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WVU to rebid media rights contract by michael carvelli sports editor

Upon finding “sloppiness” and “significant errors” in the process, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morissey advised West Virginia University to rebid its third-tier media rights contract Monday morning.

In the report, Morissey went on to say that he found “no intentional wrongdoing” on the University’s part.

WVU signed a tentative

deal with IMG College that was reported to be worth between $75-120 million for 12 years.

“It is clear from this report that mistakes were made in the procurement process, and we will take proactive steps to fix them,” said WVU President James P. Clements. “Starting over is simply the right thing to do.”

As part of the original deal made in February, IMG was planning to partner with West Virginia Media Corporation, which WVU Board of

WVU student wins 10k for business plan by bryan bumgardner associate city editor

One West Virginia University student just won $10,000 in cash – but he’s not going to spend it on himself.

He’s going to invest in his business.

Eric Watkins, a multidisciplinary studies student, won the cash prize in the 2012-2013 West Virginia Statewide Business Plan Competition for his business, Dub V Safe Ride, a designated driver service designed to combat drinking and driving.

For months, Watkins has been working on his business plan, in hopes of winning the $10,000 cash prize for first place in the Hospitality and Tourism category.

“I wanted to prevent people from getting DUIs with a viable option,” he said.

Dub V Safe Ride provides designated drivers who will drive customers and their cars home. The driver will then use a collapsible scooter to return to other customers.

“You get to keep your car with you the entire time safely, legally and morally,” Watkins said. “You won’t risk having an alcohol-related accident or arrest.”

Watkins, a Morgantown native, has been bouncing around the idea of a des-

ignated driver service for years.

“Then the business plan competition really gave me the juice to go through with it,” he said. “The sky is the limit.”

Currently, Dub V Safe Ride employs four drivers. Last weekend, they took home 29 carloads of customers.

Watkins drives his business with two ideas in mind.

“I see it become Morgantown’s premier late night transportation service,” he said. “But I also see it saving lives. I see it preventing a lot of DUIs.” At $10 per pickup, $2 per mile and 50 cents a minute for extra stops (like at a restaurant) Watkins believes his business can be an affordable way to make the town safer.

“We’re trying to make Morgantown a safer place,” he said. “If we take one drunk driver off the road every night, we’re making Morgantown a safer place.”

The money from the competition will provide Watkins’ business with the power to grow. His experience in the Business Plan Competition was also invaluable, he said.

“It gives you the motivation and know-how to start your own business,” he

Governors chairman Drew Payne holds a share in. The review stated that Payne should have stepped aside from discussions about the third-tier media rights bids but also that he did not do anything to sway the University from selecting IMG or West Virginia Media.

“I’m committed to finetuning our board processes so we can do a better job of identifying possible conflicts or problems going forward,” Payne said in a University statement Monday.

“I also applaud the University for taking corrective steps in the procurement process.”

West Virginia Athletic Director Oliver Luck said he agrees with the findings in Morissey’s report and that the University plans to begin an “expedited” rebid process.

“I don’t know if, really, it will ultimately change the grand scheme of things, but we should be able to move relatively quickly,” Luck said.

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One night, three flavors and wings nationwide. Mission WVU airdrop accomplished.

The Red Bull Airdrop successfully landed on West Virginia University’s campus early Monday morning.

An official from the Red Bull Airdrop command center said the drop was part of an effort to expose college students to the company’s new editions.

“Red Bull Airdrop is a mission to deliver wings to millions of college students across the country, on the same day, in an innovative and fun way,” he said. “What better way than a full crate airdropped on campus?”

The popular energy drink recently released three new flavors to add to its collection.

WVU was selected as one of nearly 120 campuses nationwide to receive

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Members of the WVU dance team pose with their fourth place title from last weekend’s National Dance Alliance championship.

WVU dance team pays tribute to Sandy Hook tragedy during nat’l competition

by Carlee Lammers city editor

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an airdrop. Early Monday morning, a crate of the newest editions of the energy drinks – lime, cranberry and blueberry – were dropped into Woodburn circle on WVU’s Downtown campus.

“The schools were selected based mostly on logistics of delivering the large airdrop crates. Of course all schools can benefit from an airdrop of Red Bull, but WVU is one of the lucky 120 or so,” the official said.

Students across campus turned to social media to share their excitement about the airdrop.

“All the free Red Bull you could want in Woodburn circle,” one student tweeted.

“This made my morning so much better.”

Live streams of the airdrops and photos and tweets are available on the official Red Bull Airdrop website.

trying to bunt,” Luck said.

“We also realize that sometimes when you swing for the fences you might not even get a hit.

“That’s part of changing the culture, having a setback every now and then. Progress and success are not linear things. Sometimes it’s a windy road, but you have to be relentless and continue to do the right thing, and eventually good things will happen.”

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Eyes on the skies: Red Bull Airdrop hits WVU

By Carlee Lammers

While West Virginia will begin the rebid process in the near future, Luck said this speedbump will not stop the University from doing what it needs to do in order to continue moving the athletic department in what they feel is the right direction.

“There are a lot of ambitious things that we want to accomplish within our athletic department, and that means that sometimes you’re swinging for the fences when you should be

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Members of the WVU dance team walk toward the competitive area during last weekend’s National Dance Alliance championship.

For the West Virginia University dance team, last weekend’s National Dance Alliance championship was more than a fourth place title; it was about paying tribute to the lives lost in the Sandy Hook tragedy.

“We always said this dance is so much bigger than us,” said Samantha Szymanski, WVU dance team member.

And indeed it was.

In January, the team began its rigourous rehearsal schedule, dedicating the coming months to perfecting the choreography and learning to truly appreciate the music.

The team’s competition performance was set to music that featured a voiceover of President Barack Obama’s address following the tragedy.

“I remember we all sat down the first day, and (our coach) played the song with Obama’s voice on top of it.

You could just see it all over our eyes; we all had tears in our eyes,” Szymanski said. “As soon as you heard Obama’s voice, you knew exactly what it was.”

Not only was the team eager to perform on the national stage but Szymanski said several other factors fueled the team’s desire to succeed.

After a disappointing third place title the year prior and learning they would have to compete against both a former coach and team member, the pressure was on.

However, Szymanski said when the going got tough, she and her team members reminded one another to focus on their main purpose – honoring the lives lost in the Sandy Hook tragedy.

“We would have times in practice where we would just sit down and listen. For it being such a powerful piece, it had so much more emotion in it rather than just dancing to a song,” Szymanski said. “We wanted

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Panel explores future of journalism by ashley tennant staff writer

Yesterday evening in Ming Hsieh Hall, West Virginia University Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism held its first event in this year’s new speaker series: “Coding for the Future: The Rise of Hacker Journalism.” The event was the first of the series entitled, “The Future of Media – NOW!” “Coding for the Future: The Rise of Hacker Journalism” was a panel discussion

involving top journalists from around the nation.

Through presentations and lectures, they explained hacker journalism and how to learn new skills to help transform the world of journalism.

During the event, attendees were encouraged to engage in live tweeting with the hash tag #futureofmedia.

“In the age of digital and interactive media, it is no longer just about telling a story through text or photos, even video,” said Maryanne Reed, Dean of the P.I. Reed School

of Journalism. “It is about using the latest tools and technology to create a total experience.”

Each of the panel members were tech-savvy journalists who had a chance to talk about their own unique experiences.

Brian Boyer, news applications editor of National Public Radio ,said the word hacker is not about criminal activity but is a term of endearment, indicating someone is a good programmer.

“I use the analogy of a pho-

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tojournalist. They are a journalist, but they use a specialized piece of technology; they are using photography to do journalism, and hacker journalists use software to do journalism,” he said.

“We use programs and hacking. We write codes, use spreadsheets like Excel and write codes to spider a website or suck data off a website.”

John Keefe, senior editor of the Data News and Journalism Technology at WNYC,

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CHARLESTON BOUND The WVU baseball team will travel to Charleston, W.Va., tonight for a home matchup against Moorehead State.

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Tuesday April 16, 2013

Boston Marathon bombing kills 3, injuries more than 140 BOSTON (AP) — Two bombs exploded in the packed streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing three people and injuring more than 140 in a bloody scene of shattered glass and severed limbs that raised alarms that terrorists might have struck again in the U.S. A White House official speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still unfolding said the attack was being treated as an act of terrorism.

President Barack Obama vowed that those responsible will “feel the full weight of justice.”

A senior U.S. intelligence official said two other bombs were found near the end of the 26.2-mile course in what appeared to be a well-coordinated attack.

Authorities shed no light on a motive or who may have carried out the bombings, and police said they had no suspects in custody. Authorities in Washington said there was no immediate claim of responsibility.

“They just started bringing people in with no limbs,” said runner Tim Davey of Richmond, Va. He said he and his wife, Lisa, tried to keep their children’s eyes shielded from the gruesome scene inside a medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued runners, but “they saw a lot.”

“They just kept filling up with more and more casualties,” Lisa Davey said. “Most everybody was conscious.

They were very dazed.”

The fiery twin blasts took place almost simultaenously and about 100 yards apart, knocking spectators and at least one runner off their feet, shattering windows and sending dense plumes of smoke rising over the street and through the fluttering national flags lining the course.

When the second bomb went off, the spectators’ cheers turned to screams.

As sirens blared, emergency workers and National Guardsmen who had

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Szymanski said that upon stepping out onto the stage, all stress had subsided, and their passion and emotion for the piece began to shine.

“This year going into it, we had such a clear head. We weren’t even worried about scores, and we didn’t even care about how we would place. We knew how difficult it would be to compete against our old coach and teammate,” Szymanski said.

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been assigned to the race for crowd control began climbing over and tearing down temporary fences to get to the blast site.

Blood stained the pavement, and huge shards were missing from window panes as high as three stories.

Boston police said two people were killed. Hospitals reported at least 134 injured, at least 15 of them critically.

Some 23,000 runners took part in the race, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious marathons. One of Boston’s biggest annual events, the race winds up near Copley Square, not far from the landmark Prudential Center and the Boston Public Library. It is held on Patriots Day, which commemorates the first battles of the American Revolution, at Concord and Lexington in 1775.

Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis asked people to stay indoors or go back to their hotel rooms and avoid crowds as bomb squads methodically checked parcels and bags left along the race route. He said investigators didn’t know precisely where the bombs were planted or whether they were hidden in mailboxes or trash cans.

He said authorities had received “no specific intelligence that anything was going to happen” at the race.

The Federal Aviation Administration barred low-flying aircraft from within 3.5 miles of the site.

Obama was briefed on the explosions by Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco.

Obama also told Mayor Tom Menino and Gov. Deval Patrick that his administration would provide whatever support was needed, the White House said.

“We still don’t know who did this or why,” Obama said, adding, “Make no mistake: We will get to the bottom of this.”

With scant official information to guide them, members of Congress said there was little or no doubt it was “We decided as soon as we had learned (the routine) that this whole nationals experience was not going to be about winning. It wasn’t going to be about making sure we won first place. All it was about was giving tribute and a dedication to all the people lost.”

And the passion and emotion paid off. Szymanski said the team was ecstatic upon earning its fourth place title.

“I still remember us all standing up and hugging each other and jumping.

We didn’t care that we got fourth. It still felt like winning to us. That’s all that mattered.”

But the tribute didn’t end

Authorities, medical personnel and other respondents work on the scene of Monday’s bombings at The Boston Marathon.

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an act of terrorism.

“We just don’t know whether it’s foreign or domestic,” said Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

A few miles away from the finish line and around the same time, a fire broke out at the John F. Kennedy Library. The police commissioner said it may have been caused by an incendiary device but didn’t appear to be related to the bombings.

The first loud explosion occurred on the north side of Boylston Street, just before the photo bridge that marks the finish line. The second explosion could be heard a few seconds later.

They occurred about four hours into the race and two hours after the men’s winner crossed the line. By that point, more than 17,000 of the runners had finished the race, but thousands of others were farther back along the course.

The attack may have been

timed for maximum carnage: The four-hour mark is typically a crowded moment near the finish line because of the slow-but-steady recreational runners completing the race and because of all the relatives and friends clustered around to cheer them on.

Runners in the medical tent for treatment of dehydration or other race-related ills were pushed out to make room for victims of the bombing.

A senior U.S. intelligence official said the two other explosive devices found nearby were being dismantled. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the findings publicly.

A woman who was a few feet from the second bomb, Brighid Wall, 35, of Duxbury, said that when it exploded, runners and spectators froze, unsure of what to do. Her husband threw their children to the ground, lay on top of them and another

man lay on top of them and said, “Don’t get up, don’t get up.”

After a minute or so without another explosion, Wall said, she and her family headed to a Starbucks and out the back door through an alley. Around them, the windows of the bars and restaurants were blown out.

She said she saw six to eight people bleeding profusely, including one man who was kneeling, dazed, with blood trickling down his head. Another person was on the ground covered in blood and not moving.

“My ears are zinging. Their ears are zinging,” Wall said.

“It was so forceful. It knocked us to the ground.”

Competitors and race volunteers were crying as they fled the chaos. Authorities went onto the course to carry away the injured, while race stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site.

Roupen Bastajian, a state trooper from Smithfield, R.I., had just finished the race

when he heard the blasts.

“I started running toward the blast. And there were people all over the floor,” he said. “We started grabbing tourniquets and started tying legs. A lot of people amputated. ... At least 25 to 30 people have at least one leg missing, or an ankle missing, or two legs missing.”

At Massachusetts General Hospital, said Alisdair Conn, chief of emergency services, said: “This is something I’ve never seen in my 25 years here ... this amount of carnage in the civilian population. This is what we expect from war.”

The Boston Marathon honored the victims of the Newtown, Conn., shooting with a special mile marker in Monday’s race.

Boston Athletic Association president Joanne Flaminio previously said there was “special significance” to the fact that the race is 26.2 miles long and 26 people died at Sandy Hook Elementary school.

there for the WVU dance team.

Following the awards ceremony, a member of NDA, Steve, approached Szymanski.

“He just said ‘I wanted to tell you all thank you so much. Your routine was awesome; you girls were beautiful and brought tears to my eyes. You girls were the best performance by far of the entire week. Being from Connecticut and being so close to people that were involved, it definitely brings a lot of gratitude to me,’” she said.

Szymanski and Steve spent the rest of the evening text messaging back

and forth.

He told Szymanski he was friends with a high school cheerleading coach from Newtown who was a neighbor of one of the victims. He promised Szymanski he would share the video of their performance with the families affected by the tragedy.

“That made it all real for us. It gave us an opportunity to actually put a face to it.

Before it was all just a surreal reality...But to finally put a face to someone who was so connected to it, that definitely brought it all home to us,” Szymanski said.

Steve then promised the team he would make a $500

donation to the Sandy Hook Support Fund.

“He said it turned out to be such an emotional day for him and that he felt so compelled to speak to us,” she said. “He told me, ‘Next week I’m going to make a $500 donation to the Sandy Hook Support Fund on behalf of the West Virginia dance team. Consider me a fan forever.’”

Szymanski said she wouldn’t have imagined her final nationals competition any other way.

“Last year after getting third, we all had a sour taste in our mouths. We weren’t really expecting that; we thought we had it in the

bag,” she said. “This whole year, we had such a focus on bettering ourselves rather than just focusing on scores.

Last year taught me a lesson to not take anything for granted. I remember learning our routine this year in January and being so overcome by how meaningful the message was that I didn’t care about winning. My senior year has been great, I’m so happy to end the year on a good note and such a high note with this team.”

To watch the WVU dance team’s 2013 performance, visit www.youtube.com/ watch?v=pNi8IAdXI20.

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Speaker Brian Boyer discusses what ‘hacker journalism’ means during Monday’s event. ally opens up your ability to do almost anything you set your mind to.”

Lauren Rabaino, The Seattle Times’ first news applications editor, explained how journalists need to advocate for themselves and be passionate about the kinds of things they do.

“So, the real future in media is you. You are the vehicle for change,” she said.

“You will have to learn how to take these storytelling mechanisms that you use to tell stories to the masses to tell that story internally about the kind of work that we’re doing and how we’re pro-

gressing as journalists. We’re all in this together.”

Derek Willis, interactive developer with the New York Times, encouraged young journalists to work hard.

“If you’re really thinking about making it in journalism, it’s going to be hard, and you need to start getting excited about learning stuff because that actually makes your job a lot easier,” he said.

“I would probably still be covering college football in Florida if I didn’t turn to this data stuff. You gotta want it.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Recount challenge in badly polarized Venezuela

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Opposition supporters protest the official results of the presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s governmentfriendly electoral council indicated Monday it would quickly certify the presidential victory of Hugo Chavez’ hand-picked successor, apparently ignoring opposition demands for a recount in the tight race.

The move is bound to further heighten instability in an already deeply polarized nation where Nicolas Maduro was elected Sunday by a margin of 50.7 percent to 49.1 percent – a difference of just 235,000 votes out of 14.8 million cast.

“Until every vote is counted, Venezuela has an “illegitimate president and we denounce that to the world,” opposition candidate Henrique Capriles tweeted Monday.

His demand for a recount was being considered Monday by the National Electoral Council, and one of the council’s five members, independent Vicente Diaz, had also proposed a full recount.

But its president, Tibisay Lucena, said Sunday night in announcing the outcome that the result was “irreversible” and the electoral council’s press office said Maduro’s victory would be “proclaimed” later Monday. State television called

on government supporters to join Maduro in a public square for the event.

Capriles, a 40-year-old state governor, demanded Monday that the proclamation be suspended and called on his supporters to mass outside the electoral council on Tuesday.

He also claimed that members of the military – “an important group in various cities” – had been detained for trying to guarantee a free and fair election. He said they had been ordered to ignore abuses they witnessed. Capriles did not offer further details, such as how many were involved.

He says his campaign’s vote count resulted in “a different result” and has received more than 3,200 complaints of irregularities – all by pro-government forces.

He demanded every single ballot be recounted.

The winner is to be formally inaugurated on Friday for a six-year-term.

Sworn in as acting president after Chavez’s March 5 death, Maduro squandered a double-digit advantage in opinion polls just two weeks earlier as Capriles accused the ruling Chavistas of running the oil-rich country into the ground.

By contrast, Chavez de-

feated Capriles by a nearly 11-point margin in October.

Maduro said during his victory speech Sunday night that he had no problem with a recount.

“Let 100 percent of the ballot boxes be opened,” he said. “We’re going to do it; we have no fear.”

Maduro did not, however, endorse a manual recount of individual ballots and his campaign manager, Jorge Rodrigez, repeated that position on Monday.

In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney said a “100 percent audit” of the results would be “an important, prudent and necessary step to ensure that all Venezuelans have confidence in these results.”

The secretary-general of the Organization of American States, Jose Miguel Insulza, also called for a “full recount.”

Under Venezuela’s voting system, 54 percent of the tallies printed out by individual voting machines are routinely audited and that was done Sunday night, said Dashiell Lopez, coordinator of the independent voting rights group SUMATE. Individual ballots are not included in that audit.

No independent observer teams monitored the elec-

tion as Chavez’s government in recent years has rejected then. Instead it invited witnesses to “accompany the process.”

The challenger’s camp has not yet explained how it intends to proceed with the recount demand.

Venezuelan election law does not specify how a recount might proceed or whether a candidate even has the right to demand one, said Lopez.

He said an attempt to carry out a recount in December in Bolivar state failed.

The logistics alone are daunting. A total of 39,319 boxes of paper ballot receipts were emitted by Venezuela’s electronic voting system Sunday. They are now stored in warehouses under the control of the military. Those receipts would need to be checked against vote count printouts emitted by each individual voting machine. Those results would then be checked with the electoral council’s central tally.

The electronic voting system itself was never questioned by the opposition and it has drawn praise from institutions including the Carter Center as among the most reliable.

Although the nation appeared calm Monday, the mood was tense after an often ugly, mudslinging campaign.

“We have a president today who is a political disaster who couldn’t even mobilize his people,” Julio Borges, an opposition leader, told Globovision, Venezuela’s last wholly independent TV station.

Analysts called the result a disaster for Maduro, a former union leader and bus driver who is believed to have close ties to Cuba.

He faces enormous economic challenges, as well as the task of holding together a movement built around the magnetism of the now-departed Chavez.

A hint of internal trouble to come came in a tweet

by National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello, who many consider Maduro’s main rival within their movement.

“The results oblige us to make a profound self-criticism,” he said.

Few outside Venezuela had bigger stakes in the race than Cuban President Raul Castro, whose country receives generous subsidized oil exports from Venezuela in exchange for sending doctors, military advisories and

other help to Venezuela.

Capriles had promised to end that exchange.

Castro issued a statement congratulating Maduro for “this transcendental triumph.”

But on Havana streets, Cubans were still worried.

“The difference in votes is very small, and I think that it will be very hard for Maduro to govern. For us in Cuba, well, I’m very pessimistic. I think it will be a debacle,” said Maite Romero, a 74-year-old retiree.

Maduro, a longtime foreign minister to Chavez, had counted on a wave of sympathy for the charismatic leader, and in victory, asked his spirit for help, holding up a crucifix pinned to a card showing Chavez.

The late president built up immense loyalty among millions of poor beneficiaries of government largesse and constructed a powerful state political apparatus.

Among the problems facing the new president are chronic power outages, crumbling infrastructure, unfinished public works projects, double-digit inflation, food and medicine shortages, and rampant crime – one of the world’s highest homicide and kidnapping rates

Serbia massacre puts spotlight on Balkan vet woes VUKOVAR, Croatia (AP) — Edin Kapidzic fought in Croatia’s brutal war for independence and came out alive.

Carrying on in peace turned out to be harder.

Years after returning from the front lines, the former soldier from eastern Croatia hanged himself in a park in the hometown he defended during the 1991-95 conflict, part of the wider disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. Kapidzic left behind a wife and four children. But no suicide note.

He was among nearly 2,000 Croatian war veterans who have killed themselves since war ended in the Balkan country of 4.2 million, which is now slated to join the European Union. An estimated 1,000 people commit suicide each year in Croatia, of whom 100 to 120 are the so-called Croatian defenders, or those who took part in the war, according to official statistics.

The numbers, experts warn, are likely to swell as former fighters grow older and feel even less needed by a society eager to forget the conflict and move on.

The crushing stresses faced by veterans of Balkans wars grabbed international attention last week when a former Serb soldier killed 13 people in a pre-dawn rampage in central Serbia – a massacre his family linked to haunting memories of war in Croatia.

Such an extreme response to the psychological trauma brought on by combat is rare.

But depression and suicides among Balkan veterans are becoming more prevalent.

“I get this feeling that I am no longer wanted in this world and that I should

leave it,” said Mato Matijevic, a wartime ambulance driver who has survived one suicide attempt. “Just to leave everything and go.”

Across the Balkans, tens of thousands of war veterans from the ethnic conflicts of the 1990s’ have had trouble fitting back into society upon return from the battlefields of the former Yugoslavia – the stage of Europe’s worst carnage since World War II. Thousands of former fighters have experienced symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – or PTSD – including anger and depression; many have turned to alcohol and drugs; in the worst cases they take their own lives or commit violence against those around them.

In last week’s tragedy, Ljubisa Bogdanovic’s victims included his mother, his adult son and a 2-year-old cousin. He turned the gun on himself and his wife, who survived; Bogdanovic died two days later. The gunman was described by neighbors as helpful and quiet, but his brother said he was tormented by the war. His wife reportedly told doctors he used to beat her and his son.

Balkan veterans often speak of survivor’s guilt.

“You dream of your dead friends, those who died on your hands, or you dream of the people you killed,” said Tomislav Galovic, a 43-yearold veteran from the Croatian capital, Zagreb. “There is no way to explain.”

Croatia’s veterans have committed suicide in public places; some blew themselves up or burned themselves alive. Such acts are often seen as a cry for help from an increasingly indif-

ferent society or state. One veteran used a Croatian flag to hang himself – an apparent message that he felt betrayed by the country he fought for.

Post-combat psychological trauma is common among soldiers around the world. Ex-fighters in the Balkans often face the further burden of severe financial problems that make a return to normal life even more difficult. Many war veterans find themselves on the margins of society, coping on their own.

Matijevic, the former military ambulance driver, said that “the most traumatic moments are when I see on television how we, the defenders suffer, unable to fulfill our rights.”

Dressed in a combat-style green jacket, his head cleanshaven, the tough-looking veteran said he left a construction job in Switzerland in 1991 to fight for his homeland. Matijevic now lives with his wife and daughter

in a small house in an ethnically-mixed village in eastern Croatia – bitter over how things turned out for him and his country.

“They told us Croatia would become like Switzerland,” he said, “but it is nowhere close to it.”

Across the border in Serbia, veterans from the 199899 war in Kosovo have turned to the European Court of Human Rights to seek back pay from the state for the time they spent fighting, including the 78-day NATO bombardment of the country.

More than 4,000 former soldiers in Bosnia have committed suicide since the end of the conflict in 1995, ap according to the veterans’ Mato Matijevic, a war veteran who says he attempted suicide, gestures during association.

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Manchin takes lead on gun control

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., right, accompanied by Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., announce that they have reached a bipartisan deal on expanding background checks to more gun buyers, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin proposed a bipartisan bill in the Senate late last week aimed at creating a more thorough background check system for prospective firearm buyers.

The bill, which 68 Senators voted to allow debate of, thereby eliminating the possibility of a filibuster, would require background checks for guns purchased online and at gun shows. Manchin’s introduction of this bill is his latest high profile maneuver during a heated national gun control de-

bate that has been raging for several months.

We applaud Sen. Manchin’s leadership on this issue, and we hope Congress moves swiftly to enact this legislation.

The rationale behind requiring people to undergo background checks before purchasing deadly firearms is self-evident. There are certain people we can all agree should not be able to walk into a gun show or go online and purchase a weapon capable of assisting in mass murder. People with

troubled psychiatric histories and violent tendencies – the same people who are frequently found to have legally obtained weapons before going on their rampages – are the most obvious example.

No one here is talking about taking away anybody’s guns. But doesn’t it make sense to at least put up a barrier that could prevent some would-be mass-murderers from obtaining the capability to carry out the types of tragedies we’ve seen with increasing frequency in the past few

years?

Sen. Manchin’s proposal is a common-sense step toward mitigating America’s gun problem. Of course, it is not a solution, and it’s important to note that with a problem as complex as gun crime in America, there is no simple solution. But it’s an important step in the right direction, and it should pass with strong bipartisan support and be enacted as soon as possible.

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At long last, the incessant war drum of John Raese’s mouthpiece The Dominion Post may be slowing its beat. Frequent readers of the quasi-newspaper may be familiar with its monthslong feud with West Virginia University, subtle as its front page above-thefold expose on Oliver Luck picking his nose have been.

It is just a coincidence, of course, that this guerilla warfare campaign began after Raese’s failed bid for radio rights to WVU’s sporting events. Raese wanted the contract for his own company, West Virginia Radio Corporation, but it was instead awarded to the large national firm IMG College.

This did not go over well with Raese, who opted to take the same time-honored approach used by teenagers everywhere: he went to his room and started blasting music really loudly to annoy his parents (WVU). This blasting, writ large across the front page of The Dominion Post day after day, also took the form of sternly written letters and a sophomoric meeting with West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.

The now-infamous meeting prompted Morrisey to walk out on Raese after being foolish enough to entertain a meeting with the man in first place. To translate Morrisey’s comments on the meeting, Raese just did it to jerk WVU and its counsel around.

The really funny part was that Raese’s operatives concealed the entire campaign behind a veil of propriety, acting as though The Do-

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Geno Smith throws the ball during a game against TCU last year. minion Post’s sole motivation was to prevent a grave injustice from occurring. If you have your own reasons for wanting to win a contract, that’s fine, but it’s not fine to have your newspaper act as your town crier to foment resentment against the university. It’s fundamentally dishonest, journalistically unforgivable, and morally bankrupt.

Of course, nobody is say-

ing that the school is absolutely clear of any wrongdoing in this case. People at the top play fast and loose with the rules sometimes.

It’s been known to happen before, and it will happen again. I do not recall The Dominion Post printing multi-pronged offensives to bring each and every such violation to light. If they did, that would probably be the sum of articles

printed in the paper each day. This tells us that the decision was motivated not by civic duty, not by the desire to blow the whistle on a shady deal, and not by any sense of fairness. We have to ask ourselves, what then, could have motivated Raese to set the dogs on WVU? But now WVU has folded, and Oliver Luck says that the school will re-

open bidding for tier three media rights. At this point, the school’s leadership really needs to do some soul searching along with their bean counting.

Do they really want to reward such a petulant tantrum?

Do they really want to set a precedent inviting anyone who dislikes a decision made by the school to make noise until they change it?

WVU is the crown jewel of West Virginia in many ways.

Do we want to let its decisions be subverted by money and influence, just as the state’s government has been over the years?

We’ve seen what’s down that road, and we should be fearful of what might come to pass if that methodology spreads its tendrils into our school.

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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR BORN TODAY This year you can swing from being too rigid or restrained to suddenly becoming a “wild thing.” Others often might react strangely, as your behavior could catch them off-guard -- they never know what to expect! If you are single, your moodiness sometimes works against you. Some people can’t tolerate your swift emotional changes, but trust that the right person will. You could meet someone significant after July 1, 2013. If you are attached, be kind to your sweetie, as he or she might need some indulgence.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHH Listen to news with an open mind.

You could be surprised at what needs to be done in order to complete the final product. Your creativity flows.

Self-discipline will be necessary in order for you to face and deal with the unexpected. Do not overreact. Tonight: Head home.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHH Speak your mind, and know full well that it could trigger some less-thandesirable reactions and/or responses.

A partner might pull back rather than talk about what is bothering him or her. Expect the unexpected with this person. Tonight: Touch base with a neighbor.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHH Be willing to go a little overboard and indulge someone you care about. A sudden change involving a meeting or a friend initially could surprise you.

Adjust your thinking, and try to understand where this person is coming

from. Avoid a power play at all costs.

Tonight: Relax.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHHH You beam in any situation -- even if there is a disruption.

The unexpected is likely to affect your work, an older relative or a commitment. Know that nothing is written in stone; changes could occur often. Remain confident. Tonight: Go for what you want.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHH Sometimes the less said, the better. In the future, you might want to keep more information to yourself. In light of new information, re-evaluate a recent decision you’ve made. Listen to news as a cynic. You could gain a powerful insight as a result. Tonight: Not to be found.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHHH Put your ear to the ground, and listen to the inner workings of a situation.

Your perspective will transform as a result. You might be worried about a personal matter, or an unexpected development could shake you up.

Tonight: Hang out where there are crowds.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHHH You know what you want, and you know what you expect. Stay level, as many responsibilities seem to drop on you. Understand where you are heading with a personal matter.

Know when to say “enough.” A partner or an associate becomes flaky. Tonight: In the limelight.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH You need to follow someone’s lead, even if you would prefer not to. You might be quietly or overtly cynical, but make an effort to follow through

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CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Soccer officials 5 “You __ dead!”: “I’m telling mom!”

10 Location 14 Berry in healthy smoothies 15 “No way!”

16 Jazz classic “Take __ Train” 17 Lost color in one’s cheeks 19 Greasy spoon grub 20 Hit hard 21 Like blue hair 22 “Faust” dramatist 24 Fred’s dancing sister 26 Bartender’s twist 28 Beer to drink on Cinco de Mayo 30 Four quarters 31 Tax agcy.

32 Archaic “once” 33 Talk show pioneer Jack 36 Residential bldg. units 38 Stack of unsolicited manuscripts 41 Bush secretary of labor Elaine 43 Madeline of “Blazing Saddles” 44 Emails the wrong person, say 48 U.S./Canada’s __ Canals 49 Sunrise direction, in Kšln 51 Buyer’s “beware” 53 Tribal carving 57 Go 58 City on the Rio Grande 59 Feed the kitty 61 “Cool” monetary amt.

62 Even-handed 63 It may be filled with a garden hose 66 Helsinki resident 67 Actress Burstyn 68 Hip-swiveling dance 69 Vexes 70 Extremely poor 71 Ruin Bond’s martini DOWN 1 Daily grind 2 Besides Chile, the only South American country that doesn’t border Brazil 3 __ market 4 Break a Commandment 5 “Toy Story” boy 6 Fend off

7 Dance around 8 Somme salt 9 Where Nike headquarters is 10 Considerable, as discounts 11 Terse critical appraisal 12 Ties to a post, as a horse 13 Art gallery props 18 Delightful spot 23 “Paper Moon” Oscar winner Tatum 25 Many, informally 27 Change from vampire to bat, say 29 Kwik-E-Mart owner on “The Simpsons” 34 Extend an invitation for 35 “I knew it!”

37 Thorn in one’s side 39 Appears strikingly on the horizon 40 Co. letterhead abbr.

41 Welcome summer forecast 42 Noticeable lipstick color 45 Come down hard on 46 Filled pasta 47 Top-notch

48 Golden Slam winner Graf 50 Said 52 Away from the wind 54 Takes home 55 Punch bowl spoon 56 Over and done 60 Hard to see 64 French landmass 65 Acidity nos.

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as this person might want. You will gain understanding and a new insight as a result. Tonight: Refuse to get into a power struggle.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH You might want to reconsider a suggestion involving a loved one. A child could cause a problem, depending on how rigid you are right now. If you are single, be careful around someone you meet today -- the unexpected could occur. Tonight: Make time for a special person.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH You need to honor a change within your immediate circle. People seem to want different things. Understand what is happening, and know that nothing is written in stone.

Honor a change on the homefront. At least your life isn’t boring! Tonight: Go with a pal’s suggestion.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH Focus on getting the job done. You could be distracted by calls, an unexpected development and/or a possible change of plans. A boss or higher-up might notice how distracted you are. Pull back and get focused. Tonight: Visit with a coworker or a friend.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHHH Allow your creativity to flow. Sometimes you take yourself far too seriously. Lighten up, and understand that you can’t go wrong if follow your intuition. Use care with your finances. You never know what will happen next. Tonight: Add more spice to your life.

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Electronic masters to invade 123 Pleasant Street

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Conspirator will bring its hard-hitting brand of electronic music to 123 Pleasant street tonight.

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Electronic supergroup Conspirator will play 123 Pleasant Street tonight at 10 p.m. with opening support from local disc jockeys Ikto and Clintonics.

Formed by The Disco Biscuits keyboardist Aron Magner and bassist Marc Brownstein, Conspirator began in 2004 as a side project to further explore electronic music production and the possibilities presented by modern music technology.

Magner and Brownstein found their groove early in this discovery process, and Conspirator has since become a festival favorite and one of the nation’s most successful electronic outfits.

“Marc Brownstein and Aron Magner have been staples in the jam scene with Philadelphia’s The Disco Biscuits for nearly two decades,” said event promoter Adam Payne. “These guys take that camaraderie to their new project, and their experience and popularity instantly made Conspirator one of the hottest Jamtron-

ica bands touring.”

Fresh off the January release of their latest album, “Unleashed,” Conspirator looks to bring their everevolving brand of heavy and melodic electronic music to the 123 stage tonight.

With a lineup completed

by KJ Swaka (Pendulum) on drums and Chris Michetti (RAQ) on guitar, Conspirator uniquely combines the tight, processed beats of electronica music with the organic feel of live instruments.

While this hybrid sound has always stood as a goal of the band’s, their current lineup, which has toured together for the past year, boasts a particular chemistry that is scarcely found in similar acts.

“This Conspirator lineup is on fire right now,” Payne said. “Pendulum drummer KJ Swaka adds a drum-andbass style that pushes this band into more of an EDM (electronic dance music) machine, while RAQ guitarist Chris Michetti will prove why he earned the nickname ‘Mishreddi.’”

Also performing tonight

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are West Virginia-based DJs Ikto and Clintonics.

A Mountain State native, Ikto brings a bass-heavy style that few on the local scene can match, and his mastery of the art of electronic music has led to great success during his eightyear career.

“Ikto is a West Virginia native who has been on the decks since 2005,” Payne said. “His main styles are glitch and dubstep – pretty much anything with bass.

“His talents have earned him previous shows like WVU’s Fallfest as direct support for Mimosa.”

For fans of electronic music, dancing or just an energetic, party-friendly atmosphere, 123 is sure to please.

Tickets to the event can be purchased online at showclix.com for $15. Remaining tickets will be sold at the door for $20.

Concertgoers must be 18 years old to attend.

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Fiction Pulitzer returns for Johnson; seven for arts NEW YORK (AP) — Adam Johnson’s “The Orphan Master’s Son,” a labyrinthine story of a man’s travails in North Korea, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, restoring a high literary honor a year after no fiction award was given.

Pulitzer judges on Monday praised Johnson’s book as “an exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart.” It was the third book by the 45-yearold Johnson, who teaches creative writing at Stanford University.

Booksellers and publishers had been surprised and angered in 2012 when Pulitzer officials decided for the first time in decades not to give a fiction prize, which usually results in a quick and

sustained boost in sales.

There was no clear favorite Monday for fiction, with Louise Erdrich’s “The Round House” and a pair of novels about the Iraq war, Ben Fountain’s “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” and Kevin Powers’ “The Yellow Birds,” among those receiving strong attention. Johnson’s novel was one of three works with Asian themes to win Pulitzers.

Ayad Akhtar’s “Disgraced,” the story of a successful Pakistani-American lawyer whose dinner party goes out of control, won for drama and Fredrik Logevall’s “Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam,” for history.

Logevall and Johnson also shared the same publisher, Random House; and same editor, David Ebershoff. Logevall said Monday that he worked on his book for 11

years, “missed a deadline or two,” but that he was glad he had the time to “make sure everything was just right.”

“My editor (Ebershoff ) was very patient with me,” Logevall said. In “Disgraced,” a dinner party brings together two couples and several religious and ethnic identities over pork tenderloin and chorizo.

When chitchat touches on Islamic and Judaic tradition, the Quran and the Talmud, racial profiling and Sept. 11 and the Taliban and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Benjamin Netanyahu – along with the requisite alcohol intake – chaos is achieved.

“I really wanted to write a play that was going to have a legitimately tragic dimension for a contemporary audience,” Akhtar said from London, where he’s helping ready a new production of “Disgraced” at the Bush The-

atre. “I wanted the play to have immediacy and aliveness of engagement that harkened back to a tragic form but a mass form, something that would have audiences gasping.”

The biography winner was Tom Reiss’ “The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo.” Gilbert King’s “Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America” won for general nonfiction and Sharon Olds’ “Stag’s Leap” for poetry.

Four of the five books to win Pulitzers were published by divisions of Random House, Inc., which also released two of the most acclaimed books of 2012 not to receive awards Monday: Robert Caro’s latest Lyndon Johnson biography, “The Passage of Power”; and Katherine Boo’s “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” a finalist in the general nonfiction category and winner of the National Book Award.

For music, the winner was Caroline Shaw’s “Partita for 8 Voices,” cited by Pulitzer judges as “a highly polished and inventive a cappella work uniquely embracing speech, whispers, sighs, murmurs, wordless melodies and novel vocal effects.”

On her website, Shaw describes the four-part suite “as a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.”

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Justin Bieber criticized for Anne Frank comment

Singer Justin Bieber accepts the Male Summer Music Star award onstage during the 2012 Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheatre on July 22, 2012 in Universal City, Calif.

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Justin Bieber wrote an entry into a guestbook at the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, saying he hoped the Jewish teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp “would have been a Belieber” – or fan of his – if history were different.

The message triggered a flood of comments on the museum’s Facebook page Sunday, with many criticizing the 19-year-old Canadian pop star for writing something they perceive to be insensitive.

Calls made and emails sent to Bieber’s publicist and agent in Los Angeles weren’t immediately returned.

Museum spokeswoman Maatje Mostart confirmed that Bieber visited Friday evening. She said the museum was happy to have received Bieber and didn’t see anything offensive in his remarks.

Anne Frank hid with her family in a small apartment above a warehouse during the Nazi occupation of World War II. Her family was caught and deported, and Anne died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen in 1945.

The diary she kept in hiding was recovered and published after the war, and has

become the most widely read document to emerge from the Holocaust.

Bieber’s whole note read: “Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a Belieber.”

Mostart said Bieber called ahead and was given a guided tour.

Bieber’s remarks led to criticism from some quarters, as a Facebook response insulting Bieber received more than 1,000 “likes” – slightly more than the museum’s original post about the incident.

Meanwhile on Twitter, posts mocking Bieber and imagining that he had visited the museum and walked away thinking only of himself began circulating Sunday, though the message is open to interpretation.

Some of Bieber’s 37 million followers also tweeted messages of support. Others in his fan base – which is heavily weighted toward young girls – tweeted that they didn’t know who Anne Frank was.

Frank was 13 years old when she began keeping her diary in 1942. Like many teenage girls, she made a collage of the celebrities of her day – movie stars, dancers,

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and royalty – and kept it on her bedroom wall.

“Our little room looked very bare at first with nothing on the walls; but thanks to Daddy who had brought my film-star collection and picture postcards ... with the aid of a paste pot and brush, I have transformed the walls into one gigantic picture,” she wrote on July 11, 1942, just days after going into hiding. “This makes it look much more cheerful.”

Many of those pictures can still be seen on the walls of the museum Bieber visited Friday.

Bieber has had a tough few weeks in Europe. He had to leave a monkey in quarantine after landing in Germany without the necessary papers for the animal.

Before that, the 19-year-old singer had a trying stay in London.

The star struggled with his breathing and fainted backstage at a show, was taken to a hospital and then was caught on camera clashing with a paparazzo.

Days earlier, he was booed by his fans when he showed up late to a concert.

He performed in Arnhem, Netherlands, Saturday night and will next perform three Justin Bieber returns to his London hotel after performing earlier at Capital FM Arena, Nottingham. nights in Oslo, Norway.

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Ayad Akhtar ‘shocked’

by Pulizter Prize win NEW YORK (AP) — Ayad Akhtar’s “Disgraced,” a play about a successful PakistaniAmerican lawyer whose dinner party spins out of control amid a heated discussion of identity and religion, has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for drama.

“It’s such a huge honor.

I’m still in shock, actually,” the playwright said from London, where he’s helping ready a new production of “Disgraced” at the Bush Theatre.

“I feel very fortunate and very grateful.”

“Disgraced” had its world premiere at Chicago’s American Theater Company in 2012 and then ran at Lincoln Center Theater’s Claire Tow Theater.

The lead character, Amir Kapoor, a Pakistani-American corporate lawyer, lives on the Upper East Side in an apartment described in the script as “spare and tasteful with subtle flourishes of the Orient.” Amir loves the New York Knicks and the Magnolia Bakery and his elegant $600 shirts with their “ridiculous thread count.”

The dinner party at the heart of the play brings together two couples and several religious and ethnic identities over pork tenderloin and chorizo. When chitchat touches on Islamic and Judaic tradition, the Quran and the Talmud, racial profiling and Sept. 11 and the Taliban and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Benjamin Netanyahu – along with the requisite alcohol intake – chaos is achieved.

“I really wanted to write a

play that was going to have a legitimately tragic dimension for a contemporary audience,” Akhtar said. “I wanted the play to have immediacy and aliveness of engagement that harkened back to a tragic form but a mass form, something that would have audiences gasping.”

The Columbia University’s prize board on Monday said the 42-year-old playwright’s work beat out finalists “Rapture, Blister, Burn” by Gina Gionfriddo and “4000 Miles”

by Amy Herzog.

Akhtar, a 42-year-old New Yorker, also wrote the novel “American Dervish” and cowrote and played the lead in the film “The War Within.” His “Disgraced” got a celebrity gloss in New York when the lead character was played by Aasif Mandvi, the very funny correspondent on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show.”

The drama award, which includes a $10,000 prize, is “for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life,” according to the official guidelines. The production must have opened during 2012 to be eligible for this year’s award.

Akhtar, the child of Pakistani immigrants, grew up in Wisconsin, and studied at Brown University and at Columbia University’s film school. In addition to “Disgraced,” he also wrote the hostage thriller “The Invisible Hand,” which had its world premiere at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis last year.

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“Mountain Stage with Larry Groce” will broadcast live from the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center at 7 p.m. Sunday and will offer a variety of music to Morgantown for all to enjoy.

The show will feature a unique lineup of musicians, ranging from alternative country to rock, including Billy Bragg, Joe Pug, The Flatlanders, Amy Speace and Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche.

British singer and songwriter Billy Bragg said he is looking forward to stopping in Morgantown for the show.

“Mountain Stage is always a lot of fun,” Bragg said. “You get to play with other musi-

cians and see other bands, and I know the audience from Mountain Stage – both there and in the broader radio sense – appreciate good music, so it’s a great place to be.”

Bragg said he enjoys playing with a variety of artists during the show, as well.

“That’s the good thing; you kind of just turn up and sing alongside artists you’ve never seen before,” Bragg said. “That’s the joy of Mountain Stage.”

Drawing influences from Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Smokey Robinson and Robin Gaye, Bragg admits to listening to a lot of American song music in the early ’70s during his teenage years.

According to Bragg, punk-rock took form in 1977 and directed him toward his own style of music, which is

Singer-songwriter Amy Speace will perform at Mountain Stage April 21.

heavily rooted in the genre.

Bragg’s latest album, “Tooth and Nail,” is the first album he has released in five years, and it will be showcased during Sunday’s performance.

Coincidentally, the album took Bragg only five days to record.

“My favorite aspect of the record changes from day to day, really,” Bragg said.

“For a long time, I was just amazed we made something so soulful like ‘Swallow My Pride,’ but the live tracks and the lyrics are great. I just enjoy singing it.”

Bragg is seen not only as a musician but also an activist through his music.

“As a songwriter you really want to write about what’s going on around you and the way you see the world,” Bragg said. “I think

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I receive the label of a political songwriter because I write about what interests me but also about what’s going on outside the bedroom window.”

Bragg said he has always written music in that way, possibly as a product of his time.

“1960s singer/songwriters used music as a way of talking about the world,” Bragg said. “I think I may have inherited that.”

Bragg said that since he is normally stuck in a big city somewhere, he is excited to get to Morgantown.

This enthusiasm will spill into the crowd, and Bragg promises a well-rounded performance for those in attendance.

“A bit of the new record, ‘Tooth and Nail,’ ‘Mermaid Avenue’ and a bit of clas-

sic Bragg, I think,” he said.

“That’s what I’ll aim for.”

Also featured in the radio show Sunday are two successful playwright-turnedfolk artists – Joe Pugg and Amy Speace – who will each display their personal vocal endeavors.

In addition, The Flatlanders, who have been playing alternative country for nearly five decades, will play material from their 2012 release “The Odessa Tapes,” which features their original music from 1972.

Mother-daughter duo Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche round out the bill, and they will be playing material from their first collaborative release, “Fairytale & Myth” as they continue to pursue individual careers as well.

Sunday’s Mountain Stage

is sure to have something for everyone with its unique mix of artists, a trait that has become a staple of the performance.

“We’ve had a terrific response to this weekend’s Mountain Stage featuring Billy Bragg,” said David Ryan, WVU Arts & Entertainment public relations specialist. “We’re excited to feature this amazing performer.

“It’s a great concert and a wonderful way to spend a Sunday night.”

Tickets are $18 in advance and $23 on the day of show and can be purchased at the Mountainlair and Creative Arts Center box office locations, online at ticketmaster. com or by phone at 304-293SHOW and 800-745-3000. lacey.palmer@mail.wvu.edu

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Bill that includes new WVU baseball stadium can still be considered for special session by michael carvelli sports editor

As the final minutes of the 2013 legislative session inched closer and closer, it began to look less likely that the tax increment financing bill that would help build a new baseball stadium in Morgantown would pass.

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Should you care who starts at quarterback?

With West Virginia’s spring game less than a week away, the coverage of the starting quarterback battle between redshirt freshman Ford Childress and junior Paul Millard has intensified.

Last week, head coach Dana Holgorsen released a tentative depth chart for all positions, but instead of pointing toward who was winning the battle to replace Geno Smith, he left an ambiguous “or” between the names of Childress, Millard and newcomer Chavas Rawlins at the top of the quarterback slot.

To me, it’s clear Holgorsen either hasn’t seen enough from any individual player and is hoping to coax further development out of the prospects by way of ongoing competition or he is trying to keep secret which player will be behind center when next season begins (highly doubtful given how much time there is until August).

My notion is it’s definitely the former, because to me, neither Childress nor Millard seems to have blown anyone away this spring or even dating back to last season. Odds are, they won’t blow you away when the season starts, either.

Both have the potential to be solid quarterbacks in the Big 12, but if you’re holding out for a 5,000yard passer or an all-conference gunslinger, you might want to taper back your expectations.

This leads me to my main point: should you even care who starts at quarterback when the Mountaineers begin their season Aug. 31 at home against William & Mary?

Honestly, it’s not going to matter which player wins the offseason position battle, because both players are hoping to offer the same thing: stability and smooth operation of the offense.

Neither guy will be able to make the types of passes Smith did last season. Still, the opportunity is there to throw for upwards of 3,000 yards and 30 touchdowns, given the scheme he will operate in.

Past seasons at former schools have shown Holgorsen’s offense operates just fine after losing a superstar signal caller. But do you really care which player is taking the snaps?

I will say it is fun to have stiff competition at such an integral position. There hasn’t been a quarterback battle of this nature since 2005, when then-head coach Rich Rodriguez had to decide between Adam Bednarik and Pat White.

The decision to go with White was one that ultimately shifted the direction of the program and put WVU on an upward trajectory it continues to benefit from today.

However, White and Bednarik were far from similar, and White’s athletic ability, as well as his

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The bill (SB125) was a $96 million plan that included the new $16.2 million ballpark that would primarily serve as the home field for the West Virginia baseball team and a New York-Penn League minor league baseball affiliate, as well as fund the construction of a new exit off I-79 between Westover and Star City. The bill

died in the West Virginia House of Delegates late Saturday night.

“We weren’t expecting it at all. I don’t think anybody was,” Luck said. “The losers in this are the people of North Central West Virginia.”

Now that the regular legislative session has ended, Luck hopes SB125 will be

considered for special session by Governor Earl Ray Tomblin in hopes of not setting the project back any further.

Without it, the plan – and the construction of the new baseball stadium – could be set back for another year.

“The special session could take place this week.

So, if that’s the case, it doesn’t set us back at all.

If it doesn’t take place or if the bill doesn’t pass, then we really have to think about what Plan B is,” Luck said. “They could always introduce the bill again next year, but will there be a minor league team that’s interested in moving next year?

Will that development still

be available for that kind of project?

“There are a lot of questions up in the air, and it’s my understanding that the development will not move along and progress without the TIF.” When representatives of the New York-Penn League

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The West Virginia baseball team takes on Texas Tech at Appalachian Power Park in Charleston, W.Va., earlier in the season.

WVU travels to Charleston for a home matchup against Morehead State by kevin hooker sports writer

The West Virginia baseball team returns to action today in Charleston, W.Va., as it will face nonconference opponent Morehead State at 6 p.m.

The Mountaineers won two of their three games against Liberty last weekend and have won 12 of their last 17 games overall. Sunday, pitcher Dan Dierdorff pitched a complete game, giving up one unearned run on five hits and five strikeouts in a 2-1 victory.

“Baseball is not like other sports,” said West Virginia head coach Randy Mazey. “One guy can completely control the game, and (Dierdorff ) did that today.”

Dierdorff improved his record to 2-4 on the season.

“We got off to a slow start,” Dierdorff said. “I couldn’t locate my offspeed pitches, and my fastball was up (in the zone).

Luckily, as the game went on, I got a good feel for the pitches and got into a good groove.”

For his performance, the senior right-hander was named the WVU Varsity Sports Report Athlete of the Week. He went 1-1 on the week, allowing no earned runs on 10 hits with 10 strikeouts in 14.0 innings.

Harrison Musgrave was also impressive for the Mountaineers, throwing seven shutout innings and allowing three hits in Friday’s 8-0 victory.

The Mountaineers are now 20-17 on the season, while Morehead State’s 12-straight loses drops its record to 9-27.

The Beavers haven’t won since March 23 and have lost 18 of their last 20 games.

Wednesday’s game marks the last nonconference game before the Mountaineers travel to Texas for Big 12 Conference play this weekend.

“In these non-conference games, you try and juggle lineups or sit guys that need to sit,” Mazey said. “We try different lineups in these non-conference games, put guys in positions they’re not used to and use pitchers and hitters that don’t play much on the weekends. That’s all designed that when we do play conference again, everybody’s at their best.”

West Virginia will look to swing often and early, as Morehead State’s pitching has given up 258 runs on 378 hits on the season. Both are second-toworst in the Ohio Valley Conference.

The Mountaineers will look for offensive support from first baseman Ryan McBroom, who hit another home-run this weekend and leads the team with eight on the season.

The Mountaineers hit .294 as a team, which is second-best in the Big 12 Conference.

Live stats for today’s game can be found at WVUsports.com. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU places two crews in top ten It was another successful weekend for the West Virginia Rowing team as two crews placed in the top 10 at the Knecht Cup on the Cooper River in Cherry Hill, N.J., Sunday.

The first varsity 8+ crew, who are coming off their first Conference USA Boat of the Week honors and Big 12 Conference Boat of the Week honors of the season, headlined by Rachelle Purych, Kelly Kramer and Mallory Fisher, led the way for WVU by advancing to the Grand Finale in their respective event.

West Virginia met Bucknell, Holy Cross, Barry, Northeastern and Bucknell (LWT) in the Grand Finale and finished the race in fifth place with a time of 6:49.14. The fifth place finish would be the best on the day for the

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The West Virginia track team recorded three first-place finishes at the Patriot Open Invitational Saturday in Fairfax, Va.

by kevin hooker sports writer

The West Virginia track and field team traveled to Fairfax, Va., this past weekend and earned three first-place finishes at the Patriot Open Invitational Saturday.

After breaking the school record last weekend, Katlyn Shelar recorded her second firstplace finish in a row in the pole vault, with a height of 3.82 meters. Heather Adams won the hammer throw for the thirdconsecutive week with a mark of 53.44 meters, and Stormy Nesbit won the long jump with a leap of 5.83 meters.

“We had some very strong performances this weekend,” said West Virginia head coach Sean Cleary. “We were very happy to get the (expected) weather to allow for a great opportunity to perform.”

In addition, the lady Mountaineers had three personal-best marks.

Sophomore Karissa Kna-

benshue earned sixth place in the shot put with a mark of 13.16 meters.

Knabenshue’s mark is second-best all time in WVU history.

Sophomore Kiley Defibaugh also posted a personal-best mark, taking fifth place in the pole vault with a distance of 3.6 meters. Alanna Pritts placed 15th in the hammer throw with a personal-best mark of 40.97 meters.

“Each event group had their highlights,” Cleary said. “It was nice to see them rewarded for their strong efforts.”

In the 100-meter hurdles, Chene Townsend finished fourth in preliminary rounds with a time of 14.28. In the finals, however, she improved her time to 14.05 seconds, good enough for a fifthplace finish.

Junior Sarah Martinelli and senior Jordan Hamric both earned top-20 finishes in the 1,500-meter run. Martinelli’s 4:28.45 time earned her a 10th place finish, while Hamric finished in 16th place

with a time of 4:35.44.

Hamric broke the school record in the 3,000 -meter steeplechase two weekends ago at the Stanford Invitational.

Overall, Cleary the Mountaineers are pleased with the weekend.

“While there were a few technical problems with the time schedule, I was pleased to see so many of the team not allow this to distract them,” Cleary said. “We come home with so many seasonal bests.”

With Big 12 Conference Championships rapidly approaching, the Mountaineers are continually looking to improve as the season winds down.

“We now need to improve upon this weekend as we prepare for the championships,” Cleary said.

The Big 12 Outdoor Championships take place in Waco, Texas, May 3-4.

The Mountaineers will travel to Princeton, N.J., April 19-20 for the Larry Ellis Invitational. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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were in Morgantown last month, they seemed eager about the possibilities of bringing a minor league affiliate to the area, and at the time, they believed everything would go according to plan to bring a team to Morgantown.

“Everything does look favorable. The Governor is in favor of the deal,” New YorkPenn League President Ben Hayes said in March. “The reaction from the league is excitement. We do not take relocations lightly. The communities that we serve and host clubs in are fantastic communities ... You have to find a good place that people want to call home, and that is something that we believe we have here.”

Luck said he believes if the bill is called to special session in the future, nearly everyone who had voted on it will still be in favor of making it happen.

At all stages, Luck saw broad support with a few exceptions.

“We’re hopeful, because it seems as though very few

Mountaineers.

Earlier in the day, the second varsity 8+ crew of Bethany Anne Sapen, Melinda Sharon, Mollie Rosen, Allison Coates, Hilary Meale, Mary Ignatiadis, Jeanine McCarty, Elizabeth Duarte and coxswain Ellen Shular, helped their team to advance to the Petite Final of their event.

In the Petite Final, WVU met Buffalo, Old Dominion, Alabama, Dayton and North Carolina and finished in fourth place with a 7:12.88 time. The second varsity 8+ crew finished for 10th-place out of 31 spots.

The crews will return to the water April 27, where they will participate in a double dual at Bucknell, against Connecticut and Delaware on the Pinchot Lake, in Lewisberry, Pa. —jff people are opposed to this TIF,” he said. “Of all the votes we had, I think we only had one negative vote – which came in the House of Finance Committee from a delegate from Harrison County – but other than that, everyone voted yes.”

Shortly after finding out about the bill, Luck spoke with WVU head baseball coach Randy Mazey about the news.

Mazey, who came to WVU from TCU last summer when plans for the TIF had already been put in place, was disappointed to hear of the setback.

“It’s clear that he and the student athletes are disappointed. But like any coach, he’s used to adversity and used to losing a game or two and having to focus on bouncing back and winning,” Luck said. “We’re still very confident that cooler heads will prevail and people will see the value of this TIF not only because of the baseball stadium and not because of the interchange, but really because of the growing number of jobs that it will bring (to the area).” james.carvelli@mail.wvu.edu

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Childress and Millard are too similar to offer much deviation from what Holgorsen’s offense has operated with in the past.

Sure, Childress probably has a better arm, and Millard is more experienced, but again, when plugged into the efficient and terrifying machine that is Holgorsen’s offense, those things are immaterial.

It doesn’t take a rocket arm or a rocket scientist to run the offense – only someone who can do exactly what the coaches say and limit turnovers and mistakes.

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12 | SPORTS

women’s soccer

Tuesday April 16, 2013

Football

Szwed overcoming knee Running backs battling for playing time in spring injury, ready for 2013

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West Virginia’s Caroline Szwed dribbles the ball during a game in 2011. Szwed sat out the entire 2012 season after undergoing knee surgery.

by meghan carr sports writer

West Virginia Women’s Soccer senior midfielder Caroline Szwed is back on the soccer field after missing the entire 2012 regular season and postseason because of an injury to her knee in 2011.

The native Ontario, Canada native came to WVU in 2009. In her rookie year, she started in all 23 matches and quickly grabbed attention for her game-winner goal, a header, against Marquette – it was also her first collegiate goal. She led the team in assists (6), the first rookie to do so since 1999.

In 2010, the sophomore scored two goals and recorded three assists in 22 games as a starter. Szwed was also a part of the Mountaineers winning the Big East Conference Championship.

Szwed started all 22 games in 2011, including 13 games where she played 90 plus minutes. She was voted team MVP after the Mountaineers won the Big East Championship that season for the secondstraight year.

During the game against Seton Hall in 2011, she said she felt her knee lock up but continued to play the game and the rest of the 2011 season, further

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damaging her fragile knee.

Szwed said she had hoped it was just her meniscus torn, but after her MRI came back she quickly found out the cartilage in her knee had deteriorated, leaving a hole that continued to get bigger and bigger as she continued playing in the 2011 season.

“They basically had to take what cartilage I did have left, grow it in a lab, take my knee cap off and sew the cartilage on to my knee cap and then put my knee cap back on,” Szwed said.

The procedure, known as Patella Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation, takes about 10 weeks to complete, and the recovery time usually takes about a year.

Szwed, now participating in spring games, though playing limited minutes, told reporters the rehab after the surgery has been the hardest for her. She had to keep her leg in a machine that bent her leg back and forth to keep the circulation flowing. She used that machine eight hours a day for six weeks.

“Until the point that I got out of that machine was honestly the toughest time, definitely the worst adversity I had to deal with,” Szwed said.

The long rehab did not allow her to compete in 2012 with her fellow seniors, something the Canada native said was really difficult for her to get over.

Now a year after her surgery, Szwed is back on the soccer field, trying to get back to her old self in time for the 2013 season. She knows she still has a long way to go but hopes to be out there for the 2013 preseason and regular season.

Nobody is happier than her head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown to see Szwed finally back on the field.

“I think she looks great out there. She was our MVP of the 2011 season,” Izzo-Brown said. “I love to see her get back in the game.”

With a young team that is in need of stability and experience, a midfielder like Szwed is a sigh of relief for the Mountaineers. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

West Virginia running back Andrew Buie tip toes the sideline during a game against Kansas last season.

by kevin hooker sports writer

With the annual GoldBlue spring game in less than a week, the Mountaineers still have many positions to be addressed.

With Geno Smith heading to the NFL, the starting quarterback competition between Paul Millard and Ford Childress remains an ongoing question mark – and will continue to be so – for the foreseeable future.

Lost in the shuffle, however, is the controversy at starting running back.

With senior Shawne Alston graduating, the Mountaineers will be led by juniors Dustin Garrison and Andrew Buie to carry the load on the ground.

Garrison had a promising freshman year, running for 742 yards and six touchdowns on 136 carries. However, injuries derailed his sophomore year, and he only carried the ball 46 times, running for 207 yards and scoring two touchdowns.

He said his second season was frustrating.

“It was tough,” said Garrison. “But things happen, and you learn from them.”

Garrison said his knee is finally back to full health.

“Ever ything ’s going good,” Garrison said. “I’m completely healthy; I’m doing everything everyone else is doing. I have no complaints.”

Garrison tore his ACL during practice prior to the 2012 Orange Bowl and never really recovered until season’s end.

“Toward the middle (of the season), I was fine, but I wasn’t as healthy as I wanted to be,” Garrison said. “I would say toward the end of the year is where I was completely healthy.”

With Smith, Stedman Bailey and Tavon Austin NFL bound, the Mountaineers will certainly put more

emphasis on the running game next season. The Mountaineers averaged just 173 running yards per game last year, 53rd most in the country.

“I haven’t really thought about it that much,” Garrison said on his larger role next year. “We still have a lot of great receivers coming up who are going to make some plays. I feel like both our running and passing game will do fine.”

Garrison was a twostar recruit out of Pearland, Texas, and ultimately settled on West Virginia against other schools such as Miami and Pittsburgh.

While the starting competition between him and Buie is ongoing, Garrison said it doesn’t matter much to him.

“I don’t have too many individual goals,” Garrison said. “I just want to win games. If I need one touchdown and that wins us the game, then I’ve done my job.”

The Mountaineers hired new running backs coach JaJuan Seider this past March, partially due to his strong ties to Florida recruiting. No clear-cut starting running back has emerged under Seider’s new regime.

“We’re all getting even reps,” Garrison said. “I think Holgorsen and Seider are both trying to evaluate and see where we’re at for running back.”

Seider began his college career as a backup quarterback for the Mountaineers before transferring to Texas A&M and eventually getting drafted by the San Diego Chargers. He eventually returned to Morgantown as a graduate assistant under quarterbacks coach Jeff Mullen.

“It’s a great relationship,” Garrison said on his first impressions of Seider.

“It’s great to teach him the offense because it’s help-

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ing me learn it more. He’s a great guy.”

As for Buie, he really came into his own in the 2012 season. As a freshman, Buie only carried the ball 51 times, but as a sophomore, he compiled 851 yards and seven touchdowns on nearly five yards per carry. He, like Garrison, enjoys the process.

“I’m looking forward to next year,” Buie said. “(With Alston out) it’s on us to carry the group now.”

Alston, who also suffered leg injuries last year, scored seven touchdowns on 75 carries.

“Our primary focus is just to get better as a group,” Buie said. “Hopefully we can be a part of something big this year.

There’s been a running back battle every year that I’ve been here, so it’s just my job to go out and play.”

Regardless of who’s named the starting running back, both Garrison and Buie will continue to work out until their number is called.

“I’ve been working on my speed,” Buie said. “I’ve just been working on my craft; I’m just trying to get better every day. I’m never content on being the same.”

Garrison said he improved his game during his knee rehab.

“I mainly worked on the knee to prevent the injur y from happening again,” Garrison said.

“But I worked on speed, strength, upper body and lower body – a whole number of things. I was playing last year at about 175 (pounds) ,and right now I’m at about 182 (pounds)”.

Similar to the quarterbacks, expect to see both Garrison and Buie earning equal play time at the spring football game Saturday at 2 p.m. dasports@mail.wvu.edu