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Monday February 4, 2013

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Arrest made in High St assault by bryan bumgardner associate city editor

Morgantown police arrested a West Virginia University student from Massachusetts last week for maliciously wounding a WVU wrestler.

Samuel Heavey, a 22-yearold exercise physiology student at WVU, threw a beer bottle at Christian Chirico, a student and redshirt freshman wrestler at WVU. The incident occurred around 2 a.m. Jan 27, near Daniel’s Men’s Clothing on High

Street.

Heavey was arrested Friday without incident and is being held on $25,000 bond, according to police.

In what may have been a snowball fight gone wrong, Heavey threw the bottle at Chirico from several yards away then fled the scene.

Chirico was hospitalized for a broken orbital bone, severed artery and lacerated tear duct.

Breathing complications in emergency surgery nearly cost Chirico his life, and it’s unclear if he will regain full

vision.

“I’m glad they were able to find out who did it,” said Lindsey Chirico, Christian’s sister and a graduate student at WVU. Lindsey said the closure of the case allows her family to focus on Christian’s health.

“Now we’re able to focus entirely on that. That’s good for our family,” she said.

Lindsey said she doesn’t know Heavey, and police were unable to share details about his arrest.

Chirico has been discharged by Ruby Memorial

Hospital with 38 stitches and will return for preliminary testing this week.

“I hope that everyone continues to think about him and pray for him, and we’re hoping that he makes a full recovery, but time will tell if that will happen or not,” Lindsey said.

The attack on Chirico is one in a string of assaults that have been occurring in the Morgantown area.

“I used to be able to walk home from the library without worrying,” Lindsey said.

“Yes, these types of things

happen everywhere, but it’s happening more and more – and it’s happening unnecessarily,” she said.

The Chirico family sought information concerning the incident in order to identify Christian’s attackers. The Detective Division of the Morgantown Police Department was also searching for tips.

Details about how the police identified Heavey are still unreleased.

Lindsey contacted WVU professor Daniel Brewster for aid in identifying the

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Ronald McDonald House Charities hosts second-annual Chef’s Challenge

By Terri Parlett copy editor

In just 45 minutes, two local chefs dished out a hearty serving of competition and excitement at the Morgantown Ronald McDonald House.

Ronald McDonald House Charities hosted its secondannual Chef’s Challenge Sunday afternoon.

The competition features two local chefs who each prepare a dish in 45 minutes. The dishes are then judged by a panel of five judges. This year’s chefs were Chef Chris McDonald and Chef Dianna Rice.

Chef McDonald is the executive chef at Stefano’s Restaurant, and Chef Rice is the owner of Bon Appetit personal chef service.

With Bon Appetit, area residents can pay to have a chef grocery shop and prepare a meal customized to any specifications.

Chef Chris McDonald won the Chef’s challenge for the second year in a row. As executive chef at Stefano’s, a Morgantown restaurant specializing in old-world Italian and American cuisine, McDonald said he typically focuses on Italian cuisine, but he likes to cook food of all types.

“I’m really kind of all over the place. You know, right now I’m focusing on Italian, obviously, because I’m a chef at an Italian restaurant, but I really enjoy Asian food and Southern food; I’m just really kind of all over the place,”

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West Virginia University students and the rest of the Morgantown community will have the opportunity to learn first-hand some of the fascinating research by a select group of WVU’s international scholars.

The Office of International Students & Scholars is hosting its second International Scholars Recognition Fair Thursday from 3-6 p.m. in the Rhododendron Room of the Mountainlair.

Seven scholars representing six countries will give presentations detailing the type of research they are performing and what unique findings they have uncovered.

Topics will include forestry and natural resources, social work, public health, engineering, biology, computer science and philosophy.

Each presentation will last approximately 25 minutes and refreshments will be served throughout the evening.

Doina Jikich, associate director of Immigration Services in the Office of International Students & Scholars, said while international scholars come to West Virginia to teach or perform research, this particular event is focused solely on sharing scholars’

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Although Morgantown is more than 7,000 miles away from the country of Oman, West Virginia University students and the surrounding community will have the opportunity to dive into the unique and rich culture of the Gulf nation without having to leave city limits.

Wednesday, the WVU Cultural Attaches Program will host a celebration of the culture of Oman titled

“Oman: Historical Depth and Global Outreach.” The event is scheduled from 7:30-9 p.m. and will take place in room G20 of Ming Hsieh Hall.

Co-sponsors of the event include: WVU Office of Multicultural Programs, WVU Office of International Student Affairs and Global Services, WVU Intensive English Program, Mountainlair Programming and Special Events, and the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center.

Debbi Pariser, program

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Chef Dianna Rice, owner of Bon Appetit personal chef service, prepares a dish during Sunday’s Ronald McDonald House Charities Chef’s Challenge.

coordinator in the WVU Office of Multicultural Programs, said the event provides students with an extraordinary opportunity to learn about the Omani culture and its people.

“This is a very big deal. It’s a way for students to learn about different cultures.

We see students every day, and we don’t know where they’re from,” Pariser said.

“It’s an opportunity for the University community to meet the Omani students (and) to welcome them to

our University (and) to experience the culture of their beautiful country.”

Pariser said an impressive guest list has shaped up for the event including Omani students who attend WVU, Asya Al-Lamki, Oman’s cultural attache, and other guests from the Omani embassy.

“We have WVU students from Oman who are attending, so we’ve asked them to dress in their traditional

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Bob Huggins plans to rally West Virginia University students and ignite their Mountaineer pride today.

The WVU men’s basketball coach will host his second Coaches’ Chalk Talk today at 12:30 in the Mountainlair.

Mountaineer Maniacs director Chris Northrup said Huggins plans to talk with students and fire up their Mountaineer pride before the game. “(Huggins wants) to get kids pumped up and get students excited for (tonight),” he said. “People will be there eating lunch, but I hope some people that wouldn’t usually be there come and swing by.”

Musings will again be placed in today’s edition of The Daily Athenaeum.

The Musings will also be placed throughout the

student section in the Coliseum.

“Students will see it during the day, and (I hope) it will get the word out that there’s a game tonight, and it’ll get people excited for it.”

Students are encouraged to remain quiet, hold up The DA as they are reading it and ignore the Longhorns as they are introduced prior to tipoff.

As the introduction video plays, students are asked to crumble or rip their copy of The DA. Following the introduction video, Jonathan Kimble, the Mountaineer Mascot, will fire his rifle.

At this time, students are asked to toss their copy of The DA into the air.

Tipoff for tonight’s game will be 9 p.m. at the WVU Coliseum.

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research endeavors.

“International scholars come here to WVU from all over the world to do research or teach; the group who will be part of this event are researchers,” she said.

“The purpose of (the fair) is for them to showcase their research (and) to talk about what they do – their unique and outstanding research – and share the topics of their research.”

Jikich said a portion of a grant the Office of International Students & Scholars received from the Higher Education Policy Commission funds the fair.

She said the event serves the dual purpose of educating the public about the types of research international scholars are performing as well as providing the presenting international scholars a platform to discuss their findings and share their successes.

“It’s going to be fascinating for the audience to listen to the research and (we are) excited for (the scholars) to be given the opportunity to talk to everyone about what they do,” she said. “(The scholars) are at their department and the department knows what

Huggins to host second Coaches’ Chalk Talk today in Mountainlair

Event to share, display Omani culture

By Cody Schuler

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International scholars to share research

By Cody Schuler

Chef Chris McDonald prepares ravioli during Sunday’s Ronald McDonald House Charities Chef’s Challenge.

perpetrator.

“As members of society, it is our responsibility to reduce this type of violence,” Brewster said. “We have the capacity to make our streets safer as a result of our own desire to not help hide the identities of the individuals who commit these types of crimes.”

Brewster helped organize the fundraiser for Ryan Diviney, a WVU student who was brutally attacked in 2009 and is still recovering.

ON THE INSIDE The West Virginia men’s basketball team cruised to a 77-61 victory against Texas Tech Saturday, earning its third conference victory in the process.

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REVENGE IS SWEET The West Virginia women’s basketball team avenged an early-season loss to Oklahoma Sunday with a 82-63 home win.

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Monday February 4, 2013

New rules aim to get rid of junk foods in schools

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Side salads, apple sauce and plums await the students of Eastside Elementary School in Clinton, Miss.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most candy, high-calorie drinks and greasy meals could soon be on a food blacklist in the nation’s schools.

For the first time, the government is proposing broad new standards to make sure all foods sold in schools are more healthful.

Under the new rules the Agriculture Department proposed Friday, foods like fatty chips, snack cakes, nachos and mozzarella sticks would be taken out of lunch lines and vending machines. In their place would be foods like baked chips, trail mix, diet sodas, lowercalorie sports drinks and low-fat hamburgers.

The rules, required under a child nutrition law passed

by Congress in 2010, are part of the government’s effort to combat childhood obesity. While many schools already have improved their lunch menus and vending

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A lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. and a reception will take place at the conclusion of the lecture. Some of the features that will be

machine choices, others still are selling high-fat, highcalorie foods.

Under the proposal, the Agriculture Department would set fat, calorie, sugar and sodium limits on almost all foods sold in schools.

Current standards already regulate the nutritional content of school breakfasts and lunches that are subsidized by the federal government, but most lunchrooms also have “a la carte” lines that sell other foods. Food sold through vending machines and in other ways outside the lunchroom has never before been federally regulated.

“Parents and teachers work hard to instill healthy eating habits in our kids, and these efforts should be supported when kids walk through the schoolhouse door,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.

Most snacks sold in school would have to have present for the reception are Omani food, clothing, music and art.

“We’re going to be showing videos throughout the reception on Oman and its rich cultural heritage.

We’re going to have mannequins there with the traditional clothing of Omani.

There’s going to be samples of Omani art, (and) there’s going to be Omani music playing,” Pariser said.

“One of the special things that they are doing is

less than 200 calories. Elementary and middle schools could sell only water, low-fat milk or 100 percent fruit or vegetable juice.

High schools could sell some sports drinks, diet sodas and iced teas, but the calories would be limited.

Drinks would be limited to 12-ounce portions in middle schools and to 8-ounce portions in elementary schools.

The standards will cover vending machines, the “a la carte” lunch lines, snack bars and any other foods regularly sold around school. They would not apply to in-school fundraisers or bake sales, though states have the power to regulate them. The new guidelines also would not apply to after-school concessions at school games or theater events, goodies brought from home for classroom celebrations, or anything students bring for their own the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center will be raffling off mini hani-crafts items from Oman. (The event) is going to be a multimedia presentation that will delight all the senses,” she said.

The event is free and open to the public, and everyone is welcomed to attend. For more information, call the Office of Multicultural Programs at 304-293-0890. charles.schuler@mail.wvu.edu

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nurture not just the minds of American children but their bodies as well,” Harkin said.

Last year’s rules faced criticism from some conservatives, including some Republicans in Congress, who said the government shouldn’t be telling kids what to eat. Mindful of that backlash, the Agriculture Department exempted inschool fundraisers from federal regulation and proposed different options for some parts of the rule, including the calorie limits for drinks in high schools, which would be limited to either 60 calories or 75 calories in a 12-ounce portion.

The department also has shown a willingness to work with schools to resolve complaints that some new requirements are hard to meet. Last year, for example, the government relaxed some limits on meats and grains in subsidized

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they do, but how about the rest of the University? All of us can see what a great contribution they make to University research,” she said.

Jikich said the scholars were selected to present at the fair after replying to an open invitation. Fortunately, those seven presenters represent a variety of fields – something Jikich said wasn’t planned but helps make the experience a diverse one.

“We just put the invitation out there (and) the people who responded just happened to represent a variety of fields of expertise and have done research in these fields,” she said.

“We could have had a response that only gave us, maybe, two fields; we could have had five people talking about just two fields of expertise, but it’s a great blend of expertise that they will be sharing their research in.”

For a full schedule of events, interested parties can visit http://intranet. wvu.edu/home/2013/1/30/ international-scholars-recognition-fair-to-be-held.

More information on the Office of International Students & Scholars can be found on their website http://oiss.wvu. edu.

McDonald said.

Chef McDonald prepared what he called “Green Eggs and Ham ravioli,” which was spinach pasta stuffed with parmesan and ricotta cheeses and an egg yolk, coupled with a pancetta cream sauce and prosciutto.

McDonald said he was happy to get involved in the event as soon as the idea was brought to him.

“I was contacted by Ronald McDonald House - (I was) one of the first chefs they talked to just to be involved. It sounded like a lot of fun. I knew it was for a good cause, so I thought I would just go ahead and go through with it,” he said.

Steve De Jesus, executive director and CEO at Ronald McDonald House Charities of Morgantown, said the event was inspired by popular cooking competitions on TV. “I saw ‘Iron Chef America,’ and I always thought that would be a kind of a neat event someday to do, so we kind of came up with our own version of that and started it here.”

The kitchen at the Ronald McDonald House just happened to be perfect for such an event. “The kitchen actually was redone about six years ago.

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personal consumption.

The new rules are the latest in a long list of changes designed to make foods served in schools more healthful and accessible.

Nutritional guidelines for the subsidized lunches were revised last year and put in place last fall. The 2010 child nutrition law also provided more money for schools to serve free and reduced-cost lunches and required more meals to be served to hungry kids.

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has been working for two decades to take junk foods out of schools. He calls the availability of unhealthful foods around campus a “loophole” that undermines the taxpayer money that helps pay for the healthier subsidized lunches.

“USDA’s proposed nutrition standards are a critical step in closing that loophole and in ensuring that our schools are places that

lunches after school nutritionists said they weren’t working.

Schools, the food industry, interest groups and other critics or supporters of the new proposal will have 60 days to comment and suggest changes.

A final rule could be in place as soon as the 2014 school year.

Margo Wootan, a nutrition lobbyist for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said surveys by her organization show that most parents want changes in the lunchroom.

“Parents aren’t going to have to worry that kids are using their lunch money to buy candy bars and a Gatorade instead of a healthy school lunch,” she said.

The food industry has been onboard with many of the changes, and several companies worked with Congress on the child nutrition law two years ago.

Our sprinkler system demolished the kitchen and we redid it, and we decided to do it in a doublekitchen style, and it’s more convenient for the families who are staying here. That way they can cook their own food, and there’s a lot more space,” De Jesus said.

The double kitchen allowed the two chefs to work separately, but in close proximity for the audience.

The audience included some of the very families who use the house. “There are some families who are (staying in the house) sitting here. We open it up to all the families that are staying.”

The Chef ’s Challenge directly benefits the families who use the house, De Jesus said.

“All the money comes directly to the charity, and it’s all put right back into the families and getting things for them. We usually bring in about $ 4-6,000 for this event,” he said.

De Jesus said the house is always available, free of charge, for families who need its services. “We have 16 rooms here. It is completely a free facility. No one ever has to pay, regardless of their income level, and we accept donations from them if they’d like, but they can stay here for as long as they need to.” He also said families have used the house for as short a time as one day or as long as 16 months.

In addition to events like the Chef’s Challenge, the Morgantown Ronald McDonald House will be hosting several other events this year.

These include a consignment sale March 15-16 and a 5k run/walk May 4.

De Jesus encourages students to consider events such as these to get involved with Ronald McDonald House Charities.

For more information on the Morgantown Ronald McDonald House, visit http://www.rmhcmorgantown.org. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

Monday February 4, 2013

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Israel suggests responsibility for Syria airstrike

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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, center, arrives for a meeting of the Security Conference in Munich, southern Germany Sunday.

GERMANY (AP) — Israel’s defense minister strongly signaled Sunday that his country was behind an airstrike in Syria last week, telling a high profile security conference that Israeli threats to take pre-emptive action against its enemies are not empty. “We mean it,” Ehud Barak declared.

Israel has not officially confirmed its planes attacked a site near Damascus, targeting ground-to-air missiles apparently heading for Lebanon, but its intentions have been beyond dispute. During the 22 months of civil war in Syria, Israeli leaders have repeatedly expressed concern that highend weapons could fall into the hands of enemy Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militants.

For years, Israel has been charging that Syrian President Bashar Assad and Iran have been arming Hezbollah, which fought a monthlong war against Israel in 2006.

U.S. officials say the target was a convoy of sophisticated Russian SA-17 antiaircraft missiles. Deployed in Lebanon, they could have limited Israel’s ability to gather intelligence on its

enemies from the air.

Over the weekend, Syrian TV broadcast video of the Wednesday attack site for the first time, showing destroyed vehicles and a damaged building identified as a scientific research center.

The U.S. officials said the airstrike hit both the building and the convoy.

In his comments Sunday in Munich, Barak came close to confirming that his country was behind the operation.

“I cannot add anything to what you have read in the newspapers about what happened in Syria several days ago,” Barak told the gathering of top diplomats and defense officials from around the world.

Then he went on to say, “I keep telling frankly that we said – and that’s proof when we said something we mean it – we say that we don’t think it should be allowed to bring advanced weapons systems into Lebanon.” He spoke in heavily accented English.

In Syria, Assad said during a meeting with a top Iranian official that his country would confront any aggression, his first comment on the airstrike.

“Syria, with the awareness of its people, the might of its army and its adherence to the path of resistance, is able to face the current challenges and confront any aggression that might target the Syrian people,” Assad was quoted as saying by the state news agency SANA. He made the remarks during a meeting with Saeed Jalili, the head of Iran’s National Security Council. Iran is Syria’s closest regional ally. Jalili, on a three-day visit to Syria, has pledged Tehran’s continued support for Assad’s regime.

Jalili, who also serves as his country’s top nuclear negotiator, condemned the Israeli raid, stressing that it has proven the “aggressive nature of Israel and its threat of the region’s security and stability.”

The chief of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards said Sunday that Tehran also hopes Syria will strike back against Israel.

Syrian opposition leaders and rebels have criticized Assad for not responding to the airstrike, calling it proof of his weakness and acquiescence to the Jewish state.

The Syrian defense minister, Gen. Fahd Jassem al-

Freij said Israel attacked the center because rebels were unable to capture it. Al-Freij called the rebels Israel’s “tools.” He told the state TV, “The heroic Syrian Arab Army, that proved to the world that it is a strong army and a trained army, will not be defeated.”

Ahmad Ramadan, an opposition leader, said Syria’s claim that the rebels are cooperating with Israel “is an attempt by the regime to cover its weakness in defending the country against foreign aggression.”

He spoke by telephone from Turkey.

While Israel has remained officially silent on the airstrike, there seemed little doubt that Israel carried it out, especially given the confirmation from the U.S., its close ally.

Israel has a powerful air force equipped with U.S.made warplanes and has a history of carrying out air raids on hostile territory.

In recent years, Israel has been blamed for an air raid in Syria in 2007 that apparently struck an unfinished nuclear reactor and an arms convoy in Sudan believed to be delivering weapons to Hamas.

Paraguay presidential hopeful Oviedo dies in crash ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Paraguayan presidential candidate Lino Cesar Oviedo has been killed in a helicopter crash, authorities said Sunday, ending a dramatic political career that included coups and repeated attempts to lead this impoverished 6.5 million-person country.

Oviedo was returning with his bodyguard from a political rally in northern Paraguay Saturday night when his pilot encountered bad weather. All three were killed in the crash, said Johnny Villalba, a spokesman for Paraguay’s airport authority.

Defense Minister Maria Liz Garcia said she traveled to the scene Sunday with Oviedo’s daughter, congresswoman Fabiola Oviedo, and confirmed that the helicopter “disintegrated.”

“One resident who lives near the accident scene said they heard a single explosion Saturday night,” she added. “The aircraft ended up disintegrated and out of respect to the families of the victims, I won’t release details about the cadavers.”

The air traffic control tower in the provincial city of Concepcion received the pilot’s last communication, Garcia said – a brief message that they were changing course due to a storm at 9 p.m. local time.

Lino Oviedo, 69, was running in April’s elections as leader of Paraguay’s thirdlargest opposition party, the National Union of Ethical Citizens.

A retired general and former army chief, Oviedo had tried for years to take the helm of his nation, and not always through democratic means.

As a colonel in 1989, Oviedo had been tasked with taking prisoner none other than Alfredo Stroessner, the feared dictator who had ruled Paraguay since

1954.

That bloody military coup sent Stroessner into Brazilian exile, but did little to diminish the hold on Paraguayan politics that his Colorado Party had cemented. Oviedo’s role in the ouster was rewarded with a meteoric rise through the ranks of the army.

A diminutive cavalry officer, only 5-foot-3 inches (1.62 meters) tall, Oviedo was promoted to brigadier general three months after capturing Stroessner. By 1992, he had become a division general, and then President Juan Carlos Wasmosy named him army chief.

Membership in the Colorado Party had been a requirement for any officer during the dictatorship, but Oviedo’s constant involve-

ment in party politics generated frictions with the president.

In April 1996, a short-lived coup in which Oviedo participated and other maneuverings led to his firing and forced retirement. He ran as a candidate to succeed Wasmosy, winning the Colorado Party primary ahead of the May 1998 presidential elections, but was then convicted in a military court for his role in the coup, ending his candidacy.

His would-be vice president, Raul Cubas, instead won the election and immediately ordered the release of Oviedo, despite the judiciary’s rulings.

Oviedo had an irrepressible desire to govern, and quickly became known as the power behind Cubas,

angering other political leaders.

Cubas’ vice president, Luis Maria Argana, was assassinated in 1999, and the slain man’s relatives and followers accused Oviedo of being the mastermind. Cubas resigned in the resulting turmoil and Oviedo fled the country and renounced his Colorado Party membership, founding the UNACE party.

Facing Paraguayan arrest orders in the Wasmosy case, Oviedo remained a political refugee in Brazil until 2004, when he returned and was convicted.

The Supreme Court later exonerated Oviedo after military officers denied there had been a coup attempt, freeing him to run for president in 2008.

Israel has not confirmed either raid, but military officials routinely talk about a “policy of prevention” meant to disrupt the flow of arms to its enemies.

In the days preceding the airstrike, the Israeli warnings were heightened. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a series of dire comments about the threat posed by Syria’s weapons.

Israel considers any transfer of these advanced weapons to be unacceptable “game changers” that would change the balance of power in the region.

Israel has grown increasingly jittery as the Arab Spring has swept through the Middle East, bringing with it a rise of hostile Islamist elements. While Assad is a bitter enemy, Israel’s northern front with Syria has remained quiet for most of the past 40 years.

If Assad is toppled, the threat of al-Qaida forces operating along Israel’s frontier with Syria would pose a new and unpredictable threat. Israel has been racing to reinforce its fences along its northern frontiers with Lebanon and Syria.

In addition, Israel fears that its archenemy Iran, the

close ally of Syria and Hezbollah, is moving closer to developing a nuclear weapon.

Israeli leaders have vowed to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear arms, making veiled threats to use force if international diplomacy and sanctions fail.

Israeli defense officials tried to play down Barak’s comments, saying that he was voicing a general policy that Israel is ready to defend its interests and not discussing a specific incident. They also noted that he was not speaking in his native Hebrew.

Even so, it seemed that Barak, a former prime minister, military chief of staff and regular participant on the world stage, was sending a message that Israel’s warnings are not hollow and that further military action should not be ruled out.

“There is a real danger now that seriously problematic weapons will reach Hezbollah, and Israel is trying to prevent this,” said Reuven Pedatzur, a defense analyst at Tel Aviv University. He said the threat has reached the point “where weapons are actually being loaded on trucks and sent on their way.

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OPINION The war on coal miners

Monday February 4, 2013

Sunday, the Charleston Gazette reported that coal mine operators throughout the state have been getting away with neglecting to enforce regulations on coal dust that were adopted in the aftermath of the Upper Big Branch tragedy in 2010.

Veteran Gazette reporter and West Virginia University alumnus Ken Ward Jr. authored the investigative piece. Ward obtained re-

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cords that revealed more than 20 percent of dust samples state regulators have taken from coal mines in the past year and a half did not meet state standards.

These findings are very troubling, and they raise serious questions about the state’s willingness to confront the coal industry.

Coal dust is known to be explosive, and an investi-

gation commissioned by then-Gov. Joe Manchin in the aftermath of the Upper Big Branch mine explosion concluded it likely played a significant role in the tragedy. For this reason, Gov. Manchin issued an executive order creating more stringent regulations regarding coal dust. The West Virginia legislature followed suit, and these regulations are now state law.

So why have these regulations not been enforced? What use are they if coal mine operators can continue to ignore them without facing the consequences?

Davitt McCateer, the former federal director of the Mine Safety and Health Administration who led the investigation into the Upper Big Branch explosion, called these additional reg-

ulations a “charade.” They will continue to be meaningless as long as the state fails to hold the coal mine operators accountable.

How many more coal miners must be killed in avoidable explosions because our leaders lack the courage to stand up to the coal industry and enforce our laws? daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Can we enjoy our chicken sandwiches again? micah conkling columnist

As the semester began, a debate waged on West Virginia University’s campus and across the country. At the center of the controversy was Chick-fil-A, the self-proclaimed inventor of the chicken sandwich.

The hullaballoo wasn’t fueled by obesity concerns stemming from waffle fry consumption or angry parents upset about Chick-filA’s mascot, a cow, teaching poor spelling.

Dan Cathy, CEO of Chick-Fil-A, made comments in an interview stating he believed in the biblical definition of the family, and later said something arguably more idiotic, that “I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.’”

Cathy’s remarks were the tipping point for an LGBTQ community already upset Chick-fil-A had traditionally given money to documented “anti-gay” Christian organizations.

Boycotting of Chick-filA franchises happened throughout the country, and a petition was started on WVU’s campus to remove the restaurant from the Mountainlair.

Other demonstrations sprung up, including – after Mike Huckabee’s calling – “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day,” during which thousands of folks flocked to franchises in support of the eatery and Cathy’s professed values. In return, the LGBTQ community called for “National Same-Sex Kiss Day” and protested Chick-Fil-A. Recently, a redemptive relationship has developed between Dan Cathy and Shane Windmeyer, executive director of Campus Pride, a nonprofit LGBT organization that has been involved with Chick-fil-A protests in the past.

Windmeyer is a gay man, and according to a Huff-

Chick-fil-A has reportedly stopped donating to anti-gay organizations. ington Post column he au- already know the answer. thored, Dan Cathy called Dan Cathy’s comments him August 10th, and since and the subsequent fightthat initial phone conver- ing weren’t just about sation, the two have shared chicken sandwiches. Like calls and meetings, and with any debate, it seemed Windmeyer spent New like group number three – Year’s Eve at the Chick- the apathetic – sighed and Fil-A Bowl as Dan Cathy’s stuffed their faces with wafguest. fle fries and waited for it all Windmeyer also re- to blow over.

Cathy’s comments, while vealed in his column that Chick-fil-A recently dis- beliefs he has a right to closed tax forms to him, hold, were inappropriate showing Chick-Fil-A hasn’t for a CEO of a company funded divisive, anti-gay who prides itself in treating groups since 2011. others with kindness and This latter story received respect. Also, the whole a decent amount of buzz “God is going to bring judgaround the Internet, but ment on America” thing is nowhere near the level of just tiresome.

It was right of the LGuproar and activism from both sides of the argument BTQ community, employas when Cathy made his ees of the Chick-fil-A francomments and protests chise and other supportive and boycotts followed. We citizens who disagreed can ask why, but we should with Cathy to question his

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actions and create movement. While abstaining from chicken sandwiches might seem like a trivial game plan, reform exacts itself in usual ways. Folks probably scoffed at the first people to chain themselves to historic buildings to prevent them from getting bulldozed.

Windmeyer’s column and his relationship with Cathy are indicative of something better than protest – something we need to learn from and put to use in all of our discussions and disagreements. In the midst of chicken sandwich eating and lack of chicken sandwich eating, two very different men with extremely separate views of the world started a relationship, and with that friendship came dialogue.

Windmeyer wrote: “I will not change my views, and Dan will likely not change his, but we can continue to listen, learn and appreciate ‘the blessing of growth’ that happens when we know each other better.”

Protest is often necessary. Voices need to be raised, especially in the face of oppression and bigotry. Sometimes, chicken sandwiches need to be abstained from, people need to chain themselves to trees, and marches need to be marched on the National Mall.

But that is just the process, and we can’t forget there’s got to be more to the story than mere disgust and voicing frustration. Eventually, when possible, we must move from the argument and toward

reconciliation.

I’m proud of Dan Cathy for trying, just as I am of Shane Windmeyer for engaging in a friendship with Cathy. I’m sure they have both taken some flack from their separate bases for the compromise – for watching football with the enemy. There is so much to be discouraged about when it comes to gender, sexuality, race and religious relations, but Cathy and Windmeyer’s attempts at understanding presents a positive model at how two sides begin to drop their swords and appreciate one another.

I hope this attitude seeps into their tribes and other arenas of American discourse. Maybe we can eat chicken sandwiches again.

We should at least try to know each other better.

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Last week, President Barack Obama unveiled a set of proposals to reduce gun violence after a series of deadly mass shootings. Several key parts of his proposal are designed to restrict or ban so-called “military-style assault weapons,” which are a “category” of weapons that were used by the Sandy Hook Elementary School and Aurora, Colo. movie theater shooters.

However, most of the gun-control legislation being introduced at the state and federal levels – in particular, the ban on assault weapons – will not affect the rate of violent crime committed with firearms.

Rather, it is a set of “feelgood,” ineffectual and mis-

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guided legislation that is unsupported by statistics and history and will not affect the rate of gun violence in the United States.

The recent wave of mass killings in the U.S. is shocking and horrific, but we need to recognize that mass shootings are extremely rare and nearly impossible to prevent. In fact, the total number of deaths in 2011 from mass shootings represents less than 1 percent of the number of people killed with guns in the U.S. that year.

Similarly, the FBI reported that rifles of all types, including hunting rifles and .22s, were used in about 2.5 percent of murders in 2011. Since assault rifles constitute about 2.2 percent of all rifles, it is reasonable to assume that murders involving assault rifles are very rare. Banning the sales of assault

weapons and high-capacity magazines, as was done from 1994-2004, is likely to prove just as ineffective at reducing gun violence as the last Assault Weapons Ban was. In fact, after the AWB expired, the National Institute of Justice was unable to find any evidence that the AWB led to a reduction in gun violence.

We also need to take a closer look at the language and intent of the new guncontrol legislation. Proposed legislation bans features of assault weapons that include telescoping stocks and pistol grips, which can look “scary” and “military-styled” to the uninformed but which have absolutely no effect on the lethality of a firearm. (These features only exist for cosmetic and ergonomic purposes.) Proposed bans on high-capacity magazines, which

hold more than 10 rounds, are likewise ineffective at hindering mass shooters – magazines can be reloaded in less than two seconds with minimal practice and there is no way to stop someone from accumulating multiple magazines.

The Virginia Tech shooter carried over a dozen 10-round magazines.

Even the terms “assault weapons” and “gun violence” are intentionally designed to invoke images of violence. Using these terms would be akin to saying “bat violence” or “hammer violence,” blunt objects that were used in 2011 to kill about 1.5 times more often than rifles, let alone assault rifles. In addition, the term “pro-gun” is often pejoratively used to refer to supporters of gun rights. I own guns, and I have used them in the Marines and as a civilian for self-defense

and recreational purposes, but I am no more “progun” than I am “pro-hammer” or “pro-screwdriver” – a gun is simply a tool that I use, not a shrine that I worship. The language and images associated with this legislation are designed to divide and ostracize those who would oppose it.

Finally, we must realize that this legislation is primarily designed to tug at the heartstrings of certain constituents. Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza murdered 20 middle-class, suburban, primarily white children – is that not reason enough for new restrictions on guns? While the Sandy Hook shootings certainly were tragic, this incident pales when compared to the 4428 people murdered in 2011 in metropolitan areas with extremely strict gun laws, such as Chicago, New York

and Washington, D.C. Rather than attempting to legislate weapons (which, as these cities have demonstrated, is ineffective), we need to address issues like gang violence, socioeconomic and racial inequalities, and the other factors that are the root causes of interpersonal violence.

In 1994, after the first AWB was passed, even supporters of the ban, such as the Washington Post editorial board, admitted that legislation was “mainly symbolic” and merely a “stepping stone to broader gun control.” I hope that my fellow citizens can discard rhetoric and emotional appeals and recognize this new legislation for what it really is – purely symbolic – and instead demand a plan that will actually accomplish something.

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

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BORN TODAY This year interpersonal communication plays a very strong role in your success. You often might find that your efforts go unnoticed, but because of your constant attention and others’ strong feedback, you will achieve what you want and more. If you are single, you’ll want to decide what type of relationship you want, because you will be able to manifest just that. Romantic possibilities are most active through June. If you are attached, the two of you might start acting like young lovers again.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH You could be upset by what you see.

Diving in and fixing the problem usually works, only right now the problem isn’t obvious. In fact, you could have a hard time zeroing in on the dynamics involved. Remain confident.

Tonight: Touch base with someone at a distance.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH You might walk into a veil of confusion because someone is not being clear. This person does not totally understand the dynamics of the situation at hand. Communicate your message with more clarity, and you will get results. Tonight: Laugh off a recent misunderstanding.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHH You are full of questions. Have that long-overdue discussion. Your energy rarely is sporadic, though it could be at the moment. Swallowing your anger could be one of the causes. A money-making idea sounds good – just do your research first. Tonight: Follow someone’s lead.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHH Confusion marks your communication. Assess where the mix-up might be. Excellent ideas could fall flat today. Have some sympathy for a boss or higher-up who might be having a similar experience. Your innate good nature draws in opportunities. To-

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHHH Where others seem to be baffled, you will have a sense of direction.

You might not be able to verbalize where this knowledge comes from.

A friend who understands you very well encourages you to go down an unknown path. Trust your sixth sense.

Tonight: With the gang.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HH Demands seem to appear out of nowhere. This issue could involve your home, personal life and/or real estate. A parent could be involved. A partner or associate seems extremely whimsical with money, which causes you some concern. Tonight: Stay close to home.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHH You’ll ask a lot of questions as to what is happening within your immediate circle. You want to get to the bottom of a problem. Approach issues creatively today. Do be careful when dealing with anything mechanical.

News from a distance thrills you. Tonight: Keep it light and easy.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH Your creativity surges, and you will cook up a great idea. The problem lies in the cost. Even if you do not anticipate a financial snafu, it still could happen. Use good sense with

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH You feel up to nearly any task. You might have an important matter to deal with, which could make you feel a little uneasy. Slow down. You can be successful doing so many different things. Lighten up the moment, and share more of your feelings. Tonight: All smiles.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHHH You know precisely where you want to go with a conversation that is a bit overdue. Listen carefully to news, and take time to digest what you are hearing. If you feel uncomfortable, don’t push at this moment. Caring flows in an unprecedented manner. Tonight: Go with a suggestion.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH Confusion could result in a financial mistake. You can’t be careless with money right now. Focus on other matters, where success is more likely to greet you. Your smile will warm up an important friendship. Question a long-term commitment. Tonight: Where people are.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHH Your way of moving through problems usually is excellent, yet today, there could be a backfire. Let others voice their opinions. A decision that already was made could be hard to carry out. An element of confusion runs through your plans. Tonight: A must appearance.

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Philadelphia’s Tom Backman (right) looks for a D’Arce choke against his opponent, David Forsyth, at Caged Power 4 Friday night.

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Morgantown, W.Va., boxer Eric Watkins (left) looks for an opening Friday evening at Caged Power 4.

Caged Power 4 stormed the Morgantown Event Center Friday evening and put forth a rowdy and energetic display of face-smashing, rib-cracking professional fighting action.

The event, arranged by local fight promoter Stephen Simons, featured amateur and professional boxing, as well as professional mixed martial arts, and the crowd certainly approved of the violence.

Morgantown’s Eric Watkins, a student in his third year at West Virginia University, emerged victorious in the professional boxing main event, snagging his 11th career victory with a furious technical knockout (TKO) finish of his opponent, Jay Holland.

“It felt good to be back in Morgantown in front of my home fans,” Watkins said.

“They’re always rowdy, always appreciative of a good fight, and they make me go the extra yard. Morgantown fans are better than Las Vegas fans.”

Despite the dominant finish, Watkins’ victory was not without adversity. Holland caught Watkins with stiff punches in the first round on multiple occasions, staggering his foe and almost earning a knockdown.

The Morgantown fighter recovered quickly, however, and he roared back in the second round.

Watkins blasted Holland with a left hook to the body early in the second round, sending him to a knee on the canvas. After realizing these body shots would be his ticket to victory, Watkins zeroed in on his foe’s midsection and continued to punish his ribs and liver until the referee stopped

the bout.

“The game plan is always to go to the body,” Watkins said. “His body looked soft.

We knew his body was soft, and the body will drop anybody if you hit it right.”

Following the victory, Watkins will fight for the West Virginia Light Heavyweight title March 9 in Madison, W.Va. “Any support you can give me— if you see me in the lair, if you see me on the track, if you see me in the rec – just give me a shoutout, and let me know you’re in my corner,” Watkins said.

“Anything’s appreciated.”

After Watkins’ impressive win, action turned to the mixed martial arts (MMA) cage, and David Forsyth and Tom Backman kept the intensity cranked to 11.

Philadelphia’s Backman took home a unanimous decision victory against Fairmont, W.Va.’s, Forsyth who, despite the hometown support, couldn’t do enough to earn the victory.

The bout featured all of the aspects of a proper MMA fight. Striking, wrestling, clinching and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu took center stage, and Backman earned the judges’ nod after 15 minutes of closely contested action.

Backman gave all of the credit to his coaches and training partners at Brazen Boxing and MMA in Philadelphia.

“We do everything – we box, we wrestle, we kickbox, we do Muay Thai,” Backman said. “We make guys pay.

We hurt them with basics, and then we come with the flair.”

Forsyth, to his credit, withstood some precarious situations and showed tremendous heart and solid all-around skills in defeat.

“I guess I underestimated him, because he (Forsyth)

was stronger than I gave him credit for,” Backman said. “He hit me with that right hand a couple times and made me a little bit gun-shy.”

AJ Bosley of Uniontown, Pa., kept things rolling with a dominant first-round victory against Chauncey Gnagey, and the stage was set for the night’s main event.

Pittsburgh Fight Club’s Justin “The Hawk” Steave squared off against Tray Taylor of Sidney, Ohio, and the Steel City reigned supreme in dramatic fashion.

After a brief feeling-out process, Steave clipped Taylor with a hard right cross and Taylor tumbled to the canvas. “The Hawk” pounced on his wounded prey and ended the bout with some explosive ground-and-pound, halting the action just 19 seconds into round one.

“It was awesome, man,” Steave said. “It was high-energy; everything just seemed like it was going right.”

The finish shocked all in attendance, including Steave.

“I thought it was going to be a stand-up war for a little bit, maybe go the ground a little bit,” Steave said. “But I caught him slipping. He dropped that left hand, and I came with the right.”

The quick knockout finish capped off an excellent night of fighting at Caged Power 4, and a vast and appreciative Mountain State crowd once again showed up to support the warriors inside the ring and the cage.

The next installment of Simon Promotions’ Caged Power series will take place March 8 in Connellsville, Pa. For more information on future events, visit www.simonspromotions.com. hunter.homistek@mail.wvu.edu

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Despite complications, metal acts deliver at 123

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Black Mass Confession performs for eager metalheads Thursday evening at 123 Pleasant Street.

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A trio of bands including Hovel, Sweet Life and Black Mass Confession took the stage Thursday night at 123 Pleasant Street.

Not every show is life-altering. Not every show goes according to plan.

Such was the case on this particular wintery night.

Originally planned to headline the show, metal band Straight Line Stitch had to cancel at the last minute due to transportation complications.

In a true show of respect and dedication to Morgantown and to 123 Pleasant Street, the band rescheduled a second run for Tuesday night.

Due to these unfortunate circumstances, the fine folks at 123 offered patrons a refund of the ticket price or the option to keep it for Tuesday, when Straight Line Stitch will perform.

However, it wasn’t all gloom and doom, as nights like these bring out the music fanatics who you can tell really want to be in attendance.

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It separates the men from the boys.

Take exhibit A: Two tired-looking guys who entered the venue, only to hear the news Straight Line Stitch had canceled. They explain they’ve driven two hours to be there and, while leaving, simply stated, “Be back Tuesday.”

Once the chaos surrounding the cancellation calmed, a grand total of about 30 people decided to stay and watch the show go on without its headliner, and these troopers were treated to a great show.

Also to be commended on this front are the musicians themselves, who stuck it out, despite losing a lot of potential exposure.

They didn’t harbor any ills toward Straight Line Stitch. ”It’s no big deal. We understand,” said Hovel member Woody O’Hara. “It’s happened to us before.”

These bands suddenly had more pressure placed on them, but they all seemed unphased and eager to perform.

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eryone here is our friend, so it’s going to be a good time.”

The show managed to get on the road around 9:45 p.m., one hour and fifteen minutes past the originally scheduled time, with Black Mass Confession.

The band put on a roller coaster performance that featured great highs with a few low points scattered throughout.

Among the negatives were unnecessarily long banter sessions between songs and a few measures where the drummer would get off time.

For the most part, however, the group played an excellent and short set of Black Label Society-style hard rock tunes with a groovier edge.

Their set was highlighted by a few lightning-fast, fretscorching guitar solos and duets.

Sweet Life came up next and really upped the ante.

Unapologetically a “stoner band,” the boys of Sweet Life played their set in front of a backdrop of a pot leaf and let the crowd know, “We like to play rock n’ roll to smoke weed to.”

They proceeded to layer the room with their droning, stoner-punk jams.

Though the venue was still pretty empty, a haze of warm, aggressive strumming and the soulful but primal voice of their vocalist filled the room and leaked out into the cold night.

Hovel rounded out the festivities in crushing fashion.

This show marked the second time I’ve seen the band. The first time, they were a late addition to the lineup, but this time they were the de-facto headliners.

These guys get it done under pressure. Never one to disappoint at 123, the veteran band spewed forth their blend of psychedelically grooving jams at warp speed.

Down-home, southern classic rock vibes and army of boisterous and distorted riffs clashed about the audience.

The master musicianship of Hovel was on full display.

If you missed out, fear not; there’s more Hovel on the horizon. Currently, the band is expecting to play a handful of dates and release new material in the spring. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Every year, football enthusiasts gather for the Super Bowl, but unless your team is playing, the commercials often steal the show. Super Bowl XLVII was no different.

There was humor, controversy, cuteness, sex appeal and sentiment among this year’s advertisements.

Some were better than others, but overall, they did not disappoint.

Let’s start with one of the most prominent Super Bowl advertisers: Budweiser. The AnheuserBusch Company had the first commercial of the game and one of the most anticipated. Of course, it starred one of their signature Clydesdale horses.

It was a real tearjerker for animal lovers. In the commercial, a man visits Chicago and is reunited

with the horse he raised.

But come on, these commercials are supposed to make us laugh, not cry – especially the beer commercials. Don’t get me wrong, it was cute and undoubtedly very popular, but Budweiser missed its target audience with this one.

GoDaddy.com is well known for their promiscuous commercials. While they did have one of the game’s “hottest” ads, they also premiered one that took a new direction.

When supermodel Bar Refaeli kissed the computer geek in Go Daddy’s first commercial, every guy in the room was watching.

It definitely got people’s attention, but it was also overwhelmingly awkward.

Sex appeal is one thing, but in this case, it was too much.

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their usual with the “Big Idea” commercial. The intentionally cheesy ad features spokeswoman Danica Patrick as the pilot of a private jet, flying a couple who was lucky enough to register their idea on GoDaddy.com before other couples from around the globe with the same idea.

There were a number of Doritos ads in the midst of the commercials, none of which were worth noting. A pet goat that eats 156 bags of Doritos just isn’t that funny.

Volkswagen stirred up a lot of controversy with the endorsement of their 2013 Beetle. Many people called out Volkswagen for their Jamaican-themed commercial, including New York Times columnist Charles Blow who says it is “so racist” and “Blackface with voices.”

However, the ad was created in good spirit and promoted upbeat feelings.

Racist or not, get used to seeing this commercial, because it will be around for a while.

“We view it as a compliment,” said Wykeham McNeill, Jamaica’s minister of tourism and entertainment. “People should get into their inner Jamaica and get happy.”

Another big hit Sunday night was Taco Bell’s “gameday” commercial, in which a gang of elderly people get into some teenage antics, ending their night with a trip to the local Taco Bell. A Spanish version of Fun.’s popular tune “We Are Young” serves as background music to the group’s night out on the town. This one is definitely among the frontrunners for best commercial of the night.

Alongside Taco Bell for winning commercials was Samsung with their Galaxy ad, featuring Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen, and Skechers with their GOrun 2 shoes.

The former of the two relies on the comedic talents of Rudd and Rogen. While in the boardroom with a Samsung executive, they must come up with alternate names for the Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco 49ers and the Super Bowl itself. In the end, they refer to the teams as the Baltimore “Black Birds” and the San Francisco “50 minus 1ers.”

No surprise that two comedians help make this one of the funniest ads in this year’s Super Bowl.

As for the Skechers endorsement, a man saves a gazelle when he runs down a cheetah while wearing the new GOrun 2 shoes. After he hog-ties the cheetah, he winks at the gazelle, and the gazelle winks back. It seems like a simple concept, but there’s something about it that makes you laugh.

As usual, most of these commercials will soon be forgotten, but, overall, they were entertaining enough to keep most nonfootball fans interested in this year’s Super Bowl. After all, that’s what they’re supposed to do, right? daa&E@mail.wvu.edu

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TURNING THINGS AROUND

Cody Schuler Managing Editor

WVU committed to rejuvenated brand of play

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West Virginia’s Terry Henderson, Deniz Kilicli and Juwan Staten, from left, defend Texas Tech’s Ty Nurse during a game in Lubbock, Texas, Saturday.

West Virginia forces 21 Texas Tech turnovers, ends losing streak by nick arthur

associate sports editor

After losing five of its previous six games, West Virginia got a much-needed win at Texas Tech Saturday afternoon.

The Mountaineers (1011, 3-5) made 10 of their 18 3-point attempts, forced 21 Red Raider (9-10, 2-6) turnovers and ran away with a 77-61 road victory in front of 8,407 at United Spirit Arena.

The final score may be somewhat deceiving, considering WVU led by just four with less than six minutes to play.

Head coach Bob Huggins wasn’t pleased with his

team’s ability to put away their opponent until the final minutes.

“There are a lot of things these guys show me that I never thought I’d see,” Huggins said. “We did such boneheaded things. We kind of had the game going the way we wanted the game to go, but we kept throwing the ball to them.”

Mountaineer freshman guard Eron Harris rebounded from a rough offensive outing against No. 1 Kansas Monday with 19 points, tying a career high and playing a career-high 36 minutes.

Junior center Aaric Murray and sophomore guard Juwan Staten both contrib-

uted double-digit scoring off the bench and freshman guard Terry Henderson, who has been hampered by a lower back injury, tallied nine points on three 3-pointers.

“We’re good when we get people spread,’’ Huggins said of his team’s offense.

“But you have to make shots to get people spread.

Today we made shots.’’

West Virginia shot 56 percent from the field and 55 percent from the 3-point range. It was the first time since a 2008 game against Iowa the Mountaineers shot at least 55 percent in each category.

“One thing they did, they made shots, and that’s

something we didn’t anticipate, because it’s something they struggled with all year,” said Texas Tech head coach Chris Walker.

The 77 points from the Mountaineers were the most in a game from them this season since November against Virginia Military Institute.

There was an apparent confidence on offense for WVU that hadn’t been displayed often this season.

Harris feels this could spark something in the future.

“We were knocking them down with confidence,” Harris said. “That could be the start of something big.”

Very few of West Virgin-

ia’s wins this season have come easy, and Texas Tech had its opportunities in the second half to draw even, despite trailing 13-2 and 16-4 to start the contest.

“We continue to do things to shoot ourselves in the foot,” Huggins said. “But we came out in the second half and took pretty good care of the ball. The only time they made a run, we threw the ball away twice.”

Huggins and the Mountaineers will return home tonight to face Texas at 9 p.m. at the Coliseum. nicholas.arthur@mail.wvu.edu

I have to be totally honest: After watching the first 10 minutes of yesterday’s women’s game between West Virginia and Oklahoma, I thought it was going to be more of the same flat, monotonous play that has plagued the Mountaineers for the majority of the season.

This team has played well, and poorly, never achieving a level of consistency that is a prerequisite for success in the Big 12 Conference.

Trailing by double digits, it appeared the Mountaineers were doomed for another conference loss, serving as yet another blow to the team’s postseason prospects.

Boy, was I wrong.

Forget about the West Virginia team you saw the early part of the season. Everything that happened in the past – the weak finishes in the second half and the squandering of leads – I’m ready to move past.

This is a new team.

There is a phenomenon in the study of enzymes called “the committed step,” in which an irreversible reaction occurs at decision, or branch, point in the formulation of some molecules.

In other words, there’s no going back. The path of the molecules are set, moving forward in a new way.

This team has taken the committed step. It happened Sunday, and there’s no going back.

West Virginia has won consecutive games against ranked opponents – including a tremendously difficult road win against Oklahoma State, which had lost only five times in 77 home games

see Schuler on PAGE 12

women’s basketball

West Virginia upsets No. 20 Oklahoma By amit batra sports writer

Three points separated West Virginia and Oklahoma in the first meeting between the two schools this season in Norman. In the devastating loss for the West Virginia women’s basketball team, the Sooners proved to be a bit too much in the late stages of the game.

The Mountaineers had their chance for revenge against the No. 20 Sooners Sunday afternoon. It’s safe to say WVU capitalized on the opportunity to face a famil-

iar foe with a dominating 8263 victory in front of 3,153 at the Coliseum.

“I love it (seeing teams twice a year),” said junior guard Christal Caldwell.

“We let one slip away at Oklahoma, and we came here on our home court and took care of business. We have to do that with a few more teams.”

Although they were down in the early stages of the first half, West Virginia maintained its composure and had a 34-27 halftime lead.

Caldwell ignited the Mountaineers with 15 points, as

she shot 50 percent from the field.

Despite some strong work from OU in the paint, WVU was able to get some key steals and easy transition points from Caldwell and freshman guard Bria Holmes. The freshman had eight points at the half.

The Sooners were up by as many as 11 points in the first half, but a 23-5 run in the final nine minutes gave West Virginia the 7-point lead at halftime.

After only hitting one 3-pointer in the first half, WVU used its seven steals to

give OU trouble in the first 20 minutes of action.

Caldwell and Holmes picked up right where they left off in the first half. Four Mountaineers were in double figures, but the junior and freshman led the way when WVU was in dire need of a bucket.

Despite a double-double from Sooners’ senior power forward Joanna McFarland, West Virginia used its defensive pressure and attack to cause Oklahoma to force the ball over more than it would

see Upset on PAGE 12

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The 10th-largest crowd in the West Virginia gymnastics team’s 40-year history came to watch the Mountaineers’ first Big 12 Conference showdown Friday night against the top-ranked team in the conference and two competitive non-conference opponents.

“The crowd was electrifying. I love that we had so many people turn out,” said WVU head coach Jason Butts. “I love that we had such a great performance in front of our home crowd.

I felt like our team really fed off the energy in here.”

Oklahoma head coach K.J. Kindler was also impressed with the atmosphere in the WVU Coliseum.

“I thought it was a great atmosphere. A lot of fans showed up, so I thought it was a good to see a lot of people and it was a very fun meet,” he said.

It was WVU’s second quad meet of the season and it featured William and Mary, Western Michigan and No. 2 Oklahoma. This was the first Big 12 meet of the season for both WVU and OU. The 1,881 fans watched the top two teams from the Big 12 battle until the end.

Each team competed at the same time on separate events, but knowing the importance of this meet, would look up to the scoreboard to catch a glimpse of where each team stood. This meet held Big 12 bragging rights.

Senior Kaylyn Millick shone from the beginning, finishing third in overall performance with a total score of 39.4 and leading her team to finish second behind OU with a season-high 196.05.

“I’ve been here for three years now trying to work on my confidence and doing the gymnastics I know I can do, and it showed tonight,” she said.

The Mountaineers responded in a big way to their coach’s remarks about wanting to see more consistency by scoring a seasonbest 196.05 – the quickest a

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Senior Kaylyn Millick celebrates after her performance against Oklahoma.

WVU gymnastics team has reached this total in a season since 2004.

“I’m absolutely thrilled with this, and we just have to keep doing it every weekend,” Butts said.

WVU started strong in a meet that included the WVU Mountaineer, cheerleaders and record-breaking moments.

Beginning the competition on the vault, the Moun-

taineers finished with the second-best mark of the season, scoring 49.0 overall.

Powerful freshman Jaida Lawrence received a 9.9 and tied OU’s freshmen Keeley Kmieciak and Haley Scaman for first place on vault. Senior Alaska Richardson anchored the line up scoring a 9.825 – good enough for fifth place overall.

The OU squad began on uneven bars and finished

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The next event for the Mountaineers was uneven bars, an event that has given WVU problems in the past.

But in this meet, WVU hit sixfor-six routines and scored a season-best 48.775. Millick, whose name was mentioned many times that night, received a team-best score of 9.825.

WVU would go on to finish second behind OU with a score of 49.050 on beam, the best the team has scored on beam since the 2011 season opener in the Cancun Classic.

Beth Deal, who was back in competition for the first time in the 2013 season, anchored the lineup on beam and finished with a score of 9.750.

“I’ve been waiting for my opportunity, and I finally got it,” Deal said. “I love the pressure and performing in front of everyone, so it was great to be back.”

The Mountaineers hit five out of six routines on beam, and once again Millick led the way with a teamhigh and career-best score of 9.875.

The Mountaineers scored a season-best 49.225 on the floor exercise, coming in second behind the Sooners, who had a team total of 49.450. Millick would once again come up big for the Mountaineers scoring a 9.9 on the floor exercise and tying with fellow teammate junior Hope Sloanhoffer for third place overall in the floor exercise.

Millick and Sloanhoffer, who Coach Butts called “rocks for this team,” finished third and fifth in overall performance. Sloanhoffer had a season-high total of 39.3.

Oklahoma, in control of the meet from the beginning, finished with a season-high 197.375 and gave the Mountaineers a preview of what to expect in the upcoming Big 12 Championship.

WVU finished the meet in second place (196.05), Western Michigan finished third (192.475), and William and Mary finished fourth overall (192.225).

Although WVU came in second behind Big 12 foe Oklahoma, Millick said she is proud of the way her team performed.

“OU is a great team, but we stood our ground tonight,” she said.

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Men’s basketball

‘I DON’T WANT TO LEAVE LIKE THIS’

Improving Murray ‘in no rush’ to leave Morgantown after up-and-down junior season by michael carvelli sports editor

When Aaric Murray was sitting out last season after transferring to West Virginia from La Salle, he heard one constant message from a lot of people close to him.

“Just play in Morgantown for a year before moving on to bigger and better things in the NBA.” For a 6-foot-10, 245 pound center who can stretch the floor and had already emerged as one of the nation’s premier big men in his first two seasons in college, that wasn’t completely out of the question. But make no mistake about it, it put a lot of pressure on the junior.

“It was just a lot of weight on my shoulders coming into every game,” he said. “You feel like you need to go out and perform like some kind of NBA prospect every night, and you start to press a little more. It was tough to stay focused.”

And it showed early on in his first season with the Mountaineers.

Although he leads the team in points, rebounds and blocked shots, Murray has also lost a starting job and at one point was left at home while his teammates went to Brooklyn, N.Y., to take on then-No. 3 Michigan.

Throughout this roller coaster of a season, Murray learned those

things everyone was telling him were wrong. He’s not ready to leave Morgantown just yet.

“I don’t want to leave like this,” Murray said. “I’m not leaving like this.

“I definitely came here to have a great college career with Coach (Bob) Huggins and, as of right now, things are up and down. I’m not leaving like that ... I’m in no rush.”

One of Murray’s toughest critics this season has been Huggins, who sees the potential his big man has to offer.

Murray is currently on his longest streak of double-digit scoring games of the season.

In the last three games, Murray has scored at least 10 points – including going for 17 points and seven rebounds as the Mountaineers nearly upset Kansas a week ago.

It was a game that, even though WVU came out on the losing end, Murray showed a little bit of his progress maturing as a player and handling when Huggins takes him out of games.

“He was miserable to start the (Kansas) game. Let’s be honest, he was terrible,” Huggins said.

“But to his credit, he came back and played pretty good and played with some enthusiasm.

“Earlier in the year, he wouldn’t

have responded that way.”

For Murray, the ability to do that came with the realization he needed to just focus on playing basketball, not the person on the sidelines, when he’s in the game.

“You can’t let Coach (Huggins) get to you if he’s yelling at you.

You have to listen to the message and not how he’s saying it,” Murray said. “I was listening to how he said it instead of what he was saying and getting frustrated and worrying about him instead of playing the game.”

The Mountaineers’ victory against Texas Tech this weekend brought them back to just a game below .500 with a stretch of winnable games on the horizon for the next few weeks.

Now’s the time, he said, for WVU to start working toward getting back to the NCAA tournament for the sixth straight year.

“We’re still pushing to get to the NCAA tournament,” he said.

“It’s just frustrating to keep losing so much and having people that are counting on you feel like they should have never counted on you to do what you’re supposed to do.

“We get all this support from the West Virginia fans, and for us to come out and keep losing – it’s just embarrassing and frustrating.” james.carvelli@mail.wvu.edu

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Junior center Aaric Murray, right, leads the West Virginia men’s basketball team in points, rebounds and blocks this season.

Wrestling

West Virginia starts fast, falls at home to Panthers by jon fehrens sports writer

Having a full and healthy lineup has been an ongoing problem for head coach Craig Turnbull and the West Virginia wrestling team.

Turnbull believes with his full lineup his team can compete with some of the best in the nation. But with Colin Johnston and Brutus Scheffel scratched from the starting rotation, WVU struggled against Pittsburgh, falling 31-9.

“If we have those two in the lineup that may even the matches up at five apiece, which may give us the momentum to take one of the matches that we didn’t take this evening.”

Turnbull said.

Senior Shane Young was able to give the Mountaineers an early spark with a 8-3 decision of Godwin Nyama at 125 pounds. At 133 pounds, freshman Sean Fee was named the starter in place of the struggling Johnston. Fee tried to stay

competitive with the No. 16 wrestler in the nation, but in the end the Panthers’ Shelton Mack came out with a decisive 14-5 win.

Like he has all season, junior Nathan Pennesi went out at 141 pounds and found a way to give his team some much-needed points.

This was a nostalgic match for Pennesi; his opponent, Travis Shaffer, was his workout partner throughout high school.

The two old friends squared

off in a close match, and with only 30 seconds left Pennesi earned a reverse takedown and was awarded two nearfall points that won him the match.

“When he did get that takedown I just did what I was taught to do, and I kept moving. We know each other’s tendencies so well, so once I was able to get the advantage and work the nearfall point it felt really good,” Pennesi said. “I was able to find his wrist once I was on top and from there,

I knew I just needed to roll him.”

After the win at 141 pounds, Pittsburgh continued to dominate the match. The Panthers won every match until freshman Bubba Scheffel stopped the bleeding at 174, earning an escape point early in the third period and following with a take down to win the match.

“Scheffel just willed his way to that win. He willed his way out of multiple takedowns, and he is

a great athlete and is just such a competitor.” Turnbull said.

Pittsburgh won the remaining three matches to close the deal on the win.

West Virginia will return to action Sunday at 3 p.m. as it takes on Ohio University in the WVU Coliseum.

The match will be part in the “Beauty and the Beast” event, in which WVU gymnastics and wrestling compete at the same time.

Upset

up on defense and get some easy steals,” Harlee said. “We had to pick up our defense so our offense could pick up, too. It (my energy) just comes naturally. I’ve always been that player who dove into bleachers or gets on the ground and has bruises all over my body. That’s just how I play, and I’ve always played like that.

“I just attacked the basket when I was open and attacked the basket on offensive and defensive rebounds.”

West Virginia shot 42.7 percent from the field against the Sooners. Oklahoma, struggling to hold onto the ball for the majority of the afternoon through 17 turnovers, shot 34.9 percent from the field.

“I thought we missed several layups, which are big momentum shifters,”

said OU head coach Sherri Coale. “It could obviously be a huge advantage for you, but when you miss them, it’s almost a greater disadvantage for you. That was part of it, and then we began our little turnover-fest.”

When asked if Oklahoma is used to playing that physical type of game, Coale simply said “No.” Carey was satisfied with West Virginia defeating its second-straight ranked team and earning a big win on its home floor.

“Needless to say (it) was a big win for us,” he said.

“The first four minutes we came out and played flat. We brought some people off the bench that gave us energy.

Bria Holmes came in and gave us some scoring, and Jess Harlee played great off the bench. For the first four

minutes, they did exactly what we knew they were going to do, and we let them do it. Then afterwards we were able to shut that down.

“It’s a great win for us, but we have to win a lot more.

You look at us the first four minutes of the game and you look at us the last four minutes; it’s like night and day.

It was the energy. We have to play like that for 40 minutes.”

WVU improves to 13-8 and .500 in the conference with a 5-5 mark. Oklahoma drops to 16-5 overall (6-3 Big 12).

The Mountaineers have little time to celebrate as they head to Lubbock for another chance at redemption when they take on the Texas Tech Lady Raiders Wednesday night.

to be aggressive,” he said.

“We’re not playing anymore not to lose.

“We’re not going to stand there and try not to lose a game anymore, and that’s what we had been doing. We have to keep attacking.”

The West Virginia team of old didn’t have the kill

switch that was flipped Sunday. It didn’t have the gutsy bench play – 40 points in all Sunday – that can flip a game in your favor.

Despite a height disadvantage, the Mountaineers owned the paint, besting Oklahoma 44-26 from inside. Nine players scored

for West Virginia, including four who finished in double-digits.

It was the balanced, efficient, physical, energyfilled style of play Carey has been looking for all season. Oklahoma head coach Sherri Coale summed it up best when she described the Sooners’ struggles with West Virginia’s press.

“We just weren’t tough enough to survive the inbounds pressure,” she said.

Frankly, there aren’t many teams in the Big 12 that wouldn’t have succumbed to the Mountaineers’ rejuvenated brand of pressure Sunday.

This season West Virginia has lost to Iowa State and Texas Tech by four points, Oklahoma by three points and Kansas by one point.

After the win, redshirt junior guard Christal Caldwell, who finished with a game-high 24 points in the win, described how she felt about having to play conference foes twice per season.

“I love it,” she said. “We let one slip away at Oklahoma and came here on our home court and took care of business, and we have to do that with a few more teams.”

That sounds like a player and a team committed to exacting revenge in the same fashion as it did Sunday against Oklahoma.

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McFarland ended the night with 14 points and a careerhigh 16 rebounds. However, she also finished with four fouls and was in foul trouble for the majority of the game.

WVU used 40 bench points and 13 steals to pick up the energy following a 2211 deficit. Caldwell finished with 24 points and Holmes added 17 points off the bench. Junior forward Jess Harlee, noted as the team’s energy spark by many teammates and head coach Mike Carey, added 12 points and nine rebounds off the bench.

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Continued from page 9 before the Mountaineers’ breakthrough last week.

Oklahoma pulled out a 3-point victory against the Mountaineers in Norman,

Okla., but Sunday, West Virginia would not be denied.

A 23-5 run in the final nine minutes of the first half catapulted the Mountaineers to a seven-point halftime lead.

In the second half, West Virginia didn’t let up, instead punching on the accelera-

tor and finishing the contest with a 19-point whomping that had the scent of revenge all over it.

After the game, West Virginia head coach Mike Carey shared the team’s new philosophy that will follow them into March.

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BREAK OUT THE BROOMS?

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West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins, left, and Texas head coach Rick Barnes will face off Monday night at the Coliseum.

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Texas head coach Rick Barnes looks on during a game earlier in the season.

West Virginia looks to pick up season sweep vs. Texas on Big Monday by doug walp sports writer

After its second successful weekend road trip in the Big 12, the West Virginia men’s basketball team will return home to attempt a regular-season series sweep against the Texas Longhorns Monday night at the WVU Coliseum, in the second of two contests between the schools this year.

It’s also a chance for the Mountaineers to win consecutive games in the conference for the first time since joining the league this season.

West Virginia (10-11, 3-5) defeated a struggling Texas Tech (9-10, 2-6) Saturday afternoon in its last appearance, but it has

fallen in each game it has had an opportunity for a potential winning streak in conference play.

“We executed better than we have all season on offense,” said starting sophomore point guard Juwan Staten. “I think that might be the biggest thing.

Every shot we planned on getting, we got. And then when we didn’t get a shot, we got to the free-throw line. We made free throws, and we just played like we can play.”

The win came at an opportune time for the sputtering Mountaineers, who are currently trying to rebound from their worst start in a decade while somehow maintaining their current streak of five straight NCAA tournament

selections.

But with a sub-500 record and just 10 games remaining in the season, that streak could be in serious jeopardy. Still, West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins says all hope of playing in the postseason is not yet lost for his team.

“If we can get on a run, I think we’ve got a chance,” Huggins said. “If we play well in the conference tournament, then we’re going to have a chance.”

Huggins also said he thought the Mountaineers’ strength of schedule, along with the fact the selection committee has historically let in teams with just 17 or 18 wins, could bode well for his team.

But it all begins with parlaying their latest league

win into their first Big 12 winning streak Monday night at home against Texas if West Virginia truly has any postseason aspirations this season.

The Longhorns (10-11, 2-6), meanwhile, have also faced some adversity this year. Normally a perennial conference and nationwide power, Texas possesses its own sub-500 overall record that includes just two conferences wins, neither of which came on the road.

Sophomore guard Sheldon McClellan leads all Longhorn players with 14.8 points per game, while Texas’ lone other doublefigure scorer, Julien Lewis, averages just less than 12 points per contest.

In addition to picking up their third league vic-

tory, the Longhorns will be out to avenge their Jan. 9 loss to the Mountaineers, when WVU erased a double-digit lead in the final five minutes of regulation in Austin before eventually outlasting Texas 57-53 in overtime.

And that certainly wasn’t the first close game between the two teams. In four all-time meetings between the newly appointed conference foes there has never been a game decided by less than four points. In fact, Texas and West Virginia have each won two games in the series, which dates back to 1973, and all four contests have been decided by a sum of just nine total points.

The Mountaineers will only have about a day and

a half to prepare for the Longhorns after its secondlongest round-trip road trip of the entire season (3,002 miles) after downing Texas Tech in Lubbock, but for once, West Virginia actually has some positive momentum to build off of heading into their second Big Monday appearance on ESPN in as many weeks.

“I’m really proud of our team because we came down here on the road. We knew this was a must-win game,” Staten said. “We really haven’t been having a great season, but we came down here and pulled this one off.

“Now we go home – Big Monday against Texas. We gotta get that one, too.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Texas Longhorn Edition Official Newsletter of the Mountaineer Maniacs

February 4th, 2013

The WVU Men's basketball team is ready to get a huge Big 12 home win against the University of Texas Longhorns.

Over the weekend the Mountaineers won a big road game at Texas Tech 77-61 to improve their record to 10-11. The Longhorns also come into this game with a record of 10-11 after beating TCU on Saturday 60-43. Let's send the Longhorns back to Austin with a loss!!! LET’S GO MOUNTAINEERS!!!!

Here are the projected starters for Texas: # 3

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Julien Lewis-SO 6-3 190

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Sheldon McClellan-SO 6-4 200

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Ioannis Papapetrou-FR 6-8 225

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Cameron Ridley-FR 6-9 270

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INFORMATION Hometown: New Orleans, La. In his free time Javan enjoys going cow tipping with head coach Rick Barnes. Javan hasn’t declared a major yet, his mother’s name is Tina.

Hometown: Galveston, Texas Julien has spent most of his time thus far at Texas trying out all the local fajita restaurants. He is also an undeclared major, and his mother’s name is Sharonda.

Hometown: Houston, Texas Sheldon has one of the largest collections of teddy bears in all of Texas.

He usually prefers to watch episodes of the “TeleTubbies” before games, Sheldon’s mother’s name is Angel.

Hometown: Athens, Greece Pronunciations are Ioannis: ee-yo-ON-nis Papapetrou: pa-pa-PEH-troo Son of Argiris and Anastasia, who are both Greek gods, his brother is Hercules. Ioannis played for Greece in the Under-16 Euro Championship.

Hometown: Richmond, Texas When Cameron was 6, he set the international twinkies consumed in a hour record with a mark of 276. Rick Barnes had a bunk bed installed in the Texas cafeteria for Cameron. Mother’s name is Sharon

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Stay completely quiet while Texas is being introduced.

3. While the intro video is played on the video board, crumple or rip up your DA. 4. As the Mountaineer mascot shoots his rifle following the intro video, throw your crumpled or ripped DA up into the air (but NOT onto the court) and cheer as loud as you can to welcome the Mountaineers.