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Program offers students police training by robert lee staff writer @dailyathenaeum

A new law and safety program in Monongalia County allows high school juniors and seniors to receive training, similar to taught at the state police academy, but with some limitations.

The law and safety program is held at the Monongalia County Technical Center and teaches students about jobs in the fields of public safety, law enforcement, fo-

rensics, court systems and corrections.

The new program is meant to give students the training necessary to obtain a job in these fields, said MTEC Law and Public safety instructor Kevin Clark. “(The program has) never been offered before in Monongalia County and is a good opportunity for anyone wanting to pursue a career in law enforcement to obtain some skills,” Clark said. “It gives them a head start over someone who hasn’t had

this opportunity and better equips people with the necessary needed skills.”

Due to the decrease in interest for law enforcement jobs nationally, this program is crucial, Clark said. It helps develop an interest early on, so students can start working right out of the program in the positions that don’t require a degree.

“Many law enforcement agencies or police departments don’t require college degrees; I think it’s extremely important that they’re teach-

ing this to students who are interested in high school,” said Danielle Palitto, a criminal justice student at West Virginia University. “College isn’t for everyone, and it’s great that they started this program” said Palitto.

Students will graduate with a certificate that allows them to pursue a career within the justice field, said Nancy Napolillo, principal director of Monongalia County technical education center.

“This program started be-

cause we want to offer something that many students may be interested in,” Napolillo said. “It’s important students look now, during high school, to determine if this is something that they want to continue with in school or to pursue towards a career.”

The program consists of four semesters, requiring the completion of two morning sessions and two evening sessions, according to Napolillo.

Currently there are 15 people enrolled. Each session

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can only take a maximum of 17 students, but because this is brand new, only the morning session is available at the moment, Napolillo said.

“Juniors will take the (morning) sessions during their first year and will come back next year to take the (night) sessions as seniors,” Napolillo said.

Students can attend this program to enhance their self-defense skills, but Napolillo said priority is given to

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A look at 2015 WVU Homecoming King and Queen Candidates

by Madeline hall correspondent @dailyathenaeum

As fall approaches, so does Homecoming, and last Thursday the top five candidates for Homecoming King and Queen were announced by West Virginia University. For the next four days, each issue of the Daily Athenaeum will feature a short biography for a potential king and a potential queen, so students can learn more about the elects before voting. Voting will be held from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday Oct. 6 and Wednesday Oct. 7 at the Mountainlair and the Student Recreation Center. The 2015 Homecoming King and Queen will be crowned during halftime at the WVU football game against Oklahoma State on Oct. 10.

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WVU students act as audience members during a game show hosted by the WVU NAACP organization in the Mountainlair.

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WVU chapter of NAACP hosts “Are You Hip...Or Nah?” trivia to kick off Diversity Week by jordan miller correspondent @dailyathenaeum

Students were challenged to show off their trivia knowledge at Monday evening’s “Are You Hip... Or Nah?” Diversity Week event hosted by the West Virginia University chapter of the NAACP. The program started at 6:30 p.m. in the Shenandoah Room of the Mountainlair, and was played as a game show.

Four teams competed, answering questions over two regular rounds and a final round, to win prizes from Amazon Student and gift cards to Applebee’s.

The game show’s trivia covered a wide variety of

subjects, including WVU history and sports, what’s happening on twitter, pop culture trends, black history and current events, said Jihad Dixon, WVU’s NAACP chapter president.

“This is a student-led event, and a lot of the (other) events are lecturebased, so it’s fun, interactive and brings a diverse group,” Dixon said. “From freshman in their orientation classes to members of our organization and others in the community, it overall just (gave) a diverse representation of our campus.”

Elizabeth Mesogianes, a freshman biology student, said she attended the trivia event because she had to go to a Diversity Week pro-

gram for her honors orientation class, but chose “Are You Hip Or Nah?” since it seemed like a fun way to test her knowledge and see what other people had to say.

“Lectures tend to go on and on, and aren’t really interactive, but this kind of peaked my interest,” she said.

She said this event was a good way to bring everyone together for Diversity Week, while competing in a fun and friendly atmosphere.

“I think it’s a great way for other people to get in touch and meet other people’s culture. Its kind of like a ‘getting to know you’…” she said, “I just (like) to see how people interact,

and it’s nice to see other people accept it, and who they are.”

Dixon said being a person of color at WVU is both challenging and educational, and he is happy to be able to bring a different cultural perspective that not all may have experienced. He said Diversity Week is a great way for the University to create a dialogue across different cultures.

“I think (Diversity Week) is well-done. I’d love to see a year of diversity; it’s sort of like Black History Month, why do we (have to) narrow down a culture in a month?

But it’s a good thing that we have it, I’m so glad we do.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

Despite efforts of law enforcement, gay escorts continue to work by jake jarvis city editor @newsroomjake

Adrian and Chandler were scared.

The two gay escorts logged onto Twitter about a month ago and saw the news: RentBoy.com had been shut down.

For years, the site had been a safe place where gay sex workers could find clients, but FBI agents seized the site’s servers and it was ultimately shut down. The company’s CEO and several other current and former employees were arrested and charged with promoting prostitution.

Other gay escorts the couple followed on Twitter were just as nervous, many wondering if they, too, could be arrested.

Adrian, a West Virginia University student, and his boyfriend, Chandler, had much to fear. Only a couple of months ago, the two young men had only started using the site to find men who would pay to have sex with them.

Like the couple, the gay escort community was in disarray—but just for a few days.

Despite fear of the looming investigation from the Department of Justice, the community quickly sprang back into work. For them, the cost of not escorting was too high and the fear of getting caught was not high enough.

“We have friends in New York who escort to pay their way through medical school,” Adrian said. “A lot of gay advocacy groups are going crazy over the shutdown.”

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Only days after the shutdown, thousands of gay escorts in the United States like Adrian and Chandler migrated to RentMen.com, a site whose servers are based in Bulgaria.

Since the server isn’t based in the U.S. and since Bulgaria has more lax prostitution laws, the federal government can do little to prevent the site’s activity.

Advocacy groups like Lambda Legal and the Transgender Law Center support decriminalizing sex work and say websites like these are crucial to the safety and health of sex workers. Without sites like RentBoy.com, RentMen.com and Backpage.com, sex workers are forced into unsafe alternatives to find clients—like working on the streets.

Allowing sex workers to advertise their services allows them to negotiate higher prices and safer sex, according to Alison Bass.

Bass is a WVU journalism professor whose forthcoming book, “Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and The Law,” comes out next Wednesday. After she interviewed sex workers and experts from across the country, Bass feels that decriminalizing prostitution would help sex workers.

“What happened when Craigslist closed its adult section? Everyone gravitated to Backpage,” Bass said. “The people that want to close these sites say, ‘Well, they’re used by traffickers to advertise underage prostitutes.’”

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Justine Schultz, a mechanical and aerospace engineering student from Stewartsville, New Jersey, said she has always been passionate about math.

Growing up, Schultz played field hockey for 15 years, participated in Key Club and completed volunteer work with her Church while at Phillipsburg High School.

Upon graduation, she promised herself to “step up her game” and become more involved in college.

Schultz has lived up to her pledge, creating or assisting in creating four different on-campus organizations—including the Society for Collegiate Leadership and Achievement and the Space Public Outreach Team—involving technical science and mechanical and aerospace engineering.

One of her associations, Alpha Omega Upsilon, is a sorority for women in engineering and the technical sciences. The sorority began with only 15 girls but now brings together more than 70 women for support.

Additionally, Schultz has been the president of the Student Partnership for the Advancement of Cosmic Exploration, for the last three years.

Schultz said she is running for Homecoming Queen in the hopes of putting a spotlight on women in engineering and technical sciences. She said she has witnessed first-hand the underrepresentation and discrimination women struggle against in STEM fields and believes it needs to change.

“The best decision I ever made in my entire life was to come to WVU,” she said.

While winning Homecoming Queen “would be extremely humbling,” Shultz said she is honored to be a finalist.

Jon Salazar Jon Salazar, a civil engineering student with a minor in military science, is from South Charleston, West Virginia.

Salazar went to high school in Maryland however, where he excelled in track, cross country and tennis. He participated in leadership activities such as the Boy Scouts of America and 4H Club.

On campus, Salazar is involved in Greek life, the Mountain Honorary and Army ROTC, an elective curriculum specializing in competitive leadership, experience and training. He serves as President of Sigma Nu. Salazar was also President of Scabbard and Blade, a national military honors society founded in 1904.

Salazar said he is not running for Homecoming King to achieve campus fame or recognition. Rather, he chose to run because he feels he would effectively represent campus values.

“Being in the army and being president of a fraternity, I think I stand for a lot of the values this campus stands for,” he said.

Salazar said he lives according to army ethos and the values of love, truth and honor.

As he has always been very competitive and ambitious in setting goals and achieving them, Salazar said he has always been driven to do better and do more, like winning Homecoming King.

“Why would I want to win? I hate losing!” He said. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Pakistani Student Association celebrates culture by caity coyne

associate city editor @caitycoyne

The last time Amna Khan attended a West Virginia University football game, her siblings and friends faced chants of “ching-chong-ling-long” and “Iran! Iran!” from people around them. “(When things like this happen) they’re reminders people like us aren’t necessarily welcomed by everyone here,” Khan said.

Khan is a 23-year-old medical student and one of many Pakistani students on WVU’s campus.

Despite popular belief, being Pakistani is not synonymous with being Middle Eastern, according to Khan.

“Pakistan is very similar to India—they used to be one

country—so we’d call ourselves part of South Asia,” she said.

Khan is also a member of WVU’s Pakistani Student Association (PSA), a student organization composed of Pakistani students, as well as students from varying backgrounds and ethnicities, who come together to learn about and celebrate Pakistani culture.

The organization sometimes hosts Chai events, which are fundraisers for refugees and poverty relief, where the members cook and bring Pakistani foods and treats and charge a small admission fee for those attending.

“It’s been a good way to culturally represent who we are and benefit important causes,” Khan said.

PSA sometimes tries to co-

ordinate their Chai events with Pakistani holidays, like Pakistan Independence Day in September and the Basant Kite Flying Festival, a seasonal festival held in the spring.

Khan said she’d like to see WVU incorporate Pakistani students as part of the “normal University experience.”

“Instead of, ‘Here’s the University, regular football and social events. Here are our ethnic students and their activities listed separately,’ (have) them all integrated better,” she said.

Recently, Khan saw the library website use a photo of Saudi Muslim students doing research. “…(I) thought that was neat,” Khan said. “I think stuff like that makes everyone feel welcome.”

A lot of the problems Khan

has faced being Pakistani on campus have gone hand-inhand with her being Muslim, she said.

One example, she said, was having “minor inconveniences” with dietary restrictions that come with being Muslim, like not being able to eat pork.

“Sometimes dining staff has seemed reluctant when I’ve asked for accommodations,” Khan said. “Unfortunately, it’s been easier to just say I have an allergy.”

Khan said, as a Pakistani, she feels she has to show she is “extra qualified” for positions and opportunities, and it’s defeating to hear other people say something was easy.

“The most insidious problems are the least obvious, though,” she said.

When she was in under-

grad, Khan went to a NASA seminar with a white speaker.

The speaker told the audience he worked at a 7/11 until a representative walked in and offered him an internship.

“I remember thinking, ‘That would never happen to someone like me,’” Khan said.

Khan said that something like that would probably never happen to most people, but especially a female or a person of color.

About 95 percent of those living in Pakistan are Muslim, according to the CIA World Factbook, but Khan encourages people to understand that Pakistani culture is not the same throughout the entire country.

“Our culture can vary a lot between people, just like in the United States,” she said.

“There are many ethnic, lan-

WVU CACSS attempts to become national hub for sports-related info by hollie greene staff writer @dailyathenaeum

A newly recognized West Virginia University center is making the effort to become a national clearinghouse for sports-related information.

The Center for Applied Coaching and Sport Sciences will focus on researching, gathering and circulating information to athletes and coaches across the country.

Faculty members Roch King and Kristen Dieffenbach will direct the facility.

“We are one of the few developed nations that does not have a centralized or nationally recognized center for sports...” King said. “There’s a need in the United States for a place that allows infor-

mation to be both generated and disseminated that serves all the necessary constituencies like coaches, athletes and the people that are training coaches.”

The CACSS will benefit WVU students, especially those belonging to the College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences, allowing them to become involved with hands-on experiences and work with major stakeholders in the sports industry, King said.

Such opportunities will be experience-based and will allow students to interact with officials from the most local University sports, or “USports,” to national organizing bodies and teams.

One of the Center’s main goals, according to Dief-

fenbach, involves ensuring that athletes are receiving proper guidance and treatment from their coaches and trainers.

“Our vision is the idea that every American is an athlete,” Dieffenbach said. “Everyone can be athletic, and every athlete, therefore, has the right to be trained by a quality coach.”

The CACSS is involved with projects in West Virginia and across the country.

One project currently underway is an arrangement between a U-Sport organization and the CACSS where the center assists the organization in writing a coaching curriculum and maximizing parental interaction.

“We’re also working on an initiative with the United

States Olympic Committee to help provide some technological support for various national governing bodies that are apart of the Olympic sport movement,” King said.

The CACSS is set to hold the 2015 National Coaching Conference and several coach-training workshops.

Dieffenbach hopes the center will eventually be able to provide cutting-edge technology and science to all branches and levels of sports at WVU. “Right now, students in our program are working to provide some sports performance, strength conditioning and agility work for the clubs which aren’t usually served,” Dieffenback said. “This is the type of thing that we’re really encouraging our students to

participate in.”

King also has many hopes for the center’s future.

“Our mission is to help fill the gaps between the practitioners, the coaches and those training them, and the scientists that are doing the research about how to be better coaches,” King said.

“In the near future, we would like to see some of the ongoing research related to coaching education and establish more relationships with outside organizations.”

For more information regarding the CACSS, contact Kimberly Cameon at Kimberly.cameon@mail.wvu. edu. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

Personal finance program for students in the works by corey mcdonald staff writer @Dailyathenaeum

A new personal financial education program which will help students understand components of their personal financial information is being developed at West Virginia University.

The developing program is an ongoing effort between the Office of Financial Aid and the Office of Administration and Finance. Brenda Thompson, adviser to the vice president for Administration and Finance, will head the program.

“It eventually will be owned by the Office of Financial Aid,” she said, “but at this point in time, I’m trying to get it off the ground.”

The program focuses on developing students’ financial understanding and literacy. The program branches out to cultivate better life-

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Continued from page 1 Bass sees it differently. In previous cases, employees from Backpage.com, a site for female escorts, worked with authorities to arrest people trafficking children, according to Bass.

If gay escorts use sites based overseas, she said there’s no incentive for those companies to work with U.S. authorities to stop the few instances of gay sex trafficking.

A study of gay and transgender escorts in New York found that only a small percentage of gay escorts were trafficked or coerced into sex work, according to Bass. Most gay escorts get into the business to make extra money and explore their sexuality.

Adrian never imagined himself as a sex worker. It wasn’t until he got a $300 citation last fall that he even considered the idea. It would take nothing short of a miracle for Adrian to find a nine to five job he could keep and still make it to all of his classes on time.

So, the couple experimented with making Internet porn. But at best, that yielded about $30 each day for multiple hours of work.

In May, they discovered RentBoy.com. Adrian and Chandler have a system nailed down just a few

long, financial habits instead of solely focusing on tuition and the cost of college.

WVU employees learned at various conferences that other institutions—like Ohio State University and Indiana University—already have similar programs in place.

The program is a recent implementation. Freshmen coming into the University this fall were required to take a Transit Financial Wellness module along with Alcohol EDU, both offered by the same company.

This module is also embedded in the first-year seminar course which freshman are required to take, along with a financial wellness chapter included in the course textbook.

“The (transit financial wellness module) offered questions that asked (students) about delivery formats,” Thompson said. “Do you want to see it in an on-

line version? Do you actually want to come in and be part of a workshop? Or do you want to meet one-on-one with someone when you have issues or questions?”

This is the first step in the program’s development: gauging how to deliver this program to students and figure out the best way to successfully apply it, according to Thompson.

“We’ve got all the research that other institutions have provided, so we’re using that to get it launched,” Thompson said. “We want to find out what our students are going to prefer and how they want it delivered.”

Helping her with the process is Blake Humphrey, a board member of WVU’s Student Government Association, in order to keep the students’ perspective in mind as the program develops.

“I was lucky to have a mother that has a background

months later.

They never officially agree to have sex for money in any communication with a client, they just agree to spend time with someone for an agreed upon price—about $400 for two hours.

“Whatever happens between that time is between two consenting adults,” Chandler said, smiling.

When they go, clients are always told to put their money—which the couple explicitly calls a “donation” to avoid getting arrested—in plain view.

The couple trusted the clients they met through RentBoy.com because those clients had to pay to view the couple’s ad, which escorts took as a sign that they were serious.

Sure, they were nervous the first time they met a client, but there were two of them and only one client. The numbers were on their side.

“As soon as we got our first client, we never went back,” Adrian said.

“They say you have to do something 30 times for it to become habit,” Chandler said.

“It’s definitely a habit.”

And in some way, they see their work as a way to give back to the gay community.

“For a lot of these old men, it’s the highlight of their months,” Adrian said. “We have clients who save and save and save up just for one night and you know how much it

means to them. They give us wine and make us a whole entire dinner. It’s just a means of having that companionship.”

Thanks to those men, the couple is out of debt, Adrian’s ticket is paid off and they’ve moved into a new apartment together.

The couple is fairly open about their work. If friends or family ask, they’ll politely say they’re escorts. After all, it’s hard to hide twice-weekly trips to Pittsburgh to meet clients.

“A lot of people think it’s just sex, and a lot of times it’s not,” Adrian said. “A lot of times our clients are older wealthy men. Most of them aren’t out (of the closet) because they’ve been closeted for so long, it’s just easier for their business now.”

Even Adrian’s grandmother knows about it.

“The other night when my grandma was up here, we went to the bar with her,” Adrian said. “Some guy came up and put his hand on my stomach. My grandma looked at him and said, ‘Honey, you’re going to have to pay for that.’”

For now, their fear of getting arrested has subsided, and Adrian continues to help pay for his education. If RentMen.com is taken down?

“I’m sure another site will pop up,” Adrian said. “They always do.”

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those with the highest interest in pursuing the criminal justice field.

“As long as they’re in good academic standing and have passed the required classes, they can apply,” she said.

The acceptance process doesn’t include any tests, but students must pass required high school core classes, said Napolillo.

Students can apply to the program in the spring and will be called in for an interview. Once they’re accepted, they become officially enrolled in the program.

The program’s focus is on teaching the foundation of law, police tactics and training, self-defense and correctional procedures within a prison setting through lectures, Clark said.

There are also situational scenarios, such as mock crime scene investigations that students have to go through and solve problems.

Since the program is run in public schools, things like firearms can’t be taught, Clark said.

“I think those who will go through this program will be much more prepared for the academy,” Palitto said. “Being that West Virginia’s police academy is the second hardest in the nation next to Texas, it can only be more beneficial.”

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in finance, and she was able to really guide me through this process,” Humphrey said. “There are students that aren’t as lucky as I was and still aren’t as lucky because they don’t have those fundamental financial tools which they deserve.”

A survey is circulating among students to help WVU select a name for the new program. Students who received the survey are encouraged to vote for one of the names provided or propose one of their own.

While new students are being engaged, Thompson also wants to make sure students preparing to graduate are financially prepared as well.

Thompson and Humphrey also have hopes that the program can reach out to the state of West Virginia through the extension services.

“We still have a number of students in West Virginia that

think that college is just not in their ability to reach because they don’t have the money,” Thompson said. “A lot of organizations try to overcome that.

I think joining with those organizations as WVU and with the extension agency—which is in every county in West Virginia—opens that door a little wider.”

The driving point behind the push for this program is the increasing cost of a college education and ensuring students recognize this and are prepared.

“The reality is that the cost is going up because we don’t have the support that we’ve had in the past…” Thompson said. “We need to help students find a way that they can keep the amount of debt that they’re taking out to a level that they feel they can manage.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

CLARIFICATION Due to an editing error in the Sept. 27, 2015 edition of The Daily Athenaeum, we reported that Dennis Cole filed a third petition against West Virginia University’s policy banning tobacco on campus. Cole didn’t file a third petition, but rather re-filed an old petition. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

CORRECTION Due to incorrect information given to Daily Athenaeum reporters, in the Sept. 25, 2015 edition, The DA reported that a meeting with West Virginia University lawyers and Dennis Cole was cancelled.

Cole provided this information. Later, representatives from University Relations informed The DA that the meeting was cancelled but was rescheduled because of a scheduling conflict with Cole’s lawyer.

In the Sept. 28, 2015, edition of The Daily Athenaeum, we reported that the University’s Board of Governors terminated the MIS program.

The Board terminated the MIS program in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, not the MIS program in the College of Business and Economics.

We apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused.

guage (and) religious groups in Pakistan. My family is lightskinned, from the northern region close to Afghanistan, speaks certain dialects, and none of us wear a headscarf (hijab). This changes with different Pakistani people even on our campus.”

Khan could not pick one favorite part of her culture. She said there were many aspects in which she found joy—the food, the music, the clothing and the importance of community and family. “(Being Muslim and Pakistani) is the only life I’ve known,” she said, “but I’m very grateful for the experiences and lessons. It’s definitely given me more empathy and greater focus on world-issues.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

Diversity Week Schedule 10 a.m.-4 p.m. – Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Conference Lakeview Resort Conference Center Community members are invited to attend. The cost is $69, and the conference is presented by AGI Seminars. Visit http:// dandiconference.com.

11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. – HSC Around The Globe: A Presentation From the Global Engagement Office Okey Patteson Auditorium, Health Sciences Center North Presented by Christopher Martin, director of Occupational Medicine and Global Engagement Office.

11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Women of Color Luncheon Mountainlair Ballrooms “Connecting, Inspiring and Honoring All Women.” Attorney Katherine “Kitty” Dooley, a U.S. Army veteran and WVU alumna. Chelsea Malone, current Miss West Virginia, will perform. Tickets must be purchased prior to the event at http://cwc. wvu.edu/special-events.

4-5:30 p.m. – How Women Are Succeeding in the Davis College Rhododendron Room in the Mountainlair A panel of five, female, faculty members with a student from their specific area will participate in the panel. Each faculty person will share personal experiences and provide their top five pieces of advice for success in the fields of science and creativity for women, as well as their top 10 ways to succeed.

5:30-6:30 p.m. – Culturas: What It Means to be a Latino/a Greenbrier Room in the Mountainlair A discussion about the various identities and cultures in the Americas and their importance.

The panel includes Ryan Payan; Brandy Ledesma; Michele Stephens, Ph.D.; and Juan Guillermo Sanchez Martinez.

6:30-8:30 p.m. – “Nostalgia For the Light” Rhododendron Room in the Mountainlair “Nostalgia for the Light” is an award-winning documentary about two stories: The first is of astronomers in the Atacama Desert who use astronomy as a tool to delve into the universe’s past, and the second is of the women who continue to search the desert for traces of their loved ones who were killed during the dictatorship of former Chilean President Pinochet.

7 p.m. – How to be a Student Leader in the Areas of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Blue Room in Towers A discussion of leadership opportunities in areas of diversity and inclusion with various campus student leaders in diversity. The panel will consist of Jihad Dixon, WVU NAACP; Renzo Diaz, Culturas; Sean Fitzwater, SGA; Ryan Payan, Culturas; Samantha Shimer, Council for Women’s Concerns; Shaniwar Waris, SGA.

OPINION Finding unity among diversity 3

Tuesday September 29, 2015

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In the midst of West Virginia University’s Diversity Week, the campus is overflowing with events such as lectures on certain minorities in the area, ice cream socials and cultural dance performances. While it is admirable that these minority groups are given a week in the spotlight, singling out these groups as “diverse” could potentially alienate them from WVU’s campus culture.

The definition of diversity is often limited to that of racial or ethnic differences; however, there is a broad range of diversity, including differences in sexual orientation, religion, gender, culture, cuisine, social status, education level, political views and beyond.

For example, a room full of white Americans could be full of diversity merely because of differences in socioeconomic backgrounds.

In a state such as West Virginia, which identifies as 93.7 percent white, the expansion of what it means to be diverse is a necessity.

So, singling out LGBTQ

Diversity can be celebrated by unifying all groups of students. groups, Latino groups, Indian groups and other campus minorities may do more harm than good.

WVU received 1.5 out of 5 stars for the past three

years in the Campus Pride Index, a national survey that ranks how LGBTQfriendly a college is based on services it offers and the policies it has in place,

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a red flag that WVU’s inclusion services and policies are not on par with other universities.

Instead of focusing on diversity on campus, this

editorial staff believes the University should focus on unifying different groups on campus—something that has not been addressed.

Certain organizations have essentially been excluded or have excluded themselves from Diversity Week. Sororities on campus are enduring recruitment this week, arguably their most hectic week of the academic year. With rush parties every day, it will be difficult for those involved with Greek life to find the time to be involved with this week that is meant to highlight acceptance and tolerance on campus. It is this kind of exclusion which further alienates these organizations that should be unified.

While this may be chalked up to a mere oversight in scheduling, it serves as a major contributor to the ignorance of unity on campus.

When it is deemed acceptable for organizations such as Phi Sigma Kappa

Fraternity to print T-shirts showing a half-clothed woman and the phrase, “We haven’t seen your girl wrestle, but we’ve seen her box,” it is safe to say that there is a certain lack of tolerance and respect on WVU’s campus.

Organizations typically stick to what they know and the causes for which they were founded, and while these causes are essential in organizations, students cannot be taught tolerance without being put in a situation where they must coexist with someone who is unlike them.

A week of lectures about diversity has not and will not change the standard of inclusion at WVU. This editorial staff is calling on campus leaders to address the lack of inclusion among student organizations. The diversity at WVU will remain disconnected if students do not make an effort to engage with someone outside of their norm. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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“Gaydar” is a myth: Relies on stereotyping over science kayla mccormick columnist @kayattheda

Throughout history, humans have displayed adverse destructive reactions to things they don’t understand. It is, I believe, a fear of the unknown that drives humans in their more drastic endeavors (for example, religion, genocide, mass enslavement, etc.). While I would credit a fear of the unknown for some great and terrible things, I also think it plays a hand in more commonplace occurrences as well. For example: gaydar.

Gaydar, as defined by Dictionary.com, is “The putative ability of homosexuals to recognize one another intuitively [or] the putative ability of heterosexuals to discern the homosexuality of others.” In this heteronormative society, people are assumed straight at birth.

If they are homosexual, they have two choices: either remain closeted or out themselves to everyone they meet. This leads to many instances where homosexuals are publicly persecuted for their sexual orientation.

Using men as an example, it’s easy to draw the conclusion that the desire to have accurate gaydar stems from men’s fear of the male gaze. The idea of being leered at in ways similar to how straight men sometimes ogle and catcall women is alarm-

ing to some men, and the fact that they won’t be able to discern when it’s going to happen is terrifying. By believing one can use gaydar to “sense” a homosexual’s presence in advance, a false sense of security is created.

The fact that gaydar is widely accepted as a credible, entirely possible innate ability reveals more about human arrogance than it has ever revealed about a person’s homosexuality. To be able to correctly identify someone’s sexual orientation based solely on sight implies there is some outer, physical manifestation of homosexuality. This is simply untrue.

As a gay person, I can personally debunk the gaydar myth. No one has ever, in my 21 years, looked at me and said, “You’re a lesbian, aren’t you? I can just tell.”

Aside from my anecdotal experience, there is research to support the nonexistence of human gaydar abilities. The University of Wisconsin-Madison conducted a five-part study in which researchers called into question the viability of gaydar. In the abstract of their study, they wrote, “In the present work, we investigated the pop cultural idea that people have a sixth sense, called ‘gaydar,’ to detect who is gay.

We propose that ‘gaydar’ is an alternate label for using stereotypes to infer orientation (e.g., inferring that fashionable men are gay). Another account, however, argues that peo-

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Many people pride themselves on the strength of their “gaydar.” ple possess a facial perception process that enables them to identify sexual orientation from facial structure.”

After running five separate studies with pictures of 55 gay men and 50 straight men, researchers found the student participants based their judgement of gay or straight on

stereotypes rather than any physical features (for example, more students selected men in high-quality photos as gay, with the reasoning that gay men would take better pictures).

Gaydar, a seemingly trivial, harmless concept, actually serves to legitimatize stereotyping of sexual ori-

entation and to “other” homosexuality. As the Huffington Post put it, “When people slap on a euphemism for stereotyping”— in this case, gaydar—“they feel free to judge groups of people by very limited parameters which legitimize societal myths.” This is problematic for all parties involved.

By perpetuating stereotypes of homosexuality, we in turn make more concrete the stereotypes of masculinity and femininity, limiting ourselves to restrictive, socially accepted identities rather than being free to embrace our whole selves. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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How to choose the best complementary minor for your major elana goodwin Ohio state university

Once you’ve gone through the complex process of wisely choosing your major, adding a college minor or two seems pretty easy in comparison.

However, it still requires some careful thought and judgment.

Besides the benefits graduating with a college minor may give you when you’re applying to jobs, fulfilling requirements for a minor while you’re in college can have other significance as well—and it’s less of a commitment than tacking on another major.

There are many ways to decide what you want to minor in. First, you need to decide whether you want

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your minor to be something you’re really passionate about or whether you want it to be something that will give you an edge professionally.

Perhaps it’s both or perhaps you want to declare more than one college minor.

Picking a minor that has personal significance to you but has nothing to do with your major may be a good way to explore a subject or further understand a topic you may be interested in. Even if you don’t think you’ll use the knowledge gained in your minor later in life or in a career, it still may help you professionally as it makes your interests look more diverse and shows you went the extra mile to get accreditation.

For example, I double minored in sociology and criminology. Why, you

might ask? Simply put, I loved my classes in each subject but didn’t want to commit to declaring another major because I knew the course load would end up being too much to fulfill while still graduating within four years.

Minoring seemed like the next best option, and after declaring my sociology minor, I realized it’d be pretty simple to tack on criminology since they were housed in the same department and could share a few credits.

When you’re picking your minor, you’ll want to research how many classes and credits are required, and whether you’ve already fulfilled any of those requirements or if you can share some credits with your major. This may help you complete your minor that much faster and easier, and may even

clear the way for being able to declare a second minor.

Of course, many minors will give you a leg up in the professional world. For example, minoring in business, communications, computer science, psychology and others may help you when you’re applying to jobs after graduation. The additional training and knowledge gained with a minor can improve your resume and make you more employable. Choosing a college minor able to complement your major and gears you toward your dream job can definitely help in the long run, so choose your minor carefully.

That being said, while a minor can only help you in the future, it’s not the same as your major and doesn’t hold the same weight as a full bachelor’s degree. So if

you’re majoring in something you’re not sure will be very employable, you may want to look into switching your major and minor. As I said before, you can also look into double majoring or fulfilling some other certification while at school.

You may also start working towards a minor only to discover you really love it and want to add it to or change it to your major, and having already taken a bunch of classes toward the minor will get you that much closer to your degree.

You may also be wondering how much extra work and money declaring and completing a minor may be. If you play your cards right, completing a minor or two won’t cost you any extra money, nor will it add more work than your other classes al-

ready do. In fact, achieving a minor may actually ensure you truly get your money’s worth out of college. Because you’re already paying a lot for an education, you may as well learn as much as you can.

However, before declaring a minor, you’ll want to carefully map out the courses you’ll need to take and make sure that between the classes required for your major and your General Education courses, adding a college minor won’t add any extra time to your years at school.

Even though choosing a college minor may not be as big of a deal as picking a major, it’s no minor decision. Consult your advisor and figure out if a minor makes sense for you. If it is, go for it.

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Quidditch team brings some real-life competition Megan Weissend A&E Correspondent @dailyathenaeum

The world continues to cherish the magic created by authour J.K. Rowling through the beloved Harry Potter books.

Quidditch, a game played by wizards throughout the fantasy series, is now a sport widely accepted throughout the Muggle community.

Although there are no flying broomsticks, the game of Quidditch closely mimics the fictional conception in Rowling’s novels. Colleges across the nation compete in the newly recognized sport, with West Virginia University being one of them.

The WVU Quidditch Club was founded in 2010 as a floor activity in the Hon-

ors Residence Hall. In fall 2012, the club became an official organization recognized by US Quidditch and the International Quidditch Association.

Part of the original club in 2010, Jeff Stevens is now a graduate student at WVU and Quidditch team captain.

“I’m a Harry Potter fan,” Stevens said. “It’s what originally got my friends and I into playing, but it has become so much more than that over time and has taken on its place as a legitimate sport.”

The into reality adaption of Quidditch was invented in 2005 by students attending Middlebury College in Vermont. The co-ed contact sport blends a unique mix of elements from rugby, dodgeball and tag. Seven

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The snitch is a game piece in quidditch. athletes are required to play the entire game with a broomstick between their legs.

Three Chasers score goals worth 10 points with a volleyball referred to as a “quaffle,” and each team has a Keeper defending the goal hoops. Two beaters on a team use dodgeballs called

“bludgers” to disrupt the flow of the game by “knocking out” the opposing team’s players. Each team also has a Seeker whose job is to catch “the snitch,” which is a ball attached to a neutral athlete who runs from the seekers.

The catching of the snitch awards the team with 30 additional points and ultimately ends the game.

Once the rules are clear, Quidditch does not appear as chaotic to the casual observer.

Freshman Chaser Remington Dewey had only seen a game of Quidditch played in the Harry Potter movies.

“I decided to give it a try to try to make some friends and also stay active,” Dewey said. “After playing at the first practice, I kind of fell in love with it.”

Dewey is one of thousands who fell in love with playing the sport. While the Muggle-made game was founded in 2005, the roots of Quidditch date back to a hotel in Manchester, England, where Rowling designed the game.

“If wizards are living in secret all over Britain, they have their own society,” Rowling said in an interview with 60 Minutes. “Obviously they’re going to have their own sport. That’s a very important part of a separate culture. Once I decided they must have their own sport, it had to be on broomsticks.”

Even though the real-life version of Quidditch is not played in the air, the game is still challenging.

“It’s not just a simple game from a book,” Dewey

said. “In many cases, unless they just throw the ball away or make a bad, forced pass, you must tackle them and get them to the ground, and even then at times you have to fight for the ball.”

The WVU Quidditch Club’s next game is Saturday, where they will go head-tohead and broom-to-broom with a Grove City College team in Pennsylvania.

On Nov. 14, the team will travel to the USQ Mid Atlantic Regionals at Virginia Beach, where all teams from that region will compete.

For students who are still patiently awaiting their Hogwarts acceptance letter, the Quidditch team encourages participation. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

FOX’s ‘Scream Queens’ mixes horror, gore and comedy with sororities Brittany osteen A&E correspondent @dailyathenaeum

The much-anticipated drama series “Scream Queens” premiered Sept. 22 on FOX. The two-hour premiere showcased the new comedy-horror series from the award-winning executive producers, who brought you “Glee” and “American Horror Story.”

“Scream Queens” stars Lea Michele, Emma Roberts, Keke Palmer, Nasim Pedrad, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nick Jonas, Oliver Hudson, Ariana Grande, Skyler Samuels, Billie Lourd, Diego Boneta and Abigail Breslin.

The show’s pilot and second episode focused on a specifically terrifying hell week for the sorority Kappa Kappa Tau. This show takes hazing to an entirely new level, when the sisters find out they are living with a murderer. In the very first episode of the show, three people are savagely murdered by one of the housemates.

The show begins with a flashback to 1995, with a KKT pledge having just given birth in a bathtub during a party. The girls cannot miss jamming to the

song “Waterfalls” by TLC and leave the new mom upstairs. When they come back after the song, the pledge had died. The baby was safe, which has already started some theories that the baby could be the red devil who is killing everyone. Other theories suggest the main pledge, Gracie, is the suspected killer.

Fast-forward to the present: The Kappa house is now led by Chanel No. 1 and her minions, Chanel Nos. 2, 3 and 4. The new dean meets with Chanel No. 1 to talk about her efforts to revoke the girls’ charter. We are first introduced to the red devil when Dean Munsch accuses No.1 of killing the previous KKT president in a terrible spray tan and hydrochloric acid accident.

Luckily, Gigi Caldwell, the national president of KKT and lawyer, makes a deal with the dean to keep the charter in exchange for making the sorority nonexclusive. All pledges are welcome.

As her dad drives Grace to school, he begs her not to join a sorority. We learn that Grace’s mom was a KKT and died when she was young.

After her dad leaves with a tear in his eye, we meet her roommate Zayday, who de-

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The red devil is killing off sorority girls, who could it be? cides to rush with Grace.

This might just help her in her aspirations to become president.

At a mixer, the girls find out that anyone who wants to join KKT can be a pledge.

This means, “Neck Brace,” “Deaf Taylor Swift,” “Predatory Lez” and “Candle Vlogger” are all welcome. Outraged at the thought of her drop in popularity, Chanel decides to scare the girls off with a little prank. She teams up with the maid, Ms. Bean,

to dip her head into the deep fryer, which was supposed to be cold and Bean would just fake it, but it wasn’t off.

These poor, naive pledges are now bonded in sisterhood and murder.

Grace turns to Pete, a reporter who hates the sorority, and decides to be his inside man. Sadly, within the episode, the red devil stabs No. 2 and runs over “Deaf Taylor Swift” with a lawn mower.

By whatever crazy logic, Munsch and Caldwell agree that it’s best for the girls to stay in the house while the murder is sorted out. The girls are given a security guard who essentially says “scream for me, call for me or run.”

When Grace meets with Pete, she finds a red devil costume in his closet. She then finds out he is 20 years old. Interestingly, that is the same age as the bathtub baby would be. Back at

the house, Chanel claims to have been thrown against the wall by the murderer, and the words “sl--s will die” is painted on her wall.

The show pokes fun at typical teenage girl stereotypes, such as gaining the freshman 15 and the obsession with pumpkin spice lattes.

“Scream Queens” airs every Tuesday at 9 p.m. on FOX. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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3,000-page Primo Levi anthology includes Toni Morrison intro NEW YORK (AP) — The fall’s most ambitious literary release took 17 years to complete, runs more than 3000 pages, draws upon the talents of more than a dozen translators and has a list price of $100.

It also features an introduction from Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.

“The Complete Works of Primo Levi” is a 3-volume set of writings by the late Italian author and Auschwitz survivor whose memoir “If This is a Man” remains a standard work of Holocaust literature. The anthology was conceived in 1998 by W.W. Norton & Company executive editor Robert Weil, who had had surprising success with a two-volume compila-

tion of Russian author Isaac Babel and thought Levi a worthy follow-up.

“But if the publisher had known back in 1998 how long this would take I would never have gotten it approved,” Weil said during a recent interview.

Levi was world famous at the time of his death (widely believed a suicide), in 1987, but his work in the U.S. suffered from the random treatment given to so many foreign-language authors. At least seven publishers had rights to various editions and the quality of translations was erratic enough that new translations were commissioned for virtually all of the books. Many stories and poems had never been

collected in English before.

Literary works in general depend on critics’ support and strong reviews are especially vital for “The Complete Works of Primo Levi,” which like a 4-hour movie needs to be regarded as something extraordinary, as an event.

So far, reviewers have duly applauded. The Washington Post’s Michael Dirda praised it as “old-school publishing on a grand scale,” while James Wood of The New Yorker called it a “monumental and noble endeavor.”

Estimating that he has devoted more than 6,000 emails to the Levi project, Weil brought in a wide range of collaborators. To oversee the new translations and work on some of the books, he recruited New Yorker editor Ann Goldstein, already known to many readers for

her English-language editions of the novels of Elena Ferrante. Other contributors include authors Simon Rich and Jenny McPhee, and, for Levi’s poetry, Jonathan Galassi, the president and publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux and a leading translator of Italian verse.

Morrison’s participation wasn’t planned when Weil thought of the Levi anthology and came about through a conversation in early 2014 with Harold Augenbraum, executive director of the National Book Foundation, which presents the National Book Awards. Augenbraum recommended that Weil contact the author of “Beloved” and “The Bluest Eye” and other novels, citing her singular gift for capturing “the human cost of holocaust,” he told The Associ-

ated Press in a recent email.

According to Weil, Morrison initially turned him down because she had other writing commitments.

Weil responded by sending Morrison a package of Levi books, plus an essay he had written about him.

Within three weeks, Morrison changed her mind.

“She was hugely enthused about his writings,” Weil said.

Levi, born in 1919, was a promising young chemist and member of an anti-Fascist organization when arrested late in 1943 and the following February stuffed by the Nazis with hundreds of others on a train to Auschwitz. “At Auschwitz I became a Jew,” he would recall. “The consciousness of feeling different was forced upon me.”

Russian troops liberated Auschwitz early in 1945 and after months in a Soviet transit camp Levi returned to Turin, where he soon began writing “If This is a Man.” The book was published in Italy in 1947, but took more than a decade to find an international audience, only reaching the United States in 1959.

Over the last quarter century of his life, Levi was acclaimed for the force and clarity of his prose, for the welding of lyricism, wisdom, imagination and logic.

He proved gifted not just at nonfiction, but poetry, short fiction and with such novels as “The Wrench” and “If Not Now, When?” In “The Periodic Table,” he told the story of his life through chapters dedicated to gold, silver and other elements.

MTV extreme sports star Erik Roner dies skydiving SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An extreme sports and MTV star skydiving for the opening ceremony of a golf event in Northern California died when he struck a tree Monday, authorities said.

Placer County Sheriff ’s Capt. Dennis Walsh said Erik Roner of Tahoe City, California died during a skydiving accident at a golf course in Squaw Valley, California.

Witnesses told deputies Roner, 39, was part of a group conducting a skydiving performance for a golf event, when he hit a tree while trying to land and became entangled high above ground, Walsh said.

Authorities were not able to remove him from the tree and Roner was pronounced dead at the scene.

All the other skydivers landed safely, he said.

Walsh said the investigation is continuing and the Federal Aviation Administration has been notified.

Roner was known for being part of the Nitro Circus, an MTV show centered around freestyle motocross rider Travis Pastrana and his crew of extreme sports athlete friends. He also hosted TV show “Locals” on sports network Outside Television.

Roy Tuscany, a friend of Roner, who witnessed the accident said it occurred right before a celebrity golf tournament was about to begin Monday morning.

Tuscany said that he watched as two other parachutists landed safely on the golf course’s fairway for the 9th hole but then looked

on in horror when Roner slammed hard into a tree about 25-30 feet above the ground.

He said Roner’s parachute got caught in the tree and Roner dangled there while many on the ground scrambled to find ladders and other means to get to him. At one point, several people attempted to stand on one another’s shoulder to reach him.

“There’s no protocol for this kind of rescue,” Tuscany said. “There’s no manual. It was just horrible.”

Tuscany described his friend Roner as “always positive” and a “big supporter” of the local community.

He said Roner was “hilarious and was a “stand-up guy” who could always be counted on to help out with benefit events like the golf

tournament sponsored by the Squaw Valley Institute, a nonprofit organization that describes itself as being “dedicated to presenting enriching and inspirational programs to the Lake Tahoe region.”

“We are still trying to process this tragedy,” said Rob Faris, senior VP, programming and production at Outside Television.

“Our hearts go out to his family.”

Outside Television will air “Locals” from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. EDT Tuesday.

Roner’s death comes four months after world-famous wingsuit flyer Dean Potter and fellow adventurer Graham Hunt fatally crashed after the pair leaped from Taft Point, 3,500-feet above Yosemite Valley, attempting to clear a V-shaped notch in a ridgeline.

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Delicious fall treats that you can make yourself Melanie Smith A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

No-bake Pumpkin Cheesecake For those without an oven, this easy no bake pumpkin cheesecake is the perfect recipe for colder nights to come. The estimated preparation time is 20 minutes, which is ideal for college students on the go.

To make this cheesecake with a fall twist, bakers will need one eight ounce package of softened cream cheese, one cup of pumpkin puree, three cups of whipped topping divided, half a teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice, half a cup of sugar, one cup of graham cracker crumbs and two teaspoons of melted butter. To be crafty, it is recommended to make this in a mason jar so it can be enjoyed on the go!

First, cream together softened cream cheese and sugar in a medium bowl. Add the pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spice until it is thoroughly mixed. Fold two and a half cups of whipped topping into the pumpkin cream cheese mixture and pop it into the refrigerator. When ready to be served, stir together graham cracker crumbs with melted butter. Layer the pumpkin cheesecake and graham cracker crumbs and top with remaining whipped topping.

After layering the cheesecake, the recipe is finished and ready to be devoured! If

No-bake Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe: Ingredients

For the crust •1 sleeve graham crackers (about 9 crackers) •½ stick (4 tablespoons) butter, melted •2 tablespoons sugar •2 tablespoons brown sugar For the filling •1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened to room temperature •1 15-ounce can pumpkin puree •3 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice •1 1-ounce package sugar free cheesecake-flavored instant pudding mix (or ⅓ of a non-sugar free instant pudding may be used) •1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk •1 12-ounce container frozen whipped topping, plus extra for garnish if desired

Instructions

1. Place the graham crackers in the bowl of a food processor and pulse into fine crumbs. Add the melted butter, sugar and brown sugar and pulse until combined.

2. In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, beat the cream cheese until light and creamy.

3. Add the pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice, and pudding mix and beat until completely mixed.

4. Add the sweetened condensed milk and mix again until well combined.

5. On slow speed, fold in the tub of Cool Whip until well combined.

6. Allow the mixture to sit in the refrigerator for about an hour to firm up.

7. Top the graham cracker crust in each cup with the pumpkin mixture and refrigerate until ready to serve.

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No-Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake in a mason jar is a delightful desert for the fall season.

Caramel Apple Pie Cookie

Salted Butterscotch Pumpkin Scone

Apple lovers everywhere can make a caramel apple pie cookie to celebrate the fall season. The combination of the gooey apple, sweet caramel and crisp sugar crust makes for the perfect fall recipe.

For this tasty recipe, the ingredients include one box of Pillsbury pie crust, one can of apple pie filling, a jar of caramel sauce, one egg and two tablespoons of a cinnamon sugar mixture. Other materials necessary will be a greased pan and a cookie cutter. Bakers must heat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit before beginning the preparation of the dough. After, lay one of the piecrusts flat out and spread a thin layer of caramel sauce over it. Cut the apples from the apple pie filling into small chunks. Next, spread them over top of the caramel piecrust and use about three fourths of the can.

Next, spread out the second piecrust on top of a steady surface. Gently cut long strips to make a lattice then drape the lattice on top of the cut up apples.

Dip the cookie cutter into a beaten egg and cut out the cookies to place on a greased baking sheet. Use a brush and gently brush beaten egg over each cookie. Lastly, top each cookie with the cinnamon sugar mixture. Pop the cookies into the oven for 18 to 22 minutes, until they are browned. Put the finishing touch on the cookies by drizzling caramel sauce over each one.

The combination of salted caramel, butterscotch, and pumpkin just screams fall. The salted caramel, butterscotch, pumpkin scone is every fall flavor in one treat, curing the craving for all of it.

Ingredients for this sweet and salty scone recipe includes three and one fourth cup of flour, three fourths cup of brown sugar, one teaspoon of cinnamon, half a teaspoon of allspice, one fourth a teaspoon of ginger powder, one fourth teaspoon of fresh grated nutmeg, one tablespoon of baking powder, one fourth teaspoon of baking soda, one half cup of cold butter, one third cup of buttermilk, one cup of pumpkin puree, one teaspoon of vanilla, one cup of butterscotch chips, one half cup of caramel and about one tablespoon of coarse salt.

To begin, heat the oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and grease it lightly. Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and spices in a medium bowl. Slice the butter into small pieces and add it to the mixture. Mix the dry ingredients and the butter on low speed until it looks like crumbs. Whisk together the pumpkin puree, vanilla,and buttermilk. Add this mixture to the flour mixture, mixing it all. Add the butterscotch chips and mix. Put the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead it until smooth. Form the dough into a circle that is one and one half inches thick in the center, but thinner on the outer edge. Cut the circle into eight pieces. Brush the pieces with melted better and bake for 20 to 24 minutes, or until golden brown. When cooled, put the finishing touch of caramel and salt onto each scone. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Carmel Apple Pie Cookie Recipe:

Salted Butterscotch Pumpkin Scone Recipe:

Ingredients

Ingredients

Instructions

•1 Box Pillsbury Pie Crust •1 Can Apple Pie Filling •Caramel Sauce •1 Egg •Cinnamon Sugar mixed together (about 2 Tablespoons to sprinkle on top of cookies)

•3¼ cups flour •¾ cup brown sugar •1 tsp cinnamon •½ tsp all spice •¼ tsp ginger powder •¼ tsp fresh grated nutmeg •1 Tbsp baking powder •¼ tsp baking soda •½ cup cold butter •⅓ cup buttermilk •1 cup pumpkin puree •1 tsp vanilla •1 cup butterscotch chips •½ cup caramel •About 1 Tbsp of coarse salt

1. Preheat the oven to 400. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and lightly grease it.

2. Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and spices into the bowl of an electric mixer.

3. Chop cold butter into small slices and add it to dry ingredients. Mix dry ingredients and butter on low speed until it looks like coarse crumbs.

4.While flour and butter are mixing, whisk together pumpkin puree, vanilla and buttermilk. Slowly, add pumpkin mixture to flour mixture while still mixing on low speed. Add butterscotch chips and mix until just incorporated.

5. Take the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Knead the dough a few times (15-20 seconds), until smooth.

6. Pat the dough into a circle that is about 1½ inches thick in the center but thinner on the outer edge. Cut the circle like a pie, into 8 pieces. Brush with melted butter.

7. Bake for 20-24 minutes, until golden brown.

8. Let scones cool on a wire rack and spoon some caramel and salt over the top of each scone.

Instructions 1.Pre-heat oven to 350F 2.Lay 1 of the pie crusts flat out and spread a thin layer of caramel sauce over it 3.Cut up apples from apple pie filling into small chunks then spread over top caramel (you will use about 3/4 of the can) 4.Spread out the other pie crust on a board or counter and cut long strips to make a lattice 5.Start making the lattice over top the apples 6.Dip a cookie cutter or top of cup into beaten egg and cut out cookies then place on greased baking sheet 7.Use a brush to brush beaten egg over top each cookie 8.Top cookies with cinnamon sugar mixture 9.Bake for 18-22 minutes until browned on the outside 10.Drizzle caramel sauce over each one and enjoy!

‘The Walk’ showcases an individual’s acts over superhero action NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Zemeckis’ big, cinematic tale of Philippe Petit’s audacious 1974 World Trade Center high-wire stunt is itself a bold balancing act in a lost art.

Mixing big-screen spectacle and an original story about real-life human beings is not the usual recipe in today’s reboot-crazed Hollywood. “The Walk,” which boasts some of the best 3-D the medium has seen, would be out of place amid the superheroes of summer, just as it stands out among the dour dramas of the fall.

“I so subscribe to the Francois Truffaut quote that a successful movie artistically is a movie that’s a perfect blend of truth and spectacle,” Zemeckis said in a recent interview. “I do think that’s what we go to movies to see.”

“The Walk,” which opens nationwide Friday, stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit and recounts the French high-wire artist’s famous caper: sneaking to the top of the just-completed Twin Towers to hoist a wire and tiptoe between them.

But the film is also an argument for the magic of movies to ascend to greater heights than a comic-book

factory. It’s not hard to see “The Walk” as a metaphor for Zemeckis’ movies altogether: the story of an individual elevated to dreamy heights of the clouds.

“If you’re going to do an original movie that isn’t a sequel, you’ve got to really supply a big cinematic experience,” says Tom Rothman, who produced “The Walk” while reviving TriStar Pictures before becoming chairman of the Sony Pictures Entertainment motion picture group.

“Everyone knows there’s so much great stuff on television and blah, blah, blah,” adds Rothman. “You’ve got to really give people a reason to get out of their house and go to the cinema and see it on the big screen with a capital B. And that’s what this is.”

The film has for years been a passion project for the 63-year-old Zemeckis (“Back to the Future,” “Forrest Gump”), one of Hollywood’s great illusionists. He spent a decade in digitally animated movies (“The Polar Express,” “A Christmas Carol”) before returning to live-action with 2012’s “Flight,” a character study of an alcoholic pilot (Denzel Washington) that en-

ticed moviegoers with an extraordinary plane crash set-piece - a carrot of special-effects dazzle.

In the time since Zemeckis began developing “The Walk,” Petit’s stunt was retold in James Marsh’s Oscar-winning documentary “Man on Wire.” But while Zemeckis grants it’s a very good documentary, he notes it’s missing one essential thing: Petit’s walk.

That’s because when Petit made his early morning stroll with a handful of collaborators, it was photographed but not videotaped.

“Philippe was on the wire for 45 minutes and in all of Manhattan, no one could scramble a movie camera in 45 minutes,” chuckles Zemeckis. “How times have changed.”

The central feat of “The Walk” is its digital recreation of the Towers, along with the vertigo-inducing 3-D sensation of being 110 stories in the air. The dizzying effect - made within a budget of just $35 million sent some moviegoers rushing to the restroom at the film’s New York Film Festival premiere on Saturday.

“My cameraman and my visual effects supervisor

and I, we studied what the best way would be to evoke that feeling of vertigo,” says Zemeckis. “We really paid attention to where we put the camera, what lenses we used, how we moved the camera, what gave us the most dramatic sensation of height.”

Gordon-Levitt spent several days at Petit’s home in the Catskills training with the still passionate 66-yearold Frenchman. Armed with an extensive, minute-by-minute lesson plan, Petit swore Gordon-Levitt would be walking unassisted on a wire within a week - and he was.

The best way GordonLevitt could relate to the extreme pressure of a wirewalker was his experience as host of “Saturday Night Live” in 2009, a performance that included a backflip, all live and without a net.

He calls “The Walk” the quintessential Zemeckis film.

“Most of the big spectacular movies that come out of Hollywood, the characters can be a little one dimensional,” says GordonLevitt, whom Zemeckis urged to watch films about brilliant, near-crazy icons like “Amadeus” and “Pat-

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as French tightrope walker Philippe Petit in ‘The Walk.’ ton.” “So it was a rare treat to get to be in a movie that has such incredible, spectacular visuals, but also has at its core a really intriguing and nuanced human drama.”

For Rothman, the challenge of running Sony will be in making big, all-audience originals like “The Walk” - provided, fingers crossed, they succeed.

“It’s an endangered species,” says Rothman. “An

original film that’s made for a broad audience with spectacle but isn’t based on a comic book and isn’t a sequel - there aren’t any of those. The business has a terrible time making them now. You can only do it if you really believe the movie’s going to turn out really well.

“You need somebody who’s as gifted at it as Bob is.”

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You appear to have workable ideas, whereas others’ seem to fall flat. If you are looking for a brainstorming situation, try another day. You might decide to go off on your own and do what you want for a change. Try not to be too serious! Tonight: Ride the wave of reason.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HH You might consider having a talk, but make sure the other party is ready to have this same conversation. Otherwise, you will have to postpone this chat for another time. Return calls and catch up on emails. Play it relaxed and easy. Tonight: Hang out with a friend.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH You could be, and probably are, on top of your game. Listen to news more openly, and be more forthright. You might not have any regrets about a situation, but others might. Don’t try to change their opinions; instead, just respect them.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Your objectives are clear, and you will gain the support you need today. Relax, and move a personal matter to another day. If your schedule was free, what would you do? Go off and make plans accordingly. Tonight: Make sure you are where you want to be.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Emphasize getting the job done, TAURUS (April 20-May 20) rather than getting distracted. If you HHHHH You need to go over feel as if there is no possible way that some of yesterday’s communication. you can clear out what you need to, Your intentions might be excellent, say so and revise your schedule. As but others’ ability to internalize mes- a result, your clarity, as well as your sages is lacking. Expect to approach honesty, will be appreciated. Tothe issue in question one more time. night: Nap, then decide.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHHH Tension seems to surround your personal life. You could have a problem making a decision, but ultimately you will find the right solution. Do not push yourself so hard, as you will only make yourself more frustrated. Tonight: Reach out to a friend at a distance.

SCORPIO (Oc t. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH Choose to take a back seat and not get involved in any turmoil. If you don’t, your attention simply will feed the chaos. Answer emails and do some research, but play it low-key. Observe what is going on behind the scenes. Tonight: Take a hard look at your budget.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Observe more. You will learn a lot about those around you in a situation that you feel could boil over at any given moment. Your opinion could change with a new perspective. Continue this process until you know what to do. Tonight: Get some extra R and R. You are going to need it.

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Roethlisberger out indefinitely with sprained knee PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ben Roethlisberger gingerly made his way out of the Pittsburgh Steelers facility on Monday, his left leg immobilized under a brace and his attitude upbeat.

The leader of one of the NFL’s most dynamic offenses is expected back at some point in 2015 after spraining the medial collateral ligament in his left knee in the third quarter of Sunday’s 12-6 win over St Louis.

What the rest of the season looks like whenever Roethlisberger returns will rely heavily on how much is left in Michael Vick’s 35-yearold arm (and legs).

Coach Mike Tomlin thinks Vick has plenty left.

Vick will start for the Steelers (2-1) on Thursday night when they host Baltimore (0-3), a job Vick will hold indefinitely while Roethlisberger is out. Tomlin declined to put a timetable on when Roethlisberger will take the field next other than to say it will be “a number of weeks.”

Roethlisberger fell awkwardly while getting tackled by St. Louis safety Mark Barron, the quarterback’s left leg twisting gruesomely as he fell to the turf. An MRI revealed no major structural damage though Roethlisberger will miss multiple starts due to injury for only the second time in his 12-year career.

Enter Vick, a four-time Pro Bowler signed in August who quickly earned the backup job. He completed 5 of 6 passes for 38 yards after Roethlisberger’s exit, hardly the gamebreaking stuff of Vick’s prime. Then again, he wasn’t asked to do much other than avoid mistakes while the defense preserved a second-half lead.

The challenge will change considerably at home against a winless rival, though Tomlin is hardly worried about Vick’s ability to get prepared in the 100 hours in between games.

“This isn’t his first rodeo,” Tomlin said.

Maybe, but it will mark just Vick’s fourth start in the last two years. His only victory in that span? A 20-13 upset of the Steelers last November while playing for the New York Jets. Vick will have considerably more weapons at his disposal in Pittsburgh with running back Le’Veon Bell and wide receiver Antonio Brown.

Just don’t expect Vick to be given as much latitude as Roethlisberger, who has spent the last three-plus seasons working with offensive coordinator Todd Haley. Vick, by contrast, has been in town less than five weeks.

“We’re going to work in his comfort zone and bring the game to him and put us in position to win football games,” Tomlin said.

A half decade removed from his last truly special season - when he won the Comeback Player of the Year in 2010 while with Philadelphia - Vick is less gamechanger and more game manager. If Vick’s job is to simply help Pittsburgh’s two stars do theirs, that’s fine by him.

“I won’t put it all on my shoulders,” Vick said. “I’ll take sole responsibility of everything that happens, but I’m just going to prepare myself and get myself in the position to help this football team.”

The patented “Vick flick” is still there. Vick’s first pass during the preseason was a 63-yard rainbow to Martavis Bryant. There were no fireworks in St. Louis, though he did hit Bell with a pretty back shoulder throw that helped Pittsburgh flip the field.

While Vick’s arrival was met with a small din of protest - the lingering residue of Vick’s time in federal prison stemming from his role in a dogfighting ring he quickly ingratiated himself in one of the league’s more stable locker rooms.

His stall is right next to fellow backup Landry Jones and Vick has done his best to absorb whatever has been thrown his way.

“He’s a leader and he’s been doing it for a long time,” Brown said. “It’s not only about him. We’ve got to be able to help him, catching passes, got to be able to run the ball, protect the ball and help him out.”

NOTES: Tomlin declined to take issue with Barron’s hit on Roethlisberger, pointing to a letter coaches received from the league about being critical of officials. ... LB Ryan Shazier (shoulder) could miss his second straight game. ... LB James Harrison (thumb) and TE Matt Spaeth (fractured hand) will be evaluated later in the week.

Nats suspend Papelbon after fight with Harper WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Nationals closer Jonathan Papelbon will miss the rest of the season after his dugout fight with teammate Bryce Harper - four games because of a team suspension for that episode and three games because he dropped his appeal of a Major League Baseball ban for throwing at an opponent’s head last week.

Nationals manager Matt Williams said Harper, a leading NL MVP contender, was held out of the starting lineup for Monday’s home finale against Cincinnati for “his part in the altercation” with Papelbon on Sunday.

Harper, though, said after Sunday’s game that he was scheduled to be off Monday.

“It’s been a very difficult 24 hours for the organization,” Williams said at his pregame news conference, which started 1 1/2 hours later than scheduled. “Incidents like that in the dugout (are) not the way we want to play our games.”

On Sunday, after Harper flied out in the eighth inning against Philadelphia, he headed to the dugout, where he and Papelbon exchanged words. The argument escalated, and Papelbon reached out with his left hand and grabbed Harper by the throat.

Papelbon then shoved the outfielder toward the bench with both hands, before teammates and members of Williams’ coaching staff pulled the pair apart.

Williams was at the other end of the dugout and, he

said Monday, was not aware of exactly what happened until later in the day, when he saw video that made the rounds on Twitter immediately after the scrap. Williams said he hadn’t seen that video before his postgame news conference Sunday and hadn’t sought information from his coaches or other players during the game. He added that because he was unaware of the extent of the confrontation, he sent Papelbon back out to pitch in the ninth inning.

“I could have asked for more specifics,” Williams said Monday.

When he eventually did see video of Papelbon clutching at Harper’s neck, Williams said, “I was upset.

I was appalled.”

But he also made it sound as if a truly bothersome aspect was that everyone saw what happened.

“Generally, this happens between players in the confines of a private clubhouse.

It doesn’t happen in the open, generally,” Williams said. “So that being said, that’s how we would prefer to do it.”

Reds star Joey Votto sounded a similar note.

“I think it’s great, to be honest with you. Nobody got hurt. I imagine that they probably settled it and that’s the sort of thing that helps create an equilibrium in the clubhouse. Both guys stood up for themselves,” Votto said. “That sort of thing happens, just oftentimes it doesn’t happen on a bench or in front of a camera. It’s nothing. It’s totally nothing.”

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BY CONNOR HICKS SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

The West Virginia University women’s soccer team (10-1, 1-0) opened conference play with a 2-0 win over Texas (3-3-3, 0-1), Friday night at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.

West Virginia’s 31 shots were the most that Texas’ senior goaltender Abby Smith has faced in her four-year career. Following their ninth consecutive win, the Mountaineers moved up another spot in the polls to No. 3, the highest in school history.

The win was their 18th straight at home, building on a program record.

West Virginia has not lost a match at home since Aug. 29 of last year, to the thenNo. 21 Duke team.

Since that loss, the Mountaineers have been a nightmare for opposing teams. During their 1 8 - ga m e h o m e w i n streak, the Mountaineers have outscored visiting teams 54-7 and posted 12 shutouts.

The shutout against Texas was their ninth consecutive, setting a program record, and the Mountaineers’ 10 shutouts this sea-

son lead the country. The Mountaineers are currently on pace to break the program record of 14 shutouts in one season.

West Virginia has yet to allow a single goal at home this season, outscoring opponents 22-0 in seven home games so far.

Head coach Nikki IzzoBrown has continued to praise the fans the entire season, attributing much of the team’s success to the growing support they have received. The win over Texas on Friday night came in front of 1,617 fans, the fifth-largest crowd in

the program’s 20-year history.

Fans have remained loyal all season, sitting through downpours and sporting Canadian national team jerseys in support of Mountaineers and Canadian internationals Ashley Lawrence and Kadeisha Buchanan.

“I need to appreciate what they do and what they bring. We definitely hear the crowd loud and proud,” Izzo-Brown said.

“I’m really excited that we have such a great fan base and they’re following all of my players.”

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is West Virginia’s home performance against conference teams. While the team is now 21-1-2 in Big 12 conference games, the team has never lost a Big 12 conference match at home.

The Mountaineers have won 27 consecutive decisions at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium against conference opponents, predating their move to the Big 12 in 2012. The last regular season conference loss at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium came on Oct. 2, 2009 in a 3-2 OT loss to Notre Dame, when the Mountaineers were still a mem-

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The Mountaineers only have three home games remaining on their 2015 slate. Three wins would make for a remarkable 21-game home win streak and a 30-game home conference win streak heading into next season.

West Virginia will be back in action at 7 p.m.

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BY DJ DESKINS

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The West Virginia University football team has been quiet on the national stage this season despite a 3-0 start and a No. 23 ranking in the AP Top 25.

When West Virginia football made noise at the onset of the Dana Holgorsen era, it was because of their offense.

College football stars like quarterback Geno Smith and his electric receiving duo of Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey routinely torched defenses in Holgorsen’s air raid offense.

After their time was done, Clint Trickett, Kevin White and Mario Alford did much of the same to

their weekly opponents.

This season, however, it’s the West Virginia defense that’s found a way to make headlines because of their impressive team and individual play.

As college football enters week five of the season, all of West Virginia’s conference opponents trail the Mountaineers in scoring defense.

WVU’s 7.7 points per game outrank the nextbest Big 12 squad by almost five points per game.

They’ve also allowed seven fewer total points than any other school in the FBS with only 23 total, but have played one fewer game than most other schools.

West Virginia’s success is a bit surprising considering their yards allowed.

They rank an impressive 17th in pass defense but only 58th in rushing defense. Their 307 yards allowed per game ranks 26th in the FBS. A majority of their numbers are above average but don’t stand out for a team with one of the nation’s top defenses. One reason could be the Mountaineers’ ability to make big plays and win the turnover battle against their opponents.

In last weekend’s 45-6 win over Maryland, WVU forced six turnovers, including two interceptions in the end zone and one forced fumble on their own one-yard line.

The Mountaineers have forced 11 turnovers this season, while only committing two, giving them

Stephenson earns MAC Player of the Week After Saturday’s efforts against UNC Greensboro, freshman midfielder Tucker Stephenson earned the first accolade of his collegiate career.

Stephenson’s game-winning goal on Saturday, the first of his career, propelled WVU to a 1-0 victory over UNC Greensboro, earning himself the Mid-American Conference Player of the Week Award.

“Tucker is getting more comfortable every game, and his quality is really starting to show,” Mountaineer head coach Marlon LeBlanc said in an interview with WVUSports.com. “As he continues to be more consistent, he will continue to have a big impact for us moving forward.”

Stephenson’s goal lifted WVU to a 3-5 record and ended the two-game losing streak that saw the Mountaineers get outscored 6-2 by Georgetown

and Wright State. He’s the first Mountaineer to earn the award since 2014, when Jad Arslan, Andy Bevin and Ryan Cain each did so.

“Tucker scored a big goal there,” LeBlanc said. “Hats off to him, I thought the creation of the goal was excellent.”

Saturday’s goal netted Stephenson his first career, regular season score and fourth point of the year, placing him fourth among the Mountaineers point leaders thus far.

With a 4-2-3 St. Francis Pa. squad looming on Saturday, Stephenson will look to continue the recent trend of success he’s developed and guide West Virginia to a second-straight victory and its first winning streak of the season.

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a nation leading plus-9 in turnover margin.

Compare that to the 2014 season when WVU finished 122 of 128 teams, and worst in the Big 12, in turnover margin of minus-15 after committing 29 turnovers during the season.

West Virginia’s defense is led by senior safety Karl Joseph, who has an FBS -leading four interceptions. The preseason Big 12 All-American for the second consecutive season has made his presence felt on the field, particularly in the Mountaineers

opening game, where he picked off Georgia Southern three times.

In WVU’s second game against Liberty, they were unable to force any turnovers but responded with a six-turnover game against Maryland.

Five separate Mountaineers - Joseph, Terrell Chestnut, Daryl Worley, KJ Dillon and Jeremy Tyler - were able to record interceptions against Maryland quarterbacks Caleb Rowe and Daxx Garman.

Chestnut also had the defensive play of the game

when he chased down Maryland running back Brandon Ross and forced a fumble on the one-yard line.

Ross was ruled down by contact before the fumble, but an official review overturned that call and deemed it a touchback.

WVU hasn’t faced an elite offense this season against Georgia Southern, Liberty or Maryland, but will play their first major challenge against No. 15 Oklahoma this weekend. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU’s Joey Piatczyc tracks the ball in the air last weekend against UNC Greensboro.

NCAA assist leader Piatczyc is center of WVU offense

BY CHRIS JACKSON SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

The 3-5 record may not indicate it, but West Virginia sophomore midfielder Joey Piatczyc is off to a blazing start, and the best could be yet to come.

Piatczyc leads the Mountaineers in points and assists (seven apiece). Four of those assists came in a 6-0 drubbing of San Francisco on Aug. 30, breaking a program record and earning a spot on Top Drawer Soccer’s Team of the Week.

The 2014 MAC Freshman of the Year is due for

bigger and better things as a sophomore. Despite not tallying a single goal yet, his eight assists are tops in the NCAA. The accolades haven’t deterred the young star, as the team-first approach has been instilled in his framework all along.

“It’s great for me to get it and I’m honored to have that, but I try not to pay attention to that,” Piatczyc said. “It’s about the team, not about the individuals so I’m just going to keep working.”

Fourteen other players have ever tallied three assists in program history,

but the four that Piatczyc tallied against USF put his name onto the national landscape, creating a buzz that many collegiate athletes don’t often generate on a soccer pitch.

This season’s efforts follow up a freshman campaign that was just as impressive, as he finished among the nation’s elite and developed into a professional-caliber athlete.

Piatczyc’s eight assists were a team-high, also pinning him as the No. 2 assists leader in the MAC and 14th in the country.

Despite the upward trend in the box score,

head coach Marlon LeBlanc believes Piatczyc’s dominance and ability to feed the ball to teammates is a key component to the team’s overall success going forward.

“As much as I talk about Joey being such a fantastic player, that’s his job,” LeBlanc said. “His job is to get goals and assists for us and be a good player.”

Eight assists through eight games is no simple feat, but the level of expectations placed upon the conference’s top sophomore is quickly surpassing those of current Seattle Sounder and 2014

MAC Player of the Year Andy Bevin, also a former Mountaineer.

Everything Piatczyc has done on the field has led opposing defenses to play tighter coverage, hoping to limit the number of assists he puts up. Only four have succeeded, and all four were carried by some of the nation’s top goalkeepers, including Georgetown and Navy’s nationally acclaimed goalies.

Hi s N C A A- l e a d i n g eighth assist came in the 1-0 victory over UNC Greensboro on Saturday, as he fed the ball to freshman and MAC Player of the

Week Tucker Stephenson for the score.

Coaches, players and fans have two more years after this to prepare for the unexpected.

Many figure the best is yet to come, and Piatczyc’s assist totals have created offensive success on numerous occasions throughout his first two seasons as a Mountaineer.

“I want Joey to continue along that same path,” LeBlanc said. “He knows that’s what this program needs him to do and what we expect him to do.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

SWIMMING AND DIVING

Marsh shoots for All-American in senior season

BY ROGER TURNER SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

With the 2015-16 swimming and diving season getting underway this weekend for West Virginia University senior swimmer Andrew Marsh anticipates an exciting year for the Mountaineer men’s swimming and diving program.

Marsh enters his senior season with high hopes for West Virginia.

“This could be one of the best West Virginia swim teams potentially ever,” Marsh said. “I can’t wait to race.”

Marsh ended last season placing 46th overall in the 100-yard freestyle at the NCAA Division I Men’s Championships. He was one of only two West Virginia qualifiers.

Marsh will look to lead the deep West Virginia roster of sophomores and juniors in his senior season.

Competing in three swimming events, Marsh prefers the backstroke but is a threat in freestyle events as well.

In last season’s Big 12

Conference Championships, Marsh achieved third place honors in the 100-yard backstroke and fourth place in the 100-yard freestyle.

Marsh also saw success in his sophomore season for the Mountaineers. As a sophomore, Marsh reached the finals at the Big 12 Championships for the first time, placing seventh in both the 100 fly and 100 backstroke events.

Marsh was also an Academic All-Big 12 second team selection during his sophomore season.

Marsh received firstteam academic honors the following year as a junior.

The season begins this Saturday for Marsh and the Mountaineer men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams.

Both squads will be featured in the annual GoldBlue intrasquad meet, which will serve as a warmup to competition meets ahead.

Marsh will enter his first competitive event on Oct. 9 and 10 when WVU will host the West Virginia State Games.

WVU swimmers hit the pool at the Gold-Blue intrasquad meet in 2014.

Marsh and the MounA proven competitaineers will be challenged tor in Big 12 competition, throughout this season, as Marsh hopes to excel beboth the men’s and women’s yond expectations in final teams will face superior pro- swimming campaign as a grams from four of the five Mountaineer. power conferences.

“I want to make NCAAs, Competing against top and I want to be an Allcompetition shouldn’t faze American at the end of the the senior Marsh, as he aims year,” he added. for his second NCAA DiviAll-American honors are sion I Men’s Championship awarded to only the top appearance. eight performers of each “It’s senior year, so last event. one, fast one,” Marsh said.

Good coaching and re-

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cruiting for both the men’s and women’s teams has been the catalyst for the high aspirations of this season.

Marsh will enter his senior season with Coach Vic Riggs to lead him and his teammates for another year.

With only one addition to the men’s coaching staff this offseason, the Mountaineers’ depth and coaching pose a bigger threat to opponents than Andrew Marsh

alone.

Both the men’s and women’s teams will be under good leadership, as an experienced group of upperclassmen return for this upcoming season.

Marsh and his teammates will showcase their talents to the public this Saturday at noon in the WVU Natatorium during the Gold-Blue Meet. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Oklahoma prepares for wide-open WVU offense NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Whatever the name of the particular attack, Oklahoma’s defensive bugaboo in recent years has been consistently slowing passhappy offenses.

Their first such test this season ended in a win, but the Sooners were torched often while beating Tulsa 52-38 on Sept. 19, giving up 603 yards of offense to the Golden Hurricane.

After a bye week, No. 15 Oklahoma (3-0) will face a similar style of offense Saturday when it will host No. 23 West Virginia (3-0) in the Big 12 Conference opener for both teams.

In the Big 12, the Sooners will see many pass-

ing teams - Baylor, Texas Tech, TCU and Oklahoma State among them. Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said the development of high-powered offenses in college football has caused a re-evaluation of how to critique a defensive performance.

Stoops said the best measure of a team’s defense is if it wins or loses, not necessarily how many yards or points it surrenders.

“I think TCU’s probably pretty satisfied with their win last weekend (55-52 over Texas Tech), so you win,” Stoops said Monday.

“Like I said, too, the week before, at Tennessee, we

won a different way (3124 in two overtimes). You win differently every week and that’s why it’s a team, when I say and I say it a lot, about playing together as a team, that’s what I mean by it. One side of the ball doesn’t win or lose for you.

It’s always a combination - a team win any way you can get it.”

Twice in the past three years, the Sooners have struggled to stymie West Virginia’s offense. The Mountaineers rolled up 778 yards against Oklahoma in 2012, with the Sooners winning 50-49 only because quarterback Landry Jones threw a school-record six touch-

down passes. Oklahoma won another shootout in the 2014 game, prevailing 45-33 even though West Virginia had 513 yards of offense.

West Virginia’s offense is averaging 543.3 yards and 41 points per game this season, albeit against mostly outmanned competition (Georgia Southern, Liberty and Maryland). Junior quarterback Skyler Howard is averaging 334.7 yards per game passing, completing 69 percent of his pass attempts and throwing for nine touchdowns.

Considering the Mountaineers’ defense seems to be greatly improved - they

lead the Bowl Subdivision in points allowed (7.7 per game) and turnover margin (plus-3 per game) - it would seem to behoove Oklahoma to avoid an offensive shootout this time around. Stoops said those games can sometimes be hard to win.

“You’ve got to be able to hold serve and do it as well,” he said. “I reflect back - I have often - I said it today on my radio show, I reflected back to the bowl game with Michigan State and Baylor (last season).

Michigan State comes in with one of the top defenses in America and gave up 600 yards passing to Baylor, but still won

42-41, because they had theirs as well. It’s challenging and you’ve got to hold serve.”

Oklahoma defensive back Steven Parker said the Sooners’ secondary received a wake-up call during the Tulsa game, which he thinks will help them focus going forward.

“It was a great teaching moment for us,” Parker said. “It kept us on our feet and made us think a little bit more. We know we’re going to see this from Baylor and TCU and even West Virginia a little bit. It kind of let us see what we’re going to be facing and give us some practice against that type of offense.”