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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUMWednesday September 1, 2010 VOLUme 124, ISSUe 9www.THedaOnLIne.comda
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RFL program to change departmentsBY TRAVIS CRUM
CITY EDITOR
The role of Residential Faculty Leaders at West Virginia Univer-sity will change when the pro-gram moves to a new depart-ment Sept. 1.
The RFL program will now be under the guidance of the Office of Academic Affairs, said Becky Lofstead, assistant vice presi-dent for University Communi-cations, and it was formerly un-der Student Affairs.
RFLs will now focus on co-ordinating academic program-ming for students and paying at-tention to those who may need an academic intervention, said Elizabeth Dooley, associate pro-vost for the Office of Academ-ics Affairs.
“Our end goal is retention by coordinating better tutorial ser-vices for students with more co-operation from faculty,” Dooley said.
The move will aid University President James P. Clements’
goal of increasing retention rates among freshmen and will help develop the 2020 Strategic Plan.
The University’s goal is to have Student Affairs and Aca-demic Affairs work more closely together, Dooley said.
She plans to meet with RFLs in the next few weeks to discuss their new roles in more detail.
It is unclear whether or not a position will be created to man-age residence halls.
“I don’t have anything to do with Residential Education, but
I certainly want the RFLs to have a stronger academic component paramount with the move,” she said.
Ken Gray, vice president for Student Affairs, said RFLs will not need to worry about job se-curity with the move.
“They have done a good job of helping our students trans-fer from high school to college,” Gray said. “They work well with students and parents, so I don’t see this changing for them much.”
WVU is one of the few col-leges in the nation that employ-ees faculty to be the leaders of first-year residential housing, he said.
In addition to moving the RFL program, all University 101 classes will be under Academic Affairs instead of through the residence halls, Dooley said.
The move would enable the class, required by first-year and transfer students, to be more ac-ademic-based instead of focus-ing on the students’ daily lives.
WVU’s RFL Program began in 1996 under former University President David C. Hardesty, as part of an initiative known as Operation Jump-Start, which puts structures in place to help students adjust to college.
University 101 began in the late 1990s as Orientation I, a rec-ommended course, and was ap-proved as a graduation require-ment in 2002 by Faculty Senate, Lofstead wrote in an e-mail.
WVU building earns LEED certification
First ‘double gold’ building in W.Va.BY SAMAnThA CoSSICk
AssOCIATE CITY EDITOR
West Virginia University is home to the first “double gold” Leadership in Energy and En-vironmental Design certified building in the state.
The U.S. Department of En-ergy’s Legacy Management Business Center in WVU’s Research Park earned its two LEED certifications this summer.
The LEED certifications are standards used to design buildings to be more sustain-able and efficient.
The building received LEED gold certification for both the Core and Shell category and Commercial Interiors cate-gory, said Claiborne Williams, principal-in-charge of FD Part-ners Development, a firm that worked on construction of the building.
The Core and Shell category refers to the building’s struc-ture and what kind of features the building has, as well as its mechanical units, such as plumbing and electrical, Wil-
liams said.Commercial Interiors refers
to interior materials used and whether they are recyclable, as well as different aspects such as if there is efficient air sup-ply or if water fixtures are low flow, he said.
Originally, the building only had to achieve a LEED silver certification; however, the DOE wanted to do better, Wil-liams said.
“It was partly an internal De-partment of Energy decision to strive for LEED gold, and we were successful in achieving it,” Williams said.
The land is not used by WVU but is leased by the University to the DOE, said Russ Lorince, director of Economic Develop-ment at WVU.
“We have a long-standing research relationship with the DOE,” Lorince said. “We do a lot of collaborative research in the energy area.”
Although they didn’t have much input on the design, the University is “very pleased”
Univ. issues parking warnings for first timeBY JoSh CooPER
sTAFF WRITER
For the first week of the se-mester, the West Virginia Uni-versity Department of Parking and Transportation issued warnings instead of tickets to students who parked illegally.
This is the first time in WVU’s history that warnings have been issued the first week of classes, said Eric Rosie, as-sistant director of Parking Ad-ministration at WVU.
The warnings were issued until Monday morning. Tick-ets will be issued for the re-mainder of the semester, he said.
However, the act of issuing warnings during the first week may only take place this fall, Rosie said.
“We may not do this next fall, we may only issue warn-ings for a day prior to tick-eting,” Rosie said. “It is not a written policy that we will not ticket for the first week of classes every year.”
The department issued the warnings for a number of rea-sons, Rosie said.
This year, permits were changed from hanging tags to stickers that can be reposi-tioned, he said.
City Council says tailgate hearings
unenforceableBY ERIn FITZWILLIAMS
sTAFF WRITER
The Morgantown City Council’s original plan to distribute permits for tail-gating on game days was deemed “logistically impos-sible,” said City Manager Dan Boroff at Tuesday’s Commit-tee of the Whole meeting.
Anyone who wanted to tailgate would have had to attend a public hearing prior to the game to obtain the permit, Boroff said. This would cause hassle for the citizens and city.
The Council is instead en-couraging the public to act responsibly and follow the laws already in place per-taining to open contain-ers, public intoxication and noise levels.
The new alcohol-free stu-dent “Pit” is a sign to the community that West Vir-ginia University is trying to make a difference on game days, said Sabrina Cave, ex-ecutive director of WVU Par-ents Club, who helped orga-nize the event and spoke to City Council.
“We are encouraging posi-tive fan behavior,” Cave said. “We are moving in a positive direction.”
Cave said it was a safe al-
ternative for students before games.
Mayor Bill Byrne recog-nized that the University is making an effort to make game days safer with a con-trolled use of alcohol and keeping it from spilling out into the community.
The council did, however, agree that a larger presence of police force patrolling the area near the stadium is nec-essary to keep tailgating safe.
Councilor John Gaddis suggested the Council take a look at what happens over the course of the first foot-ball game this Saturday to see if any issues arise regard-ing tailgating.
“Last year, after the first two games, there was an out-break of tailgates in a new area,” Boroff said. “That was what forced us to take a look at the issue.”
The neighborhood is con-cerned about tailgating and game day activities moving out into surrounding areas, said Councilor Jenny Selin.
“We want people to come to Morgantown and enjoy their tailgating before the game but not let it get out of hand,” Selin said.
The City Council also
Residence halls now offering kosher food
BY MELISSA CAnDoLFIsTAFF WRITER
West Virginia University Dining Services started of-fering kosher food last week for Jewish students at WVU.
Sharon Sinay, a freshman accounting major, requested kosher food be incorporated to assist other Jewish stu-dents like himself. Dining Services was accepting of his request, he said.
Sinay is the first student at WVU to request kosher meals in the dorms.
“Kosher is part of the Jew-ish religion, and this is a big part of the American culture,” Sinay said. “I think it should be in every dining room and in every dorm so everyone will be able to eat.”
Kosher refers to a diet that comes from the Bible. The diet is limited to certain an-imals, fish and birds. For ex-ample, only fish with fins and scales are kosher.
Also, kosher meat is slaughtered a certain way and cannot be mixed with kosher dairy products. Ko-sher food production is su-pervised by anyone who un-derstands kosher laws.
So far, WVU is offering six kosher meals that include
grilled chicken with gravy, matza ball soup and gar-den vegetables, said David Friend, director of WVU Din-ing Services.
Friend said dining ser-vices are in the beginning of the process but hope to con-tinue and expand it.
“We are hoping to build upon this program,” Friend said. “We may be able to work to get a salad bar approved as kosher.”
Sinay hopes that more Jew-ish students will request ko-sher food, too.
By offering the food, Din-ing Services has made it eas-ier for Jewish students to keep kosher, said Rabbi Zal-man Gurevitz, director of Chabad Jewish student ser-vice at WVU.
“Here, it is so important to supply kosher food,” Gure-vitz said. “Students that are concerned about kosher food can’t get it in West Virginia. The closest place that serves kosher is in Pittsburgh.”
Gurevitz helped Dining Services decide what kosher meals to incorporate.
“I talked to a student who is now a sophomore, and she said she couldn’t keep
tara mayLe/tHe DaILy atHeNaeUmThe Department of Energy Legacy Management Business Center is recognized as the first building in West Virginia to receive the double gold LEED rating.
CHeLSI baker/tHe DaILy atHeNaeUmShown is the lobby of The U.S. Department of Energy’s Legacy Management Business Center in the WVU Research Park. The building was given two Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certifications by the United States Green Building Council.
CHeLSI baker/tHe DaILy atHeNaeUmA parking ticket sits under the windshield of a car in the Mountainlair parking garage. Warnings were being given before cars are ticketed, giving drivers more time to pay for parking in the Mountainlair.
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humor website mocks WVU students, athletics, academics
BY SARAh o’RoURkECORREsPONDENT
An anonymous duo has started a humorous website called Mountaineer Irony, Morgantown’s “Satirical Holler.”
The site, Mountaineer Irony, which released one of two updates on Monday, pro-vides a satirical twist on West Virginia University students, athletics and academics.
The goal of the site is “to of-fend people who offend me,” said “Quill”, author and co-creator of Mountaineer Irony.
Quill wishes to remain anonymous because he is ac-tive on campus, he said. Due to legal reasons, Mountaineer Irony has no affiliation with WVU, he added.
“If I can make a state col-lege female think twice be-fore donning a pair of Uggs, then I have saved high fash-ion. If I can make said female not go to ‘Sex and the City 2,’ I have saved culture,” Quill said.
“Really, I just want state college females to reconsider the cultural morass they’ve dug themselves into.”
Quill said the site follows a format similar to other col-lege humor websites such as the Phroth at Pennsyl-vania State University and the Georgetown Heckler at Georgetown University.
Headlines and short sto-ries are updated to the site
every Monday, he said.“Nation’s State Colleges
Defenseless against New Jer-sey, FBI Warns,” reads one of the site’s top headlines.
In the story, Quill writes phrases like, “NJ’s (New Jer-seyians) dispatch their lesser sons and daughters to North-eastern state universities as a proactive strategy to crush academic standards and in-tegrity at outside schools”.
The story goes on to say that “Female NJ’s can easily be spotted by the OBX sticker they bought when they vis-ited North Carolina once last spring.”
After reading the article, Christy Pape, a sophomore general studies major, said she found the story hilarious and definitely plans to read more from the site.
Freshman general studies major, Erika Orlikoff, said she would prefer to read about something else.
“I think it’s kind of pre-tentious,” she said. “With-out people from New Jersey, WVU wouldn’t be WVU.”
Mountaineer Irony is a two-man project, Quill said. Quill does the writing and his partner performs the site’s management and Photoshop, he said.
Generally, the site has re-ceived positive feedback for its stories.
“I received loads of hate mail for the College Republi-cans article, presumably from
people who would blow up my website if it were an abor-tion clinic,” Quill said.
“Oddly enough, they weren’t offended by the sto-ry’s idea of Republicans starting a racially exclusion-ist club, but at the fact I was insinuating that they owned yachts.”
Morgantow n in i t-self is a story, he said, and that is where he finds his inspiration.
“‘Did that man in the cam-ouflage K-5 blazer really just shout both a racial and ho-mophobic epithet at me?’” Quill said.
“Yes he did. Inspiration. If that doesn’t work, I just go to Black Bear (Burritos) and mock the hipsters.”
George Turner, senior re-ligious studies major, said the stories didn’t make him laugh out loud, but they were still OK.
“Basically, it’s taking some-thing joked about on campus and mocking it a bit,” he said.
Quill said his humor isn’t for everyone.
“There are two types of people in this town. Those who revel in its absurdity, and those who are aware of it,” Quill said.
“My stories are designed for the latter. The former can visit collegehumor.com and enjoy its pastiche of breast and fart jokes.”
School of Nursing receives $800,000 donation for hiring, research, faculty
BY kAYLA GRoGGCORREsPONDENT
The School of Nursing at West Virginia University re-cently received $800,000 in funds donated by WVU Hos-pitals and alumni.
It is a win-win situation for the School because they now have money for research, and donors feel like their money is going toward research they want, said Georgia Narsavage, dean of the School of Nursing.
“The legislature wanted to stimulate research in West Virginia that will improve health,” Narsavage said. “WVU and Marshall Univer-sity have the opportunity to receive funds.”
The largest pledge was $350,000 and will fund the WVU Hospitals Evidence Based Research Practice Pro-fessorship in Nursing.
This endowment will en-able the School to add a pro-fessor who will work with nurses to research biomedical
sciences and change proto-cols for patient care to ensure the best outcomes, Narsavage said.
“The projects are designed by nurses to address problems they have come across in hos-pitals,” she said.
Two additional donors gave $25,000 each, which was matched by the Bucks for Brains program, adding an-other $100,000 to the School.
Laurie Badzek, a WVU nursing professor and direc-tor of the WV Quality of Life Institute, gave a donation for The Badzek Family Endow-ment for Nursing Research.
The goal of this gift is to give high-quality care and improve the quality of life for West Virginians.
Another gift was given by Lois Kuhn Evans, a 1970 grad-uate of WVU, which created the Ruth and Robert Kuhn Nursing Faculty Research Fund, providing seed money so that WVU faculty can have some of the same opportu-
nities available at many re-search universities.
The money helps initiate research about West Virginia citizens that could eventually lead to more funding.
“The funding we have re-ceived gives the School the ability to fund our faculty and our nurses to research and im-prove patient care and quality of life,” Narsavage said.
The School was given $400,000, which qualified for the Bucks for Brains program, by the West Virginia Research Trust Fund.
The program matches do-nated amounts dollar-for-dol-lar, said Christine Meredith, director of development for the School of Nursing.
“Basically, we should thank our legislature for providing this matching program,” Nar-savage said. “We are very blessed to have this, especially at a time when our donors are being so generous.”
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kosher last year be-c a u s e i t w a s n ’ t offered,” he said.
Gurevitz hopes this will help recruit students to WVU.
“For Jewish kids, it is very
important for there to be a large Jewish community or active community,” Gurevitz said. “If they see that there is kosher food, they see that the University is open to the idea.”
Sinay said seeing how eas-ily WVU incorporated ko-sher food shows how much the University cares for its
students.“We are a very diverse Uni-
versity that does care about their students,” Sinay said.
“They really think about what the students want and think of every religion and take the request seriously.”
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“We wanted to give everyone a warning if the per-mit was not displayed cor-rectly so they had a chance to properly display their per-mit prior to issuing citations,” Rosie said.
The department also wanted to prevent students from mak-ing illegal parking a habit, he said.
There are also a large num-ber of incoming students at the beginning of each semester who do not know where they can and cannot park without permits, Rosie said.
Some students seem to
agree with the policy, believ-ing it gives students a chance to find a parking spot or buy a permit before receiving a ticket.
“A week was definitely fair,” said James Anderson, a ju-nior psychology major. “It was plenty of time for people with-out permits to figure out where to park.”
Stacy Carter, a senior biol-ogy major, said the policy was a good gesture and gave peo-ple a chance to find a spot.
“Parking in Morgantown can be confusing,” she said. “It’s nice they didn’t penalize students who may be new to the area.”
One student disagreed, be-lieving the warnings had un-
clear instructions.“I received two warnings
on my car,” said Victoria Por-terfield, a freshman pre-busi-ness major. “I didn’t think they were clear enough about where to go so I wouldn’t get ticketed.”
The current price of tick-ets at WVU is $20. This ap-plies to unauthorized parking in numbered parking areas around campus, according to the WVU Transportation and Parking website.
The price of parking tick-ets was increased by $10 last school year to serve as a greater deterrent to unauthor-ized parking.
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with the building, Lorince said.It is “extremely important”
to develop sustainable build-ing strategies and goals for projects, Williams said.
“You want to be able to use recyclable materials as much as you can, and you want to have the least amount of im-pact on your facilities, the least
amount of energy consump-tion,” he said.
LEED certification is based on how the building qualifies in six areas: sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and re-sources, indoor environmen-tal quality as well as innovation and design process.
To be LEED certified, a building must gain 23 to 27 points. Silver certification re-quires 28 to 33 points, gold
certification requires 34 to 44 points and platinum certifica-tion requires 45 to 61 points.
FD Partners developed the facility and has maintained ownership of the building with WVU, the DOE and the U.S. General Services Administra-tion. Petroplus Lane was the development consultant, bro-ker and is the current property manager.
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LOCAL
Key figure in Kenya-based scam to steal from state receives 20 months
CHaRLesTOn, W.Va. (aP) — Calling her as essential to the crime as to helping pros-ecutors unravel it, a federal judge sentenced a Kenyan woman Tuesday to another 20 months behind bars for aiding a scheme to steal millions from West Virginia and other state governments.
Angella Chegge-Kraszeski received a three-year term, with U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver Jr. then deducting the nearly 16 months she’s al-ready spent in custody.
The 34-year-old will be de-ported after that sentence, said her defense lawyer, who raised concerns about her and her family’s safety in Kenya for co-operating so extensively with investigators.
Hatched in Kenya, the
scheme’s masterminds re-main a mystery. They enlisted Chegge-Kraszeski during a visit there with her mother and son, now 15.
Dabbing away tears, she apologized to the court and to West Virginia for assisting the scheme.
“I have brought so much shame, so much shame,” she said.
The sentence wraps up a pair of cases in which Chegge-Kraszeski and five other Ke-nyan nationals pleaded guilty to varying roles in the scam. Also facing deportation, the five men received terms ear-lier this month ranging from time served to six years.
The conspiracy sought funds owed to legitimate government contractors in West Virginia as well as Kansas, Massachusetts and Ohio.
Following orders issued from Kenya, Chegge-Krasz-eski registered corporations and opened bank accounts under names nearly identical to those businesses. The scam-mers then tricked state officials into rerouting more than $3.3 million in vendor payments between March and July 2009.
All the money was recovered except $772,000 from West Vir-ginia, which ended up wired to Kenya. Chegge-Kraszeski aided those transfers.
“It’s fair to say that you were the face of the conspiracy in the United States, at least to the extent that it was successful,” Copenhaver told the woman. “Many times, you could have
withdrawn from it. But you didn’t.”
Yet, Copenhaver also agreed with prosecutors that Chegge-Kraszeski began cooperating immediately upon her May 2009 arrest – after she tried un-successfully to extend the scam to Florida.
Officials there caught the ruse and alerted authorities.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Su-san Robinson said Chegge-Kraszeski helped identify or ex-plain the roles of the five others convicted.
During several lengthy de-briefing sessions, she provided information backed up by such other evidence as documents and bank security footage, Robinson said.
Representing Chegge-Kraszeski, U.S. Public De-fender Mary Lou Newberger added that the woman also provided e-mail addresses for the scheme’s Kenya-based leaders, one of the few clues to their identity.
Newberger said Chegge-Kraszeski cooperated knowing she would be deported, despite being married to a U.S. citizen in North Carolina.
“In a very practical sense, this is the end of her mar-riage,” Newberger told the judge. “These are very real consequences.”
The husband attended Tues-day’s sentencing, as he had her prior hearings. They ex-changed waves and blown kisses as she was led from the courtroom afterward.
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CHeLSI baker/tHe DaILy atHeNaeUmManaging Member of accounting firm Dixon Hughes Richard Slater, left, shakes hands with accounting professor Adolph Neidermeyer, right, after giving him a check for $15,000 to show support for the West Virginia Uni-versity Division of Ac-countancy. The check was presented after Slater and other Dixon Hughes representa-tives held a lecture in Gluck Theatre in the Mountainlair which gave tips for a success-ful job search in the ac-counting field.
discussed Morgantown side-walks and walking safety in the city at the meeting.
Christiaan Abildso, chair of the Pedestrian Safety Board, presented a plan to
the council to repair the city’s sidewalks for a safer and healthier mode of getting around.
He said that much of the city has “bumpy” sidewalks that are unsafe to walk on due to them being so rough.
“We don’t want people walking in the street,” Abildso
said. “Especially with strollers like me and my wife have to.”
The council intends to take a look at his proposed plan and possibly apply it to the city’s $200,000 bud-get for repairing or replacing sidewalks.
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Ex-bin Laden aide to serve life for New York prison stabbingNEW YORK (AP) — A former
Osama bin Laden aide who stabbed a federal prison guard in the eye was sentenced Tues-day to life in prison after tell-ing the court he’s not a terrorist and hearing his victim tell him he will go to hell.
U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts said Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, 52, deserved a life sen-tence for his “unusually cruel, brutal” attack in 2000 on guard Louis Pepe at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan. She ordered Salim to pay $4.72 million in restitu-tion to cover the medical ex-penses for Pepe’s continuing rehabilitation.
The stabbing left Pepe brain-damaged and blind in one eye. The sentence caused Pepe’s sister, Eileen Trotta, to thrust her fists in the air enthusias-tically and to pat Pepe on the back. More than a half-dozen guards who watched the pro-ceeding congratulated a smil-ing Pepe afterward as he rolled his wheelchair out of court.
Pepe, asked how he felt, said, “Pretty good.”
The sentence for Salim was actually a resentencing, since a federal appeals court said in December 2008 that the judge should have imposed a terror-ism enhancement to the guilty pleas he entered to crimes of conspiracy to murder a federal official and attempted murder of a federal official. The judge originally sentenced Salim in 2004 to 32 years in prison.
Salim, who before the Sept. 11 attacks was believed to be the highest-ranking al-Qaida member held in the United States, was not in court but ap-peared by video on courtroom monitors. He was handcuffed and shackled at the waist on a chair in front of rows of books at the maximum-security Su-permax prison in Florence, Colo. He kept his head tilted against a phone resting on his shoulder.
Salim did not show emo-tion as Pepe addressed him di-rectly, beginning in a conver-
sational tone: “Hi, Salim. How are you doing? You look bet-ter than ever. I look pretty bad now.”
Pepe told Salim that he can’t walk anymore and it’s difficult to talk. He also told Salim that Salim’s not going to be a martyr.
“You’re going to hell,” he said.
Then he reached into a small bag at the side of his wheel-chair, saying he had some-thing for Salim. He pulled out a doughnut, saying, “That’s for you Salim,” as he tried to give it to Salim’s lawyer, who did not turn around to accept it.
Pepe’s sister said outside court that Pepe had been known as Pepsi by co-work-ers because he always brought them sodas and coffees.
“He wanted to show, ‘I’m on top,’ that he was giving some-thing,” she said.
Outside court, Pepe smiled and said: “I’m glad he’s fin-ished, but I’m glad he got his little doughnut.”
Salim spoke in English, say-ing: “I’m not a criminal. I’m not a terrorist.” He said the stab-bing occurred on Nov. 1, 2000,
as he was trying to get to his de-fense lawyers to force them out of the case because he believed they were federal agents. He sought a set of keys from Pepe to enter a room where the law-yers were waiting for him.
He sprayed Pepe with hot sauce to blind him before stabbing him in the eye with a sharpened comb he had hid-den in his cell in a high-secu-rity wing of the federal lockup next to federal court. He has said he intended to stab the lawyers so they could no lon-ger represent him.
At the time, Salim was await-ing trial on a conspiracy charge after his arrest in the August 1998 bombings of two U.S. em-bassies in Africa. The attacks killed 224 people, including a dozen Americans.
Salim said he requested not to be taken to court Tues-day because he gets beaten by guards whenever he is moved from one prison to another.
Of Pepe, Salim said: “If the victim here wants to take my eye, let him take my eye. If he wants to take my hand, let him take my hand.”
apFormer prison guard Louis Pepe arrives at Manhattan federal court Tuesday in New York. Pepe was arriving to witness the resentencing of Osama bin Laden’s ex-aide, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, who left Pepe brain-damaged after a 2000 prison stabbing.
Obama: US combat in Iraq over, ‘time to turn page’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Claim-ing no victory, President Barack Obama formally ended the U.S. combat role in Iraq after seven long years of bloodshed, declar-ing firmly Tuesday night: “It’s time to turn the page.” Now, he said, the nation’s most urgent priority is fixing its own sickly economy.
From the Oval Office, where George W. Bush first an-nounced the invasion that would come to define his pres-idency, Obama addressed mil-lions who were divided over the war in his country and around the world. Fiercely opposed to the war from the start, he said the United States “has paid a huge price” to give Iraqis the chance to shape their future – a cost that now includes more than 4,400 troops dead, tens of thousands more wounded and hundreds of billions of dollars spent.
In a telling sign of the do-mestic troubles weighing on the United States and his own pres-idency, Obama turned much of the emphasis in a major war ad-dress to the dire state of U.S. job-lessness. He said the Iraq war had stripped America of money needed for its own prosperity, and he called for an economic commitment at home to rival the grit and purpose of a mili-tary campaign.
In his remarks of slightly less than 20 minutes, only his sec-ond address from the Oval Of-fice, Obama looked directly into the TV camera, hands clasped in front of him on his desk, fam-ily photos and the U.S. and pres-idential flags behind him. His tone was somber.
Even as he turns control of the war over to the Iraqis – and tries to cap one of the most di-visive chapters in recent Amer-ican history – Obama is escalat-ing the conflict in Afghanistan. He said that winding down Iraq
would allow the United States “to apply the resources nec-essary to go on offense” in Af-ghanistan, now the nation’s lon-gest war since Vietnam.
As for Iraq, for all the final-ity of Obama’s remarks, the war is not over. More Americans are likely to die. The country is plagued by violence and politi-cal instability, and Iraqis strug-gle with constant shortages of electricity and water.
Obama is keeping up to 50,000 troops in Iraq for support and counterterrorism training, and the last forces are not due to leave until the end of 2011 at the latest.
As the commander in chief over a war he opposed, Obama took pains to thank troops for their sacrifice but made clear he saw the day as more the mark-ing of a mistake ended than a mission accomplished.
He spoke of strained relations with allies, anger at home and the heaviest of wartime tolls.
“We have met our responsi-
bility,” Obama said. “Now it is time to turn the page.”
To underscore his point, Obama said he had telephoned called Bush, whom he had taunted so often in the 2008 campaign, and praised the for-mer Republican president in the heart of his speech.
“It’s well known that he and I disagreed about the war from its outset,” Obama said. “Yet no one could doubt President Bush’s support for our troops, or his love of country and com-mitment to our security.”
In a post-Sept. 11, 2001, world, the Iraq war began with bipartisan congressional back-ing – based on what turned out to be flawed intelligence – over what Bush called a “grave danger” to the world posed by Saddam Hussein. Hussein is gone and Iraqis live in greater freedom.
Yet Iraq’s leaders are unable to form a new government long after March elections that left no clear winner.
apPresident Barack Obama greets members of the military at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, Tuesday.
Legal group seeks to compel California to defend Prop 8SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A
conservative legal group is trying to force Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to defend California’s gay marriage ban in court.
The Pacific Justice Insti-tute petitioned the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento on Monday for an emergency order that would require the two officials to appeal a ruling that overturned Proposition 8.
Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker struck down the voter-approved measure as un-constitutional last month.
Its sponsors have appealed. But doubts have been raised about whether they have au-thority to do so because as or-dinary citizens they are not responsible for enforcing mar-riage laws.
The state has until Sept. 11 to challenge Walker’s ruling in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap-peals. Both Brown and Schwar-zenegger, who also refused to support Proposition 8 in Walk-er’s court, have said they do not plan to.
The institute is arguing that as the state’s chief law enforce-ment officer, Brown does not have discretion to defend only laws with which he personally agrees.
And because the California Constitution gives the governor final say when he and the attor-ney general disagree on legal matters, Schwarzenegger must be compelled to file an appeal
to preserve Proposition 8 as well, the group’s lawsuit states.
“To allow an elected official to trump the will of the people by mere inaction and the lack of fulfillment of their duty to do their job would be an egregious violation of public trust,” Pacific Legal Institute Brad Dacus said Tuesday.
The institute brought its mo-tion on behalf of Joshua Beck-ley, pastor of Ecclesia Christian Fellowship church in San Ber-nardino, and included with it a declaration of support from for-mer U.S. Attorney General Ed-win Meese III.
Meese, who served one term as attorney general under Pres-ident Ronald Reagan and Rea-gan’s legal adviser when he was governor of California, said that Schwarzenegger and Brown’s positions were at odds with his own experience.
“Governor Reagan never re-fused or declined to defend a state law or state constitutional provision, regardless of his own
opposition or dislike for a chal-lenged provision,” he wrote. “As attorney general, I never refused or declined to defend a law on the basis that I dis-agreed with the law as a mat-ter of policy.”
Reagan’s Justice Depart-ment did refuse to defend at least one federal policy, when Meese was serving as a pres-idential adviser but before he became attorney general. Gov-ernment lawyers joined attor-neys for an African immigrant whose bid for residency had been approved by the Immigra-tion and Naturalization Service but overturned by Congress, ar-guing that such legislative ve-toes were unconstitutional.
Brown has said both in legal filings and public statements that he has sworn to uphold the state and federal constitu-tions and therefore can not de-fend Proposition 8 because he thinks it is an unconstitutional violation of gay Californians’ civil rights.
apIn this image from video, President Barack Obama speaks from the Oval Office at the White House on Tuesday, about the end of the U.S. combat role in Iraq.
Remember: Facebook’s eyes are always openIn an age when everyone has
a camera, it’s fair to say with one weekend of college behind us and another on its way, you’ve been photographed.
With the rise of social net-working sites such as Face-book and MySpace, anyone with a camera near you can share your antics with the world.
As we college students at-tempt to break through into the world of real employment, it’s important to recognize how we can sometimes be our own worst enemies.
Though Facebook may seem like a great place to chat, con-nect with friends and see cam-pus events, it’s also become a new avenue for employ-ers to look into an applicant’s background.
The most important piece of advice we can give any po-tential future college graduate: Check those privacy settings.
These tips are all located un-der the main Facebook page, under “Account Settings” and “Privacy Settings.”
Facebook has a tendency to launch new features and tech-
nologies for new applications frequently, which can some-times reset privacy settings.
As a Facebook user, you can customize the way your profile looks to anyone – friends, fam-ily, connections in your “net-work,” and whether or not it is visible to the public.
When Facebook first gave the option of public profiles, it made profiles accessible through Google and other search engines.
The best defense against an employer finding your name in a simple search is to hide
your social life from the rest of the world.
That being said, it makes sense also to set restrictions on what kinds of information dif-ferent kinds of people can see.
Sure, your friends can en-joy photos of your antics at FallFest – but that might not be so appetizing to family mem-bers or potential employers.
A new feature recently launched by the social site al-lows other users to “tag” where you are at any given time.
This feature is known as “Places” and is Facebook’s at-
tempt to counter popular loca-tion site FourSquare.
This feature can easily be turned off by changing the de-fault settings under “Places I Check In” and “Friends can check me into places.”
These settings enable you to prohibit others from tagging you, for example, tailgating on a day you’ve skipped work.
There are countless inci-dents of people facing the consequences of companies, bosses and potential employ-ers ending ties due to im-proper behavior on Facebook.
There are just as many de-bates countering the argument – that social media shouldn’t interfere with business.
But with such tools avail-able, it pays to be proactive in making sure your personal life stays personal.
Remember – Facebook can only display what information you give it.
Make sure your future company only sees your re-sume and not your drunken shenanigans.
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Professors, distributors profit from black-market books
Forget the party atmosphere and take advantage of college
It’s that time of year again. As summer vacation gave way to the fall semester, 5,050 freshmen began their college careers Aug. 23 gripped by a wide array of hopes, expecta-tions and aspirations.
Through FallFest, these new students got their first taste of West Virginia Univer-sity’s infamous “wild side.” The perception of WVU as a place for people who love to party is undoubtedly why many of them chose to come here.
As you’ve probably heard, the “Princeton Review” placed WVU as the No. 4 party school in its annual ranking. The Review also ranked us No.
5 in the “students who study least” category, a few spots lower than the prized No. 1 spot we held last year.
This perception of WVU, while grounded in some truth, leads many people to overlook the plethora of opportunities the University has to offer stu-dents of just about any inter-est. Believe it or not, there is a whole lot more to WVU than wild parties, football games and couch burning.
As someone who spent a year at a small liberal arts school that didn’t offer a frac-tion of the opportunities read-ily available to students here, I have a piece of advice for in-coming freshmen and trans-fer students: Do not take it for granted.
These next four years will probably be some of the most memorable of your life, and they will shape who you will
be for the rest of your adult life. Whether you are in-terested in student organi-zations, intramural sports, studying abroad or bonding with a world-renowned pro-fessor, West Virginia Univer-sity has something for you.
While there’s nothing wrong with enjoying the time you have here, it truly would be a shame for you to pass up on all of the great oppor-tunities afforded by the Uni-versity. It’s no coincidence that WVU has produced 25 Rhode’s Scholars, 33 Goldwa-ter Scholars and 21 Truman Scholars.
It’s unfortunate that the notion WVU is a place where people are concerned with lit-tle more than partying tends to overshadow the end-less possibilities it provides for ambitious, motivated students.
Regardless of whether you are looking for a unique new experience or you are search-ing for other people who share your background or in-terests, you won’t have to look very far.
For example, if you are in-terested in fencing, there’s a student organization for that. How about astronomy? There’s a student organi-zation for that, too. Human rights? The Republican Party? The Democratic Party? Pro-tecting the environment?
There are student organi-zations for all of those. And if you’re interested in some-thing that doesn’t already have a student organization, you can start your own.
Student organizations are a great way to build a network of people who share your in-terests and career goals, and they provide you with price-
less leadership experience.Maybe you are interested
in doing research in neurosci-ence? There’s a summer in-ternship for that. How about research in nanotechnology or cancer? Well, there are also summer internship programs for those. Want to volunteer your time to help others or simply to build your resume? Check with the Center for Civic Engagement.
There is always a steady stream of diverse opportu-nities to volunteer ranging from recycling to disaster re-lief fundraisers. Whether it’s doing research on the human nervous system, studying abroad in Europe or volun-teering with Habitat for Hu-manity, there e no shortage of opportunities is for life-defin-ing experiences here.
It all comes down to how willing you will be to pursue
these opportunities as they come up, and they will come up often.
You are now at the begin-ning of a journey that will probably transform you and one that will provide the foun-dation for your future per-sonal and professional lives. During your time here, you will be given very powerful tools for success.
All it takes to utilize these tools is a strong desire to achieve. If you have the will power and the work ethic to excel, you have the oppor-tunity to put yourself on the track to being WVU’s next na-tionally recognized scholar.
Or you could succumb to indifference and contribute to the negative image of WVU as a large party school that has little more to offer than booze and a lively nightlife.
The choice is yours.
omar ghabracorrespondent
Have you ever bought a text-book that had black tape over part of the front cover, spine and a large portion of the back cover? If not, you probably will at some point. If so, then you have bought a “black market” book.
Nationally, there is a grow-ing marketplace that most students do not know about. Call it the “black market” of textbooks.
Complimentary copies of textbooks are being bought and sold unethically and are contributing to the rising cost of a college education.
Students only buy text-books twice a year, but the reality is textbooks are being bought and sold all year; they just don’t make it to the stu-dent until the beginning of the semester.
The “black market” of text-books runs without many of us knowing about it and is a problem both for students and publishers.
Publishing companies want professors to choose their
books to use in class, so they send professors samples of textbooks (at no charge) to review.
These samples are to be re-viewed by the professor and then returned to the publisher or destroyed. Nationally, how-ever, some professors are sell-ing these books to “book ban-dits” for $5 to $20, as was the case with former Seton Hall psychology professor, Byron Hargrove.
The Star-Ledger reported Hargrove was working in con-junction with two other collab-orators and ordering samples of more than 2,000 textbooks, which he sold for an average of $10 to $15. He was prose-cuted for theft of more than $100,000 in textbooks and or-dered to pay a fine.
The textbooks bought by “book bandits” are then sold to book distributors for roughly twice the price they were pur-chased for. At this point, the distributor covers the “Com-plimentary Edition” or “In-structor’s Edition” or “Review Copy” with black tape to hide the fact that it is not a legiti-mate copy for purchase from the publisher.
They also cover informa-tion that publishers include on these textbooks about return-
ing them and how selling them contributes to higher textbook prices for students.
These copies are sold to text-book stores on college cam-puses around the nation with a mark up of as much as 300 percent, according to a promi-nent publishing executive who prefers to remain anonymous.
Bookstores, many like our own Book Exchange, then mark the books up to mar-ket value and sell them to students.
Joey Arbuckle, the textbook manager of the Downtown Book Exchange, commented that he doesn’t really know how, but “(the black market textbooks) make it into the market.”
Arbuckle said he sells what the distributor supplies the store with.
He continued to explain that those are the textbooks they get from their distribu-tors, and they sell them to stu-dents, as if they were regular used copies bought back from students.
That same publishing ex-ecutive explained the pro-cess. The book that you hold in your hand, covered in black masking tape, started out as a complimentary copy given to a professor to review for use
in their class. A “book bandit” then
bought it for between $5 to $20, which goes directly into the pocket of professors. The bandit doubles (or nearly so) their money selling this book to the distributor who dis-guised the identity of this book and sold it to a used bookstore for more than the $10 to $40 they bought it from the bandit for, probably closer to between $30 and $120.
The bookstore puts it on a shelf that correlates with your class and sells you this compli-mentary copy incognito for the market price, which probably ranges from $55 to $215.
For example, a student could purchase a $215 text-book from a professor for $20 (who paid nothing for it), a book bandit for $20, the book distributor for $80 and your lo-cal used book supercenter for only $95.
The sad thing is, you won’t get four copies of the book to generously share with your friends, nor will you get more than $40 or $50 out of it when you sell it back to your favorite bookstore.
The biggest problem for stu-dents in this supply chain is not the unethical behavior of the professor or the simple
capitalistic behavior of the book vendors taking advan-tage of a profitable market; it is the publisher’s loss.
This creates an additional advantage to constantly up-dating the edition of their textbooks to eliminate some of the used and “black mar-ket” copies.
Textbooks are expensive to produce. There are anywhere from $6 million to $8 million invested in a 1,000-page biol-ogy textbook on behalf of the publisher.
Each copy circulated through the textbook market that was not purchased from the textbook publisher in-creases their cost for each new textbook they sell.
We need to tackle this prob-lem as close to the source as possible, starting with professors.
Our professors are fantas-tic, and none of them would ever do anything intentional to harm students.
However, I don’t think it’s as apparent when a “book ban-dit” comes to their office and offers to take a few textbooks off their hands that they are directly causing harm to stu-dents and the affordability of college.
When a professor or other
faculty or staff member sells this book for their own per-sonal gain, they are using their position for personal gain, which is quite unethical, even if they don’t realize it.
To combat the source, leg-islators in Oklahoma enacted a 2007 statute which directly prohibits the trade of, by book-store or professor, free-edition textbooks in the state of Okla-homa. Lower textbook prices are a distant dream, but the fight has to start somewhere, and it has started in Oklahoma.
West Virginia University must take an aggressive stance against the purchase and sale of free-copy textbooks by any member of the University. This would include enacting policies by the Student Gov-ernment Association, the Fac-ulty Senate, the Staff Senate and the school’s administra-tion that clearly say, “WVU will not tolerate the sale of compli-mentary textbooks.”
We must rely on the integ-rity of our faculty, staff and student body to hold our fel-low Mountaineers and our-selves to a higher standard of ethics.
Our state laws on the pur-chase and sale of complimen-tary textbooks should mirror those of Oklahoma.
a.J. Warnecorrespondent
CHELSI BAKER/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMInstructor editions of textbooks, like this copy at the Book Exchange, end up on the market and on the shelves for students to purchase.
This Fall’s big horror hit, “The Last Exorcism,” is a movie intended to thrill, chill and get your heart pumping.
These goals were definitely accomplished.
Throughout this documen-tary-style film, the audience embarks on a trip full of self-doubt, lack of faith and mo-ments of horrific discovery that couldn’t be captured in an average narrative film.
The cameraman plays an active role in the plot, help-ing to portray a sense of fear and familiarity to the extent to where you may feel like you are a part of this exorcism.
Reverend Cotton Marcus, played by Patrick Fabian, is going through a phase of self-doubt about being a man of God.
Unsure if his beliefs are sturdy or if he’s simply on “auto-pilot,” this realization has shaken him to the core.
Cotton spends a lot of time discussing his disbelief in exorcisms.
Admitting to staging all of his own exorcisms with false “demonic” reactions, Cotton decides to pursue this last one with a camera crew to reveal the exorcisms as the scam he believes them to be.
As the possessed girl, Ash-ley Bell, and family are in-troduced, viewers learned the family has been strug-gling with the death of their mother.
This has left the father, played by Louis Hertham, un-trusting of modern medicine and the son, resentful towards anyone in his path.
With cameras in their faces, the family reacts negatively toward the crew.
The son chucks rocks at the van and the father insists the cameras be turned off. Need-less to say, it takes a little con-vincing from Cotton to allow the crew to capture the exor-
cism on camera. The true horrors are re-
vealed of the girl’s doings. The camera films slaugh-tered livestock, gruesome pic-tures and the father’s sense of fear in regards to his own daughter.
Cotton entertains the fam-ily with a staged exorcism, assuming that is all that is needed to receive his money.
After completion, the crew returns to a motel miles away and is followed by the pos-sessed daughter, Nell. This shakes Cotton and his as-sumptions of exorcism’s falsehoods.
Staying strong, he refuses to believe the answer in front of his face until his own life is put in danger by 16-year-old Nell.
Unable to find the an-swers alone, Cotton insists on bringing in the local pas-tor and suggests psychologi-cal help for the girl.
These seemingly flat char-acters drag Cotton and his crew into a situation they sim-ply cannot escape.
With the plot development, suspense, characters and fear factor looking good through-out the entire film, you almost
Built to Spill play 123 Pleasant Streetby derek rudolph
cORRESPONDENT
Seminal Boise, Idaho-based indie rock group Built to Spill and upcoming Mexico City-based Chikita Violenta played a sold-out crowd at 123 Pleas-ant Street Tuesday.
The bands stopped in Mor-gantown in the middle of a small venue tour with future dates in Delaware, Philadel-phia and New York City.
Morgantown residents and West Virginia University stu-dents are pleased with the show.
“I love them,” said sopho-more journalism major Nata-lie Snyder. “They’ve been my favorite band since middle school.”
Aaron Hawley, a Morgan-town resident, said, “they’re the only indie rock band that realizes how awesome guitar
solos are.”The band’s age brought a
wide age range to 123, with their first album, “Ultimate Al-ternative Wavers,” released in 1993 and the latest “There is No Enemy” released in Octo-ber 2009.
“That guy is my hero,” Haw-ley said, pointing to singer and lead guitarist Doug Martsch, “that guy is one of the most in-fluential people in rock music today.”
Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch was a mesmerizing figure.
At 40 years old and bald, he performs like a 20-year-old.
With his eyes closed most of the time, he bobs his head back and forth while belting out his chirpy, bird-like voice during songs like “Carry the Zero.”
Their songs kept the crowd slowly swaying along with the melodies and pumping their fists during the same songs.
That is how Martsch’s guitar playing works with the band. He will play along in the break-downs of the songs while the band will jam out, something that has made them popular at jam band festivals over the years.
During spurts of breakdown, Martsch plays a solo on the guitar that is both biting and soothing as the bassist and drummer groove along.
Feeling the heat of the small venue, Martsch wiped his face off with a towel in between songs.
For the opening band, Chikita Violenta, playing with Built to Spill is a dream come true.
“They were our favor-ite band in high school,” said guitarist Cheech Suarez.
Their upcoming album
‘Under the Red Hood’ is super film from DC
Psychopaths and themed super-villains are no prob-lems for Batman, but what happens when one of his for-mer sidekicks decides that the caped crusader hasn’t gone far enough in his war on crime and takes matters into his own hands?
That is the question asked by DC Universe Animated’s latest original movie “Bat-man: Under the Red Hood,” an adaptation of the Judd Winick-penned storyline “Un-der the Hood.”
The film opens on perhaps Batman’s biggest failure, the murder of the second Robin,
Jason Todd, at the hands of the Joker.
Years later, Batman and the first Robin, Dick Grayson, who now goes by Nightwing, are working together to stop a weapons shipment by gang-ster Black Mask.
However, things get hairy for the dynamic duo when the shipment is revealed to be Amazo, a robot with the powers of the Justice League, as well as the appearance of mysterious thug Red Hood.
Soon, it is up to Batman to try to quell the resulting gang war between the Red Hood and Black Mask before any innocents are killed in the crossfire.
“Under the Red Hood” is the first time DC Universe An-imated has tackled a lone Bat-man story since 2008’s “Bat-
man: Gotham Knight” and is streets ahead when compared to the previous project.
The story is a great adap-tation of the original works, with most of the changes made necessary either to keep the story in an easy-to-under-stand continuity or for time, such as Mr. Freeze’s role in the story being replaced by that of the Joker.
My only complaint on this matter is that a group of as-sassins hired to kill the Red Hood went from being pop-ular DC villains, like Captain Nazi and Deathstroke in the original story, to generic nin-jas in the movie.
The voice acting was, for the most part, top notch as well.
Bruce Greenwood, known for his role as Captain Pike in
the recent “Star Trek” reboot, does a good job in the role of the Batman.
He is no Kevin Conroy, but he is much better than Chris-tian Bale’s rendition, where it sounds like he has been gar-gling rocks.
Doing a stellar perfor-mance is “Supernatural’s” Jensen Ackles as the Red Hood, combining the nec-essary gruffness with a bit of comedy in a truly enjoyable way.
Neil Patrick Harris returns to the DC Universe Animated, this time as Nightwing, and while he gives an acceptable performance, he seems to be too fun loving, not bring-ing some needed angst to the role.
‘The last exorcism’ can’t escape from its own demons
patrick Fabian, Ashley bell‘The lAST eXorCISM’
The movie starts off with a prom-ising premise but fails to execute it in the crucial final minutes.
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LIONSGATE FILMSAshley Bell stars in ‘The Last Exorcism.’
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ChELSI BAkEr/ThE DAILY AThENAEUMThe guitar player for Built to Spill performs with the band at 123 Pleasant Street Tuesday.see BUILT on PAGE 7
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ACROSS1 Energy4 It’s an example of itself8 Pure14 Suffix with verb15 “Star Trek: T.N.G.” counselor16 Bring about sooner17 Young woman next door?19 Green light20 Architect Saarinen21 Earth pigment23 Hide-hair link24 Adjoining floor?28 Fireside emanation30 “__ me!”31 ‘50s White House nickname32 Certain fisherman35 Annoys39 __ Piper41 Police sting, say43 Grimace44 Happen as a result46 “Who Can It __?”: Men at Work hit48 Exhaust, with “up”49 [see other side]51 Brought up53 Proximate coins?58 Spell59 Loosen, as laces60 Emerald City visitor63 List of things to discuss66 Chess piece within reach?68 Dividend, e.g.69 Germany’s von Bismarck70 Letter opener?71 “When a Man Loves a Woman” singer
Percy __72 Insolence73 Generous limit?
DOWN1 Area2 “Got it”3 Bosc sources4 24-hr. cash source5 French breads6 “The Garden of Earthly Delights” artist7 Hindu poet8 Old battlefield shout9 Is suffering from10 Beast of burden11 Court figure
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of Versailles34 Somme season36 Links groups37 A hothead has a short one38 Future plant40 Couples42 Omens45 “The Three Faces of __”: 1957 film47 Very small50 Treat as the same52 Affectedly cultured53 Biker leggings54 Corporate department
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HOROSCOPES
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TodayWVU ROWING will be holding
an informational meeting at 5:30 p.m. in the Room 102 of the Stu-dent Recreation Center. For more information, e-mail [email protected].
HISTORY DEPARTMENT WEL-COME BACK RECEPTION will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in E. Moore Hall. All History majors and inter-ested persons are invited.
Every WednesdayWVU FIRST BOOK ADVISORY
BOARD meets at 7 p.m. in the Kanawha Room of the Mountainlair. Students and faculty are welcome to attend and get involved with First Book and the WVU Advisory Board. For more information, e-mail [email protected].
CYCLING CLUB meets at 8 p.m. in the Bluestone Room of the Mountainlair. For more informa-tion, visit www.WVUcycling.com.
THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT AS-SOCIATION meets at 7:30 p.m. at Hatfields in the Mountainlair. For more information, stop by the SGA or SOS offices in the Mountainlair.
WVU ULTIMATE CLUB/TEAM meets at 5 p.m. at the WVU Intra-mural Fields and is always looking for new participants. Experience playing ultimate frisbee isn’t neces-sary. For more information, e-mail Zach at [email protected] or visit www.sugit.org.
WVU-ACLU meets at 6 p.m. in the Monongalia Room of the Mountainlair.
TAI CHI is taught from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Other class times are avail-able. For more information, call 304-319-0581.
CATHOLICS ON CAMPUS meets at 8 p.m. at 1481 University Ave. For more information, call 304-296-8231.
ESL CONVERSATION TABLE will meet at 6 p.m. at the Blue Moose Cafe. All nationalities are welcome. The table is sponsored by Monon-galia County Literacy Volunteers, a member of the United Way family. For more information on Literacy Volunteers, contact Jan at 304-296-3400 or [email protected].
WVU FENCING CLUB will host advanced fencing practice from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Stansbury Hall Gym. For more information, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.encingclub.studentorgs.wvu.edu.
AIKIDO BEGINNERS CLASS will be held at 6 p.m. at 160 Fayette St. Student rates are available. For more information, e-mail. [email protected].
S T U D E N TS F O R S E N S I B L E DRUG POLICY will meet at 6 p.m. in the Mountain Room of the Mountainlair. For more informa-tion, e-mail [email protected].
CHAMPION TRAINING ACADEMY is offering free tumbling and stunt-ing from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. for
those interested in competiting on a Co-ed Open International Level 5 Cheerleading Team. For more in-formation, call 304-291-3547 or e-mail CTA at [email protected].
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volunteers for the information desk, pre-admission testing, hos-pitality cart, mail delivery and gift shop. For more information, call Christina Brown at 304-598-1324.
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WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHIL-DREN needs volunteers. WIC pro-vides education, supplemental foods and immunizations for preg-nant women and children under 5 years of age. This is an opportunity to earn volunteer hours for class re-quirements. For more information, contact Michelle Prudnick at 304-598-5180 or 304-598-5185.
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ROSENBAUM FAMILY HOUSE, which provides a place for adult patients and their families to stay while receiving medical care at WVU, is looking for service organi-zations to provide dinner for 20 to 40 Family House guests. Although the hospital cafeteria is only steps away, guests enjoy a home-cooked or restaurant-donated meal. Peo-ple may, individually or as a group, provide the food, serve and clean up on a regular basis or as a one-time event. For more information, call 304-598-6094 or e-mail [email protected].
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MOUNTAINEER SPAY/NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM is an all-volunteer nonprofit that promotes spay/neuter to reduce the num-ber of homeless pets that are eu-thanized every year. M-SNAP needs new members to help its cause, as does ReTails, a thrift shop located in the Morgantown Mall. For more information, go to www.m-snap.org.
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BORN TODAY This year, tension of-ten mounts. Work, professional commit-ments and community issues seem to fall on your shoulders. Practice saying that you have had enough. Practice asking for help. Your creativity will flourish if you pace yourself. You also might seem fussy to others. Learn to relax. If you are single, you could meet someone through your work. Take your time getting to know this person, especially if work and plea-sure are mixed. If you are attached, un-derstand the importance of supporting your sweetie in different areas of his or her life. GEMINI can shake you up.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH You might make first contact! Stay open to others. If others don’t return the favor, it doesn’t mean you are doing something wrong. Keep flowing, knowing there is an intrinsic disconnect. Tonight: Join friends for a midweek break.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHH Your possessive side emerges in your dealings. Self-discipline can go only so far. Sitting on your feelings could backfire and come out in an odd manner. Creativity can fill in some of the gaps, but wild risking could be problematic. Be sure that you can ac-cept the end results. Tonight: Your treat.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHHH Though you might be on cruise control, others are not. How you deal with inter-ference and others’ issues is more impor-tant than you believe. Be careful about saying one thing but doing another. Try to stay authentic and centered. Tonight: What you want.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HH You might be overthinking an issue. As a re-sult, molehills become mountains. Try to step back and get outside of yourself. Communication could be out of whack, as people are not connected to their feel-ings. Give yourself and others space. To-night: Catch up on a pal’s news. Out and about.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Know-ing your goals, even just for a day, could help make plans move forward more eas-ily. Prioritize accordingly. You will avoid getting waylaid by details and people. Confusion could happen when trying to handle a financial matter. Do you think you have all the facts? Tonight: With friends.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH Pres-sure builds, making you wonder what is acceptable and what you need. Some-times there is a conflict of interest be-tween your personal and professional lives. Consider your image within your immediate circle. How do you want oth-ers to think of you? Tonight: Burning the candle at both ends.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH If con-fusion swirls, detach and distance your-self. You will gain a perspective, but not in the middle of this situation. Don’t hold yourself back. Worry can become fear and paralyze you. Take a risk; otherwise you have nothing. Tonight: Let your imagi-nation choose.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH Work with a key associate or individual. A meeting and phone calls could distract you. Stay focused. Concentrate on what
is needed. Another person points to the right path. Tonight: Get together with a favorite person.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH Others will keep coming at you unless you establish barriers. Know what you want, and follow through. You are un-likely to see eye to eye with a boss or with someone on a work-related matter. Tonight: Say “yes” to an offer.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HH Em-phasize completion and accomplishment in areas that are important to you. Eas-ily, you see a situation differently from others. Be careful with news, as it might not be all facts. Know that there is more forthcoming. Tonight: Squeeze in some exercise.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH If you keep hitting a blockage, what do you do? It is critical to keep moving. Know that when you keep hitting a brick wall over and over, it means the path isn’t ac-cessible. Be willing to try alternatives. A key person in your life might be nit-pick-ing. Tonight: Let your hair down.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHH Defer to others. In fact, if others want to lead a project, all the better. You might be hap-pier staying close to home or working from home. You also might want to fo-cus on matters other than work. Tonight: Order in.
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SAY GOODBYE TO THE WARNERThe Warner Theatre held a special goodbye evening Saturday to bid farewell to the iconic building.
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A group of girls stand around the front counter at the Warner and talk about the theater at a farewell party for the Warner Theatre Saturday night.
ChELSI BAkEr/ThE DAILY AThENAEUM2010 WVU graduate and Warner Theater employee Justin Channel reads and explains a list of renovations needed in the theater to a group at a farewell party for the Warner Theatre Saturday night.
ChELSI BAkEr/ThE DAILY AThENAEUMA group of students play pinball at the Warner Theatre Saturday night during a farewell party for the theater.
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wonder where the production team lacked.
Well, this is answered in the last five minutes of the film, in which the climax, resolution and credits all blend into one huge mess.
The twists and turns are there, yes, but they’re dis-played in a way that almost makes your head hurt.
So many questions are an-swered that it becomes too mind-blowing and the end-ing almost makes you forget how enjoyable the movie had
been up to that point. If you’re looking for a
movie with the tools to put you on the edge of your seat, you’ve found it.
If you’re also looking for a movie that will make you question everything you once knew about respectable res-olutions, you’re also in luck.
With a solid beginning and middle and an end that is no better than questionable, I find this movie to be watch-able but not rewatchable.
The greatest performance in the movie though belongs to John DiMaggio, Bender from “Futurama,” as the Joker.
He displays the right amount of kookiness for the charac-ter, yet also has a very obvious dark side that actors need for the role.
If Mark Hamill does retire from the role after “Batman: Arkham Asylum 2,” DiMag-gio should definitely become the regular voice for the clown prince of crime.
The only weakness of the film is the story.
There is no mystery as to what the Red Hood’s identity is, made obvious to the view-ing audience at the beginning of the film.
It is still a good movie, but an air of mystery is always a fan-tastic element for any movie to have.
“Batman: Under the Red Hood” is another great film and comic books fans and cartoon fans should be very pleased with this final result.
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“Trees” was produced by Broken Social Scene producer and touring member David Newfield. “Trees” is expected to be released in Jan-uary 2011 in America on the label Arts & Crafts.
Their short, tight set of music shows that they are a band to look out for in the upcoming months.
This is the first time Chikita Vio-lenta is touring the United States. After they finish their tour dates with Built to Spill, they will con-tinue to play with label mates Ra Ra Riot.
Suarez said that he and his band members grew up on bands like Pavement, Slint and Super Furry Animals.
He obtained CDs by visiting America and having American friends to obtain CDs for him.
Built to Spill is somewhat of an anomaly in rock music today. They are signed to a major label, Warner Brothers, but have a large amount of creative control with what they do.
The band opened up on tour dates with Kings of Leon last year and is in the middle of a small club tour.
“They don’t have a manager or roadies,” Suarez said, “They don’t care about the rock stuff, they just love to play.”
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PhOTOS BY ChELSI BAkEr/ThE DAILY AThENAEUMABOVE: Built to Spill performs to a sold-out crowd at 123 Pleasant Street Tuesday night.LEFT: The lead singer of Chikita Violenta sings at 123 Pleasant Street Tuesday.
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Rutgers sophomore Tim Wright was an all-state re-ceiver out of Wall Township, N.J. After redshirting his first year, Wright saw action in 12 games for the Scarlet Knights in 2009.
This past spring, he was seemingly destined for a breakout 2010 season after being named the team’s most-improved offensive player. Even on a national level, Wright received attention by being named to the Rivals.com’s All-Spring Team.
How quickly dreams shatter.Early in preseason camp,
the 6-foot-4 Wright suffered a right knee injury. He will miss the entire 2010 campaign.
“It’s a big loss,” said Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano. “He was doing really well, and it’s very disappointing.”
Wright was all but guaran-teed a spot on the first team alongside preseason first-team all-Big East Conference selection Mohamed Sanu.
Sanu was second on the team in receptions a year ago (51) and gained 639 yards on those catches.
Sanu was a true freshman a year ago, while Mark Harri-son also received repetitions in 2009 as a true freshman.
To go along with sopho-more quarterback Tom Sav-age, the crop of RU receivers forms one of the youngest of-fenses in the country.
Schiano sees no problem with that fact.
“We have a very talented, yet inexperienced group of receivers,” he said. “We have to put them out there, give them opportunities and see, when the lights come, on who performs.”
When Rutgers opens its season Thursday against Nor-folk State at 7:30 p.m., Schi-ano plans to stick with an air attack. The depth will be a stronghold in the Knights’ of-fense, a unit that gained 2,495 yards through the air a year ago.
“We’re going to play a lot of people,” Schiano said. “We’re going to do it with several guys and see who does well in game action then see who holds it down.”
A total of eight receivers with freshman status will try to vie their way into the mix this season.
Schiano said there will be numerous freshmen involved in their plan and will not rule anyone out if they prove their worth. Outside of Wright, Schi-ano is pleased with his team’s progression in camp and knows his Knights, picked to finish sixth in the conference, can make a impact in the con-ference standings.
“Other than the loss of Tim (Brown), we were able to get better and stay healthy,” he said.
Louisville In any rivalry game there
is more on the line than brag-ging rights. The Cardinals host Kentucky Saturday in the an-nual Governor’s Cup. UL head coach Charlie Strong feels that this is a battle for future college football players.
“This game can really set the tone, because if you win it, you can kind of be one up on them as far as recruiting those young men,” said Strong, a first-year head coach. “It’s very criti-cal for setting the tone for this state.”
The Wildcats own the series advantage over the Cards 13-9.
PittsburghLast season’s Big East De-
fensive Player of the Year Greg Romeus has been held out of most of fall practice.
The same goes for running back Ray Graham.
Pitt head coach Dave Wannstedt insists they are ready to go for Thursday’s opening game against Utah.
“Greg Romeus looked great last week,” Wannstedt said. “Ray Graham is very close. He practiced in team drills and will be available to play Thursday.”
When traveling to Salt Lake City, Wannstedt said higher el-evation will not be a concern for his Panthers. He compared the trip to his NFL coaching days when he led the Miami Dolphins into Denver’s Mile High Stadium.
“When we got there, just like every other place I coached in the NFL, we showed up the day before the game and played,” Wannstedt said.
South FloridaThe Skip Holtz era will be-
gin Saturday at home against Stony Brook. Holtz came to USF from East Carolina and, thus far in his time in Tampa, Holtz has been impressed with the depth he has seen with his new program, particularly on defense.
While the numbers are there, he feels they can still improve.
“I do like our depth on de-fense,” Holtz said. “I don’t think we’re there. I think they’ll continue to get better.”
SyracuseAfter five-straight los-
ing seasons, Syracuse has no where to go but up.
However, 2010 may be a harsh roadblock with a pleth-ora of freshmen across the field and in backup roles.
SU head coach Doug Mar-rone is not worried consider-ing the talent levels of those players.
“I knew we had some guys that could come in and run,” Marrone said. “I just wanted to see how they were from a physical standpoint and from a mental standpoint, be-cause there’s a big difference, obviously.”
scored her first goal of the sea-son, second of her career.
Defender Mallory Smith scored her first career goal, another contribution from a Mountaineer coming off the bench and stepping up when given the opportunity.
West Virginia wasn’t able to get it going on the road at Ohio State, losing to the Buckeyes 3-1.
In that game, the substitutes didn’t contribute as much as the Bowling Green game, and the lone shot from the Moun-taineers’ bench came from Smith.
Despite the mixed results, the Mountaineers have proved early on in the season the team is capable of beating teams and will do so with offense being generated by a vast number of players.
Head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown said prior to the sea-
son she hoped the Mountain-eers would have some players step up to help the team score more goals.
Early in the season, the Mountaineers have done just that.
WVU has given up as many goals as it has scored (five) and has had four more shots and one more shot on goal against its opponents so far this season.
The development of the sub-stitutes will affect the Moun-taineers’ offensive production.
So far, the team has had new-comers step up, with goals be-ing scored by players who haven’t normally been accus-tomed to being the offensive leaders for the team.
That’s promising for the Mountaineers, and shows that as the season progresses the team will develop more of an offensive identity.
Megan Mischler and Blake Miller have combined for 25 ca-reer goals for the Mountaineers, including Mischler’s team-leading five goals in 2009 and
Miller’s team-leading 10 goals in 2008.
This season, the duo has combined for no points in the first three games.
Once Mischler and Miller get their offensive games in full stride, the Mountaineers will be a force to be reckoned with.
Entering the season, the team’s biggest question mark was its offensive identity.
So far this season, the Moun-taineers have seen others con-tribute, only strengthening the team’s offensive outcome.
It’s still early in the season, but by all indications WVU’s re-cord of 1-2 isn’t something to worry about.
By the numbers, the Moun-taineers have outplayed the competition, the team just needs to find its feet and start gelling offensively –and it will happen.
When it does, I wouldn’t want to be an opposing goalkeeper.
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Despite youth, Schiano trusts Rutgers’ receivers
QUesTIOnaBLe CaLLsWill this year’s team meet bill Stewart’s expectations and win 10 games?
BY TONY DOBIESSPORTS EDITOR
When asked earlier this sum-mer if Geno Smith would be a solid replacement at quarter-back in 2010, West Virginia start-ing cornerback Keith Tandy had this to say: “That’s what every-one wants to see.”
Tandy’s right. West Virginia is one of the
most veteran teams in the coun-try. In fact, 19 of the Mountain-eers’ 31 starting positions are home to a junior or senior.
The question mark coming into the season is at quarter-back, though. Smith, a sopho-more signal caller, doesn’t have the experience.
Everyone is asking: Can Smith do the job well enough for the Mountaineers to win the Big East?
I have your answer: A re-sounding yes.
With winning the Big East, WVU will also win 10 games for the first time under head coach Bill Stewart.
Smith is one of those players who exudes confidence, lead-ership and smarts. With those tools, he has been able to win over his teammates this sum-mer and has looked like a vet-eran out there in the huddle during fall camp.
There’s a lot riding on the arm – and healthy feet – of West Virginia’s sophomore starting quarterback.
If Smith stays healthy, the Mountaineers will go as far as Smith can take them.
It’s up to Smith to lead the way. To me, he’s more than ready for the challenge.
West Virginia will win 10 games this season and has the talent to finish the season with the best record in the Stew-art era. If not, it will be a major underachievement.
BY BRIAN GAWTHROPASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
The Mountaineers have the talent and the potential to win 10 games, but there are too many things that could go wrong to say the team will do so this season.
Injuries, opponents and, as evidenced by last year’s game against Cincinnati, even the officials weigh in on the out-come of a game. It’s not strictly the talent of a team that wins games.
What about the team’s chemistry? Will the offense be able to take care of the ball and will the defense be able to force turnovers?
Do the Mountaineers even have a punter yet?
WVU is already seeing inju-ries factor into the team as start-ing linebacker Pat Lazear won’t be playing Saturday against Coastal Carolina. Who knows how long J.T. Thomas’ shoulder will hold up? It’s impossible to tell how long Geno Smith will be able to stay healthy.
Additionally, WVU still hasn’t stapled down the offensive line, and, even if they do, the chances of every offensive line-man playing every snap like last season likely won’t happen again.
The Mountaineers’ schedule doesn’t help matters either. En-tering Baton Rouge and defeat-ing LSU is surely no easy task (it has only happened five times since 2007, none of which to non-conference opponents).
WVU also travels to Pitts-burgh and Connecticut and hosts Cincinnati.
Yes, the Mountaineers have all the necessary pieces to win 10 games this season. Whether or not they have luck on their side will have to be judged at a later date.
BY BRIAN KUPPELWEISERSPORTS WRITER
The 2010 version of the West Virginia Mountaineers football team will meet head coach Bill Stewart’s expecta-tions of 10 wins, but it will not come without a few stumbling blocks.
Home games against Cin-cinnati and South Florida will be tough. Road contests against LSU, Pittsburgh and Connecticut will be WVU’s big-gest tasks all season.
That being said, I don’t see a scenario in which WVU loses more than two of those games.
One of the key ingredients to the success of the Moun-taineers this season will be how they distribute the ball amongst key players Noel Devine, Jock Sanders and Ta-von Austin.
If Stewart is as dedicated as he says he is to getting the ball to Devine more often than last year, then WVU increases its chances of winning.
Also, quarterback Geno Smith seems to have the look of a quarterback who can fi-nally give the Mountaineers the passing threat they need to open up running lanes for Devine.
The last key factor to meet-ing the expectations of Stewart will be Stewart himself.
Can Stewart be the coach who many saw during last year’s Backyard Brawl who was not afraid to take a risk late in the game, or even a coach who is not afraid to try to put teams away early on in the game?
That remains to be seen. But, Stewart does have the
necessary offensive tools along with a stout defense that could return the Mountaineers to Big East Conference supremacy this season.
BY MATTHEW PEASLEESPORTS WRITER
The stage is set for a 10-win season for West Virginia, although it does not look plausible.
At first glance, a team with 18 starters returning should be strong enough to eclipse dou-ble-digit wins, but there are too many question marks that still remain unanswered.
Perhaps not one position is more important than that of the quarterback. If quarter-back Geno Smith would hap-pen to go down with an injury, the season would go down with him.
Smith has a history of an-kle and foot problems and, al-though he has been looking fairly mobile in camp, come a game situation the environ-ment changes dramatically.
Smith will be thrown into the fire as a first-year starting quarterback. That alone should make fans weary.
The weakest aspect of the team has to be the offensive line. If somebody does not step up on the right side, it will be hard to utilize running back Noel Devine to his full extent.
The biggest thing the Moun-taineers have going for them is their relatively easy schedule.
According to Phil Steele, WVU plays the 70th toughest schedule in college football.
Road trips to LSU, Connect-icut and Pittsburgh are the toughest games for this team. Those, along with a home tilt against back-to-back confer-ence champion Cincinnati, could be the potential losses.
The Mountaineers have the talent to win nine games. This year, nine wins may just be enough to win the Big East Conference title.
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are challenging each other at right guard.
“It’s still a battle, and it will probably be a battle through-out the season I would think,” Stewart said.
z Starting linebacker J.T. Thomas will start Saturday despite a lingering neck in-jury that forced him to miss some of fall camp. Stewart said Thomas has had an MRI and is “medically sound.”
“Medically, he needs to play to see how he’s going to react,” Stewart said. “So, we’re going to play him Sat-urday and get in there and bang. At that point, we’ll see what’s going on with him.”
z Fellow starting line-backer Pat Lazear is still nurs-ing a bone bruise on his leg from an injury in fall camp. Stewart is unsure whether Lazear will play. The Moun-taineers’ head coach said he would know more Thursday when he has to submit an injury report to the Big East Conference. If Lazear is out, redshirt freshman Branko Busick will be start.
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by tony Dobiessports editor
West Virginia men’s basket-ball players Joe Mazzulla and Dalton Pepper were cited for disorderly conduct and pub-lic urination Sunday morning.
The two were cited by Mor-gantown police around 12:30 a.m. Sunday in downtown Morgantown and charged with misdemeanors. The two were caught near the inter-section of Reid and Chestnut streets.
“We are aware of the situ-ation and the matter will be handled internally,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins in a statement.
The two players have a mu-nicipal court date set Nov. 1, according to the Charleston Daily Mail.
This is the third time in as many years that Mazzulla has been in trouble with the law. In 2008, he and team-mate Cam Thoroughman al-legedly tried to punch an off-duty police officer at a
Pittsburgh Pirates game. He was charged with aggravated assault, hindering apprehen-sion and underage drinking, and later pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and pub-lic intoxication.
In April 2009, Mazzulla was charged with domestic battery for an incident at a nightclub in downtown Morgantown, in which he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. He was suspended from April to Au-gust for that incident but was reinstated for the start of the
2009-10 season.Mazzulla is expected to play
a significant role on this year’s team after his strong play in the Mountaineers’ Final Four last season. He earned the Most Outstanding Player award in the East Regional of the NCAA Tournament for his 17-point performance in a 73-66 win over No. 1 seed Ken-tucky in the Elite Eight.
Pepper averaged 3.1 points per game in 2009-10.
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Just one year after he was named a second-team pre-season all-American and Goal-keeper of the Year in the Big East Conference, Zach Johnson found himself without a single preseason honor as he went into the start of the 2010 season.
That’s something the West Virginia senior says will have him playing with a little chip on his shoulder this year.
“It does make you want to go out and play well a little bit,” Johnson said. “But that stuff doesn’t really matter too much. I’d rather have the team do well than get the individ-ual accolades, especially in the preseason.”
The Lumberton, N.J., native is heading into his fifth and fi-nal year as a Mountaineer, one that should continue adding to his already great college career.
After being redshirted his freshman year, WVU head coach Marlon LeBlanc called on Johnson to step in between the pipes after the graduation of one of the most prolific keepers in school history, Nick Noble.
While it might have been too much to ask for most freshmen to perform well while trying to replace one of the best play-ers in program history, it didn’t seem to faze Johnson.
The Mountaineers went 14-6-2, earned their first-ever
Sweet 16 bid and their fresh-man goalkeeper put together a season that would be tough for anyone to match. He started all 22 games, averaged 0.48 goals per game and broke Noble’s re-cord for shutouts with 13 clean sheets on the year.
That solid play carried over to the next season as Johnson had another eight shut outs and al-lowed just 13 goals en route to being named the Big East Goal-keeper of the Year, as well as first team all-Big East.
In his junior campaign, Johnson and the Mountain-eers struggled at times, finish-ing 7-5-6.
“Last year was frustrating,” Johnson said. “We were strong the first part of the season, and in the end, we fell apart. That’s something I know nobody wants to repeat again.”
Heading into the 2010 season, Johnson and the defense in front of him looks better than ever and ready to take on the team’s daunting schedule. Starting with two top-20 teams before the al-ways-difficult Big East sched-ule won’t be easy, but with this year’s defense, all the Mountain-eers need to do is score the goals, according to the keeper.
“There’s no limit to how far we can make it this year,” John-son said. “There were a lot of times when, if we would’ve been able to score one more goal, we could’ve added at least five wins to our record. If we can do that, we have a good chance of making a deep run.”
As far as LeBlanc’s view on his senior keeper, he wouldn’t want anyone else back there.
“Having a dependable goal-keeper is one thing and having a great one is another. We’ve got a great goalkeeper,” LeBlanc said. “We know that when the game is on the line and we need a big save, we’ve got someone in goal who can do that.
“He’s one of the best goal-keepers in the country, and I don’t know if a lot of people re-alize it or even recognize it yet.”
WVU’s a ‘band of brothers’bRaD joyalsports writer
Don’t read anything into
1-2 recordWith a 1-2 record after three
games, the West Virginia wom-en’s soccer team is right where it wants to be.
Sure, the team would like to be 3-0, but the actual play of the Mountaineers has been ex-tremely promising.
The Mountaineers welcomed highly touted Penn State in their opening game, losing 2-1 in the overtime contest. In the loss, West Virginia proved it could compete with any team in the country. With senior Kerri Butler strong in the net and a strong de-fense, the Mountaineers weren’t able to get enough going offen-sively to defeat Penn State.
It seemed as if the team’s of-fensive troubles would carry over from last season – when the Mountaineers only net-ted 22 goals in the season – but since the opening game, the team has been more aggressive on offense.
In its second game, West Vir-ginia went on the road to shut-out Bowling Green 3-0. West Vir-ginia had 26 shots, 10 of which were on goal. Bowling Green only had five shots, none of which were on goal.
West Virginia had been look-ing for players to step up offen-sively to improve on last sea-son’s numbers. The substitutes have answered the call.
In the 3-0 win over Bowling Green, the West Virginia sub-stitutes combined for 12 shots, with five on net.
Freshman forward Fran-ces Silva added a game-high four shots off the bench for the Mountaineers, including her first career goal. Sophomore midfielder Caroline Szwed
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johnson anxious to erase ‘frustrating’ 2009 season
The 4,000 fans challengeWest Virginia men’s soccer coach Marlon LeBlanc wants 4,000 fans for Friday night’s game.
When: Friday at 7:30 p.m. Where: Morgantown, W.Va. (Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium) Tickets: WVU students enter free with a valid WVU ID. The first 200 students to enter the gates will receive a free WVU soccer “12th man” t-shirt from the Mountaineer Manaics.
Monmouth (‘09: 18-2-2)
WVU(‘09: 7-5-6)
No. 9
Coastal Carolina (‘09 record: 5-6)
No. 25 WVU(‘09 record: 9-4)
When: Saturday at 3:30 p.m. Where: Morgantown, W.Va. (Milan Pus-kar Stadium) Tickets: WVU students can claim their tickets until 11:59 p.m. There were 12,900 tickets requested by students and only 12,500 available, so the process went into a lottery. General admission tickets still remain. To buy tickets, go online to WVUgame.com, call 1-800-WVUGAME or stop by the Mountaineer Ticket Office in the Coliseum. WVU coach: Bill Stewart (third year, 19-8)CC coach: David Bennett (seventh year, 50-29)WVU key players: RB Noel Devine (1,465 yards, 13 touchdowns), WR Jock Sanders (72 receptions, 688 yards, 3 touchdowns), LB J.T. Thomas (76 tack-les), S Robert Sands (65 tackles, 5 interceptions)CC key players: QB Zach MacDowall (1,664 yards, 9 touchdowns), RB Tommy Fraser (671 yards, 4 touchdowns), WR Brandon Whitley (31 receptions, 483 yards, 4 touchdowns), CB Josh Norman (eight interceptions), LB Desmond Stew-ard (60 tackles)
by tony Dobiessports editor
West Virginia head coach Bill Stewart used the word “bond” over and over in his press conference Tuesday.
That’s what he’s wanted his team to do in the offseason.
And apparently the Moun-taineers’ third-year head coach’s goal was achieved. Stewart called his team a “band of brothers” Tuesday.
“I feel good that our team has bonded in a positive man-ner. We are a family,” Stewart said. “There is a trust in the Mountaineer family.”
For the first time in the 2010 season, those brothers will be tested. The No. 25 Mountain-eers open the season Saturday
against FCS foe Coastal Caro-lina in Morgantown.
“I know how we’re bonding. I know we’re living right, we’re doing right and good things are on the horizon,” Stewart said. “What can help that is coming out on the right foot Saturday.”
Stewart said he is looking forward to seeing his younger players – particularly at quar-terback and wide receiver – step up.
One of those players, start-ing quarterback Geno Smith, said he is excited to finally put the pads on and play against someone other than the Moun-taineers’ defense.
“I’ll probably be a little anx-ious,” Smith admitted. “When the time comes to play, I’ll be ready. I just want to continue
to progress as the season goes along.”
Stewart said he won’t tell Smith not to do something like force the ball or not turn the ball over. Instead, the Moun-taineers’ third-year coach said he’d be positive.
“I’m going to tell him Satur-day to go get (touchdowns),” Stewart said. “Are we going to play wreckless? No. We can’t do that. But, I want Geno to play and lead.”
In addition to Smith, Stew-art named a few key freshmen who will likely see playing time Saturday including: safety Mike Dorsey, defensive end Bruce Irvin, running back Trey John-son, receiver Ivan McCartney, linebacker Doug Rigg. Both freshmen quarterbacks Barry
Brunetti and Jeremy Johnson could play, as well.
Stewart does want to make sure everyone knows he’s not thinking about playing back-ups, though. As a former Divi-sion I-AA coach at VMI, Stew-art respects any lower-division foe.
“If people think this is a walk in the park, they have no idea what college football is all about,” Stewart said.
The Mountaineers haven’t lost a season opener since 2003 when they played Wis-consin. WVU will have started the season against a lower-division opponent for three-straight seasons when it takes on Coastal Carolina. WVU has beaten those opponents (Vil-lanova and Liberty) by an av-
erage of 20 points. Nose tackle Chris Neild
said he doesn’t mind going up against a lower-division team. He said the players will treat it like any other game.
“We have the same mental-ity. We want to go out there and hit them hard whether they’re a D-II school or a big-name school,” Neild said. “That’s how we all feel.
Notes z WVU has yet to decide
on who will start at right tackle and right guard against Coastal Carolina. Jeff Braun and Cole Bowers are battling for the right tackle spot, and last year’s starter Eric Jobe and Bowers
Mountaineers’ head coach likes his team’s chemistry heading into season
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FILE PHOTOWest Virginia head coach Bill Stewart celebrates as he runs off the field following the Mountaineers’ 19-16 upset over Pittsburgh last season.