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SGA aims to strengthen Big 12 relations by alexis randolph staff writer @dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia University Student Government Association Board of Governors unanimously passed a resolution adding the Big 12 University Liaison to the Executive Directors portion of its bylaws Wednesday evening.

Resolution 2014-17: Official Addition of the Big 12 University Liaison to the SGA Executive Branch was

passed after an amendment at the meeting. This resolution outlines the responsibilities of the Big 12 University Liaison.

This board member is responsible for maintaining the University’s relationship with other Big 12 conference SGAs, as well as, in assistance of the SGA president, choosing additional members of WVU’s SGA to attend Big 12 student government conferences and the annual Big 12 on the Hill event.

Jessica Harris, the current Big 12 university liaison, said she was excited for the passing of this resolution.

“The thing I began this year with the conference is I began monthly, or we are trying to make them monthly, conference calls between our student government and all the other student governments of the Big 12,” Harris said. “This is something me and Chris (Nyden) collaborated, the idea kind of came from both of us.”

Harris said she hopes to keep these calls consistent to help share ideas and practices of all of the SGAs within the Big 12 Conference.

“A lot of the other SGAs of the Big 12 Conference have different systems and ways of running things. This is just a really good way to collaborate with the other institutions,” she said. “Then we can bring this information to WVU and to our SGA and be sure we are fitting in with the peer institutions. There

are things that can always change, there is always room for improvement.”

Harris has started a Twitter page @BigXIIWVU which she hopes to use to connect with fans from other Big 12 conference schools when they are in town for sporting events. Harris said she intends to bring this Twitter page up in the next conference call to encourage the other schools to participate as well.

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President Gee completes tour of West Virginia’s 55 counties by jacob bojesson city editor @jbojesson

From Mineral to Pendleton, West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee hit the road this summer to visit each of West Virginia’s 55 counties.

Gee served as President of WVU in the early 80s and returned to Morgantown after nearly 30 years last fall.

Gee has made similar road trips while serving other institutions and felt an obligation to reconnect with the Mountain State after a long absence and to meet with its people.

“I want to make it clear to everyone - first of all, for our students and our faculty and the staff, that this University belongs to them and not to me,” Gee said. “And to the 1.8 million West Virginians, that this University belongs to them and not to me, and so the only way that I can make sure that they understand that, is for me to get out and look, listen and learn about the challenges, opportunities and the prospects that they face and have the University be their partner in making this a better place to live and making this a great state.”

The journey got a jump start in April in Mineral County and ended in Pendleton County in late August.

Gee said he is on a mission to “connect what he’s seen and done to the world and the role of the university,” a mission that he will continue to work on.

Looking back at the tour, it proved to give Gee much more than he originally anticipated.

Gee said he will continue to visit at least half of the counties of West Virginia every summer as long as he holds his chair.

“Honestly, it ended up being much of a spiritual journey for me just reconnecting with wonderful people and having an opportunity to see the state in ways very few people get a chance to see it,” Gee said. “I feel very blessed to have had the opportunity to do what I did this summer and I will do it again and again.”

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be a good idea to bond as a conference, but also to give everyone a warm welcome, as well,” she said. “We can show the other Big 12 schools that WVU is a warm place to be and we welcome the friendly competition.”

The BOG also unanimously approved a number of executive appointments including appointments to the judicial board, diversity co-chairs,

The old Hardee’s on Chestnut Ridge Road is set to become the second location for Dunkin’ Donuts in the Morgantown area.

“We are looking to expand business-wise. (We) just had to find a spot first,” said Grant Kuhns, a manager at the Sabraton Dunkin’ Donuts.

If everything goes as planned, the new location will open Nov. 1.

Students and employees from Ruby Memorial Hospital, Milan Puskar Stadium, the Evansdale Campus and nearby businesses will benefit from the convenience of the new location.

Kuhns said he expects it to bring in more customers than the Sabraton location.

He said he hopes this Dunkin’ Donuts will become more of a social place where people will be sitting down to eat, drink and talk.

Mark Phinisey, a student at WVU, said he was excited when he found out Dunkin’ Donuts is going to open near the Evansdale Campus.

“I’m always on the Evansdale Campus, so it’ll be nice to have one nearby,” Phinisey said.

“It’s great competition for Starbucks up the street. I love Dunkin’ Donuts.”

Some students said they prefer Dunkin’ Do-

nuts to Starbucks, so they are excited for a close location to open.

“I think it’s a good idea because it gives students a cheaper alternative to getting Starbucks. The only one we have is (in) Sabraton,” said Alison Toothman, a WVU student. “Not a lot of people can get there because they don’t have cars or just don’t know about it. (It) gives the opportunity for students who don’t have cars to take the PRT or walk there.”

The company is looking for a few more supervisors.

There will be job openings for which residents and students can apply.

“Three to four weeks before opening, we will go on a hiring spree,” Kuhns said.

Kuhns said they will be looking for about 40 to 50 members for their new crew.

Traffic should not be too much of an issue according to Kuhns.

A new entrance will be made so drivers can exit at the light on Van Voorhis Road. This will help prevent cars from trying to cross three lanes to turn left onto Chestnut Ridge Road and build up traffic.

“Right now, 70 percent (of customers) come through (the) drive-thru while 30 percent come inside,” Kuhns said.

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Professor studies trends of smokeless tobacco use by kendall snee correspondent @dailyathenaeum

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As a land grant University, WVU has extension offices in all 55 counties.

Gee met University staff, community leaders, teachers, students and parents during his tour.

He also took the time to have some fun on the road.

He played with children at the Energy Express site in Elizabeth and rode attractions at the State Fair of West Virginia in Greenbrier County.

Gee was accompanied by Mountaineer Mascot Michael Garcia, also referred to as his “wingman,” during a large portion of the tour.

In the end, he mentions the connection between the environment and the people as the highlight of the journey.

“I think the fact that I enjoyed the most was the fact that its physical beauty is up-shown by the spirit and beauty of its people,“ Gee said. “West Virginians love West Virginia and they certainly love this University. It’s remarkable – the love affair between the University and the people of the state.” carl.bojesson@mail.wvu.edu

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People are attempting to cut down their smoking habits by switching to smokeless tobacco products under the assumption that it will be a healthier lifestyle choice.

Whether it is because they cannot smoke in their current location or the person is merely trying to cut back, the trend of dual smoking or polytobacco use is becoming increasingly popular.

Melissa Blank, assistant professor of psychology at West Virginia University, is currently monitoring the trend.

She has been given a grant of $750,000 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to go about her two-week experiment involving dual tobacco users.

“Researchers say there

is no such thing as a ‘safe tobacco product,’” Blank said. “Let’s say you smoke 20 cigarettes a day and you’re trying to cut down by only smoking eight cigarettes, but you’re filling the rest of your addiction with smokeless tobacco use.”

Blank said that people have recently tried to become “healthier smokers” by doing this, which, as it turns out, probably isn’t doing much good.

The experiment involves users logging their tobacco use on an Android device.

The users state what kind of tobacco use they performed, such as a cigarette, chew, snus, snuff, cigar, cigarillo or vapor.

Once the type of tobacco is specified the user will be asked several questions involving their location, their mood and feelings.

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RIVALRY RENEWED The West Virginia men’s soccer team will take on Virginia Tech tonight at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.

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Thursday September 4, 2014

Campus MovieFest comes to campus again by alexa mcclennen correspondent @dailyathenaeum

Campus MovieFest, the world’s largest student film festival is coming to West Virginia University for the second year in a row. This is the 14th annual tour throughout 75 different colleges and universities.

Students are encouraged to sign up and participate even if they do not have any prior experience with film making or editing. “We’re only looking for enthusiasm and a story to tell,� said Wey Lin, the pro-

motions manager for Campus MovieFest.

Students will be asked to create a five minute video on any topic, plot or genre that interests them. “Making a five minute movie in one week is no easy feat,� said Dan Costa, Co-founder of Campus MovieFest in a news release. “Yet every year, we’re amazed by the talent on each campus we visit, and we’re thrilled to soon showcase this year’s top short films and filmmakers.�

On Sept. 10, all participating students who signed up via http://campusmovief-

est.com can visit the event opening in the Vandalia Lounge in the Mountainlair from noon to 5 p.m. where they will receive a loaded laptop with editing software from Adobe Creative Cloud, a Western Digital portable hard drive, a Panasonic HD video camera and technical support for tutorials and help guides, all for free.

Sept. 11-15, from noon to 4 p.m. on the second floor of the Mountainlair, Campus MovieFest techs will be available for any participant who has any questions about technical support.

Sept. 16 will be the collec-

tion day where students will return equipment and submit their film.

A panel of anonymous judges, which will include students and staff from WVU, will be chosen by the staff of WVUp All Night, who will judge the movies. “Last year, we had such a good pool of videos, one student went to Cannes Movie Festival in France and watched his film, ‘The B Team,’ get featured. We would like to double or triple the amount of participants this year by encouraging everyone to sign up

even if you have no experience,� said Sarah Taylor, the lead intern for WVUp All Night.

On Sept. 19 in the Mountainlair ballroom, Campus MovieFest will host a formal screening of the top-16 films. This event is open to the public and all students are encouraged to come and support their classmates.

The top four film winners will receive a one year subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud, a T-shirt and a movie clapboard. Their film will be shown at a CMF movie screening to be held later in

the year.

A VIP reception will be held after the event for all of the filmmakers, their families and judges. “We are glad to be back at WVU for the second year, and very impressed from the skills shown from last year. We are excited to see what this year brings,� said Lin. If students have any questions about Campus MovieFest they can contact Wey Lin at wey@campusmoviefest.com or Sarah Taylor at 304-293-6007. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Ebola survivors: Hospital staff exposed in Africa Lawyer: Brown never charged with serious felony CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The hospital in Liberia where three American aid workers got sick with Ebola has been overwhelmed by a surge in patients and doesn’t have enough hazard suits and other supplies to keep doctors and nurses safe, a missionary couple told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The latest infection -- of Rick Sacra, a doctor who wasn’t even working in the hospital’s Ebola unit -shows just how critical protective gear is to containing the deadly epidemic, and how charities alone can’t handle the response, they said.

Nancy Writebol and her husband, David, called for reinforcements during the AP interview, which followed her first news conference since recovering from Ebola disease. They work for North Carolina-based SIM, the charity that supports the ELWA hospital in Monrovia, Liberia.

About 250 staffers at the hospital use thousands of disposable protective suits each week, but that’s not enough to fully protect the doctors and nurses who must screen people entering the emergency room or treat patients outside the 50-bed Ebola isolation unit, they said. “We don’t have enough personal protective safety equipment to adequately be able to safely diagnose if a patient has Ebola. So they are putting themselves at risk,� David Writebol said.

Sacra, 51, a doctor from suburban Boston who spent 15 years working at the hospital, felt compelled to return despite these challenges. As soon as he heard that Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol were sick, Sacra called and said “I’m ready to go,� SIM President Bruce Johnson said.

Sacra’s job was to deliver babies and care for patients

who were not infected with Ebola. He helped write the protocols for handling Ebola, his brother Doug said, and he followed all the protections, said Will Elthick, the group’s operations director in Liberia.

But Sacra got infected nonetheless by the virus that has killed more than 1,900 people and sickened 3,500 in five West African nations.

The disease is spreading faster than the response for lack of protective gear and caregivers, said Tom Kenyon of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At least $600 million is urgently needed to provide these tools and extra hazard pay so that more doctors and nurses are willing to risk their lives, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

Health care workers at other West African hospitals have gone on strike demanding more protections, the Writebols said. “They see colleagues who have fallen. They don’t want that to happen to them. But they are saying, ‘I can’t go to work safely until there is personal protective equipment available -- the right gear, the right procedures in place. And then, if they don’t go to work, are they going to get paid?� David Writebol said.

The Writebols left Charlotte for Africa several years ago; David helped with the hospital’s technology while Nancy helped dress and disinfect people entering and leaving the Ebola unit at ELWA, which stands for Eternal Love Winning Africa.

Liberians were already struggling to survive when they got there, but with Ebola it’s chaos — the number of patients is surging, finding food and supplies is more costly, schools are closed and people with common injuries or even

mothers in childbirth can’t get care.

Ebola has “overwhelmed the supply chain,� David Writebol said. “They can’t get equipment in because there aren’t any regular flights coming in. Same thing with aid workers from the international community. There are only a limited number of seats available to come into Liberia. ... That’s one of the biggest problems -- getting medicine, protective gear and supplies for health care workers who are there.�

Nancy Writebol said people who showed up at the emergency room with symptoms were ushered into triage. But health workers were sometimes exposed as they screened patients who may not have known or advertised that they were carrying the virus.

And sometimes, the sick would leave before finding out if they had Ebola. “Those are the people you really worry about going back into the community, because if they are sick with Ebola, it will ultimately spread,� she said.

Sacra immediately got tested for Ebola after coming down with a temperature, and like his colleagues, went into isolation to avoid spreading the virus, his brother Doug Sacra told the AP. Some other doctors haven’t been so rigorous.

The WHO announced today that a doctor in southern Nigeria was exposed by a man who evaded surveillance efforts, and then in turn exposed dozens of others by continuing to treat patients after he became ill.

Before he died, his family and church members laid their hands on his body in a healing ritual.

Now his widow and sister are sick and about 60 others in the city of Port Harcourt are under surveillance, the

agency said.

Sacra, who left his family at home for this latest trip to Africa, was in good spirits Wednesday and able to send emails, Elthick said.

That could mean he’s physically well enough to be evacuated.

His wife, Debbie, said in a statement that she’s focusing on her husband, but she said “Rick would want me to urge you to remember that there are many people in Liberia who are suffering in this epidemic and others who are not receiving standard health care because clinics and hospitals have been forced to close. “West Africa is on the verge of a humanitarian crisis, and the world needs to respond compassionately and generously,� she said.

It’s not clear where Sacra would be treated in the U.S. Experts say any fullyequipped hospital that follows safety protocols could prevent an American outbreak while caring for an Ebola patient. But there are four high-level isolation units designed especially to handle dreaded infectious diseases.

The largest is at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, which was told to prepare to receive a patient, but they were told the same thing before Brantly and Writebol were evacuated instead to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, medical center spokesman Taylor Wilson said Wednesday.

The other two units are National Institutes of Health facilities in Maryland and Montana.

Meanwhile, health care workers in Africa are dealing with the impossible every day. “To watch so many people suffer and die was horrendous. It was horrible some days,� Nancy Writebol said.

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — The 18-year-old fatally shot by a suburban St. Louis police officer didn’t face any juvenile charges at the time of his death and never was charged with a serious felony such as murder, robbery or burglary, a juvenile court system lawyer said Wednesday.

Those details emerged at a hearing in which two media organizations sought the release of any possible juvenile records for Michael Brown. An attorney for the Brown family called the effort to get the records “shameful� and motivated by “character assassination.�

Cynthia Harcourt, the St. Louis County juvenile office’s attorney, offered the most specific public details on whether Brown faced legal trouble before his 18th birthday — a subject of intense speculation in a case that has garnered global attention. The 45-minute hearing before a St. Louis County family court judge didn’t reveal whether Brown had ever been charged with lesser offenses as a juvenile.

Juvenile records are confidential in Missouri, but under state law, being charged with certain violent crimes removes those juvenile privacy protections. Police have said Brown had no adult criminal record.

Joe Martineau, an attorney for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, cited an overriding public right to know Brown’s history after his early August shooting death by Ferguson officer Darren Wilson sparked more than a week of sometimes-violent protests

and drew international scrutiny. “There is interest in knowing Michael Brown’s background,� Martineau said. “What we’re asking for here is just verification, one way or the other ... We’re acting in a vacuum here.�

A northern California journalist joined the St. Louis newspaper in seeking the records.

Harcourt said that “simple curiosity� doesn’t trump the state’s legal interest in protecting minors accused of crimes. “The court of public opinion does not require the release of juvenile records,� she said.

Brown family attorney Anthony Gray said that even if Brown did have a brush with the juvenile court system — including for such low-level offenses as truancy — those details are irrelevant to the question of whether Wilson acted with excessive force. “I don’t know what would be the relevance of that ... after this young man was executed in broad daylight,� said Gray, who attended the hearing but did not speak in court.

The civil lawsuit by Charles C. Johnson of Fresno, California, cites a 1984 Missouri Court of Appeals ruling that allowed the release of the juvenile records of an 18-year-old who was killed by a security guard while shoplifting at a supermarket in 1979.

That man’s mother challenged a trial court’s decision to release the records to defendants who were hoping to determine the 18-year-old’s lost earning capacity.

WVU releases statement on death of associate vice president’s son A fatal vehicle accident occurred near the intersection of Grafton Road and Goshen Road Tuesday morning. Police say a 1999 Ford Explorer struck a 12-year-old boy. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver of the vehicle has been identified as Hunter Montero, 20, of Morgantown.

Montero struck Marlowe Stewart. Stewart was the son of David Stewart, West Virginia University associate vice president for international student affairs and global services.

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“The idea is: Can we come up with a less lethal tobacco product,� Blank said.

An even bigger problem would be the government’s involvement in the regulation of these products. In 2009 the government stepped in and began regulating what big tobacco

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BOG member Amanda Hutchison said she completely supports the appointments made. “I feel pretty confident about all of them. What we have learned from the past is that Nyden and Evans wouldn’t put forth some-

“The University family is heartbroken over the Stewart families’ loss of their dear son, Marlowe,� said WVU President Gordon Gee in a statement. “The Stewarts are a large, loving family – known by many across our campus, state and internationally because of their work – and it is unimaginable to think of the grief they are experiencing. We are keeping them in our constant prayers. — crl

companies were coining in their advertisements. “Think of it like decaf coffee. People believe there is no caffeine in decaffeinated coffee, but there is,� Blank said. “Decaf has caf.�

And smokeless tobacco products that claim to be better for individuals than cigarettes have no real evidence to back it up, according to Blank. “By checking the cotinine (nicotine broken down in

saliva) we are able to see just how much nicotine is being absorbed,� Blank said.

So is there really a safe alternative? By changing from a smoke tobacco product to a smokeless one, is someone really doing themselves a favor?

In two years the results will be in and the questions answered by Dr. Melissa Blank.

one that they didn’t have full confidence in,� she said. “As a board member, I trust my president and vice president wholeheartedly.�

Hutchison had several questions for some of the appointees. She said, as a part of her platform, she is trying to bring a wheelchair dance team to WVU and has been working with the teams director, Chelsea Hill, to prepare a program. “I was trying to bring her here for diversity week but the times didn’t work out,

but I am still trying to prepare an event to bring them here,�

Hutchison said. “They are more than interested. I just need the funding for it. This is why I asked the diversity cochairs if they would be willing to cooperate with me.�

The board also awarded several grants to International Justice Mission and the Public Relations Student Society of America.

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Democrat ends campaign in US Senate race in Kansas

Chad Taylor, Kansas Democrats’ nominee for the U.S. Senate, discusses his campaign during an interview on the Statehouse grounds in Topeka, Kan. Taylor sent a letter to the Kansas secretary of state, withdrawing from the race on Wednesday.

TOPEK A, Kan. (AP) — The Democrat challenging three-term Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts ended his campaign Wednesday without explanation.

Chad Taylor sent a letter to the Kansas secretary of state withdrawing from the race, which also has a viable independent candidate, Olathe businessman Greg Orman, as well as a Libertarian candidate, Randall Batson, of Wichita.

Taylor issued a separate statement saying he made the decision after consulting with his staff, supporters and Democratic Party leaders.

“Effective today, my campaign is terminated,” he said. Originally, the statement said “suspended,” but the word was crossed out and replaced with a handwritten “terminated.”

Taylor ’s withdrawal came just days after his campaign released its first television ad, a 30-second spot showing him working on a family farm.

Joan Wagnon, the Kansas Democratic Party’s chairwoman, said she needed a few days to sort out the situation.

Roberts’ executive campaign manager Leroy Towns called the move a “corrupt bargain” between

Democratic leaders and Orman’s campaign and said Orman’s independent status is “a smoke screen.”

Both the Taylor and Orman camps declined to comment beyond written statements.

Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican and former law professor, said his initial reading of state election laws is that they require the Democratic Party to pick a new nominee. But he said he’ll consult with his legal staff Thursday.

Orman issued a statement Wednesday calling Taylor “a committed public servant.” Taylor is the district attorney in Shaw-

nee County, home of the state capital of Topeka.

Orman, the co-founder of a business capital and management ser vices firm, ran for Roberts’ seat in 2007 as a Democrat but dropped out early in 2008.

He said he grew unhappy with both parties and that he’s a nonpartisan centrist. He has positioned himself as Roberts’ most formidable opponent in the Nov. 4 election.

Campaign finance records show Taylor raised about $163,000 in contributions from November through July, while Orman took in more than $670,000 after starting his campaign in May. Roberts

raised about $3.4 million from the beginning of last year through July, but he had a tough primary race against tea-party challenger Milton Wolf.

Roberts remains favored to win the race in GOPleaning Kansas, though he received just 48 percent of the vote in his primary race against Wolf and two lesser-known candidates. Republicans have won every U.S. Senate contest since 1932, and they enjoy a nearly 20 percentage-point advantage among the state’s 1.74 million registered voters.

Since the primary, Roberts has sought to unify

Republicans by appealing to their frustrations with Democratic President Barack Obama and Democratic U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

On Wednesday, Orman received the endorsement of Traditional Republicans for Common Sense, a group of former moderate GOP state legislators unhappy with the p a r t y ’s conservative leanings.

“What we really need to do is send a message to those folks in Washington that we want problem solvers there,” Orman said during a Statehouse news conference on the endorsement.

Behind Big Macs, a drama over corporate control NEW YORK (AP) — Behind those Big Macs and Whoppers is a hidden drama over corporate control.

The fast-food industry is underpinned by an often tense relationship between companies like McDonald’s and Burger King and the franchisees who run their restaurants. Few customers think about this when scarfing down burgers.

Around the country, union organizers are pushing to make McDonald’s take responsibility for how workers are treated at its franchised restaurants. And in California, a bill could soon give all franchisees greater protections, including stricter rules on when companies can terminate their agreements.

The moves highlight the tensions in a business model that has long been considered an attractive way to start a business. In exchange for an upfront investment and ongoing fees, aspiring business owners get to capitalize on popular brands people trust. To protect their images, companies dictate terms like kitchen equipment, worker uniforms and menu offerings.

The problem, franchisee advocates say, is that companies can strip franchisees of their livelihoods for violating any contract terms, even if minor. That can leave franchisees feeling powerless and afraid to speak up.

“It’s scary. People are kowtowed and they’re worried,” said Peter Lagarias, a lawyer in San Rafael, California, who represents franchisees.

GROWING TENSIONS The California bill would amend a law to require companies to show there was a “substantial and material” breach before terminating a contract. An existing state law allows termination for “good cause,” which can be any violation of the contract.

It would also require companies to give a franchisee back their business or compensate them for its value if a

contract was wrongfully terminated. As it stands, companies only have to pay franchisees for store inventory, which would be a fraction of that amount.

Gov. Jerry Brown has not indicated whether he plans to sign the bill, which was passed by California’s senate and assembly. He has until the end of September.

The International Franchise Association, which is backed by companies including McDonald’s, says the bill would result in “countless frivolous lawsuits” and is unnecessary because franchisees can sue if they feel they’ve been treated unfairly. It notes franchisees are given 30 days to fix violations before a contract can be terminated.

McDonald’s, which owns 19 percent of its more than 35,000 restaurants around the world and around 10 percent of those in the U.S., says the California bill could weaken a franchiser’s ability to enforce standards.

Kathryn Slater-Carter, a McDonald’s owner in California, said she spearheaded the bill after McDonald’s decided not to renew the franchise agreement and lease on one of her two restaurants. She said McDonald’s cited her husband’s failure to attend meetings for not renewing the agreement, even though only she was required to attend. That left her unable to sell the business, which she estimates was worth $2 million.

“If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone,” she said.

McDonald’s spokeswoman Lisa McComb said Slater-Carter’s agreement and lease simply expired and that the company was not able to reach an agreement on a new lease with the landlord.

While the California bill hinges largely on a franchiser’s right to enforce standards, companies are seeking to maintain a line of separation with their franchisees on

another front.

Labor organizers are pushing to hold McDonald’s accountable for working conditions at restaurants, citing the control the company exerts over franchisees. Both McDonald’s and its franchisees have been named in lawsuits on behalf of workers.

Last month, union organizers won a victory when the National Labor Relations Board said McDonald’s could be named as a joint employer in charges filed on behalf of workers over unfair labor practices. McDonald’s said it will fight the decision and that it has no control over employment decisions at franchised restaurants.

The Service Employees International Union also is backing the California bill.

THE POWER STRUCTURE Many states have no laws regarding the termination of franchisee agreements, and the ones that do vary in the protections they provide.

That can leave franchisees at the mercy of contracts, which often put all the power in the hands of companies, franchisee advocates say.

Corporate cultures vary, of course, with some companies exerting more control than others, said Robert Purvin, CEO of the American Association of Franchisees and Dealers in Palm Desert, California. At Subway, for instance, franchisees are in charge of buying supplies, so they know the company isn’t marking up prices for cold cuts and lettuce.

Companies also often have advisory councils to give franchisees a voice. Still, there are bound to be disagreements given the nature of the business model. Value menus are a good example.

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A case for the dead Prof. of the year goes to... taylor jobin

columnist @dailyathenaeum

Here’s a toast to the dead. Death is the stoic reminder that connects all living things. Every culture has its own way of paying respect to their fallen, but the American media has a deceptive way of showing it.

You never see dead bodies or graphic images on the news, and we should. That may sound insensitive and a bit necrofanatical, but bear with me.

Every year people are shot, stabbed, raped and mutilated on network television. For a few dollars more, you can see someone’s head pop like a cherry on HBO. (Thanks George R. R. Martin, no one can un-see that.) The popular game series Call of Duty has shown public executions, burning bodies and has a mission where the player strolls through a Russian airport mowing down innocent civilians with a machine gun. But seeing a dead journalist on the news – no way, apparently. You might catch a blurred body on CNN from its war coverage, but that’s about it. This is thanks to “The Breakfast Test,” a term journalists use to determine if a photo or story should be run.

The thought is if it may repulse someone over breakfast, you shouldn’t run it.

The arguments for why photos of the dead shouldn’t be published by media outlets are simple enough. I often hear the photos are traumatizing and don’t add anything to the story. The main argument against this is the dignity of the dead and their loved ones is taken

away when the tragic and graphic photos are shown.

Let me start with the second argument. Sometimes people die in undignified ways. This doesn’t change the significance of their death. In fact, it’s probably the reason the media is covering it in the first place. Horrible things happen, and it’s a journalist’s prerogative to run what they feel is necessary to convey an accurate story.

Now, back to the first argument. If you would like to make a case against the historical significance of photos like the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Saigon execution or Falling Man, then I would love to hear it. By censoring real, historically significant deaths, you are doing nothing but moral deception. By refusing to run photos that reveal the harsh realities of war or the despicable acts of human nature, you lie to the people you’re supposed to be informing.

This isn’t about shock value or stirring up controversy, it’s about the truth.

The truth is reality is what you make it and there are people in this world who try and make it as terrible as possible for the rest of us. By refusing to acknowledge these brutal visual facts, you dupe people into ignorance. There are some cases in which humans are not treated with dignity.

If journalists are to report the truth, they should not censor themselves for the sake of possibly offending someone over their bowl of cereal. If showing graphic images of the dead or dying conveys truth, then they should be published. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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College football: 2014’s Championship contenders Camden joiner university of georgia

At long last college football season is finally upon us.

The football new year technically began last Wednesday in Atlanta as Georgia State narrowly defeated Abilene Christian in dramatic fashion.

For most fans however, Saturday was the first time they could dust off their jerseys, fire up the grill, and watch their favorite school play football.

Last year’s veteran seniors are ancient history and the pressure on the untested freshmen seem to be growing by the season. New players, new coaches, and heavy expectations come with each new season and this year’s cream of the crop is an elite group.

But with the inception of the College Football Playoff system, this season’s champion will be much more difficult to predict. Here are the contenders: Florida State: I would be remiss to not begin this list with the defending National Champion Seminoles. Heisman-winning quarterback Jameis Winston will be returning under center for the Noles in Tallahassee.

Unfortunately for Winston, his tumultuous off-season made headlines for all the wrong reasons and questions about his character

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still remain. Jameis certainly showed in last year’s postseason that his game is unaffected by questions from the press, but the defending champs have much bigger problems than Winston’s offfield antics.

While last year Winston certainly received most of the media attention, the true backbone of the Noles was the talented defense.

But with the loss of defensive leaders like Lamarcus Joyner, Telvin Smith and Timmy Jernigan to the NFL, the Seminoles have serious holes in the defense that need filing.

Head coach Jimbo Fisher had to fill these holes quickly as their Week 1 opponent, Oklahoma State, was one of their biggest match-ups of the season. The Noles were unimpressive in their narrow 3731 defeat over the unranked Cowboys.

Winston’s accuracy remains a question after throwing two picks and the defense has surely declined from last season. FSU has a lighter schedule than most playing their conference games in the ACC; however, key match-ups with Clemson, Notre Dame and Florida are still ahead for the Seminoles.

Alabama: The Crimson Tide has been racking up National Titles in recent years so last season’s Sugar Bowl defeat at the hands of Oklahoma came as a shock to most.

Questions of Alabama’s

Almost every year since 1985 the Faculty Merit Foundation of West Virginia bestows an outstanding West Virginia professor with the Professor of the Year title, an award of $10,000 cash and a trophy for the program. The runner-up receives $2,500, and $1,000 goes to the next three finalists.

This prestigious title encompasses various qualifying fields within the teaching profession such as student counseling, inno-

vation and creativity, and institution and community volunteer activities. There are a total of nine categories for a maximum of 100 points.

As a state that normally gets the short end of the stick on issues such as social, health, economic and especially education, this award stands out on a higher end of the spectrum.

This is a huge deal for the education system in West Virginia.

In the past 25 years that

awards have been given, eight of them have been given to West Virginia University professors, more than any other college on the Past Honorees list.

How wonderful it is to be able to attend a University with professors capable of achieving such a high honor. This goes to say how much impact one professor can have on students’ lives.

So, why not make WVU a school people want to go to for its outstanding academ-

ics and teachers?

To nominate a professor who has made an impact on your life, please visit http:// wvhumanities.org/POY. htm. There you will find more information about the foundation, as well as the nomination form and specific instructions. All nominations must be submitted and postmarked by Nov. 1. So, go give back to a professor who has given so much to you. dapersectives@mail.wvu.edu

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A few reasons to enjoy this fall season hannah chenoweth columnist @dailyathenaeum

The week after Labor Day means more than just stuffing your white pants in the back of your closet - it marks the beginning of the best season ever, fall. Yes, I realize it’s not actually fall until Sept. 23, but once September hits there’s no denial that the school year is underway. The tests and deadlines which seemed so far away during syllabus week are now a real thing, and we all begin to draft the obituary for our days spent at the pool.

According to the Farmer’s Almanac, we are running on borrowed time as far as this fall is concerned. We are slated to be hit with ridiculous cold and snow (again) starting in November. The Almanac claims an 80 percent accuracy rate, and they were certainly correct about the polar vortex that characterized last winter.

So, with that said, I am going to encourage everyone to enjoy every second of sweet autumn before the wool is thrown over our eyes.

Did you ever realize that fall is the only season that has two names? Fall, autumn, whatever you call it, I believe everything is better in this season. The colorful leaves provide a gorgeous backdrop to our usual surroundings, and here in West Virginia we have the privilege of seeing the splendor from Coopers Rock.

Here, Halloween is a weeklong holiday (this year it’s on a Friday, by the way). There are leaves to kick around and jump into and seasonal things like apple festivals and pump-

kin carvings. And, of course, what many girls probably care the most about: The reunion with our pumpkin spice lattes (it’s been too long). It’s also ridiculously nice to break out the boots and hoodies and walk to class without dripping with sweat.

The most obvious reason fall is amazing is football season. There is nothing more glorious than being surrounded by a sea of shouting blue and gold, reuniting with friends at a familiar tailgate spot or making new alumni friends, juicy burgers and coleslaw and beers galore.

Cheers, beers and Mountaineers. That saying resonates most within our hearts during football season. Most of the game times are still to be decided, but we already know for sure that we have at least two night games. That means we don’t have to force ourselves to start drinking at 8 a.m. and

can enjoy a nice, long day of tailgating.

If you’re not too into the football mania, I’d bet you do enjoy a little wine and jazz music. Sept. 27 and 28 is the annual West Virginia Wine and Jazz Festival, held at Camp Muffly in Morgantown. Admission is only $20, which includes a wine glass and wine tasting. Local bands play all day long while you have a chance to browse artisan stands with everything from wine-themed jewelry to pottery and photography. All of this is done with a glass of wine in hand. The best part of the event is that it’s nonprofit - all proceeds go to the community.

Entertainment-wise, you can get excited about some contortionist madness and Chance the Rapper this fall.

On Sept. 9 and 10, you can seek an escape from the ordinary world by attending

the world-renowned “Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy” show at the Creative Arts Center.

Who doesn’t enjoy seeing human pretzels perform fantastic tricks on the stage in amazing costumes? I definitely plan on being swept away by the magic and splendor. Chance the Rapper, the 21-year-old singer of hits like “Cocoa Butter Kisses” and “Lost”, will be playing Oct. 26 at the Coliseum for only $38 - not counting the student discount of $10 for showing your WVU ID. There’s plenty more to look forward to this fall, and you can easily find out what’s happening at http://downtownmorgantown.com. This season is the perfect medium between the humidity of summer and the bitterness of winter, so enjoy every second.

motivation were prevalent after narrowly missing another chance at a national title but the 14-point Sugar Bowl loss left some Tide fans concerned.

Much like Florida State, Alabama lost most of their defensive leaders this off -season but the always crafty Nick Saban has plenty of young talent lined up to take their spots.

The biggest question for the Tide is at quarterback where the Week 1 starter was Blake Sims. Sims had a mediocre debut against WVU and many Tide fans wish to see FSU transfer Jacob Coker take some reps under center.

Thankfully for the Crimson Tide, much of their offense beyond QB1 remains intact. Offensive weapons TJ Yeldon and Amari Cooper are both poised for monster seasons and Alabama continues to claim one of the best offensive lines in the nation.

The only thing standing in the Tide’s way of championship dreams is their harsh SEC schedule. Fortunately for Alabama, their toughest games against Texas A&M and Auburn are both in Tuscaloosa.

Oregon: Last season’s Ducks missed out on a BCS Bowl for the first time in recent memory and second year head coach Mark Helfrich has high expectations to fulfill.

Oregon is led by their returning starting quarterback Marus Mariota who many view as this year’s Heisman front runner. The 6-foot-4 QB has the size and the speed to

do damage in the PAC-12 with one team standing in his way.

Mariota has never beaten the Stanford Cardinal as a starter and this year is his chance to silence the critics.

The Ducks’ offense has remained consistently quick and fast-paced under Helfrich, but their biggest test will come this week against the Michigan State Spartans.

The Spartans maintained one of the best defenses in the nation last season and this year will be no different.

A win over a tough Spartan team would be essential in landing a spot in the playoffs, but with a game at UCLA and home against Stanford, Oregon has plenty of obstacles to keep them busy.

As for the Ducks championship aspirations, all eyes will be on Mariota.

Oklahoma: The Sooners have momentum on their side as they begin this season fresh off a Sugar Bowl victory over the powerhouse Alabama Crimson Tide.

Bob Stoops’ talented recruiting has kept the Sooners relevant throughout his tenure and this year will be no different. Stoops finally found his quarterback in Trevor Knight and after last season’s bowl victory the boys from Norman have their sights set on the real crown.

Oklahoma is favored by an easier schedule than most and should cruise through the first half of their season. Their toughest test will come against

the Bryce Petty-led Baylor Bears on November 8, but by then they should be in perfect mid-season form.

Their conference, the Big 12, has no Conference Championship game like most other major conferences which makes Oklahoma’s road to the playoffs easier than the rest of the contenders. Whether they actually have the talent to do damage in the playoffs is a question that remains to be seen.

Auburn: The Auburn Tigers came just a pass interference flag short of winning last year’s National Championship game.

Returning starting quarterback Nick Marshall leads the offense and while Heisman finalist Tre Mason is currently playing for the St. Louis Rams, capable back Cameron ArtisPayne has stepped up to take his place.

Offensive guru Gus Malzahn is back in his second year of head coaching the Tigers and hopes his sophomore campaign will be even more successful than his first.

Standing in the Tigers way is probably the toughest schedule in all of the NCAA with games vs LSU, South Carolina, Texas A&M, Georgia and Alabama.

Auburn will surely have to defeat Alabama and Georgia again to reach this year’s playoffs, but after barely escaping them both last season with late game heroics,

Malzahn and Marshall will need a whole deck of cards up their sleeves this time around if they hope to emerge victorious.

Georgia: If I had written this article last week, Georgia certainly wouldn’t have made the cut. After losing offensive leader and starting quarterback Aaron Murray to the Kansas City Chiefs, the Dawgs’ championship aspirations seemed bleak.

However, after dismantling Clemson 45-21 in Week 1, the Bulldogs shot up the rankings to number 6. Star running back Todd Gurley rushed for nearly 200 yards and racked up four touchdowns against the Tigers in Week 1, making him an early Heisman front runner. (Here is the link to Gurley’s kick off return touchdown).

He’s joined by Keith Marshall, Sony Michel and Nick Chubb in probably the most talented backfield in college ball. This takes serious pressure off new starting quarterback Hutson Mason who was mediocre at best vs Clemson.

The Dawgs still have games ahead against South Carolina and Auburn, but their biggest obstacle to the playoffs will be the SEC Championship game.

Georgia hasn’t won the SEC Championship since 2005 and have lost three out of their last four bowl games. Georgia will have to overcome their post season woes if they hope to wear the crown.

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or with whom you do it. A situation where you have often taken the Born today This year you will lead could transform. You might not become more involved with com- want to be as much of a leader as pleting long-term projects, but the you have been in the past. Tonight: tension of meeting deadlines often Try to break free early. could irk you. Use tension as an advantage, not a detriment; you will TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH empower yourself that way. This year You could be giving off an aura of beis the perfect year to build on your ing extremely put-together, which strengths and eliminate what does might not be the case. Work on benot work. You enter a new life cycle ing as authentic as possible. A sudnext summer. If you are single, even den insight is likely to make you if you are sure that Cupid has hit a wonder why you have never thought bull’s-eye, continue treating a new this way before. Tonight: Make plans potential sweetie with some skeptifor a fall getaway. cism. If you are attached, the two of you develop quite a closeness. Enjoy every moment. CAPRICORN is solGEMINI (May 21-June 20) emn yet responsive.

HHHH One-on-one relating will be a dominant theme today.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) You might feel misrepresented HHHH You seem to experience in a conversation, as if the other gawkiness, no matter what you do party did not hear your message.

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‘The League’ returns with season 6 premiere Ashley DeNardo Associate A&E Editor @amdenardo

The FXX hit comedy, “The League,� ended its fifth season in November 2013. “The League� began in 2009 on FX and moved to the new FXX channel last year. The series is centersed on the everyday lives of a group of friends in a fantasy football league and the chaos that surrounds them. The show is outlandish and semi-improvised.

Last season’s finale, a double feature of “Baby Geoffrey Jesus� and “The 8 Defensive Points of Hanukkah,� was ridiculous and full of the old-fashioned vulgarity fans know and love.

The episodes focus on who will be crowned league champion and win the “Shiva� trophy, along with the inevitable “winner� of the last place scrotum trophy known as the “Sacko� or the “Ruxin.�

In the first episode, Ruxin (Nick Kroll) and his wife, Sophia (Nadine Velazquez), argued about the religious upbringing of their son, Geoffrey. Ruxin is Jewish and Sophia is Catholic.

Rafi (Jason Mantzoukas) pursued Ruxin’s sister and pretended to be Jewish.

Another argument occurred between Jenny

(Katie Aselton) and Kevin (Stephen Rannazzisi) because Jenny went outside of their marriage for fantasy football advice - a very serious offense.

Kevin left his home to stay with his best friend, Pete (Mark Duplass).

All the while, Andre (Paul Scheer) plays a trick on Pete by creating a fake Vernon Davis Twitter account. Andre tweets from the account to steer Pete in the wrong direction for his lineup.

In the final episode, Jenny and Andre were in it to win it while Kevin and Pete competed for the Sacko.

Andre, a plastic surgeon, teamed up with another surgeon, Dr. Hector Rocha (Aziz Ansari). Rocha tricks Andre into signing a contract that says he will work for “No Child Cleft Behind� in El Salvador for three years and leave the Chicago area to Rocha. Andre believed he was signing a contract that would make them partners in a practice.

Kevin’s brother, Taco (Jon Lajoie), started an “Eskimo brother� database. “Eskimo brothers� are two men who have shared the same lover.

Rafi and Ruxin’s sister become one in Taco’s Taco Corp van and caused the van to roll down a hill.

As fate would have it, the van crushed Rocha’s hand.

This is good news for An-

dre, who will now be Chicago’s primary plastic surgeon.

Jenny wins the season and Kevin ends up with the Sacko, concluding season five.

While the final two episodes of season five revived some of the show’s previous creative genius, the season overall was lackluster, according to some fans and critics.

Many interesting plotlines were lost in the show’s effort to be as shocking as possible.

Hopefully season six can get back in possession of the comedic brilliance it currently lacks.

Fans can at least look forward to interesting situations involving Jenny and Kevin since they are married, but ended up at opposite ends of the rankings.

The first episode of season six is called “Sitting Shiva.� In the episode, Kevin struggled with his Sacko situation. Also, the guys went to a funeral, and brought back some of the crude, dark humor that worked so well in the past.

Besides the new episodes, FXX released an original soundtrack for the show, primarily featuring Jon Lajoie. “Eskimo Brothers� and “Fear Boner� are only two out of the 17 hilarious tracks. ashley.denardo@mail.wvu.edu

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One killed, 6 injured during filming of Gregg Allman biography SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — CSX Transportation twice denied producers of a biographical movie about singer Gregg Allman permission to shoot on its railroad tracks before a freight train slammed into the film’s crew in south Georgia, killing one worker and injuring six, the company said in court documents.

Legal filings in Chatham County State Court mark the first time Floridabased railroad operator CSX has made any publicly available statement about the Feb. 20 crash involving one of its trains and the crew of the movie “Midnight Rider.� Lawsuits have

been filed against CSX and the film’s producers by the parents of Sarah Jones, a camera assistant killed in the collision, and two injured crew members. Director Randall Miller and two other top executives on the production have also been indicted on criminal charges.

In its response Tuesday to the Jones family’s lawsuit, attorneys for CSX denied the company was negligent or otherwise responsible for the crash that killed her. The film workers, including actor William Hurt in the role of the Allman Brothers Band singer, was shooting on a

railroad bridge spanning the Altamaha River in rural Wayne County when a train traveling 55 mph plowed through them and a hospital bed placed on the tracks as a prop.

The railroad company also sued the film’s producers in the same court for trespassing. CSX Transportation said that days before the crash the filmmakers twice asked for permission to shoot on its train tracks and the company “unequivocally denied each request in writing, citing a company policy which prohibits filming on CSXT’s property due to safety and se-

curity reasons.�

The lawsuit said filmmakers decided to trespass onto the railroad’s property “despite knowing that CSXT had twice, in writing, denied them permission.�

Matt Stone, an attorney for Miller and the director’s wife and business partner, Jody Savin, declined to comment Wednesday. So did William Hunter, an attorney for “Midnight Rider� executive producer Jay Sedrish.

All three are named as defendants in CSX’s lawsuit, along with Miller and Savin’s production company, Unclaimed Freight Productions. Prosecutors

charged Miller, Savin and Sedrish with involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespassing.

In a prepared statement July 17, Miller and Savin said the crash and Jones’ death “will haunt us forever� and insisted that “we would never knowingly or intentionally put anybody’s safety at risk.�

Sheriff ’s investigators have previously said the film producers were denied access to the railroad tracks by CSX, but had permission to be on surrounding property owned

by Rayonier, the forestproducts manufacturer that has a nearby mill.

The Jones family’s lawsuit says CSX should have taken precautions because it knew the film crew planned to shoot in the area and operators of two passing trains saw the workers before the crash.

CSX said its operators saw “unidentified persons� in the area “but not on or immediately near� the tracks.

CSX also said 27-yearold Jones was partly to blame for her own death because she “failed to exercise ordinary and responsible care for her own safety.� A spokeswoman for the family did not immediately return an email seeking comment.

New York’s decision to allow only one gay organization to march in parade NEW YORK (AP) — A decision by organizers of the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade to allow one gay organization to march is a disappointment after decades of fighting by gay groups for full participation, several advocates said Wednesday.

Some were dismayed that the organizers had chosen just one lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group to participate next year after ending a ban on them. Others expressed continuing mistrust.

Nathan Schaefer, executive director of Empire State Pride Agenda, called the announcement “disappointing and self-serving.� “While this development is long overdue, inviting one group to march at the exclusion of all oth-

ers ... is a far stretch from the full inclusion we deserve,� Schaefer said.

Sarah Kate Ellis, president of the gay-rights group GLAAD, said parade organizers - who announced other gay groups could apply for the parade in 2016 and afterward - “must be held accountable� to that pledge. “Discrimination has no place on America’s streets, least of all on Fifth Avenue,� she said. “As an IrishCatholic American, I look forward to a fully inclusive St. Patrick’s Day Parade that I can share with my wife and children, just as my own parents shared with me.�

The New York City Saint Patrick’s Day Parade Committee said Wednesday that OUT(at)NBCUniversal, an LGBT resource

group at the company that broadcasts the parade, would be marching up Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue on March 17 under an identifying banner. In the past, organizers said gays were free to march in the nation’s biggest and oldest St. Patrick’s Day Parade but only with other groups and not with banners identifying them as gay.

The exclusion had made participation in the march a political issue in recent years. The committee said it made the “gesture of goodwill to the LGBT community in our continuing effort to keep the parade above politics.�

But gay leaders said the organizers were forced into it. “They weren’t nudged, they were shoved into

making this decision,� said Fred Sainz, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign. “They were increasingly beginning to look like dinosaurs. “In one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive cities, not to allow gay people to march was becoming an anachronistic decision that they could no longer reasonably justify.�

The inclusion of OUT(at)NBCUniversal came in the midst of major triumphs for gays and supporters in court rulings on same-sex marriage. When a federal judge on Wednesday upheld Louisiana’s ban on same-sex marriages, it was the first loss for gaymarriage supporters after more than 20 consecutive rulings overturning bans in other states.

And it came after Pope Francis set the stage for a radical shift in tone about Roman Catholic Church teaching on homosexual-

ity when he said “Who am I to judge?� about the sexual orientation of priests.

Parade organizers said they were “remaining loyal to church teachings,� and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, next year’s grand marshal, issued a statement Wednesday saying the committee “continues to have my confidence and support.�

The exclusion of gay groups prompted firstterm Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio to refuse to march in the 2014 parade, and Guinness and Heineken withdrew their sponsorships.

De Blasio said Wednesday that the inclusion of OUT(at)NBCUniversal was “a step forward,� but he would not commit to next year’s parade until he knows more.

Guinness’ parent company said, “We are pleased to see that the various parties are making progress on this issue.� It said it was open to talk-

ing with the organizers about supporting the 2015 parade.

NBC, whose local affiliate has been televising the parade since the 1990s, would not confirm reports that it had threatened to drop coverage over the issue of gay participation.

But it said NBC executive Francis Comerford, a member of the parade committee, helped with the agreement to include OUT(at)NBCUniversal.

Whether it was the mayor or the pope or the people at Guinness who prompted the decision, gay groups took some satisfaction in their role even if it didn’t produce everything they wanted. “This was decades’ worth of work,� said Ellis, of GLAAD. “The LGBT organizations are the ones that put pressure on the corporations that were sponsoring the parade, and when they withdrew it was the straw that broke the camel’s back.�

NEW YORK (AP) — Carey Mulligan will reprise her role as an English school teacher when she brings a much-cheered revival of David Hare’s “Skylight� to Broadway this spring.

Mulligan plays a woman who works at a troubled inner-city high school and receives an unexpected visit one night from her ex-lover, the recently widowed and wealthy restaurateur played by Bill Nighy.

Producers said Wednesday that performances will begin March 16 at the John Golden Theatre. It is staged

by Academy Award-nominated director Stephen Daldry and was first seen in London this summer.

Mulligan was last on

stage in the Atlantic Theater Company’s 2011 production of “Through A Glass Darkly in New York.�

She made her Broadway debut in Ian Rickson’s production of Chekhov’s “The Seagull� in 2008 opposite Peter Sarsgaard and Kristin Scott Thomas.

Mulligan appeared in London in “Forty Winks�

by Kevin Elyot at the Royal Court Theatre in 2004 and in a production of Moliere’s “The Hypochondriac� in 2005. Her recent film credits include “Inside Llewyn Davis� and “The Great Gatsby� directed by Baz Luhrmann.

She is perhaps best known for “An Education,� for which she was

Oscar-nominated as the daring London schoolgirl who gets mixed up with an older man. Matthew Beard, her co-star in “An Education,� also stars in “Skylight.�

Hare’s other plays include “The Blue Room,� “Amy’s View� and “The Ver tical Hour � and adapted “The Hours� and “The Reader� into movies. “Skylight� premiered in 1995 and made it to Broadway the next year.

If you can’t wait for the play, there always a 2D version of it - Mulligan’s “Skylight� was filmed this summer and will be broadcast to movie theaters internationally starting Oct. 23.

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It started with a gray wall and an idea.

Gerardo Valera, a geography student at West Virginia University, is part of a large project to bring life to the Downtown Campus.

Cecily Flight, an international studies student, met Valera earlier in the year and was on board to help after he shared his idea with her.

Jonathan Riesberg, a sports management student and executive director of the arts for SGA, brought the plan to a head.

Valera, the creative mind behind the project, moved from Mexico City to Morgantown four years ago, and, since then, took notice of Morgantown’s architecture and thought of ways he could impact it.

The idea is simple: Paint a mural on the Beechurst PRT station. “(Morgantown is) a really beautiful town that has potential, but there are some specific areas, like the PRT, that are really, really gray,” Valera said. “It just looks too

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The plans have not been finalized, but the rough draft features a large gold and blue mandala in the center.

The sides incorporate parts of life in Morgantown and West Virginia as a whole.

Valera said he approached the situation as an urban geographer would. He said his plan is based on the correla-

tion between a city’s quality of life and the beauty of the space the residents inhabit.

He noted Florence, Italy, which has art embedded into the form and function of its city, as one example.

Morgantown, though lacking in art, has plenty of nature surrounding it.

Valera said he hopes his plans allow students and

community members to connect with being outside in the natural world.

Nature isn’t just a large part of Valera’s ideas, it’s also part of his life.

He lives just 20 minutes outside of Morgantown in a small community on Paradise Lake. Walking out onto Valera’s backyard deck, you see how the house rests on the lip of the lake.

Ducks waddle and rabbits hop by, as if from a Disney movie, just outside his home.

But this isn’t a Disney movie – it’s just a normal day at the Valera household. This closeness to nature inspired much of Valera’s work.

Valera has a huge portfolio of work in many different mediums such as charcoal, pencil, acrylic and oil paint. He said his favorite works are those that have an element of symbolism and mythology.

When he talks about his work, a sly smile warms across his face.

“This one is of a lady beautifying her (outdoor) space,” Valera said. “The most important thing here is the feeling of freshness nature provides.”

This project is personal for Valera because of his interest in art, but he said he hopes the effects go beyond his own satisfaction.

“As a WVU community, I think there are stereotypes and segregations within the community,” Valera said.

“But at the same time, everyone is a student and everyone wants to have fun and meet other people. Everyone wants to help each other out.”

He cited the sprawling communities and places

that seem “scary” to walk by at night as some of the places he hopes to unite with this project.

Of course, one mural won’t unite all of Morgantown.

The immense enthusiasm for the project has prompted Valera to consider expanding to different parts of the city, such as the Pleasant Street Bridge, for future mural sites.

It’s clear what excites him – the intersection of community and beauty. He said he hopes to eventually become a cultural geography professor “to create consciousness about life, economics and culture.”

Although the project is gaining attention from the likes of WVU President Gordon Gee, Valera said he isn’t sure when the project will be completed. The original plan was to have it completed over the summer, but PRT renovations pushed it back.

For now, Valera hopes to have the mural completed by spring and summer 2015, just in time for new students to arrive in the fall. jajarvis@mail.wvu.edu

Arts Walk Turkey vulture to be released returns to Morgantown by jillian clemente correspondent @dailyathenaeum

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Barry Landis air brushes T-shirts outside of Fastees during the Arts Walk in downtown Morgantown in 2013.

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After the sun sets, Morgantown’s downtown area comes alive. Clubs, bars and sandwich shops attract students to High Street and the surrounding area in droves.

However, there is more to downtown than the nightlife.

Arts Walk, an event sponsored by Greater Morgantown Convention and Visitors Bureau, Mainstreet Morgantown, the Monongalia Arts Center and Arts Monongalia, will showcase the variety of businesses that exist downtown.

On Sept. 26, the public is invited to head downtown to check out the Arts Walk,.

This event has been going on for nearly 13 years.

Originally, the event was called “A Night on the Town.”

For those who have never been to the Arts Walk before, the event promises to be a lot of fun. More than 50 local businesses are participating and the event stretches to more than just High Street. Each business hosts anywhere from one to a few local artists who will showcase their work.

Tiki torches will light the way, informing those who attend which businesses are open and participating in the walk.

The streets will be alive with music, art and people. Guests are encouraged to take their time to walk up and down all the streets and explore everything downtown Morgantown has to offer. For the

2013 Arts Walk, 1,000 pamphlets were printed. They were all gone within an hour. The turnout was estimated to be more than 4,000.

Artists display their works in a multitude of mediums. Patrons can expect paintings, drawings and sculptures.

Some businesses even showcase local musicians who will be playing songs for public enjoyment.

“We want people to see how vibrant and beautiful downtown is,” said Barbara Watkins, assistant director of Mainstreet Morgantown. “We want them to come back and visit.”

The Arts Walk not only features local businesses, but it also makes city residents more aware of local art.

“We want to show people that they don’t have to go somewhere else (for art),” Watkins said. “You don’t need to leave Morgantown. We have a lot of talented artists here.”

Artists have until Sept.

6 to sign up to participate by visiting http://downtownmorgantown.com/ events/artswalk/artist_ signup.php.

While some of the artists will have art for sale, most simply display their talents in hopes of being noticed.

Whether you’re looking for your new favorite artist, a new store to shop at or just want to take a leisurely stroll with some friends, the Arts Walk will not disappoint.

The Arts Walk will take place on Sept. 26 from 6 to 9 p.m. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

It’s International Vulture Awareness Day on Saturday, and the Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia will release a turkey vulture for the second time since its inception in 2012.

The release, which will take place at 1 p.m. at Coopers Rock, will be accompanied with vulture-themed activities and information about the bird.

Katie Fallon, the ACCA chair of the board of directors, said the ACCA takes in all types of birds, from hummingbirds to eagles. They are treated to a full examination and rehabilitation before being released.

Fallon said the turkey vulture being released was in captivity for a few months.

The bird was shot and was not doing well.

After exercising and building up her muscles, the turkey vulture is better now and ready for release.

“The vulture we’re going to release, we’re putting a

transmitter on her so we’ll be able to track her movements, which will be really neat,” Fallon said.

But why all this hype about vultures?

International Vulture Awareness Day was born in July 2009. The website said the event came from a collaboration of South African and English agencies that protect the bird.

Now, almost 100 organizations around the world participate each year.

An increasing number of vultures are poisoned in South Africa because poachers don’t want the animals to converge around a dead carcass. In North America, they’re protected by federal law because of their vital importance to our ecosystem.

“They’re very efficient scavengers,” Fallon said.

“They can clean up a dead carcass faster than any other mammal.”

Fallon said some easy marks to identify turkey vultures are the silver-ivory tinted flight-feathers beneath their wings and that they seem to “wobble” while

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Also, she said that if the carcass was diseased, the vulture’s guts neutralize the potential effects. If a vulture does contract a disease, it doesn’t spread it in the way that other mammals would.

The larger message to take

from International Vulture Day is respect for the bird.

“Learning to appreciate them is one big step in keeping their population numbers high,” Fallon said. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Miranda Lambert earned record 9 CMA nominations NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Miranda Lambert released the most ambitious album of her career earlier this year and Country Music Association voters responded by giving her a record-tying load of nominations.

Lambert has nine nominations for the 48th annual CMA Awards, tying her own mark for the most nods to a female nominee, and nearly doubling her nearest competitor when the list was announced Wednesday in New York. Dierks Bentley is next with five nominations and Eric Church and Keith Urban have four apiece.

The 30-year-old Lambert is up for top honor entertainer of the year along with husband Blake Shelton and has nominations for major categories album of the year for “Platinum,” song and single of the year for “Automatic,” and is vying for her fifth straight female vocalist of the year trophy. She’s been among the top CMA nominees and winners since “Revolution” won album of the year in 2010 and now has 34 CMA nominations - behind Reba McEntire, Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn among women.

Urban, George Strait and Luke Bryan round out the entertainer of the year category where Lambert and Bryan are seeking their first win in that category. Bryan and Urban also are up for album of the year. Bryan’s “Crash My Party” and Urban’s “Fuse” join Bentley’s “Riser” and Church’s “The Outsiders” in the category.

New artist of the year nominees are Brandy Clark, Brett Eldredge, Kip Moore, Thomas Rhett and Cole

Swindell.

Bryan and Shelton are tied with Kacey Musgraves and Carrie Underwood with three nominations apiece.

The nominations were announced on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and at a news conference by Darius Rucker and Little Big Town.

Underwood and Brad Paisley host the Nov. 5 show live from Nashville, Tennessee.

Lambert padded out her list of nominations with two apiece in the vocal event (“Somethin’ Bad” with Underwood and “We Were Us” with Urban) and music video (“Automatic” and “Somethin’ Bad”) categories. “Automatic,” the first single from “Platinum,” was nominated for both song and single of the year as well. Lambert tied with Merle Haggard for second most nominations overall.

Only Alan Jackson in 2002 had more nominations in a single year with 10.

Shelton and Lambert will be attempting to extend their record streak of wins by a married couple in the male and female vocalist categories. Each has won four straight. Lambert will be competing against Underwood, Musgraves, Taylor Swift and Martina McBride. Shelton faces Bentley, Bryan, Church and Urban.

The haul of nominations was a career best for Bentley, whose album “Riser” includes personal material from his own life, including his reaction to his father’s death and the birth of his son.

“It was totally unexpected,” Bentley said.

“Dude, I’m not the guy who gets nominated. I’m the guy who knows the guy who gets

nominated. That’s not who I am. I’m the guy who sits in the chair with my wife when the cameras come in close to get the `you just lost’ reaction shot.”

Voters have an interesting choice to make in the entertainer of the year category.

Lambert and Bryan are arguably the genre’s top stars and voters could justifiably reward either with a trophy that goes hand in hand with superstar status. Strait is seeking his second consecutive win in the category after announcing he would retire from the road. He played his final concert earlier this year, setting attendance records at the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium.

And “American Idol” judge Urban and “The Voice” coach Shelton remain two of country’s most visible stars.

Urban won the entertainer award in 2005 and says he felt a “euphoria” when he learned he was back among the nominees.

The category signals that a performer has reached the top of the genre in many ways, including as an artist, a live performer and a role model.

“The criteria for entertainer is a mix of things, but I guess for me I’ve always considered it to be hopefully primarily about the kind of show that we put on and entertaining people at the live concerts,” Urban said in a phone interview.

“I know it’s about more than that, but for me it’s really been about that, about putting on a tour. That’s something I’ve always taken with intense passion, detail and care, and so to get that nomLambert performs at the CMA Music Festival. ination is extraordinary.”

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Cera: ‘You get used to having an audience’ ‘Genius of NEW YORK (AP) — Brooklyn currently has a love affair with facial hair, is awash with hipsters, tons of kale - and now 100 percent more Michael Cera.

The 26-year-old star of “Juno” and “Superbad” has relocated to the cool New York borough after several years in which he would visit the city and then feel sad when it was time to go home to Los Angeles.

“I was not really enjoying living in L.A. Aside from all my friends out there, the city didn’t really fit me, I thought. And vice versa,” he says. “I always loved New York. I always wanted to live here since I was a kid.”

The move makes sense.

If you think about it, Cera has always seemed more of a New Yorker - intellectual, arty, low-key, slyly cynical - than the plastic pretty boys over on the other coast.

The move coincides with Cera exploring new artistic expressions - the release of an indie folk album and his Broadway debut, all this summer.

“Yeah, it’s a few things happening at once,” he says, humbly and yet guarded.

The play he’s chosen is as comfortable a fit with many of Cera previous film roles as an old T-shirt.

It’s Kenneth Lonergan’s “This Is Our Youth,” a portrait of adrift, privileged post-adolescents that costars Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson.

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Cera plays Warren, a nerdish rich kid who shows up at his friend D e n n i s’s Ma n h a t t a n apartment in 1982 with $15,000 he has stolen from his menacing father. They come up with a dangerous plan to not only return the money and avoid punishment, but also to party.

The script calls Warren “a strange barking-dog of a kid with large tracts of thoughtfulness in his personality” who is “just beginning to find beneath his natural eccentricity a dogged self-possession.”

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onstage. “I would have doubts if it were something different, something completely outside of my wheelhouse. Like a musical, or something. Or, I don’t know, Shakespeare.”

The play over the years has featured such actors as Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton, Matt Damon, Colin Hanks, Chris Klein, Jake Gyllenhaal and Anna Paquin. Cera and Culkin first performed the play in Australia in 2012 and added Gevinson and director Anna D. Shapiro for a preBroadway run at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company this summer.

“It was definitely really scary the first few times at Steppenwolf,” he says.

“But that kind of goes away. You get used to having an audience, I think.

Your body gets used to that in a weird way.”

To find himself on Broadway, Cera admits, is “pretty far-fetched,” especially in a play that centers on the dialogue between disaffected, drug-addled young adults.

“I think it’s fascinating that this has no bells and whistles, really,” he says.

“The value of the experience is this emotional arc and that, for a mainstream thing, I think that is significant.”

Shapiro, a Tony Awardwinner who directed Tracy Letts’ “August : Osage County,” calls Cera “really quite honestly one of the most naturally gifted theater actors I’ve ever seen.”

“I adore him. I can’t say enough about him.

I’d work with him again in a heartbeat. I love what he brings. I love the way he behaves. He makes me laugh,” she adds. “I love the guy.”

A lot of people share the feeling for this former child star from Canada whose fame grew while playing the low-key, slightly awkward GeorgeMichael on “Arrested Development.” He’s made stabs at spreading his adult wings lately in such fare as “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” “The End of Love” and “Magic Magic.”

He’s also revealed his inner songwriter, quietly releasing an 18-song album on his Bandcamp website on Aug. 8. It’s a collection of airy, folky tracks, some just wordless fragments, some more fully fleshed out.

“The music thing is not a particular ambition or something. It’s just something I do at home,” he says. “I didn’t think that many people would find it or hear it because the Internet is such a sea, a blizzard of stuff.”

The album costs $7 to download and Cera says some people have paid.

“There is a kind of pride in making money on something you did totally by yourself. It’s like busking or something. It’s honest.”

The album, created using GarageBand software, is a part of technology that Cera can get behind. One he can’t is obvious whenever he gets on a subway in his new home: cameraphones. He says a lot of folks secretly take his picture.

“The world is just becoming this photo booth in a weird way,” he says.

“The only way to get used to it is to come to terms with it. You can’t fight it.”

Cera bemoans the “the diluting of experiences” that happens with the endless snapping of photos. He says it’s depressing to go to a museum and see people go from artwork to artwork, snapping away at each. “You’re in front of it.

Why are you already nostalgic about it?” he asks.

Or people who insist on recording everything, including concerts. “When are you going to watch that? Sitting around at your home and feeling sad about your life?” he jokes.

Hey, doesn’t he already sound like a New Yorker?

Marian’ confronts Alzheimer’s LOS ANGELES (AP) — Banker White returned to his Massachusetts family home in 2009 to be a good son to his 61-year-old mother, newly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

But it was White’s skill as a filmmaker that allowed him to do even more: enrich his mom’s life; document family history and his father’s devotion; and illustrate the disease’s toll.

“The Genius of Marian,” airing Sept. 8 on PBS’ “POV” independent non-fiction film showcase (check local listings), is a delicately etched but unsparing portrait of a woman, Pam White, losing herself to dementia - the same path that was forced upon her mother, New England artist Marian Williams Steele.

The film’s title is taken from Pam White’s intended book about her mother and the Alzheimer’s that ultimately claimed Steele’s life in 2001.

But with Pam White’s own cognitive abilities diminishing, it is through her son’s inquisitive camera that we learn of Steele as a parent and as a driven, successful New England landscape painter and portraitist, and the very different choices that her daughter made.

The film, a surrogate for the unfinished book, was directed by Banker White and co-directed and produced by Anna Fitch, his wife.

When White first left San Francisco to return to Dedham, Massachusetts, he began videotaping his mother and their conversations as a matter of habit, recording his home life as he’d done growing up. It turned out the lens between parent and adult child allowed Pam White to open up about the diagnosis that she otherwise found difficult to discuss.

“Mom starting using the time on camera as a confessional space,” Banker White said. “I think she wanted to keep this (Alzheimer’s) a secret, but on the other hand felt very proud of the work we were doing.”

The experience mirrored her years as a social worker, he said, when she helped others talk about their difficulties.

“The Genius of Marian” is built on an engaging trove of

old home movies and photos, including ones showing Steele at work and a young Pam White as a model and actress. It grows in intimacy and pathos with White’s growing inability to care for herself and her increasing confusion.

Fitch, who married White after his mom’s diagnosis, said she came to have a fuller view of her mother-in-law through organizing the family’s archives and the many hours of video shot by her husband.

“Pam’s ability to be herself in front of the camera and the connection I felt seeing it was really profound,” Fitch said.

How much to reveal of his mom’s daily life and condition as the Alzheimer’s progressed was a carefully made decision involving his father and siblings, Banker White said.

He said the challenge was “symbolic of what it’s like to care for someone going through dementia or any other disease or circumstance that makes it difficult for them to articulate thoughts.”

The slow, uneven march of the disease allowed Pam White to review footage of the film and attend its big-screen premiere, her son said, adding, “She had great experiences there.”

White still lives at home with her husband, Ed, who now has regular caregivers providing support. Another change: Their isolation from friends has eased.

“Mom’s friends, when they heard about it (the diagnosis), it’s like their relationship just ended and they didn’t know what to do,” he said, but seeing the film seems to have helped erase the “stigma and fear” the disease creates. “The Genius of Marian” has screened in some theaters and at film festivals nationally.

Genius of Caring, an interactive website that’s companion to the documentary, shares the stories of others facing Alzheimer’s to encourage public understanding and awareness of the daunting challenge it represents for many families, Fitch said.

According to the Alzheimer’s Association website, more than 5 million Americans are living with the disease, twothirds of them women, and it is the nation’s sixth-leading cause of death.

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WOMENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S soccer

Schwindel eyes another accomplishment in her future

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Senior forward Kate Schwindel chases after the ball against TCU in 2013.

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Kate Schwindel likes winning awards.

The senior forward from Livingston, N.J., has been stockpiling athletic and academic achievements since her senior year of high school, after which she was named the 2010 New Jersey Soccer Female Player of the Year.

This year, Schwindel will be up for the Senior CLASS award.

The CL ASS, which stands for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement

for Staying in School, is awarded to one male and one female in each NCAA sport at the end of the season. The award targets student-athletes who make positive impacts in their communities, as candidates are judged in four areas: community, classroom, character and competition.

In her time at WVU, Schwindel has been named to the All-Big East, All-Big 12 and All-Region, including two Academic All-Big 12 selections.

A four year starter, Schwindel has always been used to making a huge

on-field impact for the Mountaineers. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s led the team in scoring since her arrival and came into this season already the No. 10 goal scorer in the history of the program. However, being named one of the 30 female CLASS finalists speaks to what she has been doing away from the game.

Schwindel, who has been active in multiple programs which raise funds for breast cancer research, said in a statement released on WVUsports.com that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a â&#x20AC;&#x153;huge honorâ&#x20AC;? for her to be up for the award.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very thankful to be on the candidate list with a lot of great and talented senior athletes,â&#x20AC;? Schwindel said in statement.

Frances Silva became the first WVU womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer player to be named to the list a season ago, and head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the least bit surprised to have another one of her stars vying for the honor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I talk a lot with recruits coming in about player development,â&#x20AC;? Izzo-Brown said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s critically important that players continue to see that there is this high level of

excellence in individual players. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done all the work. I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve created the atmosphere for her and the staff has done a great job to develop her to get that nomination, and hopefully at the end of the year she gets it, she gets drafted and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing pro.â&#x20AC;?

That individual talent and senior experience has translated well to the pitch, as the Mountaineers have captured backto-back Big 12 regular season crowns and swept the conference in 2013 by winning the Big 12 Conference

tournament. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where we want to be, we want to be putting out seniors at the highest level,â&#x20AC;? Izzo-Brown said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it does speak volumes of the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer program and what the staff is doing, but also how the athlete can achieve at that highest level.â&#x20AC;?

The list of 30 candidates will be trimmed to 10 finalists sometime midseason, at which point ballots will be distributed for a nationwide vote consisting of media, coaches and fans. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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McNabb says Foles isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a franchise QB PHILADELPHIA (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Fluke or franchise quarterback? The question will follow Nick Foles around until he proves himself again.

Foles began last year as a backup to Michael Vick and finished as a Pro Bowl MVP. His emergence was one of the NFLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest surprises and a main reason why the Philadelphia Eagles went from 4-12 to 10-6 and won the NFC East title.

Foles threw 27 touchdown passes and only two interceptions, setting an NFL record for best TD/ interception ratio. Foles completed 64 percent of his regular-season passes for 2,891 yards and his passer rating of 119.2 was the third-highest ever. He tied an NFL record with

seven touchdown passes in his ninth career starts at Oakland on Nov. 3.

Now, everyone is wondering what heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do for an encore.

Donovan McNabb, the six-time Pro Bowl quarterback who had his No. 5 retired by the Eagles last season, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t convinced Foles is the real deal just yet. McNabb, currently an analyst for Fox, expressed that view in a radio interview in Philadelphia on Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t answer that at this particular point, but if I had to give a take, I would say no,â&#x20AC;? McNabb said on 97.5 The Fanatic when asked if he thinks Foles is a franchise QB. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think what he will do, he wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do what he did last year, that just

wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen. I see him more being a 25 touchdown, maybe 8, maybe 10 interception guy.â&#x20AC;?

Foles didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t flinch when he was asked about McNabbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody is entitled to their opinion. I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t earned anything yet,â&#x20AC;?

Foles said after practice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a week-to-week thing.

My job is to go out there and play to the best of my ability.â&#x20AC;?

McNabbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opinion isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t unique. On a scale of fluke to franchise, the debate regarding Foles is slightly tilted toward the positive. Those who see him every day, coaches and teammates think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more favorable. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hell of a competitor,â&#x20AC;? coach Chip Kelly said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get fraz-

zled very easily. Nothing really bothers Nick. I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an outstanding quality that he has.

Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s throwing 27 touchdowns and two interceptions, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the same guy every single day when he comes out here whether we played really, really well the week before or we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play so well the week before. You never knew what you had a year ago just because he had not been in games and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get a chance to see him test it. I think his ability to handle both praise and blame is an admirable quality for a quarterback to have.â&#x20AC;?

Foles also is a team-first guy, crediting his teammates when he does well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think ego and Nick even go in the same paragraph,â&#x20AC;? wide receiver Jeremy Maclin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still a tremendous quarterback.â&#x20AC;?

Foles gets his first chance to show naysayers his sophomore year wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a mirage when the Eagles open the regular season at home Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m excited itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s here,â&#x20AC;?

Foles said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Going through camp and the preseason, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be fun to go out there and play against the Jaguars.â&#x20AC;?

After starting six games as a rookie in 2012, Foles couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t beat out Vick for the No. 1 job in training camp. But he took over in Week 6 when Vick injured his hamstring and put together arguably the best statistical season in league history. He helped the Eagles set several franchise records on offense playing in Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up-tempo system.

Foles threw two interceptions in the preseason opener at Chicago and one more the following game

at New England.

The critics and the skeptics raised their eyebrows when they saw that.

Foles just shrugged it off. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me as player, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very critical,â&#x20AC;? Foles said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very important not to get complacent with your preparation and how you review yourself.â&#x20AC;?

NOTES: Kelly said everyone practiced Tuesday except WR Josh Huff (shoulder) and OL Matt Tobin (ankle). Nolan Carroll, not Darren Sproles, would return kickoffs if Huff canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play vs. Jacksonville. ... Kelly called All-Pro RB LeSean McCoy â&#x20AC;&#x153;the best running back practice playerâ&#x20AC;? heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ever coached. It was a reference to two weeks ago when Kelly was asked about McCoyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intensity in practice and said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some days, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great out there, and there are other days heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not so great.â&#x20AC;?

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BEREA, Ohio (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Brian Hoyer can keep his eyes trained downfield this Sunday. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no need to look over his shoulder.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s well aware of whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s behind him, but the Brownsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; starting quarterback doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to worry about Johnny Manziel jumping in front of him.

Not this week, anyway.

Hoyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season-opening start in Pittsburgh wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a short one, barring a disaster. Browns coach Mike Pettine said Wednesday that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spoken to Hoyer and told him not to concern himself with anything other than beating the dreaded Steelers. Pettine wants Hoyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus to be solely on the guys in black and gold, not anyone in a logo-less orange helmet.

If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a leash on Hoyer - and letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s be clear, there is one â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it may be a little longer than first believed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Quarterbackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the one

position where you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be as quick on that trigger,â&#x20AC;? Pettine said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we met to discuss him being the starter, it was, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey, this is your team. This is your offense.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; That we have his back. That we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go with him and just say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey, listen, we might do this and see how it goes and after a series we might switch it back.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I know you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do that at quarterback. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He knows itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to be a quick hook.â&#x20AC;?

Hoyer appreciated Pettineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s words. They were helpful, but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change the way heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approaching the season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Look, I just want you go to out there and be yourself and play and not worry about anything elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;,â&#x20AC;? Hoyer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how my mentality is regardless. This is something Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked toward and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not looking back, so it was good to hear him say it.â&#x20AC;?

Pettineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pep talk aside, Hoyer, who was once released by three teams in a nine-month span, understands that the NFL is a brutally bottom-line business. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s either make plays or get cut. Throw completions and touchdowns or get tossed away. Win games or lose your job. No excuses.

Hoyer knows Pettine will give him nothing he hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t earned. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to produce or there will be a change made,â&#x20AC;? Pettine said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going into this game feeling that.â&#x20AC;?

Manziel, though, is waiting in the wings. The Browns didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t draft the former Heisman Trophy winner to sit the bench for long, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a chance Pettine could design a special set of plays for the dynamic rookie. Steelers coach Mike Tomlin expects Pettine to utilize Manziel in some way Sunday.

Manziel on the field for any length of time could be dangerous for Hoyer. If Manziel sparks the offense, Pettine might choose to stick with him.

Hoyer, though, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t opposed to some kind of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Johnny Package.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;If it helps us win a game, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what it comes down to,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to be out there, but if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a package that can help us win, the team is way bigger than me.â&#x20AC;?

Simply playing for the Browns is a dream come true for Hoyer, a Cleveland-area kid whose childhood included trips to old Municipal Stadium with his dad to watch his favorite team play. Now heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting to start the season for them in Pittsburgh against the hated Steelers, the sworn enemy for anyone weaned on stories of Otto Graham, Jim Brown and Bernie Kosar.

For Hoyer, though, the

Browns-Steelers matchup triggers some mixed emotions.

After he was released two years ago by the Patriots, Hoyer was out of work and barely clinging to the idea of making a living playing pro football. He hoped someone would give him a chance to resurrect his career, and as fate would have it, the Steelers were the ones willing to sign him. He came to Cleveland as a backup for Charlie Batch when the Steelers beat the Browns. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As bitter as this rivalry is and being a Cleveland boy, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll always have a place in my heart for Pittsburgh because they gave me a job when no one else would,â&#x20AC;?

Hoyer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll always be thankful for that, but at the same time I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m on the right side of this rivalry now.â&#x20AC;?

Maybe not as planned, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all worked out.

Hoyer has made it back

from knee surgery, held off Manziel and is days away from opening a season as a starter for his hometown team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing to complain about,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m happy with where I am.â&#x20AC;?

NOTES: DE Desmond Bryant did not give any details on the reason he underwent wrist surgery. Bryant was limited in practice and is unlikely to face the Steelers. ... Pettine is teaching Clevelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s young players about the history of the Browns-Steelers rivalry, which has been onesided in recent years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not pretty,â&#x20AC;? Pettine said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I put it up on the slide to kind of talk our young guys through. I put rivalry, and I put question mark. From the Steelers standpoint, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not much of a rivalry.â&#x20AC;?

Cleveland is 5-26 against Pittsburgh since 1999.

Irish look to improve secondary play vs. Michigan SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly is sounding a bit this week like the prison warden in the 1967 film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cool Hand Luke,â&#x20AC;? who famously said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got here is failure to communicate.â&#x20AC;?

Fighting Irish safeties Max Redfield and Elijah Shumate failed to make sure the Notre Dame secondary was lined up correctly against Rice, leading to several big plays by the Owls last week before Notre Dame won 48-17. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to get these guys communicating better back there,â&#x20AC;? Kelly said.

On the Owlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first scoring drive alone, the Irish

let two different receivers get wide open, leading to a 30-yard pass on a thirdand-6 play and a 26-yard TD pass on second and 18. Communication problems could mean even more trouble this week when the 16th-ranked Irish (1-0) face Michigan (1-0) on Saturday in the last scheduled meeting between the two programs.

Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner, who threw four touchdown passes and ran for another last season as the Wolverines beat Notre Dame 41-30, opened this season by completing 13 of 14 passes for 173 yards with three touchdowns in a

52-14 victory over Appalachian State. Despite those impressive statistics, Michigan coach Brady Hoke said he wants to see better precision in the passing game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mechanics, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s route running, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your spacing that you need to have,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Kelly on Tuesday didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to talk too much about his secondary but said his players â&#x20AC;&#x153;have to be more demonstrative and take more control back there.â&#x20AC;?

The problem was created when safety Austin Collinsworth, one of the captains, sprained his right knee on practice Thursday, leaving the Irish without a veteran

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QB Everett Golson gets ready to throw a pass during a game. to make the calls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Austin was very good at it. It was part of his DNA. That was his strength of who he was,â&#x20AC;? Kelly said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These guys are going to have to take control as if they have that same kind of ability and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to do it right now. Michigan is on them and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to have to happen immediately.â&#x20AC;?

Less than a month earlier, Kelly was saying Redfield, a sophomore who struggled to get on the field last year because he had trouble learning the defense, wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ready for such challenges. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no quarterbacking with Max. Austin Collinsworth will do the quarterbacking back there,â&#x20AC;? Kelly said in early August. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to put much on

Maxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plate. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to ask him to do his job, to do it fast and really not put a lot on his plate.â&#x20AC;?

Kelly said the injury to Collinsworth changed that, and now Redfield and Shumate, a junior who started four games last season, need to make those calls.

Kelly said he heard the two at work on Monday with defensive coordinator Bran VanGorder. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think coach VanGorder, if you were here at our meetings yesterday, made it clear during the meetings how he wants those guys to communicate.

I was in the quarterback meeting room and I could hear our safeties communicating very well during film study,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re starting that way, and we

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just have to be more assertive in the way that we talk to each other.â&#x20AC;?

NOTES: Kelly said there is no change in the status of five players who were investigated by the university for possible cheating, but said their status could change quickly if he receives word they are eligible to play. Kelly said last week that the investigation is complete and the cases were in the hands of the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s code of honor committee. ... Kelly wore a blue plaid jacket to the news conference Tuesday, saying it was the spoils for winning an annual golf tournament with some football coaches from small Michigan schools. â&#x20AC;&#x153;First and foremost, I did not lose a bet,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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what’s important to me right now.”

Attea and her teammates will be back in action this weekend at the Niagara Invitational in New York. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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LeBlanc, WVU look to continue their undefeated season against Virginia Tech tonight by kevin hooker sports writer @dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia men’s soccer team will look to win its third straight game tonight, as the Mountaineers host the Virginia Tech Hokies at Dick Dlesk Stadium at 7 p.m.

The Mountaineers (20) are coming off a 1-0 win against St. John’s Friday and a 4-1 blowout win against Oakland Monday. The last time a Mountaineer team was 2-0 was in 2006.

“There were 28 teams in the country that went 2-0 in the first weekend, and we’re one of them,” said head

coach Marlon LeBlanc. “To keep that going would be special. If we can get a win we’d get to 3-0 and have a win against a Big East team, a Horizon team and an ACC team in the first three games.

We’d be pretty happy.”

WVU will now play its third game in six days, something LeBlanc and his team have come to expect.

“This is the rat race that is college soccer,” LeBlanc said. “It’s a grind. But we managed our minutes well (against Oakland) so the guys we need will be fully rested.”

Although tonight’s showdown is non-conference, it is still good enough to be

considered the NSCAATV College Game of the Week.

The first 100 Mountaineer Maniacs to arrive at the stadium will receive a free scarf.

The crowds at Dick Dlesk have played a big part in the team’s first two wins, and LeBlanc is hopeful the team will continue to feed off that energy.

“Our record speaks for itself when the stadium is filled,” LeBlanc said. “When you play a school like Virginia Tech, which is a rival for us, you don’t get to see the Hokies in Morgantown very much. When you have an opportunity to have them come into Morgantown,

you’d like to think your fans are going to show up and make this place a safe haven for your team.”

Senior Andy Bevin, junior Jamie Merriam and freshmen Jad Arslan and Louis Thomas all have four points thus far for the WVU offense.

Arslan and Merriam both have two goals, while Bevin has one goal and two assists.

Thomas picked up all four of his points on assists.

Goalkeeper Brent Arnold is 2-0 on the season and recorded his first win and first shutout against St. John’s.

He has five saves on the season.

The Hokies (1-1) are coming off a 3-1 loss to St. Louis

on the road. Junior defensemen Brad Vorv leads Virginia Tech with one goal and one assist.

“We spent a little extra time on the film, and a lot of the film has more to do with us than it does with Virginia Tech,” LeBlanc said. “The way we need to get the results is to make sure we continue to focus on what we need to do to be able to be efficient, be a better team and limit mistakes.”

Tonight’s contest is the first WVU-VT matchup since 2004, when the Mountaineers lost 1-0. Virginia Tech leads the series all time 7-3. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

Volleyball

Attea hopes to have a key role for WVU in 2014 by nicole curtin sports writer @dailyathenaeum

Junior pre-computer science student Nikki Attea is in her third season playing for the West Virginia University volleyball team as an opposite hitter.

Attea joined the team in 2012 and was one of four freshmen to play in every set and match. In 2013, she started every match and played in all but one set. As an opposite hitter, Attea has an important job on the team and has shown her stuff on the court, finishing the 2013 season with 267 kills, 192 digs, 87 blocks and 24 serving aces.

After playing at WVU for the last two years, Attea said she has seen growth in herself and her game.

“I think with any college

athlete, you obviously see a lot of changes that take place in the weight room,” Attea said.

“Personally, there’s been a lot of maturity in my mental game as far as keeping focus throughout an entire volleyball game and concentrating on what needs to be done, other than pass plays.”

Head coach Jill Kramer said Attea’s mentality has gotten better throughout the years.

“The most important is her mental game,” Kramer said. “She does a great job of staying in the moment and playing point for point where it used to not be that way. She’s in a good spot for that right now, and we’re all really proud of her for that.”

Being one of the older girls on the team and having played at WVU for the

last two years, Kramer said Attea has been one to step up for the team.

“She, along with all the other upperclassmen, know how this goes,” she said.

“They show up for practice every day and they don’t miss a day, they know that every little thing counts. It’s such a great thing when you’re building a program and you’ve finally got that, and she’s a huge, huge, huge component of that.”

Part of playing opposite means a lot of blocking for the net, and Attea has done just that. At the end of the 2013 season, she was third on the team with 87 blocks and had a careerhigh eight blocks in their game against then-No. 23 Kansas.

“She typically plays opposite and a lot of times you want that person to have size because they block,” Kramer said. “She does a pretty god job there.

She’s one of our strongest servers on the team. After she plays on the front row she goes back to server.”

Kramer said some of Attea’s competitive side comes from how hard her serving is. But that’s not the only thing that has changed over the years.

“I think every year she comes back a better attacker than she was the year before,” Kramer said.

“She’s got a really competitive spirit and is just a competitive person in general, so she brings that to the team. In the past, she wasn’t really ready to lead.

She was trying to fix some things on the court, and she has done that now.

She’s gotten very good in that component and being

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Nikki Attea attempts a serve during a match against BYU earlier this season. a leader for our team.”

Attea’s said her goals for this season are to help her team go to the NCAA volleyball tournament.

“As long as I’m contributing, those team goals are going to be achieved,” she said. “So that’s really

Temper expectations for WVU There is a good reason why the day after the first slate of college football games of the season is widely known as “Overreaction Sunday”.

I’ll admit, I was blown away by how well West Virginia stacked up against Alabama Saturday. I walked into the Georgia Dome Saturday fully expecting to see the Tide roll all over the Mountaineers.

That didn’t happen at all. West Virginia fought tooth and nail throughout the game, giving the Tide quite the scare and proving it can compete with a toptier team in college football.

Despite all of this, I would advise against starting to plan your trip to a bowl game in December or January.

West Virginia had every reason to be motivated heading into its seasonopening matchup with the No. 2 team in the country.

Will it have the same fire and intensity this week against Towson?

You don’t have to look too deep into history to see an example of West Virginia fizzling the week after playing a highly contested game against a team most thought it couldn’t hang tough with.

After starting the 2013 season with a lackluster performance against William & Mary, West Virginia traveled to Norman to take on then-No. 16 Oklahoma Sooners.

The Mountaineers took an early 7-0 lead and battled throughout the game, but key mistakes in clutch situations cost them a chance at the upset.

Sounds a bit familiar, right?

The following week, West Virginia met up with Maryland for a border war in Baltimore. Despite the name of the rivalry, this wasn’t much of a fight at all.

In fact, it was a knockout. The Terrapins jumped all over West Virginia from the start, giving the Mountaineers a 37-0 thrashing and sending them home with their tails between their legs.

It was almost as if half the team missed the bus from the hotel to the stadium that morning. Considering how the next few weeks went for the Terrapins - they lost six of their last nine games - it’s not like West Virginia’s roster was significantly out-classed.

West Virginia simply didn’t show up ready to play. That can’t happen again if the Mountaineers want to keep the positive momentum they gained against Alabama going into the rest of the season.

While the 2014 version of the Mountaineers appeared to be completely different than the 2013 model in week one, it’s up to the coaching staff and the leaders of the team to make sure their mistakes from the past don’t crop up and haunt them again against Towson.

The players and coaching staff said all the right things in their interview session Tuesday night. They seem to be fully aware of how dangerous games like this can be.

However, talk is cheap in football. We’ll find out quickly just how motivated they are Saturday night.

The kickoff time for this game is extremely favorable for West Virginia. If it was scheduled to start at noon, the Mountaineers would have to avoid sleepwalking through the early stages of this game.

There is no reason to believe West Virginia will take Towson lightly. They know they can’t afford to.

We will learn a lot about this team Saturday. If they come out playing with their hair on fire like they did against Alabama, it will put my reservations about the true potential of this Mountaineer team to rest.

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Junior forward Jamie Merriam kicks the ball during a game against St. John’s earlier this season.

connor murray sports editor @Connorkmurray