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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUMFriday April 13, 2012 Volume 125, issue 136www.THEdaONLiNE.comda
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A UNIVERSITY UNITED
Spring Spectacular allows World Language students to bring lessons to life
Forestry department creates sustainable
firewood projectby bryan bumgardner
staff writer
A project at West Virginia University is seeking to main-tain West Virginia’s most common renewable resource – firewood.
The Friends of Firewood network is designed to pro-mote sustainability and ed-ucation among firewood producers.
WVU forest research pro-fessor Dave McGill said he and his partners started the project to boost the unique – and virtually undocumented – industry.
“Lots of people across the state depend on firewood. It serves us in a lot of ways other heat sources can’t,” he said.
McGill and his partners will promote sustainability and education, he said, which will benefit both firewood produc-ers and state forests.
“If we can establish a net-work of people who produce firewood across the state, we’ll have an easier conversation
about how we can maintain a healthy firewood industry,” he said.
The Friends of Firewood ini-tiative will identify and evalu-ate firewood dealers across the state to gauge their environ-mental awareness, safety prac-tices and attitudes towards in-creased regulation.
The program will also pro-vide training sessions on wood identification, chain saw safety, sustainability practices and business management. Sessions will be held around the state, McGill said.
The programs are adver-tised on the Friends of Fire-wood social networking site, where producers can have access to safety information, other producers and business support.
Throughout the state, signs warning about firewood pests damaged public opin-ion about firewood, some-thing McGill said he hopes to change.
by jeSSica Learstaff writer
Students in the West Vir-ginia University Depart-ment of World Languages, Literatures and Linguistics are bringing what they’ve learned to life in the Spring Spectacular.
“The Spring Spectacular is a collection of performances that include skits, dances and songs that students within the Department of World Lan-guages write, perform and plan, usually with supervision of their graduate teaching as-sistants,” said Lisa DiBartolo-meo, a professor and orga-nizer of the event.
The sixth annual Spring Spectacular will be held to-night at the Metropolitan Theatre on High Street and will feature students studying a variety of World Language programs.
DiBartolomeo hopes the event will also inspire stu-dents in the audience to take language courses in the future.
“The goal is to publicize the fun you can have studying and
learning languages – to show we’re not just a boring ser-vice department,” she said. “I started it because it’s fun.”
Language education can not only increase brain power, but may also prove worthwhile when searching for a job af-ter graduation, DiBartolomeo said.
“It’s been proven that lan-guage education increases your brain activity and helps open up new neural path-ways,” she said. “It is also in-creasingly important in a glo-balized economy. You can’t be successful and competitive these days unless you know a
language other than English.”Since its inception in 2007,
the Spring Spectacular has al-lowed language students to express the knowledge they have learned in the class-room through various creative media.
“It gives the students an opportunity to show off their skills and their cultural knowl-edge,” DiBartolomeo said. “It shows the practical applica-bility of the languages their studying and gives them an outlet for extracurricular learning.”
DiBartolomeo said the event helps expose students
to languages they may know nothing about.
“It’s a nice opportunity to branch outside of the class-room to see what people in other languages are doing be-cause not everybody knows what they do in Arabic or Japanese,” she said. “It’s also a good opportunity for the teaching assistants to really get active and come up with interesting ideas.”
World Languages, Litera-tures and Linguistics student Courtney Knost, who will par-ticipate in a Russian skit to-night, agrees that the event creates a unique opportunity for language students.
“It makes learning more fun,” she said. “It’s one thing to learn a language out of a book but another to involve yourself in something you re-ally understand.”
Various clubs, including the Russian club, the Spanish hon-orary Sigma Delta Pi and the German club, will be selling re-freshments and T-shirts at the event, which begins at 6 p.m.
[email protected] see firewood on PAGE 2
Redding, Zuccari lead United Party to win in near election sweep
by mackenzie mayScity editor
The United Party will lead the West Vir-ginia University Student Government As-sociation in the 2012-13 academic year, af-ter claiming all but one seat on the board of governors.
Zach Redding and Jared Zuccari were named the new president and vice presi-dent Thursday night after an almost clean sweep against The Golden Ticket.
“We’ve worked so hard over the past cou-ple of months to get our names out there and show students that we care. We wanted to represent them, and that’s exactly what we’ve done,” said Redding, a junior politi-cal science student from Hanover, Pa., who served as a governor this year. “We’re ec-static that everybody came out and voted. From this point forward, all we can do is represent the students.”
A total of 2,681 students voted in the
election – about nine percent of the stu-dent body and the lowest turnout in more than a decade.
This was the first year students voted at designated polling stations throughout campus – a new regulation imposed after allegations of “massive voter fraud” in the 2011 election.
Zuccari, a junior multidisciplinary stud-ies student from Fairfax, Va., whose brother served as SGA president two years prior, said he’s ready to give the students what they want.
“Me and Zach have worked so hard for this, and the students have spoken on who they want to represent this University,” he said.
The SGA Judicial Board met Thursday night, around the same time the winners were announced, to address allegations against the The United Party.
see united on PAGE 2
““it’s been proven that language education increases your brain activity and helps open up new neural pathways. it is also increasingly important in a globalized economy. You can’t be successful and competitive these days unless you know a language other than english.”
Lisa DiBartolomeoprofessor ”
President/Vice President
Board of Governors
Athletic Council
1. Bridgette Boyd2. Molly Callaghan3. Joe reidy4. Christian Guy5. devon Lopez6. Abdul Aziz Alshammari7. Zach eichelberger8. Andrea Mucino9. Jason Cohen10. Kylie Sphar11. Kartik Motwani12. Harrison wellford13. Morgan riddle14. ryan Campione15. dillan Knox
1. Stephanie rosnick2. Zack Lusher
1. redding/Zuccari (united Party)
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Brooke CAssidY/THe dAilY ATHeNAeumZach Redding, United Party presidential candidate, is lifted in celebration after hearing news of his party’s win Thursday night.
mATT suNdAY/THe dAilY ATHeNAeumRashad Bates, presidential candidate for The Golden Ticket, who lost the 2012-13 SGA election, consoles a friend upon hearing the news.
Voter turnout
Voted2,681
did not vote25,167
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Biden: Romney is out of step with American valuesEXETEr, N.H. (aP) — Eyeing
the November election, Vice President Joe Biden on Thurs-day called presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney “out of touch” and “out of step” with history and basic American values.
Biden also opened a new line of attack, introducing the “Romney rule” and contrast-ing it with President Barack Obama’s push for the so-called “Buffet rule” to force rich peo-ple to pay more of their income in taxes.
The measure, named after billionaire investor Warren Buf-fett, says the wealthy should not pay taxes at a lower rate than middle-class wage-earners. In contrast, Biden said Romney not only wants to make Bush-era tax cuts permanent but also would give the wealthy additional yearly tax cuts worth more than the annual income of a typical middle-class family.
“It amazes me. He offers this prescription as if it is some-how a new idea – like it’s some-thing that we haven’t seen,” Biden said. “Folks, you’ve seen the movie. It doesn’t end well. Where has he been? Could it be he’s out of touch?”
Biden said Romney wants to take the nation down the same road that led to economic recession.
“It is true that the very top did very well, but the impact was our economy faltered, the middle class shrunk, the poor got poorer, and ultimately, the economy collapsed,” he said.
Romney campaign spokes-man Ryan Williams said Biden’s speech made clear that the only campaign promise he and Obama are willing to keep is raising “taxes to fund their
bloated spending and big gov-ernment agenda.”
New Hampshire voters “real-ize that this president has failed to create jobs and they are ready to replace him with a successful businessman like Mitt Romney who will turn around our econ-omy,” Williams said.
While stressing that he wasn’t questioning Romney’s patriotism, Biden also called Romney’s economic views “out of step with basic Ameri-can values” of rewarding hard work and ensuring that every-one follows the same rules.
“Gov. Romney calls the pres-ident out of touch,” he said. “Hey, how many of y’all have a Swiss bank account? How many of you have somewhere between $20 and $100 million
in your (retirement account)?”The trip was Biden’s third
of the year to New Hampshire. Obama won the state in 2008 but it’s expected to be heavily contested in November. His ap-proval rating in the state, after hitting a low point in October, had rebounded to just above 50 percent in February, according to a WMUR Granite State Poll. The survey also found Obama ahead of Romney in a general election match-up.
As the general election cam-paign begins, Biden’s com-ments have given voters a peek inside the Democratic play-book. He has delivered a se-ries of hard-hitting campaign speeches in the past few weeks, branding Romney as “con-sistently wrong” and “unin-
formed” on foreign policy, as someone aiming to “end Medicare as we know it” and as an advocate of the wealthy at the expense of the middle class.
While Obama largely avoids direct engagement, Biden is diving into the No. 2’s tradi-tional attack-dog role – ear-lier and more aggressively than usual, some say – with comments designed to singe Romney.
The Romney campaign hasn’t let Biden’s critiques go unchecked and has pushed back at specific statements
and dredged up past Biden comments that cast Obama in a poor light. Before Biden’s visit to New Hampshire, former Gov. John Sununu issued a tongue-in-cheek welcome on behalf of Romney’s campaign.
“I don’t agree with much of what Joe Biden says, but I com-pletely agreed with him in 2007 when he said Barack Obama wasn’t ready to be president. That was true then, and is still true today,” Sununu said.
Ticket mates are typically expected to land the toughest blows in presidential politics. It lets the presidential nominee stay above the fray and focus on loftier goals and grand themes of their campaigns.
Biden had 36 years of Senate experience – and two stunted presidential campaigns of his own – when Obama selected him in 2008. He was seen as the seasoned hand to the relative newcomer Obama and a plain-spoken campaigner who could connect to blue-collar voters.
“We saw this four years ago, Joe Biden playing off Barack Obama’s more cerebral, pro-fessorial, contemplative style,” said University of Missouri professor Mitchell McKin-ney, a scholar of political rhet-oric and presidential debates. “Biden has had that persona of shoot-from-the-lip and take-it-to-them sort of style.”
ApVice President Joe Biden speaks the Town Hall in Exeter, N.H., Thursday.
Stocks surge; Hewlett-Packard leads Dow higher
NEW yOrK (aP) — Encourag-ing signs from two of the most important zones of the world economy, the powerhouse of China and the debt-burdened countries of Europe, drove the Dow Jones industrial average up 181 points Thursday, its sec-ond-biggest gain this year.
China’s central bank re-ported a surprising jump in loans in March. That eased concerns about a sudden slow-down in the Chinese economy, whose growth has helped pull the globe out of recession.
Italy’s government easily sold $6.4 billion in bonds to in-vestors. After the auction, bor-rowing rates for Italy fell, Eu-ropean stock indexes reversed earlier declines and worries about the continental debt cri-sis eased, at least for the day.
“European governments have a mountain of debt com-ing due early this year,” said John Canally, investment strat-egist at LPL Financial in Bos-ton. “Some of what you’re see-ing today in markets is a bit of relief that they’re working through it.”
In New York, the Dow Jones
industrial average climbed 1.4 percent to close at 12,986.58. It was the Dow’s biggest jump since March 13 and put the av-erage within sight of clearing 13,000 again.
After the market closed, Google reported earnings that were ahead of analysts’ esti-mates and said it would is-sue a new class of non-voting stock to shareholders. Google rose 0.5 percent in aftermarket trading.
On Wednesday the stock market snapped out of a five-day slump, its longest and deepest of the year. Investors were worried about European debt, slower job growth and the Federal Reserve’s resistance to taking further steps to boost the economy.
“I think the fear was over-done,” said Scott Brown, chief economist at Raymond James. “This is the manic nature of the stock market. The sentiment seems to shift back and forth day by day. Either the economy is booming or it’s completely falling apart.”
In other trading, the Stan-dard & Poor’s 500 index rose
university’s ‘destination dentistry’ reaches out to prospective students
by jeSSica Learstaff writer
The West Virginia Univer-sity School of Dentistry will host its third annual ‘Desti-nation Dentistry’ event to ed-ucate students about the den-tal profession Saturday on the Health Sciences Campus.
Destination Dentistry al-lows in-state and out-of-state undergraduate students at West Virginia institutions to learn about the admissions process and what it is like to be a dental student.
“Destination Dentistry is an opportunity for pre-den-tal students to explore careers in dentistry, and more specif-ically, to become better pre-pared for the admissions pro-cess to the dental school,” said Shelia Price, Associate Dean for Dental Admissions, Re-cruitment and Access at the School of Dentistry. “It will also give students firsthand insight into a day in the life of typical dental student.”
First year dentistry student Amy Governor said her expe-rience with Destination Den-
tistry helped her when she ap-plied to dental school.
“You get insight into what their values are, what they’re looking for in a student and what they can offer you back as a student,” she said. “You get an idea of what they’re looking for and hopefully they’re what you’re looking for as well.”
Governor said participating in hands-on activities during Destination Dentistry got her excited to start dental school.
“Destination Dentistry al-lowed students to ask ques-tions, so you got direct feed-back on your admissions questions,” she said. “I knew this was what I wanted to do, but Destination Dentistry helped with the decision even more.”
Aside from learning how to become successful appli-cants, Destination Dentistry will also focus on the role of dentistry in health care, Price said.
“We also want to open the students’ eyes to the impor-tance of oral health and its relationship to overall health,
understanding that without oral health a person cannot be healthy,” she said. “Oral health is the starting point for health.”
Price said pre-health ad-visors have also been known to participate in Destina-tion Dentistry to gain a better knowledge about how to as-sist their students when ap-plying to the WVU School of Dentistry.
“We’re providing students and advisors with a tool box to make them better prepared for the admissions process,” she said. “We also want to give them insight into what they would experience as a dental student and recognize the in-credible need for dedicated oral health professionals.”
The WVU School of Den-tistry is known for conducting outreach programs to middle school, high school and un-dergraduate students. Price said Destination Dentistry is another way the school tries to transform students’ dreams of being dentists into reality.
Throughout the day, stu-dents will get advice on how
to write a good personal state-ment, obtain shadowing ex-periences and develop inter-view strategies.
During the “Lunch and Learn,” attendees will also hear from current dentistry students about the impor-tance of community service, leadership and research in dentistry.
Price said by helping stu-dents through the admis-sions process and exposing them to important topics in the field, the potential to de-velop quality oral health care professionals in West Virginia greatly increases.
“There is a growing de-mand for dentists and a very critical need to improve ac-cess to care for underserved populations,” she said. “There is a major push nationally for dental education to develop strategies to eliminate oral health disparities. One way to do that is to recruit, admit and retain high-quality students who are committed to becom-ing excellent clinicians.”
FireWoodContinued from PAGE 1
“We definitely want to pro-mote firewood. It’s a renewable resource, and we’re always talk-ing about how we can plan to manage our forests in a sustain-able fashion,” he said.
McGill said he believes a uni-fied plan of sustainability and production will preserve the in-dustry – and the forests.
“We will be using the re-sources, but also assuring that
those resources will be avail-able to use in the future as well,” he said.
The program was developed in association with the West Virginia Division of Forestry, the West Virginia Forestry As-sociation and WVU personnel in the Appalachian Hardwood Center.
To learn more or to register for the Friends of Firewood pro-gram, visit www.wvfirewood.ning.com.
The United Party was found responsible for campaigning too close to the polling stations and was fined a total of $10.
Rashad Bates, presiden-tial candidate for The Golden Ticket, said while it was a tough loss, he is proud of his party’s hard work on the campaign.
“We ran a clean campaign from the beginning. We stuck to our word and to our values,” Bates said. “I guess SGA will be fine. Regardless who won or lost, it will still be here.”
However, The Golden Ticket claimed a victory in Ryan Cam-pione – the only Golden candi-date to win.
“We got our best governor on, and we’re excited for him,” Bates said.
Campione, who received the most votes in last year’s elec-tion, received 14th place this year out of 15 seats.
“You can push and push and work as hard as you can, but once you’re at the finish line, the cards are on the table and that’s it,” Campione said. “My hope is that people can regain faith in SGA, and I look for-ward to working with every-one and continuing to push my platform.”
Over the years, Campione has worked to better the stu-dent body by reforming visita-tion policies in residence halls and pushing for a new din-ing facility on the Evansdale Campus.
He now hopes to imple-ment a centralized informa-tion help service for the WVU community.
“I’m hoping to do big things this year,” he said.
All results are unofficial un-til the election is certified next week.
Board of governors (in or-der of most votes):
1. Bridgette Boyd: At-risk students, mentor programs and scholarship and intern-ship awareness
2. Molly Callaghan: Anti-bullying awareness
3. Joe Reidy: Class schedul-ing and an easier registration process
4. Christian Guy: Local government
5. Devon Lopez: Overall improvements
6. Abdul Aziz Alsham-mari: International student awareness
7. Zac Eichelberger: Sexual assault prevention
8. Andrea Mucino: Tradi-tions and school spirit
9. Jason Cohen: Campus technology
10. Kylie Sphar: Alcohol education and an amnesty program
11. Kartik Motwani: Wireless internet on campus
12. Harrison Wellford: Stu-dent opinions
13. Morgan Riddle: Study abroad awareness
14. Ryan Campione: Im-proved information services
15. Dillan Knox: Trans-parency and financial responsibility
Athletic council: 1. Stephanie Rosnick: Alco-
hol sales at athletic events2. Zack Lusher: More effi-
cient football ticketing system
eLectionContinued from PAGE 1
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Pakistani parliament approves proposals on US ties ISLAMABAD (AP) — Paki-
stan’s parliament on Thurs-day unanimously approved new guidelines for the coun-try in its troubled relationship with the United States, a deci-sion that could pave the way for the reopening of supply lines to NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan.
The guidelines allow for the blockade on U.S. and NATO supplies to be lifted, but also call for an immediate end to American drone strikes against militants on Pakistani soil. However, the lawmakers did not make a halt in the CIA-led missile attacks a prerequisite to reopening the supply lines, as some lawmakers had been demanding.
The government and the army will use the recommen-dations as the basis for re-en-gaging with Washington.
Ties between the U.S. and Pakistan all but collapsed in November after U.S. airstrikes inadvertently killed 24 Paki-stani soldiers on the Afghan
border, after which Islamabad blocked the supply lines in pro-test. Washington wants the re-lationship back on track.
The U.S. State Department expressed respect for the Paki-stani parliament’s decision.
“We respect the serious-ness with which parliament’s review of U.S.-Pakistan rela-tions has been conducted,” said State Department spokes-woman Victoria Nuland. “We seek a relationship with Pak-istan that is enduring, strate-gic, and more clearly defined. We look forward to discussing these policy recommendations with the Government of Paki-stan and continuing to engage with it on our shared interests.”
About 30 percent of supplies used by NATO and U.S. troops in landlocked Afghanistan are transported through Pakistan. Washington also needs Islam-abad’s cooperation to negoti-ate an end to the Afghan war because many insurgent lead-ers are based on Pakistani soil.
The drones are a source of
popular outrage in the country and have fueled anti-U.S. sen-timent, although Pakistan’s powerful army has tacitly aided the missile attacks in the past, weakening Islamabad’s official stance that they are a violation of sovereignty. Washington has ignored previous entreat-ies by the parliament to end the strikes, and is seen as unlikely to change its policy now.
Despite calls by Islamists for a permanent supply line block-ade, few inside the Pakistani government or the army be-lieved this was desirable, given that Pakistan relies on the U.S. and other NATO countries for its economic survival and dip-lomatic and military support.
Soon after the deadly air-strikes on the border, the Pak-istani government on par-liament to draw up new guidelines for Islamabad’s rela-tions with the U.S. The govern-ment’s move was widely seen as way to give it political cover for reopening the routes.
The national security com-
mittee presented a first set of proposals last month but op-position parties riding a wave of anti-American sentiment re-jected them, seemingly unwill-ing to share any fallout ahead of elections this year or early next.
But on Thursday the oppo-sition voted with government lawmakers to approve a re-vised set of guidelines, which differed little from the origi-nal ones. Opposition lawmak-ers didn’t explain why they had dropped earlier objections, but they could have come under pressure from the army or ex-tracted other, unrelated con-cessions from the government.
The guidelines call for NATO and the U.S. to pay Pakistan more for the right to ship sup-plies across its soil and stipu-late that no arms or ammuni-tions be transported. Western forces have only ever trucked fuel and other nonfatal sup-plies across Pakistan because of the risk they could fall into the hands of insurgents.
“We believe that the world has heard the voice of the peo-ple of Pakistan,” Prime Minis-ter Yousuf Raza Gilani told par-liament. “I would like to assure the house that our government will implement the recommen-dations that have been made in both letter and spirit.”
Gilani did not say when the supply lines would reopen.
Western officials have said Pakistan would come under intense criticism if routes re-mained blocked during a NATO conference in Chicago May 20-21 where more than 50 heads of state will discuss prog-ress on ending the war.
Washington’s public line has been that it is waiting for the parliament to finish its re-view before calling for Pakistan to reopen the routes. It has re-fused to apologize for the bor-der incident in November, and last week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a mil-itant leader believed close to Pakistan’s security forces.
Behind the scenes, however,
negotiations have been going on between the U.S. and Pak-istan over the supply line is-sue and drone strikes. It was unclear whether there has been any new agreement on the strikes, which Washing-ton believes are key to keeping al-Qaida on its back foot. U.S. officials had said they had of-fered Pakistan notice about im-pending strikes and new lim-its on which militants are being targeted.
For most of the Afghan war, 90 percent of the supplies came through Pakistan, but NATO has increased its reliance on an alternate, so-called “north-ern” route, through Central Asia in recent years. Increased use of the northern route has removed some of the leverage Islamabad had over the West, but at a cost to the coalition. Pentagon officials now say it costs about $17,000 per con-tainer to go through the north, compared with about $7,000 per container to go through Pakistan.
Syrian opposition vows protest to test shaky truce BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s op-
position called for wide-spread protests Friday to test the regime’s commitment to an internationally brokered cease-fire that the U.N. chief described as so fragile it could collapse with a single gunshot.
Regime forces halted heavy shelling and other major at-tacks in line with the truce that began at dawn Thursday, though there were accusations of scattered violence by both sides. The government ignored demands to pull troops back to barracks, however, defying a key aspect of the plan, which aims to calm a year-old upris-ing that has killed 9,000 peo-ple and has pushed the coun-try toward civil war.
“The onus is on the gov-ernment of Syria to prove that their words will be matched by their deeds at this time,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters in Ge-neva. He said the world was watching with skeptical eyes.
“This cease-fire process is very fragile. It may be broken any time,” Ban added, say-ing “another gunshot” could doom the truce.
The presence of tanks and troops could discour-age any large gatherings, but the leader of the opposi-tion Syrian National Council, Burhan Ghalioun, urged Syr-ians to demonstrate peace-fully on Friday. “Tomorrow, like every Friday, the Syrian people are called to demon-strate even more and put the regime in front of its respon-sibilities – put the interna-tional community in front of its responsibilities.”
A massive protest would be an important test of the cease-fire – whether Presi-dent Bashar Assad will allow his forces to hold their fire and risk ushering in a week-slong sit-in or losing control over territory that government forces recently recovered from rebels.
So far, the military crack-down has prevented protest-ers from recreating the power-ful displays of dissent seen in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, where hundreds of thousands of peo-ple camped out in an extraor-dinary scene that drove long-time leader Hosni Mubarak from power.
If the truce holds, it would be the first time the regime has observed an internation-ally brokered cease-fire since Assad’s regime launched a brutal crackdown 13 months ago on mass protests calling for his ouster.
“The test will come when we start to see protests across the length and breadth of the country,” said Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Doha Center. “Is the Assad regime willing to accept that there will likely be hundreds of thou-sands of people on the streets in the next few days? And will they accept those protesters, if they are not breaking any laws, occupying certain spaces and
towns and centers of towns, should that start to arise?”
An outbreak of violence at a chaotic rally could give the re-gime a pretext for ending the truce. And it would be diffi-cult to determine the source of such an attack, given that Syria is largely sealed off from jour-nalists and outside observers.
The U.N. chief’s envoy, Kofi Annan, urged the 15-nation U.N. Security Council to au-thorize an observer mission that would keep the cease-fire going and to demand that Assad order his troops back to barracks, U.N. diplomats said. The council could adopt a res-olution on the observers as early as Friday, the diplomats said on condition of anonym-ity because the meeting was closed.
Western powers, skeptical that Assad will call off the kill-ings, said an end to violence is just the first step.
U.K. Prime Minister Da-vid Cameron urged Syria’s al-lies Russia and China to help “tighten the noose” around Assad’s regime. Russia and China have blocked strong ac-tion against Syria at the Secu-rity Council, fearing it would open the door to possible NATO airstrikes like those that helped topple Libya’s Moam-mar Gadhafi.
U.S. Secretary of State Hill-ary Rodham Clinton noted that Assad failed to comply with key obligations, such as pulling back tanks.
“The burden of fully and vis-ibly meeting all of these obli-gations continues to rest with the regime,” she said. “They cannot pick and choose. For it to be meaningful, this appar-ent halt in violence must lead to a credible political process and a peaceful, inclusive dem-ocratic transition.”
The U.S. Embassy in Damas-cus published an image on its Facebook page that purports to show tanks deployed within the city of Homs.
“Clearly, Assad is not com-plying,” the embassy said.
Bassma Kodmani, a spokes-woman for the opposition Syr-ian National Council, said a
heavy security presence, in-cluding checkpoints and snip-ers, remained in the streets de-spite the cease-fire.
“There is no evidence of any significant withdrawal,” she told reporters in Geneva. “The real test for us today is if peo-ple can go and demonstrate peacefully” she added. “This is the real reality check.”
But analysts said the ap-parent halt in government at-tacks suggests Assad’s allies are pressuring him for the first time, after shielding him from international condemnation in the past. Annan has visited Russia, Iran and China to get the broadest possible backing for the plan.
On Thursday, the Russian and Chinese ambassadors called the Syrian cease-fire an important step and said they supported implementation of all points in the Annan plan – including the troop and equip-ment withdrawal.
“We’re encouraged that we do now have a cessation of vi-olence in Syria,” Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said. “We hope it holds. Ev-erybody needs to behave with maximum prudence for that to happen.”
“Frankly, there is one thing which Mr. Annan, I hope, is going to accomplish very soon – clear-cut agreement by op-position leaders to enter into dialogue with the Syrian gov-ernment,” Churkin added. “This so far has not happened.”
There were signs of how eas-ily the Annan plan could fray.
In the hours after the 6 a.m. deadline, at least four civil-ians were reported killed –
three of them by sniper fire – and the state-run news agency said “terrorist groups” set off a roadside bomb that killed a soldier. But there was no sign of the heavy shelling, rocket attacks and sniper fire that have become routine.
Troops also intensified searches at checkpoints, tight-ening controls ahead of possi-ble large-scale protests Friday.
Although Syria promised to comply with the cease-fire, the regime carved out an impor-tant condition – that it still has a right to defend itself against the terrorists that it says are behind the rebellion.
The government denies that it is facing a popular uprising. Instead, the regime says, ter-rorists are carrying out a for-eign conspiracy to destroy Syria. Because the regime has treated any sign of dissent as a provocation, many observ-ers fear that an abrupt end to the bloodshed will be all but impossible.
In the early days of the Syr-ian rebellion, Syrian forces used tanks, snipers and ma-chine guns on peaceful pro-testers, driving many of them to take up arms. Since then, the uprising has transformed into an armed insurgency, with more and more protest-ers taking up arms and reb-els forming a fighting force to bring down the regime.
The rebel Free Syrian Army, made up largely of army de-fectors, has said it will observe the cease-fire. But the oppo-sition is not well-organized, and there are growing fears of groups looking to exploit the chaos.
apThis image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed Thursday purports to show Syrians holding Syrian rev-olutionary flags during a demonstration in Deir el-Zour, Syria.
Report: Collapsed Ind. fair stage didn’t meet code
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The stage rigging that collapsed and killed seven people during last summer’s Indi-ana State Fair wasn’t up to industry standards and the tragedy was compounded by the lack of a fully developed emergency plan, accord-ing to two reports released Thursday.
During a 90-minute pre-sentation to the Indiana State Fair Commission, rep-resentatives of engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti and emergency planning advis-ers Witt Associates detailed the results of their separate investigations into the Aug. 13 collapse, which happened just before the country duo Sugarland was to perform and which also injured doz-ens of people.
Fair organizers were not legally required to have the stage inspected because it was a temporary structure, Thornton Tomasetti re-ported. But company vice president Scott Nacheman told the commission that the metal rigging structure didn’t meet the industry standard, which would re-quire it to be able to with-stand wind gusts of 68 mph. Gusts reached an estimated 59 mph when the rigging col-lapsed, he said.
The company determined that parts of the rigging’s support system began to give way at wind gusts of 33 mph and that by the time the gusts reached 43 mph, the struc-ture could no longer support itself.
“Once gravity had taken over there was essentially no way the structure could sup-port itself,” Nacheman said. “Gravity takes over and the structure fails.”
The report says the stage structure had support wires attached to concrete barri-ers used as ballast to hold it in place, but that the sys-
tem was inadequate to with-stand lateral forces such as high winds.
The state hired Thorn-ton Tomasetti to review the stage structure and Washing-ton-based Witt Associates to investigate the fair’s emer-gency plans and response.
Charlie Fisher, a vice presi-dent for Witt Associates, told the commission that “an am-biguity of authority” resulted in confusion and uncer-tainty as officials discussed whether to postpone a con-cert just before strong winds blew stage rigging onto wait-ing fans.
He said fair organizers’ overall state of prepared-ness “was not adequate” for an event that size, their emergency response plan and procedures weren’t fully developed, and they didn’t utilize the plans they did have on the night of the collapse.
Kenneth Mallette, vice president of preparedness services at Witt Associates, said weather conditions had been a topic of discussion and analysis throughout the day. He said a fair represen-tative asked Sugarland’s tour manager to delay the start of the show, but the band re-sisted, its tour manager say-ing, “It’s only rain. We can play.”
About 20 minutes later, State police Capt. Brad Weaver, who was backstage, expressed concerns about the approaching weather and urged fair Executive Director Cindy Hoye to shut down the concert minutes before the collapse, Mallette said.
“We need to call this. We need to call this off,” Weaver told Hoye, according to Mallette.
Hoye nodded in agree-ment, but by the time they were heading to the stage to cancel the show, the rigging collapsed, Mallette said.
Fall break may be problematic
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Everyone enjoys a little extra time for rest and relaxation, es-pecially after enduring a stress-ful period, such as midterms.
This is why West Virginia University officials are pro-posing a fall break, which may be implemented in the next school year. The break would be an extended week-end falling on the ninth week of classes.
“Studies show a break like this could help decrease be-havioral problems and even keep students motivated and
stay in school longer,” said WVU Faculty Senate Chair Les-ley Cottrell.
The break sounds like a good idea for WVU students, faculty and staff, but it could present some problems.
Some fear the new fall break may force the University to shorten Thanksgiving break. This is the one time of the school year on which students can rely. There is no debating its schedule, Thanksgiving al-ways occurs on the last Thurs-day in November, and many
look forward to the tradition of spending the entire week with family.
Other students may be con-cerned whether dorms will be open during the proposed break. Since it will be an ex-tended weekend and not an entire week, many students may choose to stay in Mor-gantown and not make a long trip home. If the dorms are closed, students will be forced to spend extra money – which many can’t afford – to drive home for a weekend.
Furthermore, football games may be hindered. If a large number of students leave town, the student section may be empty. With WVU entering the Big 12 next year, students should pack the stands at ev-ery game, giving other schools within the conference a prom-ising first impression of WVU.
The University will also be under the gun because of its required 15 weeks of instruc-tion. The break may demand further changes to the sched-ule – possibly beginning the se-
mester earlier and extending its length.
Faculty senate will further discuss the issue at its meeting on May 14.
It is a great idea to imple-ment new ideas to increase students’ progress, but the Uni-versity should not go forth with the new break at too high of a cost.
While the time off would surely be enjoyed by all, we must put priorities first.
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GSA scandal a result of bureaucratic incentives
Since 2009, the tea party movement has been deter-minedly protesting what they see as oppressive taxa-tion and runaway government spending.
While some Americans are surely turned off by the move-ment’s sometimes vitriolic rhetoric, it seems at least one federal agency deserves every ounce of scorn the tea party can muster.
Enter the General Services Administration. The GSA – re-sponsible for federal supplies procurement and property management – is supposed to set the standard in Wash-ington for cost minimization and the responsible use of tax-payer dollars.
Earlier this month, how-ever, GSA chief Martha N. Johnson resigned when inves-tigators discovered that her agency spent $823,000 on an outrageously extravagant 2010 employee training conference in beautiful Las Vegas, Nev.
The expenditures included $7,000 worth of sushi, $75,000 for a team-building exercise in which trainees worked to-gether assembling a bicycle, $146,000 in catered food and drinks and more than $6,000 in “swag” – key chains, T-shirts, etc. Conference attend-ees were housed at the lav-ish M Resort Spa Casino just outside Las Vegas. The event even had party clowns and a psychic.
Finally, as if to gleefully poke taxpayers right in the eye, one GSA employee put together a video (“Federal Worker ‘American Idol’”), cel-ebrating the agency’s ability to spend your money, free of oversight. The video took the top prize in a talent show that capped off the four-day Las Vegas conference.
This sickening betrayal of public trust speaks for it-self. The GSA’s obvious waste of taxpayer money would be maddening enough if it were confined to a single incompe-tent agency, but the problem
goes much deeper. The lavish event described above is the predictable result of a culture in which government bureau-crats become far too comfort-able spending other people’s money.
Such a system virtually guarantees that waste, fraud and abuse will thrive. The in-centive structure actively en-courages it, largely because of the way Washington budgets money.
Every time Congress or the executive branch looks to allo-cate money to a bureaucratic agency, they treat that agen-cy’s current budget as a base-line from which to work – thus
the term “baseline budgeting.” This system assumes that
agencies are using their cur-rent funds properly and only makes slight, gradual changes to their budgets.
Of course, if an agency fails to use all the funds at its dis-posal, it can expect a reduced budget in the future. This mo-tivates bureaucrats to spend every last penny they can, whether it makes fiscal sense or not.
Worse yet, failing agencies almost always blame their poor performance on inad-equate funding, leading the most worthless and ineffec-tive federal bureaus to receive
more and more tax dollars.Keep this in mind the next
time you hear a politician call for budget cuts in a pandering speech. Nine times out of 10, the “cuts” politicians propose only reduce projected future spending.
Bloated budgets still grow, just at a slower rate. With wordplay like this, is it any wonder this country’s budget deficit (currently around $1.3 trillion) grows by the day?
Compare this incentive structure to that of a private business. In the private sec-tor, entrepreneurs and busi-ness owners risk their own money to provide the goods
and services they believe peo-ple want to buy.
The private businessman’s goal is to maximize profits, which typically go into his pocket. This strongly moti-vates him to minimize costs and maximize his business’s operational efficiency.
Thanks to open competi-tion in the free market, pri-vate businesses must always strive to produce the highest quality product for the lowest cost possible. If his business turns out a shoddy product on the free market (which by def-inition rules out the possibil-ity of a government bailout), it quickly closes up shop.
These differing incentive structures lay bare the case for shrinking the bloated fed-eral government and allowing free markets to work. Federal bureaucracies like the GSA inherently commit waste and fraud on a regular basis – it’s in their nature. By contrast, competitive free markets en-courage the economizing of resources and ever-increasing efficiency.
Unless more Americans begin embracing the latter model and rejecting the for-mer, our country will continue down a dangerous financial path with which the Greeks are all too familiar.
APGeneral Services Administration chief Martha N. Johnson resigned when investigators discovered that her agency spent $823,000 on an outrageously extravagant 2010 employee training conference in beautiful Las Vegas, Nev.
As many people may have heard Monday, social network front-runner Facebook bought mobile photo-sharing service Instagram for $1 billion.
Many are shocked because Instagram is only two years old and consists of only 13 staff members. Its 30 million us-ers upload five million photos a day, but Instagram doesn’t even have an interactive web-site – just links to download its app.
What could Mark Zucker-burg, CEO of Facebook, see in a company with no revenue and hardly any staff? Is Zucker-burg trying to escape the hole he’s dug for himself in the past with Facebook users while ad-vancing in the world of social
media at the same time? Was it a smart move to make?
It’s not completely about what Instagram has, but it’s what Zuckerburg sees Face-book lacking – a prosperous re-lationship with smartphones.
Instagram took a simple be-havior – sharing photos among friends – and made it a day-to-day utility that people want. Facebook has lost its mojo in regards to photo sharing.
Instagram allows a user to take a photo from a phone, ap-ply a filter and post it to Face-book, Twitter, Flickr, Tum-blr, Posterous or Foursquare while allowing an asymme-try in the network, like Twit-ter, to choose who you follow and others to decide whether to follow you. With all of these options made available, Ins-tagram didn’t support adver-tisements or sell its users’ data, which Facebook has been ac-cused of profiting wildly from
in the past. According to CNN, 25,000
Instagram users accessed In-stagram’s service, Instaport, within six hours to pull photos prior to the takeover, due to ac-cusations about user privacy.
Aside from the possibil-ity that Zuckerburg wanted to rekindle a dying flame with photo-sharing to cater to new and old users through a new medium, the actions taken to cement his position in social media over rivals surely had to play a part.
Smartphones, which are inherently social, are taking over. Facebook rules the so-cial world right now, but that’s a flimsy hold and Zuckerburg knows that. Facebook was born on the desktop, which initiates a huge risk, leaving Facebook to take advantage of the coming shift to mobile.
Facebook barely makes any money from its mobile form,
aside from having numbers of people who only access it that way. Obtaining Instagram makes a way for Facebook to pull itself into the future of so-cial that’s in the midst of devel-oping. Although they may have not gained a single extra user, they’ll all inevitably be tied tighter to the biggest network.
Buying Instagram not only eliminates a rival, but it also gives Facebook a technology that is receiving relentless ad-oration and exposure. Along with Instagram, Facebook is also diminishing another ri-val. Google, also born on the desktop, has been desperately attempting to hinder smart-phones as its domain through Android software.
Buying Instagram, which doesn’t offer a Google+ shar-ing option, could have given Google a way to draw in the us-ers, primarily photographers, who have made Google+ a
“big hit”. Well, that door’s been closed.
Pictures were the heart to Facebook’s success – the easy sharing made it stand out against early rivals. Today, it is the largest photo-sharing social network website in the world – with nearly 850 mil-lion users uploading 250 mil-lion photos per day. Com-bined with Instagrams mobile appeal and careful integration on Facebooks behalf, the move made sure Zuckerburg will prosper. In a sense, it makes as much sense as Google buy-ing YouTube for $1.6 billion in 2006 before the importance of web video was made obvious.
The path to dominance has been cleared and Pinterest, ar-guably the worlds fastest grow-ing social network, may be put on the backburner.
I hope Zuckerburg doesn’t throw a curveball later down the road by trying to incorpo-
rate brands and advertisement into his new extension like he did with Facebook. He’ll have to tread lightly as Intagram us-ers are a passionate group who already worry their app will end up in dismay like other clever online services have, swallowed by tech brutes like Google and Yahoo – pushed to the side, forgotten and then deleted.
Thus far, it seems Zucker-burg has played the right cards in solidifying his position while generating advancement in the ever-changing industry. It will take time for trust to be regained from users, though.
Ironically, while all this uproar is going on deal-ing with digital photo shar-ing, 131-year-old film pioneer Eastman Kodak Co. is strug-gling through bankruptcy courts due to their lack of ex-ecution in the face of advanc-ing technology. Weird.
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EVERY FRIDAYLUNCH FOR A BUCK takes place at
the Campus Ministry Center on the corner of Willey and Price streets. For more information, call 304-292-4061.
THE CHABAD JEWISH STUDENT CENTER offers a free Shabbat Din-ner every Friday at 7 p.m. at the Chabad House. For more informa-tion, email [email protected] or call 304-599-1515.
WVU HILLEL offers a Shabbat Din-ner at 6:30 p.m. at the Hillel House at 1420 University Ave. For more infor-mation or a ride, call 304-685-5195.
CAMPUS LIGHT MINISTRIES hosts its weekly meeting and Bible study at 7 p.m. in the Bluestone Room of the Mountainlair.
GLOBAL INTERVARSITY CHRIS-TIAN FELLOWSHIP AT WVU, a hospi-table community for international students and scholars, meets at 6 p.m. for community dinner and Bible discussion. For more informa-tion, email [email protected].
EVERY SATURDAYOPEN GYM FOR VOLLEYBALL is
from 2-4 p.m. at the Student Rec-reation Center. No commitment or prior experience is necessary. Just show up and play. For more infor-mation, email Mandy at [email protected].
CATHOLIC MASS is held at St. John University Parish at 5 p.m.
TRADITIONAL KARATE CLASS FOR SELF-DEFENSE meets at 10:30 a.m. in Multipurpose Room A of the Student Recreation Center.
EVERY SUNDAYTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH of-
fers services at 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. The church is located on the corner of Spruce and Willey streets.
WVU WOMEN’S ULTIMATE FRIS-BEE club team holds practice at 3 p.m. at St. Francis Fields.
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LAT-TER-DAY SAINTS offers a service for students at 10 a.m. at the chapel on Willey Street. For more information, call 304-296-7538.
WVU HILLEL offers a Bagel Brunch at 12:30 p.m. at the Hillel House at 1420 University Ave. For more infor-mation or a ride, call 304-685-5195.
MOUNTAINEERS FOR CHRIST hosts a supper at 6 p.m. and a bible study at 7 p.m. at the Christian Stu-dent Center at 2923 University Ave.
PAINTBALL TEAM practices at Mountain Valley Paintball Park. For more information, visit www.wvu-paintball.com or email [email protected].
CHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOW-SHIP hosts free dinner at 6:15 p.m.
followed by a worship service at 7 p.m. at 2901 University Ave. For more information, email Gary Gross at [email protected].
SIGMA THETA EPSILON, a National Christian Service Fraternity, would like to invite any men interested in the fraternity to attend its meeting at 5 p.m. at the Campus Ministry Cen-ter. For more information, email [email protected].
CATHOLIC MASS is held at St. John University Parish at 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. All are welcome.
SINGLE ADULT DINNER for the never-married, widowed and di-vorced is held at 5 p.m. More infor-mation, call 866-948-6441 or visit www.SingleFocusMinistries.org.
CONTINUALWELLNESS PROGRAMS on top-
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NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meets nightly in the Morgantown and Fair-mont areas. For more information, call the helpline at 800-766-4442 or visit www.mrscna.org.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS meets daily. To find a meeting, visit www.aawv.org. For those who need help urgently, call 304-291-7918.
CARITAS HOUSE, a local nonprofit organization serving West Virginians with HIV/AIDS, needs donations of food and personal care items and volunteers to support all aspects of the organization’s activities. For more information, call 304-985-0021.
SCOTT’S RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE, a local outreach organi-zation, needs volunteers for daily programs and special events. For more information or to volunteer, email [email protected] or call 304-599-5020.
CONFIDENTIAL COUNSELING SER-VICES are provided for free by the Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatric Services. A walk-in clinic is offered weekdays from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Services include educational, career, individual, couples and group coun-seling. Please visit www.well.wvu.edu to find out more information.
WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN needs volunteers. WIC provides edu-cation, supplemental foods and im-munizations for pregnant women and children under five years of age. This is an opportunity to earn volun-teer hours for class requirements. For more information, call 304-598-5180 or 304-598-5185.
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS, a United Way agency, is looking for vol-unteers to become Big Brothers and Big Sisters in its one-on-one commu-nity-based and school-based men-toring programs. To volunteer, call Sylvia at 304-983-2823, ext. 104 or email [email protected].
ROSENBAUM FAMILY HOUSE, which provides a place for adult pa-tients and their families to stay while receiving medical care at WVU, is looking for service organizations to provide dinner for 20 to 40 Fam-ily House guests. For more informa-tion, call 304-598-6094 or email [email protected].
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS is seek-ing volunteers for one-on-one tu-toring in basic reading and English as a second language. Volunteer tu-tors will complete tutor training, meet weekly with their adult learn-ers, report volunteer hours quar-terly, attend at least two in-service trainings per year and help with one fundraising event. For more infor-
mation, call 304-296-3400 or email [email protected].
CATHOLIC MASS is held at St. John University Parish at 4:30 p.m. on weekdays.
THE WELLWVU CONDOM CLOSET is held in the Kanawha Room of the Mountainlair every Wednesday from 11 a.m.-noon. The closet sells con-doms for 25 cents each or five for $1.00.
THE WELLWVU CONDOM CARA-VAN is held in the main area of the Mountainlair from noon-2 p.m. ev-ery Wednesday. The caravan sells condoms for 25 cents each or five for $1.00.
MOUNTAINEER SPAY/NEUTER AS-SISTANCE PROGRAM is an all-volun-teer nonprofit that promotes spay/neuter to reduce the number of homeless pets that are euthanized every year. M-SNAP needs new members to help its cause, as does ReTails, a thrift shop located in the Morgantown Mall. For more informa-tion, visit www.m-snap.org.
THE ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE meets on the second Monday and fourth Tuesday of ev-ery month at noon at Hatfields in the Mountainlair. All students and fac-ulty are invited. For more informa-tion, email [email protected].
THE CHEMISTRY LEARNING CEN-TER, located on the ground floor of the Chemistry Research Laborato-ries, is open Monday through Friday 9 a.m-5 p.m. and 7-10 p.m. Monday through Wednesday.
FREE STUDENT SUCCESS SUP-PORT, presented by the WVU Office of Retention and Research, helps students improve on time man-agement, note taking reading and study skills as well as get help with the transition to WVU. Free drop-in tutoring is also available every night of the week in different locations. For more information, visit http://reten-tion.wvu.edu or call 304-293-5811.
THE M-TOWN MPOWERMENT PROJECT, a community-building program run by and geared toward young gay or bisexual men 18 to 29, is creating an environment in the Mor-gantown community where young men can feel empowered to make a difference in their lives. MPower-ment also focuses on HIV and STD prevention education. For more in-formation, call 304-319-1803.
COMMUNITY NEWCOMERS CLUB is a group organized to allow new residents of the Morgantown area an opportunity to gather socially and assimilate into their new home com-munity. For more information, visit www.morgantownnewcomers.com.
NEW SPRING SEMESTER GROUP THERAPY OPPORTUNITIES are avail-able for free at the Carruth Center. The groups include Understand-ing Self and Others, A Place for You, Sexual Assault Survivors Group, So-cial Anxiety Group and Solution Fo-cused Therapy Group. For more infor-mation, call 304-293-4431 or email [email protected].
THE FRIENDS OF THE MORGAN-TOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY are seeking new members and volunteers for weekly book sale inventory. For more information, inquire at the front desk on Spruce St., downstairs during sales every Tuesday and the first and third Saturday of every month or call 304-292-7579.
THE ROYCE J. AND CAROLINE B. WATTS MUSEUM, located in the Min-eral Resources Building on the Evans-dale Campus, presents its latest ex-hibit “Defying the Darkness: The Struggle for Safe and Sufficient Mine Illumination” through July 2012. The exhibit focuses on the history mining lights, and displays a wide variety of mine lighting implements. The Ex-hibit is open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 1-4 p.m. and by appointment. For more information, call 304-293-4609 or email [email protected].
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THE GEOGRAPHY COL-LOQUIUM presents “Political Geographies of Violence or Vio-lent Political Geographies? The State of Migration on Islands” by Alison Mountz from Syracuse University. The presentation takes place from 2-5 p.m. in Room 325 of Brooks Hall. For more information, call 304-293-0384 or email [email protected].
A DOCTORAL CHAMBER PIA-NO RECITAL by Sheila Barnhart takes place at 6 p.m. in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall of the Creative Arts Center. For more information, call 304-293-4359 or email [email protected].
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BORN TODAY This year the more con-scious you are of your feelings, the greater success you will experience. Know that you cannot sit on your anger. You will learn to express your feelings in an effec-tive manner. Sometimes, if you are honest with yourself, you feel overwhelmed by your responsibilities. If you are single, you will have a lot to work through personally. Choose a person with understanding. If you are attached, the two of you are more connected than in the past. You might choose to make a commitment together to your family or community. AQUARIUS is a loyal friend.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH You might feel as if everyone is throwing boul-ders in your path. Surprise! You’ll just skip over them as you clear out a lot of issues. You have an unusual opportunity to start the weekend early. Tonight: Join friends for a dinner and maybe even a movie.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHHH How you deal with a commitment could change. Use your excellent sense of tim-ing. Your fatigue with the status quo comes through. Others finally agree with you, once they get your logic. Tonight: Out and about. A force to be dealt with.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHHH Keep reaching out for an important per-son in your life. You might feel as if you could lose the connection between you. That won’t happen if you relax and re-frain from standing on ceremony. The other party will sense a change in your perspective. Tonight: Break past a self-im-
posed barrier.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH Re-think a personal decision. Deal with oth-ers on a one-on-one level. You might not be sure about what you want. Once you can nail that down, you will have a sympa-thetic audience. Tonight: Be around music.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Stay mel-low, despite what is going on. Others seek you out, but they might not be as positive or upbeat as you would like. In fact, you might need to deal with someone who is depressed. You could be surprised by how much anger this person unleashes. Stay on top of your priorities. Tonight: Where the crowds are.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH Re-main sure of yourself. Recognize that someone who always makes you feel a bit insecure could be projecting his or her issues onto you. If you have kept a situa-tion bottled up for too long, do not be sur-prised if you let it out now. Tonight: Pace yourself, and do not push.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHHH Curb any negativity, and you’ll make yourself and others happier. Sometimes, by not feeding into negativity, you can move through your feelings quickly. Al-low lighter thoughts with more mirth to come out. Others gravitate toward you. Tonight: Play up the moment.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHH If you can take some much-needed personal time, please do. You have pushed past what is normal. Note the slant you put on different solutions. Look at the same is-sues next week at a happier moment. See
the difference. Tonight: Spending a lot of energy on a friend.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH Listen to news, return calls and ask ques-tions. You might understand why some-one has been pushing you away. Realize that you cannot do anything to change the situation. Someone you look up to clearly expresses his or her thoughts. To-night: Hang out.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHH Sometimes you need to build yourself up to make yourself feel better. Today, take stock of what you have done this week and all that you have to offer, and recon-sider a judgment. You are your harshest critic. Decide to toss yourself 100 percent into all areas of your life. Tonight: Meet a friend.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH Consider your options more openly. The feedback you get during a discussion with your friends might surprise you. A friend or loved one finally tells you ex-actly where he or she is coming from. This person could surprise you. Tonight: Be spontaneous.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHH If you’re feeling off, just say so. Everyone needs some time off from their lives. You are no exception. Listen to a friend and what he or she says. This person is trying to help you out. Allow others to carry the ball. Tonight: Play it low-key.
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‘Jamming for Justice’ supports coffee farmersBy Hunter Homistek
A&E WRITER
The Cue was alive with mu-sic and goodwill tonight, as First Hand Live “Jamming for Justice” took over the house.
The event, which was orga-nized by West Virginia Uni-versity Fair Trade 2.0, brought together a diverse crop of mu-sicians in an effort to raise funds to benefit causes such as fair trade, worker’s rights and worldwide cooperation.
First Hand Live “Jamming for Justice” took aim at the Nicaraguan coffee industry, where the gap between what consumers pay and what farmers earn is tremendous.
“We work to make dona-tions for loans to help Nica-raguan farmers and workers who are entirely dependent on the coffee industry,” said WVU Fair Trade 2.0 member and event organizer Courtney Altice.
To do its part in combating this discrepancy, First Hand
Live “Jamming for Justice” will donate proceeds from ticket sales to the farmers in the La Hermandad coffee cooperation in San Ramon, Nicaragua.
“These people’s lives (the farmers) are essentially de-cided in a small window when coffee farming is possi-ble, so we work to give them a more sustained living,” said group president Sarah Seese, a junior history and geogra-phy student.
There to further sup-port the cause were musi-cal groups DuoGrove, Tom Batchelor Band, Clintonics and DJ Strizz.
Each band brought a unique sound to the stage, but, while the music may have been different, the art-ists’ thoughts on the bene-fit cause were resoundingly consistent.
“It’s so cool to play for something like this,” said Du-oGrove member Matt Marion. “To give back to such a wor-
thy cause is just awesome.” Echoing this thought was
DJ Strizz, a consummate pro-fessional in the DJ industry for over 12 years.
“I’ve been doing this for a while, and this is the ultimate way to give back,” Strizz said.
A just cause with spec-tacular music was certainly the theme at The Cue to-night, and all in attendance got their money’s worth with fantastic tunes and the feel-good knowledge of support-ing those who truly need it.
To build on last night’s success, WVU Fair Trade 2.0 is hosting a second event at Morgantown People’s Co-op at 1400 University Ave. to-night from 6-9 p.m.
The event, which follows the First Hand Jive “Jamming for Justice” mantra, will fea-ture coffee tasting and a silent art auction to further benefit the Nicaraguan coffee farm-ers and their families.
Chocolate Lovers Day returns to Morgantown tomorrowBy emily meadows
A&E WRITER
Morgantown residents with a sweet tooth are in for a treat this weekend.
The 11th annual Choco-late Lovers’ Day will be held though out downtown Mor-gantown Saturday from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
The one-day event will of-fer a wide assortment of de-lectable and creative choco-late creations at businesses along High Street.
“We’ve always had success with Chocolate Day. Lots of people come out and seem very happy and satisfied,” said Coombs Flowers florist Marilyn Cale. “We get the chance to meet new people and everyone seems to really enjoy themselves.”
At an affordable price of just $5, the family-friendly ex-
travaganza allows registrants to visit and sample goodies at each participating business. Guest will accumulate points throughout the day to go to-ward the grand prize drawing.
This year’s grand prize will be four tickets to visit the chocolate empire, Hershey Park in Hershey, Pa.
The treats will range from everything from chocolate chip cookies, rich homemade fudge, cake pops, brownies and more.
New coffee shop Cafe Mojo will be a first-year partici-pants with a unique twist, of-fering samples of chocolate espresso beverages.
“We have white, dark and milk chocolate espresso drinks we will be sampling and have for sale on a reg-ular basis,” said Cafe Mojo manager Jason Savage. “Two beans are equal to one shot
of espresso, so it’s definitely a unique boost.”
The popular occasion has been highly successful in previous years and gives res-idents the opportunity to dis-cover new shops, as well as experience what the various businesses have to offer.
“We’ve had many people come in during the day and look around and find some-thing to either buy it that day, or they’ll come back later to place orders and mention that they discovered it be-cause of Chocolate Day,” Cale said.
Chocolate Lovers’ Day reg-istration will begin at 11 a.m. at the Monongalia Art Center at the end of High Street and will continue until 2:30 p.m. Be sure to get there early, you don’t want to miss a morsel!
Matt Sunday/tHE daILy atHEnaEuMA plate of chocolate covered strawberries sit out on a table at the Diversi-Tea Party in the Mountainlair Wednesday evening.
CaSSIa KIng/tHE daILy atHEnaEuMCourtney Altice, senior international studies student, hula hoops to the sounds of Duo Grove Thursday night in The Cue.
CaSSIa KIng/tHE daILy atHEnaEuMDuo Grove guitarist plays at the ‘First Hand Live: Jamming For Justice’ at The Cue Thursday night.
CaSSIa KIng/tHE daILy atHEnaEuMDuo Grove plays for the ‘First Hand Live: Jamming for Justice’ at The Cue Thursday night.
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WVU student fashion: Street styleJade murman taylor coleman Jonathan coroneos
“Today i just threw on leggings and a cardigan. i always try to dress kind of loose because it’s com-fortable. My bag and my scarf are from my mom, she sells accessories so i get a lot of cool stuff from her.”
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“This is my fedora, i love it. i’m also wearing high-waisted shorts, leggings from pacSun with leg warmers, and combat boots which are from rue 21. i don’t have a specific style; i dress how i feel .
“i’m wearing a nice shirt and tie in this lovely weather today because i’m pledging a fra-ternity. On a normal day, i like to think i have some style; i like to look older and semi-decent. i like button-downs, it looks clean.
photos and reporting by brooKe Cassidy
Shirts, skirts, headbands and wraps - what do all of these wardrobe pieces have in com-mon? They can be used to cre-ate a multi-functional piece of clothing: scarves.
When we think of scarves we often associate them with cold weather accessories and as
shields from the wind.While they are great during
the cold seasons, these items can also be fun in the warmer seasons.
Maybe those fluffy sweater-like scarves aren’t the best ad-dition to a sundress or wedged sandals. But lightweight fabrics are great during the warmer seasons.
Generally, scarves are cheap and easy to collect. Some scarves can be pricey but there are ways around that.
An old sheet or lining of a dress, for example, can be used for this purpose.
Once you find one, or several, different patterns you love this extremely versatile fashion trick will be a sexy, go-to technique.
There are several different ways to create a wrap shirt us-ing a scarf.
The thin material is perfect for those really hot days when you want to wear next to noth-ing. Take your scarf or cloth and fold it into a rectangle big
enough to cover your bust. Play around with the length,
deciding how much belly you want exposed. For extra support and a little more visual interest, twist the rectangular shaped cloth in the middle, for a mer-maid cup bandeau look.
For a similar effect, try tying the scarf around the back, twist-ing it in front and tying it around the neck for a sexy halter top. To avoid showing too much skin here, pair this look with a long skirt or high-waisted shorts.
Another fun, easy way to wear a scarf is to fold it into a triangle and tie it around the back. This tube shirt look is quick, easy and super fun.
This same garment can be used for a quick beach cover-up, if you drape the scarf around your shoulders.
If you do choose to try it out as a cover for your bathing suit, spice up your beachwear as well.
Take the same scarf, tie or twist it down to a slender, rect-
angular shape and use it as a fun, super girlie headband.
On your nights out, you can decorate your handbags and umbrellas by tying neat bows with your scarf.
And of course, you can al-ways wear them around your neck.
Whichever way you decide to wear your scarves, know that there is always another function for these multipurpose pieces.
Tie fashion together with scarves, the multipurpose accessory chriStina gUtierrezA&E writEr
LONDON (AP) — It may lack wizards and witches, but J.K. Rowling and her publisher are hoping her first novel for adults, “The Casual Vacancy,” will have the magic touch.
The book’s title was an-nounced Thursday by Little, Brown & Co. along with a brief plot synopsis and publication date.
The publisher said the “blackly comic” tale of rivalry and duplicity in a small Eng-lish town would be available worldwide on Sept. 27.
The book will be Rowling’s first post-Potter effort. Her seven-volume saga about the adventures of a boy wizard became one of the most suc-cessful fictional series in his-tory and led to a series of ex-tremely popular films.
The new book, aimed at a grown-up audience, will be set in a seemingly idyllic Eng-lish town called Pagford which is described as far more men-acing than its pretty facade would indicate.
It opens with the sudden death of a popular man whose unexpected demise shocks the town. The battle for his seat on the local council sets off “the biggest war the town has yet seen,” with rich people fight-ing poor, parents battling their teenagers, and wives in con-flict with their husbands.
The publisher said the 480-page novel will be sold as an e-book and audio download as well as in traditional hard-
back form.The seven Harry Potter nov-
els have sold 450 million cop-ies and have been translated into 74 languages.
Rowling’s final Potter of-fering, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” was pub-lished in 2007. She published a short Potter spin-off collec-tion of stories, “The Tales Of Beedle The Bard,” in 2008.
Rowling said earlier this year she wanted to reach an adult audience, but kept the book’s name and publication date secret until Thursday.
In the past, many successful children’s writers have strug-gled to remake themselves as adult authors. Winnie the Pooh creator A.A. Milne, a successful playwright in his
early years, once confessed that he was forced to say “goodbye to all that” after his beloved books about the bear and friends.
But Rowling has one advan-tage: the Potter books had a huge adult, as well as child, audience.
Jon Howells of British book store chain Waterstones said “The Casual Vacancy” would likely be the year’s best-sell-ing novel.
He said the synopsis came as a surprise and suggested similarities to the work of pop-ular mystery writer Alexander McCall Smith and Mark Had-don, a children’s writer who had a huge adult hit with “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.”
Rowling releases ‘The Casual Vacancy’
apJ.K. Rowling has high hopes for ‘The Casual Vacancy,’ her first novel for adults.
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World Music Concert brings stage to life
by Madeline CareyA&E WritEr
West Virginia University’s College of Creative Arts held its World Music Showcase Con-cert Thursday.
The Steel Band and Afri-can Music Ensemble made the CAC come alive with songs that were both patriotic and cultur-
ally diverse. The Steel Band, consisting
primarily of drum arrange-ments, started off the show with the national anthem and then immediately dove into their repertoire of songs. The next piece, “Suzie,” was a fun and upbeat collaboration of sounds that lit the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre with a feeling of almost child-like enthusi-asm from the performers and audience alike.
Clad in their jeans and WVU Steel Band T-shirts, the band illuminated the stage with their own personal style and attitude.
Wholesome fun emanated from the musicians. Swaying back and forth with smiles on their faces, the WVU Steel Band put on one of the most fun and student-friendly shows that the CAC has put on.
Mitchell Marozzi, a senior mechanical and aerospace engineering student, has been playing performing with the group for three semesters and performed in the evenings two ensembles. Though Marozzi said that he enjoyed perform-ing with the Steel Band and Af-rican Music and Dance Ensem-ble, he also enjoys playing with the Brazilian Ensemble per-forming later this month.
“I’m probably most ex-cited about the Brazilian En-semble” Marozzi said. “It’s a smaller group, and the songs kind of groove a little bit bet-ter. The music is sort of Latin, but at the same time has a sort of pop feel to it. It’s hard to ex-
plain, but when you hear it, you know it’s good.”
The second half of the con-cert showcased the African Music and Dance Ensemble, with guest artist Tijan Dor-wana in one of his first U.S. performances.
With performances from both a female African ensemble group and an all-male group – though they seemed somewhat scattered and less rehearsed – they were able to keep some of the same spirits alive, espe-cially with the performance of the male ensemble.
In traditional African gar-ments and headdress, Dor-wana entered the stage ac-companied only by his first instrument of the evening, a bow-like contraption, and his sheer talent. The musician de-scribed that his instrument and his second piece were used as forms of relaxation in his coun-try of Ghana after a long day on the farms.
Not only did Dorwana play music, but every word from his mouth was accompanied by a smile, light joke, and laughter from the audience.
Corey Orban, a senior music student and member of both ensembles said Dorwana plays the gyil – an African xylophone.
“(It) is already a cool instru-ment, a really unique sound, and he’s one of the best at that instrument in the world, so it’s really a treat to have him at West Virginia University,” he said.
Kristen Basham/the DaiLY athenaeUmA student performs with the WVU Steel Band at the West Virignia University Creative Arts Center on Thursday.
Kristen Basham/the DaiLY athenaeUmA member of the African Music and Dance Ensemble performs at West Virginia University’s Creative Arts Center Thursday night.
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Sluggish spring startJump on the Pirate ship
If my memory serves me right, I have followed the Pittsburgh Pirates since 1998.
I know. Depressing, right?I have been there through
the countless trades that saw some of my childhood he-roes shipped to big market teams in return for some mi-nor league players who would never seem to fully develop.
I have never even witnessed a winning season, as the Pi-rates currently have recorded 19 straight losing seasons.
But, no matter the results, I still found myself glued to what was formerly Fox Sports Pittsburgh, which is now Root Sports, basically every night between April and September.
Call me crazy, but I have a feeling a lot of you have done the same.
Just a few years ago, I was almost ready to give up all hope of any drafts picks ever reaching potential or any trades ever working out in fa-vor of the Buccos.
But recently the tides have turned.
Drafts picks such as An-drew McCutchen, Starling Marte and Neil Walker com-bined for trades for play-ers Joel Hanrahan, Jose Tabata and Jeff Karstens, ap-pear to have a solid founda-tion built for years to come in Pittsburgh.
Combine that with second-year skipper Clint Hurdle’s ability to call the shots, and this is a team that, down the road, could compete in the National League.
Now, I know the Pirates’ payroll isn’t exactly near the top. But it is currently right around $50 million, and it ap-pears the front office is willing to spend money if the team begins to find success.
So why I am writing a col-umn on one of the biggest embarrassments in all four of the professional sports leagues, you ask?
I would like to make a final pitch to the forgotten Pirate fans out there. I can’t blame you for your impatience.
Better baseball is being played in Pittsburgh these days.
Yes, the Pirates are off to a 2-3 start and have struggled to score runs, but with already three matchups against for-mer Cy Young winners, it is understandable why runs have been hard to come by.
Take a trip up to Pittsburgh for a game this season.
I guarantee a quick look online will show lower level tickets available for less than $20, and you’ll get an oppor-tunity to see the best ballpark in baseball – PNC Park.
Stay patient with this team— they’re not going to be the Phillies or the Cardi-nals overnight.
But I assure you that the embarrassment is almost over.
In the next five years, the Pirates will end the losing streak, along with the univer-sal state of depression among baseball fans in Pittsburgh.
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matt sunday/the daily athenaeumThe West Virginia soccer team talks in a huddle during the team’s spring match against the MLS’ Columbus Crew. The Mountaineers lost 1-0.
West Virginia looks for first win of spring season against Wake Forest after 0-2 startby alex sims
sports WrItEr
West Virginia men’s soc-cer head coach Marlon LeB-lanc wants to see more from his team this weekend.
So far, WVU is 0-2 in the spring season with losses to a pair of professional squads — the Columbus Crew and Pitts-burgh Riverhounds.
Now, in their third game of the spring, the Mountaineers will travel to Winston-Salem, N.C., to take on Atlantic Coast Conference foe Wake Forest.
The Saturday match, sched-uled to start at 7 p.m., will serve as round one between the Demon Deacons and the Mountaineers, who will also square off in a nonconference match in fall.
“They are very posses-sion-oriented, dynamic, ex-plosive, and they have lots of top players,” said West Vir-
ginia head coach Marlon LeB-lanc. “They’re going to be an excellent team, but I think the whole purpose is to familiar-ize ourselves with what is go-ing to be a pretty big road trip in the fall.”
WVU will still be without a few of their key players, in-cluding senior midfielder Shadow Sebele and sopho-more forward Andy Bevin, but could benefit from the return of senior forward Peabo Doue as early as this weekend.
The Germantown, Md., na-tive was medically cleared to play last week and is eager to return to the field.
“I’ve been joking around with the guys because it’s been a while since I’ve played an ac-tual game with them,” Doue said. “I feel great; I don’t have any pain or anything like that. I just need a little more game fitness.”
LeBlanc said he is in no rush
to slide Doue back into the lineup, as his health for fall is the main concern.
The other concern for LeB-lanc is not his team’s 0-2 re-cord, but rather how some of his young players have mis-handled their playing oppor-tunities in early spring.
“We’ve got some guys who have three games left to really prove themselves,” LeBlanc said. “I think we know who our ‘knowns’ are and where they stand, and some of the other guys are going to have to pick it up a bit if they want to be con-tributing members on what should be a pretty good team in the fall. Those guys have to be better, and top to bottom we need to be better, but in partic-ular we need to get more out of some of those guys who are getting their first opportunity.”
WVU’s lone returning cap-
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barber ready to become leader on WVu defenseby michael carVelli
sports EdItor
Every season, there seems to be one linebacker on the West Vir-ginia football team who leads the way for the defense.
A few years back it was J.T. Thomas, last season it was Najee Goode. In 2012, with only two seniors on the linebacker corps, it’s likely that someone stepping into that leadership role will have to be a younger player.
And at this point in spring practice it looks like sophomore Jared Barber could fill that role quite nicely.
Barber played 12 games as a true freshman and learned from older players, like Goode, every step of the way.
“You should have at least one guy who, if somebody has a ques-tion or something, you go to that guy,” Barber said. “Najee was that guy last year, and he did a really good job of helping me and lead-ing me and easing me into the system.
“We’re just playing hard and playing together right now. (Find-ing a leader) will come with time.”
The Mocksville, N.C., native used special teams to make a name for himself early in his freshman season.
He was named special teams champion after West Virginia’s win over Maryland, when he had two tackles. By the end of the season, he had found his way into the lineup, making his first ca-reer start against Pittsburgh.
That improvement continued throughout the Mountaineers’ fi-nal stretch toward a BCS appearance and he was rewarded with a start in the Orange Bowl.
He didn’t disappoint.In West Virginia’s 70-33 victory, Barber finished with a career-
high six tackles in his second start of the season.“At the beginning of last year, I played special teams and I got in
some on defense, but not too much,” Barber said. “My head would spin and spin just trying to be perfect.
“Now I can think (on the field), but I can also just play, and that makes me more comfortable.”
With the departure of four defensive coaches, including de-fensive coordinator Jeff Casteel, Barber and the rest of the Moun-taineer defense is adjusting to the new scheme that they’ll be running under co-defensive coordinators Joe DeForest and Keith Patterson.
The switch to the 3-4 defense has been going well for Barber, but he admitted it was tough seeing the 3-3-5 scheme the Moun-taineers go.
“That’s the reason I came here,” Barber said. “I know things happen, things change. It’s a business. It’s not that big of a deal, though.
“We’re just trying to get in here and learn and watch film about everything.”
Barber has impressed Patterson, who also works with
brooke cassidy/the daily athenaeumHead coach Marlon LeBlanc wants to see more out of his team in the next match against Wake Forest.see spring on PAGE 12
matt sunday/the daily athenaeumSophomore linebacker Jared Barber goes in the team huddle during a spring practice.see barber on PAGE 12
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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Friday April 13, 2012
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mountaineers take on eastern kentucky in third spring game
WVu looks to even conference record in three-game series with rutgers
by robert kreissports WrItEr
Women’s soccer head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown wants to see her Mountaineer team continue to grow this week-end when they take on the Eastern Kentucky Colonels at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.
The match has been moved from a 3 p.m. start to a 2 p.m. start.
“The spring is always about player development,” Izzo-Brown said. “At the end of this April, I hope we accomplish some goals.”
Throughout the spring, Izzo-Brown is expecting her players to polish their tech-nique in preparation for the fall season.
“I think it’s important indi-vidually that players develop technically,” Izzo-Brown said. “I think player development is first and foremost.”
Along with making sure her team is passing with both their left and right feet soundly and settling the ball on their first touch, Izzo-Brown wants to see what different team mem-bers will bring to the table.
This spring, because of in-juries, a number of under-classmen are getting the chance to see a lot of action on the pitch and show Izzo-Brown how they can contrib-ute to the back-to-back de-fending Big East champions before the new class of re-cruits arrive.
“I think the spring is always a great opportunity to play ev-
erybody, and give everybody an opportunity to prove them-selves,” Izzo-Brown said. “The spring is a great time for re-turning players to show the coaching staff what they can do because the freshman come in (for) the preseason and its their time to shine.”
In the Eastern Kentucky match, Izzo-Brown wants to see her team translate what they learn in practice into the game and not worry about results.
“(We) are trying to work on what we’ve worked on in (the) week of training, and then apply it in (the) game,” Izzo-Brown said. “The result isn’t important.
“It’s a combination of can we translate what we’ve done in the weeks of practice into the game, and the develop-ment of the player.”
One particular area Izzo-Brown is concentrating on de-veloping is the Mountaineer backline.
The only returning member of a backline who pitched 11 shutouts last season, Bry Mc-Carthy, is currently training with the Canadian National team. Izzo-Brown is looking to find replacements for the three departing seniors who anchored the Mountaineers last season.
“We’ve lost some great se-niors,” Izzo-Brown said. “Los-ing three of four backs is defi-nitely a hole, but I think some people have really stepped up.”
One of those players who
has stepped up while West Virginia waits for the return of McCarthy is junior Mallory Smith. Smith began last sea-son on the bench, but even-tually moved up to starting in the defensive midfield.
“Mallory Smith has done a great job back there for us this spring,” Izzo-Brown said. “(When McCarthy) gets back she will be leading and guid-ing so that is important.”
Izzo-Brown is a master when it comes to developing
a backline, and along with earning a shutout, the coach wants to see a technically sound Mountaineer squad on the pitch Saturday against the Colonels.
“I’m hoping that we have the ability to keep the ball, to connect our passes and, ob-viously, that we can defend a shutout, but also generate most of the possession,” she said.
brooke cassidy/the daily athenaeumHead coach Nikki Izzo-Brown and the West Virginia women’s soccer team went 3-1 while in Spain over the last three weeks.
by ben gaughanassocIatE sports EdItor
The West Virginia baseball team has flip-flopped wins and losses throughout its last six games.
This weekend, the Mountain-eers (14-20, 3-6 Big East) will travel to New Jersey for a three-game series against Rutgers (16-15, 4-5 Big East) to try and put a winning streak together for the first time since mid-March.
The first game will begin at 3 p.m. Friday, while Saturday’s and Sunday’s starts are slated for 1 p.m.
WVU sophomore right-hander Corey Walter will take the mound in game one. Wal-ter is 3-3 with a 5.72 ERA on the season and won his last de-cision against Villanova. The Wheeling, W.Va., native has pitched at least six innings in his last six starts, but also walked at least three hitters in his last four starts.
West Virginia has scored 33 runs in its last six games, going 3-3 in that span. Before losing 3-0 to Maryland Tuesday, the Mountaineers had not scored less than six runs in a game since their 3-1 loss to St. John’s on March 31.
The Mountaineer bats have been going steady and are led by the trio of sophomore first
baseman Ryan McBroom, sophomore left fielder Matt Frazier and freshman outfielder Bobby Boyd.
McBroom leads the team with a .317 batting average to go with 11 doubles, four home runs and 29 RBIs. Frazier is batting .310 with 14 doubles and 17 RBIs, while Boyd is batting .305 with 22 runs scored and 15 stolen bases in 17 attempts.
WVU is still batting just .253 as a team, but that number is better than what it was earlier in the season when the team was batting close to .200. Op-ponents are batting .304 against the Mountaineers this season.
Rutgers head coach Fred Hill is going with junior right-hander Tyler Gebler on Friday to try and limit the Mountain-eer hitters. Gebler is 1-3 with a 5.50 ERA in 34.1 innings pitched this season.
Junior lefty Rob Smorol will take the mound for the Scarlet Knights on Saturday. Smorol leads the Rutgers pitching staff with a 4-2 record and a 3.62 ERA in 47.1 innings pitched.
WVU head coach Greg Van Zant will put another left-hander, Marshall Thompson, on the mound Saturday. Thomp-son is 3-4 on the year with a 4.84 ERA in 48.1 innings pitched. He is second on the team next to pitcher Dan Dierdorff, with 26
strikeouts on the season.Junior infielder Patrick Kiv-
lehan leads Rutgers with a .381 batting average, seven home runs, 24 RBIs, 12 stolen bases and six doubles. Sophomore outfielder Brian O’Grady is bat-ting .328 with 26 runs scored, eight doubles, 19 RBIs and a team-leading 39 hits. Sopho-
more infielder Nick Favatella leads Rutgers with 30 runs scored and is tied with Kivle-han with 24 RBIs.
The Scarlet Knights defeated Fordham 15-4 in their last game and are 2-3 in their last five games.
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by amit batrasports WrItEr
The West Virginia track and field team continues the outdoor season with the Jesse Owens Classic this weekend in Columbus, Ohio, at the home of Ohio State University.
After a solid trip out west to Stanford last weekend, the Mountaineers look to have strong results at Ohio State.
“We are looking forward to competing this weekend at the Jesse Owens Classic,” said WVU head coach Sean Cleary.
“We are planning to take the groups who traveled to the Texas Relays and the Raleigh Relays. We look to have another great weekend of competition.”
Just like at the Stanford Invita-tional, this weekend’s competi-tion will not come easy for WVU. However, the same goal applies in this meet. The group from the Texas and Raleigh Relays enjoyed success and will hope to continue to improve.
“There will be tough compe-tition at Ohio State, but our fo-cus is to qualify more girls for the Big East Conference Out-door championships meet and the NCAA regional meet,” Cleary said.
“This will help prepare the team for the Big East Confer-ence championships because of the high level of athleti-cism we’ll see from compet-itors. We just need to fo-cus on ourselves and get the
qualifying times and marks, despite what the competition is doing around us.”
Coach Cleary hopes for his squad to step up against the level of competition it will see this next month leading up to the season’s ending races.
For long jumper Meghan Mock, the goal is simple. She has already qualified for the Big East Conference champi-onships, so improvement is her main focus.
“What I would like to achieve from this meet is a ticket to regionals,” Mock said.
“I have already quali-fied for the Big East Cham-pionships, but it is time to look beyond that. This meet prepares us for another chance
at improving this season before we head into the harder part of the year. It’s time to make sure everything is running smoothly and to make sure we are gain-ing confidence and improving as hoped.”
The ultimate goal for the squad is to qualify for NCAA regionals and NCAA Championships and get some more Mountaineers into the Big East Conference champi-onships in May.
The Big East Conference Championships take place from May 4-6 in Tampa, Fla., while the NCAA regionals are from May 24-26 in Jacksonville, Fla.
Patrick Gorrell/the daily athenaeumFirst baseman Ryan McBroom hits during a game against Villanova last weekend. McB-room leads the team with a .317 batting average.
WVu looks forward to Jesse owens classic
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tain, senior defender Eric Schoenle is a bit more under-standing of the plight of the young Mountaineers.
“It’s been a learning experi-ence for some of the younger guys,” Schoenle said. “It’s good for them to get more experi-ence just like I did freshman year. Hopefully, they’ll learn some valuable lessons from the spring games, and come next season, they’ll know ex-actly what to expect.”
WVU and Wake Forest tied in Morgantown in spring 2011, and after this weekend, the Mountaineers will only have two matches against Slippery Rock and West Virginia Tech to prove their worth.
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The West Virginia rowing team will travel to Cherry Hill, N.J., to complete in a challenging Knecht Cup Re-gatta on the Cooper River.
The last time the Moun-taineers competed on the Cooper River the team fin-ished their 2011 fall season by winning three medals at the Philadelphia Frostbite Regatta.
The Knecht Cup Regatta will be a two-day event, tak-ing place Friday and Sat-urday. More than 60 of the nation’s most competitive college and university teams are registered to compete in the regatta.
Now midway through their 2012 spring season the Moun-taineers, head coach Jimmy
King has yet again made some changes to the lineups.
Experimentation with line-ups were due to missing team members during workouts last week.
Practices are held at 6:15 a.m., but scheduling conflicts still occur.
“Our lineups are chang-ing more than we would like this time of the season, and that has affected each of our crew’s ability to develop a solid rhythm that comes from time spent rowing in stable lineups,” King said.
A minor recovery week was held to give the Mountaineers time to bounce back from the fatigue of training camp.
But the team is back to its normal workload, and with the experimentation of the new lineups, King contin-ues to be cautiously optimis-
tic about the team’s progress so far.
“In all of our crews, we’re seeing glimpses of good speed, but we need to con-tinue working on our consis-tency,” King said.
The Mountaineers look to find continued success af-ter 2011’s novice four win, the varsity eight and the sec-ond varsity eight, advancing to the grand final and the pe-tite final.
According to King, the team’s biggest challenge this weekend will be themselves. Each coxswain and each rower must be focused to suc-cessfully do their parts.
“For our crews to race suc-cessfully this weekend, they must race together,” King said.
The weather forecast for Friday’s race will be sunny
with a high of 64 F, winds from the northwest at 5-15 mph. Saturday’s forecast is partly cloudy with a high of 73 F, winds from the south-west at 10-20 mph.
Following the Knecht Cup, the Mountaineers will return home to prepare for their race on the Monongahela River in Star City, W.Va., April 21 against Dayton University.
Competing in the Knecht Cup Regatta will allow the Mountaineers to observe up-coming competition.
The team has been im-proving and staying focused on their ultimate goal of plac-ing in the upcoming 2012 Big East championship.
The Championship race is on May 13 on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J.
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matt sunday/the daily athenaeumCo-defensive coordinator Keith Patterson is happy with the consistency Jared Barber has shown in practice this spring.
linebackers, through 11 prac-tices this spring.
“He’s consistent with the way he approaches. He’s just a tough, hard-nosed kid,” Patterson said. “I don’t think you can be a leader unless you’re a guy that makes plays, so I challenge him to make plays. This sys-tem is linebacker-friendly, and you need to make plays (for the defense) to be successful.”
With a little more than a week until the Gold-Blue
Spring Game, Barber’s plan is to just keep doing what he’s been doing up to this point.
If that means he becomes the leader this group needs, so be it.
But if not, he’ll be fine with that, too.
“I’m just trying to gain the respect of everybody on the team, so if (the leader) is me, that’s great,” he said. “I try to be a leader. I try to be some-body that people can look up to, but if I’m not, then I’ll look up to the guy who is.
“The more you get out there, it will definitely help.”
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