sure the vast community contin-

ues to safely do what they love.

The film, as well as Tshirts and accessories are currently on sale and 100 percent of the proceeds go toward the necessary tools and equipment to replace already existing routes.

Lyons said each bolt is estimated at $20 to replace, and there are many bolts on a single route.

The funds will also be used to remove the unsafe steel equipment already placed in the rock, to deter rock climbers from using these outdated bolts.

For more information about the project or to make a donation, visit www.thaitaniumproject.com.

“By buying this film, you’re essentially saving lives,” Lighter said. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Friday October 26, 2012

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A snowboarder performs at 2011’s Motown Throwdown.

by emily meadows a&e writer

Get prepared for one of Morgantown’s biggest block parties to kick off the upcoming winter sport season.

Local outdoor store Pathfinder WV is hosting its sixth annual “Motown Throwdown,” sponsored

by Burton Snowboards, Friday and Saturday on High Street.

Saturday’s main event, which will shut down Pathfinder’s block on High Street from 6-9 p.m., will

give around 40 skilled skiers and snowboarders from across the country the opportunity to practice and compete for a $1,000 cash prize.

Cook Bros. Construction will professionally build the featured ramps, and BOPARC will donate ice shavings from the Morgantown Municipal Ice Rink to get the party started.

To complete the full effect, a company from Raleigh, N.C., will travel to the event to turn the ice into snow using a commercial snow machine.

“So far we’ve have more interest from snowboarders entering the competition, but we still have room to have skiers enter as well, because ideally we would like to have 20 of each,” said Andrew Walker, a Pathfinder WV coordinator. “Right now we have about 25-30 snowboarders and about 5-10 skiers.”

Walker said these professional competitors have applied to participate in the event during the last few weeks and the top applicants have been selected to enter.

Pathfinder will continue to accept professional applicants who may be interested until the minute the event begins.

“We’ve had really great turnouts in the past. It truly is like a giant block party,” Walker said. “We’d love to get High Street as jam-packed as we can.”

To kick off the weekend’s events, Pathfinder will team up with Burton South and Red Bull to host an official video premiere party on the first floor of Bent Willey’s bar at 8 p.m. tonight. The 18-and-older

bash will feature a showing of the Burton flicks “13” and “Evaporate,” as well as live entertainment from DJ Zimmie.

“It’s going to be great entertainment from DJ Zimmie, who got his start in Pittsburgh and has gotten big in the dubstep scene playing in Portland and Los Angeles,” Walker said.

The night will also feature various drink specials and Burton giveaways.

Despite this week’s uncharacteristically warm weather, Walker said he actually prefers these con-

ditions for this weekend’s events.

“Last year it actually snowed, which is strange for a late October event,” Walker said. “But I think when the weather is nice, it’s a better experience and creates a larger turnout.”

For more information on any of the Motown Throwdown events, visit www.pathfinderwv. com, or stop in the Pathfinder WV store located at 235 High St. in downtown Morgantown. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Pathfinder WV brings an immense setup for participants to showcase their skills.

2012 Motown Throwdown Schedule: Friday Night:

Pathfinder and Burton Snowboards presents “13” Movie Premiere Event Where: The Red Zone @ Bent Willey's When: 8:00 p.m. -Close Who: Everyone! 18+ From 8-10 and 21+ All Night!

What: Burton and Pathfinder will be showing Burton's “13” on multiple big screens, as well as giving away prizes and good times! Drink specials all night and special guest performance from DJ ZIMMIE.

Saturday Night:

2012 Motown Throwdown Snowboard and Ski Competition Where: Downtown Morgantown at Pathfinder of West Virginia When: 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Who: Free Event to Attend!

All ages! Bring all your friends!

What: Pathfinder of West Virginia presents the sixthannual Motown Throwdown, where competitors come from around the country to take home $1,000 in cash prizes!