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SGA talks election code overhaul by sam bosserman staff writer @dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia University Student Government Association heard several presentations related to student affairs during its regular Wednesday night meeting.

WVU student Anas Koshak presented his idea to create a “Student-Run Community for Education.”

According to Koshak, the idea is to have students come together in or-

der to share information about academic facilities and resources found across the many programs at the University.

Koshak said the information compiled by the community would help increase the utilization of these academic resources and create a richer undergraduate experience for all students.

SGA director of academics Kartik Motwani said he was happy Koshak brought the ideas to the meeting.

“Anas (Koshak) came to

me initially to present an idea he wanted to get out to the students, and I think this idea he is presenting is idealistically very good, but (it) is going to require a lot of work,” Motwani said.

Motwani said there may be members of SGA willing to help Koshak in achieving his vision. BOG member Stephen Scott said he would like to meet Koshak and introduce him to administrations inside University College.

Representatives from Dub V Safe Ride also at-

tended the meeting to give a presentation regarding their desire to provide free services to WVU students.

The company charges a fee for driving home the car of intoxicated individuals so they can get home safely.

The representatives said they hoped to soon be operating a nonprofit venture aimed at gaining donations in order to pay for this service for students as well as paying for a “drunkbus” style shuttle.

BOG member Jacob Ev-

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ans said the presentation highlighted the need to cut down on the amount of DUIs around campus, and the University’s top priority should be assuring the safety of students.

“I think one of the most important things the University should offer students is an element of safety, and that includes safe life practices,” Evans said. “In my opinion, it was a great presentation by Safe Ride, and I would like to collaborate with them in order to further my initia-

tive to provide a safer campus for students.”

Evans said SGA can act as a guide in helping Dub V Safe Ride reach the appropriate people within the University’s administration in order to advance its efforts.

“SGA’s role would be to give Safe Ride the foot in the door that they need and put them in contact with the people they need to be talking with,” Evans said. “I think anybody who knows

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Morgantown Magazine hosts annual Best of Morgantown contest by taylor mcsorley staff writer @dailyathenaeum

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As part of the I Love Mountains march to the courthouse, advocates displayed homemade signs.

Students, community organize anti-mountaintop removal march

BY ALEXIS RANDOLPH & CELESTE LANTZ DA staff @DAILYATHENAEUM

The I Love Mountains Day West Virginia March started at the Mountainlair and worked its way to Black Bear Burritos on Pleasant Street Wednesday.

The group was protesting mountaintop removal strip mining, the destruction done to West Virginia’s water supply and celebrating their communal love of mountains.

The group made its way to the Monongalia County Courthouse where the first speaker, Bob Henry Baber, a professor at Glenville State and mountain advocate, talked about his personal Mick Posey/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM experience with coal rights.

Many people displayed their own home made signs as part of the I Love Mountains march to the downtown Baber said he went through the courthouse. process buying his grandmother’s farm in Greenbrier County and received a government document mit they obtained to hold the march water crisis in West Virginia. claiming the rights the minerals un- and invite speakers.

“The state has been in chaos in cerder his land.

However, following Baber’s speech, tain areas. What has been clear is there Baber said the fight against moun- the officer returned and explained the is no direct leadership for the people in taintop removal and other destructive permit was issued by the city of Mor- regard to our needs,” Keaton said. “So practices is ongoing. gantown, not Monongalia County, so folks like Arora Lights, Keeper of the Mountains and others have stepped “We’ve been involved in a big long they could not stay.

The group then continued to the in and started filling that need the day fight for a long time and it (isn’t) over yet. We are getting there, every day we parking garage next to the Black Bear after the water crisis.” fight, we are saving one mountain,” Ba- restaurant.

Keaton also talked about the recent ber said. “We are pushing this mounElise Keaton, executive director of coal slurry spills in North Carolina and the Keeper of the Mountains Founda- West Virginia. taintop removal thing to its ending.”

“The problem is all of this info During Baber’s speech, a police of- tion and a Charleston, W.Va., resident, ficer addressed Baber and the crowd, said there should have been leader- structures were built around the same who presented the officer with the per- ship during the events of the recent

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The Monogalia Arts Center located on High Street in Morgantown held the third annual Best of Morgantown contest Wednesday, hosted by Morgantown Magazine.

The contest included more than 60 categories with roughly 4,000 votes to determine the winners. The contest recognized all the businesses and people that make Morgantown unique “This has been our biggest event this year, and it’s completely open to the public,” said Laura Rote, editor of Morgantown Magazine.

“It’s about getting together and celebrating the local businesses of Morgantown. We are really fortunate to have a lot of small locally owned businesses.”

The event was catered by many local businesses, including Black Bear Burritos, Atomic Grill, the Cupcakerie and Pizza Al’s. All the

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Cupid’s Corner to help last-minute Valentine’s Day shoppers

By Meagan Carpenter Staff Writer @DailyAthenaeum

It’s that time of year where love is in the air.

With the season of love comes the smell of cookies and cakes coming from Cupid’s Corner in the Mountainlair.

Cupid’s Corner is a place where students, faculty and staff can come to buy treats for their loved ones or friends. Everything from personal cakes, cookies of different varieties and even helium balloons are sold at the Corner.

The bakery items come from Yum Yum’s Bakery in Uniontown, Pa. Sonja Wilson, senior programming administrator, has spearheaded the program for about 10 years and helped evolve Java’s and Cream from JACS to the current Cupid’s Corner.

“We used to use the Java’s and Cream area of JACS to sell our Valentine’s Day treats which is how we created the name of Cupid’s Corner,” Wilson said.

Wilson said they decided to expand the program and have more of a variety for students and staff.

Rich Farms provides roses for Cupid’s Corner and the Bavarian Nut Man will also provide nuts and various items for purchase.

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Thursday February 13, 2014

Ice storm causes another traffic jam in the South ATLANTA (AP) — Drivers got caught in monumental traffic jams and abandoned their cars Wednesday in North Carolina in a replay of what happened in Atlanta just two weeks ago, as another wintry storm across the South iced highways and knocked out electricity to more than a half-million homes and businesses.

While Atlanta’s highways were clear, apparently because people learned their lesson and heeded forecasters’ unusually dire warnings to stay home, thousands of cars were backed up on the slippery, snow-covered interstates around Raleigh, N.C., and short commutes turned into hours-long journeys.

As the storm glazed the South with snow and freezing rain, it also pushed northward along the Interstate 95 corridor, threatening to bring at least a halffoot of snow Thursday to the already sick-of-winter midAtlantic and Northeast.

At least 11 deaths across the South were blamed on the treacherous weather, and nearly 3,300 airline flights nationwide were canceled. In Georgia, authorities reported several injuries from snow sledding crashes.

The situation in North Carolina was eerily similar to what happened in Atlanta: As snow started to fall around midday, everyone left work at the same time, despite warnings from officials to stay home altogether because the storm would move in quickly.

“It seemed like every other car was getting stuck, fishtailing, trying to move forward,” said Caitlin Palmieri, who drove two blocks from her job at a crafts store in downtown Raleigh before getting stuck. She left her car behind and walked back to work.

Soo Keith, of Raleigh, left work about a little after noon, thinking she would have plenty of time to get home before the worst of the snow hit.

Instead, Keith drove a few miles in about two hours and decided to park and start walking.

With a blanket draped over her shoulders, she made it home more than four hours later, likening her journey to the blizzard scene in the movie “Dr. Zhivago.”

“My face is all frozen, my glasses are all frozen, my hair is all frozen,” the mother of two and former Chicago resident said as she walked the final mile to her house. “I know how to drive in the snow. But this storm came on suddenly and everyone was leaving work at the same time. I don’t think anybody did anything wrong; the weather just hit quickly.”

Raleigh city spokeswoman Jayne Kirkpatrick had no estimate of how many vehicles had been abandoned and was unable to say whether motorists might be stranded on the road overnight.

“If we find anyone that is stranded that needs water or food or whatever we can do for them,” city crews will help, Kirkpatrick said. “We hope it won’t be too much longer before it’s no longer a problem.”

Forecasters warned of a potentially “catastrophic” storm across the South with more than an inch of ice possible in places. Snow was also forecast, with up to 3 inches possible in Atlanta overnight and much higher amounts in the Carolinas.

Ice combined with wind gusts up to 30 mph snapped tree limbs and power lines.

More than 200,000 homes and businesses lost electricity in Georgia, South Carolina had about 245,000 outages, and North Carolina around 100,000. Some people could be in the dark for days.

As he did for parts of Georgia, President Barack Obama declared a disaster in South Carolina, opening the way for federal aid.

In Myrtle Beach, S.C., palm

trees were covered with a thick crust of ice.

For the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, the heavy weather was the latest in an unending drumbeat of storms that have depleted cities’ salt supplies and caused school systems to run out of snow days.

The Raleigh area could get up to 4 inches of snow.

Washington, D.C., could see around 8 inches, as could Boston. New York City could receive 6 inches.

The Philadelphia area could get a foot or more, and Portland, Maine, may see 8 or 9 inches.

In Atlanta, which was caught badly unprepared by the last storm, area schools announced even before the first drop of sleet fell that they would be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Many businesses in the corporate capital of the South shut down, too.

The scene was markedly different from the one Jan. 28, when thousands of children were stranded all night in schools by less than 3 inches of snow and countless drivers abandoned their cars after getting stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic for hours and hours.

“I think some folks would even say they were a little trigger-happy to go ahead and cancel schools yesterday, as well as do all the preparation they did,” said Matt Altmix, who was out walking his dog in Atlanta.

“But it’s justified.”

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, who was widely criticized over his handling of the last storm, sounded an upbeat note this time.

“Thanks to the people of Georgia. You have shown your character,” he said.

Amy Cuzzort, who spent six hours in her car during the Atlanta traffic standstill in January, said she would spend this storm at home, “doing chores, watching movies — creepy movies, ‘The Shining’” – about a writer who goes mad while trapped in a hotel during a

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job and are enforcing the code they’ve been given,” Williams said. “That said, I think we can improve the code that election chairs have to work with in the future.”

Williams said there are several issues with the code as it stands and many improvements can be made.

“The biggest thing is the transfer from the online voting system to the use of the secretary-of-state voting machines,” Wil-

liams said. “There are also smaller (but) more glaring problems like how you may use a pencil and an eraser on signature sheets but you cannot use a pen and whiteout. It’s very arbitrary.”

Williams said there will be further discussions of the elections code in upcoming meetings.

SGA holds regular meetings in Hatfields B Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.

veloped the I Love Mountains Day event to protest and share information about mountaintop removal in Appalachia and to acknowledge “the need to begin a just transition to a more diverse, sustainable and thriving economy in the mountains.”

“I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if we could start moving these things to other states in Appalachia,” Lovejoy said. “I emailed the Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and they were like yeah let us know what you want to do.”

Lovejoy participated in a project to reforest a stripe mine and even though the project failed, it helped to spark her interests in the mountains.

“I am from southern West Virginia. I grew up around coal mining my entire life, and I never knew the dangerous consequences of it until I was in high school, and I started losing people I knew to mining accidents,” Lovejoy said.

“I started looking up more information about

mountaintop removal (and) what I could do to help. I have been more involved in the education aspect.”

Brian Bellew, a junior geology student and president of the Sierra Club at WVU, said he was proud to be a part of the protest.

“Honestly I love mountains, it is also like protesting and fighting against mountaintop removal,” Bellew said. “It is pure ecological destruction that destroys mountains.”

Bellew said he believes events like this unite students across campus.

“I think WVU is very influenced by coal and the gas industry, a lot of my professors in geology work for natural gas companies,” Bellew said. “So, it is good every now and then for environmentalists on campus to know they aren’t alone in West Virginia.”

For more information about the Kentuckians For the Commonwealth group, visit http://kftc.org.

couple of days for us.”

The University does not profit off from the items sold and students can pay with cash, credit card or Mountie Bounty, making it easy for students to purchase treats in between class and on the run.

“We keep items at face value and very affordable for students, because we know that most are on a budget and just want to do something nice for their friends,” Wilson said.

Cupid’s Corner will have a table set up Thursday and Friday from 8:30 a.m.4 p.m. outside JACS in the Mountainlair.

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Continued from page 1 somebody who has gotten a DUI can endorse and support what Safe Ride is trying to do.”

BOG vice-chair John Williams announced plans to overhaul the SGA Elections code, which he said was dated.

“The elections chair and the elections committee are doing a great

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Continued from page 1 time,” she said. “It has all been (handled) negligently the entire time. It will continue to fail, these things are just beginning.”

Following the speakers, a reception and more information was available at Black Bear.

Jordan Lovejoy, a senior English, Spanish and women’s and gender studies student, organized the event.

She said she emailed many organizations to gather speakers and information for the event.

Lovejoy said she knew about the Kentuckians for the Commonwealth’s group and wanted to participate with them. However, she said she was unable to attend their event so she decided to bring it here.

According to their website, Kentuckians For the Commonwealth, a grassroots environmental group in Kentucky, originally de-

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Continued from page 1 The WELLWVU Condom Caravan will also be present at this years Cupid’s Corner.

Erin Blake, special event coordinator for the Mountainlair, has been working with Cupid’s Corner for many years and said she enjoys watching students and faculty buy items for their friends and family.

“Students love to come by during the day when they are walking to class or even to just cover for their friends and give them as gifts,” Blake said. “It just makes everyone feel good, and it’s a great

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Traffic along Independence Boulevard near Hawthorne Lane crawls along the slick roadway as a winter storm hits Wednesday, in Charlotte, N.C. snowstorm.

The snow gave Georgians a rare opportunity to go sledding, but emergency responders said at least seven people were hospitalized following sled crashes throughout the state and some were seriously injured.

A 17-year-old boy in Forsyth County slammed into a fire hydrant with his upper torso and a 7-year-old boy in Ball Ground, Ga. was hospitalized with a fractured skull after hitting a tree in his back yard, authorities said.

In Cleveland, Ga., four people in their late teens and early 20s were inside a kayak when it crashed into a pole, said Cleveland Fire Chief Ricky Pruitt. One of the victims suffered leg injuries and a woman was knocked unconscious and

lost several teeth.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory urged people to charge their cellphones and find batteries for radios and flashlights because the storm could bring nearly a foot of snow in places such as Charlotte.

“Stay smart. Don’t put your stupid hat on at this point in time. Protect yourself. Protect your family.

Protect your neighbors,” McCrory said.

Kathy Davies Muzzey of Wilmington, N.C., said she hid the car keys from her husband, John, because he was thinking about driving to Chapel Hill for the DukeNorth Carolina basketball game. He has missed only two games between the rivals since he left school in the late 1960s. His wife made the right call: The game was

postponed.

“He’s a fanatic – an absolute fanatic,” she said.

In a warning issued early Wednesday, the National Weather Service called the storm across the South “catastrophic ... crippling ... paralyzing ... choose your adjective.”

Meteorologist Eli Jacks noted that three-quarters of an inch of ice would be catastrophic anywhere.

However, the South is particularly vulnerable: Many trees are allowed to hang over power lines for the simple reason that people don’t normally have to worry about ice and snow snapping off limbs.

Three people were killed when an ambulance careened off an icy West Texas road and caught fire.

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Continued from page 1 businesses involved were Best of Morgantown 2014 winners. Drinks were provided by Morgantown Brewing Company and Forks of Cheat Winery.

Morgantown is West Virginia’s fastest growing city, and the economy is flourishing. In celebration, many business employees came to the event to enjoy the complimentary refreshments and meet the winners.

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Officer Pocius discusses permits with Jordan Lovejoy before disbanding the I Love Mountains group Wednesday afternoon ple’s Co-op, established in 1975, won best health food store in Morgantown, and Ashley Keane, general manager of the Mountain People’s Co-op came to celebrate.

“We are a communityow ned, not-for-profit company that started in the ’70’s,” Keane said.

“Our main client base is Morgantown locals, and students make up a lot of that.”

Brooke Nantz, produce manager at the Coop, said members pay a yearly equity, making the community a store owner.

“We are run democratically, and we have a board

of directors that is elected from the members, for the members,” Nantz said.

The Clear Mountain Bank won the best bank in Morgantown award, and employees showed appreciation for the community and expressed their enjoyment of giving back.

“We are the only locally owned bank and cater to Preston County, where it started, as well as Morgantown,” said Clint McCabe, vice president of marketing at the Clear Mountain Bank.

Th e ba n k ha s 1 2 branches, and McCabe said it focuses on being a community bank.

“We are really involved in various community organizations,” he said. “A lot of our employees volunteer a lot of time, hours and money, and people recognize and appreciate it.”

The Morgantown Magazine intends to continue this annual contest based on this year’s overwhelming response from the community.

For more information about the magazine, the full list of contest winners or for upcoming events and news, visit http//:morgantownmag. com. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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LA takes first step toward urban beekeeping

Sweet Bee Removal professional beekeeper, Tyson Kaiser expands a beehive hosted on the roof of a home in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles City Council will voted Wednesday whether to begin the process of granting urban bees legal residency in residential areas after a lengthy lobbying effort from bee lovers of all stripes. The vote comes against the backdrop of colony collapse disorder, a worrisome die-off of honeybees that has captured the attention of environmentalists and farmers worldwide.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For three years, Rob McFarland has kept 25,000 illegal bees on the roof of his West Los Angeles home – but his hive might not have to fly under the radar much longer.

The City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to begin the process of granting bees like McFarland’s legal status and also supported a motion to relocate wild hives when possible instead of destroying them.

The votes bolstered beekeepers who have tended bees in the shadows, but it also raised concerns that legalizing urban hives would sanction wild hives with Africanized “killer bee” genes.

Critics of the controversial practice fear an ordinance that doesn’t distinguish between keeping tamer European honeybees and Africanized colonies would allow selfstyled “ethical bee removal specialists” to expand their efforts unimpeded amid a

growing demand for do-ityourself hives.

A volunteer group that removed wild hives and relocated them recently disbanded after a customer’s neighbor got stung and threatened to sue.

Currently, most hives discovered in the city’s public right of ways or reported by concerned citizens are wiped out because of worries about their aggressive genetics.

“To just haul them (feral bees) out of the fences and stick them in the backyard, that’s not a good idea,” said Eric Mussen, a bee expert at the University of California, Davis.

Killer bees arrived in Los Angeles County in the mid1990s and almost completely pushed out the existing wild bee population 15 years ago. They can attack when an intruder gets closer than 100 feet, can chase a person up to a halfmile and will remain aggressive up to an hour after an attack, according to

the county.

Those who work with these wild hives insist that the concerns are overblown.

Bees in Los Angeles do have some African genes, they say, but the danger has been diluted from years of interbreeding with local, non-Africanized bees. The resulting hybrid hives can be managed easily with proper training, common sense about hive placement and good communication with neighbors.

There are already around 10 hives per square mile in Los Angeles, so moving them to backyards where beekeepers can monitor them makes sense, said Ruth Askren, who maintains hives for 22 clients and has relocated wild hives to backyards all over the city.

Beekeepers like Askren estimate that 10 percent or fewer of the feral hives they relocate are so aggressive they must be destroyed.

“If we really had seri-

ous Africanized bees in LA, people would be chased down the street every day,” she said.

Africanized bees are also hardier than their European counterparts, which are used for commercial pollination, and could help counter colony collapse, said McFarland, the rooftop beekeeper. He and others who work with them say that unlike European bees, their hives don’t need any chemical treatments to keep them healthy.

“We need them. We need to preserve what’s clearly a superior bee. They’re the ones that are surviving,” he said. “My opinion is that they’re a blessing in disguise.”

Feral bees have also sweetened the pot for an emerging niche business: Some beekeepers-turnedentrepreneurs have recently started companies to remove unwanted wild hives, relocating them to backyard bee boxes and then harvesting rich honey

that can sell for $110 a gallon to wealthy foodies obsessed with local ingredients.

Some customers even want honey made by bees in their specific neighborhood because they believe that eating honey made from local pollens will combat allergies.

Tyson Kaiser’s business, Sweet Bee Removal, charges $125 an hour for a hive extraction and once made $5,000 over three days removing a massive feral hive from a tile rooftop in one of LA’s ritzier addresses.

On a recent sunny day, Kaiser checked on a feral hive he put on a resident’s roof last fall. Dressed in a full-body white bee suit and a zippered hood with a mesh face mask, Kaiser carefully opened the hive as bees buzzed around him and traffic whizzed by two stories below.

When he was done, about a dozen agitated bees followed him from the roof,

down a ladder and into the residents’ house before they gave up the chase.

“There are people who think we’re crazy for what we’re doing,” said Kaiser, who has been keeping bees for three years. “But they’re afraid that new beekeepers dealing with feral hives are going to tarnish the image of the established beekeepers.”

Those more traditional beekeepers keep European honeybees, which rarely become aggressive.

Groups like the Beekeepers Association of Southern California support urban beekeeping, they say, but only with European hives.

Keeping Africanized hives “gives beekeepers in general a bad name,” said Richard Heryford, vice president of the association and beekeeper. “If people are caught with those bees in their backyard, they should be subject to penalties.”

As suits multiply, gay marriage backers win in Ky. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Kentucky must recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, part of an unprecedented barrage of marriage-equality lawsuits in states where voters have overwhelmingly opposed recognition of gay and lesbian couples.

U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II struck down part of the gay-marriage ban that Kentuckians had approved in 2004, saying it treated gays and lesbians “in a way that demeans them.”

“Assigning a religious or traditional rationale for a law does not make it constitutional when that law discriminates against a class of people without other reasons,” wrote Heyburn, an appointee of Republican President George H.W. Bush.

His decision coincided with legal attacks Wednesday on gay-marriage bans in three other socially conservative states – Texas, Louisiana and Missouri – and was issued just a few weeks after federal judges in Utah and Oklahoma struck down the voter-approved bans in those states.

According to the advocacy group Freedom to Marry, there are now 45 pending marriage-equality cases in 24 of the 33 states that do not allow same-sex marriage. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have legalized such unions, while three other states –Col-

orado, Nevada and Oregon – grant marriage-like rights though civil unions or domestic partnerships.

The stage for the current wave of litigation was set by the U.S. Supreme Court last June, when it ordered the federal government to recognize valid same-sex marriages, but stopped short of striking down state laws banning them. Gay-rights activists hope that one or more of the lawsuits filed since June or planned for the near future will reach the high court and lead to nationwide legalization.

“One of the 40-plus ongoing cases, or even some other one, could conceivably reach the Supreme Court as soon as 2015, or within a few years later, so the clock is ticking,” said Freedom to Marry president Evan Wolfson.

“The aim is not just to get to the Supreme Court, but to win when we get there,” Wolfson said.

The Kentucky decision came in lawsuits brought by four gay and lesbian couples seeking to force the state to recognize their out-of-state marriages.

The ruling only requires Kentucky to recognize such marriages. It does not deal with the question of whether the state can be required to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples; that issue wasn’t brought up in the lawsuits.

One of the plaintiffs, 55-year-old Gregory Bourke

of Louisville, said the only surprise was the speed with which the ruling came down.

The lawsuit was filed in July 2013.

“The word was it could happen any time, and I wasn’t prepared for it,” Bourke said. “It’s what we hoped for.”

The ruling drew the ire of religious leaders who said Heyburn’s decision takes away Kentucky’s right to determine its policies regarding marriage.

Paul Chitwood of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, the state’s largest religious organization with 750,000 members, called the ruling “tragic and disappointing.”

“This decision moves us down the slippery slope toward launching Kentucky into moral chaos and depriving children of their innate need of both a father and a mother,” Chitwood said.

Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, assailed Heyburn’s ruling as “another example of the deep betrayal of a judicial system infected with activist judges who are legislating from the bench.”

Among the developments elsewhere: – In Texas, a lawyer representing the state asked a federal judge to reject pleas from two gay couples to suspend the state constitution’s definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.

Mike Murphy, an assis-

tant solicitor general, told District Judge Orlando Garcia that if he lifted the voterapproved ban on gay marriage, he would be injecting himself into a social and political debate that should be left to lawmakers.

“These questions are political questions, not constitutional rights,” Murphy told the court. “Same-sex marriage is not included in the fundamental right of marriage ... it is a more recent innovation than Facebook.”

Garcia was considering a request by two couples for a temporary ruling that would immediately lift the Texas gay-marriage ban pending a trial later. Garcia did not immediately rule or indicate when he might release a written decision but predicted the case, or a similar one in another state, will reach the Supreme Court.

The case is the first of its kind in Texas, and in the conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican running for governor, opposes legalizing gay marriage and has vowed to defend the law.

Attorneys general in other states have taken mixed approaches to court challenges to bans on gay marriage.

Utah and Oklahoma are fighting rulings lifting their bans, while in Nevada and Virginia, attorneys general have chosen not to defend them.

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@WVUCrushes adds to University’s negative reputation GRAPHIC BY CHARLES YOUNG

Local account allows users to anonymously cyber-harass fellow students NOELLE HARRIS A&E WRITER

West Virginia University has rightfully earned the title of No. 1 party school.

Drugs, sex and booze seem to define the culture here. And with more than 5,000 followers and plenty of sexually explicit tweets, the WVU Crushes Twitter account, @WVUCrushes, is helping to propel our image to a whole new level of stupidity.

“I literally stalk Kaitlin Jacobs. Like YOU will be mine,” reads one anonymous tweet.

WVU Crushes is a Twitter account run by an anonymous user. Other Twitter users can direct message a tweet to the administrator of the account to be posted anonymously.

“Anonymous” is the key word here. People can say whatever they want about Kaitlin Jacobs or that girl in the neon green hat with Ugg boots and a blue backpack.

Instead of someone just saying another person looks nice, they leave sexually charged, explicit and at times, alarming tweets.

This type of anonymity leads to people being extremely antisocial and hints at a culture in which most people have become heavily dependent on social media to interact with others. While it is easier to say you want someone to have sex with you in a subtweet, it’s not doing anything to help your social skills.

In 10 years when your child asks you how you met their father, do you really want to tell them their father subtweeted he wanted you “to sit on his face”?

“Girl named seneca in my ASP class, can I watch you smack those juicy lips. You know what they say about a girl with nice lips,” reads another tweet.

Whether he is out of your league or not, you will never know if you don’t actually ask. This generation already has the reputation of being too dependent on social media, but this account is enhancing this problem and creating a focus on a rape culture.

Some of these tweets are downright offensive and even racist.

“I know Willy Wonka and I have something in common, we both like black girls, why do you think he called it the chocolate factory ;),” reads another.

Would that make you want to hook up

with him?

This account promotes exerting dominance over someone. Saying you want to force someone to have sex with you anonymously is just as offensive as doing it to someone’s face. It is still sexual harassment and would still get any person fired from a job.

“I wonder if I should tell him that it was me that wvu crushed him. @WVUCrushes,” posted Emilee (@1inEmillion).

It is much easier to tell someone they look nice without a fear of rejection, but subjecting someone else to your animalistic thoughts just to give yourself satisfaction promotes the wrong principles.

As a society built on principles of equality, we have the task of promoting equal

rights and treatment for all. Messages advocating rape culture are holding back that equal initiative and working against those goals.

There is no reason to treat someone with less than the utmost respect. Because WVU Crushes has more than 5,000 followers who find it as either useful or funny, the gross mistreatment of students and even some professors is making WVU seem as if it is okay with rape and the objectification of people.

You may have the privilege to believe what you want, but you also have the opportunity to make the culture better for everyone in it. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

EDITORIAL

Hoffman’s death spotlights heroin epidemic

Schools that implement zero tolerance policies stifle students’ learning.

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No tolerance for zero tolerance policies SARAH COOPER GUEST COLUMNIST

In Maryland in 2013, second-grader Josh Welch was accused of committing an act of terrorism for nibbling his pastry into the shape of a gun, toying with his food out of imaginative innocence at snack-time. His parents never expected their son to be suspended for two days, and consequently receiving a blemish on his student record. The school system has refused to erase this expulsion, causing all those viewing his record to condemn him a delinquent and treat him differently because of his slight misdemeanor.

“The chewed cereal bar looked no more like a gun than the puzzle pieces of the states of Idaho, Oklahoma, or Florida. ... There is no evidence that any other student was frightened by the pastry,” Welsh’s father said in a Huffington Post article. “You’re not in trouble by me. I kind of explained to him the whole negative stigma around the whole gun culture and things like that and how some people are uncomfortable about certain things like that. He couldn’t really grasp it.”

Meanwhile in Pennsylvania, a 5-year-old girl was sus-

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pended after making a terrorist threat of her own. Upon suggesting she and a friend could shoot one another with Hello Kitty bubble blowers, administrators felt the need to suspend her for a few days, leaving her parents to consider filing a lawsuit to get the incident removed from their daughter’s record. Proving how detrimental this is to her permanent record, no other schools in the area will admit her because of the bubblesoap threats scribbled into the crucial document.

As incidents surrounding the safety of our nation’s children have heightened after devastating school shootings, such as the recent situation at Sandy Hook Elementary School, there’s no doubt Board of Education employees are questioning the strength of the zero tolerance policy.

Present nationwide and available in school-issued agenda books, the policy aims to set guidelines for unacceptable behavior. Typically, most schools implement the policy for use against drugs and weaponry. The policy does exactly what it says. It allows no exceptions. Whether the student makes an actual gun-related threat or brings a water gun into a first-grade classroom, the punishment is the same.

Expulsion under zero tolerance polices highly influences the way future schools, teachers, and students will view the student. Getting punished at such a young age for nothing more than expressing ones imagination can leave a mark on your permanent record doesn’t go unnoticed.

This means those expelled in elementary school, like pastry-chewer Josh Welch, will have difficulty switching schools, getting into college or even applying for specific jobs. Children are sincerely hindered even though their actions were no more terrifying than throwing a stuffed pink unicorn at someone while yelling “bomb.”

Which raises the question: have the zero tolerance policies been taken too far?

Originally issued with intentions to maintain a stronger, more controlled school system, parents are beginning to question the legitimacy of the once good-natured policy. While the school system has failed to bring a sense of understanding to those affected, both parents and students are often left clueless on the matter.

Schools attempt to make their students aware of the policy, but often fail to inform them of how strict it can be. After hearing per-

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Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman posed for this tintype portrait at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival just weeks before his death.

It’s been less than a week since Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was discovered on the bathroom floor of his apartment with a needle in his arm, dead of an apparent heroin overdose.

Hoffman, 46, had allegedly recently relapsed back into substance and alcohol abuse after decades of sobriety. Although he displayed some signs of distress noticed by those closest to him, Hoffman managed to keep his personal struggles relatively private considering he was an A-list celebrity and working actor.

His passing, made even more tragic by its shocking and sudden nature, has cast a nationwide media spotlight on the resurgent popularity of heroin and the thou-

sands of victims the drug kills each year.

According to the popular native being touted by the press, the late ’90s and early ’00s saw a generation of addicts whose drug of choice was strong opiates like Oxycontin and other prescription pills. Subsequent legislative and law enforcement tactics aimed at curtailing the pill epidemic were effective, just not at treating addicts.

Reactionary measures enacted to limit pill use only served to drive up street prices, making an addict’s single fix cost more than $100 in some cases. For just $10, the same addict could instead purchase several hits worth of readily available heroin.

When it comes to celeb-

sonal stories from students at my high school who were suspended under the policy for scribbling the word “bomb” on a piece of paper, I have certainly changed my perspective.

I no longer see the safety the policy brings to the school, but rather a sense of insecurity for the students.

Implementing such a policy without detailing how detrimental it can be robs children of their imagination and childhood. In fact, even their futures as they heed to the delinquent role they’ve been labeled as.

Instead of hearing the word “gun” and taking it out of context by expelling a 5-year-old who is too young to know better, educators should aim to teach healthy behavior and

explain why certain things are not okay. Expulsion implies the system is just brushing it off. Children will not learn anything by being ripped out of the classroom and having their permanent record tainted before they can even comprehend their actions.

They will return to a classroom where they no longer feel safe and where students may no longer feel safe around them. They’ll feel alienated.

Children are not criminals. They are still learning every day. Schools should be a place to experience free and peaceful growth – not a place where you’re thrown under the bus for being innocent and unexposed to the realistic cruelty of the world.

Expulsion is not the an-

rity deaths – especially the death of someone who was young, beloved and harbouring a secret addiction – it’s easy to look the past the pain and jump straight to romanticism.

In the frenzy to document the aftermath of Hoffman’s death, the media is inadvertently shifting attention from the addicted to the addiction.

Those suffering from addiction need sincere help, not to become the center of media storm that is sure to fade as attention wanes.

If someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, it’s your responsibility as a moral human being to do all you can to help. A little seemingly meaningless action on your part could potentially be the deciding factor for someone in the midst of personal turmoil with addiction.

Through the University and in the surrounding Morgantown area, there are numerous resources to aid those attempting to recover from addiction.

The Carruth Center on the Downtown Campus is free, confidential and offers a variety of services. For more information visit https://well. wvu.edu/ccpps. To speak to an after-hours counselor, call 304-293-4431.

An overdose can happen instantly, and a life can be taken by drugs in the blink of an eye. But it’s never too late to get help or to start down the road to recovery. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

swer, and neither is strengthening the policy. To create a more responsible future generation, education and cooperation should be the policy we aim for. Stereotyping those students who are in need of counseling or those who have marks on their permanent record is wrong and counterproductive.

As Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

We need to implement a sense of education into an unrealistic policy that brushes off education on real-world matters. Zero tolerance policies replaces opportunities for learning with opportunity for punishment. dapersectives@mail.wvu.edu

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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR BORN TODAY This year you head in a new direction. In a sense, you become slightly less independent than you have been in the past. Actually, your sense of self is so strong that you don’t need to worry about this issue.

You tend to be oversensitive. If you are single, you could meet someone special sometime after June. You also could discover that you have more than one potential suitor. If you are attached, you often give in to your sweetie’s demands because it is easier that way. The summer could heat up your interactions.

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TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHH If you can work from home, do. Understand that you can be more reflective in a comfortable environment, as you will be somewhat distant from the issues at hand. You might be seeing a transformation of a key person in front of your eyes. Tonight: Make it easy.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHH You might want to see a situation in a different light. How you see a personal matter could change, given some time and space. Your playfulness emerges when dealing with a co-worker. A partner or associate will favor you in an issue. Tonight: Out and about.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH You could be more touchy and difficult than you realize. You might be making major adjustments for others, and probably feel as though you need others to be considerate of you. A loved one will look at you favorably. Tonight: Buy a new item for your wardrobe.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH You beam, and someone responds. Your ability to get past a problem allows you to have a good time, no matter what situation you are in. A co-worker allows you to see how much you are cared about. Make time for a hobby that you really enjoy. Tonight: The world is your oyster.

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PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHH Don’t hesitate to let others know your limitations, especially as they seem to dump a lot of work on you. An unexpected development involving your finances initially might concern you, but later you will see the situation in other terms. Tonight: Get some exercise.

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Preparing for Valentine’s Day

Shoppers search for perfect gift for special valentine this season westley Thompson A&E WRITER @dailyathenaeum

As angsty teens and bitter hipsters are apt to remind everyone, Valentine’s Day is one of those Hallmark Holidays – a celebration overinflated by corporations in an effort to get people to buy more stuff.

Whether or not this is true is up for debate. But the point is, if you don’t get your significant other something on Valentine’s Day, you’ll have a disappointing Valentine’s Night. While roses, chocolates and plush bears holding embroidered hearts are fun, they are cliche. Why not get your special someone something they would really like Friday?

For the Adventurer: The Vertex Portable Stove.

When backpacking, camping and hiking, two features remain at the forefront when sizing up a piece of gear, portability and durability. The compact Vertex stove is both.

Weighing just 1.8 ounces, this rugged stainless steel stove folds flat in seconds. It can be powered by a variety of fuel sources, such as fuel tablets or alcohol burners, so it’s versatile as well. Buy it with the promise of taking a romantic camping trip, once nature stops dumping loads of snow on us, that is. Search Vertexoutdoor.com.

For the Television Lover:

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“Dexter: The Complete Series Collection.”

Roses are red and so is blood.

This popular Showtime series follows America’s most lovable psychopath, Dexter Morgan, as he tries to balance work and life with his true passion: hunting down and killing Miami’s most dangerous murderers.

The series ran for eight seasons, ending in 2013. Its novel premise, coupled with excellent acting, makes this show one of the best ever made. This special edition boxed set comes with all eight seasons, hours of bonus footage, cast interviews and an art book, all packaged neatly in a replica of Dexter’s most prized possession – his box of blood slides. Search Amazon.com For the Bookworm: “S.” by J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst. This brilliant book is the result of collaboration between two of America’s great film makers. “S.” hooks readers with its unusual format and multilayered, interconnected stories.

Within the pages readers will follow a mysterious man with amnesia, who is thrown into

a global revolution. In the margins, there exists a separate, but intertwined story, between two young people with difficult pasts and concerns of their own. While all of this is going on, readers always have the burning question in the back of their mind, who is the enigmatic V. M. Straka – the fictional author of the book. This novel is compelling and hard to put down. Search Barnesandnoble.com.

For the Health Nut:

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Breville Compact Juice Fountain.

People who are serious about their health know that they have to eat enough fruits and veggies every day to remain fit and trim.

Unfortunately, that is easier said than done.

Do not fret. There is an easier way of reaching your nutritional goals than shov-

eling plates of lettuce down your throat.

With a juicer, healthy plants can be transformed into delicious and healthy beverages while retaining their vitamins and other health qualities.

Any serious health fanatic will love the ability to make and experiment with their own healthy juice recipes.

Search Amazon.com For the Movie Buff: “Anchorman: The Rich Mahogany Edition.”

Laughter is a proven aphrodisiac. How else do you think Jason Sudeikis landed Olivia Wilde? There is no better movie to have a nice night in with your other half than Will Ferrell’s “Anchorman.”

This now classic movie is one of the most hilarious and most quotable movies in the last decade. This special edition comes with tons of bonus scenes, as well as Ron Burgundy’s personal diary and character trading cards.

Search Bestbuy.com For the Geek Couple: Star Wars pillow cases.

What a better way to declare your love than with classic lines from Star Wars? This set of two pillow cases features lines and pictures from the classic series. The “her” pillow case shows Leia’s iconic hairstyle with the quote “I love you,” while the matching “his” pillow case features Han Solo’s suave response of “I know,” along with an image of his blaster. Search Shutupandtakemymoney.com

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While everyone is familiar with the heart shape, thanks to playing cards and Valentine’s Day, an actual heart looks a little different.

Let your boyfriend or girlfriend know you both “heart” them and respect their area of interest with an anatomically correct heart necklace.

This little piece of jewelry comes in different finishes, including antique silver and gold, and is designed to look like the real deal, complete with aorta, pumps, chambers and all. Search Etsy.com For the Music Maniac: Oontz Curve Ultra-portable speaker.

For those who like to bring top quality sound with them wherever they are, get the Oontz portable speaker.

This Bluetooth-enabled audio device is both powerful and stylish. It features an awesome design that is lightweight and available in six different colors. More importantly, though, its sound

quality is top-notch. Search Amazon.com.

For the Fitness Freak: Fitbit Flex Wristband.

Fitness bands are all the rage now. These tiny little bracelets can track all manners of health related information, including distance traveled, calories burned and steps taken. It can also track your sleep patterns.

Along with the app, Fitbit allows people who are passionate about their health to record and monitor all aspects of their body. Search Amazon.com.

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Whether it’s an amazing landscape, an inspiring sporting moment or the world’s most detailed selfie, the Moment lens is here to help. This camera lens uses new technology to attach easily to any iPhone or Galaxy phone and deliver stunning images. Search Kickstarter.com. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Single on Valentine’s Day: How to beat the lovesick blues, make plans with friends JAke Jarvis A&E WRITER @dailyathenaeum

Valentine’s Day is here again, and although I’ve celebrated it alone for 19 years, I’ve learned we can all have a good time regardless of our relationship status.

Being single on V-Day is nothing to be ashamed of.

It seems like an unbearable day to those of us who are monogamy challenged, and you’ll need to plan ahead to survive.

For starters, avoid social media.

Just like when classes are canceled or when Miley Cyrus does virtually anything, people will obliterate your timeline with their V-Day plans.

Instagram should be avoided in particular. Seeing bouquets of roses and promise rings only serves to induce nausea and

jealousy.

As your own means of counter-attack to the privileged ones, snap a photo of your bank account showing just how much you didn’t spend on a gift. Being single saves money, so show it off.

In classes or at work, people will undoubtedly ask about your plans for the evening. We shouldn’t have to justify having no plans, but here are some good excuses to use if you do get cornered.

“I’m actually volunteering at a retirement home’s Annual Valentine’s Day Dance.”

Or to sound mysterious, try, “I don’t have any plans tonight. After hewho-must-not-be-named, I promised myself never again. Never.”

All joking aside, it’s no one’s business what you’re up to. Chances are if they care that much, then they probably just want an excuse to brag about what

they’re doing.

If you have a chance, stop by the mall and buy yourself something nice.

When you’re single, the most important person in your life should be yourself. Show that person some love with a new pair of earrings or some cute shoes.

With no romantic plans, a dinner with other single friends can be a great chance to catch up. End the evening with a toast – “To being single, seeing double and sleeping triple!”

Crawling into bed alone at the end of the night is arguably the hardest part.

But don’t go to bed alone.

Enjoy the dairy-menage-atrois with the loveable and ever-ready Ben & Jerry’s.

These boys are kind, loyal and will never not text you back. Bonus points for Phish Food.

But be sure to get a good night’s sleep. Wake up early the next day to hit up

the grocery store for huge discounts on everything chocolate. It’s become a tradition of mine to go to Kroger at 8 a.m. and buy a bag of Reese’s Cups all for myself.

So, you might be bitter about not having a better half this V-Day. I’ve often said, “This time next year, I won’t be single, even if that means dating the creepy guy in my math class.”

Ask yourself this: Is it better to be unhappily single or unhappily dating? I say single any day.

We need to put aside sad feelings and let those who are dating enjoy the day.

The only thing worse than someone being obnoxious with their romantic partner is the person being obnoxiously cynical.

They may have Valentine’s Day, but single people? We have 364 days to live it up.

and the memories they trigger to tell hilarious and often poignant stories that all women can relate too,” Trickett said.

Along with the play, there will be nightly drawings for ladies who wear their “little black dress.”

There will also be a drawing Saturday for anyone who wants to share their story of a time when fashion has made a memory for them.

Tickets are available online at http:// mtpocketstheatre.com and cost $15 for adults, $13 for seniors and $10 for students.

The show will run Friday, Saturday and Feb. 20-22. All shows begin at 8 p.m. at M.T. Pockets Theatre on University Avenue in downtown Morgantown.

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Sting’s latest musical finds home on Broadway NEW YORK (AP) — Singersongwriter Sting’s new musical “The Last Ship” has found a nice berth on Broadway.

Producer Jeffrey Seller said Wednesday that the show – inspired by Sting’s memories of growing up in a shipbuilding community in northeast England – will start performances Sept. 30 at the Neil Simon Theatre. Opening night will be Oct. 26.

“The words are there. The music is there. It’s time to get into the room and make the play,” said Seller, who has won Tony Awards for “Rent,” “Avenue Q” and “In the Heights.” “We look forward to getting to work.”

The story centers on a man from a seafaring town who travels the world for 14 years only to return to find the shipyard’s future in grave danger and his sweetheart engaged to someone else. Sting, who was raised in northeast England, has been

working on it for four years.

“There’s no rock singer in ‘The Last Ship.’ But I certainly think that Sting is inspired by his youth and he’s working through a lot of emotions that all of us are working with as we get older,” said Seller.

The musical has a story by “Red” playwright John Logan and “Next to Normal” writer Brian Yorkey. It will be directed by Joe Mantello, who helmed “Wicked” and have choreography by Steven Hoggett, who did the same for “Once.”

Before coming to Broadway, “The Last Ship” will make its world premiere next summer at Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre.

It will star Michael Esper, who was on Broadway in “American Idiot” and “The Lyons” and Rachel Tucker, an Irish singer and actress who has been in “Wicked” in London.

The sets and costumes will be by Tony nominee David Zinn, the lighting design will be by Tony winner Christopher Akerlind and the sound design will be by Tony winner Brian Ronan.

It’s tricky territory even for the biggest music stars.

Elton John was humbled by the failed “Lestat” but found success with “Billy Elliot” and “The Lion King.”

U2’s Bono and The Edge finally got on track with “Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark,” after numerous postponed openings.

“I have continually been impressed by and rewarded

by Sting’s depth of musical knowledge,” Seller said.

“Sting certainly came to this never having written a musical but he has been an extraordinary student of musical theater, he’s an extraordinary collaborator and he has been an ideal artist in making this play.”

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“I’m single & plan on spending it at Beauty and The Beast, gymnastics and wrestling, at the Coliseum at 6 p.m.” @saralwells

“Boyfriend is 2,000 miles away. So Valentines Day has been postponed until March 7th 8:30 p.m. in Phoenix.” @_petahpan

“Wine and Fight Club!” @SCRAMBLEDEGGzz

“I plan on having a romantic meal for one at McDonald’s.” @jay_suhnn

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‘Love, Loss and What I Wore’ debuts at M.T. Pockets M.T. Pockets is debuting the play “Love, Loss and What I Wore” Friday evening.

The play is an off-Broadway hit and was written by sisters Delia and Nora Ephron, based on a book by Ilene Beckerman.

The story shows a group of women who tell each other stories of their lives by using items of clothing. Each piece or accessory is recognized as a symbol of some memorable moment in their life, or a part of life all women can relate to.

The play’s director, Vickie Trickett, said the female audience will be able to relate to the play.

“The show, like Ms. Beckerman’s book, uses clothing and accessories

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David Greenman, Michael Ealy, Kevin Hart and Bryan Callen star in Screen Gems’ ‘About Last Night.’

(AP) — There can never be too many tales about a one-night stand turned long-term love affair.

Perhaps the allure comes from the hope that anyone can fall hard, despite the lack of a courtship. The latest take on this scenario, a reimagined version of the 1986 hit “About Last Night...,” offers a modern spin on the challenges of connecting with strange bedfellows; a reboot that is as satisfying as breakfast in bed the morning after an unexpected rendezvous.

Based on David Mamet’s 1974 play, “Sexual Perversity in Chicago,” the 1980s film adaptation, which starred Demi Moore and Rob Lowe, centered on 20-something yuppies in

Chicago. The Leslye Headland (“Bachelorette”) penned “About Last Night” focuses on African-American singles in their 30s navigating the dating world in contemporary downtown Los Angeles.

Most of the original plot points remain the same: Danny (Michael Ealy) and Debbie (Joy Bryant) play a pair attempting to avoid dating because they have been hurt in the past. But after they meet at a bar – and sleep together that same night – they begin a relationship, shack up, break up and reunite.

Kevin Hart and Regina Hall portray dysfunctional couple Bernie, Danny’s crude best bud, and Joan, Debbie’s pessimistic room-

mate. Bernie and Joan also jump into bed the first night they meet.

Similar to the way Vince Vaughn and Isla Fisher stole the show with their unforgettably bizarre romance in “Wedding Crashers” as a dysfunctional, lusty pair, Hart and Hall are the best part of this film. They play the couple you know all too well: fiery, able to press one another’s buttons and always caught in the makeup to breakup game.

Hall offers one of her most impressive performances. Her sharp comedic timing is on par with rising funnyman Hart’s.

Whether attempting a drunken quickie in a bathroom stall, fighting over

who should be on top during sex or trading hateful quips, their scenes together are always playful, absurd and clever.

This is partly due to screenwriter Headland’s ability to make the humor swell. What made ‘80s love stories so great were the long daytime TV-like pauses and sweeping Casio keyboard-backed ballads. These elements created heavy melodrama, a facet that’s been dropped in the new version, allowing for more comedy and a lighter feel overall. But did we really need a montage dedicated to texting selfies? Luckily the film’s vulgar humor helps make up for the shortcomings, cementing “About Last Night”

as solid fodder for anyone looking to crack up over questionable dating rituals.

There’s an abundance of sex here, too. Bernie and Joan’s kinky scenes get pretty lewd (at one point Joan wears a chicken mask). But Hart and Hall can pull them off. Ealy and Bryant, on the other hand, lack heat. This is especially disappointing because we’ve seen them connect well with on-screen love interests in the past. Ealy’s romance with Halle Berry in the TV movie “Their Eyes Were Watching God” appeared far more pure, as did Bryant and Derek Luke’s sweet love in “Antwone Fisher.” But together, Ealy and Bryant’s interactions feel forced, which

makes it hard to root for them.

Directed by Steve Pink (“Hot Tub Time Machine”) and produced by Will Packer (“Think Like a Man”), the film notably avoids becoming a story only for an African-American audience, proving narratives featuring characters of color can be just as universal as any other. Overall, this modern take is an honest look at how couples can develop, sabotage and salvage relationships in 2014.

“About Last Night,” a Sony Pictures release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “sexual content, language and brief drug use.”

Running time is 100 minutes.

Sid Caesar, comic genius of 1950s television and star of ‘Grease,’ dies at age 91 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sid Caesar, the TV comedy pioneer whose rubber-faced expressions and mimicry built on the work of his dazzling team of writers that included Woody Allen and Mel Brooks, died Wednesday. He was 91.

Family spokesman Eddy Friedfeld said Caesar, who also played Coach Calhoun in the 1978 movie “Grease,” died at his home in the Los Angeles area after a brief illness.

“He had not been well for a while. He was getting weak,” said Friedfeld, who lives in New York and last spoke to Caesar about 10 days ago.

Friedfeld, who with Caesar wrote the 2003 biography “Caesar’s Hours: My Life in Comedy, With Love and Laughter,” learned of his friend’s death in an early morning call from Caesar’s daughter, Karen.

In his two most important series, “Your Show of Shows,” 1950-54, and “Caesar’s Hour,” 1954-57, Caesar displayed remarkable skill in pantomime, satire, mimicry, dialect and sketch comedy. And he gathered a stable of young writers who went on to worldwide fame in their own right - including Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart (“M-A-S-H”), and Allen.

“He was one of the truly great comedians of my time and one of the finest privileges I’ve had in my entire career was that I was able to

work for him,” Allen said in a statement.

Reiner, who was a writerperformer on the breakthrough “Your Show of Shows” sketch program, told KNX-AM Los Angeles that he had an ability to “connect with an audience and make them roar with laughter.”

In a statement, Reiner called Caesar “inarguably the greatest pantomimist, monologist and single sketch comedian who ever worked in television,” adding that the actor-comedian was a great flame who attracted “all the comedy moths” including Brooks and Simon.

Friedfeld said Caesar always shared the acclaim.

“Sid was an innovator, he and his team. He was very careful about never taking credit alone. He believed in his co-stars and his writers,” he said. “They created the amazing vehicles for him to be creative.”

While best known for his TV shows, which have been revived on DVD in recent years, Caesar also had success on Broadway and occasional film appearances, notably in “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.”

If the typical funnyman was tubby or short and scrawny, Caesar was tall and powerful, with a clown’s loose limbs and rubbery face, and a trademark mole on his left cheek.

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“Real life is the true comedy,” he said in a 2001 interview with The Associated Press. “Then everybody knows what you’re talking about.” Caesar brought observational comedy to TV before the term, or such latter-day practitioners as Jerry Seinfeld, were even born.

The son of Jewish immigrants, Caesar was a wizard at spouting melting-pot gibberish that parodied German, Russian, French and other languages.

Some compared him to Charlie Chaplin for his success at combining humor with touches of pathos.

Caesar performed with such talents as Howard Morris and Nanette Fabray, but his most celebrated collaborator was the brilliant Imogene Coca, his “Your Show of Shows” co-star.

Reiner went on to base his “Dick Van Dyke Show” – with its fictional TV writers and their temperamental star – on his experiences there. Simon’s 1993 “Laughter on the 23rd Floor” and the 1982 movie “My Favorite Year” also were based on the Caesar show.

Increasing ratings competition from Lawrence Welk’s variety show put “Caesar’s Hour” off the air in 1957.

In 1962, Caesar starred on Broadway in the musical “Little Me,” written by Simon, and was nominated for a Tony. He played seven different roles, from a comically perfect young man to a

Sid Caesar will be remembered by the younger generation as Coach Calhoun on ‘Grease.’ tyrannical movie director to a prince of an impoverished European kingdom.

In 1976, he put his pantomime skills to work in Brooks’ “Silent Movie.”

But he later looked back on those years as painful ones. He said he beat a severe, decades-long barbiturate and alcohol habit in 1978, when he was so low he considered suicide. “I had to come to terms with myself. ‘Yes or no? Do you want to live or die?’” Deciding he wanted to live, he recalled, was the “first step on a long journey.”

Caesar was born in 1922 in Yonkers, N.Y., the third son of an Austrian-born restaurant owner and his Russian-born wife. His first dream was to become a musician, and he played saxophone in bands in his teens.

But as a youngster waiting tables at his father’s lun-

cheonette, he liked to observe as well as serve the diverse clientele, and recognize the humor happening before his eyes.

His talent for comedy was discovered when he was serving in the Coast Guard during World War II and got a part in a Coast Guard musical, “Tars and Spars.” He also appeared in the movie version. Wrote famed columnist Hedda Hopper: “I hear the picture’s good, with Sid Caesar a four-way threat.

He writes, sings, dances and makes with the comedy.”

That led to a few other film roles, nightclub engagements, and then his breakthrough hit, a 1948 Broadway revue called “Make Mine Manhattan.”

His first TV comedy-variety show, “The Admiral Broadway Revue,” premiered in February 1949.

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But everyone was ready for Caesar’s subsequent efforts. “Your Show of Shows,” which debuted in February 1950, and “Caesar’s Hour” three years later reached as many as 60 million viewers weekly and earned its star $1 million annually at a time when $5, he later noted, bought a steak dinner for two.

When “Caesar’s Hour” left the air in 1957, Caesar was only 34. But the unforgiving cycle of weekly television had taken a toll: He had started relying on booze and pills for sleep every night so he could wake up and create more comedy.

It took decades for Caesar to hit bottom. In 1977, he was onstage in Regina, Canada, doing Simon’s “The Last of the Red Hot Lovers” when, suddenly, his mind went blank. He walked off stage, checked into a hospital and went cold turkey. Recovery had begun, with the help of wife Florence Caesar, who would be by his side for more than 60 years and helped him weather his demons.

Florence Caesar died four years ago, Friedfeld said.

Those demons included remorse about the flaredout superstardom of his youth – and how the pressures nearly killed him. But over time he learned to view his life philosophically.

“You think just because something good happens, then something bad has got to happen? Not necessarily,” he said with a smile in 2003, pleased to share his hardwon wisdom: “Two good things have happened in a row.”

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The Soweto Gospel Choir fills the Creative Arts Center with South African music as they perform Tuesday night.

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The two-time Grammyaward winning Soweto Gospel Choir brought the music and culture of South Africa to the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre Tuesday evening, supplying those in attendance with upbeat, energetic tunes to liven up the beginning of the work week.

Dressed in traditional South African attire, such as silk, flowy shirts for males in bright colors to robe-like dresses with brightly colored patterns and floral print designs for the females, the group took the stage and immediately wowed the audience. Their energy was evident from the moment the lights came on.

With 10 females in the front row and 12 males on a back riser, the group began as a full choir with an upbeat version of “Hiyo,” a Mthate traditional song and displayed incredible vocal ability and chill-

ing harmonies to the audience.

A female member of the group came forward after the first song to greet the audience and explain the group’s purpose. She said the group would be collecting money for AIDS orphan organizations in the South African area at the end of the show.

The woman also said the group was truly honored to be touring the U.S. After mentioning that last season was the group’s 10th anniversary, she expressed her love for the group and the fan base they acquired.

“We look forward to you being with us for another 10 years,” she said.

She also said the show would be dedicated to the former South African President, Nelson Mandela, who passed away earlier in the year.

“He has made us proud to be South African,” she said.

With one particular song

by Johnny Clegg, “Asimbonanga,” the group paid tribute to Mandela through

lyrics which mean, “We didn’t see all that Mandela went through.” They sang the second half of this song in English, providing a deeper understanding for the audience.

The group then began their second song, “Ziyama’umelusi,” another traditional number, which featured soloists from the group. Throughout all of the songs, different members of the group came forward to showcase their individual talents, whether that be singing, dancing or playing traditional South African instruments. By focusing on different members of the group, it actually gave the group a more family-like feel. They are absolutely comfortable letting other group members shine.

The changing of the tempo with simply voices alone was probably the most impressive aspect of the night. In songs such as “Libala Kuye,” “Calvary” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” the group not only showcased their out-

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Paula Dean cooks up $75M comeback deal SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Paula Deen has found a key ingredient to bringing some sizzle back to her career – a cash infusion worth at least $75 million from a private investment firm.

The Savannah-based celebrity cook announced Wednesday that she’s launched an umbrella company that will oversee her restaurants, cookbooks, product endorsements and other remaining slices of her media empire.

The new company, called Paula Deen Ventures, said private-equity firm Najafi Companies is investing $75 million to $100 million to help Deen make a comeback.

Deen’s fortunes took a dive last year after comments she made under oath during proceedings in a lawsuit, namely that she had used racial slurs in the past, became public. The Food Network dropped Deen, as did pork pro-

ducer Smithfield Foods, book publisher Ballantine and several other companies that paid her to endorse their products.

In a statement, Deen praised the partnership with Phoenix-based Najafi and the decision to name Steven Nanula, who has already worked with Deen for the past two years, to serve as CEO of Paula Deen Ventures.

“I know this is the right decision to lead my team, as we continue to share quality products with my fans – whose love and support have built my brands,” Deen said.

Jahm Najafi, CEO of the Najafi Companies, said his firm has great respect for Deen’s past success and is confident its investment will pay off.

Others brands to benefit from Najafi’s investments include the Phoenix Suns pro basketball team, the Book of the Month Club and Sky-

Mall, the direct marketing business aimed at travelers.

“We know that the enterprise will be successful and valuable, as Paula and her team continue to bring quality products and experiences to her loyal fan base,” Najafi said in a statement.

A publicist for Deen told The Associated Press she was not available for an interview.

Deen’s image took a crushing blow last summer when a transcript of a legal deposition Deen gave to attorneys in a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former employee was made public. Deen was asked under oath if she had ever used the N-word.

“Yes, of course,” Deen replied, though she added: “It’s been a very long time.”

The lawsuit was settled out of court in August. Terms were never disclosed.

standing vocal ability – which could honestly hold a candle to Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston – but also their ability to change tempo and sing in a group.

By listening closely to one another and practicing for years, the group is able to change tempo in the middle of the song from an upbeat rhythm involving clapping and dancing to a slower, more solemn tune carrying deep meaning.

The group played other popular hits, such as a rendition of Bob Marley’s “One Love,” Gene MacLellan’s “Put Your Hand in the Hand” and even Sarah McLachlan’s “Arms of An Angel.” By playing songs in English aside from the other five other languages, the choir was able to connect with the audience on a more meaningful level by allowing deeper understanding of the traditional material.

Many times throughout the performance, the choir brought the audi-

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A soloist sings during Tuesday night’s performance. ence to their feet, clapping and swaying to the beat. The closeness of the group and the fun they had performing alongside one another transferred to the audience, providing a feel good, relaxing time for ev-

eryone in attendance.

This was one, exciting Unviersity Arts Series performance a few season ticket holders missed out on. lacey.palmer@mail.wvu.edu

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Iowa State’s DeAndre Kane looks at the Coliseum floor in the Cyclones’ 102-77 loss against West Virginia Monday night.

Pittsburgh native Kane struggles in return to West Virginia following tenure with Marshall by doug walp sports writer @dougwalp

The West Virginia men’s basketball team actually did more than just steamroll the No. 11 team in the nation Monday night at the WVU Coliseum. They also completely spoiled the homecoming of Pittsburgh-native DeAndre Kane in his first game back in an arena inside the state of West Virginia since March 5, 2012 – when Kane played his final game for the Thundering Herd of Marshall.

Kane used nearly all of Iowa State’s ticket allotment for the game, which went to more than 50 of the senior point guard’s friends and family from the Pittsburgh area.

Kane’s mother arranged for everyone to ride down together on a charter bus, and the entire group was packed in the sections behind the Cyclones’ bench for the highly anticipated conference battle, sporting matching shirts with Kane’s jersey number “50” and identifiers like “Kane’s sister” where the nameplate normally stretches.

Despite the recognizable surroundings and the sea of familiar faces, Kane – who has played his way into the discus-

sion for first-team Big 12 honors as well as Conference Player of the Year – looked anything but comfortable in his first game against the Mountaineers as a member of the Cyclones (after averaging 16.7 points per game in two losses and a win against WVU at Marshall.)

Kane actually finished with 14 points (just two shy of his season average), but was just 6-of-15 from the floor, including 0-3 from behind the arc.

Kane also had five turnovers and just two assists, which allowed WVU’s Juwan Staten to move past Kane into the Big 12’s top assist spot.

Kane and Iowa State as a whole struggled with defense, too. Four players, including three guards, scored at least 16 points in the blowout for West Virginia.

“They shot 50 percent from the 3, and 50 percent from the field,” Kane said. “(WVU) played some good basketball. We lost. We’re not making excuses. We got our tail kicked.

“We didn’t play (defense). We didn’t make any shots, and that affected us a little bit. Guys started hanging their heads, and we stopped making the defensive rotations and they made plays. We didn’t come out

with the same intensity we did two games ago.

We lost our focus a little bit, but give them credit.

They made a lot of shots.”

Kane’s mere presence immediately evoked special interest from the WVU student section, which berated and showered the former member of the in-state rival Thundering Herd with boos from tip-off to the final shot.

At some points it even appeared the collective harassment from the students might have been taking a toll on the usually unflappable senior, especially at the charity stripe, where Kane missed his first four free throws, which even included a rare airball.

Still, Kane said after the game he felt no effects despite the antagonism from WVU’s home crowd.

“It didn’t bother me,” Kane said. “It was like that at Marshall. West Virginia is always like that.

They are supposed to be like that.

“I played my game.

I made shots. I missed shots. It is what it is.”

Iowa State head coach Fred Hoiberg also denied the special attention from the fans had any effect on Kane’s performance. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Iowa State’s DeAndre Kane dribbles the ball up the court in Monday night’s game against WVU in the Coliseum.

Dibo’s career-high 20 points sparks WVU by amit batra sports editor @batra01

The West Virginia men’s basketball team fed off a stand out performance by junior forward Remi Dibo in the Mountaineers’ home win over No. 11 Iowa State Monday night.

Dibo scored a careerhigh 20 points in the Cyclones’ most lopsided defeat of the season. The junior went 6-for-8 from

beyond the arc, leading the way for WVU’s 13 3-pointers. On the evening, the Mountaineers shot 59.1 percent from 3-point territory.

“I think my teammates did a great job of finding me,” Dibo said. “They’ve been doing a good job of finding me, and I was not responding. But I did today.”

The 6-foot-7 forward saw his fourth straight start and fifth of the season Monday night. Dibo

had the task of containing Iowa State senior forward Melvin Ejim who was coming off a 48-point, 18-rebound performance against TCU. Ejim’s 48 points became a new Big 12 Conference record.

Dibo was able to answer the challenge with ease.

Ejim only had six points on the evening, 12 points less than his season average. He finished the game 1-for-9 from the field.

“We just knew we couldn’t let him score 40 points on us,” Dibo said.

“We had to make an effort on him.”

Dibo and the Mountaineers did just that.

While Iowa State finished the game with five players in double figures, Ejim was never able to get into a rhythm. The first basket of the game would be his only made field goal.

Multiple teammates after the game said Dibo’s performance was something just waiting to happen. They, along with WVU head coach Bob Huggins, knew Dibo was getting good looks in

past games but they just weren’t falling.

“When you get in the gym, and you get a lot of shots up, your chances for success increases dramatically,” Huggins said.

“The first guy in the gym (who) walked in on Sunday was Remi (Dibo), and the last one to leave shootaround today (was) Remi (Dibo). I guess it doesn’t guarantee success, but it sure gives you a better chance.

“I guess when you make some early that gives you some confidence. He shot it really well today.”

In terms of containing Ejim, He said his plan to change things defensively made life difficult for the Iowa State star.

Huggins said Ejim had a lot of transition points in the game against TCU, so the plan was to make sure transition defense was a top priority.

“We just changed defenses; we didn’t do anything special,” he said. “(Ejim) is a heck of a player.

WVU has now won four of its last five games and has the nation talk-

ing about it as a potential NCAA Tournament team.

In the Mountaineers last six games, three are at home, and three are on the road.

With West Virginia peaking at just the right time, Dibo’s play as of late has brought muchneeded depth to the team. amit.batra@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU back to relevant program Follow ing Monday night’s 102-77 blowout win over No. 11 Iowa State, the West Virginia men’s basketball program may finally be relevant again.

College basketball experts, fans and common spectators witnessed the Mountaineer team that’s always accustomed to giving an opponent a scare. The team that opponents fear and never want to see on their side of the bracket in the NCAA Tournament may have finally made its presence known once again.

It was the most complete performance I have seen out of any WVU team since probably the 2010-11 team – a team that nearly made the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA Tournament. WVU shot the ball well from the field, from the foul line and dished out more assists than the No. 1 team in the nation in assists per game.

Members of the WVU men’s basketball team can sense this is the squad they knew they had going into the season. This is exactly what West Virginia was capable of.

Now, as the Mountaineers try to fight for an NCAA Tournament berth, these last six games will be key in determining if Monday night was just a fluke or if West Virginia is truly ready to become great.

ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi had WVU as one of the first four teams out of the NCAA Tournament along with Missouri, Saint Joseph’s and Clemson following Monday’s results.

With opportunities for wins against ranked opponents such as Texas and Iowa State on the road, not to mention a respectable Oklahoma team, the Mountaineers can control their own destiny.

While WVU sees TCU and Baylor at home, along with No. 8 Kansas in the regular season finale, the fact that people are actually talking about this squad in the NCAA Tournament is truly remarkable.

It says wonders about what West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins and his team has done throughout this last month. Huggins continues to say his team is getting right where they need to be for success, and I think everyone is starting to believe in that.

Now, I’m not saying WVU is going on to win any sort of championship in the near future. That wouldn’t be wise to say, even after the Mountaineers played one of their most complete games in recent memory.

It does make you believe though, right? It makes you believe West Virginia is back on the map. It officially has the country’s attention once again.

The fact the Mountaineers were able to stop Iowa State senior forward and Big 12 Conference scoring leader Melvin Ejim from reaching double digits says something about the adjustments Huggins makes. He knew what defensive traps to lay out, and the team executed that perfectly.

It’s an exciting time for West Virginia men’s basketball. After such a disastrous 2012-13 season, the Mountaineers have fought back to the team everyone knows and respects. That’s a very, very good sign moving forward.

If WVU can muster a 3-3 or 4-2 mark in its last six games and possibly can get a win or two in the Big 12 Tournament, you’re looking at a potential NCAA Tournament bid. At 18-19 wins, the result I think the Mountaineers will ultimately achieve, WVU may just have a shot.

Nothing really comes as a surprise anymore with West Virginia. It’s been a roller coaster 25 games to this point, but the program looks to become talked about once again.

For WVU fans, it’s a refreshing sight to see. amit.batra@mail.wvu.edu

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Musgrave-led WVU to rely on pitching

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West Virginia pitcher Harrison Musgrave looks on alongside teammates in a game against Pitt in the 2013 season.

by joe mitchin sports writer @dailyathenaeum

It’s a common belief in baseball that pitching beats hitting. For West Virginia, the results from the mound could dictate one of the most anticipated seasons in program history.

WVU is comfortable with its three-man rotation heading into the season. Led by preseason All-American Harrison Musgrave, the Mountaineers have a true ace to lead a talented staff filled with both returners and newcomers.

“We have a lot of high expectations after last year,” Musgrave said. “I think with the players we have coming in and the returners, we should be able to do some pretty special things this year.”

Musgrave went 9-1 with a 2.17 ERA last season for WVU, earning the Big 12 Conference Pitcher of the Year Award. The Nutter Fort, W.Va., native pitched three complete games in

the 2013 season and truly carried the rotation at times.

The success caught the eye of the Philadelphia Phillies who selected Musgrave with their 33rd round pick in the 2013 draft. Eyeing more collegiate success with the addition to a degree, he’ll return to Morgantown to lead the pitching staff again in 2014. “(Musgrave) was so good last year,” said WVU head coach Randy Mazey.

“When the Big 12 season came around it was almost like he threw a shutout every Friday night. That’s going to be so hard for him to duplicate. It’s hard to have that much success over and over again.”

Musgrave wasn’t the only pitcher drafted last season. Right-hander Sean Carley was selected in the 34th round by the San Diego Padres last summer.

Carley will likely step into the No. 2 starter role for the Mountaineers this season after sitting out in 2013 due to NCAA transfer rules.

Carley began his college career at the Air Force Academy where he pitched 82.1 innings in 2012, striking out 62 hitting and posting a 3.94 ERA. It was the lowest earned-run average at Air Force since 1983.

Rounding out the rotation is scheduled to be junior John Means. The transfer from Fort Scott Community College had a successful first season pitching for WVU a year ago. His 4-4 record and 3.34 ERA ranked second on the team behind Musgrave.

West Virginia has the luxury of sending out two powerful left-handers in its rotation. All three starters bring plenty of experience and success to a season that promises perhaps the toughest schedule in team history.

“You’d like to line your top three pitchers up to pitch on the weekends against the conference teams, but if you look at our nonconference schedule those are all tough games, too,” Mazey said.

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games if you want to get an at-large bid.

“If we can get quality starts out of our three weekend guys and save those bullpen guys that would really help us have a good season.”

The Mountaineers came one game short of playing for a Big 12 title last season and bring big expectations into the new year. Not only is a conference title a team goal, but a lengthy postseason run is also on the team’s radar.

West Virginia will get its first shot at continuing the momentum built from last season on Friday when the Mountaineers travel to Charleston, S.C., for a three-game set.

WVU will open its season against Louisville, a team that played in the College World Series in 2013.

Delaware and The Citadel will also play against the Mountaineers. Musgrave, Carley and Means are all scheduled to get their first starts of the season. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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No. 13 WVU takes on OU Thursday by kevin hooker sports writer @dailyathenaeum

The No. 13 West Virginia women’s basketball team seeks its fourth straight win tonight against the Oklahoma Sooners at the Lloyd Noble Center. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.

WVU beat Oklahoma 77-63 Jan. 18 at the WVU Coliseum. In that game, the Mountaineers were led in scoring by senior guard Christal Caldwell with 23 points, while sophomore guard Bria Holmes added 21 points, including four 3-pointers.

WVU is currently 20-3 on the season and 9-2 in Big 12 Conference play, which is No. 2 in the conference standings.

The Mountaineers enter Thursday’s game with a 84-44 victory over Kansas State Saturday. Holmes led all players with a career-high 31 points.

“We were fortunate that (Holmes) got hot the last eight minutes of the half, but I thought overall we played hard,” said WVU head coach Mike Carey. “In the beginning (of the game) you could tell that we had not played in a week. That is why it is great that we have a deep bench and people can come in and contribute.”

OU is currently 15-9 overall and 6-5 in Big 12 play. The Sooners have four players averaging scoring numbers in double digits, led by senior guard Aaryn Ellenberg with 18.4 points per game. Ellenberg is OU’s top 3-point shooter as well, shooting 35.9 percent from the field.

Senior guard Morgan Hook averages 11.3 points on the season and her 124 total assists lead the team.

“The tough thing about this league is that you play every team twice,” Carey said. “If you beat them the first time, they’ll really be coming for you the second time around.

You never want to get beat twice by the same team.

We beat Oklahoma (at home) earlier in the season, so it’ll be a tough game.”

The Sooners are coming off an 81-71 road victory over Kansas. Four Sooners scored in double figures, with senior center Nicole Griffin adding a double-double of 10 points and 11 rebounds.

Ellenberg had a teamleading 19 points, while Hook chipped in with 15 points.

“It’s all about mental at this point in the year,” Carey said. “We have seven games left in the regular season, and we have to stay focused.

We’re fortunate to have four of them at home. But these next seven games are important, and we’ll worry about postseason after that.”

OU is currently No. 5 in the Big 12 standings, having defeated Texas Tech, Kansas State, Iowa State, TCU, Oklahoma State and Kansas, while dropping games to both Iowa State and Texas in overtime.

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BOB HUGGINS QUOTE OF THE WEEK “This (Iowa State win) helps us. This is a huge step to get us back RPI-wise where we’re supposed to be and get us back into the national conversation. But it’s not over with. We’ve got to go play Texas and do a much better job than what we did the first time we played them.”

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West Virginia @ No. 19 Texas Texas Tech @ No. 11 Iowa State Oklahoma @ Oklahoma State TCU @ No. 7 Kansas Kansas State @ Baylor No. 3 Florida @ No. 14 Kentucky No. 20 Memphis @ No. 24 Connecticut No. 25 Pittsburgh @ North Carolina No. 17 Virginia @ Clemson No. 21 Wisconsin @ No. 15 Michigan LAST WEEK SEASON RECORD

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West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins expresses his frustration in Monday night’s home game against No. 11 Iowa State.

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In New Orleans, Benson gets All-Star treatment

New Orleans Hornets NBA team owner Tom Benson speaks at a news conference announcing the team’s name will change from the Hornets to the Pelicans in January 2013.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One of the people most responsible for bringing NBA All-Stars back to the Big Easy this weekend is an 86-year-old man who wasn’t that into basketball for much of his life.

He is Tom Benson. And in New Orleans, NBA fans and community leaders are grateful the NFL owner – who also now owns the Pelicans – finally came around.

“He really stepped up to the plate in a big way, because there was more than an idle threat that our team was going to get moved out of the city,” New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said. “It was really important that we had an owner that was committed to keeping the team here.”

Benson was widely credited with keeping the NFL’s Saints in New Orleans when he bought that club for $75 million in 1985. In April 2012, he paid $338 million for New Orleans’ NBA franchise, then called the Hornets, who’d struggled financially since relocating from Charlotte in 2002.

With that purchase

came a promise that New Orleans would host its second NBA All-Star game since 2008, providing an enormous boost to a local economy built in large part on tourism.

“Mr. Benson has played a major role in the revitalization of New Orleans through sports,” said Jay Cicero, head of the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation, which organizes bids for major sporting events. “If you look at some choices out there where NFL or NBA teams could go, other cities might be more profitable, but Mr. Benson loves this community and it’s apparent through his actions the past eight, nine years. It’s a pretty amaz-

the

ing story.”

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina put many aspects of New Orleans’ future in doubt, particularly its role as a small-market host city for two major pro sports franchises.

Even the future of the Saints was in doubt, despite Louisiana’s renowned love affair with the NFL franchise dating back to its founding in 1967. The football team was temporarily relocated to San Antonio, where Benson also had business interests, and officials there have said they believed Benson flirted with the idea of keeping the Saints in Texas permanently.

The NFL, however, wanted to maintain a pres-

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ence in New Orleans and help drive the area’s recovery. Benson announced at the end of the 2005 football season that he was on board with that plan, and said he hoped the Saints would be a significant catalyst for redevelopment in the region.

The Hornets, meanwhile, spent two seasons in Oklahoma City before returning to New Orleans for the 2007-08 season. By December 2010, cash-flow problems led franchise founder George Shinn to sell the club to the NBA as part of a plan to give Louisiana more time to find stable ownership that was

committed to keeping the team where it was.

Initially, Benson said, “I wasn’t that interested.”

But as the NBA’s temporary stewardship of the club dragged on for more than a year, Benson said, “We were a little concerned it was going to leave New Orleans and that excited us to the point where we felt we better look at this.”

Now in his second full season as an NBA owner, he has rebranded the club with the name Pelicans, a nod to both the state bird and the organization’s mission to support conservation of fragile wetlands.

AP

Benson has consolidated business and marketing offices of his NFL and NBA clubs at the Saints’ longtime suburban headquarters, where the Pelicans also have a new practice center.

In selling to Benson, the NBA’s hope was that having the football and basketball teams work in tandem, rather than competing against each other for ticket sales and sponsorships, gave the NBA its best chance of sustained success in New Orleans.

So far, the league has not been disappointed, new NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said.