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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
Wednesday March 20, 2013 VoluMe 125, Issue 121www.THedaOnLIne.comda
The West Virginia baseball team was unable to overcome Marshall’s superb pitching and fell to its in-state rival 8-0 Tuesday.SPORTS PAGE 7
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The West Virginia football team will rely on a mix of veterans and newcomers to lead its running game this fall.SPORTS PAGE 8
GROUND AND POUND
ON THE INSIDE
We reflect on the 10th anniver-sary of the Iraq War.OPINION PAGE 4
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City discusses economic concernsby ashley tennant
staff writer
City issues, economic de-velopment struggles and al-cohol concerns in the down-town area were among the topics discussed during Tuesday’s Morgantown city council meeting and were certainly the most hotly debated.
Main Street Morgantown delivered a special presen-tation during the meeting to discuss the array of issues.
Terri Cutright, executive
director of Main Street Mor-gantown, said the group traveled to Charleston, W.Va., Tuesday to receive the largest grant presented by the governor.
“The grant we received, ‘Growing, Healthy Commu-nities Grant’, was $14,500, which we plan on using for our Culinary Health Pro-gram,” Cutright said. “It’s go-ing to help construct the cu-linary station, as well as help us purchase some kitchen equipment and develop some programs for healthy
lifestyles in Morgantown.” Main Street Morgan-
town also received a $2,500 grant from Longview Power, which the group plans to use to fund its utility box project.
George Papandreas, pres-ident of Mainstreet Morgan-town and local business and property owner, addressed some of the issues he be-lieves the city needs to work together to change.
“Morgantown has prob-lems; we have traffic, we have narrow sidewalks that sometimes rowdy crowd
with potential customers and we have congestion with people waiting to get into some of our businesses. We have issues,” Papandreas said. “Occasionally it’s hard to find a parking space. We also have challenges, we sometimes have dirty side-walks and on weekends sometimes we could use more police – like any other city.”
Although Papandreas said he believes Morgan-town has many issues and challenges, he thinks the
city is fortunate to maintain a small-city feel.
“We are blessed here in Morgantown because we have all of these things working on our side. There are advantages to us. We were told at a state meet-ing a few weeks ago dealing with downtowns that our downtown is the envy of ev-ery other downtown in the state. We need to embrace this,” he said. “There are so many cities in the state that wish they had what we have, and sometimes we lose sight
of that.” Papandreas said he be-
lieves Morgantown should shift its focus toward the addition of certain ameni-ties that would generate an increase in grassroots eco-nomic development.
“When you travel some-place, half the fun is coming to a downtown area and go-ing to the local restaurants that are kind of the mom and pop places you can’t find someplace else. And
Colorful 5k to hit
Morgantownby suMMer ratCliff
staff writer
This spring, West Virginia University students, faculty and community will have an opportunity to partici-pate in a unique and color-ful 5k race.
WVU graduate and Miss Morgantown 2013 Ashley McLaughlin will host the Children’s Miracle Network Color 5k Run/Walk in coop-eration with the local Miss America Organization.
The event will highlight the Miss America Organi-zation’s national platform of the Children’s Miracle Network and will also intro-duce Miss Morgantown’s “Get West Virginia Healthy” initiative.
As Miss Morgantown, McLaughlin will focus on teaching West Virginians the importance of eating well and living a healthy lifestyle.
McLaughlin said her plat-form’s emphasis on being fit and her love of fundraising made it perfect for her to or-ganize a 5k race.
“I’ve always been really into fundraising and have really enjoyed doing this type of thing,” McLaughlin said. “I always wanted to put a 5k together, so when I was named Miss Morgantown it gave me the platform to do something on this large scale.”
When McLaughlin de-
cided to coordinate a 5k race, she knew she would need to do something unique in order to appeal to racers.
The 5k run/walk will be a public event open to those 18 and older. As partici-pants advance through the race, they will be covered in paints of various spring col-ors. The race will be similar to the national race known as “The Color Run,” but it is not an affiliated race.
“There are so many peo-ple organizing 5k races for the spring time, I wanted to do something unique,” McLaughlin said. “I knew I wouldn’t get enough people or enough publicity for this great cause if I didn’t.”
The Color 5k will take place Saturday, May 11 at 10 a.m. on the Monongalia Rail Trail.
Awards will be given to the top three male and top three female racers. Refresh-ments and drinks will be available for all participants.
McLaughlin encourages students to stay in town after finals for the race as a way to celebrate the completion of another school year.
“This will be an exciting event for the city of Morgan-town and a fun way to raise money for an incredible charity,” McLaughlin said.
Participants are encour-aged to preregister for $15
Student-athletes ‘speak out’ on
personal journeysby Caroline peters
staff writer
Student-athletes are of-ten seen by their peers as “perfect” – they are believed to often “have it together” both on and off the field.
Five West Virginia Uni-versity athletes shared their personal journeys yester-day, as part of the West Vir-ginia University Student-Athletes Speak Out.
The event was held in part for a course that re-quires the students to speak to communities.
West Virginia Univer-sity professor Carolyn At-kins said she was pleased to introduce her group of student-athletes.
The speakers included football players Kenneth (KJ) Myers, Brandon Na-poleon and Will Clarke and women’s soccer player Bryanna McCarthy and women’s basketball player
Averee Fields.Myers, wide receiver for
the Mountaineers, was the first to step to the podium.
“GOALS,” Myers said. “Is an acronym for Go, Objec-tives, Adversity, Letting Go and Sacrifice.”
Myers shared struggles he has faced that have con-flicted with his goals
“How many of you want to be successful?”Napoleon said. “Show of hands.”
As the room raised their hands slowly, Napoleon told the crowd that he was a good student in middle school; however, he was friends with the wrong crowd. Even though Na-poleon was not partak-ing in drugs and drinking, his image was ruined. Na-poleon changed friends in high school and said he learned a difficult, but valuable lesson.
WVU to host sport management conferenceby jaCob bojesson
correspondent
The West Virginia Uni-versity Sport Management Club will host the Inter-national Innovation in the Field of Sport Management Conference April 4-6.
“One day is focusing on the market industry of sports, the PR and the mar-keting communication as-pects of it,” said Lauren Fo-zard, vice president of the WVU Sport Management Club. “The second day is in-ternationalism, (and) it will
focus on the global industry of sports.”
Attendees will also get the opportunity to tour Moun-taineer Field and indoor practice facilities.
Registration will be held Thursday, and events and speakers will be featured Friday and Saturday.
The conference is hosted annually and rotates be-tween WVU, Drexel Univer-sity and St. John’s University.
It is free, open to the public and will feature sev-eral events and keynote speakers.
“We’re opening it up to all students this year,” Fozard said. “We have at least five other schools that are com-ing. We’re estimating about 200, outside of students at West Virginia.”
The idea is to inspire stu-dents by having keynote speakers in the Sport Man-agement field share their experiences.
Among the speakers this year is Oliver Luck, former NFL quarterback and direc-tor of intercollegiate athlet-ics at WVU; Ariana Andis-Klein, director of events and
marketing at USA Lacrosse; and a director for this year’s Special Olympics.
“It’s an honor to have prominent speakers come to West Virginia and show them what our Sport Man-agement Program is about,” Fozard said. “It’s a relatively small major here at WVU, so to get our name out kind of increases awareness of what we do.”
Sport Management stu-dent Merritt Peasley be-lieves the weekend is a
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Metropolitan Theater hosts famed researcher, documentary directorby jaCob bojesson
correspondent
Scott Tinker, co-producer of the award-winning documentary “Switch,” screened his film and an-swered questions from the audience Tuesday night during his Festival of Ideas lecture.
Tinker spoke in front of a full house in the Morgan-town Metropolitan Theatre about different forms of energy and which are the most efficient.
Aside from his duties as director of the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Aus-tin, Tinker spends his time traveling around the world, spreading his message.
“I’m trying to build a common understanding of en-ergy; that’s my passion,” he said. “Nothing is perfect – no energy source is without challenges, (and) the important thing is to change the way we think about energy so that we can change the way we use it.”
In the documentary, Tinker visits several countries across the globe to look at the different ways countries use energy in an effort to sort out how we can all im-prove and conserve.
In Norway, more than 90 percent of the energy used is powered by water, and several other European coun-tries have been able to find environmentally and ec-onomically friendly solutions, such as wind power.
Those countries have built their systems with long-term goals in mind. Tinker said he supports these types of systems, but he said he fears they are unlikely to catch on in America, because such practices aren’t im-mediately profitable.
“Almost all things challenging involve the
KrIsten BashaM/the DaIlY athenaeuMA West Virginia University student asks Scott Tinker a question concerning hydraulic fracturing after viewing ‘Switch’ at the Morgantown Metroplitan Theater, Tuesday.
KrIsten BashaM/the DaIlY athenaeuMDr. Scott Tinker speaks at the Morgantown Metropolitan Theater Tuesday before the showing of ‘Switch,’ his documentary exploring the complexity of energy con-sumption and production around the world.
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“The message is clear. Stu-dents who learn more earn more,” Napoleon said.
Napoleon said he based his entire speech off the work-ethic of his father.
“My dad is a man of value,” he said.
McCarthy, WVU women’s soccer team’s Big East cham-pionship most outstand-ing defensive player, shared
her personal journey with self-esteem.
It’s hard to believe that someone so successful could lack any confidence, she said. However, McCarthy said even she was human enough to encounter this problem.
“One reason I lack self-confidence is because of my height,” McCarthy said. “While my friends would joke about it, it really bothered me sometimes.”
McCarthy said being ded-icated and working hard
helped to overcome her self consciousness regarding her small stature.
“I am finally at the point in my life where I feel like I am good enough simply because I work hard,” she said.
Women’s basketball player Averee Fields said she also struggled with reaching perfection.
She based her speech on how she had spent her entire life trying to be the best of the best, until reality hit her.
Fields said since WVU was so far from home, it was a big change. “I was not used to never being able to meet someone’s standards,” she said.
When her team was told they needed to take a man-datory ice bath, she broke down.
“It was the cherry on my already melting sundae. Tears began to fall and I cried,” she said.
However, the ice bath meltdown served as Fields’
turning point.“You must realize that
perfection isn’t possible. However, that should never discourage you. I am not per-fect, but I am good enough.”
Clarke gave a speech en-titled, “Neither and Anchor nor a Sail.”
Clarke said he was lucky to have had an active father growing up.
“My dad never told me how to live,” Clarke said. “ In-stead, I watched him live and learned how to do it.”
After the speeches, Clarke shared a message for WVU students.
“We’re old enough to know what is right and what’s wrong. Try not to fall into temptation. Don’t be afraid to be a leader and not fall into the crowd.
“A person of value is some-one who looks into more things than, getting money. It’s a man who keeps a steady job and helps his family.”
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unique opportunity for stu-dents to learn and network with professionals.
“It’s going to be bene-ficial for students; mainly because we’ll have speak-ers that have worked on the global side of sports and the marketing side of sports – areas which students are in-terested in where sports is actually going,” Peasley said. “It will help us understand how to get there and what we need to do, mainly to get internships and global jobs in the future.”
Peasley also said he thinks hosting an event like
this proves the Sport Man-agement program at WVU is among the best in the nation.
“I think it’s going to be a huge thing for the Univer-sity, especially for the Col-lege of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences,” Peasley said. “We are a top-ranked program. I think we’ll get a great response. That’s what allows us to grow.”
Registration for the con-ference will be held in the Mountaineer Ballrooms, Thursday, April 4.
Events for Friday, April 5 and Saturday, April 6 will be in the Coliseum 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
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by shelby tooMpasstaff writer
West Virginia Universi-ty’s Society of Professional Journalists student orga-nization will be holding its first annual News Trivia Bowl to put undergraduate students’ news skills to the test.
The goal of the News Trivia Bowl is to offer a fun, quiz show-style competi-tion among three-person teams.
Senior broadcast journal-ism student and SPJ pres-ident Branford Marks said he heard about the club and got involved after he trans-ferred to WVU and spoke with the former president.
“Every club in the (Perley Isaac Reed) School of Jour-nalism has its own individ-ual direction, and when I
became president this year, I wanted to incorporate programming and events that not only included in-dividuals in the Journalism School but also attracted other students around cam-pus, as well,” Marks said.
Questions will be cen-tered around a variety of news from the nation, West Virginia, sports, enter-tainment, celebrities and lighter news from around the world.
Tom Stewart, a journal-ism professor and adviser for SPJ, said he will be de-termining what questions will be asked with the help of some of his colleagues.
“I want to find questions that are interesting, not de-batable and fun,” Stewart said. “A lot of college stu-dents follow celebrity news and sports, so there will be
those questions, but there will also be questions from the lighter side of politics.”
Up to 24 teams, consist-ing of three undergradu-ates each, may register to compete with their frater-nities, sororities, clubs, ma-jors or two other friends. Registration will close April 5 or when 24 teams have registered.
“Our goal is to host an event with a fun and com-petitive angle, and we hope a lot of other organizations on campus come out to get involved and see how well they know the news,” Marks said. “I don’t believe there’s been a trivia-type event on campus before, and it’d be really fun to see who keeps up with the news and cur-rent events among different students on campus.”
The registration fee is $15
per team. The first-place team will win $150 and a trophy, and second place will receive $30.
Then the top six teams will be notified that night to compete in the final round May 1 at 7 p.m. in front of a live audience at the Moun-tainlair’s Gluck Theatre.
“We were looking for an event in the spring that would be for organizations and students around cam-pus and hit on the fun, quiz-show type of a competition,” Stewart said. “We decided to have the finale during dead week to give students a midweek break.”
During the first round, teams will receive ques-tions via PowerPoint pre-sentation and answer on a sheet of paper in hopes of advancing.
On championship night,
two, three-team semifinals will be held first, then the winner will advance imme-diately to a two-team final.
Students, faculty, friends and members of the com-munity are invited to come watch the championship round and donate $1 to the Mountainlair’s food bank, The Rack.
The emcee for the finale will be former SOJ graduate Josh Copen, who hosts the Josh Copen Morning Show on WFGM.
Stewart said since SPJ’s primary focus is news, he and the members of the club thought it was a natu-ral event for them to spon-sor and a way to reach out and get college students thinking and talking about the news.
“I’ve always enjoyed the news. And I spent 30 years
in a newsroom, so it’s a big part of my life,” Stewart said. “I think there are quite a few students here at WVU who are just as interested in the news as I am, and this is a way to get some fun out of that.”
Each team will compete in the first round, April 16 at 7 p.m. in Room 205 Mar-tin Hall.
To register, visit the School of Journalism’s main office in 113 Martin Hall for the official rules and regis-tration form or email [email protected]. Once com-pleted, drop off the form and a check payable to WVU SPJ in the Journalism office.
For more information on SPJ and future events visit www.journalism.wvu.edu.
student organization to host annual news trivia bowl
by April 23 to receive a free race day T-shirt. Racers will also be allowed to register on the day of the race for $20.
All proceeds from the race registration will go directly to the Children’s Miracle Network.
To register or learn more about the race, visit www.theracedeal.com or stop by the Color 5k booth located in the Mountainlair April 4 noon-3p.m.
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interaction of the private and public sector. You can get all the engineering, sci-ence and economic things down, but then along with that there will be hu-man decisions, which are completely illogical,” he said. “Availability, reliabil-ity and sustainability are the parameters that gov-ernments need to look at and try to help incent and encourage.”
Tinker also shared some
simple solutions peo-ple and communities can incorporate.
“Isolations can be done better. Fuel and transpor-tation – we can do better in our vehicles,” he said. “Consider incentives for encouraging mass transit, driving less and sharing (vehicles).”
Stephanie Toothman has to deal with issues of recy-cling and conserving every day in her job as Operation Coordinator for the WVU Facilities Management and Recycling Services.
“I thought it was a very
informative screening; I loved the way that he men-tions that there’s not this one perfect solution, but that it’s going to take mul-tiple programs and systems to be put in place,” Tooth-man said. “I think it was year 2064 where we can get to that place where we have the sufficient amount of en-ergy that we’re demanding.”
After watching the docu-mentary, she and many of the other audience mem-bers left the Metropolitan Theater with a newfound inspiration to change their own behaviors and commit
to new solutions.“After you’re watching a
documentary such as this, what I got out of it was, ‘What can I leave this the-ater and do immediately?” and some of those things that are simple and easy are just those behavioral changes,” Toothman said. “Like turning off the lights whenever you’re leaving a room, changing out the light bulbs. Things like that are so easy (and) can actu-ally yield some really large savings.”
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photos BY tYler herrInton/the DaIlY athenaeuMWest Virginia University athletes Averee Fields (left), Will Clarke (center) and KJ Myers (right) address the crowd during Tuesday’s ‘Student-Athlete Speak Out’ event.
by not having some of these amenities in Morgantown, we certainly don’t eliminate the ability of travelers and guest in Morgantown, but we don’t make it any easier on them,” he said.
“Part of economic devel-opment is trying to make the process of people coming and spending their money when they’re traveling through our area easy and
painless and make them want to come back and do it again. It’s the bottom level of economic development, that grassroots thing, which makes up a downtown.”
Bill Byrne, sixth ward councilor, discussed the is-sue of alcohol in the down-town area and said he be-lieves certain restaurants and bars should close ear-lier to eliminate crime, alco-hol abuse and the frequency of DUIs.
“One issue that comes up all the time is, basically, the
... perception of downtown that people have, is that the proliferation of alcohol is out of control,” Byrne said. “One thing as a community that we haven’t effectively addressed is the issue of downtown and alcohol. And to some extent, Main Street Morgantown hasn’t tackled that issue to the extend that I think it should.”
Byrne said he believes more bar and club owners should join the meetings about the city to eliminate the alcohol issues occurring
in the downtown area.Byrne cited a line from a
letter written by Papandreas. “The perception and the
reality of an unsafe and an unfriendly type of down-town in evening hours is something that has to be dealt (with),” Papandreas wrote.
City Council elections will be held April 30.
For more information about city council, visit www.morgantownwv.gov.
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KrIsten BashaM/the DaIlY athenaeuMA large crowd gathered at the Morgantown Metropolitan Theater Tuesday for the showing of Scott Tinker’s documentary film ‘Switch.’
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“Cerulean salt”Waxahatchee
“Les Revenants”Mogwai
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although Katie crutchfield’s recording moniker – named for a creek near her parents’ rural home – might be difficult to say, her raw voice and heartfelt lyrics couldn’t be more clear.
after finding herself at a personal, emotional and professional crossroads, crutchfeild took refuge at her childhood home in alabama, moving in with her parents to give her wounds time to heal.
While there, she was snowed in and left with little to do for more than a week but contemplate, write and record. The recordings became “american Week-end,” the first release as Waxahatchte. her frankly de-livered words are often as painfully clever as they are painfully true. Instead of sounding lamented or in-troverted, her lyrics sound more like someone think-ing aloud, ruminating on hard-learned, bittersweet truths.
The lo-fi song cycle of “Weekend” received wide-spread acclaim, affording the formerly struggling mu-sician the opportunity and motivation to create “ce-rulean Salt,” its more polished and diverse follow-up.
These recording techniques and lone guitar of “Weekend” disguised crutchfeild as a confessional folk artist. On “Salt,” also recorded in a home studio (this time in Philadelphia and with a producer’s help), her still sparse guitar is now properly mic’d and finds itself accompanied by minimal arrangements of bass and drums.
The songs still sound like first-takes, recorded live and let stand without overdubs or production ac-cents. Far from stripping the project of its intimacy, the addition of other musicians highlights its themes of loneliness, alluding to the terrifying fact that is pos-sible to feel alone in the company of others.
The more-defined arrangements recall the defen-sive emotionalism of bands like Sleater-Kinny and Built To Spill and help reinforce comparisons to the blunt feminism of “Guyville”-era Liz Phair.
With its candid discussion of personal fears and feelings of defenselessness, “Salt” cultivates an at-mosphere of personal identification and empathy between crutchfeild and her audience. Even on a highly-anticipated album, she makes each listener feel like they are the only person she’s had the guts to say this to.
Because she doesn’t wallow or ask for pity, listen-ers are forced to feel with her, not for her.
—cdy
For the past several years, the Scottish post-rock quintet Mogwai have been very busy.
In 2011, their seventh studio album “hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will,” explored the origins of Mogwai’s trademark sound with production as-sistance from longtime collaborator Paul Savage.
Savage, who worked the controls on Mogwai’s 1997 debut, “Young Team” helped the band keep one eye on their past as they headed into the future.
Just as they did with “Kicking a Dead Pig,” the re-mix collection of their debut’s offerings, the band followed “hardcore” with the release its evil twin “a Virile Wretched Lore.”
On both collections, a hand-selected group of fellow artists take turns re-imagining the source material, often turning the post-rock howl into something you could almost dance to.
On the heels of these two recent releases comes “Les revenants,” Mogwai’s most recent foray into soundtrack composition and its first for a televi-sion show, the French zombie drama of the same name.
although Mogwai has previously contributed to soundtracks, (writing the score to “Zidane: a 21st century Portrait,” a French football documentary, and working with composer clint Marshall and avant-classical ensemble Kronos Quintet to pro-duce the soundtrack to Darren arononofsy’s “The Fountain”) this is their first attempt to write a score suitable for The Living Dead.
The show, which attempts a more humanizing take on the zombie storytelling trend, features a cast of zombies who, upon suddenly rejoining the living, are trying to resume their former lives.
The hallmark of most of Mogwai’s work has al-ways been their tendency to favor the crescendo – to let things begin in a comforting whisper that quickly rises into a deafening roar.
however, on “Les revenants,” a tense, delicate atmosphere is created through simple resonating cords and skeletal arrangements.
The music rarely peaks; instead, it lingers in the air, haunting and then disappearing.
Even if this isn’t the Mowgai of crippling vol-umes and crashing waves of noise, these fragile sketches can be just as unsettling.
—cdy
“Whoa” by earl sweatshirtBefore being sent to a reform school for a year
by his mother, Thebe Kgositsile, who performs as Earl Sweatshirt, was generating a lot of attention.
he and the other members of the rap collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them all were just be-ginning to be noticed online.
While Thebe was gone, OF’s popularity exploded thanks to debut albums from group leader Tyler, The creator and affiliate Frank Ocean. although Ty-ler, a master of publicity and self-promotion, is the spokesman of the group, Sweatshirt is unarguably its most talented member.
his unexpected absence during the group’s rise was greatly felt and widely speculated. Now re-stored to his rightful place at Tyler’s side, Sweatshirt is preparing to release his debut, “Doris.”
In his second single since returning home, “Whoa” shows the time off had no effect on the razor-sharp wit and astounding lyrics of Sweashirt’s ultravio-let, abstract flow. The track picks up exactly where Thebe left off, continuing to explore the same ma-terial his mother found so offensive that she him sent away.
“alighted” by Chelsea Light MovingEven in Sonic Youth’s early no-wave days, the
group gravitated around the partnership of Thur-ston Moore and Kim Gordon. For more than thirty years, the couple was an outlying example of an in-terband relationship that not only worked, but also fueled the creative process.
With he and Gordon no longer together and Sonic Youth on hiatus, Moore has a new band, chel-sea Light Moving, which has just released a self-ti-tled debut.
This latest endeavor, named for a business owned by Phillip Glass prior to his success as a composer, finds Moore returning to his earliest influences of hardcore punk and noise rock. “alighted,” one of the album’s highlights, is seven minutes of the most aggressive, dynamic guitar playing displayed on a Moore-related project in some time.
Moore and company display their full range of guitar virtuosity, shifting from thundering break-downs and machine-gun riffs to the distortion and dissonance of his earliest work.
—cdy
WVU Chamber Winds ensemble performs at Creative Arts Centerby Noelle harris
a&e writer
The West Virginia Uni-versity Chamber Winds En-semble performed Monday evening to an inspired au-dience inside the Creative Arts Center.
Under the direction of John Weigand, the ensem-ble is made up of students who play flute, bassoon, oboe, clarinet, horn, cello and bass.
The group performed music arranged for a cham-ber wind ensemble, in-cluding Wofgang Ama-deus Mozart’s “Overture to The Impresario, k. 486,” Beethoven’s “Octet in E flat major, Op. 103,” a Patrick Clements arrangement of “Hungarian Dances” by Jo-hannes Brahms and “Ser-enade Op. 43” by Emil Hartmann.
“The Impresario” is a piece originally written for a full orchestra that tells the story of an im-presario who attempts to put together a company of singers and actors. The ar-rangement played by this chamber winds ensemble was largely driven by oboe and clarinet, while the bas-soon and horn kept the beat moving.
The piece was played
well with amazing talent from the performers. In particular, the oboe was stunning.
Ludwig van Beethoven’s piece, “Octet in E flat Ma-jor, Op. 103,” is comprised of four movements: Alle-gro, Andante, Menuetto and Presto.
Allegro was the most fun to listen to because of the way the clarinet and oboe performed together.
Andante was perhaps the most beautiful movement, with the primary melodies mainly shared between the oboe and the bassoon.
The final movement, Presto, was the driving force of the song and let each of the instruments shine.
A duet between the bas-soon and clarinet and mel-odies and strong chords by the clarinets, horns and oboes highlighted this piece.
The ensemble played this piece extremely well, even though it was quite long – a testament to their dedication.
The WVU Chamber Winds played two of the 21 Hungarian Dances in the concert.
These pieces were com-posed using traditional Hungarian folk songs and
tunes. The best part about the two they played was, without a doubt, the horn part.
Horns usually play a backup role in traditional music, but those dances had strong horn parts that were central to the pieces.
Hartmann’s “Serenade Op. 43” is the lightest of the pieces the ensemble played. It included all of the instruments from the ensemble, making for a dif-ferent piece than what the ensemble had played ear-lier in the concert.
“Serenade” provided a great ending to the con-cert. It was dynamic, and it showcased the talents of the performers.
Overall, the WVU Cham-ber Winds put on a great concert.
The concert highlighted the talent of the perform-ers, and the selections were great for their skill level.
The WVU Chamber Winds will perform an-other concert April 29 at 7:30 p.m. in Bloch Hall in the Creative Arts Center.
For more information on this event and upcom-ing events in the College of Creative Arts, visit cac.wvu.edu.
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Ten years ago this month, President George W. Bush led the United States to war with Iraq un-der the false pretense that Saddam Hussein’s regime possessed weapons of mass destruction.
It is now known there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and multiple analyses of Bush’s decision-making process leading up to the war re-vealed an administration
that was hell-bent on an invasion, regardless of the actual threat posed by the regime.
It’s been almost 10 years since George W. Bush stood in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln to declare the end of “ma-jor combat operations in Iraq.” Of course, this was only the beginning.
It’s been 10 years, tril-lions of dollars, thousands
of American deaths and tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths.
It’s been 10 years, and our government’s credibil-ity around the world is still recovering from the lack of trust born out of the de-ception that precipitated the Iraq war.
It’s been 10 years, and the same democrats who once criticized the Bush Administration for its stance on civil liberties are
now carrying out the exact same abuses.
It’s been 10 years, and Iraq is governed not by a democratic government, but by a sectarian regime that is currently abetting a genocidal dictator in Syria.
It’s been 10 years since the late Robert C. Byrd stood before the Senate as one of the only mem-bers of Congress in either party who had the courage
to speak out and warned the nation that going to war with Iraq was a mon-umental mistake.
As our government con-tinues its military adven-turism in Yemen, Pak-istan, Afghanistan and elsewhere, let us reflect upon these past 10 years so we can learn from our costly decision to go to war.
Iraq: 10 years of war
APA U.S. marine watches a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Firdaus Square in downtown Baghdad on April 9, 2003.
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There are only two top-ics in my conversation rep-ertoire that I actively try to avoid: politics and religion.
It only takes one wrong political opinion to lose a would-be or even al-ready close friend. Often we tend to become dog-matic in our approach to politics, resulting in a fine line between nearly every conceivable issue between the different political sects currently battling over the most recent hot topic.
The second is a subject I have neglected to write about in my stint as an opinion columnist for fear of the overwhelming diver-sity of the students here at West Virginia University, many of whom show the same dogmatic trait that many reserve for politics.
However, with the re-cent debatably scandalous retirement of the pope, I’ve realized that these two in-credibly powerful topics – which have both built and destroyed nations – are not so different from one another.
Despite the obvious ex-ample of the pope, who many considered a more powerful leader than any prime minister or presi-dent, the religious-politi-cal relationship is not ex-actly a novel idea. Just Google “are most republi-cans…” and let the search engine suggest the most popular questions, which, in order, end the sentence with “religious,” “rich” and “racist”. Do the same with democrats, and the most common are whether dem-ocrats are “atheists,” “liber-als” and “poor.”
To translate the find-ings of my study, most people on Google are very concerned about the reli-gious standings of these parties. What is notably missing from these cate-gories, or conspicuously lower on the list of sugges-tions Google offers, are ba-sic, fundamental questions
about the two parties.Even if more republi-
cans are Christian and democrats atheist (neither of which I can confirm), a religious belief should not be the top motivating fac-tor, or even an issue at all, when researching politics. While perhaps on the sur-face a successful venture, the separation of church and state is apparently a primary characteristic as-sociated with these politi-cal parties.
But there is something else I find interesting about the correlation between religion and politics: the overwhelming popular-ity of these two subjects. Just take a look at the pa-per in your hands or turn
on CNN; it’s obvious these hot-button issues are such an inherent part of the hu-man race that we have be-gun to use them against each other.
And it is that issue, the one that concerns a per-son’s inherent worth, sub-stance or whatever it is people look for in a friend that disturbs me the most.
It’s not just that a “wrong” opinion or two can put someone in hot water. And it’s beyond the horrifying religious wars waged throughout history and the low-blow political debates I’ve watched.
My real problem with using these two subjects to form an opinion on a per-son is that there is no right
or wrong answer. There is nothing more “right” about being either a re-publican or a democrat. There is nothing better or worse about being Muslim or Jewish.
And the reason there’s no completely correct po-litical opinion or religion to uphold is because, when it comes down to these two subjects we have ab-solutely, indisputably no idea.
I don’t care about the re-ligious experience that led you to Buddha or God or the Flying Spaghetti Mon-ster. And I don’t want to hear about why one po-litical opinion is better than another for X,Y and Z reasons.
At the end of the day, if there was one true political path to take, or one com-pletely understood and provable higher power, then that would be the end. There would be no more wars or genocides or nu-clear bombing. And per-haps more frightening, no one would have anything to talk about.
Perhaps this is why these subjects stand the test of time; there is always some new side of the debate to focus on and pick over. But in reality, we do this be-cause both politics and re-ligion are the two topics we have no sound data to an-alyze and no instructions to follow.
Of all the certainties in
life, there are only two, overwhelmingly important topics that are essentially gaping black holes staring back at us.
So, before you bring up the topic of politics or re-ligion, stop and think for a moment how little we hu-mans know about these two subjects, which is cer-tainly not enough to use against each other.
Rather than the teach-ings of religious and po-litical figures, remem-ber instead a lesson from Socrates, a man not of pol-itics or religion, who said that the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
And I’ll be the first to ad-mit that I’m clueless.
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BORN TODAY This year you experi-ence a division between your home life and your personal life. One is not reflective of the other. This lack of co-hesion might be a result of giving and receiving mixed signals, which could affect your relationships. If you are single, you might want someone who is nurturing. Remain open to your dif-ferent possibilities, and resist either/or thinking. If you are attached, the two of you will need to work on being on the same page. After June, your bond will grow.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH Innate tension causes you to make demands in your unique style. You will want to take charge if someone else isn’t doing the job. Your natural leadership characteris-tics emerge. You might not pick up on the subtle innuendoes in a situation. Tonight: Celebrate spring.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHH You might be witness to a friend -- or a situation -- getting off track. The severity of just how far off will be dependent on your attempt to help those involved gain clarity. The prob-lem will be fixed when people are able to see the big picture. Tonight: Be clear in your choices.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHH Your honesty takes you to a new level of understanding, and others respond in kind. A family member might express his or her thoughts in a harsh way. Don’t take it personally. You know what you want, and you know what others want. Tonight: Buy a favorite dessert.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH You go with the flow, despite en-countering difficulties and dismayed people. The news you hear could be cluttered and not totally accurate. En-courage others to brainstorm while you follow through on a nonrelated -- but equally important -- issue. To-night: Listen to a loved one.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HH You can do whatever you want. Listen to news with an open mind. Your ability to understand others will emerge, and it might seem necessary to make a project run to completion. If possi-ble, tone down your strong person-ality right now. Tonight: Don’t be so hard on yourself.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHH You like what is going on with a child or loved one. Deal with others directly, and know full well the ex-tent of a certain problem. Your ability to honor a change will allow greater ebb and flow with a partner. This per-son will appreciate your efforts. To-night: Watch out for spring fever.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHH Others have a lot to say, regardless of whether you are interested in hear-ing their opinions. Listen to someone who has a lot to share, but do some questioning. Your schedule could be-come rather hectic. Go with the flow rather than get aggravated. Tonight: Say “yes” to an offer.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH Realize that you might be a little less adventuresome than usual or per-haps even slightly negative. Examine your options, and then decide which direction you want to head in. Know that an attitude change will open up more possibilities. Tonight: Let your
mind relax.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHHH Greet spring with a smile. You might wonder why others are in such a tizzy. Understand that not ev-eryone can enjoy life as you do. Try to avoid having a tiff with a loved one in the near future by trying to see his or her side. Tonight: Get into the idea of spring fever.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH You could be too concerned with a loved one. You also might not be comfortable with the immediate results of a meeting. Get rid of some of your stress and/or high energy by walking or jogging, even if it means using your lunchtime to do it. To-night: Chill out.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHHH You see the beauty in the day, despite everything you need to do. You might be tempted to verbally attack someone who tries to rain on your parade. If you lose your compo-sure, don’t drive or use mechanical equipment. Tonight: Hang out with some friends.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHH You could be difficult without intend-ing to be that way. A haze surrounds you and several situations. You might feel like a mouse running on a wheel that is going nowhere. Stop, if this is the case. Decide to get out of the house for a least a few hours. Tonight: Be spontaneous.
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Morgantown Sound tastes the Sweet Life
Kyle Monroe/THe DAIly ATHenAeUMMorgantown-based stoner rock band Sweet Life performs for U92FM’s production, Morgantown Sound.
by lacey palmerassociate a&e editor
The Mountainlair’s Gluck Theatre was filled with stoner rock Monday evening as lo-cal band Sweet Life played for U92 FM’s Morgantown Sound.
This energetic garage band has become a local fa-vorite and frequently plays across town. Although they’ve never performed on Morgantown Sound before, Sweet Life was excited for the opportunity.
“I’ve heard the show a few times, and I really enjoy it,”
said vocalist Mike Roberts. The group has been
around for about four years and has undergone a few name changes, but the style and end result of the music have not changed, which is showcased by the group’s latest extended play, “Disenchanted.”
“A lot of the material on our new record is the same, and it’s just been changed around,” Roberts said. “But they’ve all been playing to-gether since they were re-ally young – especially Evan (Devine) and Nick (Leombruno).”
The band, composed of Roberts, guitarist Leom-bruno, drummer Devine and bassist Jason McCarty, provides dark, hardcore rock with a melodious alternative twist, which draws in a vari-ety of fans.
According to Leombruno, their influences range any-where from MC5 and The Stooges to more modern bands, such as The Bronx.
“When we get bored, we’ll learn a cover, but normally, we try to write our own stuff,” Leombruno said. “As far as writing, usually Jason and I will come up with an idea,
bring it to practice, and then we just figure it out.”
As the group played Mon-day evening, it was easy to discover the garage band roots.
The group played facing one another in a semi-cir-cle, just as any band would to communicate and perfect their sound during practices.
While laughing and smil-ing frequently and tuning amplifiers to find the per-fect sound, the band clearly enjoys what they’re doing, which is possibly the most important aspect for any suc-cessful band.
Through vocal harmo-nies, haunting guitar riffs, lengthy jam sessions and a little controlled screaming, the group played intensely and enjoyably.
Sweet Life plans to con-tinue developing their music, as they have with their most recent recording project.
“We’re actually writing another record, and we’re going to put it out on tape as well as a digital down-load,” Roberts said. “We’re a lot happier with the ma-terial. It’s simpler, catchier and well-written, and we’re pretty pumped about it.”
With the love for the craft and the dedication to the music, it is easy to see that this stoner rock band will continue to make a name for themselves in Morgantown.
To listen to the Morgan-town Sound broadcast and learn more about the show, visit www.morgantown-sound.wordpress.com.
To learn more about Sweet Life or to purchase their latest EP, visit www.sweetlife.bandcamp.com or www.facebook.com/SweetLifeRock.
Dopapod to torch 123 Pleasant Street with funk-rock excellenceby hunter homistek
a&e editor
National funk-rock pow-erhouse Dopapod will per-form at 123 Pleasant Street tonight at 10 p.m.
With a sound heavy in jam sessions and improvi-sation, Dopapod is sure to please the audience and
get the bodies moving early and often.
“I expect the crowd to warm up to Dopapod really quickly,” said Louis Guil-iani, owner of 123 Pleasant Street. “Their style of music is groove-based and very catchy.”
The historic Morgantown venue recently hosted per-
formances by Pittsburgh-based jam-band Jazzam and national act The Werks – both groups which boast a sound comparable to Dopapod.
Crowds at these shows relentlessly danced and grooved, and Dopapod should provide a similar environment within the
walls of 123. “The vibe at 123 is dis-
tinctly different,” Giuliani said. “As opposed to other places in town, it’s not (about) the drink spe-cials or ladies night or how drunk you can get. 123 is all about the music first, and everything else follows from there.”
Billed as a “metal band with groove and soul,” Dopapod has blazed a trail to national recognition for the past three years.
With a hard-hitting yet intimate setlist loaded with party-friendly tunes, Dopa-pod is rapidly approaching superstardom, and their stop at 123 will provide a standout chapter in their eventual legacy.
Giuliani said he thinks Dopapod will welcome the change of scenery 123 of-fers touring acts.
“123 is like a little oasis on the circuit for touring bands,” Giuliani said. “Of-ten, bands will comment on how surprised they were to find a place like 123 in West Virginia. 123 is uniquely 123.”
The 123 owner also urged prospective concertgoers to act fast on this opportu-nity, as he does not expect Dopapod to linger in the small club scene for much longer.
“Dopapod has enjoyed a fast ride to becoming a strong presence in the jam band scene,” Giuliani said. “Take advantage of check-ing them out in club setting while you can.”
For fans of funky, groovy rock with a metal edge and an all-around good time, 123 Pleasant Street is the place to be Wednesday evening.
Tickets to the show are $5. Concertgoers must be 18 years old to attend.
AnDy HIll/UpsTATelIve.coMDopapod singer/guitarist Rob Compa plays a solo.
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March not the same without WVU participating
This week 68 college campuses across the coun-try are gearing up for argu-ably the most exciting pe-riod in all of college sports, which continues tomor-row night with the opening play-in round of the 2013 NCAA tournament.
Yes, the newest edition of March Madness is finally upon us.
Highlights of unforget-table championship mo-ments will roll, and hope-ful fans will scribble the names of equally anticipa-tive universities into mil-lions of brackets all across the nation. Seedings, un-derdogs and upsets will rule watercooler talk for the next three weeks, and unsurprisingly, as March Madness can stir up excite-ment in even the most ca-sual sports fan.
But as any student, alumnus or general fan of a Division I university would surely attest, the cir-cumstances are completely changed when you actu-ally have a real, vested in-terest in the most exciting and competitive basketball tournament on the face of the earth.
The competition is usu-ally great from a third-party point of view. Even if you don’t have a horse in the race, most sports fans can really enjoy the swings, thrills and even-tual triumphs of the NCAA Tournament. It’s an electri-fying time.
But let’s be honest, it’s still simply not the same ex-perience as when it’s your school battling for survival through the daunting tour-nament stages.
Unfortunately, West Vir-ginia men’s basketball fans will not get a taste of that experience this year.
In fact, even though the
Mountaineers made the tournament in the two previous seasons, you could argue that it’s actu-ally been three years now since March Madness was truly alive in Morgantown.
Yes, I’m referring to the Mountaineers’ run of 2010 – perhaps the most mem-orable college basketball experience in West Virgin-ia’s storied history.
But even though it was just three years ago, for many Mountaineers’ fans, the historic run seems like it took place eternities ago.
Part of the reason is that the Mountaineers seem to be simply headed in the wrong direction.
In fact, over these last four seasons, West Virginia has gone from the Final Four, to a second round exit, to a first round exit, to not even making the tour-nament this year.
It’s migrated from one of the best basketball confer-ences in the history of the game to the Big 12, where college hoops is an after-thought to the gridiron in most circles.
To make matters even worse, this year was the first and only time since Huggins returned to West Virginia in 2007 that his team couldn’t procure an NCAA tournament bid, and this year’s West Vir-ginia squad had the worst winning percentage of any Huggins team in his 31 years of coaching.
The NIT wouldn’t even have us this year, as seven consecutive losses rounded out West Vir-ginia’s forgettable in-auguration into its new conference.
Now, none of these things necessarily bode well for the future of West Virginia basketball, which inevitably makes the nostalgia of the 2010 run all that more in-tense. Because despite the
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Blair, King combine for two-hitter in Thundering Herd’s 8-0 win against West Virginiaby kevin hooker
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The Mountaineers faced in-state rival Marshall for the first time in 15 years Tuesday, and the Thunder-ing Herd pitching duo of Aaron Blair and Josh King held West Virginia to just two hits in an 8-0 victory against the Mountaineers.
The loss gives the Moun-taineers their third straight
loss and drops their overall record to 8-12. Marshall im-proved to 9-10 with the win.
Blair threw a no-hit-ter in six innings of work, striking out 11 WVU hitters and issuing four walks. The Mountaineers’ best chance to score came in the first in-ning with the bases loaded, but Blair struck out the next three batters he saw.
The West Virginia of-fense broke up the no-hit-
ter in the eighth inning with an infield single from Bobby Boyd. Billy Fleming also had a double in the ninth inning to give the Moun-taineers their other hit. Matt Frazer was hit by two pitch-ers, while right fielder Brady Wilson walked twice.
Early errors for the Mountaineers proved costly, as the Thundering Herd jumped to a 6-0 lead in the third inning. Short-
stop Taylor Munden threw the ball into the stands on a double play attempt, which allowed the Thundering Herd to score the first run of the game. First baseman Ryan McBroom also had a throwing error in the sec-ond inning, allowing an-other run.
The Thundering Herd tacked on another three runs in the third inning and eventually extended
the game to 8-0 in the fifth inning.
WVU starting pitcher Zach Bargeron pitched one inning, allowing one earned run, one walk and four hits. Jared Hill was a bright spot for the Mountaineers, al-lowing one hit in his 1.2 in-nings of relief pitching.
Jacob Rice, who had the third-best batting average in the Big 12 prior to yester-day, went 0 for 3 with one
strikeout. Marshall struck out 17 batters on the day, while the Mountaineers comparatively only had three.
The Mountaineers return to Charleston, W.Va., this weekend, taking on Big 12 Conference opponent Texas Tech for a three-game se-ries. The first game begins Friday at 6:30 p.m.
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nation’s collective and utter obsession with football, many of us still yearn for success on the hardwood in March.
But there’s still a lot of
work to be done in order for that elusive success to return to the Mountain State. There are no quick fixes from a 13-19 season to a deep run into the NCAA tournament.
Hopefully the same dis-appointment and disdain that has possessed West Virginia supporters in the
last few years can ulti-mately serve to motivate the returning Mountain-eers and incoming fresh-man next season, be-cause Morgantown really just isn’t the same at this time of year without a lit-tle Madness.
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Study: Therapy as good as surgery for knee repair
(AP) — You might not want to rush into knee sur-gery. Physical therapy can be just as good for a common injury and at far less cost and risk, the most rigorous study to compare these treatments concludes.
Therapy didn’t always help and some people wound up having surgery for the problem, called a torn meniscus. But those who stuck with therapy had im-proved as much six months and one year later as those who were given arthroscopic surgery right away, research-ers found.
“Both are very good choices. It would be quite reasonable to try physical therapy first because the chances are quite good that you’ll do quite well,” said one study leader, Dr. Jeffrey Katz, a joint specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
He was to discuss the study Tuesday at an Ameri-can Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons conference in Chi-cago. Results were published online by the New England Journal of Medicine.
A meniscus is one of the crescent-shaped cartilage
discs that cushion the knee. About one-third of people over 50 have a tear in one, and arthritis makes this more likely. Usually the tear doesn’t cause symptoms but it can be painful.
When that happens, it’s tough to tell if the pain is from the tear or the arthri-tis — or whether surgery is needed or will help. Nearly half a million knee surgeries for a torn meniscus are done each year in the U.S.
The new federally funded study compared surgery with a less drastic option. Researchers at seven major universities and orthope-dic surgery centers around the U.S. assigned 351 people with arthritis and meniscus tears to get either surgery or physical therapy. The ther-apy was nine sessions on av-erage plus exercises to do at home, which experts say is key to success.
After six months, both groups had similar rates of functional improvement. Pain scores also were similar.
Thirty percent of patients assigned to physical ther-apy wound up having sur-gery before the six months was up, often because they
felt therapy wasn’t helping them. Yet they ended up the same as those who got sur-gery right away, as well as the rest of the physical therapy group who stuck with it and avoided having an operation.
“There are patients who would like to get better in a ‘fix me’ approach” and sur-gery may be best for them, said Elena Losina, another study leader from Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
However, an Australian preventive medicine expert contends that the study’s re-sults should change prac-tice. Therapy “is a reasonable first strategy, with surgery re-served for the minority who don’t have improvement,” Rachelle Buchbinder of Monash University in Mel-bourne wrote in a commen-tary in the medical journal.
As it is now, “millions of people are being exposed to potential risks associated with a treatment that may or may not offer specific bene-fit, and the costs are substan-tial,” she wrote.
Surgery costs about $5,000, compared with $1,000 to $2,000 for a typical course of physical therapy, Katz said.
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running game crucial for Mountaineers next season
by coDy Schulermanaging editor
When people think of West Virginia’s offensive attack, the first thing that comes to mind is passing – and perhaps rightfully so.
The Mountaineers’ pass-ing game – spearheaded by quarterback Geno Smith and wide receivers Tavon Austin and Stedman Bai-ley – broke virtually every passing and receiving re-cord in program history.
This upcoming season, on the other hand, will be much different. You don’t have to go far to find this sentiment to be true – just ask head coach Dana Holgorsen.
“Probably the strength of where we are right now is the runningback po-sition,” he said. “That is where all of our produc-tion is returning.”
With newcomers in sev-eral offensive positions,
including quarterback, the Mountaineers can find solace in the fact that its top rushing options from a year ago will return.
Juniors Andrew Buie and Dustin Garrison will be supplemented by a fresh infusion of talent in the form of newcomers Dreamius Smith and Wen-dell Smallwood.
Smith, a junior college transfer from Butler Com-munity College (Kan.), is a 5-foot-11, 217-pound bruiser who finished with 984 yards and 17 touch-downs on the ground last season. The Wichita, Kan., native was also of-fered by Boise State, Kan-sas State and Oklahoma State – which comes as no surprise considering he was regarded by many re-cruiting services as a top-five junior college running back recruit.
Smallwood, a fresh-man from Wilmington, Del., also fielded multiple offers from BCS confer-ence schools such as Au-burn, Boston College and Tennessee.
First-year running backs coach JuJuan Seider said the addition of Smith and Smallwood has created
great competition and ca-maraderie amongst the running backs – something he sees as a good thing.
“I’m excited. They are all competing, and they seem like a great group,” he said. “Nobody is selfish; ev-erybody is cheering each other on. We have to have each other’s back.”
Seider also said that due to the physical nature of Big 12 play, having multi-ple options at the position will be a positive.
“In this league you get pounded a lot, so we want to keep those guys encour-aging each other, espe-cially with a couple of new guys here pushing each other,” Seider said.
Seider said he has been seeing little improvements daily but has a lot more work to do in preparing the running backs for the up-coming season.
“Every day is a work in progress. They’ve just got to continue to work on the finer points of things – just keeping their hands to-gether and not letting the ball get below their eyes,” he said.
“I’m just coaching those guys up on those aspects so they can be more valu-
able coming out of the backfield and not just run-ning the ball.”
Seider and the running backs also will be relying on the offensive line, which also is under the first-year direction of Ron Crook.
So far, Crook said he is simply getting acquainted with his players and let-ting them know what he expects of them.
“It’s coming along re-ally well. I’m starting to understand what makes them tick a little, and that will continue,” he said. “Hopefully, by the end of the spring I’ll have a good feeling about them, and they will have a good feel-ing about me.”
Crook said he wants the offensive line to know their play affects the rest of the team, including the run-ning backs.
“The thing I always tell them (offensive line) is the greatest example of team sports, because if we screw something up, the running backs have to pay the price for it, or the quarterback is,” he said. “So they start to take into the account-ability and things like that.”
mel moraes/the Daily athenaeumWest Virginia runningbacks coach JuJuan Seider hands the ball off to junior running back Dreamius Smith during spring practice last week.
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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Wednesday March 20, 201310 | SPORTS
gymnastics
WVU falls to No. 25 after record-breaking night
women’s basketball
Delaware’s Delle Donne a force unlike any otherby coDy schUler
managing editor
A collective sigh of relief was let out when the West Virginia women’s basket-ball team found out it did, in fact, earn an at-large bid into the NCAA tournament.
After the initial excite-ment had passed, the Mountaineers took a step back and began to analyze their situation, includ-ing their opponent and the location of the game – something head coach Mike Carey said is a mixed blessing.
“We got a really good draw. We have to play on Delaware’s home floor, and that’s a good draw for us because it’s close, so hope-fully we can get some fans there,” he said.
Th e Mou nt a i n e e rs may have a strong show-ing of supporters, but that doesn’t necessarily help them contain Delaware’s 6-foot-5 forward Elena Delle Donne.
“(Delle Donne) is a big time player, needless to say. Some of their other players are very good, so you can’t just concentrate on her and let the other players have a career night,” Carey said.
“We’re going to have to be aware of where she’s at and try to do a good job on her but also do a good job on the rest of them.”
Delle Donne, a consen-sus first-team all-Ameri-can, is the country’s second leading scorer, averaging 25.3 points per game. She is also the team’s leading shot blocker (63 blocks) and second leading re-
bounder (230).Delle Donne is a trans-
formative figure in today’s women’s game as she pro-vides an unparalleled com-bination of size, scoring and athletic ability.
Jim Crowley, the head coach of St. Bonaventure, experienced her myriad skills up close when the Bonnies visited Delaware last season.
Powered by Delle Don-ne’s 26-point, 18-rebound performance, the Blue Hens cruised to a 61-49 home victory. Crowley, who was interviewed for an ESPN article about Delle Donne published earlier this March, said her rare skill set is rivaled by few others in women’s basket-ball today.
“For our game, she’s changing it,” he said in the article. “I just think the way she can do so many things and it appears so effortless – obviously, she’s put an incredible amount of time into her game and getting better, but she elevates over people. She moves without the ball. She does all that stuff within a 6-foot-5 really athletic skill set,” he said.
“I think that’s the pro-gression. It’s not a kid do-ing all those things who is 5-foot-8. It’s a kid doing all those things at 6-foot-5.”
Though many are not surprised by Delle Don-ne’s success, her path to the spotlight has been a windy one.
Delle Donne was the na-tion’s top women’s basket-ball recruit in 2008. The McDonald’s all-Ameri-can was sought after by ev-
ery major program in the country, including Con-necticut and famed head coach Geno Auriemma.
Delle Donne, though, spurned the Huskies’ scholarship offer and put basketball aside, instead opting to play volleyball at Delaware.
Her decision was the re-sult of being burned out; she said her life had re-volved around the sport, and the basketball prod-igy received her first schol-arship offer in the seventh grade decided, at the time, that basketball was not what she wanted to do.
After a year as a mid-dle hitter on the Blue Hens volleyball team, Delle Donne elected to return to the hardwood. And in her sophomore year – her first on the basketball team – she finished third in the country in scoring, averaging 26.7 points per game.
Nearing the conclusion of her collegiate athletic career, Delle Donne is get-ting a chance to reflect.
During the Colonial Ath-letic Association Confer-ence tournament, Delle Donne became just the 13th player in NCAA wom-en’s basketball history to score 2,900 points in a ca-reer – a feat made more im-pressive considering she did it in three years.
“Our focus today was just to have fun on the floor together,” Delle Donne said after Delaware’s 75-54 win over Hofstra in the CAA semifinals.
“The season is wrapping up and we want to enjoy
these moments. We need to enjoy it while it lasts and have fun. We always play better when we’re having fun.”
In the NCAA tourna-
ment, though, one loss can end a season, and for some, a career.
Sunday, when West Vir-ginia meets Delaware in their first-round game, only
one team can have the fun and advance to the round of 32.
APDelaware forward Elena Delle Donne reacts after scoring during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game.
PAtrick gorrell/the dAily AthenAeumWest Virginia gymnastics head coach Jason Butts talks to his team during a meet earlier this season.
by meghaN carrsports writer
Another high score and win in its last regular-sea-son meet did not help the West Virginia University gymnastics team move up in the regional qualifying score (RQS) rankings; it only moved them back.
A final score of 196.05 capped off a 2013 season full of record-breaking mo-ments, including Kaylyn Millick’s nearly flawless floor routine, earning her a 39.55 against then-No. 3 Michigan.
And she did this against Iowa State in front of the sixth-best crowd in WVU gymnastics history (2,522).
The most significant mo-ment came in the last meet of the season when this team didn’t just rewrite his-tory – it created history. This is the first WVU gymnastics team to score a 196 or bet-ter in every home meet of its season.
Head coach Jason Butts said many times that scores don’t matter to him as much as his gymnasts hitting their routines. Still, even he was impressed by his Moun-taineers’ performance this
seasone especially since many of these impressive scores have come against top-ranked teams such as No. 4 Michigan and No. 2 Oklahoma.
In the last three weeks the Mountaineers have contin-ued to post high scores and several wins, but also continued to drop in the rankings.
After posting a 196.55 against then-No. 3 Michi-gan Feb. 24, they moved up seven places to No. 16, but since then they have only fallen back.
They are currently ranked No. 25 in the RQS stand-ings – four places back from where they were previously ranked last week.
The Mountaineers still have a chance to move up in the rankings depend-ing on the score they earn when they compete in the Big 12 Championship meet this Saturday in Ames, Iowa against No. 2 Oklahoma, and Iowa State.
The Mountaineers do not necessarily have to win the Big 12 Championship, but they do have to score high enough to replace the 195.15 score they earned at NC State earlier this season.
The NC State score is cur-rently bringing down their overall RQS average.
The RQS rankings take three road and three home scores and averages them. It also drops the highest mark they earned this season, which is the 196.55 against Michigan, Towson and New Hampshire.
If they can score higher than the 196.55 that they earned against No. 4 Mich-igan then that score will be their new high score and they can average the 196.55 score into their three home meets. Setting a new high score would help out this team a lot if they hope to move into the top 18 RSQ rankings before the NCAA Regional’s seeding comes out.
Three Mountaineers cur-rently own national rank-ings. Freshman anchor and Big 12 Newcomer of the Week, Jaida Lawrence is cur-rently ranked No. 34 (9.89) on vault. Junior Hope Sloan-hoffer ranks No. 38 (39.145) in the all-around and senior Kaylyn Millick checks in at No. 39 (39.14) in all-around, and No. 48 (9.875) on floor.
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