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The August 4, 2010 edition of The Daily Athenaeum, West Virginia University's official student newspaper.TRANSCRIPT
“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUMWednesday August 4, 2010 VOLuME 123, IssuE 162www.THedaOnLIne.comda
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Chick-fil-A to be in Lair by Spring 2011By Nick Ashley
Staff Writer
Chick-fil-A will be replacing McCoys in the Mountainlair next year.
Chick-fil-A was chosen af-ter the results of a student survey indicated it was one of the most popular student choice for addition to the Mountainlair. The restaurant will join Taziki’s Mediterra-nean Cafe as a new dining op-tion in the Mountainlair.
McCoys will be closed dur-ing the fall semester.
“About three to four years ago, the University did a sur-vey for students to see what new additions they would like to try to add in the food court of the Mountainlair,” said Mi-chael Ellington, assistant vice president for Student Affairs.
He said the University has been working to secure the contract for around 10 months.
“We hope to have
Chick-fil-A in the Lair by the spring of 2011,” said Larry Koay, assistant di-rector of Dining Services. “There is no exact amount for how much all this will cost. We are still in the process of figuring out minor details of the contract.”
Chick-fil-A will be run through the University. Stu-dents will be able to use their meal plans for break-fast and dinner, similar to the Burger King already in
the Mountainlair. Mountie Bounty will also be accepted.
“Chick-fil-A will benefit the students. It gives the students more variety, it’s nationally known throughout the coun-try and gives a new dimension to the Lair,” said Ellington
The restaurant will provide job opportunities for students, as well as having two full-time management positions.
“Workers from McCoys, and other students will be available for work. It will be
open six days a week except on Sundays. The restaurant will be open Monday through Friday from 7:15 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday from noon to 9 p.m. and will be closed on Sunday.
“I have been at McCoys for 12 years. I believe that Chick-fil-A will be a great thing for the students next year,” said Max Dawson, lead worker at McCoys.
Chick-fil-A will benefit the food court, and have a great
impact on the Mountainlair, Dawson said.
“This is a very positive thing for students. I am happy to see them wanting new things added into the Mountainlair. This will be a positive thing not only for students, but for the University as well,” Elling-ton said.
Construction is expected to begin on the restaurant in late September.
No. 4 Party school council discusses teamed planning with Mon. county
By DevoN UNgerCity editor
The Morgantown City Manager recommended the city join with the other county municipalities and organiza-tions to create a joint com-prehensive plan of the city’s interworking.
By joining all county mu-nicipalities and county-wide organizations such as the Monongalia County Commis-sion, Mountain Line Transit Authority and the Metropol-itan Planning Organization into a single plan, the county would be eligible to receive up to $1,000,000 in federal grant money.
The plan would require the city to issue matching funds of $175,000 to create the plan in addition to a $5,000 appli-cation fee for the program.
Councilor Don Spencer raised concerns over this plan. He is worried this will hinder the city’s ability to control the planning process.
“This is a big issue, I’m not sure that I have enough infor-mation to be comfortable on this,” Spencer said. “I’m just anxious … the control of the
planning process is extremely important.”
City Manager Dan Boroff said while Spencer’s concerns were valid, the city would still be heavily involved in the planning process partic-ularly because of the match-ing funds it would provide. He said this was a rare opportu-nity for the area to align the interests of the entire county.
“I assure you we will get ev-ery single thing we would’ve gotten otherwise with our own plan, plus a great deal more,” Boroff said. “This com-munity does not stop at the border of Morgantown.”
Councilor Jenny Selin said many of the city’s “growth problems” and “areas of con-cern” were focused on the periphery, and this joint plan would allow for much greater coordination at the county-wide level.
“The opportunity to pull in all the different entities that could make a difference would be worth the risk that in some way we would have to make some comprises to do that,” Selin said. “This would
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Univ. rises two spots in Princeton Review’s Party School rankingBy DevoN UNger
City editor
West Virginia University is back in the top 5.
The 2011 Edition of The Princeton Review’s 373 Best Colleges ranked WVU as the No. 4 party school in the nation.
Previous rankings have held WVU as the No. 6 party school in 2010, No. 4 party school in 2009, No. 1 in 2008 and No. 3 in 2007.
“If you look at this (party school) list, most of the univer-sities that are on it each year are large, public universities with very strong academics, re-search and outreach, and also major athletic programs that have achieved great success,” said President James Clements in a statement.
“Some of the very finest uni-versities in the country typically find themselves on this list be-cause they, like WVU, enjoy a
campus rich with both aca-demic and social opportunities.”
This year, WVU made eight other lists in addition to the party school ranking.
WVU ranked No. 5 in Stu-dents Study the Least, No. 8 in Lots of Beer and Students Pack the Stadiums, No. 11 in Best Athletic Facilities and Best Col-lege Newspaper, No.15 in Lots of Hard Liquor, No. 18 in Reefer Madness, and No. 19 in Best College Library.
Clements said the Univer-sity takes excessive drinking seriously by offering programs such as Alcohol Edu for incom-ing freshmen to educate them about the dangers and conse-quences of excessive alcohol consumption.
WVU spokeswoman Becky Lofstead said the rankings can cause misconceptions among people not familiar with the
Enrollment numbers rise more than 1 percentBy eriN FitzwilliAMs
Staff Writer
As of Monday 26,156 students are enrolled at West Virginia University for the fall semester, a 1.4 percent rise from last year on Aug. 2.
The greatest increase was in transfer students whose num-bers are up almost 17 percent.
Brenda Thompson, assistant vice president for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management and Services believes much of the boost in WVU enrollment is due to the advertising and pub-
licity from the Final Four Basket-ball tournament that WVU par-ticipated in earlier this year.
“(Students) base their col-leges off of academics,” Thomp-son said. “With all the ads we got through the Final Four tourna-ment, they got to see the WVU support.”
The number of freshmen reg-istered for WVU this fall is up to 4, 941 students, 460 more than last year.
Thompson said last year stu-dents were staying closer to home due to the economy, at-tending community colleges
to save some money. This year more students are looking at more expensive institutions.
“National trends show slightly more students are going to be at-tending the bigger universities,” Thompson said.
Due to the rise of student en-rollment, on-campus residen-tial dorms and apartments are full going into the fall semester according to Michael Beto, as-sistant director of dorms and housing.
Students who applied for housing after June 30 were placed on a wait list.
“We are referring students to off campus housing unfortu-nately,” Beto said.
According Brian Walker, di-rector of off-campus housing, more than 80 percent of stu-dents already live off-campus, and many housing opportuni-ties are available.
There are more than 1,300 landlords within city limits, and other housing opportunities ex-ist outside city limits. Many of these are still close to campus, Walker said.
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Two colleges begin to search for new deans
By DevoN UNgerCity editor
Two search committees have been formed to find can-didates to fill dean positions opening up at West Virginia University.
The College of Creative Arts, The Davis College of Ag-riculture, Natural Resources and Design are seeking new deans.
Cameron Hackney, dean of the Davis College, and Bernie Schultz, dean of the CAC, will serve until June 2011.
“At both colleges we came to a collective agreement with the college and the dean that it was time for a change in leadership,” said Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Michele Wheatly.
David Welsh, a public re-lations specialist for the Da-vis College, said Hackney de-cided it was time to step down after a decade as dean.
“It was a mutual decision. He had been dean for about 10 years, and just based on a shared leadership philos-ophy, they decided 10 years is a pretty good tenure for a dean,” Welsh said. “It’s as long as they wanted one person in the position.”
Hackney was proud of the accomplishments during his tenure, Welsh said, includ-ing increasing enrollment
and research funding for the college.
Wheatly said Schultz and Hackney will be staying at WVU in some capacity but could not say what these would be at the time.
“I’m in the process right now of finalizing the details of what might be an assignment here, to keep me on here at WVU,” Schultz said. “Nothing really has been verified as to what a new assignment might be.”
Schultz came to WVU as an instructor in 1977 and is considering returning to classroom.
“I’m five years away from retirement, and I’d very much like to end my professional career here at WVU,” he said. “Right now, they’re looking at the possibility of working with the art museum or go-ing back to teaching, which I dearly love.”
WVU searches for candi-dates by advertising open positions in higher educa-tion, and field specific jour-nals, Wheatly said. The Uni-versity also uses listservs at professional associations to find candidates who may not be actively looking for a job.
“We actually look for peo-ple who are sitting in jobs right now and aren’t looking
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University.“These type of labels, or rank-
ings, tend to exaggerate and mislead folks about our univer-sities,” she said. “WVU, just like some of the other schools on that list, is a special place where talented students come to learn and excel. It’s also a place where some of the finest faculty teach and mentor our students.”
Lofstead said the University should be proud of the library, athletic facilities and newspaper because they are “truly gems” not because of the rankings.
The rankings, released Mon-day afternoon, are based on a yearlong student survey and ranks colleges one through 20 in 62 different categories. 122,000 student surveys were included
in this year’s rankings, an aver-age of 325 surveys per school, said Vice President and Pub-lisher of the Princeton Review Robert Franek.
“We go directly to who we consider college experts, cur-rent college students, and we ask them their opinions of life at their school,” Franek said. “That’s their academic life, social life, overall student experience, campus culture. We that infor-mation back from those college experts and we put it into narra-tive in the book as well as those ranking lists.”
This Princeton Review has published their guide to the best colleges for 19 years. Stu-dents who wish to participate in the survey for next year’s rank-ings can do so at www.survey.review.com/ss/.
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Junior biometrics major Mohamed ali answers ques-tions about his ex-periences at WVU in front of a camera crew during his au-dition to be a part of marketing proj-ects for the univer-sity. ali’s audition was part of a cast-ing call held in the Mountainlair Thurs-day to find a diverse group of students to participate in proj-ects such as bill-boards and televi-sion commercials.
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W.Va. gov’t begins new budget year with more
than $24 million in blackCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) —
West Virginia shows signs of an economic upswing one month into its new budget year, but Manchin administration offi-cials cautioned Monday that the growth may not be not as robust as revenues suggest.
State government collected $339 million in general rev-enue taxes in July, $24 mil-lion more than expected and a nearly 26 percent increase from the same point last year.
But an early lottery fund transfer and one-time liquor license renewal payments ac-count for much of the strong showing, said Deputy Revenue
Secretary Mark Muchow.Still, the state’s two key gen-
eral revenue sources – sales and personal income taxes – beat both their monthly esti-mates and their July 2009 col-lections. These taxes together provide about 70 percent of all general revenue, and brought in a combined $214 million or $6 million more than July’s forecast.
Both those sources reflect increased economic activity. Muchow said July helps put the state on track for the first year-over-year increase in rev-enues since the 2007-2008 bud-get year.
“There’s not as much growth as people might like to have, but there is growth out there,” Muchow said. “The growth is not terribly high, as is the case with the rest of the country.”
The Manchin administration expects to collect $3.74 billion from general revenue taxes by the June 30 end of the budget year. That would be about $16 million more than it reaped during the just-completed fis-cal year.
be a layer that could make a huge difference in our area as far as coordination ... just the value of having everyone at the table would be worth the risks.”
The council also discussed plans to buy salt for road clearance during the winter months.
Councilor Spencer again raised concerns about the environmental impact of the salt the city uses and recom-mended a more expensive type of road salt be purchased to alleviate this impact.
Boroff urged council to fol-low his recommendation to purchase the cheaper salt be-
cause of shortages due the par-ticularly harsh winter the City experienced last year.
He said under normal cir-cumstances there is salt left over at the end of winter, but 23 straight days of snowfall left the city’s stockpile very low.
“Remember that this coun-cil chose to get rid of cinders,” said Councilor Ron Bane. “It would be silly for us as people that sit here as novice to tell a guy that’s been doing it for all these years, that knows how to do it, and knows how the day-to-day operations work, I think that’s inappropriate.”
The recommended salt bid for $198,000 was accepted by council with Spencer casting the only “no” vote.
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to move,” Wheatly said. “We actually go out and beat the bushes you could say.”
Associate Provost for Exten-sion and Public Service Dave Miller will chair the Davis search committee, and Dean of the College of Physical Ac-tivity and Sport Sciences Dana Brooks will chair the Creative Arts committee. The commit-tees will receive applications, conduct interviews and make a final recommendation to Wheatly who makes the final decision.
Both search committees plan to have initial meetings by the end of this month. The
committees plan to have rec-ommendations ready early in the spring semester and to have new deans appointed to each post by July 1, 2011.
The School of Dentistry is also in the process of hiring a new dean. A committee was formed in a April, and four candidates have been selected to go through final interviews for the position.
Angelo J. Mariotti, James A. Lalumandier, Gerald N. Glick-man, and Interim Dean Louise Veselicky will all be considered for the position. Candidate bi-ographies and public forum dates can be found at http://w w w . h s c . w v u . e d u / s o d /deansearch/
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Woodburn community school plans face parent opposition over location
By Tara MayleStaff Writer
Local parents have raised concerns about land sold by West Virginia University to Monongalia County Schools for a new elementary school.
The new school, planned to be a “green” school, will combine Woodburn Elemen-tary and Easton Elementary. The plans are for a new green school located at the inter-section of route 705 and the Mileground in Morgantown.
It should take between seven and eight acres for the current plans. The land will be purchased from WVU at $325,000 an acre, making this a total land cost of more than $2 million.
“The land is undermined and the school grounds are in-herently unstable,” said Tony Christini, member of the New Woodburn Community School Initiative and Woodburn area parent.
An unstable foundation isn’t the only problem Christini has with the site.
“It is a commercial intersec-tion they are proposing for the school,” he said. “There will be air pollution and noise pol-lution because of this loca-tion. You hear screaming traf-fic 24-7.”
Monongalia County School officials do not have an issue with the new site.
“We would not have been OK to use that spot if every-one felt that it wasn’t going to be made workable,” said Nancy Walker, Board of Edu-cation member. “We looked at 19 other sites and this one worked the best.”
Becky Mattern, assistant su-perintendent of schools, said the land is undermined, but the need for mine mitigation has been worked into the cost of the school.
“The land is indeed under-mined, but we have plans for mitigation and grouting,” Mat-tern said. “The architectural plans have been designed tentatively.”
The mine mitigation is es-
timated to cost between $500,000 and $700,000.
The total price will be be-tween $12 million and $14 million, Mattern said. This includes the purchase of the land, as well as the mine mitigation.
While it is a busy area, Mat-tern says it will not be danger-ous for students.
“The school will sit way back and be situated in such a way to take in maximum sun ex-posure to facilitate some sky-lights, lots of playgrounds, and maybe a garden and green spaces that take advantage of the land around the area,” Mattern said. “It’s going to be a fabulous facility.”
There are plans to build a roundabout by the school to facilitate the flow of traffic, Mattern said.
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is a green building certifica-tion system recognized world-wide. Mattern said they hope to achieve a silver LEED rating with the school.
Christini said the initiative is very much in favor of a green school they are just not happy with the location. He said they have had architects prepare designs for a school on the cur-rent Woodburn site.
“If we can’t have a school on Woodburn grounds, other lo-cations would have been fine,” he said. “If they chose a bet-ter site, they wouldn’t have any argument.”
Walker said the topography of the Woodburn site wouldn’t work for a new school.
“They’re not happy with the site. They wanted it to stay in the neighborhood,” Walker said. “If we had four flat acres and could have gotten addi-tional parking, it might have worked. We just felt like we needed a seven-acre site. You need a lot of space around a school.”
The new school is approx-imately two years away, Mat-tern said. It should be open for the 2012-13 school year.
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apA woman holds up a sign in opposition to the proposed mosque at 45-47 Park Place during a meeting of the Landmarks Preservation Commission to vote on giving the building landmark status in New York, Aug. 3. The commission voted unanimously not to landmark the building, making way for the construction of the mosque.
NEW YORK (AP) — A city panel Tuesday cleared the way for the construction near ground zero of a mosque that has caused a political uproar over religious freedom and Sept. 11 even as opponents vowed to press their case in court.
The Landmarks Preserva-tion Commission voted unan-imously to deny landmark sta-tus to a building two blocks from the World Trade Cen-ter site that developers want to tear down and convert into an Islamic community center and mosque. The panel said the 152-year-old lower Man-hattan building isn’t distinc-tive enough to be considered a landmark.
The decision drew praise from Mayor Michael Bloom-berg, who stepped before
cameras on Governor’s Is-land with the Statue of Lib-erty as a backdrop shortly af-ter the panel voted and called the mosque project a key test of Americans’ commitment to religious freedom.
“The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts,” said Bloomberg, a Republican turned independent. “But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves, and who we are as New Yorkers and Ameri-cans, if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.”
The vote was a setback for opponents of the mosque, who say it disrespects the memory of those killed at the hands of Islamic terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001. Jeers and shouts of “Shame on you” could be heard after the pan-
el’s vote.The American Center for
Law and Justice, a conserva-tive advocacy group founded by the Rev. Pat Robertson, an-nounced it would challenge the panel’s decision in state court Wednesday.
ACLJ attorney Brett Joshpe said the group would file a pe-tition alleging that the land-marks panel “acted arbitrarily and abused its discretion.”
The proposed mosque has emerged as a national political issue, with prominent Repub-licans from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich lining up against it. The Anti-Defa-mation League, the nation’s most prominent Jewish civil rights group, known for ad-vocating religious freedom, shocked many groups when it
spoke out against the mosque last week.
The League said build-ing the Islamic center “in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some vic-tims more pain – unnecessar-ily – and that is not right.”
Bloomberg said Tuesday that denying religious free-dom to Muslims would play into terrorists’ hands. He said firefighters and other first re-sponders who died in the Sept. 11 attacks had done so to protect the U.S. Constitution.
“In rushing into those burn-ing buildings, not one asked, ‘What god do you pray to? What beliefs do you hold?’” Bloomberg said of the first re-sponders. “We do not honor their lives by denying the very constitutional rights they died protecting.”
NYC panel clears way for mosque near Ground Zero
legal Services provides students with move-in adviceBy Tara Mayle
Staff Writer
Getting a security deposit back may take longer than ex-pected. West Virginia currently has no law governing security deposits.
Students can utilize West Vir-ginia University’s Student Legal Services to address issues with security deposits and other problems with landlords.
When students move in, most landlords provide a check-list for moving in to make sure everything is in good condition. If one is not provided, students should make their own, or use
the example checklist on the Off-Campus Housing website, said Molli Starcher, attorney for students.
This checklist should be com-pleted in the first few days of be-ing in the apartment.
“Often students do not docu-ment the condition of the apart-ment when they move in and when they move out,” said Brian Walker, director of Off-Campus Housing.
Starcher said having photo evidence of the apartment’s conditions is very helpful when resolving disputes.
“A big part of the problem is there is no West Virginia land-
lord-tenant law that defines a timely return of deposits. The law just states that it has to be returned in a timely manner,” Starcher said. “We are only one of four states that doesn’t set a time frame on that.”
With no law, landlords can take their time returning deposits.
Before students sign a lease, they should look for a sec-tion in the lease about security deposits.
First ensuring there is a sec-tion concerning deposit, then that it addresses what needs to be done for the deposit to be returned, and that it has a time
frame for return of the deposit, Starcher said.
If there is no time frame listed for a deposit, the student and landlord should negotiate a pe-riod of time that the landlord is comfortable with. That should be added to the margin of the lease and initialed by all parties.
“So far my landlords have been reliable,” said junior pub-lic relations major Jennifer Coo-per. “I didn’t take pictures when I moved out because I was mov-ing out of the dorms, but I did take pictures when moving into my new apartment.”
While there is currently no law concerning deposits, at-
tempts have been made to cre-ate one.
In 2002, a committee was put together to revise the land-lord tenant act. This committee was made up lawyers, property owners, and businesspeople from the community, as well as students, Starcher said.
“I was a part of this commit-tee.,” he said. “We met regularly for two years revising the ten-ant law.”
However, no law was ever introduced.
“It is unfortunate that we can’t agree on this,” Starcher said. “It’s not a negative thing for anyone. It is positive for ten-
ants as well as landlords. It only clarifies things and doesn’t cre-ate boundaries any different than what they’re probably do-ing already. It just clarifies and makes things easier to follow.”
WVU’s Student Govern-ment Association also created a lobbying group to address the issue.
The group has gone to WVU Day and discussed the issue with legislators the past two years.
It also honors the top five landlords in Morgantown each year.
Despite working through a second degree at West Vir-ginia University, I’ve discov-ered just how little of any-thing I actually know.
When confronted with a situation where my car de-cided to become immobile and left me stranded with a cold dinner, I was hopeless.
A quick jaunt to Lowe’s and a battery jump from a friend, and I was on my way again.
At 24, I should have jumper cables. I should know what to do – even if it’s as easy as call-
ing AAA.But I didn’t.Instead, I resorted to fran-
tic web browsing on my phone, looking for solutions and quick-fixes to getting me out of a parking lot and out of the casual glances of an all-too-interested-but-not-help-ing bookstore patron.
I was hopeless.It got me to thinking – what
have I actually learned over the years?
After the accumulation of a lot of knowledge at WVU and taking classes I ordinar-ily wouldn’t, I know very little about the real world.
Sure, I know from taking humanities classes what the Age of Enlightenment was and even some of the back
story behind the greatest art minds of our time.
Thanks to geology, I know some periods in geological history that aren’t Jurassic – Cretaceous, Triassic, etc.
WVU has broadened my knowledge of the world, and I’m told I should be thankful. But has it really prepared me for the real world?
Some could sum up my in-ability to deal with a simple car breakdown as a failing on my own part, and yeah, they’re probably right.
Pursuing my first degree in journalism, I learned a lot of the skills I need to write a news story.
Over the years at the paper, I think I’ve somehow cracked the art of writing a column
(cue the online comments saying otherwise).
Those skills will hopefully come into play when I get a related job. But I can, 100 percent, honestly say I have never used a Truth Table.
Taught to me in Math 121 by an eager instructor, I have no practical use for them. I remember a lot of P’s and Q’s, but no idea how they got there or why every other let-ter of the alphabet has been shunned.
The University is supposed to be all about expanding your knowledge of the world and having a greater view.
Perhaps – just perhaps – in limiting ourselves to nar-rowed subjects and course work that pertains to only a
certain aspect of our world, we are selling ourselves short.
There is a place for under-standing the greater mean-ing of classic fiction. There’s definitely a place for under-standing how history has shaped who we are today.
But couldn’t the same be said for basic life skills that could somehow find them-selves a part of my schedule?
If I can take a one hour credit of badminton, surely I can take a class that helps me with basic life challenges – learn to change a tire, learn to check your oil, basic plumbing.
The University could call it the “Fundamentals” Depart-ment. I wouldn’t even charge
them a fee to use my idea.Think of all the people too
scared to admit they can’t perform tasks others can do without much trouble.
Of course, there will be naysayers. The crowd who says University is all about expanding the mind.
I would say there are plenty like me out there. We’re the kind of people who call you, interrupt your day and ask you to come pick us up.
Perhaps I’m just over thinking this. Perhaps I’m confusing the learning of the world to actually learning the tools necessary to get by in it.
Perhaps I should have just followed up on that accep-tance letter to the Nashville Auto-Diesel College after all.
Class won’t fix drinking problemIn an effort to curb underage
alcohol abuse and consump-tion, West Virginia University is requiring all incoming fresh-men and under-21 transfers to enroll in AlcoholEdu, an on-line alcohol awareness pro-gram which will be adminis-tered by WELL WVU.
“Since 2001, the program has been developed. The Uni-versity decided that now is the right time, which is a di-rect result of the formation of WELL WVU, and it fits with our strategic plan for prevention,” said Colleen Harshbarger, di-rector of Student Wellness, in the July 28 edition of The Daily
Athenaeum.The program focuses on
health behaviors and conse-quences associated with alco-hol consumption and takes ap-proximately two to three hours to complete.
It consists of low-quality videos, comics, cartoons, in-termittent quizzes and lengthy surveys gauging your relative attentiveness and personal al-cohol-related behavior.
Fortunately, it does not have to be completed in one sitting.
Incoming students who do not enroll and complete part 1 of AlcoholEdu by Sept. 3 will be charged $50 to their student
account.While the move by West Vir-
ginia University to require al-cohol education to all incom-ing freshmen is a step in the right direction, the staff of The Daily Athenaeum ques-tions the likelihood of its effectiveness.
This is especially true at WVU, where a culture of drink-ing and partying has become so deeply ingrained, which has helped us reach our No. 4 party school ranking, according to the Princeton Review.
The University needs to do more to prevent binge drinking and dangerous alcohol-related
behaviors. But generic online classes won’t do the trick.
Yes, AlcoholEdu comes with some rather sterling evidence to support its efficacy.
But most, if not all, the “sci-entific” research regarding the success of AlcoholEdu is de-rived from student surveys.
Students whose positive re-sponses might have been influ-enced by the desire to not feel as if they wasted several hours of their life.
Furthermore, we take ex-ception to the fact that stu-dents will be charged a $50 fee for not taking part in such friv-olous education.
Yes, the charge can be avoided, but when did the Uni-versity start threatening its stu-dents with punitive damages?
The University is working hard to provide a safe environ-ment for its students.
But we deserve more than gimmicks. Safe drinking hab-its should be promoted in Uni-versity 101, on a more personal level and supported by student leaders across campus.
People change a culture. Al-coholEdu, on the other hand, will become little more than a running joke for most.
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An Insult. A Trojan Horse. Surrender.
These are a few of the many ways conservative pundits have referred to plans by a Muslim group to construct a 13-story, $100 million com-munity center that will in-clude a swimming pool, an auditorium, an art exhibit, bookstores, restaurants and a mosque three blocks from Ground Zero.
According to the group be-hind this venture, this com-plex, the Cordoba House, will serve as a “community driven center” and will promote “in-
tegration, tolerance of differ-ence and community cohesion through arts and culture.”
The Cordoba Initiative, the organization that is funding the construction of this build-ing, was founded by Imam Fei-sal Abdul Rauf.
Abdul Rauf appeared on 60 Minutes shortly after the 9/11 attacks asserting that “fanati-cism and terrorism have no place in Islam.” He has worked with the FBI and has long been a leading Muslim voice condemning terrorism. He in-sists that this community cen-ter will be open to people of all faiths and will serve to build bridges between the different communities.
This matters little to critics of the proposed community center, including many lead-
ing politicians and pundits, who insist this building is be-ing erected to taunt the victims of 9/11.
Sarah Palin comically tweeted that Muslims should “refudiate” plans for this build-ing because it “stabs hearts.”
A Facebook group demand-ing that the “Ground Zero mosque be stopped” has al-most 200,000 members.
A new ad created by a po-litical action committee called the “National Republican Trust” shows the twin towers collapsing as a narrator omi-nously describes how “on 9/11 they declared war against us” and to celebrate “they want to build a monstrous 13-story mosque at Ground Zero”.
This is but a small sample of what has been a large-scale,
hysterical frenzy on the right regarding this issue. This vis-ceral reaction to the proposed community center would be amusing if it wasn’t so danger-ous. It is disheartening that in this day and age, these bigoted, dangerous sentiments have been allowed to fester and prominently take their place in our public discourse.
The fact of the matter is, these people don’t only have a problem with the idea of a mosque being built in down-town Manhattan. They are repulsed by the notion that mosques exist anywhere in the United States. They fail to make the distinction between the fanatics who perpetrated the attacks on 9/11 and ordi-nary Muslims, and they believe that mosques are all breeding
grounds for terrorists. Never mind the millions of law-abid-ing, peaceful American Mus-lims, the thousands of Muslims who serve in the U.S. armed forces, the fact that there are now multiple Muslims serving in Congress and the hundreds of Muslims who lost their lives as victims on 9/11. Never mind the First Amendment of the Constitution and all that talk of religious freedom.
To many of these conserva-tives, Islam is the enemy and allowing the construction of this community center is a concession of defeat. This pre-posterous idea has no basis in reality or rational thought. It has been perpetuated by the fear-mongering of politicians and pundits, but it must be put to a stop.
It is not only deeply offen-sive to the millions of hard-working, patriotic Ameri-cans who practice Islam and provide invaluable contribu-tions to the fabric of our soci-ety, but it is dangerous and it is un-American.
This country was built on a foundation of religious toler-ance and freedom. It is our di-versity and our acceptance of people from all backgrounds that has made us into the most powerful country in the world. To prevent a minority group from building a community center solely due to the fact that it offends a bigoted, igno-rant segment of the population is not only immoral. It is be-neath the ideals that this na-tion aspired to perfect.
It’s also unconstitutional.
Opponents of Islamic center ignore religious freedom
A mounting controversy has erupted over the past few weeks regarding the construction of an Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan.
Opponents have brought sev-eral arguments on the matter, but all are irrational or, at best, irrelevant.
Opposition to the building of the Islamic center, known as the Cordoba House, near Ground Zero in Manhattan has most often been based on the fol-lowing arguments: The center would serve as a symbol of Mus-lim conquest, a monument to Muslim extremism/terrorism; the presence of an Islamic cen-ter would unnecessarily pain the families of 9/11 victims; and because some predominantly Muslim countries, namely Saudi Arabia, do not allow the building of Christian churches.
The last argument, as Boston University professor Stephen Prothero points out on CNN’s Belief Blog, is rather ridiculous. Prothero asks: “Since when has Saudi Arabia been the model for American civil liberties?”
It should be noted that Saudi Arabia also does not allow po-litical parties and often se-verely impinges upon freedom of speech.
Should we ban the Republi-
can and Democratic parties un-til Saudi Arabia begins to allow political organizations? Should we shut down The New York Times and USA Today until Saudi Arabia fully respects free-dom of speech?
I do not believe so.In regard to the first argu-
ment – that an Islamic center near Ground Zero would stand as a monument to Muslim ex-tremism/terrorism – opponents of the Islamic center should bear in mind that Islam, with more than 1 billion followers, is the second largest religion in the world.
Muslim extremists are not representative of the entire U.S. or world Muslim population.
Many Americans have fallen prey to the sadly erroneous pre-sumption that all (or at least most) Muslims are from the Middle East or, for many, the “terrorist” countries.
In reality, a vast majority of Muslims are not of Arabian de-scent, and the most populous Muslim country in the world is Indonesia.
One opponent of the con-struction of the Islamic center, retired New York City firefighter Tim Brown, told the Religion News Service: “Now is not the right time. They’re telling us that we’re against religious free-dom? That’s backwards. Our friends and families were mur-dered by these terrorists who were against religious freedom.”
So, if I have got this right, Brown feels that since the terror-
ists who carried out the 9/11 at-tacks were against religious free-dom, we should now be against religious freedom as well. I am afraid Brown has contradicted himself here.
The Anti-Defamation League, like Brown, opposes the con-struction of the Islamic center, but on the grounds that it un-necessarily pains families of 9/11 victims.
However, sublimating the obvious rights of individuals on the basis of ill-conceived per-ceptions of an entire religion to the emotional reactions of oth-ers would destroy the very na-ture of rights.
The ADL also took exception with the Islamic center’s stated goal, which is to promote “inte-gration, tolerance of difference and community cohesion.”
The national director of the ADL, Abraham Foxman, told The Huffington Post: “The better way for Muslims seeking recon-ciliation and moderation would have been for them to reach out to the families of the victims, who we are sure could have recommended any number of actions to achieve those goals other than the present plan.”
But why should Muslims in New York City and leaders of the Islamic center project reach out to the families of victims for recommendations on a proper course of action?
Muslims, simply by virtue of their religious affiliation, have done nothing wrong. Followers of Islam should not be stereo-
typed as anti-American extrem-ists with an insatiable appetite for blood lust. Muslims, again, simply by virtue of their reli-gious affiliation, do not owe Americans.
I sincerely doubt that Chris-tians would appreciate being judged on the basis of the ac-tions of the Westboro Baptist Church – a group known for pro-testing at U.S. soldiers’ funerals as a means to convey their be-lief that the deaths of U.S. sol-diers are God’s way of punishing the United States for being even slightly tolerant of gay people, among other things.
Finally, how close to Ground Zero is too close? Two blocks away is obviously too close for opponents of the Islamic cen-ter. But what should be the ar-bitrary boundary? Five blocks? Ten blocks?
Perhaps we should just ban the building of everything that is in any way affiliated with Islam.
One of the core values of America, inscribed in the Bill of Rights, is freedom of religion. Religious freedom is not con-ditional. Moreover, in regard to religious freedom, there are no special cases.
The emotions of the fami-lies of 9/11 victims are certainly justified, but they should be di-rected exclusively toward the perpetrators – terrorists associ-ated with one small faction of the Muslim religion. Religious freedom and religious tolerance should not be selectively prized and upheld.
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APLinda Rivera holds up a sign in opposition to the proposed mosque at 45-47 Park Place during a meeting of the Landmarks Preservation Commission to vote on making the build-ing a landmark in New York, Tuesday. The panel denied landmark status to the building.
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by mackenzie maysA&E EDITOR
Brew Ha Ha, an event ded-icated to comedy, food and beer, will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. in the Municipal Park-ing Lot on the corner of Fay-ette and Chestnut streets and will host comedy acts by Jef-frey Jena and Joe Zimmerman.
An additional show featur-ing comedian Andy Pitz will be held at Chic-N-Bones Rhythm Cafe at 8 p.m.
WVAQ DJ Lacy Neff will pro-vide music between comedy sets and Gibbie’s Pub & Eat-ery, Synergy, Brickyard Pub and Cafe Bacchus will provide
refreshments.Brew Ha Ha was chosen
as a signature event for the downtown Morgantown area by the Promotion Committee last year and was developed to draw national attention to the local area and provide for a more general audience, not exclusively for college students, according to Main Street Morgantown Director Barbara Watkins.
“Our goal is to bring aware-ness to the downtown area, not only on days we have events but throughout the en-tire year. We want everyone to know that we have a vibrant, active downtown with great
shopping, dining and arts,” Watkins said.
The event will be held every year if it’s success continues and is “one of the few times you can drink beer in a park-ing lot in downtown Morgan-town legally,” Watkins joked.
Zimmerman, named Char-lotte’s 2006 Comedian of the Year by Creative Loafing Mag-azine and nominated for the Golden Shingle Award by Rooftop Comedy, given to the most outstanding rising star in comedy, grew up in Mor-gantown and graduated from Morgantown High School in 2000 and is excited to par-ticipate at such an event in a
crowd he knows so well.“I think Brew Ha Ha is a
killer idea, and I’m excited to be a part of it. Beer and com-edy always pair well together. Beer helps you sit back and en-joy comedy, and comedy helps you sit back and enjoy beer. They also each provide a good excuse to participate in the other,” Zimmerman said. “It wasn’t until I left that I realized people from Morgantown have a particularly healthy sense of humor. It’s almost like a little Ireland. Most of the people I’ve met from Ireland are hilarious, and they enjoy beer, and the
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Comedy reigns in annual Brew Ha Ha
jeffreyjena.comComedian Jeffrey Jena is scheduled to perform at this year’s Brew HaHa.
monongalia county Fair returns after five years
by cHeLsea HensHeyA&E WRITER
After a five-year hiatus, the Monongalia County Fair will return Aug. 9 through Aug. 14 at Mylan Park.
The Monongalia County Fair Board, a nonprofit, vol-unteer-based group, has worked to revive the tradi-tional festivities of Fair Week.
President Ed Hawkins at-tributed this involvement to a preservation of community.
“This doesn’t happen as much in other cities, and we are trying to bring a sense of bringing the community to-gether in this type of event,” Hawkins said. “What we’re hoping is that this will bring something that the com-munity as a whole can rally around and put their hearts into.”
Pete McGinley, County Fair
Board vice president, said the importance of the fair and other community events is in reaching out to today’s youth.
“It creates a sense of nos-talgia. You can actually go out and interact instead of being so detached,” he said. “I think memories like that are some-thing that’s lost on today’s youth, and I want my children and other kids in the county to have those chances.”
Festivities kick off Mon-day with a parade down High Street featuring West Vir-ginia University athletic di-rector Oliver Luck as parade marshal.
Three high school and four middle school bands of Monongalia County are among the participants.
The fair itself will officially open Tuesday at 5 p.m.
While still maintaining tra-ditional events, the Monon-
galia County Fair will feature a revamped schedule and plenty of carnival space, ef-fectively making Fair Week bigger and better than ever.
“We will be the largest car-nival ever in this area, bigger than the Buckwheat Festival or any of those local little fairs because we have the space to do it,” McGinley said. “It’s an old-school type of event, so we will still have the animals and 4-H competitions and all the pageants, but we wanted to come out with a bang and have a reason for people to be out there.”
New events include a de-molition derby, live enter-tainment all week, including local favorites the Davisson Brothers and New Relics.
Other items of note in-clude and the addition of
ParamoUnT PIcTUreSSteve Carrell and Paul Rudd star in ‘Dinner for Schmucks.’
‘Dinner for Schmucks’ no comedic feast
Steve Carell may be the king of awkward what with his role as the foolish Michael Scott on NBC’s “The Office” and his films like “Dan in Real Life.”
By now, it seems he may be stretching the shtick too thin.
“Dinner for Schmucks” doesn’t bring anything new to the table.
Schmucks tells the story of Paul Conrad (Paul Rudd), a business analyst who, after suggesting a money-making idea to his boss, is invited to a so-called “Dinner for Win-ners,” where participants must bring the biggest loser they can find.
Conrad, who will receive a promotion if he succeeds, literally crashes into Barry Speck, a dim-witted IRS agent who enjoys making dioramas out of dead mice.
Barry’s idiotic demeanor soon reveals that he is more trouble than he is worth, chas-ing away Conrad’s girlfriend, telling his stalker where he lives and creating paranoia, forcing Conrad to wonder if all the trouble is worth a big-ger office.
“Dinner for Schmucks” is actually based on the French film, “The Dinner Game,” but given a definite American emphasis.
Director Jay Roach, known
for his work on the “Ausitn Powers” and “Meet the Par-ents” films, has tried to branch out here, but perhaps he should’ve stuck with his past projects.
The movie feels very similar to “Meet the Parents” in that you keep wondering how so many bad things can happen to the main character at once.
The audience is more likely to pity Rudd’s character than relate to him.
The Conrad role, a part that exists to play the straight-man to Carell’s Speck, doesn’t par-ticularly fit Rudd either.
Rudd is known for playing the adorable charmer with the occasional witty one lin-ers, but that isn’t what should play second banana to some-one as ridiculous as Speck.
Carell himself does a good job as the wacky auditor, but, like I said earlier, he’s been playing awkward characters for years, so this added noth-ing to the actor’s repertoire.
Actor Zach Galifianakis also appears in this film as Barry’s nemesis, but those looking for something as hilarious as his performance in “The Hang-over” should look elsewhere.
The actor only has a few funny moments, the rest of which simply play up that his character, Thurman, is a total jerk.
The movie itself is kind of a generic “boy almost loses girl because of idiot friend” film, and would be completely for-gettable if not for the title
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BORn TODAY Happy birthday! You will want to create more security through a higher profile than in the past. You will make your imprint on your community as well as your profes-sional associates. Through networking, you greet unusual success and happi-ness. Be open to friendship and cre-ating much more of what you want. If you are single, if and only if you de-cide to change that status will some-one float into your life. Attached Leos find they are a strong force in making the bond work. Stay on the high road. GEMINI points to the correct path.
ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HHHH Don’t lose track of what is happening within your immediate surroundings in the a.m. Choose to say little, know-ing you will have an opportunity later. A change in attitude from others could prevent any comments. Tonight: Mid-week, break with friends.
TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 21) HHH Others might not get your intent. Perhaps you exhibit a lack of clarity. Right now you are honoring a differ-ent drummer. Others might be taken aback by this new personality trait. You might wonder if you have an alterna-tive. Tonight: Your treat.
GEMINI (MAy 22-JUNE 20) HHHH For the moment, ignore what goes on in the a.m. You will have a radical change of perspective by the after-noon. Remain sure of yourself when dealing with others in the afternoon. You also could be more realistic. To-
night: Others seek you out, pronto.
cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) HHH Em-phasize what is. If you get caught up in what you would like, you might ex-perience a total backfire. A meeting could prove to be more significant than you anticipated. Remember, you don’t need to make a decision quickly. Tonight: Do your thing.
lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Per-haps because you have such a Lion-esque and dignified approach is why people naturally defer to you. Take ac-tion and do what you feel is needed. You sense the tides as they turn in your favor later. Tonight: Midweek break.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEpT. 22) HHH Oth-ers test their limits. Whether they are conscious of it or not, it makes no dif-ference, as the experience is the same for you. Keep breaking patterns, and detach from your traditional response. A chance to take the lead in an impor-tant endeavor happens – finally. To-night: A force to be dealt with.
lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HHHHH Recognize what is going on behind the scenes through discussions with a key player. Don’t act on your knowledge just yet. New information will be forth-coming, adding yet another slant to the situation. Tonight: Let your imag-ination go.
ScORpIO (OcT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH Like it or not, others continue to be dominant. This could feel like a prob-lem if you let it. Remember, this is a passage, and you can change the dy-
namics in a New York minute. Feel bet-ter now? Tonight: Dinner for two.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HHHH Getting past a confusing mat-ter this morning happens, even if you can’t find the path. The unexpected oc-curs, opening up several dynamic pos-sibilities. Opt to have people around you, as you enjoy them so much. To-night: Acting like it is Friday night?
cApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Your greatest push needs to be in the morning, when all creative wheels seem to be on “go.” On the other hand, you might not even make it to work, as you could get distracted. Know that by the afternoon you could have way too much to do. Tonight: Clear out a proj-ect or run an errand or two.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH You might want to avoid dealing with family but find it impossible. On the other hand, you might want to hide out this morning and not be seen at the office. By the afternoon, you can have a much more upbeat perspective. Tonight: Let your hair down.
pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HHHH Play the cynic, but listen well. Much in-formation heads in your direction. How you understand what is happening af-fects nearly every other aspect of your life. Smile and remain upbeat. Tonight: Do some tough thinking.
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That last one is perhaps the greatest of them all, won-derfully played by Irish actor Chris O’Dowd, better known for his role as Roy on the Brit-
ish Channel 4 sitcom “The IT Crowd.”
The man steals every scene he is present in, and I wouldn’t have had it any other way.
However, the dinner only makes about one-third of the movie and it feels like a bit of a chore getting to that part.
Fans of Carell and Rudd won’t be disappointed with their latest cinematic outing, but they won’t be better for it either.
I’d suggest you wait and rent it on DVD.
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Justin Bieber, 16, set to star in movie about life, career
LOS ANGELES — Justin Bieber is adding movie star to his resume.
Paramount Pictures, MtV Films and Bieber’s record label, Island Def Jam, say the 16-year-old pop star has signed on to appear in a feature film about his life and career.
the yet-to-be-titled movie is set for release on “Valentine’s weekend” of 2011, the compa-nies said tuesday.
Bieber will also be produc-ing the film, along with mentor usher, manager scooter Braun and Island Def Jam Music group chairman LA Reid.
the movie will offer a “VIP backstage pass” into Bieber’s life and will feature 3-D footage from his “My World 2.0” concert tour.
the ubiquitous teen sen-sation is also bringing his life to readers: HarperCollins an-nounced Monday that it will publish his memoir in October.
President Obama equals ratings success for ‘The View’
NEW YORK — President Barack Obama’s visit has set a standard for “the View.”
Obama’s appearance with a convalescing Barbara Wal-ters and her co-hosts reached 6.6 million viewers last week, the biggest audience ever for a show that’s been on the air since 1997, the Nielsen Co. said.
It was believed to be the first time a sitting president has visited a daytime talk show. Obama was indirectly respon-sible for the previous record for “the View,” when 6.2 mil-lion people watched the day
after he was elected president in 2008.
Bristol Palin calls it quits with fiance Levi Johnston
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Bris-tol Palin and Levi Johnston have called off their second engage-ment after he told her he may have fathered a baby with an-other girl.
Palin declined to identify the other girl to People magazine, but a pregnant ex-girlfriend of Johnston has publicly denied he is the father.
Palin, the 19-year-old daugh-ter of former Alaska gov. sarah Palin, said Johnston told her about the baby on July 14, the day the couple announced their re-engagement. Bristol Palin and the 20-year-old Johnston have a toddler son together, tripp.
Representatives for Palin and Johnston did not immediately return requests for comment tuesday.
Palin had said she didn’t have her mother’s full support over reconnecting with Johnston. she said both her mother and father worried she would get hurt again.
Palin said the “final straw” was when Johnston told her he was going to Hollywood to see a hunting show, but actu-ally went there to star in a mu-sic video mocking her family. In the video being shot this month in Los Angeles, Johnston will play a lover whose romance is thwarted by his girlfriend’s dis-approving mother. the proj-ect is based on the song “After Love” by singer-songwriter Brit-tani senser.
“He’s just obsessed with the limelight, and I got played,” Palin told People.
Relations between the Pal-ins and Johnston and his fam-ily have been strained since the
couple broke off their first en-gagement soon after tripp was born in December 2008. Bristol Palin later became a public ad-vocate for abstinence.
the relationship later de-volved into a messy tabloid drama as Johnston posed nude for Playgirl and trashed sarah Palin in interviews.
the sudden re-engagement marked a rapid turnaround for the couple that just months ago was fighting over child support and Johnston’s criticism of her family.
Will.i.am opposes release of new Jackson album
NEW YORK — A new Michael Jackson album is expected by the end of the year, culled from unreleased material in his vaults. But Jackson collaborator and Black Eyed Peas frontman
will.i.am is vehemently opposed to the idea.
“I don’t think that should ever come out. that’s bad,” he said. “He was a perfectionist and he wouldn’t have wanted it that way. How you gonna release Michael Jackson when Michael Jackson ain’t here to bless it?”
Will.i.am collaborated with Jackson on the rerelease of “thriller” in 2008 with remixed versions of some of the album’s classic songs. He said Jack-son was very particular about all aspects of his musical pro-ductions, from his vocals to ar-rangements to instrumentation.
“Now that he is not part of the process, what are they do-ing? Why would you put a re-cord out like that? Because he was a friend of mine, I just think that’s disrespectful,” he said. “What’s wrong with what he already contributed to the world?” the Jackson estate did not respond to a request for comment.
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fundraising vendors, such as the beer tent for adults.
There is also expanded car-nival space for children, face painting, temporary tattoos and activities with craft store The Wow Factory.
A talent contest as well as a livestock contest emphasizing showmanship will both fea-ture prizes of $500 and $200.
Hawkins emphasized the availability of volunteer op-portunities as well as vending for fundraising as important additions to the Monongalia County Fair.
“My wife is on the Ronald McDonald Board, and we feel that it is something that can be offered there,” Hawkins said. “All profits from the beer tent will go to the Ronald McDon-ald House.”
Volunteer opportunities will be available throughout the week for those who are inter-ested or need community ser-vice hours. Nonprofit agencies can establish a vending space or game for $200.
Indoor vendors (those who are not selling food) not asso-ciated with a nonprofit may also obtain a 10-by-10 space for the entire week for a $200 fee, and amateurs as well as established vendors are wel-come. Registration for spaces in the talent contest and pa-rade are still open as well.
For more information on parade and talent show reg-istration, vending, volunteer opportunities and a complete schedule of activities, please visit www.moncountyfair.org. Tickets are $7 for adults, and admission for children under 2 years old is free.
same goes for most of the peo-ple I know from Morgantown.”
Pitz will also be taking part in the Brew Ha Ha Event, how-ever, this will be his first trip to West Virginia and although he wants to “be taught a thing or two about beer” by the area due to WVU’s party school rep-utation, he wants the audience to expect a unique act that is “cleaner” in comparison to most comedian’s.
“What separates me from a lot of people is that I do a pretty clean show compared to most comics that work in clubs. Nothing against profan-ity, I swear all the time but I try to keep it to a minimum on-stage. It’s the idea that cursing a lot is like taking a shortcut to get laughs. I like to work with
things that don’t require those shortcuts,” Pitz said. “Also, I stay away from slamming peo-ple. I will not make fun of peo-ple of a certain background or orientation just to get a laugh.
That’s kind of cheap in my opinion. Just because some-one is from a certain place in the world or their history is this or that, I don’t think they should be insulted for it. Some people are good at that kind of humor. It just doesn’t work for me.”
Tickets to Brew Ha Ha are $10 in advance and $15 the day of the event.
Tickets include admis-sion and a souvenir cup and are available at Wings Ole, Monongalia Arts Center, Tanner’s Alley Leather De-sign Studio and Main Street Morgantown.
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“The scene here is stag-nant,” said Josh Harwood, otherwise referred to as Profit Money.
“When I started we would do shows at 123 and they would be packed. Nowa-days, crowds are thinning out more,” he said.
Though Morgantown has been a less than fertile ground for regional hip-hop recently, Profit Money has managed to release a dou-ble album: “Redshift” and “Blueshift.”
A Morgantown resident since the age of two, Profit Money composed the dou-ble album dynamically: one side is lighthearted while the other features a more serious side.
“Musically, ‘Red’ is a more upbeat, funny record with more of an attitude towards it,” Profit Money said. “‘Blue Shift’ starts the same way as the other does (light and at-mospheric), but the songs progress to becoming more down to earth and relatable by telling stories.”
Profit Money composed most of the beats and music for the album. A host of re-gional rappers collaborated with him on the album, in-cluding A Breezy and Caro-line Snyder.
“I made all of the beats on the album except for ‘Say a Lil’ Prayer’ that 95 (producer) made,” Profit Money said.
“Auto-Tune That,” a track commenting on the auto-tune movement commonly used in mainstream music, is featured on “Blueshift” and
features local rappers B-Hy-phen and ’Lil Payne.
Profit Money said that the movement “won’t last too long – it’s on its way out.” And because he uses it on one of his own songs “Goin’ Hard” Profit Money said that “Auto-Tune That” pokes fun at him, too.
It may appear that lyri-cally, Profit Money doesn’t take himself too seriously, but “Redshift” takes a deeper
look into Profit Money’s per-sonal life.
Profit Money said that what he writes about goes “hand-in-hand” with aspects of his life both comical and serious.
“It might sound cliche, but my life really is the in-spiration behind my music,” he said. “It’s an extension of myself.”
The future of the Morgan-town rap scene is in the art-ists’ hands, Profit Money said.
“There’s just a lack of pres-ence within the community, he said. “Out-of-staters aren’t worried about the local mu-sic scene. It’s on us to point people’s heads in the right direction.”
Harwood will be deploying as a solider soon, but plans to perform a handful of shows before leaving town in the coming months.
USED BY PERMISSION OF NIKKIROTUNDA.COMProfit Money (Josh Harwood) performs at a tribute show for fallen local rapper Meuwl April 16.
Double album showcases personality, unfiltered rap
Local rapper Profit Money’s latest release, the dual-album “Redshift/Blueshift,” is full of personality and local shout outs.
The self-produced effort is across two discs: “Redshift” and “Blueshift.”
“Redshift” is composed of 13 tracks, two of which are skits en-titled “Studio Talk” and “Bells and S---.”
The songs on this disc pres-ent an up-beat flow from song to song with catchy lyrics and songs full of enthusiasm.
The first song on the track, “When My Match Is Lit,” fea-tures rappers Paycheck Game and Seven.
It’s one of the best on the al-bum, combining different rap-pers with different personalities that collide to make a well bal-anced hip-hop track.
“A Love Song” is an angry track with a title that tricks lis-teners into thinking its going to be a mellow track with uplifting lyrics.
The song includes lyrics such as “I’m sorta kinda hop-ing you die” and “Twitter my heart cause that’s what I follow” providing a song that is both angry and relatable, to those in anger from a past or current relationship.
On the seventh song on the disc, “WVU,” Profit Money raps of his alma mater with references to TKE and Natural Light beer.
It pays tribute to the Moun-taineers as well as to the students and the “hot dog man” of High Street fame.
The second disc, “Blueshift,” provides more diversity as the tracks play combining both
slower songs with upbeat songs. This disc flows with slower
beats more fit for a mellow jam session rather than hard core rap. It includes 12 tracks also composed of songs and skits.
“Auto-Tune That” is a song poking fun at the music indus-try and current musicians using auto tune in their recent works.
The song has a slower beat, but still includes profanity and explicit lyrics.
“Say A Little Prayer” features other rappers NDaKuT and Cookiehead Jenkins. This is a slower song with uplifting lyrics and an inspirational message about dreams and jobs.
With the risk of being stereo-typical it has to be said that Profit Money has the anger and the sound of rapper Eminem.
But with Eminem’s recent suc-cess, that’s not such a bad thing.
The release is an unfiltered, hip hop album sure to please those who enjoy hip-hop, but may leave others wanting some-thing more.
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Bieber plans to release his memoir
NEW YORK — You’re never too young to write a memoir.
sixteen-year-old Justin Bieber’s book comes out in October. HarperCollins an-nounced the pop star’s mem-oir on Monday, saying “Justin Bieber: First step 2 Forever: My story” will reveal the teen sen-sation’s “amazing journey to stardom.”
the book also will include previously unseen photos for “fans afflicted with Bieber fever.”
In a statement released by the publisher, Bieber says he is “excited to share just a little bit more of my world.”
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Excess tans, booze and drama: ‘Jersey Shore’ is the best of MTV
When it first premiered, I called “Jersey Shore” the great-est comedy on television.
I remain convinced of this.Season two of the controver-
sial series recently debuted to massive numbers on MTV, as the original gang head to Miami and get up to their usual hijinks.
At first glance, the show seems like just ordinary fare from the network. A bunch of college kids, over-boozed and over-sexed live together, create drama and act stupidly.
But “Jersey Shore” works on so many other levels.
By themselves, they seem like pretty decent people. Even Snooki, characterized as the baby of the show, could be quite a nice person.
Together, however, MTV has created a supergroup – the likes of which haven’t been seen since the hairbands of the ’80s.
MTV shows typically don’t keep the exact same cast be-
yond one season. The cast of “The Real World” is fresh every season, and even “Road Rules” sprinkles some new people in the mix every so often.
By keeping the same cast, MTV has enabled the audience to head into a new season of ex-cess drinking and foolish she-nanigans with an entire season of backstory.
We know that Ronnie and Sammi left the previous New Jersey residence with romantic entanglements. Now, in the sec-ond season, we learn their ro-mance was all too short. We can expect, in “Jersey Shore” fashion, plenty of jealous outbursts and drunken rages.
Plenty of people have com-plaints about the show. Even the governor of the Garden State, Chris Christie, has voiced com-plaints the show is “unrealistic.”
I’m not exactly sure what Christie was expecting from MTV. A show on MTV isn’t go-ing to be a world-class travel documentary.
He does have a state to look out for, however. But I don’t think the antics of this show are going to bring in an excess of al-
ready such existing behaviors. The same argument was
made against “The Sopranos,” with critics saying the show played into stereotypes of a state infested with organized crime.
Curious that everyone was quiet during Natalie Portman’s performance in Zach Braff’s “Garden State.”
The truth is “Jersey Shore” is brilliant entertainment.
You can hate on the cast all you want. You can deride their lack of class, their inability to look beyond the bottom of a bottle.
But they’re getting paid $30,000 an episode for their third season and are part of one of the most-talked about shows in years. They’re making a hefty penny from doing whatever they want and at MTV’s expense.
“Jersey Shore” is about a group of kids getting away with whatever they can, knowing full well you will watch it every step of the way.
Even if you watch it to com-plain about it, you have to ap-preciate that.
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an “exhaustive study” to find out how it can grow and ad-vance in the future.
Marinatto instructed the Big East coaches and players to not comment.
“Together, we have concen-trated our efforts on how to strategically plan for optimum growth of the conference in the future,” Marinatto said.
z Devine traveled to Rhode Island alongside Thomas and receiver Jock Sanders. But, Devine didn’t speak to the media, as he was under the weather Stewart said. The Mountaineers’ coach said Devine ate a little too much at the Big East’s annual Clam Bake Monday night.
“He’s got a little belly ache right now,” Stewart said to WV-MetroNews.com.
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shut down the passing attack, though.
The on-the-field perfor-mance will dictate the true suc-cess of the backline. There is no question the secondary needs to improve and the veterans of the staff will be pushed out if they aren’t getting the job done.
Players like Miller, fellow cornerback Brodrick Jenkins and safety Darwin Cook are young guys who are working their way through the system, taking reps and have caught the eye of coaches.
Once fall camp starts Satur-day, the team will probably de-velop some type of rotation to get the starters some rest and younger guys into the mix.
There is a lot of depth in the
secondary, which is a good thing, but the basket of players isn’t quite as experienced as the upperclassmen.
Tandy, a redshirt junior, has already noticed a fire in the young group this summer.
“It’s real competitive out there,” Tandy said. “We see them in the locker room and we will brag about what happened on the field in there.”
If players are already push-ing each other and proving their worth during summer drills, come fall camp there should be noteworthy strides made.
Safeties coach Steve Dunlap notes the weight room efforts being put in by a number of players, but most notably Cook.
“He came here around this time last year at 179 pounds and now he weighs 205 pounds,” Dunlap said, “so he’s done the
work in the weight room. As time goes on, he’s just going to get better and better.”
With some question marks in terms of secondary skill, there is one guy who stands up from the rest, literally. Standing at 6-foot-5, Sands is the class of the unit, leading the team with five interceptions a year ago. Often noted as one of the hard-est hitters in the conference, Sands was involved in a total of 65 tackles last season.
But, he can’t do it all. The rest of the squad in the
back must step up so the entire defense can be looked at as one of the top in the country. There have been improvements and changes have been made, but its Tandy who says it best, “The sky is the limit, we just have a lot work to do, a long way to go.”
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people up. I kept them on their toes and kept them guessing,” Devine said. “God already has a path laid out for me, I’m just trying to live in it and make the most of it. It’s a great feeling knowing that a lot of people look up to me, and I won’t let them down.”
Devine’s position coach Chris Beatty said he’s seen him improve in different fac-ets each year.
“Noel is one of those guys that has to get to know you be-fore he can trust you,” Beatty said. “He’s gotten to where he has trust in us as a staff.”
The pro player?After such success, West
Virginia’s fifth-leading rusher of all-time had a decision of whether to come back for his final season at WVU and earn his degree or head to the NFL.
In a decision that stunned some, despite being rated as a mid-to-late round selection, Devine decided to come back.
“I don’t have any second thoughts. I was happy with the decision I made,” Devine
said. “I took time to decide with my family and I’m happy with the decision I made.”
Now, Devine is ready to make the most of his final year in the Old Gold and Blue.
“It’s an honor to be a senior. It’s what a lot of guys look for-ward to. It’s a privilege to me. I’m happy that I’m in this po-sition,” Devine said. “My goals are set high. Basically, it’s to win the Big East and go from there.”
It would take a special se-nior season for Devine to pass WVU’s all-time leading rusher Avon Cobourne. In fact, it would take 1,783 yards. But, if Devine stays healthy, it’s likely Devine will pass Slaton, Amos Zereoue and Pat White for second on the list.
“Words can’t describe it. It’s just a feeling that I have. It’s a special year,” Devine said. “We are excited for this year. We are excited to get our team to the best it can be and give us a great chance to succeed.”
The leaderWhen Devine came to
WVU, he was much more wor-ried about setting records and making a name for himself in the NFL.
Now, his goals are for the team – and for others.
In fact, Devine believes it’s important to give back to the sport he loves so dearly. For the second time in three years, Devine and some of his friends from high school put on the “239 Future All-Stars Camp” for six through 18-year-olds in late June.
“It brings me pride when I can put a smile on their face. If I can put a smile on their face, they can put a smile on mine just by showing my presence and being there,” Devine said.
But it’s not just the younger players in Florida that are in-spired by Devine. It’s also his fellow players on the Moun-taineers’ roster.
“I’ve learned so much from him just from being there for one year with him. He just works hard everyday. 100 percent commitment, 100 percent effort everyday,” said WVU running back Daquan Hargrett. “He just leaves ev-erything out there in the weight room too. Just go out there and give everything you’ve got and you will be satisfied.”
file photoWVU cornerback Keith Tandy celebrates after making a play in the Mountaineers’ victory over pittsburgh last season. Tandy is expected to be the starter again at cornerback for West Virginia.
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file photoWVU’s Noel Devine runs out of the tunnel prior to the start of this year’s Blue-gold Spring game.
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NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — In the Big East, the big news is there will be no seismic shift.
After months of specula-tion about whether the Big East would be shrinking, growing or maybe even dis-appearing in the near future, the conference is set to begin its 20th football season with its membership intact.
"The Big East is stronger to-day in every way than it has ever been," commissioner John Marinatto said during Big East media day Tuesday in a seaside resort town not far from the league office in Providence.
Considering there was le-gitimate concern the Big East would be poached into obliv-ion as other conferences ex-panded, maintaining the sta-tus quo has to qualify as a surprising victory for the Mar-inatto and his conference.
When the Big Ten an-nounced in December it was considering expansion, it simply made sense that the conference might tar-get Big East schools as new members.
Big East football might not be able to match the Big Ten or the Southeastern Confer-ence in terms of tradition, fan interest or overall qual-ity, but it does have a foothold in some of the most formida-ble television markets in the
country – most notably New York City.
Rutgers, Syracuse, Pitts-burgh and Connecticut were all speculated to potentially be headed to the Big Ten. If and when was anybody's guess and it seemed as if ev-erybody was guessing.
Even West Virginia coach Bill Stewart wondered aloud during a television inter-view where the Mountain-eers would land – Maybe the SEC? Maybe the Atlantic Coast Conference?
Then in June it was the Pac-10 that made the ground shake in college sports. Com-missioner Larry Scott invited Texas and four other schools to leave the Big 12 and form a 16-team super conference.
Ultimately, Texas and crew stayed put, but the fallout in-cluded Colorado and Utah agreeing to join the Pac-10 and Nebraska accepting an invite to the Big Ten.
The Big East was left un-touched. And while it re-mains to be seen if another round of musical chairs is coming soon, there is a gen-eral sense among people in the business that the storm has passed.
"I think we all, when the whole thing was over ... we breathed a sigh of relief that it ended where it ended," Mari-natto said. "Most of us didn't
really want to have that kind of change. We didn't think it was healthy for intercolle-giate athletics as a group."
Certainly not for the Big East's health.
Marinatto would not say what the Big East would have done if it lost members for the second time in the last 10 years.
"I think all of us were mak-ing contingency plans for what might happen if those scenarios played out," he said. "Texas making the de-cision to stay with the Big 12 allowed us to put aside those contingency plans."
Back in 2003, the ACC lured Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College away from the Big East. It seemed like a death sentence for the league – at least as a football conference. But the additions of Louisville, South Florida and Cincinnati not only lim-ited the damage, but solidi-fied the league's status as an automatic qualifier in the Bowl Championship Series.
"Any time a league goes through something like they did back in 2003, the peo-ple that are able to be on the other end of it when you come out the other side and you're still together, naturally there is going to be a bond," Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti said.
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Big East returns intact after other realignments
apBig East Commissioner John Marinatto speaks with the media Tuesday.
By Brian GawthropSportS writer
Major changes in the Big East Conference standings could oc-cur in the final week of the reg-ular season when Rutgers and West Virginia face off in Mor-gantown Dec. 4.
While both teams are ex-pected to once again be in the hunt for a conference title, they will be doing so in different manners.
The Mountaineers will be led by an veteran group of 19 se-niors. While most of the Scar-let Knights’ success lies on the shoulders of a couple of 2009 freshman all-Americans and an inexperienced defense.
RU head coach Greg Schi-ano returns just six starters, al-though last season’s team of-fensive MVP, quarterback Tom Savage, is one of them.
Savage started 11 games as a true freshman a season ago, completing 52 percent of his passes for 2,211 yards and 11 touchdowns.
Most importantly, however, the freshman all-American went from being the Big East’s least experienced signal caller to being the most veteran.
Savage will lead a Scar-let Knight offense that returns 90 percent of its 2009 passing yards and 80 percent of its rush-ing yards thanks to the return of do-it-all receiver Mohamed Sanu and tailback Joe Martinek.
Sanu ended with 639 re-ceiving yards and three touch-downs a season ago and will take over the reigns as Savage’s go-to receiver with the depar-ture of the school’s all-time re-ceiving leader Tim Brown to graduation.
Martinek is also coming off
a breakout season in which he rushed for 967 yards and nine touchdowns. Fifth-year senior Kordell Young, who missed 2009 with an ACL injury, will be expected to help ease Mar-tinek’s work in the backfield.
Savage and crew will have to adapt to a new offensive line, which lost three starters in-cluding Anthony Davis, who was selected 11th overall in the NFL Draft by the San Francisco 49ers. Junior guard Art Forst will lead the linemen, who fea-ture a lot of depth but lack in-game time.
Graduation also greatly im-pacted the Scarlet Knight de-fense, taking five starters from the squad that ranked inside the top 20 nationally in six dif-ferent defensive categories.
Only 55 percent of the team’s 2009 tackles returns af-ter the losses of linebacker Ryan D’Imperio, defensive lineman George Johnson and corner-back Devin McCourty.
The unit will be veteran, however, as at least five seniors are expected to assume starting positions, including defensive end Alex Silvestro who ended 2009 with 43 tackles and two sacks.
Silvestro will be joined up front by fellow seniors Charlie Noonan and Jonathan Freeny along with sophomore Scott Vallone.
Senior Antonio Low-ery comes back as the team’s leading returning tackler and will pilot the linebacking unit along with sophomore Steve Beauharnais.
Senior cornerback Joe Lefeged, who returned a kick-off 98 yards for a touchdown last season against the Moun-taineers, and junior David
Rowe will anchor the corner-back spots. Sophomores Duron Harmon, Khaseem Greene and Wayne Warren will battle at the safety spots.
Both starting punter Teddy Dellaganna and place kicker San San Te return to Rutgers’ special teams unit.
Rutgers kicks off its season with a Thursday night contest against Norfolk State Sept. 2. The Scarlet Knights will also face Florida International, North Carolina, Tulane and Army in its non-league portion of the schedule.
The Scarlet Knights’ first Big East test will be against Con-necticut at home Oct. 8, while RU will also host Syracuse and Louisville.
Rutgers will test Mountaineers in last regular season game of season
file photoRutgers head coach Greg Schiano, center, prepares to run out onto the field with his team prior to the Scarlet Knights’ game against West Virginia last December.
INSIDE RUTGERSKEY PLAYERtom Savage, QB Savage went from being the least ex-perienced quarterback in the Big East to the league’s top returning quarter-back. After a true freshman season in which he earned freshman all-Ameri-can honors, Savage will be counted on once again to lead an offense which will be deep at the playmaker posi-tions. The quarterback, however, won’t have the feared offensive line as he did in 2009. OTHER PLAYERS TO WATCHWR Mohamed Sanu, RB Joe Martinek, DE Alex Silvestro, SS Joe Lefeged STRENGTHSOffensive playmakers, defensive line WEAKNESSESOffensive line, experience on defense IMPORTANT LOSSESWR Tim Brown, T Kevin Haslam, T An-thony Davis, C Ryan Blaszczyk, DL George Johnson, LB Ryan D’Imperio, CB Devin McCourty
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West Virginia had two de-fensive backs named to the Jim thorpe Award watch list Monday.
WVu cornerback Brandon Ho-gan and safety Robert sands made the list of 35 defensive backs up for the award.
the Mountaineers are one of five schools with two or more players on the list. texas has three. North Carolina, Ohio state and Florida have two selections.
Hogan was the team’s third-leading tackler last season. He had 74 total tackles and led the Mountaineers with 46 solo tack-les. He was a first-team all-Big East Conference selection last year.
sands had 65 tackles in 2009 and led the Mountaineers with five interceptions. He finished off last season with his best per-formance, recording 13 tackles in a gator Bowl loss to Florida state. He averaged nine tackles per game over WVu’s last three games. sands was first-team all-Big East last year.
“I hope to stay consistent. When you have a year like I did, you just want to stay consis-tent,” sands said earlier this year. “there might be teams that won’t even try to go against me, so it’s just another way to find a way to make a play. I’m not going to take risks on certain plays, but I’m going to try to make a play. Even if it’s a team not throwing at me, that’s mak-ing a play. that’s taking away half of the field.”
Campriani wins goldWest Virginia rifle senior Nicco
Campriani won the 10-meter men’s air rifle at the 50th Inter-national shooting sport Federa-tion World Championships sat-urday in Munich, germany.
Campriani, shooting for his home country of Italy, won the gold medal with a 702.5 com-bined score. With the victory, Campriani becomes the first qualified athlete among all sporting events for the London 2012 Olympic games.
“the Olympic quota place goes to the country, but I’m glad I won it,” Campriani said to the IssF. “I have secured an Olympic quota place, and now I want to fulfill my Olympic dream.”
Campriani also competed in
the 50-meter men’s rifle prone. He finished 27th.
WVu rifle coach Jon Ham-mond finished 29th in the 50-meter men’s rifle prone.
WVu junior Michael Kulbacki, shooting for the united states Junior National team, also com-peted today and finished 37th in the 10-meter air rifle with a 585 score.
squires sets recordFour West Virginia swimmers
and divers gave successful per-formances with their respective club teams at the 2010 YMCA National Long Course swim-ming Championships in Col-lege Park, Md., or the Buffalo 2010 Empire summer games in Rochester, N.Y.
Freshman tim squires had two first-place finishes in the 50 free and 100 free at the YMCA championships. the Buckhan-non, W.Va., native, set a new na-tional record with his time of 23.15 in the 50 free. squires fin-ished the 100 free in a time of 51.68.
Joseph AbuRahma, a native of Charleston, W.Va., finished eighth in the 50 fly (26.29), 27th in the 100 fly (59.88), 44th in the 200 fly (2:21.48) and 56th in the 50 free (25.73).
Bryan Brown, a Dover, Del., native, took 55th in the 50 free (25.72) and 89th in the 100 back (1:05.32).
At the Empire games, Richard Pokorny finished with an im-pressive score of 497.95 for first place on the 3-meter board. A native of Buffalo, N.Y., Pokorny also took second on the 1-me-ter with a score of 478.70.
Rifle finalizes 2010-11 schedule
West Virginia, the reigning great American Rifle Confer-ence champions, announced the road it will have to take to win a 15th national title.
the Mountaineers will face six teams that participated in the 2010 NCAA Championships in-cluding champion tCu.
West Virginia competes in nine home competitions to just four on the road. the most chal-lenging of those road tests is expected to be against gARC foe Kentucky Feb. 5.
the Mountaineers open com-petition Oct. 16 at home versus Ohio state. WVu’s Feb. 12 home
contest against Nebraska will be an NCAA qualifying match.
Conference championships will be held in Oxford, Miss., Feb. 26-27, 2011. the NCAA Championships will take place in Columbus, ga., March 11-12.
158 named Big east all-starsA total of 158 West Virginia
athletes were named 2009-10 Big East Conference Academic All-stars – an increase of 18 over the 2008-09 Mountaineers on the list.
Notable athletes on the list in-clude: baseball’s Jedd gyorko, men’s basketball’s Da’sean But-ler, Deniz Kilicli, Joe Mazzulla and women’s basketball’s Asya Bussie and Liz Repella.
For a complete list of the all-stars, visit www.msnsportsnet.com.
Tickets available for home games
tickets are now on sale for all of West Virginia university’s 2010 home football contests, as well as the Mountaineers’ road games at Connecticut, Louis-ville and Pitt.
tickets can be purchased on-line at www.WVugAME.com, at the Coliseum ticket Office or by calling 1-800-WVu gAME.
West Virginia opens the sea-son at home against Coastal Carolina, saturday, sept. 4, at 3:30 p.m., at Milan Puskar stadium.
Tickets on sale for Puerto Rico Tip-Off
tickets for the West Virginia men’s basketball team’s trip to Puerto Rico for a tip-off tourna-ment went on sale sunday.
Fans can purchase tickets at ticketpop.com or by calling 787-294-0001. All seating for the tournament will be gen-eral admission. ticket pack-ages include all-session tickets for $100, booster tickets (3 ses-sions) for $60 or single-session tickets for $25.
the event will be held Nov. 18, 19 and 21 at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in the cosmopolitan Hato Rey district of san Juan.
WVu could face North Caro-lina, Davidson, Hofstra, Min-nesota, Nebraska, Vanderbilt or Western Kentucky in the tournament.
— Compiled by Tony Dobies
WVU NOTEBOOK
file photoWVU safety Robert Sands, No. 2, and cornerback Brandon Hogan, No. 22, converge on a Louisville wide receiver last season. Sands and Hogan were named to the Jim Thorpe Award watch list earlier this week.
2 named to Thorpe Award watch list
By Scott cahoonSportS Writer
West Virginia has slimmed its list of candidates to replace outgoing volleyball coach Ve-ronica Hammersmith from more than 20 to eight.
The University interviewed the eight potential head coaches by phone Sunday and Monday, said WVU Ath-letic Director Oliver Luck said.
As of Monday, Luck planned to discuss the search with staff Tuesday over the phone, narrowing the list fur-ther. However, on Tuesday, Luck said the phone con-ference was unable to take place, because two of the
four members involved were unavailable.
“We’ll cut the list down to two or three,” Luck said.
He expects the conference call to take place today.
Luck anticipates a final de-cision will occur later this week or early next.
Though Luck would not name specific candidates, he said all remaining candidates are currently coaching at other universities out of state.
“Volleyball is not a pre-mier sport at the high school or club level in West Virginia,” Luck said. “The majority of our recruits come from out-of-state. We need someone who is in touch with some of
those key areas.”Whoever is hired will find a
team committed and willing to improve in 2010.
“We have to buy in to what-ever concepts the new head coach brings,” said WVU’s senior middle hitter Lauren Evans.
The Mountaineers are com-ing off a season in which they went 17-13 (6-8 Big East), but failed to qualify for the confer-ence tournament.
West Virginia begins for-mal practices Aug. 10. The season begins Aug. 28 when the Mountaineers face How-ard in the WVU Classic.
8 candidates remain for volleyball position
WVU CLUB SPORTS
By derek dennenySportS Writer
After a 6-1 fall season and a perfect 4-0 spring cam-paign, the West Virginia club men’s rugby team is looking to match its success in 2010.
The Mountaineers return 12 of their 15 starters this season, a key advantage first-year head coach Jim Leonard feels will help the team. Leon-ard replaces long-time head coach Jon Niles.
“I feel that we will be a much strong and more ex-perienced team this season,” Leonard said. “We’re going to have a lot of leaders on this team and it’s going to be an exciting year.”
Nick Sachelli and Jim Leon-ard return to lead West Vir-ginia in the pack, while backs Eric Dukes, Bryan Thompson and Chris Vitese also return.
“This core group is the strongest we’ve had in years and will take the team deep into the post season,” Leon-
ard said. Although WVU returns a
good portion of its squad, it will miss captain Ryan Coster, who is still recovering from an injury suffered in the spring.
“It’s tough losing a guy like Ryan,” Leonard said. “But we’re looking forward to the battle between Will Linscomb and Devin Cobb for the start-ing scrum fall position.”
Though Coster will not be on the pitch for WVU, he will be with the team as a full-time coach.
Many of the Mountaineers stayed in Morgantown this summer to train for the fall. These players went through a rigorous training regime and played for the Mon River 7, a competitive local team.
The remaining players re-turned home and played for their competitive club teams, as well.
The Mountaineers’ big-gest non-league match of the season will come when they travel to Baton Rouge,
La., to take on LSU. The Ti-gers invited WVU to a match the same weekend as the two schools’ football team will square off.
Leonard feels the match against LSU will help the team gain valuable experi-ence against a top program.
League matches against teams such as Pitt and In-diana University of Pa., will help prepare WVU to match its Sweet 16 run last season, Leonard hopes.
WVU lost a heartbreak-ing match 12-10 to Michigan State to end its fall season and are ready to come back for revenge.
Leonard is confident his team will benefit from the high level of competition.
“We have a tough year ahead of us,” Leonard said. “But it’s something that’s go-ing help us get back to where we were last season, and hopefully further.”
Men’s rugby hopes for continued success despite coaching change
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each day of the Mountaineers’ fall practices throughout August online at www.thedaonline.com.
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If Ben Roethlisberger’s offsea-son troubles are bothering him, steelers offensive coordinator Bruce Arians certainly hasn’t noticed.
Less than a week into training camp, Arians’ assessment of his quarterback: Never been better.
Arians can’t remember Roeth-lisberger being in such good shape or throwing the ball this well so early during any of his previous six camps. He has yet to be intercepted during team drills, and Roethlisberger has gone entire practices without throwing an incompletion.
“He’s in the best shape I’ve ever seen him,” Arians said tues-day. “His arm is live and he has no interceptions and very few incompletions unless they were dropped. this may be the best I’ve ever seen him right now.”
Roethlisberger is quickly al-leviating any steelers worries that he might be distracted or preoccupied with the offsea-son accusation that he sexu-ally assaulted a georgia college student. He was not charged following the March incident but was suspended by the NFL for six games – a punishment that could be shortened to four games.
Roethlisberger admittedly was worried before camp opened how the fans would re-act to him, given the intense criticism he received follow-ing the accusation. so far, there been no sign of hostility at saint Vincent College, no boo-ing or discernible anti-Roethlis-berger sentiment.
“You can tell he’s been work-ing to improve himself,” wide receiver Hines Ward said.
Instead, Roethlisberger has looked so sharp, Arians is focus-ing more time on figuring out what the steelers will do offen-sively during the suspension.
the answer: Probably not as much as they could if Roethlis-berger played a full season.
Byron Leftwich is all but cer-tain to start while Roethlis-berger sits out. Former Ore-gon quarterback Dennis Dixon will likely begin the season as the starter only if Leftwich gets hurt.
Arians and coach Mike tom-lin still aren’t saying how much Roethlisberger and Leftwich will play during the four exhi-bition games, beginning Aug. 14 against Detroit. Because the starters rarely play past the first
quarter, except during the third preseason game, there prob-ably won’t be enough snaps available for both quarterbacks to play with the starting line.
Regardless, Arians dismissed the speculation that Roethlis-berger would play only with the starters to avoid injury.
Roethlisberger cannot prac-tice during his suspension, so the only work he’ll get with the offense until October will be during camp and in the pre-season games.
Goodell has no final decision on Vick yet
NFL commissioner Roger goodell says he has yet to an-nounce a decision on Michael Vick, leaving open the possi-bility the Philadelphia Eagles backup quarterback still might face disciplinary action.
goodell plans to speak with Vick on tuesday while visiting the Eagles during his training camp tour. He says he’ll make his decision public after the meeting.
the NFL and the Eagles have been looking into a shooting incident at a nightclub in Vir-ginia Beach, Va., where Vick held his 30th birthday party on June 25. Police say no charges will be filed because of a lack of cooperation by witnesses and the victim, who Vick’s attorney Larry Woodward identified as Quanis Phillips – a co-defen-dant in Vick’s federal dogfight-ing case.
Haynesworth skips condi-tioning test again
Day 6 of the Albert Haynes-worth watch guaranteed only one thing: there will be a Day 7.
the Washington Redskins de-fensive lineman didn’t take the team’s conditioning test tues-day, again because of his sore left knee. For those keeping score, there have now been
three days in which Haynes-worth has attempted the test and three days in which he hasn’t.
“His knee’s still bothering him,” coach Mike shanahan said. “And when he’s ready to take that test again, he’ll take it.”
Haynesworth is not allowed to practice until he passes the test, although for the second day in a row he was on the field for the entire session watching his teammates. He put on his helmet from time to time but wasn’t wearing pads and didn’t take part in any drills.
Haynesworth failed the test the first two days, then skipped it for two days because the knee was acting up. On Mon-day, he started the test but had to stop before the halfway point because the knee was still irritated.
shanahan said Haynesworth’s knee problem was not seri-ous enough to warrant an MRI exam.
Revis still not at Jets campthree days of camp, and still
no Darrelle Revis.the New York Jets’ All-Pro
cornerback missed a sec-ond day of practice tuesday while holding out in a contract dispute.
“Nothing really to report,” coach Rex Ryan said after the morning practice.
the team said Monday that owner Woody Johnson told general manager Mike tan-nenbaum to reach out to Revis’ agents to reiterate their will-ingness to talk. Johnson again offered to be a part of any meeting.
Agent Neil schwartz told the Associated Press that tannenbaum called him “ex-tremely late” Monday night. schwartz would not discuss the conversation.
Revis is to make $1 million in the fourth year of his six-year rookie deal but wants to be-come the league’s highest-paid cornerback. He’s seeking a deal higher than the three-year, $45.3 million extension Oakland’s Nnamdi Asomugha signed last offseason.
Revis is being fined $16,523 for each day he misses, starting with when the Jets reported for camp sunday.
— The Associated Press
Steelers offensive coordinator: Ben Roethlisberger never better
APPittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger passes during the first practice ses-sion at the NFL football team’s training camp in Latrobe, Pa., Saturday.
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QUIET LIVINGSPACIOUS
2 BEDROOM APTS.
* Quiet Residential Setting* Balconies* Laundry Facilities* Water, Sewage, Trash incl.* Walk to Health Science Ctr.,
Mylan and Niosh* No Pets
304-599-2328
1&2/BR APTS. LOCATED IN HEART of Evansdale. Off-street parking. All appliances. 292-7233
1-2/BR APARTMENTS. WALK TO campus DW, WD, AC. Very nice, clean. htmproperties.com 304-685-3243
1-5 BR APTS AND HOUSES. SOME in-clude utilities and allow pets! Call Pearand Corporation 304-292-7171. Shawn D. Kelly Broker
1/BR APARTMENTS. AVAILABLE NOW. $500/mo. Utilities included. NO PETS please. Call 304-296-5682.
2/BR APARTMENT FOR RENT. 500 East Prospect. Available June. $575/mo plus utilities. NO PETS. 692-7587.
2/BR DUPLEX. CLOSE TO CAMPUS.$750/month + utilities. Parking. W/D. A/C. NO PETS. Available May 2010. 304-594-3365 or 304-288-6374.
2/BR. 2/BA. AC. WD. NO PETS. 304-594-3365 or 304-288-6374.
2/BR. 2/BA. NEXT TO STADIUM., Don Nehlen Dr. (above the Varsity Club). DW, WD, microwave, oak cabinets, ceramic/ww carpet. 24/hr maintenance, C/AC. Off-street parking. $790/mo+utilities. Some pets con-ditional. For appt. call 304-599-0200.
2/BR. STEWART STREET. FROM$450-$1200/month. All utilities included. Parking. WD. NO PETS. Available May/2010. 304-594-3365 or 304-288-6374.
2-3-4-5/BR APARTMENTS. SPRUCE and Prospect Streets. NO PETS. Starting in May/2010. Lease/deposit. For more info call 292-1792. Noon to 7pm.
2&3/BR APARTMENTS. FOREST AVE and Lower High Street. Also 5/BR house. NO PETS. Lease/deposit. 304-296-5931.
2/BR 2/BA FALLING RUN ROAD. Utilities included. $300 deposit reserves your room. www.theaugusta.com - 304-296-2787
2/BR 2/BA ON STEWARTSTOWN ROAD A/C, W/D, No pets. 304-594-3365 or 304-288-6374.
3or4/BR, 2/BA WILLEY STREET, W/D, large rooms. Utilities included in lease. 3 minutes to campus. Individual leases considered. 304-292-5714.
3/BR, UTILITIES PAID. SNIDER ST & NORTH WILLEY. Off-street parking. $375/mo. 304-292-9600.
4/BR. REDUCED LEASE- SOUTH PARK. Rent includes utilities. Free W/D, Nice courtyard, Off-street parking. Much more. 304-292-5714.
AFFORDABLE 1 & 2BR, T & S RENTALS1448 Van Voorhis Road. Ask about our move-in special. 304-599-7282.
FIVE (5) 1/BR APARTMENTS NOW available. West Run, Morgantown. $600/mo each plus $300/dep. NO PETS. Call Jess: 304-290-8572.
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Introducing“Inglewood
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New ~ Modern1 Bedroom
CondosIn Evansdale.
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AVERY APARTMENTS. BRAND-NEW. 1+2/BR. units. Includes: DW, microwave, WD, hardwood floor, walk-in closets. Other amenities include free WiFi, fitness room, sunbed. Conveniently located between downtown and hospitals. Off Stewartstown road. 304-594-2601.
BEST VALUE!!!Now Leasing 2010
Great PriceGreat Place
Great LocationSpacious 1 & 2
Bedroom ApartmentsPrices Starting at $475
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Now Leasing 20101 & 2 Bedroom 2 Bath
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BRAND NEW! ASHWORTH LANDING. Greenbag Road. 1&2/BR starting at $575 and $775 plus utilities. W/D, DW, private deck. Full bathroom per bedroom. Gated. 304-598-2424
THREE BEDROOMS. TWO BLOCKS from downtown campus. 304-692-0990.
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W/D D/W A/CPrivate Parking
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CABANASAPARTMENTS
LARGE 1/BR. WESTOVER. WDavailable. $475/mo plus utilities. Sunroom. Available Now. Off-street parking. NO PETS. 304-296-7379. Cell: 412-287-5418.
LARGE 2/BR. KITCHEN APPLIANCES furnished. Downtown. Call 304-685-6565. Deposit & Lease.
LARGE, MODERN, 2/BR. UNIVERSITYAVE. Star City. A/C. Carpet. Balcony. $550 plus utilities. NO PETS.304-692-1821
LARGE, UNFURNISHED 3/BR DUPLEXapartment. Available Now. Close to campus/hospitals. Deck, appliances, WD hook-up, off-street parking. No pets. $750/mo+utilities. 304-594-2225
MON. RIVER CONDOS. NEW 4/BR, 4/BA. WD/Pool. University-Commons. $275/mo per-bedroom plus utilities One available May/2010. One available August/2010. 724-825-6375. 814-404-2333
NEW MODERN 2 BD TOWNHOMES close to downtown campus, A/C, W/D, D/W, Parking. No Pets. Avail. Aug 1, $900 + util.Rice Rentals 304-598-RENT
NOW LEASING. 2/BR REMODELED apartment. Walk downtown. No Smoking. NO PETS. Tenant pays utilities. Grad students preferred. 304-288-0817.
NOW RENTING TOP OF FALLING RUN ROAD Morgan Point 1+2/BR $590-$790+ utilities. Semester lease. WD. DW. Parking. NO PETS. Call: 304-290-4834.
PRETE RENTALAPARTMENTSEFF: 1BR: 2BR:
Now Leasing For 2010
OFF-STREET PARKINGEVANSDALE / STAR CITY
LOCATION LOCALLY OWNED
ON-SITE MAINTENANCEMOST UNITS INCLUDE:
HEAT, WATER, and GARBAGESECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIREDMountain Line Bus Service
Every 10 Minutes andMinutes From PRT
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PROFESSIONAL/GRADUATE Quiet 1/BR. Available in August. 5/min. walk downtown PRT. Off South High St. NO PETS. Lease/dep. $500/month 304-216-3332
SCOTT PROPERTIESDOWNTOWN/SUNNYSIDE
1/BR First St. $495/utils. incl1/BR Lorentz $450/utils. incl2/BR First St. $700/utils. incl3/BR First St. $1125/utils. incl3/BR Lorentz $1050 + utils.
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TERRACE HEIGHTS APARTMENTS1-2-3 bedrooms available. Please call 304-292-8888. NO PETS permitted.
TOWNHOUSE AVAILABLE 3/BR. 2½-BA. 1/car-garage. Appliances. WD. AC. $100/mo toward rent till 5/2011. $1200/mo plus electric/water. 304-629-8101.
TWO BEDROOM. TWO BLOCKS from downtown campus. 304-692-0990.
FURNISHEDHOUSES
2/BR, 1/BATH HOUSE. AVAILABLE NOW! Harding Ave. Walk to Ruby and Stadium. Clean. Parking, Yard, Sun-Porch. $795+ utilities. 304-680-2272
AVAILABLE NOW. 4/BR, 2/BA. $350/mo+ utilities per/BR. ALSO: 2/BR ($500/mo) & 1/BR efficiency. $400/mo+utils. All 1/mile from hospitals. Lease/dep. NO PETS. 304-594-1501.
LAKEVIEW RESORT TOWNHOUSE. 7TH Fairway. 2/BR, 2½-BA. Includes use of health spa/pool and clubhouse. Lawncare. $1500/mo. Some utilities. 304-692-1821.
NEWLY REMODELED. FULLY furnished. 4/BR. 2/BA. Large rooms. Beverly Ave. Off-street parking. No Pets. CA/C. DW. WD. 304-599-6001.
SPACIOUS 4/BR, 2/BA. CA/C. WD. DW. Fully furnished. $375/mo each plus electric, garbage/water, (heat included). No pets. Lease/dep. required. 304-599-6001.
UNFURNISHEDHOUSES
2 PERSON HOUSE. WHARF AREA. Very large. W/D, carpeted, extra room, big porch. 5 minute walk. $350/person incl. gas. 304-923-2941.
3 PERSON 4/BR. WHARF AREA. Office, boot room, porch, off-street parking. 5/min walk to town. Carpeted, new kitchen, W/D. $350/person incl. gas. 304-216-1184.
617 NORTH ST. EXCELLENT CONDI-TION. Big 4/BR 2/Full BA, W/D/Deck, covered porch. Off-street parking for/5. Single car-garage. $1300/mo., $325/each plus utilities, Can be semi-furnished. NO PETS. 304-685-3457.
2/BR. 1/BA. WD. 5/MINUTE WALK TO town. $900/mo plus utilities. Lease and deposit. NO PETS. Available now. 304-290-1332.
2-3/BR. W/GARAGE. QUIET neighborhood WD. DW. NO PETS. Lease and deposit. $900/mo plus utilities. 304-288-2205.
2/BR, 2/BA (RENTED TOGETHER OR SEPARATE) CONDO- UNIVERSITY COM-MONS. Partly furnished. ALL appliances in-cluded. Ample parking. Available immedi-ately. $300/per/room/month.703-608-6342.
3/BR, $375/MO/PERSON INCLUDES utilities. Available now. Off-street parking. Excellent condition. 6/min walk to Mountain-lair. W/D. NO PETS. Lease/deposit. 304-685-8170.
3/BR, 2/BA HOUSE. WALK TO STADIUM or downtown. Fence yard, porch, off-street parking. WD. $1100/mo+ utils. Lease/dep. 703-618-7592.
3/BR DOWNTOWN CAMPUS. AVAILABLE SOON. 304-296-8943 OR 304-290-7766
4/BR, 3 PERSON HOUSE. COUNTRYkitchen, great closets. W/D, carpeted, off-street parking. 5/min walk to class. $350/person incl. gas. 304-521-8778.
4BR LOUISE AVE. W/D. PARKING. Available 6/1/10. Quiet, residential area. Close to town. 10-11-12/mo-Lease &Deposit. NO PETS. $300/per person. 304-291-8423
5/BR, 4/BA. BEAUTIFULLY RESTORED So. Park home. Three (3) blocks to downtown. All new appliances including WD. $2300/mo. 304-284-9078.
CONDO FOR SALE! 10,000 under list. A-vailable Immediately by owner. 221 Creekside Drive, Morgantown. 304-669-0588
HOUSES FOR 2-3-4/PERSONS. WHARF area. $325/mo each includes gas. 304-284-9280.
UNFURNISHEDHOUSES
LARGE, 3/BR, 2/BA HOUSE. CENTRALlocation. WD/hook-up. Off-street parking. All appliances. NO PETS. Lease/deposit. $450/person/mo each, utilities included. 304-292-7233.
ROOMMATES49 FALLING RUN ROAD. ROOMMATE needed in 2/BR apartment. Close walk to campus. Roommate can be Male/Female. 304-296-2787.
BRAND NEW TOWNHOME. Need female to share. ½-mile from Evansdale. Fully furn. All utilities included. Private bed/bath. $675/mo. 304-553-9561.
JUST LISTED! MALE OR FEMALE roommate for brand-new apt. Close to downtown. Next to Arnold Hall. WD, DW, AC, parking. NO PETS. $420/mo. includes utilities. Lease/dep. 304-296-8491. 304-288-1572.
MALE ROOMMATE NEEDED to share 2/BR, $300+ electric. Near Evansdale in Star City. Parking, A/C 304-599-2991
MALE ROOMMATE TO SHARE 3/BR house near Towers. Grad-student preferred $350/mo plus 1/3-utilities 304-329-1280.
MALE ROOMMATE WANTED. Preferably grad-student. Japanese welcome. Private bedroom. Off-street parking. Close to Evansdale campus. $200/mo+ ½utilities. Call: 304-292-3807.
NEED 2/3 ROOMMATES TO SHARE 4 BEDROOM APARTMENT. $350/$400month + electric. May too May lease. No Pets. 304-5998329
ROOMMATE TO SHARE 2/BR house. Grad Student preferred. W/D, AC, DW. No Pets. $425/mo, utilities, internet, SAT TV included. Walk to Downtown Campus. 304-685-6062
ROOMMATES NEEDED FOR DIFFERENT situations. Call BCK Rentals.304-594-1200
ROOMMATES, M/F, WILEY STREET &South Park. Available now. Rent includes utilities. WD. 304-292-5714.
WANTED MALE ROOMMATE to share well maintained 3/BR Duplex Apt. 836 Na-omi St. Free-Off-street-parking. AC, W/D, DW. $400/mo/including utils. 724-785-5909
WANTED TOSUBLET
AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY. SUB-LEASE, WEST RUN APARTMENTS,$375/mo, utils included, private bath, fully furnished, free express shuttle to Down-town & Evansdale, pet-friendly, pool, 24/hr fitness center. 410-952-2749
HOUSES FORSALE
SMITHFIELD, PA. 2 STORY, 3/BR. C/AC. Close to Elementary school. $97,500. 724-569-9397
MOBILE HOMESFOR SALE
1988. 14X70. 2/BR. 2/BA. FIREPLACE. Fenced yard/deck. Shed. End park. Mustsee. Suncrest area. $14,000.304-291-0273
ROOMS FOR RENTLARGE MASTERBDRM w/Private Bath,Shared living space, kitchen. New Unit in Independence Hill. $375/month plus utili-ties. Call: 304-349-2051
AUTOMOBILESFOR SALE
CASH PAID!! WE BUY CARS and trucks.Any make! Any model! Any condition! 282-2560
HELP WANTEDADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT WANTED FOR FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT. Must be proficient in MS Word, Excel, Word Perfect and be extremely organized and able to multitask. Bachelor’s degree, 6 hours of Ac-counting, and office experience required. Email resume and references to [email protected] or fax to (304)599-6929
BUCKET HEAD PUB. BARTENDERS WANTED. Will train. 10-minutes from downtown Morgantown. Small local bar. Granville. 304-365-4565 after/6:00pm. All shifts available.
DELIVERY DRIVERS NEEDED. Experi-ence preferred, not required. Please call 304-692-8525
FOX’S PIZZA DEN NOW HIRING drivers and cook. Apply @ 3109 University Ave.
JERSEY SUBS NOW HIRING cashiers, line cooks and delivery drivers. Experienced preferred Apply: 1756 MILEGROUND ROAD.
HELP WANTED
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PART-TIME HANDYMAN wanted to maintain rental properties in downtown area. 304-594-3817
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VIDEOGRAPHER WANTED.Responsible for multimedia production and post-production of live events, including dis-tribution and maintenance of a library of fi-nal products. Performs other office duties required. Digital editing experience needed. Email resume and references to [email protected] or Fax to (304) 293-6942.
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MATTHEW PEASLEE SPORTS WRITER
Strength of WVU defense
depends on DBsThe West Virginia football
team will have a chance to prove the age-old testament “defense wins championships” in 2010.
The Mountaineers’ de-fense returns nine starters, four of which come from the secondary.
Cornerbacks Brandon Ho-gan and Keith Tandy, along with safeties Sidney Glover and Robert Sands, are back and ready to improve on what some would call a disappointing 2009 campaign.
A year ago, the defense sur-rendered 282 points, a mark good enough for fourth in the Big East Conference.
The WVU defense also came in fourth in passing defense, limiting opponents to an aver-age of 209.8 passing yards per game.
Often times during the 2009 season, the secondary fell vic-tim to the long ball and were burned on deep passes that ul-timately went for touchdowns.
Fans moaned and groaned of coverage mismatches and blamed the players for lack of judgment on passing plays.
This year the back-door stop-pers are prepared to silence all critics, citing their experience as a selling point.
“The experience shows that we have people who have been in tough situations before and will come through. They are going to show the young play-ers and we will gain that expe-rience,” said Pat Miller, a cor-nerback who appeared in nine games as a freshman.
It does take more than expe-rience to win ball games and
WVU picked second in Big East preseason poll
By Tony doBiESSPORTS EdITOR
The Big East Conference ti-tle goes through Pittsburgh this year – at least that’s what the media think.
Pitt was selected to win the Big East, earning 22 of the 24 preseason No. 1 votes. West Vir-ginia and last year’s champion Cincinnati were tied for second.
“It doesn’t matter where they have you in the preseason,” said J.T. Thomas to WVMetroNews.com. “All it does it give the seven teams that aren’t No. 1 motivation to work at it.
West Virginia has finished no lower than second in the Big East in every year since 2002. Head coach Bill Stewart’s
squad has 19 returning start-ers, including a Heisman Tro-phy candidate in running back Noel Devine, and expects to showcase one of the leading de-fenses in the conference.
Connecticut was a close fourth. Rutgers, South Flor-ida, Syracuse and Louisville rounded out the poll.
z Big East Commissioner John Marinatto told members of the media the Big East Con-ference is stronger today “in ev-ery way” than it has ever been.
He said the conference has built a group of leaders and ad-visors, including former NFL Commissioner Bill Tagliabue, have put the conference under
DeviNe AND CONqUeRMountaineers’ star running back has been through a lot, continues to beat odds
see PEASLEE on PAGE 9see DEvinE on PAGE 9
DEvinE STATS
2007 73 6 8.6SEASON NO. Td AVG.
627YdS.
2008 206 4 6.31,289
RUSHING
2009 241 13 6.11,465TOTALS 520 23 6.53,381
see BE on PAGE 9
By Tony doBiESSPORTS EdITOR
When Noel Devine first stepped on campus at West Virginia, few thought he would ever receive his degree.
That includes himself. “I just thought I would
be here for three years and be three and out,” said the Mountaineers’ senior start-ing running back.
The North Fort Myers, Fla., native, traveled to Morgan-town with the pedigree of one of the best high school running backs in history. He was touted as the next Reg-gie Bush and had a YouTube following like the Cartwheel-ing Goalie.
This fall, Devine will end a four-year journey that admit-
tedly changed his life.He’s more than just a run-
ning back now. “I would say spiritually,
mentally, I’m just overall a better person. It’s just part of growing up,” he said.
The high school sensationThose who thought he
wouldn’t make it didn’t take a big risk in thinking so when Devine came out of high school. Devine, a running back sensation even as a high school star, has been through a lot in his 21 years.
His father and mother died before he turned 12, and he witnessed one of his friends dying before he could even think about college.
He also missed two games as a senior because of a con-
frontation and missed out on a postseason all-star game because of an incident in the locker room.
His grades weren’t the best either, and coming out of high school a Division I-A college was nearly ruled out because of his bad academics.
But, when Devine an-nounced his commitment to West Virginia, he stepped on a path to prove those doubt-ers wrong.
“Coming from my family, not too many of them (went to college),” Devine said. “I had a chip on my shoulder because of that and set my goals high.”
The college starDevine made an instant
impact in his freshman sea-son in 2007. Behind starter Steve Slaton, Devine rushed for 627 yards and six touch-downs including 136 scin-tillating yards in a win over Maryland, 118 in a blowout of Connecticut to win the Big East Conference title and 108 yards in place of an injured Slaton in a Fiesta Bowl win over Oklahoma.
Heading into his first year as a starter in 2008, though, Devine made headlines off
the field. Devine and three teammates plead no con-test to misdemeanor battery charges after an altercation outside a club in February 2008. He was not suspended, though.
The then-sophomore put the charges behind him and doubled his statistics as a first-year starter in 2008.
“College has been great. It gave me an opportunity to grow mentally, physically and spiritually,” Devine said.
He finished with 1,289 yards rushing for four touchdowns.
His junior season was even better, rushing for 1,465 yards and 13 touchdowns.
“I think I shut a lot of
file pho
to
“i would say SPiRiTUALLY, MEnTALLY, i’m just overall a BETTER PERSOn. it’s just part of GROWinG UP.” — noel devine