BY DEVON UNGERCITY EDITOR

Former U.S. President Bill Clin-ton spoke to 1,354 graduates and their families at the Eberly Col-lege of Arts and Sciences com-mencement, asking them to “live with confi dence in the face of change” and get into the “future business.”

Clinton is the fi rst U.S. Presi-dent had spoken at a West Vir-ginia University commencement ceremony.

He also received one of three honorary degrees of humane let-ters handed out during WVU’s commencement festivities.

“At each commencers exer-cise the University confers hon-orary degrees to distinguished in-dividuals in recognition of their outstanding achievements,” said WVU President James P. Clem-ents. “Th e man we are honoring today has reached the very pinna-cle of American government and global outreach.”

Clinton began his speech by

mentioning similarities between his home state of Arkansas and West Virginia. He said both states are known for having the high-est percentage of people born in-state still living there, according to the Census. He also commended the academic success of WVU’s football team, which had every senior graduate this year.

Clinton focused most of his ad-dress on identifying the global is-sues he hopes the graduates will strive to solve. He said the world is changing at a much faster rate and urged students to consider their actions based on the eff ects they will produce.

“Th e time we live in is highly unstable, unequal and unsustain-able,” Clinton said. “You can’t stop the world, and you can’t get off ... everything we do aff ects some-body else across the corner and across the globe.”

He said attempts by the Vir-ginia Legislature to re-instate “confederacy month” and immi-gration policy recently passed in Arizona refl ected an unwilling-

ness to embrace the realities of the modern world.

“We all have to be in the future business,” Clinton said. “Th ere is room here for conservative ver-sus liberal debate, and Repub-lican versus Democrat, any de-bate you want. But we all have to understand we are in the future together.”

He asked students to recognize the common humanity within

all people and referenced the Human Genome Project, which found that all humans have be-tween 99.5 and 99.9 percent of their genetic makeup in common. Th e HGP, completed in 2003, was a 13-year eff ort conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institute of Health to identify the 20,000 to 25,000 genes

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City examines eff ects of deer populationBY DEVON UNGER

CITY EDITOR

Th e Morgantown City Council is waiting for more discussion and data to be collected before au-thorizing a controlled bow hunt within city limits.

Th e council heard a report from the city’s Urban Deer Committee and concerns from members of the community regarding the pro-posed bow hunt meant to control the deer population. While the council is waiting before autho-

rizing a hunt, it indicated it would act as quickly as its next regular meeting to pass an ordinance to ban the feeding of deer.

The committee, headed by Dave Samuels, a former wildlife management professor at West Virginia University, proposed sev-eral measures, including a con-trolled bow hunt, to curb the deer population.

“Our approach is to try and use as much science as possible,” Samuels said. “But you are going to have anecdotal evidence.”

Community members ex-pressed concern over collecting data before a hunt is permitted.

Hunts are highly controlled, Samuels said, and would only take place in select locations.

“Never has there been an acci-dent with an urban bow hunt in the United States involving a non-hunter,” he said.

Studies from the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources and anecdotal evidence from residents indicate overpopula-tion of deer, Samuels said. Two to

fi ve deer per square mile is an ac-ceptable number within city lim-its, he said, but he has seen pho-tos showing up to 17 deer in one yard.

The ecology of parks in the Morgantown area, including the WVU Core Aboreatum, Samuels said, has been greatly disturbed by the large deer population. He said many types of wildfl owers have been eradicated from the Ar-boreatum, and those present are there because they are not appe-tizing to deer.

Barton Baker, a professor with the WVU division of plant and soil sciences, told Samuels approxi-mately $400,000 of grant money was lost because of deer overpop-ulation around the WVU organic farm.

Many within WVU’s Agricul-tural Sciences Department had asked for an urban deer hunt for almost a decade, Samuels said.

Randy Hudak, vice president of Facilities Management at WVU, represented the University on the committee and was able to gain

administrative support, Samuels said.

Samuels’ other suggestions in-cluded: the council adopting reg-ulations prohibiting the feeding of deer within city limits; a section of the city’s website be dedicated to receiving complaints regard-ing deer and endorsed the use of repellents to deter deer from feeding on plants around peoples’ homes; and deer “exclosures” be built in parks throughout the city,

COMMENCEMENT 2010

PRT overhaul, update to cost an estimated $93MBY ERIN FITZWILLIAMS

STAFF WRITER

Thirty five years and 60 mil-lion passengers later, the PRT at West Virginia University could be getting its first big overhaul since the tracks opened.

PRT staff and consultants held a public hearing May 5 to discuss the approximately $92.8 million master plan for PRT upgrades.

Proposed updates include replacement of the train con-trols, vehicle replacement and

a power system upgrade, de-pending on whether funding is available.

“The current technology is so old it is difficult to find replace-ment parts and individuals who know how to repair the system,” said Arlie Forman, associate di-rector of Transportation and Parking at WVU.

Alternatives to the PRT were discussed at the meeting.

It was estimated by the PRT consultant team that it would take 34 full-size buses to serve the number of passengers the

PRT transports on an average day.

Beechurst and University ave-nues’ already busy traffic would be greatly impeded by an end to the PRT.

Since the PRT was originally a federal project, Forman and other consultants hope that the federal government will fund most of the upgrade.

“The PRT was a federal dem-onstration project – an exper-iment – that has turned into a successful transportation sys-tem,” Forman said prior to the

meeting. “It’s the only public transit system in the world that provides direct destination-to-destination transportation, but in order to keep serving our cus-tomers with over 98 percent re-liability, improvements have to be made.”

Failures in the subsystems have caused drops in reliability and traffic back-ups.

With more than 30,000 pas-sengers every day, the PRT staff works constantly to maintain the

SGA surveys CAC student concerns

Jones named new Eberly College dean

BY NICK ASHLEYCORRESPONDENT

Making the transition from Hokie to Mountaineer, Robert Jones was selected as dean of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia Uni-versity. Th is is the fi rst time he has held the position of dean in his career.

Jones comes to WVU from Vir-ginia Tech where he served as head of the Department of Bio-logical Sciences. Prior to his time at VT, he worked in the School of Forestry at Auburn University from 1995 to 2002.

“His background at land-grant institutions, and his commitment to their role in higher education, make him a perfect choice as this University moves forward,” said Michele Wheatly, provost and vice president of academic af-fairs, in a press release.

Jones said he chose to apply here because certain attributes made WVU stand out and the po-sition more appealing to he and his family. He said this was the right fi t for him because he loves looking for “new challenges” and “complex duties” to help make a diff erence not only at the univer-sity, but within the community.

“West Virginia University is the single largest institution in the state, with a very large, and growing population,” Jones said. “It has a great reputation as an institution for its academics, but has even better people within the University.”

He has established a few goals he would like to accomplish. He wants the University to increase the number of scholarships of-fered to students in natural resource programs. He hopes

CHELSI BAKER/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMRobert Jones, new Dean of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, answers students’ ques-tions in the Mountainlair April 14.

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CHELSI BAKER/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMFormer President Bill Clinton addresses graduates of the Eberly Colloege of Arts and Sciences during Commencement Sunday afternoon.

CHELSI BAKER/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMFrom left to right: Carolyn Long, Board of Governors Chair, former President Bill Clinton, and WVU President James P. Clements sit together at the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences commence-ment ceremony Sunday afternoon. Clements presented Clinton with an honorary degree of Humane Letters from the University.

BY JERRY HILDENBRANDCORRESPONDENT

Eating on the Evansdale cam-pus is a topic of discussion for the West Virginia University Stu-dent Government Assocation.

Gov. Ryan Campione con-ducted a survey where he asked a group of 47 students in the Creative Arts Center what they felt it was missing.

He discovered most students felt it lacked an area for students to eat, study or relax while not in class.

While the Downtown campus has the Mountainlair, students on the Evansdale campus have little choice other than playing “Frogger” across Patteson Drive to various fast food restaurants, said Campione.

Students said the Evansdale library does not have the neces-sary computer programs many CAC students need to complete assignments.

Campione previously ad-dressed these issues in his elec-tion campaign.

“One of my promises I talked about frequently dur-

ing campaigning was improv-ing food availability for students of the Evansdale campus and I intend to stick by that promise and accomplish it as much as possible.”

Students are requesting a lounge be built somewhere in the CAC where they will be able to relax, eat, sleep and study.

Th ey would like it to include comfortable furniture, snack machines which accept Mountie Bounty and a full computer set up consisting of computers with music composition software, a printer and a scanner.

Another request is for a “Cre-ative Arts” library to be built or added onto the CAC where stu-dents can do research and study for their classes.

Campione said those sur-veyed would like the contents of the library to include theater scripts, sheet music, among other things.

Students said the CAC is lack-ing in any real color or art. Th e building has plain white walls, excluding the lobby, and the

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aging system.According to a WVU press re-

lease, a 2 percent drop in the system availability is about 20 minutes of downtime for the system, often leaving passen-gers stopped on the tracks.

“I would love to complain about the PRT, but it gets me where I need to be,” said Sarah Lodge, junior pre-account-ing major. “It is more con-venient than the buses and even though it breaks down, people use it.”

Lodge said money should be spent on the PRT to improve it.

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to implement a vigorous plan to create more funding for the fac-ulty and staff , and keep recruiting strong students to the University.

Many candidates were consid-ered for the position of dean. Dr. Jones said his knowledge and ex-perience working in the fi eld of higher education made him stand out as a valuable candidate for the job.

He said the University has a great new leadership team and is very excited to have the opportu-nity to work with the faculty and staff .

His wife Jeri will be joining him at WVU. She will be working in the Animal and Nutritional Sciences Department.

Th e hiring process for Jones in-volved fi rst being selected by a search committee led by Dr. Eu-gene Cilento, dean of the Col-lege of Engineering and Mineral Resources.

He was interviewed over the phone and later invited to a two-day on-campus visit to partic-ipate in open forums for faculty and students.

Provost Wheatly was in charge of making the hire. Ru-dolph Almasy has served as in-terim Dean since Mary Ellen Mazey left the position to become the provost and vice president of academic aff airs at Auburn Uni-versity in 2009.

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Manchin’s education agendaCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) —

West Virginia’s public schools should revise their hiring crite-ria and allow would-be peers to weigh in on teacher candi-dates, the state Senate decided Tuesday.

Senators unanimously en-dorsed that proposal from Gov. Joe Manchin’s education-focused special session agenda. Th ey also sent a second agenda item to the House that would revamp the mandatory teams that help over-see a school’s curriculum, tech-nology, strategic planning and student support services.

But delegates had previously scaled back the collaborative teams measure. Th ey also voted Tuesday to gut a Senate-passed bill requiring annual educator evaluations, by amending it to in-stead call for studies of the topic.

Th e House’s Education Com-mittee has already killed one item from the agenda, voting down leg-islation addressing low-perform-ing schools. It was poised Tues-day to remove mandates from a measure seeking increased stu-dent health screenings.

Th e committee is considering an amendment that would allow parents to skip the exams pro-posed by Manchin for third, sixth and eighth graders. Critics con-sider the health screening bill an unfunded mandate on privately insured families, and also ques-tion the cost to schools.

“To pretend there’s no fi scal note to this, is disingenuous,” Chairwoman Mary Poling, D-Barbour, told state offi cials pres-ent during one of her committee’s meetings on the bill.

Delegates have been more re-ceptive to Manchin’s non-ed-ucation measures. The House sent him 10 bills Tuesday that increase state spending by an estimated $120 million. Ben-efi ciaries include workforce de-velopment programs, highways, a new statewide accounting sys-tem and Manchin’s years-long project aiming to provide broad-band Internet access across West Virginia.

A separate bill passed to the governor Tuesday from the House provides the Department of Health and Human Resources with $14.7 million from a drug lawsuit settlement secured by At-torney General Darrell McGraw.

Th e Senate Education Com-mittee, meanwhile, had endorsed

seven of the agenda’s eight school-related bills, bolstering several of them. To its version of the health screenings bill, it added exams for students entering kindergar-ten. Another amendment would gradually phase in the exams by grade, between July 2011 and July 2014.

It debated the fi nal education item Tuesday, a measure that seeks to make the state’s new school innovation zones more like the independent charter schools found in other states.

Schools approved as innova-tion zones would gain a greater say over their calendar, daily scheduling, curriculum and other areas. Manchin proposed expanding those areas while add-ing budget planning. Th e com-mittees changes would make them more like “charter transi-tion schools,” Senate Education Chairman Robert Plymale, D-Wayne, said Tuesday.

Plymale’s committee also voted earlier to double to $2,000 the salary boosts for teachers and principals assigned to high-pov-erty and high-minority schools. It increased tenfold, to $5,000,

the pay raises for educators in those schools teaching math and science.

The hiring bill sent to the House on Tuesday would give equal weight to such areas as rel-evant experience, education, past evaluations and specialized train-ing. Hiring criteria would con-tinue to include seniority, but for administrative candidates only time spent as an administrator would count.

It further allows hiring commit-tees that would include a teacher and would interview candidates for classroom and other profes-sional posts.

Th ese committees would rec-ommend candidates to the county superintendent, who would share those choices with the board.

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CHELSI BAKER/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMPRT cars line up at the Towers station Monday. An upcoming project to improve the PRT system will upgrade the vehicles and the track as well as improve the computer system.

Space station givenextra compartment

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Th e Atlantis astronauts attached a new Russian chamber to the In-ternational Space Station on Tues-day, using a robot arm to drive in the 20-foot-long room that will double as a closet and mini-lab.

Th is was the fi rst time NASA de-livered a Russian compartment to the 12-year-old space station and required two astronauts working a big robot arm.

Normally, Russian space sta-tion modules dock automatically. That’s how a similar compart-ment got to the space station last November.

Astronaut Garrett Reisman op-erated the space station’s robot arm, driving in the module with such precision that the fi rst cap-ture sensor didn’t even go off .

“He went right down the mid-dle and got a hole in one,” Mis-sion Control said. Reisman was as-sisted by Piers Sellers, who called out all the milestones.

Th e six space station residents – especially the three Russians – were thrilled with the addition. Commander Oleg Kotov thanked NASA for delivering the compart-ment, named Rassvet, or Dawn in Russian.

“Th e International Space Sta-

tion has grown by one more mod-ule,” he called down in Russian.

Kotov’s enthusiasm was dimin-ished later in the day when he photographed the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, calling it scary.

“Th at’s not good,” Kotov told reporters. “I really feel not good about that.”

Also visible from orbit, he noted, was the volcanic ash above Europe, especially in the evening.

“Many ecological problems we can observe and monitor from this space station, for example, fi res and some fl ooding, some poison-ing of Earth, nature. It’s very useful from this perspective,” said Kotov, a Russian Air Force colonel and doctor.

Rassvet – nearly 8 feet in diam-eter – is stuff ed with more than 3,000 pounds of space station sup-plies, all provided by NASA under a barter agreement with the Rus-sians. Th ere’s even equipment at-tached to the outside of the com-partment for use on the full-scale science lab that Russia plans to launch in 2012.

Th e addition – which provides an extra docking port – now puts the space station at 98 percent complete in terms of habitable volume and 93 percent complete in terms of structure. Its mass ex-ceeds 816,000 pounds.

NASA’s share of the construc-tion work is almost over. Only two shuttle missions remain; they’re currently scheduled for fall. Th is is the last planned fl ight for Atlantis after 32 fl ights over 25 years.

President Barack Obama wants NASA out of the shuttle business as soon as possible so it can focus on trips to asteroids and Mars. Amer-ican astronauts will hitch rides to the space station on Russian rock-ets until U.S. companies develop their own launch vehicle.

Next up for the Atlantis astro-nauts: two more spacewalks. Ste-phen Bowen and Michael Good will venture out Wednesday to re-place three space station batteries. Another three batteries will be re-placed Friday.

APWest Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin gestures during an interview in his offi ce at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va., Wednesday. The governor’s agenda for a special legislative session that be-gan Thursday includes off ering educators an estimated $30 million to $35 million to work in high-poverty and high-minority schools, or in understaff ed subject areas.

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basement is covered in graffi ti. Th ere are also no clocks in the CAC, which students cited as a problem.

SGA President Chris Lewal-len said the administration is in full support of the changes requested.

“An extension of the CAC not only has the opportunity to pro-vide better food options, but also

gives students more room to ex-pand extracurricular work. As of right now, the SGA has not looked into any funding options,” Lewal-len said.

Campione met with College of Creative arts Dean Dr. Bernie Schultz before the spring semes-ter ended to discuss the survey.

“After meeting with Bernie, some of the issues gathered from the students should be solved by next semester,” Lewallen said.

Campione said he was con-cerned with the issues at

hand and more than willing to oblige the student and faculty population.

He plans on meeting with Schultz again at the beginning of the 2010 fall semester with other SGA representatives to help fur-ther these plans.

When reached for comment, Schultz said the issues are very complex and are being ad-dressed, but would not make fur-ther comments.

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found in human DNA.

Clinton also mentioned his love for the state of West Virginia and two highlights of his trip to WVU’s commencement ceremony.

“I’ve already had two big thrills

today,” he said. “I got a degree, and before the service, and I got to talk with Da’Sean Butler.”

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including the Arboreatum.While the committee is not to-

tally sold on a comprehensive deer “census,” Samuels said it was not a bad idea. He also said for many people on either side of the debate the exact number of deer

is unimportant.Other issues addressed at the

meeting included:Morgantown resident John �

Duarte hoping the city will do more to enforce parking and trash ordinances in the Wiles Hill and Sunnyside neighborhoods in the future.

City Manager Dan Boroff �also suggested the council hold a

rebid for the Sunnyside Up Tax In-crement Financing project, or the method of fi nance that pays for community development by us-ing anticipated gains in property taxes to cover debt from the proj-ect. Only one bid was received, Boroff said, which was almost $500,000 over budget.

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Protesters gather at Massey meeting

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A mix-ture of union representatives and anti-mining activists gath-ered outside a historic Rich-mond hotel Tuesday morning to protest against a common foe – Massey Energy Co.

Hundreds of people sang songs, chanted and held signs across the street from the Jef-ferson Hotel, while Richmond-based Massey’s board opened its annual stockholders meet-ing inside. Th eir protests were focused on Massey CEO Don Blankenship, calling for him to resign or to be prosecuted on environmental and workplace safety issues.

The meeting has attracted more attention than usual be-cause it comes six weeks after 29 miners died in an explosion at Massey’s Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia. Th e blast is the nation’s worst coal min-ing disaster in 40 years and has prompted an outpouring of criti-cism of Massey.

At least two people were ar-rested inside the hotel by Rich-mond police. Hotel offi cials de-clined to comment, and police did not immediately identify who was arrested or why.

Environmental group Ris-ing Tide DC said group mem-bers Kate Finneran, 22, and Os-car Ramirez, 25, were arrested after unfurling a 10-by-10 hand-painted banner that read “Massey: Stop Putting Profits Over People” from the mezza-nine above the grand foyer in the hotel. Th ey were charged with trespassing and were ex-pected to be released Tuesday afternoon.

Th e protest did not prevent Massey from starting the meet-ing shortly after 9 a.m.

Blankenship defended the company and his own record on safety and environmental compliance.

“We reject all accusations that this company is indiff erent to safety,” he said during a webcast speech to investors. “I receive a report on every lost-time acci-dent at Massey. We want to know how the injury occurred.”

Blankenship said the result has been a signifi cant reduc-tion in the company’s injury rate during his tenure, which started in 1992. “Last year, the Mine Safety and Health Ad-ministration thought so much of our workplace safety record that it awarded Massey three of its prestigious Sentinels of Safety awards,” Blankenship said.

Th is year, the agency has de-plored safety conditions at Up-per Big Branch. MSHA and the Department of Justice are now investigating the explosion to de-termine the cause and whether any crimes were committed.

Blankenship dismissed con-cerns about the company’s en-vironmental record, which in-cludes a $20 million fine for federal water quality violations in 2008. He said the company

reduced citations for environ-mental violations 22 percent in 2009.

“Massey is proud of its record protecting the environment in Central Appalachia,” Blanken-ship said. “Environmental stew-ardship has become part of this company’s DNA.”

Criticism has grown among Massey shareholders, some of whom pushed fellow investors to vote against three incumbent board members in response to the explosion.

“It’s long past time for this company and this board to strengthen its oversight, inde-pendence and accountability,” AFL-CIO offi cial Daniel Pedrotty said during the meeting. Pe-drotty was one of several people who spoke in favor of rejecting three incumbent directors.

Despite the objections, the three board members were re-elected. Proposals requiring di-rectors to win a majority of votes and requiring the full board to be elected annually also passed.

Th e company refused to re-veal the outcome of the votes, saying only that the board mem-bers received a majority of the votes. Outside the hotel, United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts said the vote must have been close for the company to conceal the totals.

“Th at tells you they got clob-bered, considering the fact that they didn’t have anybody run-ning against them. Th ey ran un-opposed and almost lost,” he said with a laugh.

North Carolina State Trea-surer Janet Cowell, whose of-fi ce is one of nine state pension funds or treasurer’s offi ces op-posed to the company’s direc-tors, called the outcome dis-appointing, but said the close results made it “clear that a near majority of shareholders have no confi dence in these directors.” She vowed to continue the fi ght for diff erent leadership for the company.

Along two streets surround-ing the hotel, graying men with UMW hats and jackets waved signs reading “Don Belongs in Jail not Board Rooms.” Nearby, young activists held signs saying “Massey: Killing Miners, Killing Mountains.”

The miners, many of them retired, and activists agreed it was an odd pairing but said they came together to demand that Massey change its leader-ship. Many of the environmental groups have fought with Massey for years over issues at the com-pany’s mines in Kentucky, Vir-ginia and West Virginia.

“Th ey’re simply focusing on one of the evils of Massey En-ergy and we’re focusing on one of the other ones,” Lacy MacAu-ley, with Rising Tide DC, said of the union-activist gathering.

Massey is predominantly non-union and the UMW has chal-lenged the company over work-er-safety issues.

Apple’s iPhone does well without being the bestSEATTLE (AP) — It’s been three

years, an eternity for gadgets, since Apple Inc. unveiled the iP-hone, and by now other phones do some things better. Yet Ap-ple is selling more iPhones than ever.

What is it about the iPhone? Its success shows how Apple has tri-umphed at two crucial qualities: status and simplicity. And it’s a re-minder that while intense Apple fans will obsess over the upgrades the iPhone is expected to get this summer, such details won’t mat-ter as much to everyday buyers.

Other phones have higher-res-olution cameras and can shoot high-defi nition video. Th e proces-sor seems faster in new phones such as the Droid Incredible. A more energy-efficient touch-screen technology is eclipsing the one used in the iPhone screen. And competitors are matching features that once set the iPhone apart, including its slim shape and its store with thousands of

applications and games.“Th is thing is not state of the

art,” says ABI Research analyst Michael Morgan.

But whether the iPhone has the best technology doesn’t seem to be the question most people ask.

Instead, many people crave the aura of cool that iPhones seem to convey.

“When you see people with them, I’m like, ‘Oh, OK, they get it,’” says Jason Sfetko, a designer at Complex magazine in New York. When he sees someone with a BlackBerry, “I might think, maybe they’re an accountant or something. They’re answering too many e-mails.”

Th e allure extends to China, where Apple started selling iP-hones in October. “I’m quite amazed about what the iPhone has achieved,” says Deng Jinchun, a manager at Jing Lang, a large iPhone retailer in China’s Hunan province. With slight changes, “Apple has been selling the same

phone for about three years and the sales are still increasing. I can’t imagine a Nokia phone or any other brand could achieve something similar.”

Others are more focused on the simplicity of using the iPhone.

Mark Britton, CEO of a com-

pany called Avvo that publishes ratings on lawyers by their clients, is on his iPhone so much that his wife jokes it’s his fourth child. He says it’s surprisingly easy to talk on the phone and look up some-thing on the Internet at the same time.

APIn this June 19, 2009 fi le photo, customers look over the new Apple iPhone 3G S at the Apple store in San Francisco.

West Virginia Gov. Joe Man-chin called the state Legislature to a special session last week to ad-dress public education reform.

Th e goal of the special session is to make changes in West Vir-ginia’s public school system in or-der to beat out competing states and secure millions for the state in federal dollars as part of the Obama Administration’s Race to the Top Fund.

But we wonder if the proposed changes will actually improve our state’s public education.

West Virginia missed the cut in Phase 1, with major grants going to Delaware and Tennessee in the amount of $100 million and $500

million, respectively.Th e state hopes to win at least

$75 million of the $3.4 billion that will be awarded in Phase 2 later in the year. Applications for those funds are due June 1, thus the need for the current special session.

Criteria for Race to the Top funds include adopting standards and assessments that prepare stu-dents to succeed in college and the workplace; implementing data systems that can analyze student achievement; improving quality of eff ectiveness of public school teachers and principals, and turn around the “lowest-per-forming schools.”

Th e fi rst bill of the special ses-sion will require annual evalua-tions for all teachers. Future bills may be voted on in the coming days to authorize independent charter schools in the state and link teacher pay to student stan-dardized test performance.

While annual teacher evalu-ations may be a good fi rst step, such measures will mean nothing without new evaluation criteria along with incentives for attaining satisfactory evaluations and pun-ishment for those teachers who routinely fail to measure up.

To maintain fairness and ac-curacy, such evaluations should be carried out by the principal,

perhaps with the help of multiple faculty members chosen by the teacher under evaluation.

Yet, that entire process would be prohibitively costly and only add to the burden of paperwork which already bogs down.

In a state like West Virginia, which already struggles to re-cruit and retain eff ective educa-tors, can administrators really go after under-performing teachers? Without higher pay, that remains uncertain.

What is certain, however, is that authorizing charter schools while at the same time linking public school teacher pay to stu-dent performance on standard-

ized test scores will exacerbate the inequality of our state’s schools.

If such a measure is taken, the best students (and the most mobile) in underperforming schools will move to better char-ter schools.

Why would any good teacher want to stay in a school where the children don’t care and the parents won’t help, especially if their salary depends upon the successes of failures of those students?

Th ose issues need to be ad-dressed before any real reform can take place.

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Ed reforms don’t address root of problem

Following the explosion on the oil rig Deepwater Horizon and the subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, radio per-sonality Rush Limbaugh as-serted, “The ocean will take care of (the spill) on its own if it was left alone and left out there ... It’s natural. It’s as natural as the ocean water is.”

Such assertions are not sur-prising coming from Limbaugh. It is troubling, however, that the chief executive of British Petro-leum, Tony Hayward, espoused similar views.

The Guardian reported that Hayward claimed BP’s oil spill is “relatively tiny” compared with

the “very big ocean.” Hayward told The Guardian, “The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dis-persant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total wa-ter volume.”

These arguments – or, shall we say, excuses – are unaccept-able and serve only to bolster the insidious remarks made by Limbaugh.

Crude oil is, of course, natu-ral. However, the mere fact that it is natural does not mean that it is not ecologically harmful.

Limbaugh falls prey to the type of naturalistic fallacy known as “appeal to nature” by equating the concept of “natural” with the concept of “good.” He assumes that since oil seepage from the ocean floor occurs naturally it cannot be a bad thing.

He fails to grasp several obvi-

ous points here: that oil can in-deed be harmful to organic be-ings; that oil seepage can thus be a negative event, regardless of how natural it is; and that massive oil contamination is harmful whether it occurs nat-urally or by human hands.

It should be clear that the nat-uralness of oil is not what is at issue here – it is a moot point.

What is at issue here is that this particular oil disaster was caused by humans – humans who could have taken adequate measures to prevent the acci-dent or at least devised a con-tingency plan.

They failed to do both. The most important issue

is how to quell the onslaught of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.

The Guardian reported that Hayward promised BP would fix

the disaster, which could sur-pass the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill as the biggest US oil spill in history. Hayward stated, “We will fix it. I guarantee it. The only question is we do not know when.”

When? That is a good ques-tion indeed. It has been nearly a month since oil began spew-ing into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of roughly 5,000 barrels per day, which remains a conten-tiously low estimate.

BP has shown in the weeks since the disaster that they had no contingency plan to deal with an oil spill of this magnitude.

The British energy giant has been able only to muster hap-hazard, partial fixes for blocking the oil leak – all of which have proven ineffective.

How long does it take to con-tain an oil leak? Correcting such

a leak is undoubtedly a logistical nightmare from an engineering perspective, as the oil is spewing from a pipe approximately one mile below the water’s surface.

However, even without a contingency plan in place, four weeks should have been enough time for BP to at least devise a coherent plan of action.

The USA Today reported BP did have an emergency re-sponse plan entitled “Regional Oil Spill Response Plan - Gulf of Mexico” that offered techni-cal details on how to use chem-ical dispersant and provided in-structions on what to say to the news media.

The plan, however, did not mention how to react if a deep-water well spewed oil uncontrollably.

It seems clear now, because of the catastrophe in the Gulf of

Mexico, that oil spill emergency response plans suffer from what Rep. Nick Rahall, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, referred to as a “failure of imagination.”

BP executives neglected to consider the possibility of the current disaster and are using this failure of imagination to ex-cuse their incompetence.

Their response to the oil spill has, overall, been both tragi-cally incoherent and woefully inadequate.

Multiple emergency response plans should be an integral part of any dangerous, large-scale operation, even for worst-case scenarios.

The mere improbability of an accident such as the one cur-rently savaging the Gulf of Mex-ico is not an excuse for failing to prepare for it.

Gulf oil disaster highlights further corporate irresponsibilityAP

Boats approach a drilling platform at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico Monday.

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It is always good to see a new idea for a fi lm.

In “Letters to Juliet,” the prem-ise focuses on the famed Juliet Capulet of “Romeo and Juliet” who, in the modern day, hosts a home in Verona, Italy, where women can write letters to her and receive a response.

Th ese responses are written by Juliet’s secretaries, a group of women from all walks of life who take the time out of their day to help answer questions of love.

Juliet is, herself, fi ctional, but still – a unique way to start a story.

Th e fi lm then also features every ridiculous romance fi lm cliche possible to ruin what was once interesting into the mundane.

Amanda Seyfried (“Dear John”) stars as Sophie, a wan-nabe writer who works as a fact checker for Th e New Yorker and

is obsessed with the concept of true love.

Th e main story gets started when Sophie, with her fi ance, Viktor, played by “Science of Sleep’s” Gael Garcia Bernal, take a pre-wedding honey-moon to Verona, Italy, as Vik-tor will be too busy running his new restaurant once the two get married.

Once on vacation, Viktor be-comes obsessed with planning things for the restaurant, and the two frequently split up to en-joy their vacation separately.

Eventually, Sophie stumbles upon Juliet’s secretaries and joins their ranks, one day fi nd-ing a letter that is more than 50 years old.

Sophie decides to write back to the woman who wrote it, Clara, telling her to embrace true love if she already hasn’t.

Shortly after, Clara, played by Vanessa Redgrave, and her grandson, Charlie, played by Chris Egan, show up to find her true love Lorenzo, with So-phie tagging along on their wild adventure.

Obviously, this fi lm takes a lit-tle while to get to the main plot, but, until the end, it rarely feels like it drags.

It also features spectacular performances from Redgrave, who doesn’t let her age slow her down and Bernal, who does a

BY MACKENZIE MAYSA&E EDITOR

Th e “Real Opportunities Make People Productive” art exhibit opens Th ursday at the Mesaros Gallery in the West Virginia Uni-versity College of Creative Arts.

The exhibit is dedicated to demonstrating the talents of West Virginia artists who have disabili-ties, while at the same time high-lighting the human rights these individuals face in society.

Th e ROMPP program has been operating for four years and has allowed opportunities to those with disabilities interested in the fi ne arts by providing funding for materials, classes and cultural events in the community, accord-ing to the program’s coordinator and manager, Helen Panzironi.

“Th e program’s main goals are to provide support to individu-als with disabilities who are inter-ested in the fi ne arts as a hobby, profession or just for exploration and to help them realize their dreams,” Panzironi said.

“It provides an opportunity for people with disabilities to be as-similated into arts programs that already exist in their community with the general public. We are not a segregated program – we just help people take advantage of programs that already exist.”

Panzironi said the local com-munity has shown the program great support, including the WVU College of Creative Arts, the WVU Center for Excellence in Disabil-ities and the WVU Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism, which allowed it’s students to profi le

ROMPP participants with multi-media tools through its Taking-PART project.

16-year-old Tucker Lewis, who has cerebral palsy, is participat-ing in the ROMPP exhibit and has been painting since he was 10, contributing to several local juried exhibits, including his own show.

Tucker is involved in a program called Artistic Realization Tech-nologies, which off ers alternative tools for artists with disabilities.

One of these technological tools Tucker uses is a laser pointer attached to a headband he wears to indicate the direction of his art, in which he uses to select a range of directions like “zoom in,” “move left” or “walk forward.”

With the help of a “tracker,” a person who acts as a physical ve-

hicle to interpret Tucker’s art due to the limited use of his hands, he is able to create his work, re-sponding to yes or no questions by communicating with his eyes.

Every aspect of the painting is Tucker’s own-even down to the brush size, paint color and can-vas type.

Tucker’s mother Debi said the program has allowed her son to experience a whole new level of expression and is forever grate-ful to people like Panzironi, who have helped support her son along the way.

“Tucker enjoys the creative self-expression. Imagine not be-ing able to speak in a way most people take for granted. Now fi nd a voice in art. It’s important, and it helps others see past his dis-abilities,” Debi said. “Helen Pan-

zironi is gracious, generous and sincere and has done so much for ‘her’ artists. Without her eff orts, Tucker’s art would probably not leave his studio or the walls of our home.”

While Debi appreciates the op-portunities these programs allow for people like her son, she hopes people can appreciate them as true, serious artists.

“People shouldn’t catego-rize these programs as therapy instead of vocation,” Debi said. “Th ese individuals are artists, not hobbyists. Th ey are serious crafts-men who happen to have disabil-ities. Failure to acknowledge that is insulting to their talents.”

Candace Jordan is participat-ing in the event for the fi rst time this year but has had previous in-volvement with the WVU CED and

said the center has helped cre-ate resources for her art through funding materials and publishing her poetry.

Since Jordan’s narcolepsy pre-vents her from working full time, the programs at the CED have helped support her.

Aside from writing poetry, Jor-dan specializes in acrylics and digital painting and said pro-grams like ROMPP have the abil-ity to positively change the art-ists who participate in them and the community that gets to en-joy them.

“Th ese programs are invalu-able to the community. Anything that increases understanding of people with disabilities and gives them opportunities can only be

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Exhibit to feature artists with disabilities

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see JULIET on PAGE 7

‘Letters to Juliet’ better left unsent

Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan‘LETTERS TO JULIET’

Vintage Drive brings Southern Rock to Morgantown Saturday

BY AARON DAWSONSTAFF WRITER

Despite only forming in De-cember 2009, Fairmont band Vintage Drive has already suc-cessfully performed a host of shows in West Virginia through their supremely active touring schedule.

After having played the Goal Rush venue in Worthington, W.Va., band Vintage Drive will play a show in Morgantown.

Fans of southern rock and country can catch Vintage Drive perform at Rhythm and Brews Saturday.

Vintage Drive’s lineup is a vari-ation from the now-defunct band Ocean City Skyline.

Having played in Ocean City Skyline, musicians Josh Skid-more, Matt Dumont, Andrew Perine and Michael Stewart re-cruited Billy Kenser and Aly Hut-zel to play drums and vocals in their new project.

“I was lucky enough to be sing-ing at an open mic (at the Boston Beanery) at the same time they were looking for a female lead vo-calist. Hutzel said. “I had no ‘real’ band experience but Josh Skid-more had me sing for Mike any-way and the rest fell into place.”

Kesner, a drummer of ten years, said the band’s writing process often begins with a ker-nel of an idea and usually devel-ops with all of the members’ cre-ative input.

“Stewart will usually come to us with a guitar riff and from there, we all try to work out a whole song,” Kesner said.

While the music aspect of the band is a collaborative eff ort, the process of the writing the songs’ lyrics is a dual responsibility of Stewart and Hutzel.

Hutzel praises Stewart as a musician able to refi ne Hutzel’s original draft of the lyrics. Hut-zel said, “He’s a great asset to me because he’ll be the fi rst one to say: ‘Th is is great’ or ‘Th is really sucks, Aly.’ He helps me edit the lyrics, fi nd a good feel for the mu-sic and has a real talent for saying with the guitar what a songwriter is striving to say with words.”

After their work is complete, Hutzel and Stewart present their fi nal product for the remaining members’ conformation.

Th ough the band plays this original material at it’s shows, Vintage Drive tends to incorpo-rate a healthy addition of cover songs into their set list.

Hutzel said every individual in the band embraces a variety of musical influences (Kesner with rock and metal and Stweart a jazz/blues background) which helps put a unique spin on every song they cover.

Having grown tired of the “vari-ety band” label given to the band by bars, Hutzel and the band de-cided to embrace the title as they give each cover song they per-form variety.

Cover songs “never sound ex-actly how they were written but hold onto enough of the original concept of the song so it doesn’t take away any of that integrity,” Hutzel said. “People really re-spond to that. Th ey can recognize a familiar classic southern rock song and then keep listening be-cause of how we’ve arranged it.”

Showing adoration for her band mates, Hutzel said.

“They honestly took a big chance on me,” he said. “I had no idea how any equipment worked or was set up and no concept of how to talk to a crowd or work a stage. Th ey made me, honestly.”

Hutzel went on to say, “Th ey honestly took a big chance on me. I had no idea how any equip-ment worked or was set up and no concept of how to talk to a crowd or work a stage. Th ey made me, honestly.”

Kenser said the band is cur-rently writing more original songs and plans to record a full-length album soon. Fans can an-ticipate the album near the end of Summer.

Rhythm and Brews charges a $5 cover.

Vintage Drive will be playing the venue from 10 p.m. through 2 a.m.

For more information, visit the band’s website at www.vintage-drivemusic.com for upcoming performances.

aaron.dawson@mail.wvu.edu

‘Robin Hood’ reboot aims, misfi res

Ahead of the movie’s release, director Ridley Scott promised moviegoers a more realistic por-trayal of the legendary figure Robin Hood than they had seen before.

The problem is, they’re not given a reason to care.

Despite moving away from a long tradition of tights and overly merry men, and 10,000 miles away from anything to do with Kevin Costner, “Robin Hood” fails to stick.

If you’ve ever heard anything about the basic legend of Robin Hood, you know that he steals from the rich and gives to the poor, has a thing for the Maid Marion and dwells in a forest setting.

Unlike other interpretations of the character, “Robin Hood” attempts to fi ll in the gap of one area we’re never really had much background – his transformation from king’s soldier in the cru-sades to his status as an outlaw.

With this, it does well. Robin Longstride (Russell

Crowe) is on the way back from a Crusade in the Holy Lands with his fellow English soldiers.

When King Richard the Lion-heart is killed during a blitz of arrows, Robin and his friends abandon ship and head back to England.

On their trek, Robin fi nds a fallen knight Robert Loxley, the victim of an ambush led by the villainous Sir Godfrey. Loxley wishes Robin to return his sword to his family in Nottingham, to which Robin obliges. First, how-ever, they must return the King’s crown by posing as the knights slain in the ambush.

Upon his return, Robin hands the king’s crown to the royal fam-ily, prompting Richard’s younger

brother, John, to ascend the throne. His plan to return the em-pire to prosperity is simple – se-vere taxes on an already bankrupt country.

Robin arrives in Nottingham, assuming the guise of Loxley on the bequest of his father, so his daughter Marion (Cate Blanch-ett) may keep their land.

It is through seeing the village’s suff ering that we fi nally see the tradition of Robin Hood emerge.

In 140 minutes, “Robin Hood” sometimes dwells too much in the community of Nottingham, giving the back-story of royal as-sassination and French espio-nage a backseat to the underlying romance of Marion and Robin.

Much of the typical crew of the legend of Robin Hood also are re-duced to bit parts, perhaps to take in account the screen is entirely devoted to Crowe at all times.

Friar Tuck (Mark Addy) ap-pears whenever they need some light comic eff ect and his motley crew appears whenever there’s an arrow or a fi ght to be had. Even the typically villainous Sherriff of Nottingham (Matthew Mc-Fadyen) is almost completely absent, and isn’t as conniving

as Alan Rickman’s portrayal in “Prince of Th ieves.”

Th ere’s much to like about the movie, including Crowe’s perfor-mance. At times, his accent does wobble, though anything is better than Costner’s character.

But then, there’s also a lot to dislike. Many people who I’ve dis-cussed the fi lm with have some reason for not seeing it. Th ere’s a good reason: The legend of Robin Hood never changes, and every incarnation is basically the same.

Th e ending also feels tacked on, allowing for a sequel as most modern blockbusters do. It seems so much like the writers forgot to allow for his eventual banish-ment from society and threw it in the last minute.

Scott’s attempt to cleanse the myth of tights, jovial merry men and other tacky elements is admi-rable but it’s still the same thing.

We’ve had an overload of in-terpretations of the character and unfortunately, “Robin Hood” adds nothing or gives us a reason to make us care any diff erently for this one.

david.ryan@mail.wvu.edu

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DAVID RYANA&E EDITOR

PHOTOGRAPHERNAME/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMRussell Crowe stars as the English legend in ‘Robin Hood.’

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Every WednesdayWVU FIRST BOOK ADVISORY BOARD

meets at 7 p.m. in the Kanawha Room of the Mountainlair. Students and fac-ulty are welcome to attend and get in-volved with First Book and the WVU Advisory Board. For more information, e-mail wvu@fi rstbook.org.

CYCLING CLUB meets at 8 p.m. in the Bluestone Room of the Mountainlair. For more information, visit www.WVUcycling.com.

THE CHEMISTRY LEARNING CENTER is open from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Room 408 of Clark Hall. The lab will not be open on University holidays or during the last week of classes.

WVU ULTIMATE CLUB/TEAM meets at 5 p.m. at the WVU Intramural Fields and is always looking for new partic-ipants. Experience playing ultimate frisbee isn’t necessary. For more infor-mation, e-mail Zach at wvultimate@ya-hoo.com or visit www.sugit.org.

WVUACLU meets at 6 p.m. in the Monongalia Room of the Mountainlair.

TAI CHI is taught from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Other class times are available. For more information, call 304-319-0581.

CATHOLICS ON CAMPUS meets at 8 p.m. at 1481 University Ave. For more information, call 304-296-8231.

FREE ARABIC/ISLAM CLASSES are off ered in the Mountain Room of the Mountainlair from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. For more information, contact So-hail at schaudhr@mix.wvu.edu.

ESL CONVERSATION TABLE will meet at 6 p.m. at the Blue Moose Cafe. All nationalities are welcome. The table is sponsored by Monongalia County Liter-acy Volunteers, a member of the United Way family. For more information on Literacy Volunteers, contact Jan at 304-296-3400 or mclv2@comcast.net.

WVU FENCING CLUB will host ad-vanced fencing practice from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Stansbury Hall Gym. For more information, e-mail wvufenc-ing@gmail.com or visit www.encing-club.studentorgs.wvu.edu.

AIKIDO BEGINNERS CLASS will be held at 6 p.m. at 160 Fayette St. Student rates are available. For more informa-tion, e-mail. var3@cdc.gov.

Every ThursdayCODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS, a

12-step program to assist participants in developing healthier relationships of all kinds, meets at 7 p.m. in the con-ference room of Chestnut Ridge Hospi-tal. For more information, call Mary at 304-296-3748.

LUTHERAN DISASTER RESPONSE COLLEGIATE CORPS meets at the Lu-theran Chapel at 8 p.m. The LDRCC re-sponds to regional and national disas-ters. No experience is necessary. For more information, e-mail Stephanie at szinn1@mix.wvu.edu or visit www.lu-theranmountaineer.org/disaster.

UNITED METHODIST STUDENT MOVEMENT meets at 7 p.m. at the Campus Ministry Center on the corner of Price and Willey streets. For more information, e-mail wvumethodist@comcast.net.

CADUCEUS, a completely confi den-tial organization of people who work

in any role in health care fi elds who are in addiction recovery, meets at 6 p.m. in the large conference room of Chest-nut Ridge Behavioral Health Center on Evansdale Campus. Students who are in recovery of any kind are welcome to attend this closed, private meeting.

ContinualGOLF CLUB meets regularly. Golf-

ers of any skill level are invited to join. Club activities include competitions with other schools and intraclub golf outings. For more information, e-mail wvugolfclub@gmail.com.

MOTOWNPOETS is looking for po-ets who are interested in practicing and sharing poetry with others on an online forum. For more information, visit www.groups.yahoo.com/group/motownpoetry.

MON GENERAL HOSPITAL needs vol-unteers for the information desk, pre-admission testing, hospitality cart, mail delivery and gift shop. For more infor-mation, call Christina Brown at 304-598-1324.

WELLNESS PROGRAMS on topics such as nutrition, sexual health and healthy living are provided for inter-ested student groups, organizations or classes by WELL WVU Student Well-ness and Health Promotion. For more information, visit www.well.wvu.edu/wellness.

WELL WVU STUDENT HEALTH is paid for by tuition and fees and is con-fi dential. For appointments or more in-formation, call 304-293-2311 or visit www.well.edu.wvu/medical.

CHRISTIAN HELP needs volunteers to help with the daily operations of six programs: a free clothing store, food pantry, emergency fi nancial assistance, Women’s Career Clothing Closet, Work-ing Man’s Closet and the Furniture Ex-change. For more information or to vol-unteer, contact Jessica at 304-296-0221 or chi_vc@adelphia.net.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meets nightly in the Morgantown and Fair-mont areas. For more information, call the helpline at 800-766-4442 or visit www.mrscna.org.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS meets daily. For help or a schedule, call 304-291-7918. For more information, visit www.aawv.org.

CARITAS HOUSE, a local nonprofi t organization serving West Virginians with HIV/AIDS, needs donations of food and personal care items and volunteers to support all aspects of the organiza-tion’s activities. For more information, call John Sonnenday at 304-985-0021.

CONFIDENTIAL COUNSELING SERVICES are provided for free by the Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatric Services. A walk-in clinic is off ered weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services include educational, career, in-dividual, couples and group counsel-ing. Please visit www.well.wvu.edu to fi nd out more information.

SCOTT’S RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE, a local outreach organization, needs vol-unteers for daily programs and special events. For more information or to vol-unteer, contact Adrienne Hines at vc_srsh@hotmail.com or 304-599-5020.

ANIMAL FRIENDS needs foster fami-lies for abandoned animals before they fi nd their permanent families. If you or anyone you know can help, call 304-290-4PET.

LUTHERAN STUDENT MOVEMENT meets regularly at the Lutheran Cam-pus Chapel directly across the street from the Downtown Library Com-plex. Anyone is welcome to attend the events. For more information, e-mail Rebecca at lsm@lutheranmountain-eer.org or visit www.lutheranmoun-

taineer.org and follow the links to the LSM Web site.

WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN needs volunteers. WIC provides educa-tion, supplemental foods and immuni-zations for pregnant women and chil-dren under 5 years of age. This is an opportunity to earn volunteer hours for class requirements. For more informa-tion, contact Michelle Prudnick at 304-598-5180 or 304-598-5185.

FREE RAPID HIV TESTING is avail-able on the first Monday of every month from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Car-itas House offi ce located at 391 Scott Ave. Test results are available in 20 min-utes and are confi dential. To make an appointment, call 304-293-4117. For more information, visit www.caritash-ouse.net.

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS, a United Way agency, is looking for vol-unteers to become Big Brothers and Big Sisters in its one-on-one communi-ty-based and school-based mentoring programs. Community-based mentors pick up a child at his or her home and do activities the two of them choose together on a weekly basis. School-based mentors meet with a child at an area elementary school during the af-ter-school program for one hour, one day per week for homework help and hanging out. To volunteer, contact Syl-via at 304-983-2383, ext. 104 or e-mail bigs4kids@yahoo.com.

ROSENBAUM FAMILY HOUSE, which provides a place for adult patients and their families to stay while receiving medical care at WVU, is looking for ser-vice organizations to provide dinner for 20 to 40 Family House guests. Although the hospital cafeteria is only steps away, guests enjoy a home-cooked or restau-rant-donated meal. People may, indi-vidually or as a group, provide the food, serve and clean up on a regular basis or as a one-time event. For more informa-tion, call 304-983-2823 or e-mail rfh@wvuh.com.

LITERACY VOLUNTEERS is seeking volunteers for one-on-one tutoring in basic reading and English as a second language. Volunteer tutors will com-plete tutor training, meet weekly with their adult learners, report volunteer hours quarterly, attend at least two in-service trainings per year, and help with one fundraising event. For more information, call 304-296-3400 or e-mail MCLV2@comcast.net.

CATHOLIC MASS is held at St. John University Parish at 4:30 p.m. on weekdays.

MOUNTAINEER SPAY/NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM is an all-volunteer, nonprofi t organization dedicated to re-ducing the number of unwanted cats and dogs by encouraging and support-ing spay/neuter. They are looking for new members and friends to help by donating their time, talents and fund-raising skills. For more information, contact M-SNAP at 304-985-0123.

INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP is an interdenominational student-led organization that meets weekly on campus. Everyone is wel-come to attend events. For more in-formation, e-mail Daniel at ivcfwvu@yahoo.com or visit the IVCF Web site at www.wvuiv.org.ed by this in lower case.

KALEIDOSCOPE, an afterschool pro-gram, is dedicated to providing a safe and educational environment for chil-dren afterschool. The programs pro-vides homework help and enrichment classes. The program runs from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. In-terested volunteers should e-mail matt.wood07@gmail.com or call 304-291-9288.

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BORN TODAY This year, home and family increase in importance. You could be sur-prised by an event or happen-ing that heads in from out of left fi eld. Actually, though at fi rst you might be dismayed by the change, it turns out to be most benefi cial. If you are sin-gle, others fi nd you to be ex-tremely appealing. As a result, you will draw your share of suit-ors. If you are attached, the two of you reconnect on a deeper level. Caring fl ows, especially if you honor the friendship that exists between you. LEO is strong-willed, if nothing else.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) ★★★★ How you pres-ent a situation could be a lot diff erent from how you heard the facts. Ask yourself what the purpose of this approach is. You can only protect oth-ers so much. Someone might challenge you. Tonight: Open up to other possibilities.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) ★★★ Return messages and get through calls. A slew of e-mail also might await you. A sense that you might need to change plans emerges. If you simply focus on one task at a time, you will get a lot more done. Try it. Tonight:

Your home is your castle.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) ★★★ Be aware of the dam-ages of a decision or heading in a certain direction. Though it might be OK today, it might not feel right later. In the af-ternoon, clear the air with a discussion. You are more OK than you thought. Tonight: Hang out with friends.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) ★★★★ You have a winning style and manner. You might want to do something diff er-ently. Surprising information comes in your direction, pre-senting a new avenue. Before saying “yes,” recognize the costs of a plan. Tonight: Treat yourself and a loved one.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) ★★★★ You are all smiles – fi nally, you feel revived. Don’t take another person’s com-ments personally. You might be misunderstanding the context. Work with an un-predictable loved one. To-night: Whatever makes the Lion roar.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) ★★ The less said the better. It might be appropriate to stay mum considering another person’s surprising decision. There will be more forthcom-

ing, so to stay within is im-portant. What you say right now could change radically. Tonight: A friend demon-strates his or her caring.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) ★★★★ A meeting points you in the right direction. Un-derstand that you are trans-forming within. As a result, you could be off about what you think you want. Even if someone is forcing your hand, hold back until you are sure of yourself. Tonight: A boss or someone who counts pays you a compliment.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) ★★★ No one is a better manager than you. Circum-stances are such that you do want to step up to the plate. An unexpected risk might make you uncomfortable. Be willing to say “no,” even if it disappoints someone. To-night: A must appearance.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) ★★★★ Once more, fi nd your favorite chair, sit down and do some intense refl ect-ing. A situation could be pro-vocative if not handled ap-propriately. Also, if your attitude were diff erent, the situation might roll off you like water. Tonight: Try a new mind-set. What do you have

to lose?

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) ★★★ Sometimes it is eas-ier to let a partner do what he or she wants. This person is unusually dramatic and headstrong. You can fore-warn him or her, but noth-ing replaces experience as a teacher. Flex with changing plans. Tonight: Just go along for the ride.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) ★★★★ Others want what they want. You cannot stop them, so step out of the way. Only through the expe-rience can they see what you were referring to. Meanwhile, use some extra time to re-organize a project. Tonight: Squeeze in a walk.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) ★★★ You discover the power of accomplishment. You feel great when you achieve a goal or complete a project. A debate as to how to proceed is important. You want to hear diff erent views. Tonight: Rethink what is said in a meeting.

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an asset,” Jordan said. “Art is a particularly important form of ex-pression for people like me who have been forced by illness to take the road less traveled and to cre-

ate a life outside the norm.”Approximately 45 pieces will

be featured at the exhibit, and of these, 30 will be for sale to the public.Th e ROMPP art exhibit be-gins Th ursday at 1 p.m. and will run through June 5.

mackenzie.mays@mail.wvu.edu

ROMPPContinued from PAGE 5

great job of being a boyfriend by letting work overtake his love life, doesn’t lead the audience to hate the character.

Egan also does a good job, so hopefully this fi lm will give the Australian-born actor some exposure.

However, Seyfried seems to play Sophie as a 2D character, if she is angry or annoyed, those are the only emotions we see; there is no layering to the character.

Also, the fi lm just seems to fall apart at the end, as if a happy ending had to be forced on the characters against their will.

I feel the blame for that goes

to director Gary Winick, who was also responsible for last year’s fi lm catastrophe “Bride Wars.”

It was as if he simply told his actors to embrace cheesiness for the fi nal scene and was watching something else well the crew was shooting it.

Yet the main concept for the movie was pretty solid, and most of it was shot in Italy, which, even on fi lm, is still a beautiful country.

For those that want a fi lm to cuddle to, this will fi ll the cri-teria, but people look for some depth should probably just rent something.

Not “Bride Wars.”Grade: C+

james.carbone@mail.wvu.edu

JULIETContinued from PAGE 5

Literature seminar brings renowned authors, students togetherBY BRITTNI MCGUIRE

STAFF WRITER

West Virginia University’s Eberly College of Arts and Sci-ences is hosting the 2010 Sum-mer Seminar: “After the National Paradigm: Literary History, Translation and the Making of World Literature” Th ursday.

Seminar sessions will include readings and literary discus-sions provided to registered par-ticipants prior to the seminar. It will also include fi lm screenings,

art exhibits and other cultural events.

Discussions will focus on ar-eas of research including recent debates about world literature, emerging scholarship on the ethics of comparison in transla-tion studies and contemporary works of literature.

Th e event will examine liter-ary works of transitional writing in the context of the global lit-erary marketplace, the geogra-phy of the book, the history of close reading and new concepts

among literatures worldwide. Th e seminar’s main goal is to

bring together diff erent types of people to examine a variety of genres of literature and topics, according to Donald Hall, De-partment of English Chair at WVU.

“Our annual summer semi-nar brings together faculty and graduate students from around the country to do three days of intense study of an important topic,” Hall said. “Every year we attract participants locally and

nationally.”Each year, literary works are

examined based on a diff erent topic or point of interest and stu-dents interested in the fi eld are given an opportunity to interact with professionals.

“Th e seminar off ers its par-ticipants the chance to study with an internationally-known scholar in the fi eld and is a su-perb opportunity for scholars of all levels to interact and learn to-gether,” Hall said.

Th is year’s seminar will focus

on fi ction and nonfi ction work by renowned authors J.M. Co-etzee, Kiran Desai, Kazuo Ishig-uro, Caryl Phillips and collab-orative web artists Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries.

Rebecca L. Walkowitz, As-sociate Professor and Associ-ate Director of Graduate Stud-ies in the English Department of Rutgers University, will lead the seminar.

Walkowitz is the author of many literary works and jour-nals, as well as a Harvard

Graduate. She is the recipient of Honor-

able Mention for the 2008 Per-kins Prize for her book entitled “Cosmopolitan Style: Modern-ism Beyond the Nation”.

Th e seminar begins at 7:30 p.m. and concludes Sunday at noon. Th e event will include fi ve, two-hour sessions.

For more information, con-tact Donald Hall at donald.hall@mail.wvu.edu or 304-293-3871.

brittni.mcguire@mail.wvu.edu

Six years of getting ‘Lost’ ends Sunday

After countless suspicion, in-trigue and confusion, the series fi nale of “Lost” will fi nally reveal what I’ve long suspected – the entire thing will be a dream and Patrick Duff y will emerge from a shower.

Th at would, of course, be the ultimate betrayal for an audience who has followed every twist, turn and time traveling moment that made “Lost” so enthralling.

After Tuesday’s episode, the fi nal pieces of the proverbial jig-saw have been put into place.

Sunday is nothing short of a television event, with four hours dedicated to it on ABC, with the complete pilot and 2.5 hour se-

ries fi nale.For those who can’t wait, exec-

utive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse will be discuss-ing the show and the fi nale in a special interview, available only in cinemas.

Hollywood Th eaters is airing the special interview Th ursday at 8 p.m. Tickets are available now.

Tuesday’s episode saw Jack

answering the island’s call for a new protector, after Fake Locke (Smoke Monster) killed Jacob.

Much of this season has been about the ascension of the next “candidate,” with a handful of names of the major cast chosen.

With many of those characters now dead, Jack seemed like the obvious choice – especially with his talk of not leaving the island.

Ben, despite appearing ready to face the monster’s wrath, stayed true to his sniveling roots – selling out Charles Whitmore and his associate to Fake Locke the second he met him.

Th e fl ash-sideways world ap-

pears to be coming to a conclu-sion, with all the cast winding to-gether that will hopefully either see them become aware of their predicament or at least some kind of satisfying conclusion.

After an amazing fi rst season, which saw the islanders accli-mate to their harsh surroundings, the show ramped up its mythol-ogy and kept going.

Time travel was also intro-duced in the fi fth season, and in this, the sixth and fi nal season, we saw our islanders also living an alternate, parallel existence elsewhere.

Part of what made this show so

appealing is its ability to prevent anyone correctly guess what’s happening in the next episode.

But with so many questions left unanswered – such as what the island is, exactly – the fi nale begs for speculation. At the risk of ru-ining any and all credibility I have – the fi nale will see Jack ascend the throne as the Island’s protec-tor, pitted against Fake Locke for-ever and eternity.

Everyone will die, simply be-cause they are expendable. Th ere’s no real redemption for these characters off the island – they’ve been and come back, looking for purpose.

Sadly, their purpose is to die – to buy Jack enough time to save the island from the dark forces that would destroy it. As for the alternate existence characters – I have no idea how it will end up, so I’ll sit back and enjoy the ride.

We’ve been through a lot in this series – we deserve a fi nale wor-thy of our constant, agonizing at-tention to detail and focus.

To not justify years of count-less headaches and twists would undermine the creative legacy “Lost” could have for some years to come.

david.ryan@mail.wvu.edu

DAVID RYANCOPY EDITOR

TONY DOBIESSPORTS EDITOR

Earlier this week, the “Lost” producers said the show would end in tears for some viewers. With that clue, to me it is only necessary that all members of the cast will die. All ex-cept for one – the next protector of the island. After Tues-day night’s episode, that person seems to be Jack. If there is a protector, there must be a something still to protect and someone to protect it from. Locke will fi nd the opportu-nity to leave the island more benefi cial than destroying it.

JAMIE CARBONECAMPUS CALENDAR EDITOR

Desmond is slowly but surely pulling everyone into the 2004 Storyline. That way, everyone who has dead is actually going to be completely fi ne, as well as know everything that happened to them. Well, not everyone, as the island is still going to need a guardian. The frontrunner for that job, to me is Jack, but Hugo may be it instead. Regardless, I think ev-eryone else is going to bite it. Hopefully Kate next.

ZACH PETERSGUEST CONTRIBUTOR

Locke, in the form of the Man in Black, will manage to kill off everybody except one – Jack. Desmond will then fi nd a way to make Fake Locke stop being the MiB, conse-quently turning him back into the late John locke. View-ers will then come to fi nd that Jack’s father Christian is alive and well on the island. The series will end with Jack, Christain, Locke, Ben, Miles, and Richard Alpert as the protectors of the island. With Jack Being the new Jacob.

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Whatever the format, the mes-sage from Clevelanders is the same: Dear LeBron James, please don’t go. Please please please don’t go.

Th is hard-luck city on the shores of Lake Erie is desperately trying to show its NBA superstar that, with free agency looming July 1, the best spot for him is right up the road from his hometown of Akron, Ohio, the place where he’s played for seven seasons as a Cleveland Cav-alier and won two MVP awards.

And in the wake of a baffl ing early exit from the playoff s – a six-game series loss to the Boston Celt-ics – the grass roots campaign has taken on not just a new urgency but the sense of a last chance. With-out James, after all, the chances of Cleveland breaking its 46-year ti-tleless streak in major pro sports don’t seem too good.

“He’s a hometown guy. We def-initely want to put that on his con-science,” said 23-year-old Austin Briggs, of Cleveland Heights, co-founder of the Web site please-dontleave23.com.

Want to join the band wagon?

You can sign a “Stay LeBron” pe-tition right on the hood of Brigg’s souped-up 1987 Oldsmobile Cut-lass Supreme, dubbed the “Wit-ness Mobile.”

Even before the playoff s, fans had helped fund a banner near the home of the Cavs, showing James through his life with the words “Born Here. Raised Here. Plays Here. Stays Here.”

But if Clevelanders think show-ing a little civic pride will be enough to romance LeBron, they better think again.

Other cities are trying to woo him, too.

In New York City, The Daily News has launched www.getle-bron.com and even Mayor Mi-chael Bloomberg has made a case for James to move – to the Knicks or the Nets.

“I love living in New York, my kids love living in New York,” Bloomberg said last week. “I think LeBron James would love living in New York and it is the world’s greatest stage.”

Bulls fans, meanwhile, have www.sendlebrontochicago.com while long-suff ering Los Angeles Clipper fans are planning a parade aimed at showing the MVP some

love.So far, James hasn’t tipped his

hand.“It’s all about winning for me

and I think the Cavs are commit-ted to doing that, but at the same time I’ve given myself options to this point,” he said.

The Cavaliers can offer him around $30 million more than any team, but several other clubs can make pitches beginning July 1.

Th e Cleveland campaign to keep James comes with the backdrop of a shrinking city that hasn’t won a major sports championship since the NFL Browns in 1964.

A witness to the title drought, 74-year-old Ruth Wine, part of the 212-member LeBron James Grandmothers Fan Club, wrote to him after Th ursday night’s decid-ing playoff loss to make a pitch for his hometown.

“Th at little town truly and deeply loves you, win or lose, for the fi ne person you are and the kindness you have shown to Akron,” wrote Wine, who herself is from Akron.

She has a clue that he might stay: he returned last year to his alma mater, Akron’s St. Vincent-St. Mary High School, to accept his MVP award and accepted his sec-ond this year at the University of Akron.

“We think he’s not leaving be-cause why would he come back to his high school and then come to the university for his second MVP,” she asked.

Browns Pro Bowl return special-ist Josh Cribbs appreciates the un-dying passion of Cleveland fans. When Cribbs was seeking a new contract last season, fans spoke up and demanded the team pay him for his performance. Th eir “Pay the Man” movement helped Cribbs get a new deal.

Cribbs knows Cleveland won’t let James leave without a fi ght.

“Th e fans are already speaking up,” he said. “Th is is a motivated city for sports and there are no fans like this anywhere. Th ey are doing whatever they can to keep him.”

Even the highbrow Cleveland Orchestra has pitched in with a keep-LeBron video posted on YouTube.

Another music video, this one to the tune of “We Are the World” and posted on Break.com features local celebrities and Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland – he’s running for re-election – in a sing-along. Th e pitch: “Please stay, LeBron. We re-ally need you. No bigger market’s gonna love you half as much as we do.”

Cleveland fans to LeBron: please stay

CHICAGO (AP) — Th e head of the Big Ten Conference said Mon-day that gaining a foothold in the South and extending the reach of the league’s lucrative television market are the two biggest factors as it decides whether to expand.

Commissioner Jim Delany also said the Big Ten is not “looking to achieve a championship game” in football even though it could mean millions more for a con-ference that already shares a re-ported $22 million each year with its member schools. A title game like those held in the Big 12 and Southeastern Conference would also shorten the lengthy bowl-game layoff for some teams, which has been a point of con-tention for at least a few of the conference’s coaches.

“That’s not the motivation,” Delany said at league meetings in Chicago. “If it was, we could have done that many times over the past 20 years.”

Delany said the Big Ten is basi-cally sticking with the timeframe he laid out in December, when he said the league would explore its options over the next 12 to 18 months. Any decision on whether to expand is “months away.”

Th e conference grabbed the

attention of everyone in college sports when it announced that it was considering whether to add to its current 11 members, a move that could lead to a domino eff ect in other leagues. But Delany in-sisted this is “not as much about conferences as it is about insti-tutions fi nding the right fi t for themselves.”

Delany said the league won’t expand “unless it was fiscally sound, unless there’s a great ac-ademic fi t and unless there’s a competitive fi t.”

He would not identify any front-runners or say how many teams the conference would add if it expanded. He did say there would be no vote when school presidents meet June 6, though the issue will be discussed.

“We’re exploring, trying to do it the right way,” Delany said. “We’ll either decide to act or not decide to act. Th e only thing I can tell you is we’re months away from that decision.”

Delany said the league would be looking at expansion even without the Big Ten network, al-though it is a major element in the decision. Demographics, however, will play a bigger role.

Missouri, Nebraska, Notre

Dame and Rutgers have been re-ported as possible targets, along with Texas, Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Maryland. Th e only South-ern school in that group is Texas, although the others would bring strong traditions, rabid alumni, exposure to large TV markets or combinations of all three.

“Our schools have benefi ted by healthy economies, by strong job markets, by growth,” Delany said. “In the last 20 or 30 years, there’s been a clear shift in movement to the Sun Belt. Th e rates of growth in the Sun Belt are four times the rates in the East or the Midwest.”

Membership in the Association of American Universities would be a “very important” factor in considering potential members. All Big Ten schools are part of the AAU, a group of major academic and research institutions.

As for a football championship game, Iowa athletic director Gary Barta said he had “mixed emo-tions” about it.

“I’m not feeling like it’s bro-ken in the Big Ten so if expan-sion does then lead to a foot-ball championship, I’m sure it’s something we will take a look at,” he said. “But it’s not driving this process.”

APBig Ten Commissioner Jim Delany laughs as he talks with the media during a news conference Tuesday in Chicago. Delany addressed questions about conference expansion, sticking with the time frame he laid out in December when he said the league would explore its option over the next 12 to 18 months.

Big 10 commissioner Jim Delaney: expansion decision will take time

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Prove it.

Before the U.S. team tries to establish itself on soccer’s big-gest stage, several players must prove themselves worthy of being on the squad that goes to South Africa.

Sure, there are the giv-ens – Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey, Tim Howard, Jozy Al-tidore – who, if healthy, not only will make coach Bob Bradley’s 23-man squad, but almost surely will start on June 12 against England.

There are quite a few un-certains, though, starting with midfielder DaMarcus Beasley and striker Edson Buddle. And they understand their tenuous situations.

“I’m old enough to know what goes into this and what I can and can’t do,” Beasley said Tues-day after a rainy practice session punctuated by running — lots of running. “Obviously I have to be myself and express myself well on the fi eld and not make my-self seem silly with what I do out there.”

For Beasley, it’s a strange place to be. A rising star for the 2002 World Cup, when the Americans

made the quarterfi nals, he was a mainstay heading to the 2006 tournament. Th en Beasley’s ca-reer went into decline just as the U.S. squad was falling apart.

Beasley became almost a for-gotten man following his poor play at last year’s Confedera-tions Cup. Only recently has he emerged from that funk as he’s bounced from England to Scot-land and fought off injuries, in-cluding a thigh problem that sidelined him for two months this season with Glasgow Rangers.

He was recalled for a friendly at the Netherlands, and his free kick set up the only U.S. goal in a 2-1 defeat. With his performances improving, Beasley got the invite to this training camp.

“People know what I can do,” he said. “Bob knows what I can do. It’s just a matter of doing it.”

Donovan believes Beasley, who will turn 28 on Monday, still can do all of the things that made him such a standout years ago.

“In Holland in March, we saw the DaMarcus we know,” Dono-van said. “I think that something has clicked in his head and he’s fi guring out now what it takes to be an elite player and we’re see-

ing it again.”Donovan also has a strong con-

nection with Buddle, his team-mate on the Los Angeles Galaxy in MLS. Buddle has been a scor-ing machine for the Galaxy this season, prompting his invitation to the camp. He’s not even listed in the 2010 team media guide, showing what an outsider Bud-dle has been in the U.S. national team’s thoughts.

Buddle played 11 minutes for the U.S. team, back in 2003 against Venezuela. Yet he might need to demonstrate less to make the fi nal 23-man roster than does Beasley, because the 28-year-old Buddle has a knack few other Americans can claim: a natural touch near the net.

He’s scored nine goals already in MLS, but realizes the level of competition is about to rise exponentially.

“I have to compete hard with this opportunity,” Buddle said as he ducked raindrops. “I need to combine well with the players we have on the fi eld. And do it quickly.

“I’ve got to be coachable. I have to listen and learn and play my part.”

BY BRIAN KUPPELWEISERSPORTS WRITER

Despite a coaching change prior to the start of the season, the West Virginia University club equestrian team was able to persevere and fi nished 11th at Nationals earlier this month.

It was just the second time in program history the team has made it to the National Com-petition, team member Morgan Squires said.

“We did something right this year,” she said.

Th e Mountaineers fi nished 11th out of 18 teams in the na-tional competition in Lexington, Ky., May 6-9 behind the tute-lage of new head coach Debbie Fields. Players give much credit for the team’s fi nish to Fields.

“I was so impressed with the amount of eff ort she put into the team and how good she was working with everybody,” Squires said. “She tailored her

teaching style to each individ-ual rider.”

Fellow team member and club president Erin Murray echoed her sentiments.

“Our new coach has bro-ken all of our riding down ba-sically, and she was just fi nd-ing the problems with our base so we knew why we were mak-ing mistakes,” Murray said. “She just rebuilt it essentially, and it was a long process, but it made a world of diff erence for us this year.”

Murray didn’t expect so much early success under the new coach. She said it is un-heard of for a program to go to Nationals with a fi rst-year head coach.

“I did not think we would have a chance of going to Na-tionals,” Murray said. “I thought we had a chance at the show be-fore that just because we did have a talented team.

“Everyone assumed WVU

was down this year, and that we were scrambling to get back on our feet,” Murray said, “but we came out strong.”

Squires and Murray hope the success at nationals will help boost recruiting next season. Squires said the team lost some members last year because of busy schedules and the bad economy.

“Th is will help draw in peo-ple, because we are solid team, and because we know how to get you to a position where you can win,” Squires said.

Next season, Murray said the team will try to improve its place at Nationals. Squires said the team will be better prepared for another run to Nationals next year.

“If anything, next year will be just as good if not better,” Mur-ray said. “We have a chance to be in the top 10.”

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Equestrian team fi nishes 11th in second-ever trip to Nationals

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Athletes break personal bests, qualify for NCAAs last weekendBY BRAD JOYAL

SPORTS WRITER

The West Virginia track and field team continues to find its stride at the season’s most piv-otal point.

With only one week left until the Mountaineers take part in the NCAA Outdoor Champion-ships, the team traveled to Phil-adelphia for the Swarthmore Last Chance Meet before head-ing to North Carolina for a meet at North Carolina A&T.

The two meets allowed for additional athletes to qual-ify for next weekend’s NCAA Regional.

“We enter into the final phase of the year over the next few weeks and look to run even faster,” said West Virginia head coach Sean Cleary.

“With the first-round selec-tions for the NCAA Champion-ships being announced later this week, we are hoping to have a record 10 qualifiers from WVU.”

Senior Keri Bland qualified for the Regionals after a sec-ond-place finish in the 800-meter race (2:07.04) at Swarth-more. Erin Donohue, a 2008 US Olympian in the event, took first place.

Senior Karly Hamric, ran a personal best time (4:15.30) in the 1,500 meter for a second-place finish.

It was also the second-best time in school history, bested only by Olympian Megan Met-calf (4:12.00). It was also a NCAA

qualifying number.Juniors Jessica O’Connell

(4:19.00) and Kaylyn Chris-topher (4:25.70) also met an NCAA qualifying time in the 1,500 meter.

“These girls have worked so hard and continue to be com-pletely focused,” Cleary said. “It is a tribute to not only their physical readiness but more so of their mental strength.”

Hamric and Bland swapped places in North Carolina, as Hamric participated in the 800

meter and Bland in the 1,500 meter. Hamric posted a per-sonal best time (2:08.02) in a first-place finish of the 800 me-ter. Bland ran a personal-best time (4:14.70) for second in the 1,500 meter.

Katelyn Williams finished second in the high jump (1.80) in North Carolina.

“Katelyn was flawless in the high jump,” Cleary said. “Should she jump like this in two weeks, she should see herself qualify for the NCAA finals ... I see no

reason why Katelyn cannot be on the plane for Eugene (Ore.) in a month.”

With so many personal bests being bested as of late, Cleary is confident with his team entering the stretch run of the season.

“It has been a very long year for this group,” Cleary said.

“I am pleased to see so many lifetime best performances af-ter competing for nine straight months.”

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Chanticleers won the Big South.

Last year was the worst for the young program, fi nishing a dis-appointing 5-6. Th e Chanticleers were relatively ineff ective in stop-ping the run on defense and keep-ing control of the ball on off ense.

Bennett is looking for better quarterback play from one of four quarterbacks – senior Zach Mac-Dowall, junior Jamie Childers, transfer Aramis Hillary from South Carolina and true fresh-man Cody Craig.

“I told Zach, if someone beats him out, he should be ashamed,” Bennett said. He added that Mac-Dowall went to a leadership sem-inar and is expected to be a better leader this season.

Bennett would like to see his entire team, but specifi cally his offensive line, come together prior to the start of the year.

He also wants to see better leadership. After hearing a moti-vational speech from former re-cord-setting UCLA softball coach Sue Enquist in the winter, Bennett decided to give more ownership of the program to his assistants, captains and seniors.

Th is spring, each assistant was allowed to lead a practice and im-plement diff erent drills. Bennett also sent some players to lead-ership seminars following spring practice.

“We’re just trying to get it all in line before we get to Morgan-town,” Bennett said.

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RETURNING LEADERSPASSINGZach MacDowall 126-of-229 for 1,664 yards, 9 touchdowns, 11 interceptionsRUSHINGEric O’Neal 89 attempts, 277 yards (4.2 avg.), 2 touchdownsRECEIVINGWR Brandon Whitley 30 catches, 469 yards (15.6 per), 4 touchdownsTACKLESILB Desmond Steward – 60 ZACKSILB E.J. Brown, DE Quinton Davis – 3INTERCEPTIONSCB Josh Norman – 8

TEAM STATSCOASTAL CAROLINA/OPPONENTSSCORING (per game) 205 (18.6)/280 (25.5)RUSHING PER GAME 153/176.9RUSHING TD 12/20PASSING PER GAME 178.9/160.5PASSING TD 12/15TOTAL OFFENSIVE YARDS PER GAME 331.9/337.5TURNOVERS 39/31TOUCHDOWNS 24/36

INSIDE COASTAL CAROLINAKEY PLAYERJosh Norman, CBThe Chanticleers’ shutdown corner re-corded eight interceptions last season as a sophomore – that is more than double the number of interceptions by the next defender for Coastal Carolina. Norman will likely have the task, alongside his fellow members of the secondary, of slowing down the Mountaineer passing attack. But the lack of depth at the receiver position for West Virginia could swing the advantage toward Norman.

OTHER PLAYERS TO WATCHDesmond Steward, ILB; Dominique Davenport, S; E.J. Brown, ILB; David Duran, TE; Justin Durham, K

IMPORTANT LOSSESTommy Fraser, RB; Philip Oboh, DE

COASTALContinued from PAGE 12

STRENGTHSSecondaryPass defenseRunning game

WEAKNESSESDefensive lineBall possession on off enseQuarterback play

QUOTE TO REMEMBERCoastal Carolina head coach David Bennett on Noel Devine returning for his senior season:

“I was really hoping Noel Devine would go pro. It’s going to be tough tackling him. He shows you that size doesn’t matter. It’s about heart. If you have heart and work hard, watch out. And he has both.”

Baseball ends regular season with three-game series against Villanova

BY MATTHEW PEASLEE SPORTS WRITER

After winning fi ve of its last six Big East Conference games, the West Virginia baseball team is looking to fi nish out the regular season in a similar fashion.

The Mountaineers host Vil-lanova for a three-game series be-ginning Th ursday at 7:05 p.m. and it will be a crucial series for the Mountaineers, which are fi ghting for their postseason lives.

“We’re both in a must-win po-sition,” said WVU head coach Greg Van Zant. “It really is a great way to end the season in a com-petitive way.”

Th e Mountaineers have seen a resurgence in their Big East Con-ference eff orts with a 8-16 confer-ence record, leaving them in 10th place. WVU lost eight of its fi rst nine conference games, though.

A big series against the Wild-cats will all but assure the Moun-taineers a spot in the conference championships to be held in Clearwater, Fla., May 25-30.

“We do own a tiebreaker over Villanova, because we were able

to sweep Notre Dame,” Van Zant said. “We do need a sweep or a winning se-ries though, it is crucial.”

V i l l a n o v a (28-21) too is

fi ghting for a pivotal series win versus WVU. With an identical 8-16 conference record the Wild-cats and Mountaineers are bat-tling for the eighth and fi nal spot in the Big East Tournament.

Villanova’s lineup lacks a le-gitimate power threat and power numbers are absent throughout the lineup.

A pair of outfi elders, Matt Szc-zur and Matt Fleishman, are tied for the team lead with three homeruns a piece.

Szcur, a junior and MLB Draft candidate, is second in the Big East in overall batting average at .435. Th e Erma, N.J., native leads the Big East in triples with six.

Although the Wildcats are fourth in the Big East in pitching with a 4.34 ERA there is only one hurler who leads an otherwise

average staff . Kevin Crimmel, a senior south-

paw, leads the team with a 2.75 ERA and a 5-1 record. Th e Har-risburg, Pa., native splits time as a starter and reliever. In last Sun-day’s game against Notre Dame, Crimmel came on in the eighth and ninth innings and did not al-low a run. Th e Wildcats still fell to the Irish 4-1.

Van Zant is excited for the op-portunity to keep the Mountain-eers’ season alive against a strong ball club like Villanova.

“A lot of teams aren’t able to say that they have a shot to make their conference tournament. We can,” Van Zant said. “We have come a long way and it really is great that we have a chance to close off the season in a special way.”

Th e series between the two schools began in 1996 with WVU holding a 23-12 advantage. In their last meeting on March 29, 2009 the Mountaineers defeated the Wildcats 7-4 to take the three-game series.

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However, the move drew crit-icism from Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson, who coincidentally opposes the Suns in the NBA Western Conference Finals.

“Where we stand as basketball teams, we should let that kind of play out and let the political end of that go where it’s going to go,” Jackson told ESPN.com.

Members of another Arizona team, the MLB’s Diamondbacks, have drawn criticism for their de-cision not to publicly support or protest the immigration law.

Proponents of the bill have been picketing Diamondbacks games, both home and away, since late April. Many, includ-ing Rev. Jesse Jackson, have called on the MLB to move the 2011 All-Star game from Chase Field in Phoenix if the bill is not

repealed. Diamondbacks owner and

West Virginia University alumn Ken Kendrick has bankrolled several politicians that are pri-mary supporters of the bill. In response, Kendrick has issued press releases that say he is per-sonally opposed to the bill, how-ever, his team has yet to take an offi cial stance.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said boycotts of the Diamondbacks and calls to move the All-Star game are “inappropriate and misguided,” according to ESPN.com, asserting the Diamond-backs should not be punished for their silence.

All of this controversy begs the question: Does politics be-long in sports?

First , consider these questions:

Are sports entities sepa-rate from the world we live in? Couldn’t they be affected by laws passed in their home state?

Don’t they have the same rights to express themselves that any of us do?

A sports organization, as with any other organization or indi-vidual, is allowed to express its opinion or not. Th at is an organi-zation’s right. In turn, the public has a right to react.

But, no matter what hap-pens in Arizona, we know it’s proven that politics and sports are inseparable.

In America, where everyone has a right to an opinion and ev-eryone is governed by the same laws, debate over those laws spills in to everything.

It doesn’t matter if politics be-long in sports, because it’s going to be there anyway.

And unless you think it’s ac-ceptable to infringe on the fi rst amendment rights of those in the sporting world, you should stop asking if the two are separate.

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CAHOONContinued from PAGE 12

WVU TRACK AND FIELD

PITTSBURGH (AP) — These might be the most-scrutinized May practices in Pittsburgh Steel-ers history.

Th e team resumed its voluntary off season workouts on Tuesday without suspended quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. He remains banned from attending, and there is no indication when the NFL will allow him to participate.

“I’m waiting for word from New York like everyone else,” coach Mike Tomlin said. “I’m not go-ing to speculate until I get that word.”

For now, Roethlisberger can only join his teammates on the golf course and played a charity event with them on Monday.

Th e Steelers aren’t certain if the league will allow Roethlisberger to attend any of the remaining 11 spring practices, which run each Tuesday, Wednesday and Th urs-day through June 10.

On April 21, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suspended the two-time Super Bowl winner for the fi rst six games of the season and also ordered him to undergo a behavioral evaluation following a March incident in which a 20-year-old college student accused

him of sexual assault in Milled-geville, Ga. Th e case will not be prosecuted.

In Roethlisberger’s absence, Byron Leftwich took most of the snaps with the starters, just as he has since being reacquired by Pittsburgh in a trade with Tampa Bay last month. Leftwich was the backup when the Steelers won the Super Bowl 15 months ago.

There’s no sign from Tom-lin that Charlie Batch or Dennis Dixon will get similar work with the regulars. Tomlin promises only that there will be a clearly defi ned depth chart when train-ing camp begins.

“I don’t believe it’s an eff ective approach to go into camp with a pure, open quarterback compe-tition, if you will, a three-headed quarterback battle,” Tomlin said. “We’ll go in with a pecking order, and the opportunity to show what you’re capable of will be based on that pecking order. All three guys will be given an opportunity but not an equal opportunity.”

Training camp will be unique because the Steelers will have two starting quarterbacks to prepare – someone for the fi rst six games and Roethlisberger.

Steelers search for temporary QB

SERIES TIMESTHURSDAYFirst pitch: 7:05 p.m.FRIDAYFirst pitch: 7:05 p.m.SATURDAYFirst pitch: 1 p.m.

Th e coach has high expecta-tions from the freshman from Berkeley Springs, W.Va.

“Twigg will be one of our go-to guys in years to come,” Van Zant said. “He has came along way this year.”

Jonathan Hash picked up right where Twigg left off in the sev-enth inning, fi nishing the contest. Hash struck out one batter while forcing two double plays. He did allow one run off the bat of Mike Schmidt scoring Ben Winter.

“Jonathan pitched well to close that game off for us,” Van Zant said. “We got some runs for him too, which helped him settle

down. It is always easier to pitch with that breathing room.”

Th e Tigers upended the Moun-taineers 10-4 at Hawley Field in Morgantown April 6. Th is was the fi nal out-of-conference game for WVU. Th e Mountaineers host Vil-lanova for a weekend series start-ing Th ursday at 7:05 p.m.

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BY TONY DOBIESSPORTS EDITOR

More than three years into his time as the head coach of Coastal Carolina’s football pro-gram, David Bennett decided to make some changes.

Th e Chanticleers decided to go from their traditional run-dominated off ense to a spread attack. To help aid the transi-tion in 2006, Bennett and his staff traveled to Morgantown to learn the spread from then-WVU head coach Rich Rodriguez and his staff .

“Everyone wanted to come to West Virginia to learn the of-fense,” Bennett said. “Even Ap-palachian State was there.”

On his trip, Bennett caught up with now-WVU head coach Bill Stewart. Bennett knew Stewart from his coaching days at VMI. Bennett said he was the most helpful coach on West Virgin-ia’s staff .

“He just happens to be a great coach, a great recruiter, a great man, a great husband and a great father,” Bennett said of Stewart.

“If there’s any naysayers out there about Bill Stewart, I want to tell them he’s one of the fi nest people in this profession.”

Bennett also knows WVU’s wide receivers coach Lonnie Galloway.

So, Bennett kept close with Stewart and Galloway, which eventually led to a meeting of the Chanticleers and Mountain-eers to open the 2010 season.

“We know from our trip there that they’re going to try to out-work you, out-physical you and out-tough you,” Bennett said.

Coastal Carolina has faced just three football bowl-subdi-vision opponents in its six-year program history. All have been losses.

Bennett, who has coached the program since its existence and is in his seventh year, said not only does the $250,000 for play-ing the Mountaineers benefi t the

Coastal Carolina program, but so does the experience against a top-fl ight opponent like WVU.

“We play the toughest team on our schedule in Game 1,” Ben-nett said. “You can’t get a better measuring stick to see where you are than that.”

So when the Chanticleers take on West Virginia Sept. 4 in Mor-gantown, Bennett will be looking for a program-changing victory.

In 2008, Coastal Carolina lost to Penn State, 66-10. Last sea-son, the Chanticleers lost 18-0 to Kent State before being blown out by Clemson, 49-3, later in the season.

“We found out that we aren’t there yet – that we just have to keep getting better,” Bennett said. “Th e size, strength and speed are the most glaring diff erences.”

Despite the struggles against upper-division opponents, Coastal Carolina has been rel-atively successful against foot-ball-championship division op-ponents. Bennett has totaled a 45-23 record in six seasons. He has a 16-9 record against Big

South Conference opponents (seven of those losses coming over the last two years).

Bennett called his last two seasons “mediocre” com-pared to his second, third and fourth seasons in which the

SPORTS12CONTACT US 304-293-5092 ext. 2 | DASPORTS@mail.wvu.eduWEDNESDAY MAY 19, 2010

Baseball ousts Towson, 8-4 SCOTT CAHOONSPORTS WRITER

LeBlanc fi nds multiple reasons to stay at WVUBY BRIAN KUPPELWEISER

SPORTS WRITER

When West Virginia head men’s soccer coach Marlon LeB-lanc was being mentioned last week as a name to replace Penn State coach Barry Gorman, it didn’t come as a surprise.

What was a suprise, however, was that LeBlanc pulled his name out of the race to become the Nit-tany Lions’ new head coach and for him to coach his alma mater.

“It was a diffi cult decision to pull out of that process, especially at my alma mater,” LeBlanc said. “It was a great opportunity.”

Although there was tempta-tion to be involved with his alma mater, LeBlanc said he had every-thing he wanted at West Virginia. LeBlanc played for Penn State as a student and became an assis-tant coach under Gorman until leaving for WVU in 2006.

LeBlanc has not only estab-lished himself as the face of the WVU soccer program, but he also plays a prominent role in One-WVU, the University’s diversity program. OneWVU, which LeB-lanc was instrumental in cre-ating, helps promote diversity among all races of students, fac-ulty and staff through fellowship on WVU’s campuses.

Th e initiative is something that LeBlanc said he holds near to his heart and helped make his deci-sion to stay at WVU easier.

“It is something I certainly have put a lot of time into and truly believe in,” LeBlanc said. “Obvi-ously, when you put that much time and energy into a program, you want to see things through.”

LeBlanc said it is important to him to be recognized as more than just the men’s soccer coach at WVU.

“I am glad I am able to make an impact at the University in some way other than just the soccer program,” he said.

OneWVU is not the only rea-son LeBlanc decided to stay, though. He has been able to build strong relationships with other coaches at the University, specifi -cally WVU head women’s basket-ball coach Mike Carey and head men’s basketball coach Bob Hug-gins – both of which LeBlanc con-siders some of his best friends.

“I love them both dearly,” LeB-lanc said. “Both of them are rea-sons that I wanted to stay at WVU. Th e relationship I have built with each of them means a lot to me. Th ose guys were instrumental in me staying.”

Th e last reason LeBlanc gave for staying put was his devotion to the WVU soccer program.

“We are really on the verge of doing something great here,” LeB-lanc said. “We are now fi nally go-ing to break into what I envision us being – a top 10 program.”

Heading into his fi fth season as head coach, LeBlanc has a 41-23-16 record. He led the Moun-taineers to the NCAA Tourna-ment twice. LeBlanc’s 2006 team won the Big East Conference regular-season title, and he was named Big East Coach of the Year along with other national coach-ing accolades.

LeBlanc wants to see more than just results on the fi eld for his program, though.

“With our guys, it’s a lot about the character and the off ering of a chance to grow as more than just a soccer player,” he said. “One of the things that our place does well in comparison of other schools is that we not only teach our guys how to be great soccer players, but also great citizens.”

Penn State has yet to hire a new head coach.

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FCS Coastal Carolina is fi rst up for West Virginia in 2010

A WAY TOO EARLY PREVIEW WEEK 1

2010 WVU SCHEDULESept. 4 Coastal Carolina

Sept. 10 @ Marshall (ESPN)Sept. 18 MarylandSept. 25 @ LSUOct. 9 UNLVOct. 14 South Florida (ESPN)Oct. 23 SyracuseOct. 29 @ Connecticut (ESPN2)Nov. 13 CincinnatiNov. 20 @ LouisvilleNov. 26 @ Pitt (ESPN/ESPN2/ABC)Dec. 4 Rutgers (ESPN/ESPN2/ABC)

It will be the fi rst meeting be-tween the two programs. Coastal Carolina is 0-3 against FBS opponents in it’s six years.

APFormer Coastal Carolina running back Tommy Fraser.

ALL-TIME WINNINGEST MEN’S SOCCER COACH AT WEST VIRGINIAMarlon LeBlanc is the winningest coach is school history with more than two seasons completed as head coach.

Name (years as coach) – record (win %)John Stewart (1967-68) – 19-2-1 (86.4) Sam Maurice (1963-64) – 15-5-0 (75.0) Greg Myers (1965-66) – 20-7-1 (71.4) Marlon LeBlanc (2006-10) – 41-23-16 (51.3)Jim Markel (1961-62) – 10-7-3 (50.0) Mike Seabolt (2003-05) – 30-25-6 (49.2) John McGrath (1969-95) – 202-194-45 (45.8)Paul Marco (1996-2001) – 47-62-4 (41.6)Keith Fulk (2002) – 4-11-2 (23.5)

FILE PHOTOWest Virginia head coach Marlon LeBlanc.

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Teams can have an opinion on immigration

Many of us view sports as an escape from everyday life – a friv-olous distraction from things we, ourselves are responsible for.

ESPN gets higher ratings than CNN for some reason. We want games – not work, not politics, not business, nothing too real.

Th at’s why it catches us off -guard when a sports organi-zation enters the real world by taking a stance on something that isn’t necessarily related to sports.

Worlds collided when the Phoenix Suns publicly opposed the Arizona immigration bill by deciding to wear its “Los Suns” jerseys on Cinco de Mayo earlier this month.

Suns owner Robert Sarver spoke out about the bill, which gives police the ability to de-mand immigration papers from any suspicious person and in-sists immediate deportation if someone is found in the coun-try illegally.

“However intended, the result of passing the law is that our ba-sic principles of equal rights and protection under the law are be-ing called into question,” Sarver told the Associated Press. “Arizo-na’s already struggling economy will suff er even further setbacks at a time when the state can ill-aff ord them.”

Before Sarver decided for his team to wear the jerseys, he con-sulted all Suns players, who were behind the idea.

“Th e law is very misguided. It’s, unfortunately, to the detri-ment of our society and our civil liberties,” said Suns point guard Steve Nash to the AP. “It’s very important for us to stand up for things we believe in. As a team and as an organization, we have a lot of love and support for all of our fans.”

BY MATTHEW PEASLEESPORTS WRITER

TOWSON, Md. — Before his team went up to bat in the sixth inning, West Virginia head base-ball coach Greg Van Zant gave second baseman Brady Wilson a message.

“Let’s break it open,” Van Zant yelled from the dugout.

At that point, the game was tied 3-3 before Wilson got a rally

going, lining a single through the left side. A series of sacrifi ce fl ies from Dom Hayes and Grant Buckner scored Wilson and ad-vanced Jedd Gyorko who reached on a walk.

First baseman Justin McDa-vid did damage going deep to straight away center fi eld for his fourth home run of the year.

That offensive showcase helped the Mountaineers (25-27) beat Towson 8-4 in front of a min-

iscule crowd at John B. Schuer-holz Stadium.

McDavid also came around to score the seventh run of the game when he reached on an er-ror in the ninth inning.

“We needed do get some runs that inning” Van Zant said. “Th at rally was huge for us to get our eventual eight runs. We needed them all.”

WVU got on the board fi rst in the second inning. Hayes drilled

a fastball to the wall in left-center fi eld. Two runs came into score.

After threatening to score in the fi rst, Chris Rasky struck out with the bases loaded. WVU’s right fi elder redeemed himself in the ninth inning with an RBI double.

“In college baseball you need to salvage every run,” Van Zant said. “It was crucial that we got on base any way possible today.”

Mountaineer starting pitcher

Michael Twigg picked up his third win of the season. In six in-nings pitched, the freshman had trouble controlling his pitches and footing due to the wet conditions.

“For a freshman he’s got a great mound presence,” Van Zant said. “He always goes with his break-ing stuff and catches hitters off guard.”