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By Rachel McBRideStaff Writer
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Wednesday afternoon, more than 30 years of tradition continued as the annual beard shaving competition took place in the West Virginia University Mountainlair.
The competition encourages men of every major and year to “shave it all off,” giving the students three weeks before faculty and staff choose which male Mountaineer has grown the best facial hair.
“It really goes along with how everyone’s growing beards for hunting season and the perception of West Virginia men in general,” said Erin Blake, special event coordinator for the Mountainlair. “It’s been around for years, and it’s something fun and unique.”
The competition, sponsored by Sheetz, is part of Moun-taineer Week at WVU. Michael Garcia, WVU’s mascot, and Chelsea Malone, Miss West Virginia 2015, hosted the event as each participant shaved off any visible facial hair. There are approximately 30 students participating.
Contestants now have the next three weeks to grow and compete for the top beard at WVU. Judging will be based
off thickness, originality and design, in addition to other characteristics specific to each participant’s facial hair.
There will be prizes for the top three contestants, as well. First place will receive a $100 Sheetz Z-card, sec-ond place will receive a $75 and third place will receive a $50 z-card.
David A. Smith Jr., Sheetz concept development man-ager, said the competition and its association with WVU is unlike anything else.
“It’s a really neat, really cool idea,” Smith said. “It’s a great connection to the Mountaineer symbol and to the WVU school image in general.”
WVU’s beard shaving competition is not just an impor-tant tradition for the University, however. It is also impor-tant for the entire state, Blake said.
Gabriel Walkup, a junior chemistry student competing for the second time, believes the beard shaving compe-tition is more than just an event for Mountaineer Week.
“When you think of mountain people, you think of a beard,” Walkup said. “It’s important for Mountaineer culture.”
By John MaRk ShaveRStaff Writer
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Free Choice LLC, owner of Tilted Kilt at the Sun-crest Town Centre, has filed for Chapter 7 bank-ruptcy following a court-ordered vacating of the building.
Monongalia County Circuit Court Judge Phil-lip Gaujot initially ordered Free Choice to leave the premises by Oct. 8 due to overdue lease payments and failure to respond to a lawsuit filed by Pre-cision Properties LLC, which owns the property on which the building is built.
Despite the order, the restaurant closed on Sept. 26 to make way for renovations, according to Tilted Kilt manager David Heck.
“As a collective group,” Heck said, “we all decided what our last day of busi-ness was… All of the other stuff happened after we decided what the last day of business was.”
The court not only or-dered Free Choice to va-cate, according to Judge Gaujot ’s declarator y judgement, but to also pay
Precision Properties for the company’s failed lease payments dating back to July 2015.
In addition, from March 2015 to July 2015, lease payments made by Free Choice were rejected due to a lack of funds in its account.
Gaujot ordered Free Choice to pay $20,000 per month to Precision through September 2017, which is when the origi-nal lease on the building expires.
On Oct. 7, Free Choice filed for Chapter 7 bank-ruptcy altogether. The corporation has up to $50,000 in both assets and liabilities, the bankruptcy statement reads, although the specifics of these have not yet been filed.
When a company files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, they usually have an au-tomatic stay, or a period in which creditors are pro-hibited from collecting money and possessions from the debtor. This al-lows the debtor to regain their bearings and get payments in order.
Precision filed a mo-tion for relief from the au-
By JoRdan MilleRCorreSponDent
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Passing the mural near Hazel Ruby-McQuain Park, Morgantown citi-zens might see the words “’Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, com-mitted citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.’ – Margaret Mead.”
Few know the art was placed there by the Youth Action Board led by Friends of Deckers Creek, a coalition of outdoor en-thusiasts who clean up il-legal dumps in the creek’s area and monitor its wa-ter quality.
“We have a mission statement- which is basi-
cally to promote the use of Deckers Creek and (do) work with education,” said Nick Revetta, Friends of Deckers Creek proj-ect manager, “and a lot of that has to do with clean-ing up the stream. There’s a variety of issues that are plaguing the stream.”
For many years, the wa-ter in Deckers Creek ran bright orange because of acid mine drainage. The area, as home to many closed mines, has been oozing pollutants, caus-ing precipitates to form in the water and creat-ing pH imbalances that make the creek uninhab-itable for fish and small insects.
In 1995, Friends of Deckers Creek developed
to combat these prob-lems, and two years later, began receiving small grants to fund its projects. The group fully earned its nonprofit status in 2000, according to Revetta.
The group consists of three staff members, a board of directors, a youth action board, dif-ferent volunteer groups and the occasional West Virginia University intern, who work together to al-leviate chemical pollution and other issues in the lo-cal watershed, Revetta said.
The group completes projects throughout Pres-ton county and Monon-galia county, covering 64 square miles.
F r i e n d s o f D e ck-
ers Creek currently has seven treatment facilities for acid mine drainage, and the group holds dif-ferent outreach events in the community each year, said Jess Lemley, the or-ganization’s AmeriCorps VISTA.
Its focus has primarily been acid mine drainage, but they have also created rain gardens and green spaces and hold clean-ups several times each year to raise awareness and con-cern for the quality of the Deckers Creek watershed.
“Without our volun-teers, our sponsors, our members- the stakehold-ers that come to ask us questions- without those
By Paige czyzewSkiaSSoCiate City eDitor
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West Virginia Universi-ty’s International House on Spruce Street is home to 37 students, both inter-national and not, living and learning together about cultures from around the world.
It has been rumored that by fall 2016, a sorority will occupy the residence, how-ever that is not true.
Kappa Delta’s National headquarters has yet to
make any official deci-sions, according to Jessica Li, student program advi-sor for WVU Student Orga-nization Services.
“As of right now, (Kappa Delta’s decision to return) is not something that has happened,” Li said, and ac-tually, the last time WVU added a sorority chapter was in the 1990’s, so it’s been a while.”
Kappa Delta’s National Sorority, a PanHellenic chapter previously at WVU, was banned for hazing in the early 2000’s. After a 10-
year suspension, the so-rority has allegedly been given the chance to return to campus next year.
The sorority legally owns the property where the I-House is currently located, and they lease it to the University, according to Li, but nothing has been done officially to change the arrangement.
Li said in order for the establishment—or the re-establishment—of a soror-ity chapter, a specific pro-cess called “extension” would have to occur, which
includes looking at enroll-ment data, and researching the sorority and the pro-posed property.
“If we were open for ex-tension, it’s something that would have been voted on by the students and initi-ated by the (WVU PanHel-lenic) student leaders... From my office’s perspec-tive, we are not open for ex-tension,” she said.
Over the past year, a few media outlets, including WVU Reed College of Me-
Future of International House undecided
AskAr sAlIkhOV/the DAIlY AtheNAeumThe International House, located on Spruce Street, has faced rumors of being re-placed by a sorority.
shelbY thOburN/the DAIlY AtheNAeumMatt Tenaglio talks to Michael Garcia before shaving his beard.
Students shave their facial hair to begin three-week beard-growing competition
‘SHAVE IT ALL OFF’ Tilted Kilt owner files for bankruptcy
Two executive po-sitions were filled at Wednesday night’s West Virginia University Stu-dent Government Asso-ciation meeting.
Student Body Presi-dent George Capel ap-pointed Lane Horter as the SGA historian and Jonathan Riseberg as the SGA Arts and Entertain-ment director.
“I’m really excited...” Horter said. “(This) is more of just a change in title, I think. It’s going to be a good year.”
Horter, a second year integrated marketing communications gradu-ate student, has worked for SGA in several differ-ent capacities prior to his appointment of historian.
Two years ago, he served as multimedia coordinator for the or-ganization, and before Wednesday night, he served on the SGA com-munications team, he said.
Unlike past years, there will be two positions for Director of the Arts, Capel said. One will handle fine
arts, like plays and musi-cals, and the other, Rise-berg’s position, will han-dle more general arts and entertainment.
Both Riseberg and Horter’s executive po-sitions are unpaid, and while Capel said there are no current plans to give them stipends, there is a Bureau of Finance meet-ing Thursday evening to discuss options for execu-tive position stipends.
“I’m leaving a major-ity of (deciding on sti-pends) up to the Bureau of Finance...” Capel said. “We’re going to go back and take a look at (all sti-pends) and make sure that the positions that were originally allocated stipends have the right amounts associated with them and that the people in those positions are do-ing work that is deserving of the amounts of the sti-pends, as well.”
WVU SGA will meet at 7:30 p.m. on Wednes-day, Oct. 21 in Elizabeth Moore Hall.
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people,” Lemley said, “we would not be an or-ganization because we are a nonprofit that’s here for the community to clean up this natural resource.”
Revetta said it is the sum of the organization’s smaller projects that al-lows them to make a big difference.
Over the past seven years, the group’s four sites on Kanes Creek, a tributary to Deckers Creek, have seen huge improvements resulting in an overall increase in both water and wildlife quality.
“I love seeing ex-cited community peo-ple talk about how much it (has) improved. Peo-ple that lived there their entire lives, and they’d be able to see fish swim-ming in the stream (for the first time),” Revetta said.
In addition to their environmental cleanup projects, the organiza-tion additionally aims to promote community involvement and natu-ral resource education through their outreach programs.
“People want (the wa-ter quality) to be better,” Lemley said. “So (the best part of the group’s work is) just seeing that peo-ple want to be engaged and want to improve the natural resources in the environment around them.”
Morgantown Brew-ing Company will host “Drafts of Deckers,” a beer tasting featuring beers from West Virginia breweries from 4 p.m. to midnight on Saturday. Tickets can be purchased in advance or at the door, and all proceeds will ben-efit Friends of Deckers Creek.
For more information, visit http://deckerscreek.org.
dia’s Mountaineer News Service and an opinion piece published in The Daily Athenaeum, may have made it appear the decision is final.
Li said that’s not the case—even Kappa Delta’s National Sorority is con-cerned with the talk.
“I did get a call from Kappa Delta’s headquar-ters...” she said. “Honestly, I think they were con-cerned with their alum-nae getting excited about something that hasn’t yet been voted to take place. They didn’t want to make an official statement, but they wanted to make sure we were on the same pages as them.”
The students currently living in the I-House and Shawna Stewart, the resi-dent faculty leader, aren’t buying that the talk is just rumors.
“Now, (Kappa Delta hasn’t) said for certain they are going to take up that
option...” Stewart said, “but they have shown interest, and it’s obviously going to happen.”
The I-House is a place where students can learn about language or travel, and there’s no other place like it at WVU, Stewart said. Students come from coun-tries other people on cam-pus have never been to be-fore, and with them, they bring a new, unknown culture.
Though she first heard last year of the possibil-ity of the I-House closing, Stewart said by the time the news reached her, “it was a done deal.” She be-lieves University adminis-tration is supportive of I-House, but more needs to be done, like searching for a replacement property if the current arrangement is terminated.
“We’re hoping for some-thing similar (to I-House), but I don’t think that there is another place to serve our purpose,” Stewart said.
If WVU opens for exten-sion and Kappa Delta re-turns, the most recent idea is to move I-House to a
floor in a residence hall. Students believe this won’t solve the problem but will rather change the atmo-sphere of I-House.
“The main part of (the) house is our living room and study room,” said Kashish Tandon, a finance and MIS student living in the I-House now. “This is where we learn differ-ent languages, different cultures and eat different foods—we learn American football rules here.”
Tandon, an Indian stu-dent who was born and raised in Africa, has lived in Morgantown for the past three years.
Originally placed in-side WVU’s Dadisman res-idence hall, Tandon found he had a bad experience surrounded by “unlike-minded” people and was missing the company of fel-low “travelers.”
“When I came here, I lived in Dadisman—hated it my first semester. And then I came over (to the I-House) the next semester. All I can say, it’s been the best two and a half years of my life,” he said.
Tandon said WVU is bet-ter for having the I-House. There is no where else you can meet a girl who speaks three different languages or watch a group of boys from different countries bond over “American football.”
He said if I-House moves, it won’t be the Uni-versity’s fault because of
the “money and politics involved,” but the I-House students will respond with a movie project, led by Tandon, about the stu-dents who have lived in the house, both past and present, and with a Twit-ter campaign they plan to start, #savewvuihouse.
“All different people
from all sorts of countries (come here, and) they in-teract with each other, and it’s really important to all of us,” Tandon said. “I’ve learned more than educa-tion could ever teach me living in the I-House.”
Sophomore participant Nick Hill agreed with Blake and Walkup. He said grow-ing a “good” beard is a cus-tom most male Mountain-eer fans practice.
“Having a beard is part of being a real Mountaineer in general,” Hill said.
Contestants will rejoin at noon on Nov. 4 in the Mountainlair to assess their newly grown facial hair. WVU staff and faculty will judge the event.
Other Mountaineer Week events include Mountain-eer Idol’s Fifth Elimination Round, held at 8 p.m. on Oct. 23 in the Mountainlair Ballrooms, and Kidwell’s Funnel Cakes and other Ap-palachian Treats available on Oct. 30 outside the front of the Mountainlair.
For a list of all upcoming Mountaineer Week events, visit http://mountaineer-week.wvu.edu/events.
tomatic stay on Oct. 9, allowing them to collect from Free Choice during its bankruptcy.
If the motion is granted, Precision could repossess the property on which Tilted Kilt is built.
In all, Free Choice is more than $130,000 in debt.
Free Choice has until Oct. 23 to file an objec-tion to the motion for re-lief from the automatic stay. If they don’t, it is likely the judgment will be granted in Precision’s favor. The corporation must file its schedules—a collection of owned property, tax exemp-tions, etc.—by Oct. 21 or their bankruptcy case could be dismissed.
Free Choice, LLC could not be reached for comment.
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AskAr sAlIkhOV/the DAIlY AtheNAeumA collection of students from England and France get together to watch the Rugby World Cup competition of their laptop.
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clinton’s strong debate is general election warning for goP
WashINGTON (aP)—Hill-ary Rodham Clinton’s pol-ished performance in the first Democratic debate did more than send a message to her primary rivals. It was a warn-ing to the chaotic Republican field about her likely strength in a general election.
Clinton solidified her shift toward more liberal posi-tions on trade, gun control and immigration, but still stayed largely in step with the battleground state vot-ers she’ll need in November 2016. She also positioned her-self as heir to the coalition of women, Hispanics and black voters that propelled Barack Obama to the White House, and she potentially held off a late challenge from Vice Pres-ident Joe Biden.
“I’m a progressive,” she declared before a television audience of more than 15
million people. “But I’m a progressive who likes to get things done.”
The Republicans’ raucous first two debates, meanwhile, exposed the party’s deep di-visions and the pressure on GOP candidates to appease conservative primary voters. That could again leave the eventual nominee scram-bling to recalibrate on issues including immigration and women’s health in order to win over a national electorate that is more racially and ideo-logically diverse than primary voters.
It’s a familiar conundrum for the party, yet one poten-tially deepened by the rise of Donald Trump and Ben Car-son, candidates whose in-flammatory comments seem to only boost their standing in the primary. Candidates who are favored by more tra-
ditional Republicans, like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, risk being associated with the rhetoric of their rivals - or never find a way to overtake them.
The GOP contenders scrambled Wednesday to blunt the notion that Clin-ton has positioned herself as a general election force. Ru-bio said Clinton was locked in “a race to the left to see who could be the most rad-ically liberal, the most big-government.” And Bush cast Clinton as the beneficiary of a Democratic field that side-stepped confrontations over her private email use, a con-troversy that has dogged her campaign for months.
“In a partisan crowd you could see how that would work out, but I don’t think Mrs. Clinton’s been forth-coming and I think she has
created a problem for herself by not being forthcoming,” Bush said Wednesday night while campaigning in New Hampshire. “It is a big deal, and there needs to be some clarity on it.”
Added Trump, “I think the Democrats, frankly, I think they are protecting her.”
Clinton aides insist the former secretary of state isn’t taking the Democratic nomi-nation for granted. While her strong debate performance may have hardened her standing as the party’s front-runner, she still faces tough competition from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an inde-pendent and self-proclaimed democratic socialist.
Yet Clinton left no doubt that she’s setting her sights on the GOP field.
“I can take the fight to the Republicans, because we
cannot afford a Republican to succeed Barack Obama as president of the United States,” she said. She refer-enced Republicans a dozen times during the two-hour debate, even putting the party alongside the Iranians and National Rifle Associa-tion on a list of enemies she was proud to have made.
David Plouffe, an architect of Obama’s two campaigns, wrote on Twitter that Clin-ton looked like a candidate who could win the general election.
“That is a test for GOP,” he added, questioning who in the party can attract voters in Ohio, Colorado, Virginia and other general election battlegrounds.
To be sure, Clinton remains a flawed candidate. Her evolv-ing policy positions leave her open to charges that she shifts
with the political winds. She’s a Washington insider in an election cycle where voters have shown more interest in outsiders. And she contin-ues to grapple with questions about her email practices at the State Department.
Yet Clinton has been handed two gifts on the email issue from her political oppo-nents. She often brings up Republican House Major-ity Leader Kevin McCarthy’s boast about the political dam-age to her campaign caused by the congressional panel that uncovered her email practices, citing it as evidence of partisanship. And the frus-tration Sanders expressed in the debate with the amount of attention focused on the emails blunted the prospect that she’ll be challenged on the issue from within her own party.
ApHillary Rodham Clinton smiles during the CNN Democratic presidential debate Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, in Las Vegas.
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Every college student has experienced the de-bilitating feeling of hav-ing too many responsibil-ities to manage in a given week. Though a rigorous workload can be said to build character and teach responsibility by allowing people the chance to work to their full potential, an overwhelmed or uninter-esting daily schedule can lead to the exact opposite of productivity.
Instead of tackling a workload piece by piece, it often feels easier to sim-ply push all work aside and curl up with Netflix under the excuse of maintain-ing mental health in these circumstances.
This lack of productivity in the face of responsibil-ity unfortunately doesn’t disappear after gradua-tion. The movie “Office Space” humorously de-picts the boredom and ap-athy of an average white-collar worker at a dead-end job. The main character Pe-ter Gibbons states, “Yeah, I
just stare at my desk, but it looks like I’m working... I’d say in a given week, I prob-ably only do about 15 min-utes of real, actual work.”
Though “Office Space” isn’t based on real events, Peter’s statement holds true with many Ameri-can workers. The U.S. was ranked the fifth-most-com-petitive country in 2014. The countries preceding America, which included Singapore and Switzer-land, all offered paid vaca-tion time for their country’s employees.
The average American worker clocks in nearly 47 hours per week at their job, and a study brought to light by CNBC in January indi-cated working more than 50 hours a week leads to a decrease in productivity.
What’s more, the extra work people do is often without external incen-tive: The U.S. is the only developed country in the western hemisphere that doesn’t provide paid ma-ternity leave, and many
workers in this country work well over the tradi-tional 40-hour work week without receiving any over-time pay.
Sweden experimented with a six-hour workday last year with great success, and now even more busi-nesses in the country are switching to the adjusted schedule. Companies re-ported increased morale and happiness among their employees and noted increased productivity as well.
America’s current sys-tem clearly isn’t bene-fitting its working popu-lation. With no external incentive to work hard and produce good results, em-ployees have no reason to do their best. This not only reflects poorly on this country as a major exporter of quality goods, but also decreases quality of life among individual work-ers. With no time outside of work to partake in activ-ities such as spending time with family or traveling, it
appears most Americans today simply live to work until retirement.
Sweden’s successful shortened work week is a prime example of how changing policies can
benefit other countries as well. In the so-called “land of opportunity,” work-ers shouldn’t be forced to spend every waking hour at work without a means to enjoy the fruits of their la-
bor. Shortening the stan-dard work day to six hours will benefit American workers in many positive ways.
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Eliminating dining hall options hurts students
I have heard horror sto-ries from friends at other universities who have only one food provider in their dining halls. These sto-ries include harrowing tales of strange combina-tions of food created just for the sake of variety and leftovers from lunch being served for dinner. I love be-ing able to tell those friends how food from the dining halls at West Virginia Uni-versity tastes surprisingly good, but my bragging rights could be taken away very soon.
WVU currently gets its food products from mul-tiple suppliers, which en-sures the great variety and taste the food at the dining halls currently offers. How-ever, on Friday, WVU will sign a contract with just one food supplier. The Univer-sity plans to employ a sin-gle food supplier instead of many in order to be more cost-effective.
Though WVU may be sav-ing money by doing so, this may negatively affect the number of students who eat in the dining halls daily. I also believe the change in food providers shows a side of the University that doesn’t consider the wants of the students. The change seemed to come about for strictly monetary rea-sons, which I feel reflects poorly on the University’s priorities.
The taste and variety of food in the dining halls will suffer from switching food providers. One com-pany simply cannot provide the same number of fresh and original food options that multiple food suppli-ers can, and the taste of the food will suffer as a result. If the food tastes bad, fewer students will frequent the dining halls and may even-tually stop purchasing meal
plans altogether. Less vari-ety in foods will also cause students to eat the same familiar foods each day, which makes for an un-pleasant experience over time.
The “Freshman 15” is avoidable if students have healthy dining options to choose from along with partaking in regular exer-cise. Balanced meals are especially important for
college students who have hectic schedules and heavy workloads. However, with just one food provider, WVU dining halls are setting stu-dents up for failure in re-gards to their health. If the taste of the food in the din-ing hall suffers, students will likely choose less nutritious foods that are tasty no mat-ter what, such as pizza or French fries. The salad bar will always be available, but
does anyone really want to eat lettuce for every meal? With fewer options offered by a sole food provider, stu-dents are in danger of mak-ing poor dining decisions.
Students at WVU—espe-cially freshmen, who take advantage of meal plans—often use their swipes for every meal. The Univer-sity should treat the qual-ity of these necessary meals as a priority. Meal plans at
this University are expen-sive, and students who pay to receive a set number of meals in advance deserve a choice in eating top-of-the-line food. While the Univer-sity profits from only receiv-ing food from one provider, students will lose the taste and variety that makes the dining halls at WVU so unique.
Facebook recently un-veiled plans for its very own in-house video platform, a service it hopes will rival the ever-famous YouTube.
Anyone who has tried to use a social network’s na-tive video player will tell you they’re simply awful, but the quality of this viewer is not important. What is impor-tant, however, is the inten-tion behind its creation.
It looks as though Face-book is trying to unite the entirety of social media un-der its blue and white ban-ner. Facebook’s attempts at media monopoliza-tion highlight fundamen-tal problems with a highly competitive economic sys-tem, as well as how the pub-lic at large responds to such attempts.
Let’s make this clear: The world’s premier social net-work doesn’t just want to create its own video player.
Facebook already has one of those, and frankly, it’s terri-ble. Facebook instead wants a system presumably simi-lar to YouTube. In fact, the company’s own statement lists “watch later” and “sug-gested videos” as the pri-mary selling points of the new feature, which YouTube has already had for nearly a
decade.These similarities are
nothing to get up-in-arms about; if anything, they’re laughable and just show how success is copied shamelessly time after time. What is truly shameful, however, is Facebook’s in-tent to subvert already well-established services pro-
vided by other companies across the Web. Facebook’s clear goal at this point is to uproot YouTube and ce-ment itself as the very core of social media for all your video, commenting, status update and photo-sharing needs. I don’t predict it will go well, though, as this was already tried by another fa-
mous Internet company not too long ago.
In 2011, Google tried to wedge its way into You-Tube’s inner workings, and the vast majority of users ab-solutely hated it. Today, its influence still lingers in the form of mandatory Google+ accounts created after signing up with YouTube. Though it forever compli-cated what used to be an in-credibly easy process, what Google attempted is an ex-cellent example of how not to treat an online user base. By now, it should be obvi-ous to Internet companies what its users want: reliabil-ity, not singularity.
Not only have these ham-fisted attempts at unifying websites already been met with derision, but they also exemplify exactly what is wrong with monopolies and the worst excesses of our current economic system. Perhaps they believe a uni-fied social media system will lead to easier monitoring of private activity and inva-sions of privacy, but where their true aim lies is any-
one’s guess.Personally, I do not think
this plan will succeed. You-Tube is simply too well-es-tablished to be overtaken by Facebook. This is likely just something Facebook hopes will gain more attention and revenue over time so it doesn’t fall into ruin in sim-ilar ways as Myspace.
At some level, all people understand monopolies are a bad thing. One company having control over an en-tire industry has been di-sastrous and oppressive throughout history, and though it may sound like reactionary hyperbole, it could easily become this way again. Unity may be a laudable ideal, but at some point in every monopoly, individuality and diversity of experience become lost. Streamlined, collective sys-tems work very well in the-ory, but like so many other things, are either not ac-cepted by the fickle public or simply fall apart when ac-tually practiced.
fastcompany.comFacebook’s new video feature rivals what YouTube already offers, and not in a good way.
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askar salikhov/the daily athenaeum Dining halls and services could be losing their variety later this month.
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As if midterms, col-lege tuition and bank ac-count balances are not scary enough, October brings many haunted at-tractions to spice up the fall season. The local area offers several spooky events that are perfect for a night out with friends.
FRIGHT FARM
Fright Farm is a name that is familiar within the West Virginia University campus. Students will normally gather a group of friends and head out to the farm in Smithfield, Pennsylvania.
Fright Farm is open from Sept. 25 to Oct. 31. Five attractions are of-fered through one loca-tion, with live entertain-ment and food specials. Guests have the oppor-tunity to rent out a VIP group package if their party is 20 people or more. The group package includes a private army tent, electric, a bonfire and admission to all five attractions.
An evening at Fright Farm begins with gath-ering in the outdoor Fes-tival Midway where en-tertainment, celebrity appearances, face paint-ing, bonfires, live music, concessions and horror movies reside. Guests get on the Haunted Hayride and take a trip through the dark countryside of Rich Farms.
The trip continues to the red glowing Fright-mare Asylum as guests are guided through the three-story mansion by insane asylum patients. The Hallow Grounds fol-low, providing visitors a trip through demonic cab i n s, g rave ya rd s, bayou, an underground mausoleum and a slaugh-terhouse. The fourth at-
traction is the Terror Maze, which allows guests to get lost in the 10,000 square-foot maze while being chased by carnival char-acters. Lastly, the new-est attraction, Distortions, remains at the end of the visit. This attraction is kept a secret for visitors, adding to the suspense of the en-tire evening.
General Admission tickets grant access to all five attractions. They are available for $25 online at http://frightfarm.com.
TRANS ALLEGHENY
The former Weston State Hospital hosts ghost hunts and tours year round as the Trans-Allegheny Lu-natic Asylum. Located in Weston, West Virginia, the facility used to be a hospi-tal for mentally ill patients in the mid 1800’s. The hos-pital holds many histori-cal stories, including Civil War raids and the efforts of individuals to help en-hance the lives of mentally ill patients.
The asylum offers tours of the nationally recog-nized landmark including not only creepy sights, but also information on the heritage of the mental hos-pital. Ghost tours are of-fered as well, showing the haunting truth about what happened behind the walls of the hospital. A popular attraction, the haunted house Hysteria, is a four-story self guided tour in-cluding props and live ac-tors with the “no touch” rule.
The tour is 30 minutes long through the large brick building on the south lawn called the TB Building. Other events in-clude the Zombie Paint Ball Ride, allowing visi-tors to take a truck out to a farm to play paint ball in a graveyard.
Lastly, The Asylum Ball is set for Oct. 24, includ-ing a costume contest and door prizes. Live enter-
tainment will be present from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. This event is exclusive to visi-tors 18 years or older, and tickets are $20 in advance.
To visit the spooky Trans Allegheny Asylum, tickets are available online for each exclusive attrac-tion at http://www.trans-alleghenylunaticasylum.com/.
MOUNDSVILLE
The West Virginia Pen-itentiary in Moundsville, West Virginia provides visitors haunted tours and attractions throughout the real prison. The peniten-tiary operated from 1876-1995 before it transitioned to a tourist attraction and training facility. The building leaves a haunted vibe as visitors are told about electrocutions and hangings that took place throughout the Northern area of the facility.
The attraction is seen as ghostly due to paranormal activity that is shown dur-ing events. Heinous activ-ity occurred within the jail cells with inmates having the mentality of “kill or be killed.” Many unfortunate deaths happened through-
out the years, creating the mystical spooky feeling in the halls of Moundsville.
Every weekend of Oc-tober, the penitentary provides the Dungeon of Horrors, North Walk and Behind the Screams at-tractions. Dungeon of Horrors occurs from 7 p.m. to close, letting visi-tors have a chance to ex-perience what it is like to be locked in a cell, lost in a maze and stuck in the dungeon of horrors.
The North Walk is a guided tour through the oldest parts of the pen-itentiary. The areas vis-ited include North Hall, the Boiler Room, the Infir-mary, and the Psych Ward. This creepy tour entails a dark trip through the halls with wonly the tour group, your tour guide, a flash-light and tales from the past. Behind the Screams is exclusive for Oct. 18 and 25 with tours of the art-work and mechanics that make the haunted house possible.
Ticket prices vary for each attraction and can be bought online at http://www.wvpentours.com/.
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Saturday, October 17th 9am - 6pm
Scholars from across the country will interpret a variety of Civil War objects that putus in touch with the material world of the era. Five presentations will focus on
specifi c things: canes, writing materials, uniforms, swords, and vacation cottages.No pre-registration is necessary. Email [email protected] or
[email protected] for more information
Ming Hsieh Hall G21
WVU History Department
Objects as Subjects: Material Cultures
of the Civil War Era Conference
Fear Factor
firewireblog.comThe Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is a nationally famous fear destination open to the public for Halloween.
An inside look at spooky Halloween destinations in Morgantown
W. Va. preps for Bridge Day Fest
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This week, West Virginia is celebrating its 36th an-nual Bridge Day Festival. The event celebrates the New River Gorge Bridge, the second-longest single arch bridge in the world.
This occasion is the only day of the year that traffic is shut down and specta-tors can walk across the 3,030-foot bridge. Bridge Day has become one of the largest extreme sports events in the world. Hun-dreds of BASE jumpers and nearly 80,000 specta-tors are expected.
During the festival, at-tendees have the opportu-nity to see the event from below the bridge with the Down Under Tours or make their way down the 876-foot drop through BASE jumping, taking a high line ride down or rap-pelling down. Spectators can walk across the bridge while looking through the vendors, watching jump-ers and taking in the spec-tacular view.
Everyone has the oppor-tunity to go BASE jumping or take a high line ride, but rappelling is for randomly chosen teams with prior experience.
For jumping, partici-pants are given gear in-cluding a parachute and then jump. This can be done with a partner at any of the 14-tandem BASE jumping locations. The high line rider slides roughly 700 feet from the bridge down to the Fayette Station Road below.
Preceding the festival, the Oak Hill and Fayette-ville Rotary Clubs will host the annual Taste of Bridge Day. This is a great oppor-tunity to sample many dif-ferent foods from regional restaurants. This is located at Smokey’s on the Gorge, which overlooks the river. On Oct. 16, participants will be able to try new foods from all over the state while witnessing the beautiful views of the New
River Gorge.In conjunction with
Bridge Day, Bridge Jam 2015 will be held on the Cascade Festival Grounds. Performers include Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas & the Earls of Leicester, Rarely Herd, Common Houses, Illusionary Field Unit and Colton Pack. Shuttles will run from Bridge Day fes-tivities to the concert.
In downtown Fayette-ville, there will also be a Bridge Day Chili Cook-off. Spectators can purchase a chili tasting ticket pack in order to sample contes-tants’ chili and place a vote for the “People’s Choice Award.”
The New River Gorge Bridge was officially opened on Oct. 22 1977, but the festival was not created until 1980. With the opening of the bridge, it cut the 45 minute drive around the river to a lit-tle more than a minute. Since then, the bridge has seen BASE jumpers, rap-pellers, bungee jumpers, a wedding and honored guest such as Jon Mc-Bride, NASA astronaut.
Throughout the years, Bridge Day has set re-cords. In 1992, Chris Al-lum bungee jumped from the bridge, which set the world record for longest bungee jump from a fixed structure. The following year, Allum and six other jumpers set a record for a seven-person bungee jump.
Attendees are not al-lowed to bring back-packs, coolers, chairs or large handbags. They are also not allowed to ride bicycles, skates, skate-boards, strollers or wag-ons. However, partici-pants are allowed to ride their bike or walk the four-mile trail down to the gorge.
This year, the Bridge Day Festival is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday.
For more information on Bridge Day, visit http://officialbridgeday.com.
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West Virginia is home to many breweries that all claim to produce the finest craft beer in the state. The friendly competition will subside to-day when local pizzeria chain, Pies & Pints, introduces the beer selections of both Chest-nut Brew Works and Big Tim-ber Brewing Company.
The Tap Takeover will dedicate all 20 of their taps to the breweries. Located in the Suncrest Towne Centre in Morgantown, Pies & Pints is known for serving gour-met pizza and craft beer. The restaurant is right outside of the West Virginia University campus.
Pies & Pints has multiple es-tablishments located in West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky. The first pizza shop opened under a bike shop in Fayette-ville, West Virginia. The Pies & Pints website says their rec-ognition began when, “word spread among white water rafters, kayakers, rock climb-ers, and mountain bikers that there was a tiny place serving up killer pizza and hard-to-find microbrew that was per-
fect for a post-adventure meal.”Pies & Pints openly dis-
cussed the idea of a “tap take-over” with Chestnut Brew Works and Big Timber Brew-ing Company, both well-re-spected breweries with West Virginia roots.
With humble beginnings in the woods of southern Monongalia county, Chest-nut Brew Works outgrew the quaint brewery nestled in the trees. The establish-ment recently relocated to the historic South Park area of Morgantown.
The owner, Bill Rittenour, has jobs ranging from man-ager and brewer, to janitor. Af-ter earning his master’s degree at WVU, Rittenour discovered his passion for the scientific and creative process behind brewing beer.
Rittenour will share unique beers including Chestnut Brew Works’ new Balrog’s Breath, an imperial stout aged in a Jack Daniels barrel for more than a year.
Although West Virginia breweries share the desire of being the best, there is a mu-tual and genuine camaraderie between today’s two featured beer providers.
“We might be competitors,
but we’re really happy to par-ticipate in the Tap Takeover together and promote each other’s beer,” Rittenour said. “The collaboration between two West Virginia breweries is unique and worth check-ing out.”
Located in Elkins, West Vir-ginia, Big Timber Brewing Company will travel to dis-play their one-of-a-kind selec-tions. Owner and head sales-man, Sam Mauzy, encourages the public to stop by.
“We have a pretty nice line-up, and a couple of beers peo-ple haven’t seen in Morgan-town yet,” Mauzy said. “There will be 20 West Virginia beers on tap, so people should come out and enjoy themselves.”
Those who dislike craft beer will have a non-alcoholic op-tion with one of the Big Tim-ber’s taps containing root beer. Mauzy is also excited to show-case a Bourbon Barrel Porter.
Beer buffs and pizza prais-ers are encouraged to check out and experience the fine dining and drinking at the Tap Takeover event. Both Ritten-our and Mauzy will be at Pies & Pints today in representation of their breweries.
Pies & Pints hosts craft beer takeover
djzimmie.comSpectators have the opportunity to BASE jump during the Bridge Day Festival.
pittsburgh.cbslocal.comFright Farm features multiple haunted house experiences for guests.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The latest on the hospitaliza-tion of Lamar Odom, who was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel (all times local):
2:15 p.m.Lamar Odom’s grand-
mother says his father is with him at a Las Vegas hos-pital, and family members are praying for the former NBA star after he was found unresponsive at a Nevada brothel.
Florence Odom spoke to The Associated Press in a phone interview Wednes-day from her New York City home. She says she’s waiting for an update on her grand-son’s condition from his fa-ther, Joe Odom.
In tears, the grandmother said her Catholic family is praying for her beloved grandson. She described him as “so kind and sweet and gentle.”
“You could always reach him and talk to him, and I don’t understand what’s going on,” Florence Odom said. “I know he’s in God’s hands.”
Michael Mercer of North Carolina also praised his fa-mous cousin and wished him a healthy recovery.
Lamar Odom is on life support after being found unconscious Tues-day at a Crystal, Nevada, brothel.
---1:15 p.m.Friends and former col-
leagues are showing their support for Lamar Odom, who remains on life support after being found unrespon-sive at a Nevada brothel.
Television network E! says it’s praying for Odom, a former star of the “Khloé & Lamar” series who also ap-peared on “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” The net-work says it’s not filming the Kardashians or Odom dur-ing this ordeal.
Meanwhile, the Mi-ami Heat team, where Odom played one season,
and fellow NBA star Sha-quille O’Neal took to Twit-ter to express their support. O’Neal used the hashtag “MyHeartHurts.”
New York Knicks coach Derek Fisher became close friends with Odom while playing alongside him with the Lakers. He says ath-letes and entertainers often are judged by choices that aren’t representative of who they are. He also says Odom is “one of the greatest peo-ple” he knows.
The former NBA star was found unconscious Tues-day at a Crystal, Nevada, brothel. He is hospitalized in Las Vegas.
---12:10 p.m.Lamar Odom lashed out
about the media, his an-guish over his reputation, and his relationship with estranged wife Khloe Kar-dashian in remarks video-taped in August by celebrity website TMZ.
The online video shows a visibly irritated Odom say-ing: “Ya’ll have discredited me, beat me down, took my confidence, took everything away from me. You will not do it again.”
He slams a media re-port that he ambushed Kar-dashian outside a California gym, saying he lives in Las Vegas now.
The former NBA star and reality TV personality also railed against reports that he’s a womanizer and drug addict and touted his ac-complishments on the bas-ketball court.
“I probably couldn’t even get (expletive) hired by Home Depot right now be-cause of how people look at me,” he says. “It’s over.”
Odom was found uncon-scious Tuesday at the Love Ranch brothel in Crys-tal, Nevada, about 70 miles from Las Vegas. Kardashian has been by his side at a Las Vegas hospital.
---10:50 a.m.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson says Lamar Odom is on life support but that his doctors think he’s improving.
Jackson visited the former NBA star and reality TV per-sonality at a Las Vegas hos-pital Wednesday morning. He says Odom was unre-sponsive Tuesday but “has some responsiveness now.”
Jackson added: “Appar-ently from what the doctor said, he was much better off today than yesterday.”
Jackson was in town for Tuesday’s Democratic pres-idential debate. He stopped and spoke to the media as he was leaving the hospital Wednesday.
He says Khloe Kardashian and some of Odom’s child-hood friends were by Odom’s side, and former Lakers teammate Kobe Bry-ant visited him last night.
Jackson says Odom’s loved ones are “just holding hands and hoping he can bounce back.”
Odom was found uncon-scious Tuesday afternoon at the Love Ranch brothel in Crystal, Nevada, about 70 miles from Las Vegas.
---9:40 a.m.Nye County, Nevada,
Sheriff Sharon Wehrly said investigators sought a war-rant to obtain a blood sam-ple to determine if Lamar Odom suffered a drug or al-cohol overdose.
Wehrly said detectives worked until early Wednes-day collecting evidence and interviewing employees at the brothel where the for-mer NBA player and reality show star was found uncon-scious. She said she couldn’t immediately say what they believe caused Odom to be-come unconscious.
But she acknowledged that medics usually turn someone on their side, as Odom was, to relieve pres-sure on the chest and help them breathe.
The sheriff didn’t say whether Odom ever re-
gained consciousness while he was stabilized and taken to hospitals.
Brothel owner Den-nis Hof said Odom arrived alone, was “polite and re-served,” drank alcohol from the bar and took herbal sex-ual enhancement capsules.
Hof said Odom didn’t use drugs in the presence of anyone in the house.
---7 a.m.Reality TV personality
Khloe Kardashian has been by Lamar Odom’s side at a Las Vegas hospital since Tuesday evening.
That’s according to a per-son close to the Kardashians who spoke anonymously
because she wasn’t autho-rized to speak to the press. Kardashian and Odom were married in 2009, but Kar-dashian filed for divorce in 2013, citing irreconcilable differences.
Odom was found uncon-scious Tuesday afternoon at the Love Ranch brothel in Crystal, Nevada, about 70 miles outside of Las Vegas.
Authorities said the 35-year-old was stabilized at the scene before being taken to a hospital. He was then transferred to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Cen-ter in Las Vegas.
Owner Dennis Hof said Odom had been at his brothel since Saturday.
wikipedia.orgThe basketball player’s life spiraled out of control recently.
Cuban band to play in White House
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in more than 50 years, a musical band based in Cuba is set to perform at the White House.
The Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club is on the lineup for a White House reception Thursday in honor of Hispanic Heri-tage Month and the 25th anniversary of the White House Initiative on Educa-tional Excellence for His-panics. President Barack Obama is scheduled to de-liver remarks. Cuba’s am-bassador to the U.S. also has been asked to attend.
The White House said Orquesta Buena Vista So-cial Club will be the first Cuba-based musical act to perform under its roof in more than five decades. The appearance comes amid warming relations between the U.S. and Cuba, Cold War foes whose lead-ers surprised the world nearly a year ago with the announcement that they were restoring diplomatic relations after more than a half-century of animosity.
Obama and Cuban Pres-ident Raul Castro have met twice and have spo-ken by telephone since their stunning December announcement.
The Buena Vista Social Club started as a members’ only venue in the Marianao neighborhood of the Cu-ban capital of Havana for musicians and perform-ers based on the island nation between the 1940s and early 1960s. In its hey-day, the club encouraged and continued the devel-opment of traditional Afro-Cuban musical styles such as “son,” which is the root of salsa.
In the 1990s, after the club had closed, it inspired a recording made by Cu-ban musician Juan de Mar-cos Gonzalez and Ameri-can guitarist Ry Cooder with traditional Cuban musicians.
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THE DAILY ATHENAEUMJay Z testifies in dispute over song LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jay
Z told a jury Wednesday that he believes he has a valid li-cense to use Arabic mu-sic featured on his 1999 hit “Big Pimpin’” that is now the subject of a copyright infringement trial.
The rap superstar spent roughly 90 minutes testify-ing in a federal courtroom Wednesday, recounting his life, his successes and the creative process that led him and music producer Timba-land to create “Big Pimpin’,” which was his first major hit single.
Jay Z and Timbaland are being sued by the heirs of Baligh Hamdi, an Egyptian composer who created the 1957 hit “Khosara Khosara” that has elements featured in the rapper’s hit.
The rapper, whose real name is Shawn Carter, used one of his old CDs - intro-duced into evidence by a lawyer for Hamdi’s family - to illustrate his point.
“We have the rights as you can see on the bottom of the CD,” Carter told jurors, ref-erencing liner notes that credits “Khosara Khosara.”
The rapper mixed his tes-timony with a mix of no-nonsense, one-word an-swers, humility about his success and humorous moments.
When Pete Ross, the law-yer for Hamdi’s heirs, at-tempted to show him a pas-sage in a book Carter had written about his lyrics, the performer wryly said, “You can read it from over there.”
The courtroom burst into laughter, as it did again when Carter was asked by his own attorney about art-ists whose careers he had fostered, including Rihanna, J. Cole and Kanye West.
“Some people may have heard of him,” Carter’s at-torney, Andrew Bart, said of West.
“One or two,” Carter re-sponded. “He’s running for president.”
The rapper was more seri-ous when questioned about the rights to “Khosara Kho-sara,” which he said he thought had been properly negotiated after issues were raised following the release of “Big Pimpin’.”
Carter gave mostly curt answers, responding “yes” or “no” or “correct” to many questions.
Lawyers for Carter and
Timbaland, whose real name is Timothy Mosley, told jurors on Tuesday that Hamdi’s family had been repeatedly paid for the use of “Khosara Khosara.” Four notes from the song’s 74 notes are reapeated throughout “Big Pimpin’,” a music expert testified Wednesday.
Carter said Mosley intro-duced the “Khosara Kho-sara” melody to him just as he was about to leave a meeting. He said there wasn’t anything like it on the radio at the time, and he put together the bulk of the song over the next few hours.
The rapper said he likes working with Timbaland be-cause they push each other.
“He tells me his beats are better than my raps. I tell him my raps are better than his beats,” Carter said. “It’s an ongoing thing that I keep winning.”
Mosley and many in the courtroom laughed.
Carter sang the produc-er’s praises, calling him a ge-nius whose work transcends any one genre.
Mosley later told the jury that he had the majority of the beat compiled when he
added in the flute music from “Khosara Khosara.” He said he paid $100,000 to settle a claim about the music after “Big Pimpin’” was released and was rely-ing on representations from his lawyers that he had valid rights.
He provided jurors a brief demonstration of his cre-ative process, standing at a keyboard and creating a new beat and “beatboxing,” which he described as mak-ing music with his mouth.
He denied that the “Kho-sara Khosara” elements were a major part of what made “Big Pimpin’” a hit, saying it was his music that was key to its success.
Ross has accused Carter of lacing vulgar lyrics over Hamdi’s beautiful melody without receiving the proper permission, although “Big Pimpin’s” lyrics are not an issue in the case.
Carter declined to say Wednesday that the song, which is about leading a promiscuous lifestyle, was vulgar. He said the song fea-tured “adult lyrics” and he still enjoyed performing it.
“I like the song,” Carter said. “It’s pretty good.”
nypost.comJay Z’s hit ‘Big Pimpin’ is the subject of a copyright infringement trial.
Odom in coma after weekend brothel binge
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USC’s falla sad tale
ESPN Films’ most re-cent 30 for 30 documentary, “Trojan War,” that premiered Tuesday night, couldn’t have been released at a more in-opportune time for the USC football program, as the school and its team is yet again on trial.
Since their 2006 loss to Texas in the BCS National Championship, USC’s pro-gram could be associated with the word “turmoil” as much as “Trojans.”
Just two months after their loss to the Longhorns, the NCAA announced its investigation into the pro-gram, one that would last four years.
Head coach Pete Carroll announced in 2010 he was leaving the school for the Se-attle Seahawks’ head coach-ing position as NCAA sanc-tions loomed. Lane Kiffin was hired, and six months later, the NCAA announced its rulings.
USC was determined to have shown a lack of insti-tutional control and was placed on a four-year pro-bation, received a postsea-son ban for two years, va-cated 14 wins from the 2004 and 2005 seasons and lost 30 scholarships over a three-year period.
USC president Max Nikias subsequently fired athletic director Mike Garrett and hired Pat Haden. Kiffin led the Trojans to an 8-5 record in their first season under his regime and appealed to the NCAA, who denied their appeal and subsequently stripped them of their 2005 national title a month later.
In 2012, the Trojans in-troduced the nation to the original “Deflategate,” after it was determined USC used deflated balls during their loss to Oregon. Kiffin said a student manager acted alone in the deflating of the balls, an argument that’s be-come fairly familiar.
USC found themselves with another preseason No. 1 ranking but finished the season at 7-6. Kiffin was fired by Haden after a 3-2 start the next year.
USC was finally taken off probation in June 2014 and received positive attention during their first year under new head coach Steve Sarki-sian. A 9-4 record and Holi-day Bowl win over Nebraska seemed to have them back in contention as one of the nation’s top programs.
Bizarre circumstances surrounding Sarkisian be-gan in August when reports surfaced that he was intox-icated, used inappropriate language and was slurring his words during a speech at a preseason booster event.
Both Sarkisian and Haden released statements apolo-gizing for the incident and Sarkisian blamed his behav-ior on a combination of alco-hol and medication.
USC began the season ranked No. 8 in the AP poll and rolled over Arkansas State in the season opener. After losses to unranked Stanford and Washington, USC announced Sarkisian had agreed to take a leave of absence for an undisclosed condition.
ESPN sources and the LA Daily News reported that Sarkisian was suspected by members of his staff to be drunk during their win against Arizona State, and he was fired the next day by Haden.
It’s almost impressive how a school constantly trip-ping over their own feet has been able to stay as compet-itive as they are, particularly on the recruiting trail.
After having received a top-15 ranking for each of their recruiting classes since 2010, including two top-five classes, the Trojans are cur-rently ranked as having the 11th-best recruiting class in the nation by ESPN after re-ceiving verbal commitments from 10 four-star recruits.
If USC is able to find themselves a stable pres-ence at the head coaching position, they’ll easily find themselves back in the mix of the nation’s most elite col-lege football programs.
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Ball security a focus as WVU tries to move on from mistakesBY DAVID STATMANASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
@DJSTATMAN77
In big-time college foot-ball, the margin of error is always small — and in re-cent weeks, the West Vir-ginia University football team has found itself on the wrong side of that margin.
Self-inflicted wounds have been the main rea-son the Mountaineers have started out their 2015 Big 12 schedule 0-2, squandering chances against the Okla-homa Sooners and Okla-homa State Cowboys in consecutive weeks.
Most damning has been a rash of lost fumbles over the last two games, some-thing which head coach Dana Holgorsen has as-cribed to a combination of poor ball security and sheer bad luck.
“If I could put one person on the bench because of it, I would,” Holgorsen said after the Mountaineers lost three fumbles in their 33-26 overtime loss to Oklahoma State. “We work it every day,
twice a day. We preach it. We talk about it. We just have to do a better job.”
One of the chief culprits for West Virginia has been starting quarterback Skyler Howard, who has lost three fumbles over the past two weeks, with two of them be-ing returned for scores.
Howard was sacked seven times against Okla-homa two weeks ago, with two of those sacks causing fumbles. Toward the end of West Virginia’s 44-24 loss in Norman, Mountaineer run-ning back Elijah Wellman whiffed on a block and al-lowed edge rusher Eric Striker a free run at How-ard’s blind side, resulting in a fumble return touchdown that put the game away.
Howard has taken heat from both West Virginia fans and coaches because of his turnover issues the last couple weeks, and de-spite ball security being one of WVU’s focuses in prac-tice, he said the whole team needs to concentrate more intently on getting what they need to get out of ball
security drills.“We do ball security ev-
ery day, at every position, so there’s not really any excuse for that,” Howard said. “Two hands on the ball. Hold onto it. We have to continue to not go through the mo-tions and attack practice, starting with ball security.”
By all accounts, the Mountaineers practice ball security intently, to the point that Holgorsen said that they don’t have any more spare time to devote to it. West Virginia drills ball security at the begin-ning and end of each prac-tice, with running backs go-ing through three stations: holding the ball high-and-tight, catching the ball and ripping through a defender trying to make the tackle and running through a gauntlet of hands attempt-ing to knock the ball away.
Despite this, Mountain-eer running backs Wen-dell Smallwood and Rushel Shell both saw Oklahoma State defenders strip the ball from their hands on Saturday. On both fum-
bles, Smallwood and Shell appeared to have daylight down the field, but the first hit knocked the pigskin out.
“Just take care of the ball,” running back coach JaJuan Seider said. “There’s noth-ing wrong with five yards.”
Smallwood was also in-volved in West Virginia’s third fumble of the night, as he made contact with Howard on a botched play-action fake and jarred the ball loose before the Cow-boys fell on the ball in the end zone for a touchdown.
When one accounts for all five lost fumbles over the last two games, the tremen-dous toll they have taken becomes apparent. Two of Howard’s fumbles were returned for touchdowns, while the other directly set up a field goal. Oklahoma State was given a short field and scored a touchdown after Shell’s second-quar-ter fumble last Saturday, and while WVU recorded a safety on the first play af-ter Smallwood coughed the ball up, they lost a big chance as they appeared to
be driving for a touchdown. Subtracting the safety,
that’s a negative swing of 29 points, directly from fum-bles, for West Virginia over the past two games – two games that they lost by a to-tal of 27 points.
With No. 2 Baylor and No. 3 TCU looming on the schedule in the next two weeks, the margin of er-ror will get even smaller. In preparation, the Mountain-eers have to recognize that while the regimen may re-main the same, their focus must sharpen.
“We just have to try to take care of the ball, whether it’s tucking the ball after the catch or running downfield, keeping it high-and-tight,” said wide receiver Daikiel Shorts. “We’re just trying to take it a little more seriously to prevent turnovers. That’s a big part of the game.”
The Mountaineers are next set to take the field at noon Saturday, when they take on the No. 2 Baylor Bears in Waco, Texas.
ROWING
BY VINCE GAUDIOSPORTS CORRESPONDENT
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Being a part of a sport here at West Virginia Uni-versity is not always easy. Athletes deal with problems in both their sport and in the classroom. Sometimes this causes complications for those young students they just cannot escape from.
This is not a problem for WVU rowing member Eliza-beth Kantak.
She strives to be both successful on the water and, more importantly, in the classroom. Both things mean the world to her.
Kantak is a four-year member of the rowing team,
but her success did not start in Morgantown.
Kantak went to school at St. Pius X Catholic in the outskirts of Atlanta, where she spent most of her time on the Roswell water. Dur-ing her high school career, she joined the prestigious St. Andrew Rowing Club.
Over her years there, she earned many awards, in-cluding the Most Improved Oarswoman in 2010 and finally the Top Coaches Award in 2012.
During these years, Kan-tak really learned the effort one must put into rowing.
“There is no one to pick up your slack, so you have to be incredibly disciplined, mentally, in order to expe-rience all the pain of rac-
ing and still be able to push even harder when the time comes,” Kantak said.
Due to her success in high school, WVU coaches knew how big of an impact she would make as soon as she hit college. Kan-tak’s freshman year was a chance to prove a point, to say the least, and she did not disappoint.
Being a leader of the var-sity team her freshman year, Kantak was part of the First Varsity 8+ that earned Con-ference USA Boat of the Week honors after its fifth-place finish out of 34 crews at the Knecht Cup.
Next, she was part of the First Varsity 8+ that earned Big 12 Boat of the Week and Conference USA Boat
of the Week honors for its first-place finish against Al-abama and UCF.
All of that took place in the span of two weeks. She had already made a huge impact.
Kantak has continued her success not just on the water, but also in the class-room. She has been a part of the All-Big 12 Academic Team since her freshman year.
Throughout her years of rowing, she has brought WVU’s rowing team into a positive light.
Kantak’s top priority is not her individual success. For her, it’s all about the team.
“When we focus on what we can do rather than what
we can’t do, we have the po-tential to accomplish quite a lot,” Kantak said.
Now a senior, Kantak knows her role on the team and knows how important it is not just to lead but also to share the knowledge of the sport she loves to the team-mates she loves.
“We have that added re-sponsibility of passing on our knowledge to the girls who will continue to be here and help the team grow once we are gone,” she said.
Kantak will continue be-ing successful on the water for the Mountaineers, but after her time is up, look for her to move on to some-thing else to strive for.
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A boat of WVU rowers competes on the Monongalia River last spring.
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BY NEEL MADHAVANSPORTS WRITER
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This week, the West Vir-ginia University women’s tennis team will participate in the Intercollegiate Ten-nis Association Regional Championships in Lynch-burg, Virginia. The five-day tournament will consist of teams from the Atlantic re-gion, including Pitt, Vir-ginia Tech, Liberty, Mary-land, Virginia, Marshall, VCU, William & Mary, Tem-ple, Penn State, Navy, Rich-mond, St. Joseph’s, Old Do-
minion and others.The Mountaineers did
not participate in the ITA Regionals last year, last competing during the fall 2013 season.
Head coach Miha Lisac has repeatedly stressed to his young team that in or-der for them to get better and improve for the future, they need to improve the consistency of both their doubles play and singles play.
“Most importantly, the things that we are working on, technically speaking or from a competitive stand-
point, it has to be more consistent,” Lisac said. “We see the progress, but it is there and then not there. It has to be more consistently present, not just with one player, but everyone across the board, within the whole team. We have to stick with the changes we have been working on and implement them consistently.”
Rather than the multi-team invitational tour-naments that the Moun-taineers have competed in this fall season, the ITA Regionals are structured much more like the Pink
Invitational that the team hosted in the last weekend of September.
It’s a bracket-style tour-nament, rather than a round-robin. The ITA Re-gionals are focused pri-marily on competition between individual play-ers rather than between schools.
“This tournament is an individual tournament, similar to what we were hosting two weeks ago,” Lisac said. “The results are more individualized.”
But despite the differ-ence in how the tourna-
ment is approached, Lisac says that his expectations are still the same.
“Besides that, there is not much difference in expectations,” Lisac said. “Whether we play or com-pete in the fall as a team, or as individuals, the commit-ment to changes and prog-ress and being more con-sistent at the higher level is the same. That doesn’t change.”
Sophomore Habiba Shaker comes into the ITA Regionals with an 8-0 sin-gles record thus far this year. Fellow sophomores
Lyn Yuen Choo and Caro-lina Lewis have also started their respective singles seasons well.
Choo is 7-2 this season and went undefeated at the Pink Invitational. While Lewis is 6-2 in singles and has done well when paired up with Choo in doubles matches. Hailey Barrett and Yvon Martinez have been WVU’s most consis-tent doubles duo so far this season, and they’ll look to continue their success in Lynchburg this week.
john allen/the daily athenaeumAbigail Rosiello talks with head coach Miha Lisac during West Virginia’s last home match.
women’s soccer
No. 2 WVU could have legitimate shot at national championship this yearBY DYLAN O’TOOLE
SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM
For the West Virginia University women’s soccer team, motivation hasn’t
been much of an issue. The team’s 12-1-1 record is rivaled by very few, and its climb to No. 3 in the Na-tional Soccer Coaches As-sociation of America poll is unparalleled in the pro-
gram’s history. Everything seems to be
in place for the Mountain-eers to make a legitimate run at a NCAA Champion-ship. After a string of early tournament exits and late
season blunders, WVU has to prove the critics wrong as they creep closer to the season’s end.
On Oct. 11 the Moun-taineers proved they had the grit and toughness it takes to win in the postsea-son by going on the road and grinding out a 4-1 vic-tory. The victory came af-ter a tough double over-time game at Oklahoma just days before, in which the Sooners were able to play WVU to a draw.
“This was such a tough weekend for us,” said Mountaineer head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown in an in-terview with WVUsports.com.
“We went into double overtime at Oklahoma Fri-day night and then played in a tough venue today, and we earned points in both matches. This is huge for us. I’m so proud of this team,” she said. “Our play-ers were uncomfortable at
times, but they found a way to do their jobs. This was an amazing win.”
The Mountaineers’ per-severance was on full dis-play at Texas Tech, as the team scored three goals in the second half to pull away from the Raiders and secure the victory.
This type of toughness has not been displayed by WVU in recent seasons, as they have just a 12-14-2 record in the NCAA Tournament. Last season, the Mountaineers’ sea-son ended in heartbreak-ing fashion, as they fell to Georgetown 4-3 on pen-alty kicks.
“It’s hard because this one moment shouldn’t define everything this team accomplished,” Izzo-Brown said after the loss to Georgetown. “It’s just hard that it came to (PKs) this early (in the tournament).”
D e s p i t e d o m i n a t-ing possession and tak-
ing 18 more shots than the Hoyas, WVU couldn’t break through.
In 2013, the Mountain-eers advanced past Rut-gers in the opening round before ultimately falling to the No. 1 seed, Virginia Tech.
Without a major col-lapse, the Mountaineers are a fairly safe bet to earn a No. 1 seed in the Tournament.
The Mountaineers will close out their regular season home play against Kansas on Friday, and then Iowa State on Sunday. Fol-lowing those contests the Mountaineers head on the road for bouts with Okla-homa State and Baylor on Oct. 23 and Oct. 30.
WVU will then kick off the Big 12 Tournament on Nov. 4, where they have come away with three ti-tles in three years.
andrew spellman/the daily athenaeumSenior forward Kailey Utley dribbles in West Virginia’s game against Florida Gulf Coast in September.
In yesterday’s recap of the men’s soccer game,
the score was incorrectly printed as 2-1, the score
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Lamar Odom didn’t last long at the glittering intersection of championship success and Hollywood celebrity.
Cut loose by his beloved Los Angeles Lakers, fol-lowed everywhere by re-ality television crews, the humble kid from Queens who married into the Kar-dashian clan saw his life spiral out of control, and so did everyone else.
Khloe Kardashian tried to hide his addictions, then told the world she couldn’t save him. The two-time NBA champion landed on Skid Row, a reg-ular tabloid target.
Then he seemed to drop out altogether before he was found unrespon-sive in a brothel and hos-pitalized, bringing his es-tranged wife, his former teammates and the world’s attention back to his side on Wednesday.
Hospital authorities would not comment on the condition of the 35-year-old former NBA forward, but the Rev. Jesse Jack-son was among his visi-tors. Jackson said Odom was on life support and improving.
“Apparently from what the doctor said, he was much better off today than yesterday. He at least has some responsiveness now,” Jackson said. “He’s got tubes in him now but we felt inspired by his presence.”
“We’re just holding hands and hoping he can bounce back,” Jackson added.
Odom, who was em-braced by teammates and television fans alike for his Everyman approach to fame, was found face down and alone Tuesday after spending four days at the Love Ranch, a legal Ne-vada brothel.
Odom started “throwing up all kinds of stuff ” after a 911 operator told them to turn him on his side, Love Ranch owner Dennis Hof told The Associated Press in a phone interview. Odom had “spent time so-cializing with some of my girls,” but wasn’t seen tak-ing any illegal drugs, Hof said.
Investigators were seek-ing a blood sample to de-termine if he overdosed on drugs or alcohol, Nye County, Nevada, Sheriff Sharon Wehrly said.
Odom spent most of his 14-year NBA career in Los Angeles with the Lak-ers and Clippers, becom-ing a fan favorite before he sought even more fame with the Kardashians.
His one-month court-ship of Khloe before their huge 2009 wedding was taped for the E! network, and Odom appeared on nearly two dozen epi-sodes of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” as well as other family spinoffs, in-cluding his own “Khloe & Lamar” show in 2011 and 2012.
Khloe Kardashian called him “Lam-Lam” and wor-ried openly about him on the show. Even after they split up in 2013, cam-eras recorded her calling him and checking on his welfare.
People always seemed to root for Odom, whose prematurely weathered face wore the impact of his personal tragedies in a friendly way.
And news of his hospi-talization brought an out-pouring of dismay and encouragement from his friends and family.
Kobe Bryant joined Kardashian and some of Odom’s childhood friends at his bedside after a Tues-day night Lakers game in Las Vegas.
“Lamar Odom is one of the greatest people I’ve ever known,” said Derek Fisher, the New York Knicks coach and Odom’s longtime teammate with the Lakers. “I don’t view him through the prism of choices that he’s made ... I’m obviously hoping that he can pull through this, and that in some fortu-nate way this becomes the beginning of a different ending.”
Even his estranged fa-ther, Joe Odom, was there at the hospital, according to his grandmother, Flor-ence Odom, who told the AP Wednesday that Lamar
was “in God’s hands.”Authorities were called
to the brothel in Crystal, Nevada, about 3:15 p.m. Tuesday.
The 6-foot-10 Odom was too tall for an available he-licopter, so he was driven by ambulance to Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center in Las Vegas.
Hof told the AP that his staff had picked up Odom from a home in Las Ve-gas on Saturday, and he seemed “happy, he was sleeping every night.”
“He largely kept to him-self, and at no time did he engage in any drug use in the presence of anyone in the house. He did drink alcohol from our bar, and was taking some herbal sexual enhancement cap-sules,” Hof ’s statement said.
Odom emerged as one of the most promising basketball talents of his generation after a diffi-cult childhood in Queens, where his mother died of cancer when he was 12 and his estranged fa-ther was addicted to her-oin. Drugs and crime were rampant in his South Ja-maica neighborhood, and he never forgot where he came from, writing trib-utes to his mother and grandmother on his sneakers before games.
Tall enough to play cen-ter and skilled enough to be a playmaking guard, the rangy kid with a beau-tiful shot and exceptional ball-handling skills drew comparisons to Magic Johnson when he played on a traveling youth team alongside Ron Artest, his future Lakers teammate.
Despite an abbreviated college career marked by scandal and an arrest in Las Vegas, Odom’s tal-ent was so coveted that he was picked fourth in the 1999 NBA draft by the moribund Clippers. Sud-denly, he was “living like a 19-year-old rock star,” he said.
Soon after, he was sus-pended for smoking marijuana.
Odom had two chil-dren during those years, Destiny and Lamar Jr., with an ex-girlfriend, Liza Morales.
The 2006 crib death of another infant son, Jayden, attributed to Sud-den Infant Death Syn-drome, prompted Odom to consider quitting bas-ketball. He played the next season displaying a T-shirt bearing his son’s photo in his locker.
Odom loved wearing purple and gold, and his selfless play won him the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year award in 2011. He won a second straight NBA title in 2010 while play-ing alongside Artest, now known as Metta World Peace.
But his basketball ca-reer faded as his life be-came a spectacle. He was heartbroken in December 2011 when the Lakers at-tempted to trade him; he eventually landed in Dal-las, where reality TV crews followed.
“The year he got traded people wanted to say, ‘Oh, it’s because of the show.’ No one wanted to bring up the accomplishments he had when we were film-ing,” Khloe Kardashian told the AP in a May 2013 interview. “Lamar loves doing the show and he’s the one who wanted to do ‘Khloe & Lamar” more than I did.”
Still, Odom’s behavior increasingly worried fam-ily and friends. He pleaded no contest to drunk driv-ing after an arrest in Au-gust 2013.
Kardashian filed for di-vorce four months later and has been dating Hous-ton Rockets star James Harden. The divorce has not yet received final ap-proval from a judge.
When cameras caught up with Odom on a side-walk in August, he blamed the media for his downfall.
“Y’all have discredited me, beat me down, took my confidence, took ev-erything away from me. You will not do it again,” Odom told TMZ in an in-terview. “To everybody that I know and that sup-ports me, I’m sorry but it’s just it. The dog has to bite back.”
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