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Tuesday January 15, 2013

Volume 125, Issue 76

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Students weigh in on resolutions by meghan bonomo correspondent

The start of 2013 inspires many to adopt New Year’s resolutions, and students at West Virginia University are no exception.

But what is it about the new year that drives people to adopt these resolutions, and more importantly, do people stick to them?

“New Year’s resolutions give people an opportunity

to look back at what they were unhappy about in the previous year and make changes in the new year that will allow them to feel better about themselves and more accomplished,” said freshman Spencer Bailey.

Bailey said he believes self-improvement is a core aspect to many resolutions.

“Personally, my resolution was to motivate myself to get in to better shape by

Meet and Greet offers support for Vets

By Kaity Wilson Staff writer

Service members and veteran students, faculty and staff are invited Wednesday, Jan. 16 from 6-8 p.m. in the Rhododendron Room of the Mountainlair for the Spring 2013 Veteran Student Meet and Greet.

Free food and beverages will be provided as well as the opportunity to meet other student veterans, faculty and staff.

Interim Veteran Advocate Jerry McCarthy said it is essential for veteran students to have a point of contact on campus.

“This event is one small piece of a much larger picture,” McCarthy said.

“There are many other programs available on campus for veteran students, and this meet and greet is just the beginning.”

The main purpose of the event is to allow veteran students to create a network on campus.

While serving, service members can create two separate families: their family at home and the family they serve with, according to McCarthy.

“Once you separate from the military, you lose one whole family,” he said.

Promoting the connection with other student veterans, faculty and staff is a

way for new veteran students to not feel lost or alone on campus.

McCarthy has also helped to establish a mentoring program for veteran students on campus, he said.

The program Mountaineer to Mentor allows students to have another point of contact on campus.

The meet and greet event is an excellent way for student veterans to find a faculty or staff member who they would like to mentor them.

The purpose of Mountaineer to Mentor is to provide transitional support for new veteran students. As with any new student, the transition to college can be scary and challenging, McCarthy said.

The average age of a veteran student is 23-25, so many of them are married and have children and other jobs to juggle as well.

“Having that point of contact on campus can really help ease this transition,” McCarthy said.

The meet and greet event is also used as a recruitment tool as well as a way to raise awareness and promote diversity. “We just want to give them a good feeling,” McCarthy said.

“We want them to know that someone is here for them.”

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going to the gym more frequently and eating healthier,” he said.

Another cultural force is driving him as well.

“As a freshman in college, everyone fears the freshman 15,” he said. “Being that it is spring semester, I understand the struggle it takes when weighing out your options of whether to work out or watch TV in our dorm room.”

The phenomenon of

New Year’s resolutions have been studied, revealing common trends across the nation. According to the University of Scranton Journal of Clinical Psychology’s New Year’s Resolutions Statistics, popular resolutions included falling in love, quitting smoking and spending more time with family, with losing weight as the most popular choice.

“In the New Year, I plan on making these changes

by setting weekly goals for myself and evaluating the progress I have made at the end of each week so I can feel better about myself,” Bailey said.

Research shows his record keeping is a wise choice. People who explicitly make resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than those who don’t.

Still, changing lifestyles is difficult for most.

“I am not going to eat anything fried, and I just want a resolution to try it,” said senior Samantha Burciaga. “I think at first it will be easy to follow, but then when it gets toward spring break it might get harder.”

Many struggle to complete resolutions, but studies have shown younger people are 39 percent more likely to achieve their goals,

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REMEMBERING NEWTOWN

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Students and members of Beta Theta Pi fraternity gather to remember those who lost their lives in the Newtown tragedy.

Students reflect, remember Newtown victims with candlelight vigil

By Carlee Lammers City editor

Even from more than 460 miles away, last month’s tragedy in Newtown, Conn., hit close to home for brothers of West Virginia University’s Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

The fraternity invited the University community to a candlelight vigil and remembrance ceremony Monday to pay respect to the 26 lives lost in the massacre.

“We just wanted to come out here and show support to the families and friends of the victims of Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy,” said Christian Fuentes, WVU’s Beta Theta Pi chapter president.

Fuentes said his fraternity showing support for the victims was near and dear to the brothers’ hearts.

Jeff Previdi was the father of victim Caroline Previdi, 6, and a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Bethany College in Bethany, W.Va. “As our nation mourns the loss of 20 young children and six brave adults who died Friday Dec. 14, the tragedy rings close to the home

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Students display a poster in remembrance of the victims of the Newtown Elementary School shooting.

Students qualify for global sales competition by bryan bumgardner associate city editor

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UPD is investigating a misplaced urn found on University property.

West Virginia University Police recently found a urn on University property that is believed to contain cremated human remains.

WVU facilities employees spotted the urn in a wooded area on Outlook Street.

Capt. Phil Scott said it is evident the urn had been exposed to the elements prior to being discovered.

UPD is currently working with other local law agencies and funeral homes in

the area on the investigation, but have not found the owner.

There has been one previously reported case of cremated remains being stolen, but the family in that case has been contacted, and the urn did not match the one they reported stolen.

Those with any information are encouraged to contact Capt. Scott at 304-293-3136.

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Two West Virginia University students, Dom Mirto and Valerie Bennett, have qualified for participate in the Final Round of the World Collegiate Sales Open, a competition grading students on their abilities as salespersons.

Bennett and Mirto are the first Mountaineers to represent WVU at the competition and will be competing against 20 other students from around the world.

The World Collegiate Sales Open is an educational competition that

mimics real-life sales interactions, requiring students tap skills that aren’t necessarily taught in class.

Throughout the early stages of the competition, participants had to interact with fictitious buyers by leaving voicemails, setting appointments and giving presentations - all of which were critically judged by sales professors from around the world.

In the final stages, students will be graded on call-back voicemails, interactions with secretaries and elevator pitches - literally sales offers made in moving elevators.

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ing,” Bennett said. “You can only train so much, then all the rest is basic instinct.”

Bennett is a junior advertising student from Masontown, W.Va. Through her experiences as The Daily Athenaeum’s business manager, Bennett said she has become familiar with making sales.

“It brought me out of my shell. I’m not nervous to go out and talk to people,” she said.

But making sales in this competition is a new challenge.

“You might be selling this product to two or three people at one time.

You have to be on your toes.

They could ask you any question,” she said.

Bennett and Mirto will be traveling to Northern Illinois University in early February for the finals. The top four winners will receive cash prizes of $2,000, $1,500, $1,000 and $500 respectively.

Bennett said she’s focused on the biggest aspect of making sales: building relationships.

“You can make that one sale, but it’s all about making that relationship,” she said. “That first sell is where it starts. If you don’t figure out what the client needs, the relationship is ruined.”

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NOT A GOOD ENDING West Virginia senior quarterback Geno Smith was one of 21 seniors who did not get the ideal end to their college careers.

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Obama backs gun limits, concedes tough fight ahead

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President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks during the last news conference of his first term in the East Room of the White House in Washington Monday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama endorsed controversial bans on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines on Monday, as well as stricter background checks for gun buyers – but conceded he may not win approval of all in a Congress reluctant to tighten restrictions.

“Will all of them get through this Congress? I don’t know,” said Obama.

He said lawmakers would have to “examine their own conscience” as they tackle gun control legislation after the horrifying Connecticut school shootings but in the face of opposition from the National Rifle Association and other pro-gun groups.

Obama spoke at a midday White House news conference one month after the Newtown elementary school rampage, which ignited a national discussion on preventing mass shootings.

The president said he would unveil a comprehensive roadmap for curbing gun violence within days.

His plan will be based on recommendations from Vice President Joe Biden’s gun task force, and is ex-

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A big deterrent against setting resolutions is expectations of failure. Many students agree self-motivation and determination are hard to master – and if you don’t have them, it’s almost impossible to reach your goals.

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pected to include both legislative proposals and steps Obama can implement by himself using his presidential powers.

But the most sweeping and contentious elements – including an assault weapons ban – will require approval from a Congress that has been loath to tackle gun control legislation for more than a decade. The politically powerful NRA has vowed to fight any measure that would limit access to guns and ammunition, a hardline position that could sway some Republicans and conservative Democrats.

Despite the opposition, Obama said he would “vigorously pursue” measures to tighten gun laws.

“My starting point is not to worry about the politics,” he said.

The president’s new resolve follows a lack of movement in tackling gun violence throughout much of his first term, despite several high-profile shootings. He called the Dec. 14 massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School the worst day of his presidency, and vowed to take action.

Parents of the slain Connecticut children added their voices to the national dialogue Monday. Members of the newly formed group Sandy Hook Promise called for an open-minded discussion about a range of issues, including guns, mental health and safety in schools and other public places.

And lawmakers in New York state pressed ahead with what would be the nation’s first gun control measure approved since the school shootings. Among the items in a tentative agreement in the state Legislature are further restrictions on the state’s ban on assault weapons, limits on the size of magazines to seven bullets, down from the current 10, and more stringent background checks for sales.

White House officials believe moving swiftly on gun proposals at a national level, before the shock over the Newtown shooting fades, gives Obama the best chance to get his proposals through Congress. Several pro-gun lawmakers, including Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Rep.

Jack Kingston of Georgia, said in the days following the shooting that they were open to discussing possible control measures.

Seeking to keep up the pressure on lawmakers, Obama said Monday that if “everybody across party lines was as deeply moved and saddened as I was by what happened in Newtown, then we’re going to have to vote based on what we think is best.”

Officials said Obama and Biden met Monday afternoon to discuss the vice president’s recommendations. Ahead of that meeting, Biden huddled with a dozen House Democrats who have formed their own gun violence task force and whose political muscle will be needed to push legislation through Congress.

The president, without mentioning the NRA, said some gun rights groups have “a pretty effective way of ginning up fear on the part of gun owners that somehow the federal government’s about to take all your guns away,” Seeking to ease those fears, Obama insisted that responsible gun owners who have weapons for pro-

tection or hunting “don’t have anything to worry about” under the proposals he will push.

The assault weapons ban, which Obama has long supported, is expected to face the toughest road on Capitol Hill. Congress passed a 10-year ban on the highgrade military-style weapons in 1994, but supporters didn’t have the votes to renew it once it expired in 2004.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., on Friday predicted that a ban might win Senate approval but he doubted it could pass in the Republican-led House.

Obama will also need congressional help to limit high-capacity ammunition magazines, like the ones used by the Newtown shooter, and to require background checks for anyone seeking to purchase a gun. Some gun control advocates, including The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, are urging Obama to make the broader background checks his top priority, believing it has the best chance of winning congressional approval.

The Brady Campaign said some 40 percent of gun sales happen with no background checks, such as at gun shows and by private sellers over the Internet or through classified ads.

Among the executive actions Biden is believed to have recommended to Obama are tougher penalties for people who lie on background checks, elevating gun trafficking to a felony charge and ending limits that make it harder for the federal government to research gun violence.

The president’s proposals are also expected to include steps for improving school safety and mental health care, as well as recommendations for addressing violence in entertainment and video games.

Pro-gun groups, including the NRA, have long insisted that insufficient mental health care and violent images are more to blame for mass shootings than guns.

Biden’s recommendations follow weeks of wideranging talks with key stakeholders, including gun victim’s groups, the entertainment and video game industries and gun owner advocacy groups.

New Year’s resolution, because I know from my past attempts they have always been unsuccessful, or I forget about them,” said junior Will Hirsch.

“I have also noticed that the common American resolution of working out more is commonly unsuccessful in the U.S. Gyms tend to empty out 2 weeks into the year.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Names of the victims were read during the ceremony, followed by a moment of silence.

Logan Howser, Vice has President of Beta Theta Pi, said he felt the event was the perfect opportunity for the University to show its outpouring support to those impacted by the tragedy.

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Sophomore television journalism student Kiley Putnam said, as a Connecticut native, she felt compelled to pay respect.

“When I heard about this tragedy it was really, really scary that something like this could happen so close to where I live. I was just in complete shock and felt that I especially really need to pay my condolences to the children,” she said. “It could have happened anywhere, and it happened in a small town, just like my own. It was really relatable and mind blowing.”

Brothers of Beta Theta Pi said they hope to expand their effort and invite the WVU community to take part in their fundraisers for this cause and others in the future. carlee.lammers@mail.wvu.edu

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Men’s basketball

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Mountaineers beginning Madsen’s absence felt on to play with more effort West Virginia offensive line by doug walp sports writer

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West Virginia players react after Gary Browne, left, takes a charge against Kansas State Saturday.

BY Nick Arthur

Associate Sports Editor

Bob Huggins has coached college basketball in five different decades.

When thinking about any Huggins-coached team, you expect a hardnosed squad that gives maximum effort.

To begin the 2012 season, though, the veteran head coach expressed his displeasure with the inconsistency of his team when it came to giving effort.

But, in a conference road win against Texas and a tough, one-point home loss to No. 18 Kansas State, the Mountaineers are starting to play with the amount of energy expected from Huggins.

Sophomore guard Jabarie Hinds credits the break from games around Christmas for the increased team energy.

“We got a lot better this whole (winter) break. We got a lot better and put a lot of time in. We were focused, and it led on to the court,” Hinds said. “You’ve got to just play the game.

You can’t worry about anything else. Just play hard.”

The Mountaineers forced 14 turnovers against the

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Senior inside receiver Tavon Austin said the loss was a tough one, but overall, the prevailing theme of the season for this team was that it never lost its fight despite how difficult times got.

“It’s definitely hard to end it (this way), but you know how the season went. We lost five straight (games). It was kind of

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Continued from page 6 average, 5.2 per game. Lovings also leads the Horned Frogs in rebounds with 10.1 boards per game, ties her for the second highest average in the league this season.

This past weekend the Mountaineers improved their overall record to 10-5 after pulling off a conference win against Kansas State, 66-52. West Virginia currently holds a 2-2 record in the Big 12 Conference.

“I think our of games, especially in the Big 12, are big games. We can’t lose at home,” Dunning said. “We have to take care of our home court.”

The 14-point win against Kansas State marks the

Wildcats and Longhorns, respectively.

And it was apparent that even players coming off the bench gave just as much effort as the starters.

West Virginia’s bench players accounted for 56 percent of the team’s scoring against Texas and 40 percent of its scoring against Kansas State.

The two games were also the first in quite some time in which Huggins’ team sustained the high level of play for nearly the entire game.

“It’s a matter of us just staying focused throughout the whole 40 minutes,” said senior forward Dominique Rutledge. “If we play the whole 40 minutes, we can beat anybody in the country.”

Team rebounding also improved for the Mountaineers in the last two outings.

After being out-rebounded by Oklahoma at home to begin conference play, West Virginia responded by out-rebounding Texas and losing the battle on the board to Kansas State by just one.

“The rebounds that I feel like we do miss has noth-

ing to do with effort. I feel like the ball bounces off the rim a certain way,” Rutledge said. “The effort is there. We are all boxing out. It just a matter of the way the ball bounces.”

Huggins by no means accepted a moral defeat against Kansas State, but the head coach did admit he saw improvement as well.

“We played hard. I thought we competed for the most part. The problem is we haven’t done it for a consistent period of time,” he said after the loss to Kansas State.

The Mountaineers will now continue on the difficult trek through conference play and will need to also continue to raise their energy level if they want to put a good position in March.

But the team’s progression is apparent.

“We made a big improvement. (Kansas State) was a ranked team,” said freshman guard Eron Harris. “But still, even though we lost, we know we fought hard and we’re going to take it into the next game.”

hard,” he said. “We never gave up, (and) we beat some big teams out there.

“We thought this was the year we were going to the national championship, if not back to the Orange Bowl, but it didn’t work out like that. We were just a couple of plays short – just like today.”

Redshirt junior wide receiver Stedman Bailey said his last game as a Mountaineer was one he had hoped wouldn’t end in this fashion.

“It is tough because we lost the game. It’s not the way the seniors wanted to go out, but life goes on, and we just have to live with it,” he said.

Bailey echoed the sentiment of his teammate and future NFL counterpart Austin when he said the Mountaineers may not have done as well as they hoped, but they continued striving together until the very end of the season.

“I’m very surprised; everybody hoped and thought we would do a whole lot better (this season), but entering into a new conference, there were a lot of things we had to adjust to,” he said. “In some cases we did good, in some cases we didn’t. But we still stayed together as a team and kept fighting.”

largest scoring margin in conference play this season. In three previous conference matchups the Mountaineers have won by four points or less.

In Saturday’s matchup the Mountaineers out-rebounded the Wildcats, 4126. Junior guard Christal Caldwell led the Mountaineers with 19 points.

Senior Ayana Dunning recorded 14 points added to

WVU’s victory.

West Virginia’s leading scorers include Caldwell, Dunning and junior guard Taylor Palmer. The three players combine for 67 percent, 164/246 of West Virginia’s scoring in conference play. Caldwell averages 12.2 points per game, and Palmer averaging 11.9 points per game.

When West Virginia took the field against Syracuse for the Pinstripe Bowl Dec. 29 in the Bronx, the Mountaineers were already without one of their most vital players.

Redshirt senior center Joe Madsen, who started in all 50 games during his career as a Mountaineer, was left home after West Virginia’s coaches declared him academically ineligible for what would have been the senior’s final game, the 2010 Champs Sports Bowl.

Madsen was an All-Big East first-team selection last season.

Official word finally came Dec. 26 in New York that Madsen hadn’t even made the trip, when West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen formally announced his frustration with the senior offensive lineman. “(It’s) disappointing that he didn’t take care of business,” Holgorsen said in a press conference at Yankee Stadium. “The expectation for our guys is to go to class, and to get good grades and leave West Virginia with a good, quality education and a degree. And Joey fell short of that, and we’re disappointed that he did.”

One day later, Holgorsen said he had 21 seniors he was proud of this year, all except one.

Fellow senior offensive lineman Jeff Braun, who has started the majority of his career games at either the guard or tackle position, was put into the starting center role for the Mountaineers in the Pinstripe Bowl.

Braun said before the game he hadn’t taken a snap at center since 2009 when he was used as a backup at the center and guard position, but he said after the game that the adjustments weren’t as difficult as he thought they would be.

“I felt it went well,” Braun

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West Virginia center Joe Madsen gets ready to snap the ball against Marshall. said after the game. “Obviously, at the end of the game we had that bad exchange, but I felt like I snapped the ball pretty well, didn’t find any difficulties, and it was pretty easy to slide to protection, communication went well. So me being at center really didn’t change anything.”

Despite Braun’s claims everything went somewhat smoothly, what actually unfolded under the lights Saturday in Yankee Stadium depicted a slightly different story.

First of all, the West Virginia offensive line allowed senior quarterback Geno Smith to be sacked four times, which tied a seasonhigh for a single game this season.

One of those sacks directly resulted in a forced fumble and a safety, which could have easily been a touchdown if left tackle Quinton Spain hadn’t fallen on the loose ball in the end zone. There were also countless times that Smith was hurried or knocked down by the relentless Syracuse defensive front.

In addition to the surplus of pressure Smith faced, West Virginia’s running backs found very little

running room on the day.

The Mountaineers rushed 37 times for a grand total of 88 yards, less than 2.5 yards per carry. West Virginia came into the game averaging nearly twice that on the season.

Penalties were also abundant for the shuffled WVU offensive front.

The team racked up 10 total penalties for 105 yards – five of which committed by an offensive lineman – including false starts, a block in the back and a few major holding calls that negated big plays by Tavon Austin.

Additionally, Holgorsen noted in his postgame press conference that the change in personnel actually forced senior quarterback Geno Smith to take more snaps under center against Syracuse in the bowl, especially early in the game.

Smith clearly struggled to find any rhythm at all in his last ever game as a Mountaineer, and one can’t help but wonder just what kind of effect having to take snaps under center for the majority of the game did to the confidence and tempo of the most prolific passer in the school’s history. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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‘Buckwild’ not worthy of discussion

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The cast of MTV’s new reality series ‘Buckwild’ poses for a group photo.

Monday, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin was sworn in to his first full-term as governor of West Virginia.

Tomblin’s inauguration in Charleston, which was headlined by his 17-minute address aimed at jumpstarting a statewide education reform effort, isn’t the only big news coming out of the state’s capital this week.

In fact, another subject matter – one much more trivial – has dominated the state’s discourse for the past two weeks.

MTV’s latest exploitative reality show “Buckwild” debuted a week and a half ago to a larger audience than

the wildly popular “Jersey Shore” did in 2009.

Since “Buckwild” was announced, West Virginians braced for the worst, fearing the show would make a mockery of the state’s people and further harm its image.

As its premiere drew closer, the controversy surrounding the show reached a fever pitch, as the entire state anxiously waited to see how it would be presented to the rest of the nation. Even Sen. Manchin joined the chorus of critics before the show’s debut in a national television appearance in which he chastised

MTV for seeking to profit from the embellished portrayal of West Virginia.

Four episodes into the show’s first season, it’s worth going back and examining whether all this fuss was worth it.

Although the show undeniably exploits the tragically foolish individuals who agreed to join the show’s cast, this is hardly surprising. After all, this is MTV we’re talking about.

The entertainment network has been creating similarly base reality shows for years, such as the despicable “Teen Mom” series, which serves up the tragic

exploits of helpless, pregnant grade school-aged girls from bad socioeconomic backgrounds for the enjoyment of its viewers.

“Buckwild” does not set a new standard for this perverse form of entertainment. If anything, it’s milder than many of these types of shows. While, yes, it certainly doesn’t do anything to improve the state’s image, it’s hard to really pinpoint anything that is particularly damaging to the state.

Like with many of its other shows, MTV is simply taking advantage of a group of irresponsible, young peo-

ple looking to make a quick buck by taking part in a pretty unremarkable show.

Sen. Manchin and the show’s other critics would have done well to wait and actually watch the show before jumping at the first opportunity to decry it as a crime against the state, thereby garnering the show the publicity it needed to achieve the ratings it did in its first weeks.

Without a doubt, no one was happier to see this debate unfold on the national stage than the producers of “Buckwild.”

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Video games used as scapegoat in gun control debate kirk auvil columnist

The Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre became a dark chapter in our history,when a bloodthirsty madman snuffed out the lives of many children and their teachers. It was and is an unbelievable tragedy, whose full impact we may never truly know.

After the smoke cleared, people wanted answers.

Some politicians wanted to score political points by pinning the tragedy on whatever issue happened to rub them the wrong way. And chief among the scapegoats some politicians and talking heads proffered is that old timeworn hobbyhorse that they have been riding for years: video games.

It began immediately after the shooting, of course, in a bout of what one can only describe as the worst journalism in recent memory. Fox News and CNN reported the shooter’s identity incorrectly, naming him as Ryan Lanza rather than Adam Lanza. Ryan is Adam’s older brother. The two networks also used Ryan’s Facebook photo as the photo of the shooter. This immediately led to a firestorm of hatred being posted to an innocent man’s Facebook wall, with death threats and the whole nine yards. Of course, he deleted his Facebook almost immediately to escape the rolling tide of misinformed hatred.

But the damage had been done. Because before it went down, some folks saw that Ryan liked Mass Effect on Facebook. Now for those folks who don’t closely follow every ridiculous claim that Fox News makes, this may not ring a bell, but there was a time when Fox had a nice long segment decrying Mass Effect as the most repulsive, tawdry piece of entertainment to ever hit the mar-

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NRA president David Keene speaks during a news conference in response to the Connecticut school shooting in Washington, D.C. ket. Of course, their charges against the game were defamatory at best and delusional by any measure, but that didn’t stop them for one moment. When your research on a topic consists of clicking around on that thing’s website 15 minutes before your segment, you need rethink your life.

And now their craziness has come full circle with people seizing the misinformation that Fox itself had sown in the past to demonize an industry in the future. I would accuse Fox News of being a puppet master in control of our nation’s most fervently overzealous reactionaries, but I think I’d be giving the outfit a bit too much credit. Lord knows they’ve chummed the waters enough over the years; it’s about time one of their clunkers bears fruit.

Violent video games have been a contentious issue ever

since Columbine. The whole thing has been hashed and rehashed ad nauseum. Naturally, Capitol Hill’s resident mercenary Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has jumped right on the bandwagon to demonize game developers and called for a commission to “examine the effect the entertainment industry has on our culture.”

“Very often, these young men have had an almost hypnotic involvement in some form of violence in our entertainment culture, particularly violent video games, and then they obtain guns and become not just troubled young men but mass murderers,” Lieberman said during his screed against video games.

To boot, various news outlets’ shock that the shooter was a big fan of Call of Duty has saturated the blogosphere. Unfortunately, Call of Duty games routinely sell

more than six million copies in their launch months alone, so I suppose that’s a truckload of latent psychos out there getting ready to strike. It’s either that, or someone shooting a person in real life isn’t related to enjoying a popular war game in the slightest, and reporting that someone liked Call of Duty isn’t a bombshell at all. Do you think if Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who landed the airplane safely in the Hudson, was revealed to play Microsoft Flight Simulator, people would be in a rush to credit video games with his amazing accomplishment?

Of course not.

At the deepest circle of this sideshow is none other than the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, who began bleating his fervent, convenient cry of outrage to anyone who would listen.

“There exists in this coun-

try, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and sows violence against its own people,” LaPierre said during a press conference after the shooting.

He went on to name Mortal Kombat, Grand Theft Auto and Bulletstorm as some of the chief titles in this alleged fount of unchecked, distasteful violence. He also referenced a game called Kindergarten Killers as a reprehensible violent video game responsible for this sort of tragedy. Problematically, trotting out an old Flash game which was taken down four years ago as damning evidence of the video game industry’s perfidy isn’t exactly a bulletproof argument. The game was made by some guy from the U.K. That’s like saying that all art is awful because your neighbor’s 5-yearold made a crappy painting.

But LaPierre wasn’t happy

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to just blame the tragedy on video games and move on down the road. No, he opened his press conference by attempting to usurp the moral high ground for the NRA’s own purposes.

“While some have tried to exploit tragedy for political gain, we have remained respectfully silent,” LaPierre told reporters at the press conference. “Now, we must speak for the safety of our children.”

LaPierre seems to imply he wasn’t trying to deflect the growing chorus of outrage directed at the NRA or anything by ham-handedly repurposing the murder of elementary school kids to serve as an indictment of video games, thereby redirecting any calls for gun control into potential regulations of “violent video games.” I’m sure that thought never crossed his mind. It’s all about the children for LaPierre and the NRA.

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Smith, WVU offense affected by weather in final game of careers

By Cody Schuler Managing editor

The explosive West Virginia offense was expected all season long to perform at the highest level to compensate for a below-average defense.

Heading into the New Era Pinstripe Bowl, there was no doubt many people had expected a strong offensive showing for both teams – especially for West Virginia. However, inclement

yards and two touchdowns.

West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen said the faltering passing game was just one variable in the Orange’s formula for success against the Mountaineers.

“The surface was not good. It was sloppy out there; it was wet – you can’t just sit there and pinpoint Geno; our offensive line had a hard time of sitting down, and receivers had a hard time running routes, so it didn’t look very good,”

weather conditions paired with a stingy Syracuse defense to stymie the Mountaineers’ offensive attack and dealt the Mountaineers a 38-14 loss.

The Mountaineers were averaging 39.5 points per game – third best in the Big 12 – and 330.2 yards per game through the air heading into the bowl game. Syracuse kept the passing game in check, and they allowed senior quarterback Geno Smith to throw for just 197

Women’s basketball

West Virginia set to take on TCU

BY Shea Ulisney Sports writer

The West Virginia women’s basketball team will begin the semester with a matchup against TCU tonight at the West Virginia Coliseum. Today’s conference game is set to tip off at 7.

The Mountaineers will play TCU for the third time in program history. Their last meeting was in 2010 at the Paradise Jam, resulting in a West Virginia victory, 62-49. Tonight’s game will be the first time the Horned Frogs play at the Coliseum.

Entering his 14th season as head coach, Jeff Mittie leads the Horned Frogs. Senior Delisa Gross and junior Meagan Henson are the only two players on TCU’s current roster to have played WVU prior to

tonight’s matchup.

The Horned Frogs enter tonight’s game coming off a road loss to No. 24 Iowa State, 68-52, increasing TCU’s losing streak to four games.

WVU senior center Ayana Dunning said she thinks TCU may be better than its record.

“You have to be focused and prepared for every game in the Big 12,” she said. “We know that they are winless in the Big 12, but a couple of their losses are by one or two points. We know what this team is capable of.”

During S a t u rd ay ’s matchup, TCU outscored Iowa State off the bench 24-8, marking the thirdstraight game the Horned Frogs have outscored a conference team off the bench.

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Medley and sophomore guard Natalie Ventress lead the Horned Frogs in points per game, Medley averaging 13.3 and Ventress with 12.9.

In Saturday’s game against Iowa State, freshman guard Kamy Cole made her first Big 12 start, averaging 9.9 points per game. Medley recorded 11 points, Cole recorded 9 points and sophomore Donielle Breauz recorded 7 points.

Ventress has hit 87.9 percent of her attempted free throws, 58-66, marking the second highest percentage in the league.

Defensively TCU junior Latricia Lovings has proven to be a key shot blocker for the Horned Frogs. Lovings has recorded 141 career blocks, and holds the third highest blocked shots

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he said.

“The team with the best run game was going to win ,and (Syracuse) clearly had the better running game.”

When asked if the weather played any factor in the game, Holgorsen said it did, causing a hindrance for both teams. “(The weather) obviously had some effect; they didn’t throw for many yards either, but it’s hard to pinpoint one thing, I think,” he said.

Smith, who finished his career as the most decorated passer in West Virginia history, said the loss was a tough one for everyone, including the team’s 21 seniors.

“It hurts to lose. Everyone knows I hate to lose, but that’s kind of the way the game goes sometimes. You can’t win them all,” he said.

Smith said despite his less-than-ideal performance in the game, his career and future NFL pros-

pects should not focus solely on the loss but instead on his four-year body of work.

“I think everyone knows how hard it is to play this game of football at this level, especially the quarterback position, so people can say what they want to say about me, but the thing that makes me happy is I haven’t gotten in trouble in college, I was a pretty good student, and I

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Mountaineer women face tough road in Big 12 Conference play Amit Batra Sports Writer

If there is one thing the West Virginia women’s basketball team has learned thus far, it’s that Big 12 Conference play is going to be tough.

Yes, I know the Mountaineers were part of one of the nation’s strongest conferences in the Big East for many years, but the Big 12 is no joke either.

WVU had two very close games to begin conference play with Oklahoma and Kansas.

Then, West Virginia defeated Texas and Kansas State and improved to .500 in conference play. WVU’s biggest win came against the Wildcats with a score of 6652. Still, the Mountaineers needed a 15-2 run to end the game and earn a 14-point victory.

So, in those four games, WVU could very well have gone 4-0 or 0-4 to start Big 12 play. It doesn’t come

easy when the Mountaineers face ranked teams in nearly every game. Kansas, Oklahoma, Baylor, Oklahoma State and Iowa State are all ranked teams.

So when West Virginia faces top-ranked Baylor this weekend, it will need to learn how to finish some of these tough games.

In the 1-point loss against the Jayhawks, the Mountaineers once led by 13.

I see that the Mountaineers can compete with any team in the country when they are playing their style of basketball. You saw it last year when West Virginia shocked Notre Dame in South Bend. At the time, the Irish were No. 2 in the nation.

My point is, WVU won that game by rallying and winning in the final stages.

Head coach Mike Carey has always been about playing a physical style of defense and getting a lot of transition points.

In the past two games, WVU has done just that. Defeating Baylor on the road

is no easy task, but West Virginia is capable of making it competitive and has the ability to give the Bears some trouble.

The Mountaineers have the depth to make a run in either the Big 12 Tournament or the NCAA Tournament. Through the leadership of junior guards Christal Caldwell, Taylor Palmer and senior center Ayana Dunning, West Virginia has the weapons to make a deep run.

Once WVU gains consistency in closing out some of these conference games, I believe teams like Baylor, Connecticut, Stanford, Duke and Notre Dame will not want to see West Virginia on its side of the NCAA Tournament bracket.

West Virginia is easily a top-25 team when they are playing aggressively on defense and nailing the jumpers while also getting the transition points. West Virginia is a balanced team.

While WVU is 0-2 against AP top-25 teams and had three tough losses against Duquesne, Iowa and LSU, the Mountaineers have taken care of business for the most part.

Through the first few games of conference play, I’ve learned how competitive the Big 12 will be this year for West Virginia. It’s nothing WVU hasn’t seen against Big East teams, but with the extra travel and having to guard players like Brittney Griner, the Big 12 will present its fair share of adversity for the Mountaineers.

It’s still difficult to really put a finger on how this season will end up for this team. There is a lot of potential, but it can also be a disappointing season.

If WVU can hold on to the leads at the end of games, I can definitely see a promising season in the works. dasports@,mail.wvu.edu

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Six notable moments from Sunday night’s awards show

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Hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler provide one of many hilarious introductions during the evening.

Jodie Foster hoists the Cecil B. DeMille award onstage Sunday night.

Lacey palmer associate A&E Editor

It’s not often one finds Bill Clinton, Tina Fey, Steven Spielberg, Jodie Foster, Jennifer Lopez, Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck and many more Hollywood A-list celebrities in one room, but Sunday’s 70th annual Golden Globe awards provided just that occasion.

For many college students, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe Awards can, ironically enough, seem incredibly foreign.

As the association collects nominations for the awards in November and December

of 2012, many films and television series that win are relatively new.

There were 25 Golden Globes awarded to Hollywood’s finest Sunday, with “Argo” snagging best motion picture in a drama and “Les Miserables” taking the award in the best comedy/musical category.

The awards won may not be the most exciting aspect of the Globes, though. The laughter and the witty exchanges between celebrities made this awards show worth watching, so here are the six most enjoyable, hilarious moments of the night’s proceedings.

1. Anytime real-life best friends and comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were on the stage together, hilar-

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ity ensues.

These two have a knack for cracking the audience up every time they speak, and they did just that Sunday evening.

With witty and raunchy but friendly jabs at celebrities and lines such as, “This next presenter is so good-looking he makes young George Clooney look like garbage ... Welcome, middle-aged George Clooney!” Fey and Poehler nailed hosting this awards show.

2. Jodie Foster’s acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille award was incredible and anything but normal.

Although she officially came out previously, she began her speech as if she was prepared to do so again but instead declared she was single.

The most touching part of

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The cast of ‘Les Miserables’ poses after winning three top awards at the 70th annual Golden Globes ceremony.

Foster’s speech was directed toward her mother, who she recognized may not be able to communicate and understand as well as she used to, which brought tears to some members of the audience.

“Jodie Foster was here, and I still am,” Foster said. “I want to be seen, understood very deeply and not to be so lonely.”

3. Taylor Swift’s death stare toward Adele when she beat Swift for best original song was perfect. The innocentlooking Swift didn’t look so innocent when Adele beat her for best original song in a motion picture with “Skyfall.”

During Adele’s acceptance speech, the camera panned to Swift, showing her angry expression. Those camera people have got to be on their

toes to catch looks like that, and they performed perfectly in this instance.

4. The amount of gorgeous middle-aged men at the show was simply divine.

You’ve got Ben Affleck, Bradley Cooper, Denzel Washington, George Clooney and Brad Pitt in the same room.

What more could you ask for?

5. Bill Clinton’s presentation of Spielberg’s “Lincoln” was powerful but still laced with humor. Bill Clinton discussed the legacy of Abraham Lincoln Sunday evening and the “steely resolve and necessary compromises that Lincoln mastered to preserve the Union.” Clinton acknowledged Lincoln’s fight to abolish slavery required the president to make a lot of

unsavory deals. “I wouldn’t know anything about that,” Clinton said.

6. Shockingly, Lena Dunham beat out both hosts, Fey and Poehler, for best performance by an actress in a television series – musical or comedy – for her role in HBO’s “Girls.”

Dunham thanked her fellow nominees for “getting her through middle school and mono” during her acceptance speech, and she said those women have been role models for her. After a commercial break, Fey and Poehler appeared on stage with glasses seemingly holding liquor. “Well, at least we got you through middle school,” Poehler said. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Emma Stone (left) and Ryan Gosling forge a forbidden love story in ‘Gangster Squad.’

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Warner Brothers’ latest production, “Gangster Squad,” finished third at the box office in its opening weekend and has faced mixed reviews, but don’t let that keep you away.

This movie is well worth seeing.

In post-World War II Los Angeles, the town’s police force struggles to find a way to use their military skills, and rising gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) is on the rise as a force of terror.

To combat this evil, stubborn and headstrong police Sergeant John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) is asked to form a small, off-the-books crew to take on the gangsters who invade their city.

Sergeant Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling) is one of the

men chosen for the crew, but things take an interesting turn when the smoothtalking Wooters seduces Cohen’s mistress, Grace Faraday (Emma Stone) and steals her right under the notorious gangster’s nose.

The crew has four other members, including sharpshooter Max Kennard (Robert Patrick) and his apprentice, Navidad Ramirez (Michael Pena.) Coleman Harris (Anthony Mackie) plays a brave and proud cop from one of the city’s most crime-ridden areas, and Conwell Keeler (Giovanni Ribisi) acts as the “brains” of the operation.

What makes this gangster flick unique is it follows the stories of the cops rather than the criminals, and sometimes this blurs the line of good and evil.

The crew will stop at nothing to take Cohen down, and because of this

O’Mara’s crew must periodically remind themselves and each other what sets them apart from their enemy.

Despite its star-studded cast, though, “Gangster Squad” starts slowly.

The plot takes too long to develop, and there is not much action in the first 30 minutes or so.

Once the movie gains momentum, however, the action doesn’t stop.

O’Mara’s crew of misfits and outcasts dive straight into their mission and take on gangster after gangster in gun fights and car chases.

Although Brolin appears as the lead role, Gosling is definitely the star of the film, and he did a great job playing a type of role in which we don’t normally see him.

Penn was also perfectly cast as the despicable and ruthless gangster Cohen.

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His role could go down as one of the most easily hated movie gangsters of all time; it was that convincing.

Writers Will Beall and Paul Lieberman kept the film relatively light on language and violence, unlike many other films in the genre.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s rated “R,” so the occasional F-bomb makes its way into the movie, and there is a lot of fighting, shooting and dying, but the intensity and frequency of these moments is nothing like what appears in movies like “Scarface” or “The Godfather.”

“Gangster Squad” will not disappoint any fans of the traditional gangster movie.

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304-276-6239 1, 2 & 3 BEDROOM available May to May lease/no pets. Rents starting at $300 each. downtown campus & Stadium. Rice Rentals 304-598-7368 2 AND 3BR near downtown campus. $375 per person plus utilities. WD, parking, no pets. Available May 2013. 304-599-2991 3/4/BR TOWNHOUSES Mclane/GRANT. 1½-2½BA. Furnished, W/D, Parking. NO PETS. $400/mo each. plus deposit.

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304-291-2103 LARGE, UNFURNISHED 3/BR apartment.

Close to campus/hospitals. Large Deck, appliances, WD hook-up, off-street parking.

No pets. $800/mo+utilities. 304-594-2225

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UNFURNISHED APARTMENTS 1 BEDROOM APTS. Arnold Hall area.

Larger than most. W/D. Parking. Call 304-594-1200. bckrentals.com 1, 2 & 3BR APARTMENT DOWNTOWN available May. 3BR ON GRANT available Jan. www.geellc.com M-F 8am-4pm 304-319-2787 or 304-365-2787 .

1, 2 & 4 BR APARTMENTS, AVAILABLE MAY 2013. Some utilities included. W/D. No Pets. 304-288-6374 or e-mail kjedwards2@comcast.net 2 & 3 BEDROOMS. Near Mario’s Fishbowl.

W/D, D/W, A/C. Call 304-594-1200. bckrentals.com 2 BEDROOM 1 BATH. Garrison Avenue.

W/D. Parking. Call 304-594-1200. bckrentals.com 2, 3-BEDROOMS. Walk to campus. Parking, Lease/deposit + utilities. No Pets. Avail.

June 1st. Max Rentals 304-291-8423 225, 227 JONES AVENUE & 617 NORTH ST. 1,2,3,4 BR Apartments & Houses, excellent condition. $395/each/plus utilities.

NO PETS. Free-Parking. 304-685-3457 E.J. Stout 1-3 BR’s. Stewart St. area. Available May. Starting $350/p. 304-296-7400.

1/BR, 1 BATH AND 2/BR, 2 BATH CONDOS. Near Hospital. Water & sewage paid. $600 & 900/month. 304-610.1791 2/BR APARTMENT FOR RENT. 500 EAST Prospect. Available May. $300/month per person + utilities. NO PETS. 304-692-7587.

3/BR, 3/BTH DUPLEX. W/D, DW, AC, off-street parking. Relatively new. $1200/mo. 304-319-0437 4/BR, 2/BA DUPLEX. W/D, DW, off-street parking. Very nice. $1200/mo 304-319-0437 AFFORDABLE LUXURY, 1 & 2 Bedroom/1 & 2 Bath, prices starting at $505.

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

AVAILABLE 5/2013. 3 bedroom house. Recently remodeled. Partially furnished. Close to campus. Off-street parking. 304-296-8801.

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Valley View Woods Cooperfield Court Ashley Oaks

Eff. $425 incl. Util.

452 Stewart

2 bed/1bath $630 & elec/water

464 Stewart

(Off Don Nehlen Drive)

www.metropropertymgmt.net MON. RIVER CONDOS. NEW 4/BR, 4/BA. WD/Pool. University-Commons. $1100/month, plus utilities. Available now.

Call Norm Georg at 724-591-0509 or 814-404-2333 NOW RENTING TOP OF FALLING RUN ROAD Morgan Point 1+2/BR $590-$790+ utilities. Semester lease. WD. DW. Parking.

NO PETS. Call: 304-290-4834.

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

Mountain Line Bus Service Every 10 Minutes and Minutes From PRT

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10 MIN MIN WA WA LK TO TO CA CA M P U S Available May 2013 2 Bedroom 6 Bedroom 8 Bedroom $500 per person plus utilities Offstreet parking/Garage parking

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4BR, 356 STEWART ST. 4BR, 245 Green St. includes WD, DW, and off-street parking. $400/person plus utilities.

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ROOMMATE WANTED for 3 bedroom house. $400/month, includes utilities. 101 Jones Ave. 304-677-6634

HOUSES FOR SALE 4YR OLD, 4BR, 2.5BTH, living room, family room, formal dinning room, partially finished basement, 2 car garage, covered porches. Sabraton area $262,000.

304-216-9359

2 bed/1 bath $750 & elec

PETS FOR SALE

480 Stewart

2 bed/1.5 bath duplex $900 & elec/water

CKC SIBERIAN HUSKY male pup $500.

Pom mix male pup $150. 304-864-4869

452 Stewart

3 bed twnhouse $1050 & elec/water

464 Stewart

3 bed/1.5 bath $1550 inc util

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502 Stewart

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3 bed/1 bath $900 & elec/gas

STADIUM VIEW APTS. 2 bed-1 bath $700 plus util. Spacious w/ amenities. Close to Hospitals. May, June, Aug. Leases.

304-598-7368

HELP WANTED MUST SEE just across from Arnold Hall 4BR and 2 and 3BTH houses with W/D, DW, Microwave, A/C, parking, all in excellent condition. All utilities included.

For appointment call 304-288-1572, 288-9662, 296-8491 website JEWELMANLLC.COM

UNIQUE APARTMENTS! NOW RENTING for May. 1, 2, & 3BR apartments.

Close to main campus. W/D, A/C, dishwasher, private parking, pets with fee.

Call 207-793-2073

WILKINS RENTALS 304-292-5714 Now Leasing for 2013-2014 Close to Downtown Campus & South Park Locations

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VERY NICE HOUSE near both campuses (near Mario’s Fishbowl) available in May. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, AC, DW. $1500 ($500pp). chuck@nami.org or 304-292-6264

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All Include Utilities and Washer/Dryer Many include Parking Pets Considered

FEMALE ROOMMATE NEEDED: for nice 3 BR Apartment on Price Street. Close to downtown campus. Includes utilities, washer/dryer. AC, parking. No Pets. Lease starts now. $400+ deposit. 304-379-9851

Rent as low as $450/mo per person Includes Utilities Lease and Deposit

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

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

Campus Area - 3 BR. Apts.

South Park - 1, 2, 3 and 4 BR. Apts.

6 Bedroom Houses Between Campuses - 4 Bedroom House

FURNISHED HOUSES 4BR FURNISHED HOUSE. $455/person plus utilities. W/D. Parking. Lease & Deposit. No pets. Available May 16.

412-980-0865 AVAILABLE MAY 15th newly remodeled 4 and 5 BR houses, on downtown campus, central AC, off-street parking, WD, DW, fully furnished, no pets. Lease and deposit required. 304-599-6001

BARTENDERS WANTED. Bucket Head’s Pub. 10-mins from downtown, Morgantown.

Small local bar, All Shifts Avail. No experience necessary. 304-365-4565.

BARTENDING UP TO $300 A DAY potential. No experience necessary. Training available. Age 18 plus. 800-965-6520 Ext. 285 BLACK BEAR BURRITO’S. Can you do the job better? Hiring all positions, both locations. Plus pm kitchen supervisor downtown. Apply within 132 Pleasant St. and 3119 University FEMALES AGE 25-40 to teach clinical pelvic exams. Excellent pay. Training provided.

February 2013. 304-293-5533 Mr. C’s WISEGUY CAFE looking for part-time cook and delivery driver. Phone 304.599.3636 or 304.288.2200 PART-TIME BARTENDER at Shab Dab’s Grill. Must have experience and flexible schedule. Phone 304-225-0961 after 12pm.

WVGTC is looking for gymnastics instructors: for both boys and girls. Some experience needed. 304-292-5559

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STAR CITY 2BR 1BTH. Large carpeted D/W, W/D, gas, AC. No pets/smoking. Off street parking. $600 plus util.

304-692-1821

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BARRINGTON NORTH. 2BR, 1BTH. Prices starting at $615. 304-599-6376. www.morgantownapartments.com BEVERLY AVE. APARTMENT. 2-3-4/BR Well-maintained. Off-street parking. W/D. DW. A/C. NO PETS. Available May 20th.

304-241-4607. If no answer: 282-0136.

448 Stewart

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

ROOMMATE WANTED 2½-BR 1/BA house. Westover. 5/min from downtown. $425/mo negotiable. including all utilities, W/D, free parking. 304-322-1230.

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WALKING DISTANCE TO CAMPUS. Available May/2013. Like new 3-4/BR house, yard & storage rooms. Only 3 unrelated. A/C. W/D. Off-street parking. $1600/OBOmo+utilities.

No pets.

610-428-7766

UNFURNISHED HOUSES 4 BEDROOMS 2 BATHS. Price Street.

Huge front deck with great view. W/D. A/C. Free parking for 4 cars. Call 304-594-1200. bckrentals.com

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4, 5, 6-BEDROOMS. Walk to campus.

W/D. Some parking. Lease/deposit + utilities. No Pets. Avail. June 1st. Max Rentals.

304-291-8423

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5 BEDROOM HOUSE in South Park across from Walnut Street Bridge. W/D. call Nicole at 304-290-8972

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6 BR House - Short Distance to downtown/campus. All basic utilities included. W/D, 2 Baths, 2 kitchens. Large Bedrooms. Quiet Neighborhood. $460/ month/ per person. Lease/Deposit.

304-292-5714

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BRAND NEW! Luxury 3 BR’s. Jones Place.

304-296-7400.

2BR $650/month + Utilities. W/D, DW, No Pets. Available Now. 724-518-9728

EFF., 1, 2 & 3 BEDROOM available May to May lease/no pets. Rents starting at $300 each. Downtown Campus & Stadium. Rice Rentals 304-598-7368

3/BR & 4/BR HOUSES AVAILABLE on Willey St. Very clean, W/D,parking. Walk to downtown campus. Available 5/15. Call 304-554-4135.

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