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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
Thursday April 25, 2013 Volume 125, issue 141www.ThEdaONLINE.comda
The West Virginia University track team will travel to the Penn Relays and the Alumni Open this week-end. SPORTS PAGE 9
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Project gives inmates second chanceby Madison Fleck
staff writer
Each year, hundreds of inmates are wrongfully con-victed of crimes they didn’t commit and are forced to spend years in prison.
This year, the West Vir-ginia University College of Law started the Innocence Project, which gives these inmates the freedom they rightfully deserve.
The Innocence Project is
a program that gives third-year law students the oppor-tunity to solve these cases free of charge.
“It’s a really great expe-rience,” said David Estep, a third-year law student at WVU. “You can tell these inmates haven’t really had anyone to listen to their story in a long time, and lis-tening means a lot to them, because they’re forgotten about at that point.
“They see us as someone
that can offer them a voice.”The Innocence Projects
accepts applications from inmates who have been in prison for large amounts of time, and if there is an ac-tual innocence claim, they take on the case. The WVU project has received more than 150 applications this far and has many cases pending.
Estep said some of the ap-plicants have been in prison for decades, but unfortu-
nately, the Innocence Proj-ect can only accept appli-cants who have a valid claim to innocence.
“The most challenging part is probably making our way through the applica-tions and having to reject certain cases,” said Ashley Joseph, a third-year WVU law student involved with the Innocence Project.
The students thoroughly investigate the cases they undertake and send the ev-
idence to experts to deter-mine if a crime was actually committed.
“As good as our legal sys-tem is, there are still mis-takes,” Estep said. “We’re all human, and we’re going to make mistakes.”
The law students involved with the project were cho-sen from a lottery, and only four were chosen this year.
“I was lucky enough to get in after someone ahead of me had dropped,” Joseph
said. “I want to be a crim-inal defense attorney, and whenever I heard we were starting an Innocence Proj-ect at WVU, I knew I could have an impact.”
The students put much time and effort into the cases. Estep and his part-ner have already visited cer-tain inmates several times to obtain the information needed.
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alterra capital ceo, WVU alum to give lecture
by sUMMer ratcliFFstaff writer
Students will have the opportunity tonight at the Business and Economics Distinguished Speaker Series at 6 p.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms to hear from a highly suc-cessful entrepreneur who got his start at West Vir-ginia University.
W. Marston Becker, a WVU College of Business and Economics alum-nus, will be presenting to-night’s installment of the series.
Becker currently serves as the president and CEO of Alterra Capital Hold-ings Ltd., with assets at approximately $10 bil-lion. The company has major underwriting plat-forms in Bermuda, Ire-land, the United States, the United Kingdom and Latin America.
Jose Sartarelli, Milan Puskar dean of the Col-lege of B&E, said Becker is a successful business-man and said he believes students will have the op-portunity to learn from his firsthand experiences.
“Marty Becker repre-sents a very special story and is a person students can really look up to,” Sar-tarelli said. “He is from West Virginia, graduated from the state’s flagship University and loves this state very much.”
Sartarelli said since Becker once called WVU home, he is highly in-vested in the state.
“He serves this state in a number of capaci-ties, and he has invested in this state. He is a highly successful businessman who has truly excelled in everything he has done, and there is much to be learned from him,” Sar-tarelli said.
Becker also currently serves as chairman of West Virginia Media Hold-ings, a statewide media company he cofounded in 2001.
WVMH has eight televi-sion stations and a news-paper that reaches 90 percent of West Virginia’s population.
Zachary Klingensmith,
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WVU HAS TWO PLAyERS ExPECTED TO GO IN THE FIRST ROUND OF THE NFL DRAFT. SEE SPORTS PAGE 12
‘coMMUnicatinG science’
by ashley tennantstaff writer
West Virginia University’s Sci-ence on Tap presented its first-ever WVU Science Idol Wednes-day at the Mountain State Brewing Company.
Participants included students and professors from various sci-ence programs at WVU.
Each of the 10 contestants had three minutes to present his/her re-search. Of the ten contestant, three winners were chosen.
“Tonight, we are celebrating our second-year anniversary of Sci-
ence on Tap, (it) was actually a part of a class two years ago under the supervision of Professor Jim Be-langer at the Biology Department,” said Beatriz Vianna, a doctoral biol-ogy student. “It was a seminar class called, ‘Communicating Science to the General Public.’”
Vianna said a research report showed people hold many misun-derstandings about science, so the class decided they needed to find a way to dispel the misconceptions.
“The purpose of Science on Tap is to try to decrease the gap that we have between science and society,” she said.
Vianna said she got the idea for the event through her own volun-teer work at a similar event with the National Science Foundation program.
“To be considered a scientist idol, you should be able to present your topic and your research in an entertaining way,” Vianna said.
The prizes awarded included gift cards to Mountain State Brewing Company, and the first-place win-ner also received a slot in WVU’s Festival of Ideas series next year.
Paul Holcomb, doctoral student
mikA kinslow/THe DAilY ATHenAeumWVU Science Idol contestants prepared presentations on topics of their choice for the judges.
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“Our case is our baby,” Es-tep said. “We’re a little sad that we’re going to be leav-ing at the end of the se-mester, because there is a little bit of that emotional investment.”
Estep and the other stu-dent attorneys involved with the Innocence Project said they hope to give these in-
mates a voice.“These people were shuf-
fled under the carpet by so-ciety, and some of them didn’t deserve it,” Estep said. “By having this type of pro-gram, we are able to help people that are wrongfully convicted of these crimes.”
For more information about the Innocence Proj-ect, visit www.innocen-ceproject.org.
innocenceContinued from PAGE 1
sGa offers resolutions on aeds, mentoringby bryan bUMGardner
associate city editor
The Student Govern-ment Association of West Virginia University met Wednesday night, read-ing resolutions and pass-ing student organization grants in their second-to-last meeting of the aca-demic year.
Two new resolutions were presented for first reading in accordance with the new method of resolu-tion adoption.
First presented was the Support for Mentoring Res-
olution, a potential pro-gram organized by Gov-ernors Stephen Scott, Joy Wang and Spenser Wempe.
According to the resolu-tion, a mentoring program would match at-risk stu-dents with faculty, staff and alumni mentors for emo-tional support, network-ing opportunities and help adapting to college life to improve retention rates.
“I feel like by having a mentor that can be there for you for the good times and the bad times, it becomes really personal,” Scott said. “At our University, there are
so many alumni who want to get involved, and they can by taking someone un-der their wing.”
The program, which was originally started by former Governor Bridgette Boyd, is still in the formative stages. However, Scott plans to have the program running by next school year.
“With the support of SGA, we can know this will continue even past my years on the board,” Scott said.
Also presented for first reading was a resolution to implement Automatic
External Defibrillators in residence halls, written by Governor Evan McIntyre and co-sponsored by gov-ernors Blaine Blankenship and George W. Capel.
AEDs are easy-to-use devices that can drastically increase the chances of survival for someone suf-fering from a sudden car-diac arrest. This resolution would endorse a program to place these AEDs in resi-dence halls across campus.
“There are so many cases reported annually where if there had been an AED, there would have been a
different outcome,” Mc-Intyre said.
According to research done by cardiacscience.com, there are 295,000 car-diac arrests a year, 7,000 of which occurr in children.
Research also estimates easy access to AEDs could save up to 40,000 people per year.
“I bet you I can find sev-eral places around cam-pus where there’s a large amount of traffic and no AED,” McIntyre said. “I want to do the very best job we can to protect students.”
Several student orga-
nizations were awarded grants at the meeting. Free Thinking Inquiring Secular Humanists, the WVU Young Democrats America, WVU Law Justice Group College of Law, Student Partner-ship for Cosmic Explora-tion, WVU Triathlon Club and the National Society of College Scholars all re-ceived grants.
SGA’s final meeting of the academic year will take place Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Hatfields room B.
a WVU economics instruc-tor, said he encourages students who may not be studying economics or even interested in econom-ics to still consider attend-ing the event.
“Regardless of major, all students should consider attending this event,” Klin-gensmith said. “More and more companies are look-ing for employees that can wear many hats. For ex-ample, the speaker is the CEO of an insurance group and is also the chairman of a media company. Even
though these are some-what unrelated, he is able to succeed at both.”
Klingensmith said stu-dents will be able to learn to become more market-able by attending the event. Klingensmith said Becker’s excellence in various as-pects of the workforce con-tributes to his success.
“To be competitive in the workforce, you need to be able to excel at more than one thing, and Becker is a great example of this and could prove to be an inspiration to students in that way,” Klingensmith said.
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of health and sciences won first prize for his pre-sentation, “Making Con-nections: The Science of Wiring the Brain.”
“My presentation was on this new initiative that the Obama administration is undertaking with the NIH (National Institute of Health) and the NSF,” Hol-comb said. “It’s going to start out at $100 million a year, it may actually in-crease to as much as $300 million a year.”
“The initiative is funding neuroscience technology, so basically, the idea is we want to eventually build a schematic of the human brain that’s capable of al-lowing us to understand how diseases progress in the brain, how memories
are stored, how we recall information and how we learn,” he said. “The im-portant step in that is to develop the technologies that are necessary to see the brain in action.”
Holcomb said the brain initiative is set to fund technology that will study how connections are made in the brain and what hap-pens when those connec-tions go wrong.
“It’s really difficult to get the funding to do the types of science that we need to do to improve not just our knowledge in science, but also the lives of everyone,” he said. “So, the more peo-ple who understand why we’re asking for the money, the better chance there is that we will get the money, and all of our lives will get better.”
science Continued from PAGE 1
2 boys, 3 adults shot to death in illinois town U.S. NEWS
ApPolice officials investigate the scene at a house in manchester, Ill., where five people were found slain in the tiny southwestern Illinois town early Wednesday.
MaNChEsTEr, Ill. (aP) — The nephew of a small-town Illinois mayor shot and killed five people, in-cluding two boys, be-fore leading police on a chase that ended in an ex-change of gunfire that left him dead, authorities said Wednesday.
Illinois State Police said they believe Rick O. Smith, 43, entered a Manchester home through the back door and shot the victims at close range with a shot-gun, leaving two women, one man and the boys dead. Two people were found in a bedroom, two in a second bedroom and the man in the hallway. A sixth victim, a 6-year-old girl, was injured and taken to a Springfield hospital.
“The offender took the 6-year-old out of the resi-dence and put her in the hands of a neighbor,” State Police Lt. Col. Todd Kilby said.
Officials have not re-vealed a motive for the kill-ings. Police said the victims are related. Authorities be-lieve Smith and the victims were acquainted, but they didn’t provide details of the relationships.
A bystander called po-lice and told them that Smith fled the home in a white sedan. A car chase ensued, leading authorities to the nearby town of Win-chester, where Smith and officers exchanged gunfire. Officers shot Smith, and he later died at a hospital.
Police said they found
a rifle, shotgun and large hunting knife in Smith’s car.
Coroner officials said they plan autopsies on the victims Thursday morning in Bloomington and iden-tities would be released at that time.
Scott County State’s At-torney Michael Hill said Smith, of rural Morgan County, had previous con-victions for reckless ho-micide, drugs and bad checks.
Manchester Mayor Ron-ald Drake confirmed that Smith was his nephew, saying he hadn’t spoken to Smith in two years, but he believed his nephew was unemployed. Drake said the last time Smith con-tacted him was to borrow
tools.In Manchester, yellow
police tape surrounded the small one-story brick home where the victims were found. Manchester is a village of about 300 res-idents located about 50 miles west of Springfield.
“It’s a close-knit com-munity,” Drake said. “Ev-erybody talks to every-body. ... We enjoy that goes on (in) town. This is just a tragedy for (the) whole town.”
The last homicide in Scott County was 20 years ago, in 1993.
Manchester resident Ju-lie Hardwick, 48, said she lives in the same county housing authority complex as the victims. Authorities told her she couldn’t re-
turn to her home yet be-cause of the investigation, she said.
“The kids were really nice,” Hardwick said of the family. “You couldn’t ask for better kids.”
The Rev. Robin Lyons of Manchester United Meth-odist Church, one of two churches in the commu-nity said, “this shows trag-edy can happen anywhere.”
Two area school super-intendents said they re-ceived calls from county sheriffs before 6 a.m. in-forming them that five people had been shot to death at a house in Man-chester and that a suspect was at large.
Superintendent Da-vid Roberts of the Win-chester School District and
Les Stevens of the North Greene Unit District No. 3 both said they immediately canceled classes when they were told of the shootings and that other school dis-tricts did the same.
Ro b e r t s s a i d t h e wounded girl is a stu-dent at Winchester Grade School and her teacher was with her at the Spring-field hospital.
The school will use its own counselor, nurse and other staff members to help students who need to talk, Roberts said. Other area districts have offered to help too.
Roberts said he also will call on area ministers to be available on campus. “I’ve found that to be helpful in the past,” he said.
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Canada terror plot suspect grew more radical
TORONTO (AP) — One of two men accused of plot-ting with al-Qaida mem-bers in Iran to derail a train in Canada became radical-ized to the point that his fa-ther reached out to a Mus-lim support group for help and advice, a local religious leader said Wednesday.
Muhammad Robert Heft, president of the Para-dise Forever Support Group Inc., a non-profit organiza-tion that provides support to Muslims in Canada, said Mohammad Jaser came to him several times citing concerns about the radical-ization of his son.
“He came to me about his son saying he how con-cerned he was getting about the rigidness of his son and his interpretation of Islam. He was becoming self-righ-teous, becoming pushy, pushing his views on how much they (his family) should be practicing as a Muslim,” said Heft.
Jaser’s son, Raed, 35, has been charged along with
Chiheb Esseghaier, 30 with conspiring to carry out an attack and murder people in association with a ter-rorist group in their plot to derail a train that runs be-tween New York City and Montreal.
Canadian investigators say the men received guid-hance from members of al-Qaida in Iran. Iranian gov-ernment officials have said the government had noth-ing to do with the plot.
“His son was becoming overzealous and intolerant in his understanding of the religion,” Heft said. “Those are the telltale signs that can lead into the radicalization process.”
The discussions took place between 2010 and 2011, while the father was renting a basement apart-ment in Heft’s home in Markham, Ontario.
On Wednesday, the other suspect appeared briefly in court where he made a statement suggesting he did not recognize the court’s
jurisdiction.“This criminal code is not
a holy book,” Esseghaier said at the hearing. “We cannot rely on the conclu-sions taken out from these judgments.”
At the hearing Esseghaier rejected the allegations against him and declined to be represented by a court-appointed lawyer.
Jaser had appeared in court Tuesday and did not enter a plea. The court granted a request by his lawyer, John Norris, for a publication ban on future evidence and testimony.
Both men were ordered to return to court on May 23.
“We are waiting for the disclosure and we will be defending against the charges,” Norris said in a telephone interview on Wednesday.
Norris declined to com-ment when asked if he wanted his client’s case separated from Esseghaier, who has spoken out twice in court despite being ad-
vised not to.Police – tipped off by an
imam worried by the behav-ior of one of the suspects – said it was the first known attack planned by al-Qaida in Canada. The two could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted.
The case has raised ques-tions about the extent of Shiite-led Iran’s relation-ship with al-Qaida, a pre-dominantly Sunni Arab terrorist network. It also re-newed attention on Iran’s complicated history with the terror group, which ranges from outright hos-tility to alliances of conve-nience and even overtures by Tehran to assist Wash-ington after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Canadian police said this week they didn’t think it was a case of state spon-sored terrorism.
Law officials in New York with knowledge of the in-vestigation told The Asso-ciated Press the attack was to take place on the Cana-
dian side of the border. They are not authorized to dis-cuss the investigation and spoke only on condition of anonymity.
Norris has questioned the timing of the arrests, pointing to ongoing debates in the Canadian Parliament over a new anti-terrorism law that would expand the powers of police and intel-ligence agencies.
Norris has noted Jaser was a permanent resident of Canada who has lived there for 20 years. Norris refused to say where Jaser was from, saying that revealing his na-tionality in the current cli-mate amounted to demon-izing him.
Canadian police have de-clined to release the men’s nationalities, saying only they had been in Canada a “significant amount of time.” But a London-based newspaper Al Arab re-ported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources in the Gulf, that Jaser is a Jorda-nian passport holder with
full name Raed Jaser Ibra-him Amouri, who had vis-ited the UAE several times and most recently in Sep-tember 2011. The newspa-per reported that the sus-pect also visited other Gulf countries including Qatar and Saudi Arabia. It was not possible to independently confirm the report.
Esseghaier, in a profile on a university department website –which has since been removed – says he was born in Tunis, Tunisia.
The investigation sur-rounding the planned at-tack was part of a cross-border operation involving Canadian law enforcement agencies, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Home-land Security. Canadian police said the men never got close to carrying out the attack.
The warning first came from an imam in Toronto, who in turn was tipped off by suspicious behav-ior on the part of one of the suspect.
APA man walks his dog past a mosque where Chiheb Esseghaier, one of the two accused in an alleged plot to bomb a Via passenger train, used to attend in Montreal.
Minaret of famed mosque in Syria destroyedBEIRUT (AP) — The 11th-
century minaret of a famed mosque that towered over the narrow stone alleyways of Aleppo’s old quarter col-lapsed Wednesday as reb-els and government troops fought pitched battles in the streets around it, depriv-ing the ancient Syrian city of one of its most important landmarks.
President Bashar Assad’s government and the reb-els trying to overthrow him traded blame over the de-struction to the Umayyad Mosque, a UNESCO world heritage site and centerpiece of Aleppo’s walled Old City.
“This is like blowing up the Taj Mahal or destroy-ing the Acropolis in Athens. This mosque is a living sanc-tuary,” said Helga Seeden, a professor of archaeology at the American University of Beirut. “This is a disaster. In terms of heritage, this is the worst I’ve seen in Syria. I’m horrified.”
Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and a commercial hub, emerged as a key battle-ground in the nation’s civil war after rebels launched an offensive there last sum-mer. Since then, the fighting has carved the city into rebel- and regime-held zones, killed thousands of people, forced thousands more to flee their homes and laid waste to en-tire neighborhoods.
The Umayyad Mosque complex, which dates mostly from the 12th century, suf-fered extensive damage in October as both sides fought to control the walled com-
pound in the heart of the old city. The fighting left the mosque burned, scarred by bullets and trashed. Two weeks earlier, the nearby medieval covered market, or souk, was gutted by a fire sparked by fighting.
With thousands of years of written history, Syria is home to archaeological trea-sures that date back to bibli-cal times, including the des-ert oasis of Palmyra, a cultural center of the ancient world. The nation’s capital, Damas-cus, is one of the oldest con-tinually inhabited cities in the world.
At least five of Syria’s six World Heritage sites have been damaged in the fight-ing, according to UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural agency. Looters have broken into one of the world’s best-pre-served Crusader castles, Crac des Chevaliers, and ruins in the ancient city of Palmyra were damaged. Both rebel and regime forces have set up bases in some of Syria’s significant historic sites, in-cluding citadels and Turkish bath houses, while thieves have stolen artifacts from museums.
The destruction of the minaret – which dated to 1090 and was the oldest sur-viving part of the Umayyad Mosque – brought outrage and grief.
“What is happening is a big shame,” said Imad a-Khal, a 59-year-old Chris-tian businessman in Aleppo. “Thousands of tourists used to visit this site. Every day is a black day for Syrians.”
The main Western-backed opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, accused the government of inten-tionally committing “a crime against civilization and hu-manity” by destroying the minaret.
“The regime has done all it can to tear apart the Syr-ian social fabric,” the Coali-tion said in a statement. “By its killings and destruction of heritage, it is planting bitter-ness in the hearts of the peo-ple that will be difficult to erase for a long time to come.”
There were conflicting ac-counts about what leveled the minaret, leaving the once-soaring stone tower a pile of rubble and twisted metal scattered in the mosque’s tiled courtyard.
Syria’s state news agency said rebels from the al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra group blew it up, while Aleppo-
based activist Mohammed al-Khatib said a Syrian army tank fired a shell that “totally destroyed” the minaret.
The mosque fell into rebel hands earlier this year after heavy fighting but the area around the compound re-mains contested, with Syrian troops just some 200 yards (meters) away.
An amateur video posted online by the anti-govern-ment Aleppo Media Cen-ter showed the mosque’s vaulted archways charred from earlier fighting and a pile of rubble where the min-aret used to be.
Standing inside the mosque courtyard, a man who appeared to be a rebel fighter, said regime forces recently fired seven shells at the minaret but failed to knock it down. On Wednes-day, the tank rounds struck their target, he said.
APThe minaret of a famed 12th century Umayyad mosque before it was destroyed by the shelling, in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria.
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Last week, we saw the United States Congress in total uproar when faced with the prospect of enact-ing meaningful gun control legislation. Despite the fact a Gallup poll put 91 percent of Americans in favor of ex-panded background checks, the Senate failed to pass the bill to put these checks in place.
It is a rare thing for so many Americans to agree on one issue, particu-larly if it’s about gun con-trol. The exception is if they think Congress is doing a good job: only 15 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing at the moment.
Here’s the thing, though: this problem is not going to go away.
Just yesterday, some ma-niac broke into a family’s home in Manchester, Ill., and killed all five of them– the grandmother, the par-ents and the two kids. The shooter then got into a fire-fight with police and died from his injuries in the hospital.
It’s so incredibly de-pressing just how predict-able these shootings have become. It feels as though they’re weekly fixtures on the news now; you could set America’s watch to them. That’s why satirical pseudo-news outlet The Onion ran an article with the headline, “It Wouldn’t Surprise You If This Headline Was About 318 People Being Shot In 12 Different Public Places.”
The gun control debate it-self is already worn and fa-miliar to both sides. It ap-pears that simply using facts and statistics to try to show why gun control is neces-sary will never sway its de-tractors. So, let’s try a dif-ferent tactic: historical evidence.
Six years ago at Virginia Tech, a student named Seung-Hui Cho went on a shooting rampage, killing
32 people and injuring 23 before killing himself. Dur-ing the massacre, Cho kept his pistols loaded with ex-tended magazines that had been banned for 10 years by the Federal Assault Weap-ons Ban. That ban expired two years before the Vir-ginia Tech Massacre.
While nobody can say so with certainty, it is very likely Cho would not have been able to go on a killing spree of this magnitude (the largest by a single gunman in U.S. history) if he had not been able to use these ex-tended magazines, which were not available until just two years before.
Is any of this sinking in?
Does the fact that there weren’t unthinkable mass shootings with assault weapons while the Federal Assault Weapons Ban was in place have any sort of trac-tion with you, opponents of gun control?
If not, here are some more examples: James Holmes, the maniac who shot up a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., killed 15 peo-ple and injured 58, using weaponry that would have been banned by the Federal Assault Weapons Ban.
Wade Page went on a rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, again using weapons that would pre-viously have been illegal,
to kill six, wound four and then kill himself.
These are historical facts. This is not an argument that can somehow alter the past. These shootings were all made possible by weap-onry that would have been illegal just a few years prior.
Opponents of gun con-trol said laws won’t stop the truly determined from il-legally obtaining guns and everyday law-abiding cit-izens would be defense-less against these assault weapon-toting outlaws.
The problem is one could say the same about nearly any law. It’s not legal for all of us to drive tanks around the roads, but you don’t see
people complaining that if someone managed to get a tank illegally, we would all be goners.
And yes, tanks are radi-cally different from guns, but there isn’t really a good parallel for guns.
Let’s just discuss the comparison on principle. Is it logical that everyone should keep extra-danger-ous items just in case a few people ended up with extra-dangerous items?
It’s not like we’re talking about awesome toys here, which have suddenly been recalled because some kids choked on the parts. We’re talking about assault weap-ons being used to kill peo-
ple. They may be used in self-defense, they may well be used for some other righ-teous purpose, but their sin-gle reason for existing is to kill people.
Limiting the availabil-ity of tools that kill peo-ple doesn’t seem like a bad idea, just as expand-ing background checks to online gun sales and gun shows seems like a swell plan.
But in the end, we must all keep one very impor-tant fact in mind: Congress knows best, and they’re not going to kowtow to some-thing as insignificant as the overwhelming will of the people.
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These days, bad lunch food isn’t the only issue in West Virginia school cafeterias.
The House of Delegates recently passed a bill called the Feed to Achieve Act, which would use both pri-vate and public donations to give free lunches to all pub-lic schoolchildren from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade. Currently, only 55 percent of children from low-in-come families receive a free
or discounted lunch, yet two-thirds of these school-children do not take advan-tage of the free breakfast provided.
Delegate Ray Canterbury (R-Greenbrier) has sug-gested another route, ref-erencing the age-old adage “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
“I think it would be a good idea if we perhaps had kids work for their lunches,” Canterbury recommended
to the House of Delegates, stating that free lunches would “destroy their work ethic.” Instead, students would erase chalkboards, take out trash, mow lawns and perform other tasks in order to earn their lunches.
The idea of more public school handouts, given the fact so few of the free break-fasts provided are even uti-lized by the students, seems like a retrograde idea.
Furthermore, forcing
children to do menial tasks – even ones comparable to the daily chores they may have at home – seems silly compared to the large sums of money spent providing free textbooks, school sup-plies and overall education to public school students – all of which come with-out a price to the students themselves.
The idea of suddenly making school lunches free for all is novel both in its
mixture of private and pub-lic funding, but also for in-troducing the idea of en-hancing work ethic among students for something that, with the exception of lunches, has always been free.
While entitlement should be avoided, forcing students to do the work of janitors may do more harm than good.
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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR
BORN TODAY This year you have a lot of pressure on you, even when dealing with very difficult people. You tend to have more energy and power than you have had in the past. Your creativity flows, which makes you very desirable to the op-posite sex. If you are single, you will have many choices. You do not need to look for someone. If you are at-tached, you could see a fireworks dis-play happening between the two of you more frequently. SCORPIO has issues similar to yours, but he or she manifests them differently.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH Today’s lunar eclipse sug-gests that you slow down, especially regarding communication. Curb any sarcastic comments, even if you think they are funny. Understand that oth-ers might be uncomfortable, so make it a point to listen to them carefully. Tonight: Take a deep breath.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHH Someone might open up and let you know about all of the things that you have done wrong. Maintain your composure, and recognize that this person is unusually upset. Defending yourself might not be as important as listening to him or her right now. To-night: Go with the flow.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHH You usually give 100 percent, but that does not lessen the impact of today’s lunar eclipse. You might want to pull back and establish boundar-ies if too much is dumped on you, or if you need more space to complete your work. Tonight: Put your feet up
and relax.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH You might want to think in terms of adding more fun to your life. Excite-ment seems inevitable, especially in-volving a creative venture or a loved one. In the near future, a change in status is very possible. Tonight: Meet friends, and dance the night away.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHH Pres-sure builds at home, and it could seep into other areas of your life. It would be in your best interests to do some-thing to stop this pattern. A family member might be overserious. There is no way around it. You have humor and caring going for you. Tonight: Make it early.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHH Un-expected information comes forward that could set you back, at least for a little while. Someone who is instru-mental to your well-being could be vague at best. You need to get more facts before making any decisions. Tonight: Do not push someone too hard.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHH You could find that your more pos-sessive side emerges in a discussion. If money is slipping through your fin-gers quickly, realize that you might be trying to ease some strong feel-ings. Be aware of the implications as well as your actions. Tonight: Ever playful.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH You could discover that you have more hidden feelings and agendas than you thought. Emotions run high, and you might not have your usual self-discipline. Try to refrain from do-ing anything that could have some
serious ramifications. Tonight: Play it cool.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHH Slow down to avoid making a mistake that could happen too easily. Even if you have an agreement with someone, you could discover other-wise today. Let this lunar eclipse work positively in your life and bring out what is hidden within you. Tonight: Not to be found.
C APRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH You could be looking at a major change in the near future. This transformation could be very different from one person to the next. Stay clear. You have unusual insight, and others often come to you for solutions to their prob-lems. Tonight: Accept someone’s invitation.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH You might want to say little if a per-sonal matter is blowing up in your face. Deal with outside matters, run errands and touch base with others. Listen to feedback, and try not to minimize the importance of certain decisions. Tonight: Out and about with friends.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHH Your ability to get past an immediate problem marks your decisions. Don’t assume that you have resolved the situation just yet, though. You might want to test the resolution with a lit-tle time. People are very changeable at this point in time. Tonight: In the limelight.
BORN TODAY Actor Al Pacino
(1940), singer Ella Fitzgerald (1917), journalist Fiona Bruce (1964)
EVERY WEDNESDAYTAI CHI is taught from
6:30-8 p.m. Other class times are available. For more information, call 304-319-0581.
CATHOLICS ON CAMPUS meets at 8 p.m. at 1481 Uni-versity Ave. For more infor-mation, call 304-296-8231.
ESL CONVERSATION TA-BLE meets at 6 p.m. at the Blue Moose Cafe. All na-tionalities are welcome. The table is sponsored by Monongalia County Liter-acy Volunteers, a member of the United Way family. For more information on Liter-acy Volunteers, contact Jan at 304-296-3400 or [email protected].
AIKIDO FOR BEGINNERS is at 6 p.m. at Lakeview Fit-ness Center. There are spe-cial rates for WVU students. For more information, email [email protected].
STUDENTS FOR SENSI-
BLE DRUG POLICY meets at 7 p.m. in Room 105 of Woodburn Hall . For more information, email [email protected].
CHAMPION TRAINING ACADEMY offers free tum-bling and stunting from 8:30-9:30 p.m. for those in-terested in competing on a Coed Open International Level 5 Cheerleading Team. For more information, call 304-291-3547 or email CTA at [email protected].
WVU’S GENDER EQUAL-ITY MOVEMENT, formerly the Feminist Majority Lead-ership Alliance, meets in the Cacapon Room of the Mountainlair at 6:30 p.m. For more information, email [email protected].
CONTINUALWELLNESS PROGRAMS
on topics such as drink-WELL, loveWELL, chillWELL and more are provided for interested student groups, organizations or classes by WELLWVU: Wellness and Health Promotion. For more information, visit www.well.wvu.edu/wellness.
W E L LW V U : S T U D E N T HEALTH is paid for by tuition and fees and is confidential. For appointments or more information, call 304-293-2311 or visit www.well.edu.wvu/medical.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meets nightly in the Mor-gantown and Fairmont ar-eas. For more information,
call the helpline at 800-766-4442 or visit www.mrscna.org.
A LCO H O L I C S A N O NY -MOUS meets daily. To find a meeting, visit www.aawv.org. For those who need help urgently, call 304-291-7918.
CONFIDENTIAL COUNSEL-ING SERVICES are provided for free by the Carruth Cen-ter 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 counseling.
WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN needs volunteers. WIC provides education, supplemental foods and immunizations for pregnant women and children under five years of age. This is an opportunity to earn volun-teer hours for class require-ments. For more informa-tion, call 304-598-5180 or 304-598-5185.
NEW SPRING SEMES-TER GROUP THERAPY OP-PORTUNITIES are available for free at the Carruth Cen-ter. The groups include Un-derstanding Self and Oth-ers, Sexual Assault Survivors Group, Mountaineer Men: An Interpersonal Process Group, and Know Thyself: An Interpersonal Process Group. For more informa-tion call 293-4431 or con-tact [email protected].
FEATURE OF THE DAY
A WVU JAPANESE PROFES-SOR PRESENTS “442 LIVE WITH HONOR, DIE WITH DIG-NITY” today at 11:30 a.m in the Rhododendron Room in the WVU Mountainlair. Asako No, coordinator of the Japa-nese program in the Depart-ment of World Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, will give the presentation. Pizza will be served on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Reggae, ska to invade Fat Daddy’s Bar & Grill
By hunter homisteka&e editor
Accomplished reggae-funk group Tropidelic will perform tonight at 10 at Fat Daddy’s Bar & Grill.
Formed in 2007 Trop-idelic immediately set itself apart from other tri-state outfits through its groove-heavy reggae approach. This style resonated with the area’s music scene, and Tropidelic rode their su-cacess to high-profile gigs at venues such as The House
of Blues and Mr. Smalls. The group opened for
noted names such as Sub-lime with Rome, Slightly Stoopid and SOJA – an ac-complishment that comes as no surprise given Trop-idelic’s considerable tal-ent and dedication to their craft.
“Tropidelic is just as good as any of the big-name American reggae/hip-hop hybrids,” said event pro-moter Adam Payne. “They have lyricism as good as Slightly Stoopid and can
groove like SOJA. It’s not surprising they’ve shared the stage with both of them.”
Further separating Trop-idelic from the host of cover bands and cookie-cutter groups that infest today’s musical landscape are its poignant and critical lyrics.
Drawing from their hip-hop inspirations, Tropidelic is not afraid to question au-thority and expose the in-adequacies of our country’s leadership. Still, the band understands people some-
times turn to live music as a release and a chance to for-get about the stress and the struggles of everyday life, and they certainly accom-modate that crowd.
“Tropidelic really pushes the hip-hop side with strong lyrics that can be politically moving or straight-up party jams,” Payne said.
Before Tropidelic un-leashes its fused style upon the audience tonight, Mor-gantown’s Black Action Cop will take the stage and set the mood with a blistering
brand of ska scarcely seen on the regional level.
This six-piece outfit rock-eted in popularity dur-ing the course of the past year, earning some impres-sive distinctions along the way, including the first-place prize at 123 Pleasant Street’s “Best Song Com-petition” and a spot on WCLG’s popular “Punk & Ska show with Bailey B.”
“Black Action Cop catches peoples’ atten-tion with their witty name,” Payne said. “They definitely
don’t disappoint when the horns start blaring.”
With two jam-friendly acts in Black Action Cop and Tropidelic on deck, Fat Daddy’s Bar & Grill prom-ises to provide the perfect atmosphere to hit the dance floor and close out your week to the smooth sounds of reggae and ska.
There will be a $5 cover, and concertgoers must be at least 21 years old to attend.
http://buckeyemusicmagazine.com/Ohio-based reggae group Tropidelic comes to Fat Daddy’s Bar & Grill tonight at 10.
A medley of music filled Lyell B. Clay Concert The-atre at the Creative Arts Center Tuesday, as the West Virginia University Wind Symphony show-cased their work before an intimate audience.
The WVU Wind Sym-phony will tour Charles-ton, W. Va., Friday, and Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, using Tuesday’s show as a preview for this weekend.
Walls of brass clashed with illustrious winds, all while the maestros fidg-eted along rhythmically. With staccato precision and immaculate time, the wind symphony performed a va-riety of different tunes for the mostly older crowd to enjoy.
The conductors changed with almost every perfor-mance, as did the number of the performers.
While the opening over-ture filled the concert stage to capacity, the next num-ber featured only half as many.
Consisting of two seg-ments broken up by an in-termission, the conclusion of the first featured an un-usual yet stimulating num-ber titled, “The Sinfonians,” which, along with the sym-phony, showcased an en-tire male chorus.
The piece was challeng-ing and grandiose, yet it re-mained cheeky despite the royalty added by the choir.
Presented by the Phi Mu Alpha music fraternity, “The Sinfonians” chorus sang for this special one-night only event, as the choir will not join the rest of the ensemble on their tour.
“The Sinfonians” is a march written by Clif-ton Williams, and it’s ac-tually a piece that can be played alone with just the band,” said Derek Phillips, a freshman exercise phys-iology student. “It can also be done with the vocal part, which is actually a lot more rare because you typically don’t have the numbers of a men’s choir like ours and the band to accompany it.”
Phillips sang in the choir for “The Sinfonians” and plays the tuba and trom-bone for The Pride of West Virginia: The Mountaineer Marching Band.
Conducting “The Sin-fonians” was Christopher Nichter, who is a WVU alumnus and has also served a member of the fac-ulty since 2007.
“It’s just one of those things that you don’t get to do everyday, especially when you have a group of guys that sing as well as these guys do,” Nichter said. “It’s wonderful to col-laborate with them and get them on stage with one of our premier ensembles.”
After the intermission, the show was highlighted by the legendary num-ber, “Rhapsody in Blue,” by George Gershwin.
Alumnus and composer James Miltenberger played the piano, while the sym-phony matched his noise level with perfect restraint. The piece received a warm standing ovation from the crowd before resting for the final number, “Mountain-eers Are Always Free.”
The weekend tour by the WVU Wind Symphony will conclude their live concerts for spring 2013.
WVU Wind Symphony captivates Creative Arts Center
kyle monroe/the Daily athenaeumThe brothers of Phi Mu Alpha accompanied the WVU Wind Symphony during part of the concert Tuesday night.
JAmes yAriAa&e writer
kyle monroe/the Daily athenaeumProfessor Christopher Nichter stands before the audience after conducting part of the concert Tuesday night at the Creative Arts Center.
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Rihanna breaks record with latest single
hollywoodactressbox.blogspot.comPop artist Rihanna poses during a photoshoot.
Rihanna received tre-mendous news Tuesday that established her as one of the most popular and established artists of this generation.
This week, as “Stay” fea-turing Mikky Ekko rose from No. 2 to No. 1 on the U.S. iTunes chart, Rihanna also surpassed Katy Perry
for the most No. 1 singles on the Billboard’s Pop Songs radio airplay chart, reach-ing a total of 10 No. 1 hits for the star.
“Stay” is the 25-year-old artist’s latest single from her seventh studio album, “Unapologetic.”
In the 20-year history of this specific Billboard chart, no other star has been able to tally 10 No. 1 singles – es-pecially in such a short pe-riod of time.
Katy Perry recently
owned the title with nine No. 1 songs on the pop chart.
Rihanna tied this mark when “We Found Love” featuring Calvin Harris reached No. 1 and remained there for a solid eight weeks, which is also the star’s lon-gest continuous stay at No. 1.
After Rihanna found out “Stay” would be her 10th No. 1 on the pop charts, she took to Twitter to celebrate.
“It’s a big day in Billboard
history!!!! We Rihwrite re-cords over here!” Rihanna tweeted.
She also thanked her fans, Billboard, Roc Nation and Def Jam Recordings via Twitter Monday.
“Stay” is also just the sec-ond song with only piano and vocal to reach No. 1 of the 259 songs that have stood atop the pop song chart.
The first piano-and-vo-cal-only No. 1 was “When I Was Your Man” by Bruno
Mars until “Stay” dethroned the song this week.
Rihanna’s first No. 1 came in 2006 with “SOS,” the lead single from her second al-bum, “A Girl Like Me.” This song spent a week in the No. 1 spot.
In 2008, Rihanna racked up three No. 1s with “Take a Bow,” “Disturbia” and “Live Your Life.” She also earned the spot three times in 2010 with “Rude Boy,” “Love The Way You Lie” and “Only Girl (In the World).”
In 2011, “S&M” and “We Found Love” topped the charts before “Stay” did so this week.
Rihanna has even more reason to celebrate, as “Un-apologetic” was recently her first album to reach the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200.
It seems as though suc-cess will only continue to follow this star, leaving pos-sibilities for the future and more No. 1 hits wide open.
LACEY PALMERASSOCIATE A&E EDITOR
Existential spammers in action at 123
Although it took nearly three months of prepara-tion, it was all over in 13 minutes – they were all dead.
Yesterday marked the first time in Morgantown history that Master of Fine Arts stu-dents at West Virginia Uni-versity hosted the “Exis-tential Spammers” Event at 123 Pleasant Street, an in-vasion of Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” into the video game Counter-Strike: Global offensive.
The lights in 123 are off, and the center stage is nearly empty, criss-crossed with myriad wires and ca-bles. Projectors light up the side and back walls. There are four performers in front of their laptops, booting up the game.
Sandy Baldwin, associate professor of English and di-rector of the Center for Liter-ary Computing at WVU, calls the attention to the screens and the game begins.
Aaron Dawson played the role of Hamm, Christina Seymour recited the part of Clov, Ben Bishop simul-taneously actively played the video game and read aloud responses from other players in the game, while Baldwin called out stage directions.
“They’re going into the game, and they’re going to spam it by reading the script from the play and perform it inside the game of Coun-ter-Strike,” said Kristin Mes-senger, a spectator of the event and supporter of Daw-son. “Someone will read aloud the comments from other players in the game, which, so far, haven’t been so positive.”
As they recited, other players inside the game were free to play, and inev-itably resulted in the per-formers being kicked out. As one player’s avatar was ex-pelled, another reader took over his part, until all of the players were eliminated.
Seymour, a graduate in-tern in the CLC, said she got involved in the proj-ect because she thought it sounded interesting and strayed from her normal activities.
“Our (Seymour, Baldwin and Dawson) avatars were plugged into the game, but we weren’t playing them. Ben (Bishop) was playing to get the ambient sounds,” she said. “It was a confus-ing thing, but it added to the experience.”
It was especially excit-ing and compelling to come into a world you aren’t sup-posed to be part of doing something you aren’t sup-posed to do.
“You’re doing something literary that isn’t expected or encouraged,” she said. “And
each practice was like a new performance because there were different players in the game.”
Dawson said the premise was based on another proj-ect in the CLC, Coaldust: Performance in MMOR-PG’s, and turned into some-thing completely new.
“It started with an idea of this cute, stupid thing where we can perform ‘End-game’ before the game it-self ended. It kind of mu-tated to broader questions of what this was about and how would it translate to an online media. For example, questions of boredom, ni-hilism, existentialism and how could we infuse a video game with it,” Dawson said. “We’re trying to amplify what Beckett is asking in a different way.”
Dawson said just as you get bored or frustrated reading Beckett, those feel-ing are transmitted into the game as they play.
The performance was completely atypical of other events at 123, which only served to enhance the idea of invading spaces.
The actors’ voices and the stage commands contrasted sharply with the harsh war-ring sounds of the game paired with the jarring lights of the laptop screens in the darkened room created an almost surreal experience.
Life truly is quite absurd.
CELEstE LAntzCOpy EDITOR
NEW YORK (AP) — “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner has a message for critics of season six of the AMC hit: “Fans don’t run the show.”
After waiting nearly a year for this month’s pre-miere some viewers have expressed disappointment with the new season. Speak-ing ahead of a “Mad Men” panel event at the Paley Media Center in Manhat-tan Tuesday night, Weiner likened fan reaction to the show to the arcade game Whac-A-Mole.
“There’s not enough agency advertising. There’s too much advertising,” Weiner said of previous fan gripes. “There’s not enough Betty. There’s too much Betty. Who is Megan? Why isn’t there more Megan?”
Weiner noted people are still watching and advised fans to “sit back and en-joy where we’re going.” He said he opened the season in 1968 because he believes it was one of the worst years in U.S. history, and while he remained tight-lipped about where the journey is headed
he did promise it “might be a little salacious, but that’s what the show is.”
Viewers did learn that ad man Don Draper (Jon Hamm) remains tor-mented and brooding and is now cheating on his new wife Megan (Jessica Pare). Weiner says he believes his lead character remains re-deemable despite his flaws.
“We’ll have to see what the world hands him and if he’s able to confront a prob-lem that’s following him around that might actually be him,” he said.
‘Mad Men’ creator answers season six critics
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Cinderella brings fairy tale to WVU
Lois GreenfieLdPittsburgh Ballet Theatre presents ‘Cinderella’ at the WVU Creative Arts Center Sunday.
BY laceY palmerassociate a&e editor
Pittsburgh Ballet The-atre will bring the en-chanting, familiar story of Cinderella to the West Virginia University Cre-ative Arts Center Sunday at 3 p.m.
With lavish costumes and intricate, colorful sets, the members of one of the most exciting ballet com-panies in the U.S. will reen-act a slightly more surreal version of the popular fairy tale, according to Alexan-dra Kochis, who plays Cin-derella in the production.
“Overall, the music gives it a very surreal, fun-house, madhouse sort of feeling, and the scenery really echoes that,” Ko-chis said. “There are big, giant mirrors that tilt, and at the chime of midnight, clocks descend. It’s a strik-ing scene.
“That said, it’s a very family-friendly show, and there’s something for everybody.”
Sergei Prokofiev’s score accompanies the perfor-mance, and this musical element provides one of Kochis’ favorite parts of the show.
“Being able to work to his music is a huge high,” Kochis said.
In addition to the mu-sic, Kochis enjoys the com-pany and support of her husband, who plays Cin-derella’s prince onstage. The couple joined the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre seven years ago but met in Boston.
“It was the ballet that brought us together,” Ko-chis said.
Although the perfor-mance follows the classic fairy tale for the most part, there are a few differences.
For example, the two stepsisters are played by men, which Kochis be-
lieves is one of the most comedic and entertaining parts of the show.
“Probably about 75 per-cent of the productions have men play the step-sisters,” Kochis said. “It’s a comedic tour de force for them, and it really makes the contrast of ugly step-
sisters versus beautiful Cinderella more evident.”
One of the larger differ-ences that is unique to this performance is the cast-ing of an evil stepfather rather than the traditional stepmother.
“It changes the dynamic a bit, and I think he sort of
channels more sympathy from the audience,” Ko-chis said.
Kochis said she feels “Cinderella” is an inspir-ing tale that provides com-fort in times of need.
In today’s volatile soci-ety, this notion is refresh-ing and welcome.
“I feel like the story of Cinderella is about a per-son who really believes that if you are good, good things will happen to you,” Kochis said. “That’s sort of the mantra that I’ve been basing my work off, and in these times, everyone can use a little bit of that.”
Tickets for the show can be purchased at the Mountainlair and Creative Arts Center box offices.
Pricing beings at $28 for WVU students and ranges from $40-63 for non-students.
“He’s one of the two most explosive players in the draft,” said NFL Network draft ana-lyst Mike Mayock. “I think NFL teams originally had some problems with his size. I think they’ve gotten over that, because they’ve got-ten to know the kid, and he has a passion for the game; he’s tough and been durable. And even though you want to knock him for only being 173 pounds, he’s shown up every Saturday.”
Proving to teams he can handle the load, allows teams to believe they can give Austin the ball over and over again. Teams might even allow Aus-tin to run the patented touch pass play he ran at WVU for so long. When asked if he dis-cussed the touch pass play with teams he’s visited, Aus-tin said teams got really ex-cited about it.
“Almost every team asked how we (West Virginia) ran it, and I showed them how we ran it. Then they said they could throw it in there (the playbook),” Austin said.
Austin is expected to go within the top 16 of the draft with the idea of becoming the NFL’s next game changer.
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Not many teams can claim to have stolen a game at Texas, let alone a series. The Longhorns have won 75 percent of their home games since they moved to UFCU Disch-Falk Field in 1975.
No matter how this Moun-taineer team finishes this sea-son, this series will serve as a springboard to the future.
Coach Mazey now has an invaluable tool – a pair of sig-nature wins against the win-ningest team in college base-ball history that is sure to garner the respect of his cur-rent players, entice future re-cruits and gain his team the exposure it deserves.
Considering the obsta-cles WVU has already over-come this season, there certainly seem to be more signature wins in the offing for Coach Mazey and the Mountaineers.
murrayContinued from page 12
by kevin hookersports writer
The West Virginia track and field team will split up this weekend, with the dis-tance runners heading to the Penn Relays in Phila-delphia today, while the throwers will travel to Ash-land, Ohio, for the Ashland Alumni Open Friday.
Jordan Hamric, Aubrey Moskal, Sarah Martinelli and Sarah McCauley will be the only runners par-ticipating in the 119th edi-tion of the Penn Relays, with all four running in the 3,000-meter steeplechase tonight at 8 p.m.
Hamric broke the school record in the steeplechase at the Stanford Invitational earlier this month. Her time of 10:17.58 currently ranks No. 3 in the Big 12 Conference, No. 10 in the east region and No. 22 in the nation.
As for the throwers, se-nior Heather Adams re-corded two top-5 finishes in the hammer and discus throws last weekend.
Adams recorded a per-sonal-best mark of 54.55 meters in the hammer throw for a third-place finish, while also finishing fifth in the discus throw with a mark of 44.40 me-ters. Her personal-best hammer throw ranks No. 7 in the Big 12.
Last weekend, the Mountaineers competed at the Larry Ellis Invita-tional, placing first in three events.
“It was nice to see this group take advantage of the strong competition this weekend,” said head coach Sean Cleary. “We are very excited with the consis-tency that many of our top kids are demonstrating.”
Junior Katlyn Shelar broke her own school re-cord she set three weeks ago by winning the pole vault with a personal-best mark of 4.10 meters. Syd-ney Cummings also placed first in the high jump with a leap of 1.76 meters, while Stormy Nesbit was victori-ous in the long jump with a distance of 12.59 meters.
“Katlyn Shelar, Stormy Nesbit, Sydney Cum-mings , Chene Townsend, Heather Adams and Sarah Martinelli are starting to come around at the right time,” Cleary said. “An-other weekend and an-other program best in the pole vault should have Kat-lyn very confident heading in to the championship portion of our schedule.”
Townsend was also im-pressive last weekend, finishing fourth in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.47 seconds. The 4x400-meter relay team of Ashanti Bess, Shakiyla Cosby, Arielle Gaither and Christa D’Egidio placed fifth with a time of 3:54.16.
This is the last week-end of competition before the Mountaineers travel to Waco, Texas, for the Big 12 Outdoor Championships May 3-4.
Live results and video can be found at pennre-lays.com.
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mountaineers to travel to Penn relays, alumni open
Patrick gorrell/the daily athenaeumMembers of the West Virginia track team compete during a track event at the WVU Shell Building in February.
“(I’m) not getting caught up in the hype and my own hype, (and) not focusing on what I’ve done good, but try-ing to continue to prepare myself to get better daily,” Smith said. “It’s helped me grow, because I’m not go-ing to be complacent or sat-isfied with what I do, and I’ll always try and find ways to get better.
“That’s what the great ones do.”
Similar to the five-game losing streak he went through this season, Smith said he feels he can only prove those people wrong.
“The doubters are going to be there regardless. I play with a chip on my shoul-der,” Smith said. “Everyone should have that mentality. I don’t think it’s a negative thing, and everyone has an opinion, but my job is to get out there and win and try to prove people wrong.”
All of the praise and criti-cism can be thrown out the window with Smith likely to be taken sometime within the first round. The pre-draft material can be thrown away, and Smith can focus on what is next in his foot-ball career.
“I’ve been preparing for this process since the end of my senior year, and I know that once this draft process is complete, there will be an entirely different journey,” said Smith. “I’m ready to see what team I’m on and get my hands on the playbook, work with my wideouts and do all the things I was accustomed to doing at West Virginia.”
As for where he wants to continue to his career, Smith said he’ll end up in the right place.
“I’ve enjoyed every single one of my visits from Kansas City to Buffalo to Philadel-phia to New York. All those teams showed interest; now it is just a matter of who takes me,” Smith said.
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Patrick gorrell/the daily athenaeumFormer West Virginia quarterback geno Smith points out a blocker against Okla-homa at Milan puskar Stadium last season.
File PhotoFormer West Virginia inside receiver Tavon austin looks on during a game against Marshall at Milan puskar Stadium last season.
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COMEBACK WIN
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The first championship game in the College Foot-ball Playoff will be held at Cowboys Stadium.
A person familiar with the decision tells The As-sociated Press that Arling-ton, Texas, has beaten out Tampa, Fla., in the bidding to be the site of the first ti-tle game in the new playoff system.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because a formal vote by the BCS conference com-missioners was scheduled for later Wednesday, and a formal announcement af-ter that.
The game will be held Jan. 12, 2015.
The final three sites for the semifinal rotation will also be announced later. Cowboys Stadium, home of the Cotton Bowl, is ex-
pected to be among them. The other two will be the Chick-fil-A Bowl in At-lanta and the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Ariz.
The Rose, Orange and Sugar bowls are already part of the six-bowl semifi-nal rotation. The Rose and Sugar will host the first semifinals on Jan. 1, 2015,
ESPN.com was first to re-port that Cowboys Stadium landed the first title game.
For the Cotton Bowl and its organizers, landing a spot in the rotation and the first title game is the culmi-nation of a long slow return to prominence for a game with a rich history.
The game dates back to 1937 and has hosted some of the most memo-rable matchups in college football, including Notre Dame’s stirring comeback victory led by Joe Montana
against Houston in the 1979 game.
But when the Bowl Championship Series was implemented in 1998, the Cotton Bowl was left out and lost much of its lus-ter. Organizers for years tried to break into the BCS, but couldn’t overcome the limitations of their anti-quated namesake stadium in Dallas.
Things turned for the Cotton Bowl when it moved out of the old sta-dium at the fairgrounds in 2010 and into the state-of-the-art, billion dollar Cow-boys Stadium built by team owner Jerry Jones.
Cotton Bowl organizers again started to push for inclusion in the BCS. The game was moved to prime-time, and with its South-eastern Conference-Big 12 matchup, had all the
trimmings of a BCS event, even without its stamp of approval.
When the conference commissioners announced last year that the BCS would be abandoned for a four-team playoff starting in 2014, with the champi-onship game bid out like a Super Bowl, it was all but assumed the Cotton Bowl would be part of the new system and that Cow-boys Stadium would be a strong candidate to even-tually host a championship game.
They didn’t have to wait long to accomplish both goals.
The Cotton Bowl will host a major bowl in the first season of the new for-mat, likely on New Year’s Eve. It will host a national semifinal in one of the fol-lowing two seasons.
Tampa made a strong push for the first champi-onship game to be played at Raymond James Sta-dium, home of the NFL’s Buccaneers and the Out-back Bowl. But Jones’ foot-ball palace was too much to overcome.
The new postseason sys-tem was named the Col-lege Football Playoff by the conference commissioners Tuesday, the first of three days of meetings at a resort hotel a few miles from the Rose Bowl.
Once the sites are locked in, the only major remain-ing issue to tackle for the commissioners will be the composition and structure of the selection committee.
That won’t be finalized at these meetings, but it’s on the agenda and they would like to leave California with a framework in place.
APBill Hancock, executive director of the Bowl Championship Series, introduces the new name - College Football Playoffs - and competition framework of what will replace the BCS in 2014 at a meeting of the football conference commissioners in Pasadena, Calif., Tuesday.
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nick Arthur/the DAily AthenAeumWest Virginia senior right fielder Brady Wilson celebrates with his team after scoring a run against Texas Tech at Appalachian Power Park earlier this season.
West Virginia erases late deficit, defeats Youngstown State 7-6 on roadBy KEvIN hOOKEr
sports writer
Despite committing a season-high six errors, the West Virginia baseball team defeated Youngstown State 7-6 Tuesday evening at East-wood Field.
The Mountaineers im-prove to 24-18 on the sea-son while Youngstown State drops to 13-30. The Pen-guins also lost 5-1 in Mor-gantown earlier this month.
Despite a cold evening in Niles, Ohio, the Mountain-eers won their fifth game in six tries.
“When you get in condi-tions like this, it’s hard to get mad at your team for how you play,” said head coach Randy Mazey. “You just need to try and win the game, which is what we did tonight.”
The Mountaineers took a 7-6 advantage in the top of the ninth inning, thanks the bat of Jacob Rice, who scored Brady Wilson in from second base.
Wilson hit a leadoff sin-gle, but successfully stole his third base of the game and eventually scored the winning run. Bobby Boyd
also had a stolen base on the evening, and his 12 suc-cesses are ninth-best in the Big 12 Conference.
Rice and Wilson each had three hits on the eve-ning, and junior third base-man Ryan Tuntland added a pair. Rice has six hits in his last two games, and 51 on the season.
“I’m thinking that 10th inning in Texas (last week-end) propelled our offense,” Mazey said. “I thought we had some real nice at-bats tonight – especially when it wasn’t an easy night to hit. We got some big ones with
two outs.” In a game with seven lead
changes, the Mountain-eers had 12 hits, marking the second straight game they’ve had at least ten in a game. West Virginia’s team batting average of .284 ranks No. 4 in the Big 12.
Despite scoring six times, Youngstown State only had two earned runs and six hits.
Mountaineer pitcher Brock Dykxhoorn went 4.1 innings, giving up three hits, three runs and five strikeouts.
Pascal Paul (3-3) picked up the win, pitching 1.1 in-
nings and striking out one batter. Penguins pitcher Nic Manuppelli took the loss, al-lowing one run on two hits in 2.0 innings of relief.
The Mountaineers return to Big 12 play this week-end in Lawrence, Kan., for a three-game series against the Jayhawks. Game one begins Friday at 6:30 p.m., game two starts at 4 p.m. Saturday and the first pitch for game three is set for 1 p.m. Sunday.
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More signature wins to come for WVU, Mazey
Last weekend, the WVU baseball team traveled to Austin, Texas, and took two out of three games from the Texas Longhorns.
At first glance, this may not seem so important. Con-gratulations, you won a con-ference series on the road. No big deal, right?
In the scope of a season, two wins may seem rela-tively unimportant. How-ever, in WVU’s inaugural sea-son in the Big 12, against the college baseball juggernaut that is the Texas Longhorns, these two wins officially an-nounce a new era of Moun-taineer baseball has arrived.
Before Saturday’s game, Texas honored its 1983 na-tional championship team. That squad included eight players who would be se-lected in the MLB draft, in-cluding “The Rocket” Roger Clemens himself.
What a power move by Texas, to bring back some of the best college baseball play-ers in the game’s history and have Roger Clemens throw out the first pitch to give the visiting Mountaineers a his-tory lesson before they take the field.
After all, this WVU baseball team has had only 20 players reach the major league in program history, while Texas has sent 90 players to the big leagues in the 16-year tenure of head coach Augie Garrido alone.
Since WVU’s last appear-ance in the NCAA Tour-nament in 1996, the Long-horns have qualified 13 times and won two national championships.
With all of this facing a team in its first year in a new conference and with a new head coach, Randy Mazey, it would have been easy for the Mountaineers to pay their re-spects to the baseball shrine that is UFCU Disch-Falk Field and fly back to Morgantown, tails between their legs after a three-game sweep.
Having listened to Coach Mazey speak in interviews and watched his team play on the field this season, however, it has become clear to me that bowing down to the baseball greats of the Big 12 just isn’t in the Mountaineers’ character.
This team fought its way to a close victory Friday night and took a haymaker to the face in the form of a 12-0 loss Saturday but never quit.
In the decisive game Sun-day, it was a late rally that spurred the Mountain-eers to victory. WVU had taken Texas’ best punch, re-bounded and proclaimed to all of the Big 12 that this team is here to stay.
You may know that Texas has struggled this season. In fact, WVU came in to the game ahead of the Long-horns in the Big 12 standings.
None of that matters, though. Just because Texas is having a down year doesn’t change the fact they have long been one of the
Connor murraysports writer
Former Mountaineers Smith, austin expected to go in first round of NFL draft
Smith ready for next step in career Austin entering NFL at perfect timeby greg madiamultimedia editor
NEW YORK — Former West Vir-ginia quarterback Geno Smith has been the subject of discussion heading into tomorrow’s NFL draft.
After winning an Orange Bowl, being a Heisman favorite early in his senior season, enduring a five-game losing streak and smash-ing school record books at WVU, Smith’s college career experienced rapid ups and downs. Now he has been both praised and criticized in the months since his final season as a Mountaineer ended.
And all those questions will be answered tonight at Radio City Mu-sic Hall when Smith finds out which team he will be going to.
Smith has been projected to be taken as high as second overall to Jacksonville to as low as the second
round. Smith said he feels his even-keel attitude that he learned at West Virginia can continue to keep him at ease through to the end of this process.
“It’s helped me out a lot, maybe in ways that I can’t even notice, but I’ve learned just continuing to be myself is important,” he said.
Smith’s relaxed attitude was able to keep his head straight during the 2012 season. After posting a re-cord-setting streak of not throwing an interception and throwing eight touchdowns in one game, Smith never let the success get to his head.
Now with some of the positives he has received throughout the draft process from the likes of Jon Gruden, Steve Marriucci and Trent Dilfer, Smith maintains a steady mindset.
by greg madia multimedia editor
NEW YORK — The nature of the National Football League is con-stantly changing. Ten years ago, the idea that every down running back was a good one has now trans-formed into a league where multiple backs are necessary.
In the passing game, it is always a luxury to have a bigger Larry Fitzger-ald or Calvin Johnson type of wide receiver, but now the trend in the NFL is having a smaller inside slot receiver who can do a multitude of things.
Former West Virginia wide re-ceiver Tavon Austin is exactly that guy. Having hauled in 114 passes for 1289 yards and 12 touchdowns during his senior year as a receiver alone, Austin is a first-round pick.
But Austin’s versatility is what’s
allowing him to rocket up draft boards and drawing interest from al-most every team in the league. Be-ing able to catch, run and return the football while producing gives Aus-tin reason to believe coaches in the league are foaming at the mouth to get ahold of him.
“Pretty much, the teams see that. They see I’m a special player,” Aus-tin said. “They always tell me that they can’t coach what I try to do. I’m blessed for them to see that, because they think I can help them win.”
Multifaceted, game-changing and electrifying are all ways to de-scribe Austin. Teams have talked to Austin about playing the slot and even being a third-down running back at times.
Teams simply want to get the ball in Austin’s hands.
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