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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
Tuesday December 2, 2014 Volume 127, Issue 68www.THedaONLINe.comda
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MOCKINGJAY
by laura haightcity editor
@laura_haight
Three West Virginia University students have developed an app to keep your phone secure simply by taking a selfie.
“SecureSelfies” uses biometrics technology and facial recognition to protect sensitive material on smart phones, such as photos and applications.
Alex Dunn, Walter Fer-rell and Steven Amerman worked together to com-plete this app in a week’s time.
“We use our algorithms to authenticate your fa-cial data, among other factors, to unlock the sen-sitive parts of your device that you’d normally want to keep away from prying eyes,” Ferrell said. “Our implementation of bio-metrics makes sure that you—alive and presence required—and only you can access the data that’s locked. Passwords and lock codes can be cracked, a system that judges your
facial data is a much trick-ier thing to deceive.”
Dunn, Ferrell and Amerman were given the assignment by Thirima-chos Bourlai, assistant professor in WVU’s Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical En-gineering. The three also work in Bourlai’s Multi-spectral Imaging Lab.
“Bourlai always teased us with ‘big things’ hap-pening very soon – we didn’t realize how big he really meant,” Ferrell said.
Ferrell, a junior com-puter science and reli-gious studies student, said the hardest part of design-ing the app was learning all the programming lan-guages required. WVU computer science stu-dents typically become fluent in two to four pro-gramming languages be-fore graduation. Ferrell learned 11 while helping to build the app.
“Although we’re taught in class that we’ll be using many languages across
by Jake Jarvismanaging editor @JakeJarviswvu
West Virginia law en-forcement is investigat-ing three separate shoot-ings which resulted in the death of four people Mon-day morning.
Mike Wolfe, the direc-tor of Monongalia Coun-ty’s Office of Homeland Security, said authorities searched for 39-year-old Jody Hunt.
Hunt was the owner of J & J Towing and Repair LLC, according to the Sec-retary of State’s website. Hunt was still at large for much of the day and had not been seen by members of the public.
According to a state po-
lice spokesman Lt. Michael Baylous, one of the shoot-ings occured in Westo-ver, W.Va., just minutes from West Virginia Uni-versity’s Downtown cam-pus, another in the Cheat Lake area and the third on Chaplin Road, near the Star City exit of I-79.
Police have identified three of the four victims so far: Michael Frum, 28, of Maidsville, W.Va.; Sharon Berkshire, 39, of Westover, W.Va.; and Doug Brady of Westover, W.Va.
Frum and Berkshire were found dead inside a home near Cheat Lake. The Associated Press re-ported that Berkshire filed a domestic violence com-plaint against Hunt prior to the incident.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Hunt’s Facebook page had mes-sages posted prior to the shooting, appearing to be related.
“I’m deeply hurt by the events that led up to this day! Relationships are not a game. One’s heart is not a game,” the post read. “Life is short. It’s not all games. Don’t play games with one’s heart.”
P o l i c e d i s c o v e r e d Brady’s body in Doug’s Towing, the business he owned.
The Monongalia County Homeland Security Emer-g e n c y M a n a g e m e n t Agency released photo-graphs of a 2011 black Ford F150 extended cab pickup truck believed to be owned
by Hunt. The license plate was
concealed by something black, but the back of the truck had a sticker which
read “ROUGH COUNTRY.”Many local schools
were placed on lockdown, which Wolfe told other me-dia outlets in the area was
just a precautioun and au-thorities had no reason to believe any of the schools were targeted.
At 12:50 p.m., Univer-sity officials sent a notice to WVU students through MIX that the Westover and state police were looking for the pickup truck but stressed the incident did not involve the University. No official emergency alert was sent out to students.
Hunt was found de-ceased late Monday eve-ning. The University then sent out an emergency alert to students that he was captured.
No further official state-ments were made by press time.
Hunt found dead after killing 4
“I’m deeply hurt by the events that led up to this
day! Relationships are not a game. One’s heart is not a game. Life is short. It’s not
all games. Don’t play games with one’s heart.”
Hunt posted this on his Facebook page before the
shooting:
MOrgaNtOWN eatsby kaity WilsON
correspondent @dailyathenaeum
Students in the West Virginia University Reed College of Media have teamed up with local businesses to create a culinary adventure in downtown Morgantown.
More than a dozen downtown restaurants will partic-ipate in a food tour, allowing community members the opportunity to sample local cuisine during the first-ever Morgantown Eats: A Culinary Crawl.
The crawl will be held this Saturday. Self-guided tours will be available from 3-7 p.m. Groups will start the tour at the Monongalia Arts Center, which is located at 107 High St. Participants will be provided with a list of restaurants to tour, as well as a map.
The idea for the walking food tour was created by 20 students from the College of Media in partnership with Main Street Morgantown, Morgantown Social Networx, the Monongalia Arts Center and Greater Morgantown CVB.
“Our goal is to introduce the amazing food culture we have in Morgantown to both long-time residents, as well as those new to the area,” said Geah Pressgrove, the Col-lege of Media professor who is overseeing the class of student organizers. “This tour provides the food lover a unique and delicious view of downtown Morgantown.”
Pressgrove’s students are part of a brand new course in the College of Media which allows students to expe-rience first-hand the process of event planning by work-ing with a real client.
Participants will begin their experience at the MAC with food, beer and wine tastings from Wharf District res-taurants such as Lebanese Bistro, Morgantown Brewing Co., Mountain State Brewing Co., and Table 9, and then may proceed at their own pace to the downtown restau-rants on the tour.
Lacie Geary, the administrative executive on the proj-ect, said the event was planned with two main goals in mind.
“With all the new areas popping up in Morgantown, it’s distracting away from what downtown Morgantown has to offer. One of our goals was to bring people back to the downtown area and help them realize what the down-town has to offer.”
The second goal is to convince shoppers parking is plentiful.
“People are under the impression that the downtown has no parking and it’s too congested,” Geary said. “We’re trying to defeat this parking issue. There are more than 1,600 parking spots downtown and that should not deter them from coming to the downtown area.”
Advanced tickets are now on sale for $35 at http://Mon-ArtsCenter.com/shop. Tickets will also be available for $40 the day of the event. Groups of six or more may be offered a 10 percent discount.
Participating restaurants include: The Bank, Black Bear Burritos, Café Bacchus, Iron Horse Tavern, Real Juice Bar, Tin 202 and The Vintage Room.
Kelsey Johnson, a member of the operations team for the project, said the process to plan the event was a long one but will be well worth the hard work.
“This is the first time this University has offered a class like this to students. We wanted to incorporate businesses that are unique to the Morgantown area,” Johnson said.
“We encourage students and professionals to come and experience the event we have worked so hard on.”
More information can be found at http://morgan-towneats.captovo.com.
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One of the participants in the Culinary Crawl is The Bank.
Also participating is Morgantown Brewing Company.
A second brewery participating is Mountain State Brewing Company.
Restaurants let community members sample cuisine for first-ever culinary crawl
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CHaRLesTON, W.Va. (aP) — News organizations have challenged a judge’s gag order in the high-pro-file criminal case of a for-mer West Virginia coal executive.
O n Monday, me-dia members filed a mo-tion asking Judge Irene C. Berger to drop or mod-ify her restrictions in ex-Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship’s case. The
judge is prohibiting all parties and victims from discussing the case with the media or releasing court documents.
The Associated Press, The Charleston Gazette, The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio and West Virginia Pub-lic Broadcasting filed the motion to intervene in U.S. District Court in Beckley.
Blankenship is accused
of conspiring to violate safety and health stan-dards at the Upper Big Branch Mine, and lying about safety measures to financial regulators. An April 2010 explosion at the Montcoal, West Virginia, mine killed 29 men.
Last month, Blanken-ship pleaded not guilty and was released on a $5 million bond. He could face up to 31 years in
prison if convicted.Berger’s order says that
in light of the case’s prior publicity, her restrictions will ensure a field of ju-rors “who can be fair and impartial and whose ver-dict is based only upon evidence presented dur-ing trial.”
The order has also re-stricted access to court fil-
Media challenges gag order in ex-coal CEO’s case
UPD Chief says students shouldn’t have been alerted of shooting
by JacOb bOJessONeditor-in-chief
@JboJesson
Many WVU students questioned the University Police Department’s deci-sion to not use the emer-gency alert system to in-form students of the alleged Westover shooter while he was still at large, but UPD Chief Bob Roberts said it was a conscious decision.
Roberts said UPD mon-itored the situation closely in collaboration with differ-ent law enforcement agen-cies in the area.
“We had information earlier in the day that we couldn’t release for rea-sons that the other agen-
cies were investigating it,” Roberts said. “We moni-tored this all day and based on the information and the evidence that we had, there was nothing that indicated
that it was associated with the University or had any evidence that he would come to the University.”
Further, Roberts said UPD was aware of the mo-tives of the shooter and based on the information and evidence they had, it seemed highly unlikely that the shooter would hit the WVU campuses.
“If we thought it was possibly around campus we would have sent a text out. These events are issues where he had issues with his ex and he had some dis-putes with the other indi-viduals. We knew all this in-formation” he said. “While I couldn’t release all that stuff at that time, we knew
that. If it was an immediate threat to the campus, we would have sent a text out. We do monitor the situation
If it was an immediate threat to the campus, we
would have sent a text out.
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our careers, learning 11 in such a short time span was a tall order,” he said.
Alex Dunn, a senior computer science student, said the week deadline is typical for a computer sci-ence student, but present-ing to a panel of investors instead of a professor re-sulted in added pressure to perfect the prototype.
The three friends, who are also roommates, stayed on track with the project by creating a chart of “stories” across their kitchen wall to map what tasks needed to be done.
“At about 20’x6’, we have all of our work laid out in front of us every time we walk into the kitchen,” Fer-rell said. “I believe that it
keeps us all in the loop for work at a glance. It’s great motivation to get some-thing done when you see the project cut down into smaller, bite sized chunks.”
Dunn credited the proj-ect’s success to this con-stant communication.
“I think the most valu-able lesson was learning to constantly communicate with our other team mem-bers,” Dunn said. “Staying in communication and be-ing sure there were no mis-understandings or ill will in the group has been a large factor in our success I believe.”
Ferrell said through this “crazy, liberating ex-perience,” he has learned more from this one proj-ect than he has learned in a lifetime.
“It’s the knowledge I’ve gained about business, in-vesting, pitching to inves-
tors, managing expenses, managing time to get the project done while being in school, economics, so-cial relations and count-less more areas that will end up being invaluable for my life,” he said. “I re-ally feel like I’ve skipped about 10 years of grind-ing through the industry working job to job. I’ve gone straight to the big time where my decisions are important and will re-sound through the com-pany for its lifetime.”
The technology created by Bourlai, Amerman, Dunn and Ferrell is being licensed through WVU to Confirmix, a software se-curity company.
With the help from Con-firmix, the app is on track to be launched commer-cially by April 2015.
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sT. LOuIs (aP) — Five St. Louis Rams players entered the football field with their hands raised. A day later, people walked out of work or school showing the same gesture of solidarity with Ferguson protesters.
The pose has come to symbolize a movement, even though witnesses of-fered conflicting accounts of whether 18-year-old Mi-chael Brown had his hands up in surrender when he was killed by Ferguson of-ficer Darren Wilson in August.
The power of the symbol was evident again Monday. Protesters across the coun-try walked off the job or away from class in support of the Ferguson protesters. Walkouts took place in New York, Chicago, San Fran-cisco and elsewhere.
At the University of Mis-souri-St. Louis, not far from Ferguson, sophomore Am-ber Whitaker was among about 30 students who chanted “Hands up. Don’t shoot!”
Whitaker, who is white, said the symbolism is what
matters, not whether Brown literally had his hands in the air.
“There are black men and women who are shot with their hands up,” Whitaker said. “There are black men and women who are shot unarmed. It may not apply exactly to Mike Brown, but it still happens.”
The exact circumstances surrounding Brown’s death will forever be in dispute. Wilson, who is white, shot and killed Brown, who was black and unarmed, on Aug. 9. A grand jury’s deci-sion last week not to indict Wilson set off renewed pro-tests, some of which turned violent.
Wilson told the grand jury that he shot Brown in self-defense. But several witnesses said Brown had his hands up in surrender. Within hours, “Hands Up. Don’t Shoot!” became the rallying cry for protesters.
Witness accounts con-tained in thousands of pages of grand jury doc-uments reviewed by The Associated Press showed many variations about
whether Brown’s hands were actually raised — and if so, how high.
Some people were of-fended by the hands-up gesture.
The St. Louis Police Of-ficers Association said the display by Rams play-ers Tavon Austin, Kenny Britt, Stedman Bailey, Jared Cook and Chris Givens was “tasteless, offensive and inflammatory.”
The group, joined by the St. Louis County Police As-sociation, met with Rams leaders Monday. Rams coach Jeff Fisher said dur-ing a news conference that neither the team nor the NFL will discipline the five players for the gesture.
The NFL issued a one-sentence statement Mon-day from spokesman Brian McCarthy: “We respect and understand the concerns of all individuals who have ex-pressed views on this tragic situation.”
In Springfield, Missouri, Rodney Shetler, watched the players’ action from his home. He said the move was “in pretty poor taste” and
was divisive and disrespect-ful to law enforcement.
“It’s a gesture proven by the grand jury not to be appropriate or accurate,” said Shetler, the 44-year-old owner of a copying and printing business.
A similar episode un-folded more than four de-cades ago at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
John Carlos, the Amer-ican 200-meter bronze medalist, set off a politi-cal firestorm on the medal stand when he and team-mate Tommie Smith gave the black power salute. He stood by the Rams players.
“If they choose to come out and raise their hands in support of whatever their emotions are, they have the right to do that,” Carlos told The Associated Press. “I don’t think the whole story has been told about the Mi-chael Brown tragedy, and the pros and cons on both sides. They can just go by their emotions. I don’t think anyone got injured or shot by expressing emotions.”
The White House on
Monday announced the conclusion of a three-month review of the Fer-guson situation. President Barack Obama wants more officers to wear cameras to promote trust, but he is not seeking to reduce fed-eral programs that provide the type of military-style equipment used to dispel the unrest in Ferguson and elsewhere.
Brown’s family wants to see every police officer working the streets wear-ing a body camera.
Also Monday, the Fergu-son Commission appointed by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon met for the first time. The 16-person panel will study the underlying social and economic conditions — from failing schools to high unemployment— that have gained attention since Brown’s death.
About 80 residents at-tended the group’s first ses-sion, a five-hour meeting devoted primarily to orga-nizational issues.
As the meeting lingered, several audience members ran out of patience, angrily
imploring commission members to discuss prac-tical solutions, not murky goals and vision statements.
“People have waited for three months stewing in anxiety and pain,” activ-ist Charles Wade told the panel.
The panel includes a Fer-guson construction-supply company owner, two pas-tors, a university professor, a community activist and a St. Louis police detective who is also president of the state chapter of the Frater-nal Order of Police. Two of the 16 members were in Washington meeting with Obama.
Nixon dropped plans Monday for a special leg-islative session to approve additional spending for the state’s public-safety re-sponse to protesters in the St. Louis area. The governor reversed course after law-makers said he could tap into an existing budget for the State Emergency Man-agement Agency to cover the costs of the National Guard and Missouri State Highway Patrol.
APIn this Sunday Nov. 30, 2014, file photo, St. Louis Rams players, from left; Stedman Bailey (12), Tavon Austin (11), Jared Cook, (89) Chris Givens (13) and Kenny Britt (81) raise their arms in awareness of the events in Ferguson, Mo., as they walk onto the field during introductions before an NFL football game against the Oakland Raiders in St. Louis. Time will tell whether the ``hands-up’’ gesture during pregame introductions will leave a lasting memory or simply go down as a come-and-go mo-ment in the age of the 24-hour news cycle. Either way, it certainly isn’t the first time high-profile athletes have used their platform to make political statements.
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ings to case participants and court personnel.
The media’s f i l ing says the prohibitions are overly broad and infringe on free speech rights. Berger offered no infor-mation supporting why a jury wouldn’t be fair and impartial without the re-strictions, the motion says.
The filing of the news organizations also says the gag order is infringing on their constitutional right to do their job.
“A reporter ’s First Amendment right to pub-lish is meaningless if it is prevented from gathering news in the first instance,” Charleston attorney Sean P. McGinley wrote on be-half of the media.
Careful jury selection
measures would be a less restrictive means to pro-tect the case, if need be, the motion says.
For the last four years, families and friends of the Upper Big Branch victims have told their stories to reporters. Several didn’t see any reason to stop now, despite the gag order.
“Don’t we have a voice as an American?” Bobby Sanger, whose brother-in-law, Benny Willingham, died at Upper Big Branch, told reporters after Blan-kenship’s arraignment last month. “We’ve all voiced our opinions the days be-fore, the days after this happened.”
At Upper Big Branch, four investigations found worn and broken cutting equipment created a spark that ignited accumulations of coal dust and methane gas. Broken and clogged water sprayers then al-lowed what should have
been a minor flare-up to become an inferno.
Blankenship has said natural gas, and not meth-ane gas and excess coal dust, was at the root of the explosion. Authori-ties have dismissed the argument.
The indictment painted Blankenship as a bullish micromanager who was intricately aware of Upper Big Branch’s operations. At times, he received up-dates about the mine ev-ery 30 minutes, according to the indictment.
Massey was cited for safety violations 835 times from January 2008 until the 2010 explosion, the in-dictment said.
In December 2010, Blankenship announced his retirement and Massey Energy agreed the follow-ing month to be taken over by Alpha Natural Re-sources in a $7.1 billion deal.
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and we did all day.”UPD used social media
and a variety of news ser-vices to release the infor-mation they could share with the public.
When the emergency alert system was designed, a clear list of guidelines were established to de-termine when to use the system.
In the guidelines, which were created with student input, an emergency alert will only be sent out “upon incidents and emergencies occurring on campus.”
Exceptions from the above rule include when a member of the WVU com-munity’s safety or health is in danger.
Roberts said UPD will look over the feedback they have received from
the community to possibly change the guidelines for the system.
“People are uncomfort-able with those decisions and I understand that, but we look at the evidence as we see it and know it. We can’t always share every-thing we know,” Roberts said. “Even though we can’t tell you the facts, we can tell you what we told you on so-cial media through the text alerts. I’m certainly open to bringing that up.”
The guidelines for when an emergency
alert text will be sent out to the
students can be found at http://
police.wvu.edu/r/download/203044
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Difficult classes, social pressures and busy schedules may sometimes cloud col-lege students’ abil-ity to appreciate the good in their lives.
We’re often told to look for the positive, but that may seem easier said than done.
Did you ever con-sider what your life would be like without the things you’re grate-ful for? Think about it.
With some reflec-tion, do you now feel even more apprecia-tive of these things?
Training your brain to scan the world for the positive on a dai-ly basis may seem like a daunting task.
While it may only seem important to rec-ognize the good in our lives at times like Thanksgiving, trans-forming a celebration of gratitude into a daily habit is very beneficial.
In fact, your brain switched to positive performs significantly better than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed. So even if you don’t have a tendency to see the negative, you can enhance your wellbeing by shaping the lens through which you see your world!
One way to shape your lens is gratitude practice.
Gratitude can play a big part in improving your productivity, cre-ativity, resiliency, moti-vation and energy levels.
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Bravo’s ‘Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce’ will be the network’s first scripted showLOS ANGELES (AP) — The
Bravo channel is delivering an early holiday gift to view-ers that should be opened immediately.
“Girlfriends’ Guide to Di-vorce” is a sharply observed series about divorce, yes, but love and friendship and family as well. Its premiere episode is funny and mov-ing, sexy and sad, and very adult. But it’s nuance rather than crassness that rules - al-though the characters’ glossy affluence has the potential to rankle.
“Girlfriends’ Guide” (de-buting 10 p.m. EST Tuesday) can claim pioneer status as the first scripted series for Bravo, home of such flashily entertaining fare as the “Real Housewives” franchise, and the first series topped by Lisa Edelstein, who shines as woman-on-the-edge Abby McCarthy.
It also marks the auspi-cious bow of Marti Noxon as a solo series creator, follow-ing writing and producing stints on a range of hits in-cluding “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and another groundbreaker, “Mad Men.”
“We never wanted to go
into scripted just to go into scripted,” said Lara Spotts, Bravo Media’s senior vice president in charge of de-velopment. Even as other reality-focused channels jumped on the scripted bandwagon, “we knew we had to wait for just the right project.”
Noxon and her hour-long series - which at one point was in development for Showtime as a half-hour - turned out to be “the voice” that Bravo wanted, Spotts said.
“She’s talking about sub-jects that our reality charac-ters are going through. She’s talking about things that our viewers are going through, but in a way that feels really fresh and unique,” Spotts said.
Loosely inspired by Vicki Iovine’s series of nonfiction guides to pregnancy and motherhood, the 13-epi-sode “Girlfriends’ Guide” stars Edelstein as a success-ful how-to author whose up-beat depiction of her family life belies a disintegrating marriage to filmmaker Jake (Paul Adelstein, “Private Practice”).
Edelstein, the former “House” star with an im-pressive track record of play-ing supremely confident women, here is vulnerable and sweetly affecting.
“I have never had an op-portunity like this before in my life,” Edelstein said. “It says something about where the world is. ... to be able to tell a story about this
lively, sexual human being who’s in her 40s, that alone is something that wouldn’t have happened when I started in this business.”
Abby’s circle includes pals and divorce war vet-erans Lyla (Janeane Garo-falo) and Phoebe (Beau Gar-rett), and her brother Max (Patrick Huesinger). He’s a believer in marriage who achieved his dream of tying the same-sex knot with Ford (J. August Richards).
The characters are largely white, beautiful and, at the start, living the easy life in Los Angeles. Aside from Ford, who is African-Amer-ican, and minorities in-cluded in later episodes, Noxon acknowledges it is a “WPP show,” shorthand for “white people problems.”
Does she worry about backlash?
“It’s a really difficult ques-tion and I saw Lena Dun-ham (the creator and star of `Girls’) struggle with it,” Noxon said. “The problem for me, and I think (Dun-ham) said something like this, is the best writing I can do is telling the things I know from my own experience.”
Noxon, a divorced mother of two, says she has drawn on her own history and that of friends and the show’s writers. The characters aren’t always shown in a favorable light: Phoebe, for instance, is unabashed about exchang-ing sex for money with her ex.
“To a degree we make light of it and acknowledge
that sometimes this privi-leged life is ridiculous and sometimes people take it for granted,” Noxon said. “But I kind of have to go back to the idea that what is univer-sal is the emotion of it, and it doesn’t matter what color
you are, or even what class.”Comparisons have been
made to “Sex and the City,” which Noxon calls flatter-ing but not necessarily ex-act. “Girlfriends’ Guide” is a heartier mix of love, life and work, with money and job
worries poised to intrude in a way they didn’t on the HBO series, she said.
On a fantasy scale, “I’d say our show is 10 feet off the ground and their show was 30 feet off the ground,” she said, laughing.
What: New show on Bravo
When: Tonight at 10 p.m.
Why: You love funny and sexy comedies with sad and moving plotlines
voiceoftv.comBravo’s new show will star Lisa Edelstein of ‘House’ fame.
Holiday buyer’s guide to cell phonesNEW YORK (AP) — Now is
a good time to get a smart-phone. The latest devices hit shelves in time for the holiday shopping season, and there’s likely to be a lull in new releases until next spring. So why wait?
Here are some things to consider before hitting stores. If you’re upgrading from an older model, you can skip the first part aimed at first-time smartphone buyers.
Do you need a smartphone?
Maybe you’ve been do-ing fine with just a basic cellphone, but many peo-ple who get smartphones discover things they never thought they could do. You can install a museum’s app to get a map or learn about the current exhibits, or you can catch up on e-books with a reading app. You can also check email and Face-book more easily and take great pictures and quickly share them.
But you’ll pay more - not just for the device. Monthly fees for voice, text and data tend to be higher compared with basic phone plans.
Which system should you pick?
This is the most impor-tant decision because it will influence your future smartphones. It’s not easy to switch once you have all your apps, contacts and fa-vorites on one system.
With Apple’s iOS, you can choose between a vari-ety of iPhone models - rang-ing from the giant iPhone 6 Plus to the older and smaller iPhone 5s and 5c. The iPhone 6 is a good choice in between and comes with all the bells and whistles, in-cluding a chip to make pay-ments in stores that accept Apple Pay. Phones running
Google’s Android operating system include even more choices from several man-ufacturers, including Sam-sung, LG, Motorola, ZTE and Sony.
Android is more flexi-ble in the sense that phone makers can customize it to their liking, and app de-velopers have more say in what they write for Android phones. That flexibility has led to a free-for-all environ-ment, though. Settings and features vary so much from phone to phone that it’s tough to ask a friend or look online for help. And some Android apps won’t work with all phones.
Because Android gets too fragmented many app de-velopers work with iOS first. Apple is the only company that makes iOS phones, and it must approve what goes into its app store. That helps ensure quality, but it means trusting Apple to make those choices for you. One advan-tage of iOS is that iPhones work well with other Ap-ple devices, including iPads and Mac computers. An-droid can’t pull that off be-cause the hardware and the software aren’t as tightly integrated.
There are several other systems vying for third place. Microsoft’s Windows is the most promising, after BlackBerry tumbled from pi-oneer to also-ran. Windows is a good system, but it has fewer apps.
How should you pay for it?
You used to simply pay $200 for the best phone, and the phone company covered the remaining $450 or so, making up for it in higher service fees over the life of your two-year con-tract. Lately, phone com-panies have been trying to
wean customers off subsi-dies by having customers bring used phones or pay full prices in installments. With T-Mobile, that’s the only option. In return, you pay less in monthly service fees.
If you forgo subsidies, you generally come out ahead if you sign up for a larger data plan - 10 gigabytes or more with AT&T and Verizon and 20 gigabytes or more with Sprint. The monthly dis-counts aren’t as big with smaller data plans, so you’re giving up more in subsidies than you get in discounts. But the installment plans have other advantages, in-cluding the ability to trade your phone in for a newer model before the typical two-year contract is up.
You can buy phones through your wireless car-rier or go to a retailer such as Best Buy or Wal-Mart. You can also find phones on eBay and Amazon. Check with your carrier first to make sure it’ll work, as net-works in the U.S. vary.
How much should you pay?
It might be tempting to spend a lot for the latest iPhone or Samsung Galaxy phone, but you should ask yourself whether you need all that power. This is espe-cially so if you are paying full price. (If you’re getting a subsidized phone with a contract, then why not make the phone company pay for the best?)
There are several phones available for $200 or less, at contract-free prices, com-pared with $600 to $700 for the typical high-end phone. You’re typically giving up a better camera, a better screen and a faster proces-sor. But what you get in a budget phone is often good
enough for such basics as email, Facebook and even video. First-time smart-phone owners will notice a huge difference over their basic phones.
Smartphone veterans might want something more, especially if the phone is their primary access to the Internet. Heavy users might even consider paying more for additional stor-age. Phones fill up quickly with photos and video and downloaded music.
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Yesterday, Dec 1, was World AIDS Day. Thou-sands of people around the world joined together to bring awareness to HIV and AIDS, which affects roughly 35 million people world-wide, 3.2 million of which are children.
All over the world peo-ple participated in events to raise money and awareness for this devastating cause. Here in the U.S., events were held across the country, in-cluding the White House which held an event in ob-servance of the day. The President also released a Presidential Proclamation to recognize Dec 1 as World AIDS Day.
The theme for this World AIDS Day was “Focus, Part-ner, Achieve: An AIDS-free Generation.”
Looking at these numbers and then this title can make
the possibility of “An AIDS-free Generation,” seem like a daunting task. Many times, AIDS is something we asso-ciate with others, not some-thing that can affect us.
We see commercials urg-ing us to help children in a third-world country af-fected by this disease and we feel bad for them, but we also feel relief it is not some-thing we face day-to-day.
However, with numbers such as 35 million, it is hard to deny this is a problem which is all around us.
While you may not know someone directly affected by the disease, there is a good chance someone to your right or left does. In or-der to make an AIDS-free generation reality, we must work to make it something on everyone’s radar.
The first step is aware-ness. We must become
aware of the reality of AIDS not just in the world, but in our country. It is impor-tant to know this disease is here and now still. Accord-ing to aids.org, HIV is the leading infectious killer in the world. While this cause may seem to be something that effected past genera-tions, it is still affecting the world today.
Do your research, find out the signs and symptoms of the disease and the facts surrounding the cause as a whole. Donations can be hard when you are a college student strapped for cash, but word-of-mouth is free. Share what you know.
The more knowledge-able we are as a society, the more we can move toward the goal of being an AIDS-free generation.
“A long time ago in a gal-axy far, far away…”
Seeing those words on-screen never ceases to give me butterflies. I’m a rela-tively new fan of the Star Wars universe, but that hasn’t stopped me from spending hours playing “Star Wars: Battlefront” or watching every episode of “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” on Netflix.
(Call me nerdy, but I can’t deny it—I love these films.)
However, I won’t waste time simply fawning over the series. The trailer for the newest installment, “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens,” was
released last Friday, and the two-minute clip yields new insight into the future of the franchise. I couldn’t be more thrilled with this first brief look into the film, as the upcoming tril-ogy may be our only hope in repairing the disastrous effects the prequels had on the original movies.
Star Wars is regarded as one of the most influen-tial film sagas in history. Innovative special effects techniques and attention to character detail in epi-sodes IV-VI (known as “the originals” to fans) were pushed to the forefront of the movie industry’s mind after “A New Hope” was re-leased in 1977.
These films forever changed the way movies of all genres were created and captured from then on, as
the successful parts of the films were later adopted by other directors and applied to most movies made after the 1970s.
As a bonus, several nods to the series have managed to infiltrate pop culture over time.
“These are not the droids you’re look-ing for,” “Use the force, Luke,” and “I am your fa-ther,” are some of the most widely-known (and usu-ally most annoying) ref-erences still in circulation today.
Many fans consider epi-sodes I-III (“the prequels,” released in the early 2000s) to be Star Wars creator George Lucas’ biggest fail-ure. Instead of finally deliv-ering the haunting tale of Anakin Skywalker’s fall to the dark side, the prequels
instead dumped whiny characters, emotionless di-alogue and badly-executed attempts at humor onto audiences everywhere.
This turned both old and new fans away from the franchise, and all hope seemed lost at regaining the same sense of action and adventure as in years past.
The new films might be just what the series needs to reboot itself. From the looks of the theatrical trailer (which has 31 mil-lion views on Youtube.com at the time I’m writing this,) the new movie will in-clude a mixture of both old and new characters, places and technology. However, I believe the films will be hard-pressed not to simply ride off the coattails of the originals.
They must bring some-thing entirely new to the table in order to fully ap-pease audiences.
Thousands of fans on-line have already dissected the trailer to its bare bones, trying to get a semblance of what episode VII might be like.
Though the average non-fan would consider this unnecessarily obses-sive, I can say from expe-rience that it’s scary and unsettling to know a fan-tasy world near and dear to your heart could be fur-ther expanded into some-thing terrible in a matter of minutes. It’s easy to see why fans are frightened of the idea of further disap-pointment, as they’ve al-ready had to experience this heartbreak of sorts once before.
The original Star Wars films were successful be-cause they defied conven-tion and introduced new ideas to both audiences and filmmakers alike. How-ever, episode VII is being created in a post-Star Wars world, where all the previ-ously-groundbreaking tips and tricks that first shot the series into fame are already in wide circulation.
To truly amaze fans, this movie will have to break down the filmmaking walls once again to become a lasting part of our collec-tive culture.
Though much is left un-addressed in the trailer, I find any lack of faith in the movie disturbing. As Darth Vader would say, the force is strong with this one.
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If someone walked up to you and asked you to sum yourself up (accomplish-ments, what you do, what you want to do, etc.) in 30 seconds, could you do it?
Well if it was me, I’d be standing there, so caught off guard that the first thing I’d be thinking is “wait … what is my name again?”
Being caught off guard is never fun, especially if the person approaching you is a potential employer. So you know what you need? A handy dandy elevator speech.
So, what exactly is an el-evator speech? According to Stefan de Rougemont, Director of London and Paris for Dream Careers, you basically want to sum up “who you are and what you do” and maybe hint towards why you would be perfect for the internship/job and how you would aid the company.
You want this to be sim-ple, something you would be able to tell to pretty much anyone and have them understand the goal
of your elevator pitch. If all they get out of it is your name, you might want to edit it up a bit.
Rougemont suggested that the best way to go about your elevator pitch is to be natural.
“You want to make it fit the setting, so don’t try to be overly professional or too casual,” he said.
Finding the perfect bal-ance may be a bit tricky at first, but practice makes perfect. Making it fit the setting is really important too. If you are giving a po-tential employer a pitch at a college job fair, you might be able to be semi-casual since it’s still with your col-lege environment. If you are meeting with them in a bar—margarita Mon-day perhaps? —then you can be more on the casual side, just make sure to not get too loosey goosey.
This article in Forbes mentions “you should be able to reel off your elevator pitch at any time, from a job interview to a cocktail party conversation with someone who might be able to help you land a position.”
In a world that is big on connections, being able to give your pitch at the right
time could really get you places. Rougemont sug-gested to be observant of other people that might work for the company you are trying to intern with, and to possibly give them your pitch and see if they would be able to help you out.
Okay so let’s review:
your pitch should say who you are, what you do, and something about what you hope to accomplish.
Now, let’s talk about what not to have in there. Presenting yourself can be a bit awkward sometimes because you don’t want to come off as cheesy or “look at all the cool things I’ve
done cuz I’m awesome.”Telling someone in a po-
lite way is definitely differ-ent than simply showing off, so make sure the things you list off are somewhat relevant to the position you are trying to achieve.
Forbes suggests to “elim-inate industry jargon … the last thing you want to do is make your listener feel stu-pid or uninformed.”
Consulting a thesaurus and supplementing casual speech with bigger words is definitely fun, but not nec-essary for this exercise. You should be able to present it to anyone, remember? And you don’t need big words to sound smart, a common misconception in our so-ciety (especially if you end up using the word wrong … yikes).
Rougemont suggested not to make too big of an assumption that the pitch will actually land you something (confidence is key but arrogance is no bueno), and to not ask for too much too soon, espe-cially when you are giving the pitch to someone you hope will be a connection.
So now that we have a few do’s and don’t with the speech itself, we can move
onto the actually present-ing it part (gulp). I kept stressing to be natural be-cause if you have an awe-some pitch but sound like a robot saying it, chances are it might not come off so well.
Rougemont said “the two most important things to remember while giving your pitch is your tone and your approach.”
You want to be upbeat, friendly and make sure to look them in the eye. Add a smile in there too. If you are inviting, a person is more likely to want to lis-ten to what you have to say. Maybe envision that you are simply giving the speech to your friend, so you feel more laid back, but you may achieve some seri-ous results.
So whether you are in a bar and just happen upon someone who could get you an in with an awe-some internship, meeting with a boss, or just want to tell your great aunt Dina at your family Christmas party how awesome you are, your pitch will come in handy.
“So, tell me about your-self” will be your new fa-vorite question.
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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR
Born today This year you burn up a lot of energy by acting on your ideas with enthusiasm. Your popularity soars. You easily could lose your grounding in the mo-ment and take some far-out risks. Be careful – though you are fortu-nate this year, Lady Luck won’t al-ways be riding on your shoulder. If you are single, you will have quite a few admirers. Do not commit un-til you are sure. If you are attached, try to harness some of your wild-ness, and encourage your sweetie to join you. The two of you will spend many hours laughing together.
ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HHHHH You might refuse to see a problem that exists. Because of this attitude, you could bypass a
new opportunity. Refuse to push a partner beyond his or her comfort zone. You will know when the time is right. Your creativity relishes a good challenge. Tonight: All smiles.
TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHH Your instincts will serve you better than your intellect can right now. How you see a situation develop could change as the day goes on. Know that your intuition will guide you in the right direction. You can be unusually resourceful when you just relax. Tonight: Screen your calls.
G E M I N I ( M Ay 21- J U N E 20) HHHHH Zero in on what is im-portant to you, not on what some-one else considers important. Your wit and charm allow you to move a
person from Point A to Point B with little effort. A meeting could be es-sential, even though you might feel limited. Tonight: Love the moment.
cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) HHH Pressure seems to build when deal-ing with an authority figure. You know how to make this person relax and have confidence in you. As long as you are preoccupied with this sit-uation, your creativity is likely to suf-fer. Learn to let go. Tonight: Work late.
lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Your ability to see past the obvious comes through once more. Others might have a hard time understanding your logic, as they seem to work on a dif-ferent level from you. You tend to see life from a perspective that is quite unique. Tonight: Follow the music.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEpT. 22) HHHH Deal with others directly, and you’ll have a more receptive audience. You intuitively seem to know what oth-ers need to hear, but you also know how to present an issue. Commu-nication could be off if you are not around once discussions begin. Tonight: Be with a favorite person.
lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HHHHH Defer to a friend, as this person might need to feel important. You might be looking at your long-term goals in a situation and wonder-ing if you’ll be able to meet them. Discuss the issue with a partner or roommate to get some feedback. Tonight: Catch up on news.
ScORpIO (OcT. 23-NOV. 21) HHH You are about to come out of a dif-ficult period. Don’t allow anyone
to discourage any of your ideas. You might need to schedule your-self tightly, as you seem to have so much to do. Don’t forget to schedule a routine checkup with your doctor. Tonight: Get some exercise.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HHHHH You won’t be able to contain your energy. If you are sin-gle, you are likely to meet someone who causes your heart to flutter. You might want to revisit a personal matter with a loved one, as you two could see it differently. Tonight: No one will try to hold you back.
cApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHH Be clear about what is important to you in a situation. Take a step back and rethink a recent decision. A loved one could come through for you in a big way. Tonight: Hang with a favorite person.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH You are likely to say exactly what you think. Fortunately, your au-dience will be in a good mood. You could be holding back important information about a family matter. When you are sure of the facts, it would be wise to open up. Tonight: Invite someone to dinner.
pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HH You can get only so much done in a day. Try not to push yourself so hard. Keep a firm hand on your fi-nancial budget; otherwise, you eas-ily could become distracted and make a mistake. Prioritize, and you will be pleased with the results. To-night: Buy a treat on the way home.
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One of the biggest game changers in hip-hop is fi-nally set to release its 20th anniversary record after a bout of group turmoil. Wu Tang Clan put its dif-ferences aside for the re-lease of its newest album, “A Better Tomorrow.” This is the first record produced with Warner Bros, giving the group a fresh start for their commemorative re-lease. A Better Tomor-row showcases the group’s classic hip-hip sound with sharply worded verses and big band instrumentals. Tracks like “Never Let Go” and “Wu-Tang Reunion” are saved by Method Man’s poetically crafted rhymes, but may not live up to his previous musical magic. “Ruckus In B Minor” is gen-erating the most buzz with it eclectic use of instru-mentals. The song mixes a variety of trippy psyche-
delic tones with the twang of a western guitar, making for a one-of-a-kind musi-cal experience. Overall, the album offers some of the same Wu Tang sound we have to come to know and love. It’s clear though, the group is not as tight as they once were and the distance certainly translates in “A Better Tomorrow.”
Jumping across the mu-sical spectrum, new alter-native is also on the rise this week with the release of Walk the Moon’s new album. “Talking is Hard” is the retro rock group’s third studio album. Their infectious mix of upbeat techno and alternative has quickly pushed them to the top of the charts. This album specifically re-quired extra thought and creativity. The band iso-lated itself for weeks in a Mason’s Lodge in Dayton, Ky. alongside other work-ing artists. This was the first time the band was able to sit down together
and write an album from scratch, working day and night to perfect their new project. The band released its first single from the al-bum “Shut Up and Dance” on Sept. 9, sparking even more anticipation for the complete collection. The track is fast-paced, con-trasting a heavy drum beat with high pitched melo-dies and an 80’s inspired guitar solo.
On Nov. 24, the band surprised fans by releas-ing the entire album early on Spotify. Tracks like “Different Colors” and “Down in the Dumps” of-fer sound slower than their usual pump up anthems, while “Portugal” and “Av-alanche” keep with the band’s ultra-retro tempo.
If you’re looking for a new platform to listen to these releases, 8tracks is a multi-faceted app that has you covered. The app de-fines itself as a program created by “people not al-gorithms,” giving users the ability to more narrowly personalize their listening preferences.
To select a music stream users are asked to select two music styles from a series of hashtags. After ass essing the combination, 8tracks gives a list streams for users to choose from. The song se-lections include some of the biggest chart toppers and also a wide range of underground hits. Us-ers also have the option to build their own play-lists containing at least 8 tracks to share with the rest of the listening community.
Editor’s Note: This film re-view contains spoliers.
I’m normally the first in a group of friends to say, “The book was better.” Reading what is “supposed” to happen before watching the movie can sometimes ruin the cin-ematic experience.
That’s why with the Hun-ger Games trilogy, I swore to myself I wouldn’t pick up the books before I watch the movie. Like the rest of coun-try, the first film in the series enthralled me.
And with “Catching Fire,” I rewatched it four times be-cause I loved it so much. It seemed as though not read-ing the book beforehand was doing me some good.
But “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1” was a disappointment.
Before I delve into what was wrong with it, let’s talk about what was right with it.
It’s clear that this film is supposed to show the audi-ence Katniss Everdeen ac-cepting her role in the rebel-lion against the Capitol. But it wasn’t Katniss who I couldn’t
keep my eyes off. It was Eliza-beth Banks.
She played a stunning Ef-fie Trinket and stole the show for me. Her character gives the best insight.
There’s a lesson to be learned from her character. When people with power eventually lose it, they must learn to cope with it in creative ways. For Effie, this means re-placing her usual couture for rags and bedsheets found at her disposal.
The second best per-formance came from Josh Hutcherson.
There was a huge chance that Hutcherson could have overacted, but he restrained. His careful performance mir-rored the care President Snow took in trying to squash the rebellion.
And, of course, the clothes were fabulous. Katniss’ war outfits were on the sharpest of points.
But this time Jennifer Law-rence’s portrayal of Katniss was anything but on point.
Before you light the fire and hoist up the pitchforks, hear me out. Lawrence is a pretty good actress. The reason we all love her, if we’re being hon-est, is not because of her act-ing abilities but her quirky re-minders that celebrities are people too.
She falls on the red carpet, skips after-parties for buf-fet food and jokes around with her co-stars on set. But in “Mockingjay, Part 1,” she’s anything but stunning.
The only shining moments of her performance were af-ter the bombing of a make-shift hospital in District 8. When she stared straight into the camera and yelled at Pres-ident Snow, chills shot down my spine.
It feels like the director, Francis Lawrence, tried to play too heavily on Lawrence’s ability to chill the audience.
Another huge problem I have with the film is how little actually happened in the first installment. As I’ve said, I’m a book lover. I love when Holly-wood sticks to the books.
It feels as though the film-makers are saving the best for last.
Hey Hollywood – don’t do that. Splitting one book into two films is fine if there’s enough plot to do so. But split-ting one book into two films when there’s not enough plot? That’s just a ploy to get more of the audience’s money.
Is “Mockingjay, Part 1” worth the price of a ticket? Kind of. Just keep your eyes on Banks and Hutcherson.
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the season many Moun-taineer faithfuls hoped for while West Virginia was in the midst of making magic happen time after time in the first half of the season, but with the Mountaineers finishing the regular sea-son 7-5 and 5-4 in the Big 12, many positives can be taken from the regular en-tering bowl season.
Long before the first game of the season for the Mountaineers, the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game against then-No. 2 Alabama, I be-lieved the opportunities for West Virginia to show any signs of success in 2014 were slim to none.
Looking back on my preseason thoughts about this Mountaineer squad, who did nearly everything wrong and nothing right a season ago, West Vir-ginia continued to prove me wrong on many cylin-ders week after week and for the right reasons.
After witnessing a Mountaineer offense that was high powered and could not be stopped through the first eight games of the season and a defense that improved tre-mendously from the nu-merous struggles that the past couple of seasons en-dured for them – even with two losses coming in that time to two top-five teams – my confidence in this team grew as the weeks went on.
Then, after the Moun-taineers fell into a three-game losing slump in which nothing seemed to click the right way, West Virginia was able to get back on its feet Saturday against a struggling Iowa State squad.
Though, it wasn’t a Mountaineer squad led by redshirt senior quarter-back Clint Trickett, who started the Mountaineers previous 11 games this season under center, it was sophomore Skyler How-ard earning his first career starting and proving him-self in a plethora of ways.
Howard showed his abilities in not only his passing game, but in his running game, as well. He chalked up 69 rushing yards – a season-high for a West Virginia quarter-back in rushing for a sin-gle game this season.
Although no team wants to finish the season on a 1-3 note, having a victory come in the final regular season game is always a huge help in getting the taste of losing out of your mouth and focused on West Virginia’s 33rd bowl game in school history.
Now, with about four weeks until the next Mountaineer game, Trick-ett has plenty of time to get his full health back. How-ever, as we saw Saturday, he is not the only one the Mountaineers need to rely on now. Howard can play some ball too, and with the mobility he brings to this team, he may be the bet-ter option to keep the ball rolling.
Although the bowl game has not been determined yet, in order for West Vir-ginia to end its season on a winning note, many areas that began to slide toward the end of the season need to be fixed to come back to Morgantown victorious after bowl season – some-thing that has not hap-pened since the 2012 Or-ange Bowl victory against Clemson in dominating fashion.
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AMES, Iowa – After going more than a month with-out a victory, West Virginia snapped its three-game los-ing streak Saturday at Jack Trice Stadium, defeating the Iowa State Cyclones, 37-24.
Although the Mountain-eers (7-5, 5-4 Big 12) did not have redshirt senior quar-terback Clint Trickett Satur-day, who started West Vir-ginia’s first 11 games of the season, backup sophomore quarterback Skyler Howard stepped up and completed 21 passes for 285 yards and three touchdowns.
Following the game, West Virginia head coach Dana
Holgorsen said he knew all week the Mountaineers would be going with How-ard, and to have him play as well as he did Saturday was tremendous for the team.
“The quarterback spot is no different than any other spot – you have to have the next guy ready to go,” Hol-gorsen said. “Skyler did a great job all week of prepar-ing and I thought Skyler re-ally did a good job today.”
West Virginia got on the scoreboard first, as redshirt sophomore running back Rushel Shell scored first for the Mountaineers on a 54-yard touchdown run.
Breaking through tackles and finding the end zone early was on top of Shell’s list Saturday. He said the frustration of not being
able to do so over the past few games is something he knew needed to change.
“We came out fast (and) personally, it felt good to break a long run and (we) just have to build on that,” Shell said. “I felt real good today and the guys up front were working and the guys on the perimeter (were) giving me chances to make people miss – just the guys around me were setting good blocks.”
However, the Cyclones (2-9, 0-8 Big 12) were quick to respond and dominated on many cylinders in the first quarter and were up 14-7 going into the second quarter.
After a shaky start by both the West Virginia offense and the defense, and Iowa
State taking a two touch-down lead, the Mountain-eers scored 20 unanswered points to regain the lead go-ing into halftime.
“Didn’t play well in the first quarter and then obvi-ously the last three quarters, we played extremely well,” Holgorsen said. “(We) did enough good things on of-fense and special teams and did a lot of good things on defense.”
The Cyclones would only score one time in the sec-ond half – a field goal in the third quarter to cut the Mountaineer lead to three points.
As the Cyclones were on the brink of scoring a touch-down, redshirt junior cor-nerback Terrell Chestnut came up with his first ca-
reer interception in the end zone to bring the ball back for the West Virginia.
“He (Chestnut) made a play,” Holgorsen said. “Chestnut’s been reliable all year.”
“It felt great for me,” Chestnut said. “Obviously, it was my first career inter-ception, but I didn’t play well in the first half, so it was great to go out there and make a big play for my team,” he said. “We knew it was on us to go out there and execute.”
Following the intercep-tion, the Mountaineers would not look back the rest of the game and cruised to victory, outscoring the Cy-clones 30-3 to end the game.
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For the last two weeks, West Virginia’s offense was scuffling. After scoring 30 or more points in eight-straight games, the Moun-taineers only mustered 16 and 20 in back-to-back losses to Texas and Kansas State, respectively.
As head coach Dana Hol-gorsen often says, the op-ponent has something to do with it, but West Virginia’s offense broke out in a big way with Skyler Howard at the helm against Iowa State Saturday.
The Cyclones rank No. 9 in the Big 12 in total de-fense, but that doesn’t dis-
count what Holgorsen and Shannon Dawson’s offense was able to accomplish Saturday.
The Mountaine ers racked up 570 yards of to-tal offense, and Howard became the fourth quar-terback in program history to throw for 250-plus yards and run for 65-plus in a game, joining Geno Smith, Jarrett Brown and Major Harris.
He showed it in the sec-ond half against Kan-sas State, but this perfor-mance reaffirms the idea that Howard is West Vir-ginia’s most versatile option at quarterback right now. With starting quarterback Clint Trickett sidelined, WVU’s offensive brain trust
has tailored its play calling to Howard’s strengths.
“He’s used to that kind of offense, so we’ll be able to do some zone read with him and some quarterback draws with him and some read power stuff. We’ve got all of that stuff in our of-fense,” Holgorsen said.
“We’ve been repping the heck out of it. Obviously, we’re not going to put Clint in those situations very much.”
Howard’s mobility has opened up a whole new section of the playbook for this offense, and the results showed against Iowa State. A unit that had appeared stagnant in its last two ef-forts looked completely re-vitalized in Ames.
His skill set is different from Trickett’s in that he has the ability to make some-thing from nothing. While Trickett was wisely advised to get rid of the ball when everything breaks down, Howard showed an un-canny ability to improvise.
“Clint can extend plays, we’ve just coached him very hard about getting the ball out of his hands. Sky-ler did a great job I thought when protection broke down of extending the play and keeping his eyes down-field,” Holgorsen said.
“He hit Daikiel off a scramble play where pro-tection broke down. He got out of there and made a play downfield. That’s part of the advantage of having a
versatile quarterback.”After being thrust into
the spotlight so abruptly, Howard said he leaned on Trickett in his preparation for Iowa State and through-out the course of the game.
“He’s been a great team-mate to me. He’s been helping me out. During the game, he was telling me about stuff he sees, stuff to look out for, and I really ap-preciated that by him. He’s a great teammate,” he said.
Although it is unclear whether Trickett will be healthy enough to start the bowl game, Holgorsen can rest easy in the knowl-edge that he has a capable backup quarterback.
nick jarvis/the daily athenaeumWVU receiver Kevin White runs with the ball Saturday against Iowa State.
WVU snaps three-game losing streak, defeats Iowa State 37-24 to finish regular season
howard injects life into WVu offense
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It was a career-high game for West Virginia senior for-ward Jonathan Holton Satur-day night.
Holton led the Moun-taineers past the College of Charleston with a double-double, scoring 21 points and reeling in 10 rebounds.
Last season, the Moun-taineers were in dire need of post-play. Devin Williams was head coach Bob Hug-gins’ only presence inside the paint, but this year, Holton has amplified West Virginia’s play underneath.
Despite Holton’s big night against the Cougars, Huggins said he still doesn’t believe his forward is playing at his high-est level.
“I think he can be better than what he was,” Huggins said. “He’s just scratching the surface of what he can be.”
Holton is averaging 12.9 points per game. He trails only senior Juwan Staten, who is av-eraging 15.1 points.
With seven games under his belt, Holton is beginning to hit his stride and is pleased about where he and his team-mates currently are in the early stages of the season.
“I’m just happy. We worked hard all summer. Juwan
(Staten) and Gary Browne led us all summer (in the) weight room, we’ve been busting our butt,” he said. “(We’re) just try-ing to help Coach (Huggins) get back to the ways he’s used to playing.”
Huggins looked to Holton’s defensive play following the win over College of Charles-ton. Huggins said he believes if Holton can get over a cer-tain defensive hump, he can become a complete player.
“He can’t guard every po-sition,” Huggins said. “I hope he gets to that point. That’s his ticket to being a great player.”
Huggins cited his team back in 2010, saying that team had a plethora of players who
could guard any position on the floor.
“I’d like to be at the point we were at in 2010 when we could switch everything,” Huggins said. “The easiest way to guard ball screens is switch, and we were all about the same size other than the point guard. If we could get to that point with these guys, it could help us.”
Holton, however, said he is confident in his ability to guard other positions other than just “bigs” below the hoop.
“I’m like 6-foot-8, I got long arms, I’m mobile, I can move around. I really feel like I can guard anybody,” he said.
Following West Virginia’s win over Lafayette back in No-
vember, Holton explained he hadn’t reached his full poten-tial, but when he did he would be “scary” good.
He chalked his career-high night up to the energy West Virginia played with through-out the second half against the Cougars.
“My energy basically helps me get going overall,” Holton said. “If I have energy, I’m go-ing to have (a) good game. If I have low energy, then I’m bringing nothing to the table.”
Holton will be further tested come Thursday night when he and the rest of the Mountain-eers play LSU.
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Mountaineers pull out 67-53 win against Fairfieldby david statMan
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In a decidedly gritty af-fair, the West Virginia Uni-versity women’s basketball team gritted out a 67-53 win against the Fairfield Stags, never trailing Satur-day afternoon at the WVU Coliseum.
The Mountaineers were led by senior forward Averee Fields, who had 18 points, 15 points by junior guard Bria Holmes and a 10-assist effort by point guard Linda Stepney. The
Mountaineer defense har-ried Fairfield into 39.2 per-cent shooting and 25 turn-overs, leading to 25 West Virginia points.
“It wasn’t pretty, but we’ll take it,” WVU asso-ciate head coach Ches-ter Nichols said after the game. “We have some work to do. It was a tale of two halves.”
Indeed, the first and second halves bared little resemblance to each other. The Mountaineers flew out of the gate in the early go-ings, hitting four of their first five shots from long range, and at one point
leading 26-5. The Moun-taineer defensive dom-inance was total – WVU led 32-11 at halftime, held Fairfield to just 17 per-cent shooting and only al-lowed two Fairfield players to score.
Fairfield would succeed in opening the game up in the second half, outscor-ing WVU 42-35, but de-spite its torrid shooting – Fairfield made nine con-secutive shots at one point – the Mountaineers were able to make enough plays to keep the Stags from ever truly threatening.
Key to the Mountaineer
second half effort was im-proved rebounding. The Mountaineers led just 19-16 on the glass at halftime, but expanded that lead to 42-31 by the end of the game. At one point in the second half, the Moun-taineers grabbed four consecutive offensive re-bounds on the same play, and five West Virginia players recorded at least five rebounds.
Junior guard Kristin Schatzlein led Fairfield with 17 points, hitting four of her eight three-point at-tempts, but shot just 6-18 overall. Freshman forward
Samantha Cooper also contributed 12 points.
Although the Mountain-eers struggled at times out of the half-court offense, they were able to succeed through the steady play of point guard Linda Stepney, who dished out a season-high 10 assists while only turning the ball over twice. For Nichols, Stepney’s in-fluence attacking the bas-ket was one of the game’s key factors.
“When we’re aggres-sive, that’s part of our run right there,” Nichols said. “Probably six or seven of those assists that she got
during the first half, that’s what it came to. When we’re aggressive, when we’re attacking, whether it’s against man or zone, she’s aggressive, she gets to the rim and she creates.”
With the win, West Vir-ginia – ranked No. 21 in the AP Poll and No. 22 in the USA Today Coaches Poll - moves to 4-1 on the season. The Mountain-eers will be back in action Wednesday when they face a 1-3 Fairleigh Dickinson squad on the road in Te-aneck, N.J.
Muldrow could be answer to WvU’s inconsistent offenseby david statMan
sports writer @dailyathenaeum
Five games into the West Virginia University wom-en’s basketball team’s sea-son, one common thread has run throughout: The young Mountaineer squad continues to have troubles at times executing out of the half-court offense. This isn’t an uncommon strug-gle for young teams, and in times like this, accurate outside shooting is key to compensating offensively.
Enter Teana Muldrow. The redshirt freshman guard from East Orange,
N.J. has not only seized a starting role in her first season with the Mountain-eers, she has quickly estab-lished herself as the team’s top three-point shooter.
Muldrow’s three-point shooting has been streaky at times so far, but her 35.3 percent mark from long range leads the team. When she’s been hitting her contributions, they’ve been vital, providing an-other perimeter threat to take pressure off leading scorer Bria Holmes.
“Coach Carey always is telling me to step up and that Bria (Holmes) can’t be the only scorer,” Muld-
row said. “In games to come, I’m just going to try my best and not leave her by herself, because even-tually teams are going to start taking her out and we won’t have any other options. So, if I can be a threat, that will leave two people who can score and they will have to pick who they want to guard.”
Five games into her col-legiate career, Muldrow’s 10.6 points per game ranks third on the team – she, Holmes and senior for-ward Averee Fields have formed a very productive scoring trio averaging over 52 points a night.
After a modest eight-point contribution in her Mountaineer debut two weeks ago against Eastern Kentucky, Muldrow ex-ploded for six threes and 18 points against Seton Hall, helping to lift her team to an 89-87 shootout win. Muldrow showed what she could do again Saturday af-ternoon against Fairfield, hitting three times from long range in a 14-point Mountaineer win.
Muldrow was a four-star prospect coming out of high school, but red-shirted due to the depth of last year’s team. As Muld-row continues to adjust to
the college game, she gives credit to help from Bria Holmes, with whom she shares significant similar-ities on the court.
“I definitely take her ad-vice,” Muldrow said. “She obviously has more court experience than me, so I definitely listen. I defi-nitely take it in because she’s been through games, she’s been through a Big 12 championship, she’s played in those games.”
Muldrow hasn’t just contributed via her shoot-ing. Her 6.4 rebounds per game are second on the team behind senior for-ward Crystal Leary. Al-
though she primarily stays around the perimeter on offense, at 6-foot-1, she’s got the size and athleticism to contend inside.
With the Mountaineers set to take on Fairleigh Dickinson Wednesday, keep an eye on Muldrow. Fairleigh Dickinson has al-lowed opponents at least 19 three-point attempts in every game they’ve played this season. If the trend holds, Muldrow will get her chances – and if op-ponents keep leaving her open – they might regret it.
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WvU’s offensive line impresses in final game against isUby anthony pecoraro
sports editor @pecorarowvunews
Just a few weeks ago, West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen said he felt his offensive line was worn down throughout a season of facing top de-fenses and for the most part, stepping up to the challenges.
But, after a bye week and some struggles seen out of the offensive line during the Mountain-eers’ three-game losing streak, West Virginia’s fi-nal regular-season game brought about many pos-itives for the line led by offensive line coach Ron Crook.
“They came in and re-sponded and played very well from what I could tell,” Crook said. “There’re
always going to be a few things we need to get cleaned up, but (I) was happy with the way those guys went in and com-peted and came off the ball and did a good job with protection for the most part.”
With redshirt senior of-fensive lineman Quin-ton Spain out, redshirt sophomore Tony Matteo stepped in and did not disappoint.
“He’s been working hard, he’s earned it and I was excited to see him get out there and see how he played,” Crook said.
Matteo did not waste time Saturday against the Iowa State Cyclones to show what he is made of, as he played a key role in the Mountaineers’ opening drive.
On a running play led
by redshirt sophomore back Rushel Shell, Mat-teo made blocks to open up the running gates for Shell to go the distance in a 54-yard touchdown run.
“I was really impressed,” Shell said. “I told him (Matteo) right after it hap-pened, and when guys go down, people have to be ready to step up and he came today and played excellent.”
After a few weeks of struggling, Shell said be-ing able to break through due to the help of Mat-teo was huge to getting his confidence where he believes it needs to be.
“You just want it so bad and then to get out there and it gets annoy-ing at times, ‘Why can’t I just break a 30-yarder, a 40-yarder,’ and you
just have to be patient and it happens,” Shell said.
Crook said having Shell open up Saturday’s victo-rious affair for the Moun-taineers with an explo-sive 54-yard run was
huge, and that’s what gives his line the motiva-tion to keep playing to the best of their abilities to make blocks when needed most.
“Anytime you can go down the first series and
come away with points, especially a touchdown, it boosts your confidence, it gets guys excited about going back out again,” he said.
Kenneth Redillas/the daily athenaeumSophomore running back Rushel Shell runs the ball during WVU’s loss to Kansas State earlier this season.
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West virginia claims fifth ncaa top-10 finish since 2007WvU sports inFo
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The West Virginia Uni-versity cross country team recorded its fifth NCAA top-10 finish since 2007, placing in eighth place overall, today, at the 2014 NCAA Division
I Women’s Cross Country Championship.
“We are thrilled with this performance. The NCAA Cross Country Champi-onship is the epitome of the sport. This race is the deepest field of distance runners in the world,” said coach Sean Cleary. “When we started out this season,
we really felt like we could finish in the top 10. To sit here in November hav-ing completed the sea-son as an Elite 8 team is a dream come true for this group.”
With just one ac-tive senior on the ros-ter, the Mountaineers made their seventh ap-pearance at the NCAA championship in the last eight seasons under Cleary.
S o p h o m o re Ji l l i a n Forsey led the way for the Mountaineers, earning
All-America status, fin-ishing in 14th place over-all in 20:17.9. Forsey im-proved on her 115th place finish as a freshman a sea-son ago by more than 100 spots.
Senior Kaitlyn Gil-lespie also earned All-America honors in her final race as a Mountain-eer, completing the 6k course in 26th overall in 20:30.7.
“From the first meet back in August, we have gained confidence and met the challenge of ev-
ery meet. Every team has suffered a few setbacks over the last few weeks. It’s very pleasing to me that we were able to put ours behind us,” Cleary said. “We sit here today with two All-Americans, the Elite 89 Award winner and an Elite 8 team finish. Our hope is to build upon this result and come back in a year and stand on that podium.”
F r e s h m e n Ma g g i e Drazba and Brynn Harsh-barger had impressive re-sults at their first NCAA
Championship appear-ances. Drazba recorded a top-100 finish, placing in 91st overall in 21:09.2. Harshbarger, a Mor-gantown, W.Va., native, placed 103rd overall in 21:13.5.
Junior Sydney Scott was the fifth scorer for West Virginia, register-ing a 129th place result. Junior Kelly Williams fin-ished 152nd (21:35.4) and freshman Millie Paladino placed 210th (22:01.3) to round out the WVU finishers.
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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM SPORTS | 10tuesday december 2, 2014
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Browns’ Hoyer wants to keep starting job
apBrowns’ quarterback Brian Hoyer throws a pass earlier this season.
BEREA, Ohio (AP) – Brian Hoyer intends to fin-ish what he started. The Browns may not give him the chance.
Cleveland’s starting quarterback said Monday that his confidence has not been shaken despite three poor performances and believes he should keep his starting job over rookie Johnny Manziel.
“You don’t get to 7-5 in the NFL just lucking into it,” Hoyer said. “It’s been a
lot of hard work, and I think I’ve proven that I’ve gotten us to this point. I feel like I can carry us through the next four games.”
Hoyer was replaced by Manziel in the fourth quar-ter of Sunday’s 26-10 loss to Buffalo after throwing two interceptions, continuing a pattern of bad games over the past month.
Following the game, Browns coach Mike Pettine left open the possibility that he would start Manziel this
week against the Indianap-olis Colts. Manziel did give the Browns a spark against the Bills, leading Cleveland on a touchdown drive he capped with a 10-yard run.
Hoyer said he has not yet been told of his status for this week.
“Until he (Pettine) de-cides what he wants to do, I’m going about it as I’m the starter,” Hoyer said. “I’m studying my tape on Indy, and I would do the same if I wasn’t. That’s just the way
I’ve always prepared. For me, nothing’s changed. I go about my business the way I handle it every week, and that’s his right. He’s the head coach. He gets to make those decisions.”
Hoyer, who went 3-0 as a starter last year before sus-taining a season-ending knee injury, pointed out his record and that he has the Browns in the thick of the AFC playoff race.
“We’re 7-5 here,” he said. “We won three games last
year here when I started, so 10-5 as a starting quar-terback, that’s not bad. I think – Coach Pettine al-ways says it – there’s al-ways a lot of overreaction regardless of if you win or lose and obviously a little more this time because of the circumstances, but this doesn’t waver my confi-dence in myself one bit.”
In the past three games, Hoyer has thrown one touchdown pass and six interceptions. Cleveland
has scored only 36 points in that stretch.
Browns right guard John Greco said Pettine has a tough decision.
“Brian’s been our guy all year,” he said. “He’s shown he’s won us games. What-ever the decision, we’re go-ing to roll with it. They ob-viously have confidence in both guys and we do as well. No matter who it is, we have to prepare the same way and block the guys up front.”
Coroner: Exam will look at brain of Ohio St player
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A neuropathologist will look for signs of traumatic brain injury in an Ohio State ath-lete who was found dead in a trash bin of an appar-ent self-inflicted gunshot wound and had a reported history of concussions, a coroner said Monday.
The examination, not normally part of the au-topsy process, is being done on Kosta Karageorge because of that history, said Dr. Anahi Ortiz, the Franklin County coroner.
The pathologist “may or may not be able to de-termine any sort of abnor-mality or defect from trau-matic brain injury,” Ortiz said.
Preliminary results from a Monday morning autopsy
confirmed that Karageorge died of a gunshot wound, Ortiz said, but she hasn’t yet definitively ruled it a suicide. However, Colum-bus police said Sunday that Karageorge died of an ap-parent self-inflicted gun-shot wound. A handgun was found in the trash bin with him, police spokes-man Sgt. Rich Weiner said.
His mother, Susan Kara-george, told police her son had had several concus-sions and a few spells of being extremely confused.
Karageorge, 22, was a Buckeyes wrestler for three years, and the senior de-fensive tackle joined the football team as a walk-on this season. Although earlier reports said Kara-george played in one
game, Ohio State spokes-man Jerry Emig corrected that Monday, saying Kara-george had not played in any games.
A woman and her son looking for items in a trash bin Sunday found the body of Karageorge, who disap-peared four days earlier after sending his parents a text message.
The message said, “I am sorry if I am an embar-rassment but these con-cussions have my head all f----- up.”
Police reports released Monday indicated a man looking for food in the trash bin earlier in the day may have found Karageorge’s body, but he didn’t report it and instead told other people who called police.
After Karageorge went missing, the football team’s physician, Dr. Jim Borch-ers, said he could not com-ment on the medical care of student athletes. But, he said, “We are confident in our medical procedures and policies to return ath-letes to participation fol-lowing injury or illness.”
Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer said Monday he’d been in-structed not to talk about medical issues surround-ing Karageorge.
“I can say this: This is the best group of medi-cal people I’ve ever been around, the way they han-dle their business and the attention to detail,” Meyer said.
Wrestling coach Tom
Ryan told The Columbus Dispatch that Karageorge did not have documented concussions as a wrestler.
Brain injuries seem to increase people’s risk for depression, though most studies on that have been with people who had se-vere head injuries, said Dr. Tom McAllister, chairman of psychiatry at Indiana University, who has stud-ied concussions in college athletes.
If the person had de-pression or an anxiety dis-order in the past, “it often is the case that the concus-sion seems to exacerbate it,” he said. “These inju-ries don’t occur in a vac-uum. People bring their own past history ... into the injury.”
Police found Kara-george’s body within a couple hundred yards of his home and about a half-block from High Street, the main artery of the campus. Karageorge had last been seen at his Co-lumbus apartment, when roommates said he left for a walk.
Several teammates on Monday recalled Kara-george as a hard worker at every practice, often stay-ing for extra work, know-ing he had little chance of ever playing.
“Every day he came out with the same attitude, no matter what the circum-stance was,” said offensive lineman Pat Elfein, adding: “The kid was just a grinder, you know?”
apFormer OSU football player Kosta Karageorge was found dead Sunday.