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The May 27, 2010 edition of The Daily Athenaeum, West Virginia University's official student newspaper.TRANSCRIPT
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THURSDAY MAY 27, 2010 VOLUME 123, ISSUE 152www.THEDAONLINE.comwwwda
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The West Virginia baseball team surprised No. 9 Louis-ville by taking a 4-1 lead, but couldn’t close the deal.
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Sunnyside project up for re-bidBY EVAN MOORE
STAFF WRITER
Th e streetscape project on Grant Avenue will be open for bidding a second time after only one con-tractor responded during the ini-tial bidding process.
Summer projects will replace sidewalks, develop two bus stops and install LED streetlights on Grant Avenue starting at 4th Street and ending at Campus Drive. Th e project is funded by a Tax Incre-ment Financing project.
Jim Hunt, Executive Director of Sunnyside Up, attributed the set-back to multiple factors but is con-fi dent the project will move for-ward soon.
“When we fi rst did the bidding
a few weeks ago, we only had one bidder respond, and that bid ex-ceeded our funds for the project,” Hunt said. “One of the things that happened is, at the same time, the city of Morgantown was bidding the downtown streetscape.”
Hunt also said the project was complicated for contractors to bid on due to the complexity of the plan. Ten companies initially came to the pre-bid meeting April 29.
“If it was only paving or side-walks these companies that do this on a regular basis can bid it within a week, but ours is a little more complicated because of the var-ious components to it,” Hunt said.
Contractors will be able to at-tend a pre-bid meeting May 26 and bidding will reopen June 8. Th e
contract will be awarded June 15.“Altogether, we’ll lose about two
weeks, we can make that up at the end of the fall construction sea-son,” said Dan Boroff , Morgan-town city manager.
Boroff said the TIF project is on its way to completion, de-spite the bidding schedule being reworked.
“In this case we’re very fortunate that we have time to go back, seek additional bids and hopefully get a better price,” Boroff said. “Th at process is already in motion.”
TIF projects allow municipali-ties to borrow against the increased property tax revenue that will re-sult from the improvements.
Although improving infrastruc-ture on Grant Avenue is a substan-
tial part of the construction occur-ring in Sunnyside, other projects are also taking place across the neighborhood.
Hunt cited the Beechurst Gate-way Project, sewer line replace-ment near the Monongahela River and developments like Beechview Place and Mountaineer Place.
“We’re excited because this is one of the busiest construction areas in the state right now,” Hunt said. “We think that when the students come back this will be a diff erent neighborhood.”
He said about $50 million of construction has either been pro-posed or is currently in progress in the Sunnyside neighborhood.
Summer Session I 2010 Textbook rentals may save students half of book price
BY ERIN FITZWILLIAMSSTAFF WRITER
Textbook rentals will be avail-able at on-campus and off -cam-pus bookstores this fall.
Rentable texts will be avail-able in the Barnes & Noble campus bookstores, online for shipment to the store and Th e Book Exchange’s downtown store.
“(Students) have many ser-vices they can choose from,” said David Lang, West Virginia University Barnes & Noble gen-eral manager. “Th is partnered with other things we off er in the store, like fi nancial aid, regis-tration integration, all of those things makes us a better book store and able to better service students”
Th e bookstore will accept re-turns on rented books that have been written in, highlighted, or show reasonable wear and tear from a single year’s use. All rented textbooks must be re-turned to the bookstore within 10 days of the last day of fi nals.
Rented textbooks may be re-turned by mail before the rental due date.
“I don’t have the list yet of all the rental titles, but students will save over 50 percent if they rent the book instead of buy the book,” Lang said.
Barnes & Noble bookstores tested out the rental program at three of their campus bookstores last fall and have expanded the program to 25 stores, includ-ing WVU, Th e Ohio State Uni-versity, the University of Mary-land and the University of South Carolina.
Students returning books in poor condition, after the due date or not at all will be charged a replacement fee equal to 75 percent of the selling price, plus an additional processing fee.
Th e Book Exchange down-town will also offer textbook rentals beginning in the fall semester.
“We don’t know the details yet,” said Joey Arbuckle, Book Exchange textbook manager. “First semester will be selected titles, and it will open up more in the second.”
Arbuckle said it will be nearly the same as the on-campus
Writing class to become part of online portfolio
BY DEVON UNGERCITY EDITOR
Th e student writing require-ment at West Virginia University is being revamped following fac-ulty complaints.
Currently, students must com-plete writing-specifi c courses in their majors; the new portfolio al-lows students to place work from other courses into online portfo-lios to fulfi ll the requirement.
Valerie Lastinger, a foreign language professor at WVU, pre-sented her proposal for an on-line writing portfolio to the Fac-ulty Senate Executive Committee Monday.
Th e Division of Art and De-sign is piloting a program to de-termine how to implement it throughout the University.
“A couple of years ago, there was great demand ... many de-partments came to the GEC (General Education Curricu-lum) committee to express their discontent with the current writ-ing requirement at WVU,” Last-inger said.
A committee was formed in fall 2008 to begin to address these concerns. In 2009, Fac-
ulty Senate passed a resolution from the committee allowing colleges to create online writing portfolios for students’ writing requirements.
Lastinger said these courses require more work from the in-structor while providing no ex-tra reward. She said faculty mem-bers raised concerns over the lack of incentive to teach these courses.
Th e program aims to help stu-dents by creating writing clin-ics in the colleges and allowing advisers to more closely moni-tor student progress and provide help.
Students would be instructed to use the online portfolio dur-ing freshman orientation and would place writing assign-ments in the portfolio as they were completed.
“At the beginning of their ju-nior year, the student will enroll in a one-hour course for profes-sional development,” Lastinger said. “Within the scope of that course, the faculty will review with the student to make sure the portfolio is prepared to be
More students enrolling in summer classesBY NICK ASHLEY
STAFF WRITER
Summer, for most students, is a time to relax and enjoy time off from school. However, many stu-dents at West Virginia University are using summer as a chance to catch up on their course work.
“Th ere are 10,265 students en-rolled for the summer, which is an increase of 2.8 percent. Th ere are hundreds of classes that are of-fered in the summer,” said Lynn Reinke academic professional program coordinator at the WVU Extended Learning Offi ce.
“Generally, GEC courses are popular due to students want-ing to clear some of their minor classes up. All are on the courses.wvu.edu website.”
Lynn said students will gener-ally take six hours of credit during the summer, and online classes are popular because they can be worked around students’ summer
schedules.Summer classes can range from
three to 12 weeks. Most classes are six weeks. Students who are inter-ested in signing up for summer courses can register for a class up until the day it starts.
According to the WVU ad-missions website, summer tu-ition rates for undergraduates are $223 per credit hour for in-state students and $685 per credit hour for out-of-state students.
Th e rates for graduate students are $327 for in-state and $943 for out-of-state. Th ese numbers do not refl ect the cost of course-spe-cifi c fees.
Students who wish to live on campus during the summer ses-sion can live in Pierpont Apart-ments on the Evansdale Campus. Summer housing rates for a single room are $150.50 for one week, $903 for six weeks and $1,806 for
WVU in top 10 of most ‘liked’ universitiesBY MORGAN MCCORMICK
STAFF WRITER
With relationship statuses, sta-tus updates and photos appear-ing on Facebook news feeds, West Virginia University supporters were busy helping to rank WVU No. 10 for the university with the most fans.
Th e list is comprised of how many fans universities had on their official fan pages and in their offi cial groups to compile the list.
Washington Post blogger and education reporter Jenna John-son posted the list May 1. She is updating it with universities and colleges as she fi nds more pages and groups.
WVU ranked No. 10, ahead of schools such as Stanford Univer-
sity, the University of Kentucky, the University of Miami and the University of Notre Dame. Texas A&M University ranks fi rst on the list.
Cathy Orndorff, director of WVU Web Services, said we ranked so high due to trends with fans and alumni.
“WVU has really devoted fans and very successful sports teams. We are also fortunate to not have a professional team or other large university to compete with,” Orn-dorff said.
Dan Caryll, WVU Web Services intern, believes WVU earned the spot because it has done a good job of embracing and growing with new technology.
“WVU has always attempted to stay on top of the latest tech-nology, whether it’s using Twitter
feeds to update students on news and events or creating an iPhone application containing informa-tion on transportation and other campus ideas,” Caryll said in an e-mail. “Having so many stu-dents to try to connect to is dif-fi cult, but Facebook allows for an easy way to fi nd people that you may have not had any other way to contact.”
Not only do sports fan fans fi nd Facebook useful, but it also serves a purpose for the University.
“Facebook is the fi rst source of information for students, alumni, and faculty,” said Tricia Petty, as-sociate vice president for Univer-sity Relations Operations. “WVU has great fans, and when they want to know something about
CHELSI BAKER/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMA summer session of HIST 153 takes place in Woodburn Hall Wednesday.
CHELSI BAKER/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMGraduate student Aisulu Raspayeva studies outside Woodburn Hall for her summer course in the TESOL program, which teaches students who speak another language how to speak and teach courses in English.
CHELSI BAKER/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMThe ‘Sunnyside Up’ logo is painted on a dumpster in Sunnyside. The ‘Sunnyside Up’ program will work to clean up Sunnyside and improve the neighborhood’s appearance.
TOP 10 MOST “LIKED” UNIVERSITIES
1. Texas A&M 174,6442. Louisiana State University 164,0073. The University of Texas at Austin 112,7744. University of Michigan 107,7935. Penn State 101,7656. University of Oklahoma 83,1527. University of Kansas 81,3618. University of Missouri 78,2939. Ohio State University 70,58810. West Virginia University 60,829
Source: Washington Post Education reporter Jenna Johnson
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the University, they check ourFacebook page fi rst, whether it’s for sports or academics,” Petty
said.Recent WVU graduate Scott
Droginske said he is not sur-prised with the school’s Face-book popularity,
“WVU students have a lot more pride than other schools.
We all wear WVU apparel more often than others, and we aren’t afraid to greet a fellow student when we see them out of Mor-gantown,” Droginske said.
12 weeks. For a double suite, rates are $127.20, $766.15 and $1,535.30, respectively.
Summer financial aid may be limited, but many loans are off ered to students if needed, said Tresa Weimer, a finan-cial aid counselor. She said stu-dents should apply for Federal
Pell Grants and un-subsidized or subsidized loans if they are in need.
Brian Ruehle, a senior mul-tidisciplinary studies major, is registered for 12 credits this summer. His decision to attend summer school was based on the availability of classes he needed to take.
“Th e classes that I am taking are only off ered during the sum-mer,” Ruehle said.
Chelsea Goldschrafe, a soph-omore pre-business and eco-nomics major, is registered for six credits. She said there is a no-ticeable diff erence in how the coursework for summer classes is organized.
“It’s a lot more work packed into a short amount of time; also, class times run longer than usual,” she said.
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Flexible degree available for working adult students
BY JERRY HILDENBRANDSTAFF WRITER
The Regents Bachelor of the Arts degree program at West Virginia University is designed for adults to earn a degree while working.
Offered through the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, the program allows for a comprehensive education without the requirements of a major.
The RBA degree program was started in 1975 and has since granted more than 2,000 de-grees. The Morgantown cam-pus coordinates the program, while both Potomac State and WVU Parkersburg campuses of-fer the program, said Barbara Griffin, an adviser for the RBA program.
She said the program has between 300 and 400 students with an average age between 30 and 40.
“The program is exceptional for non-traditional students,” Griffin said. “It is very flexible and has many more options
available than the traditional college program.”
There are no specified courses required for gradua-tion, and course requirements are flexible and can be fulfilled differently by each student.
The program’s website says, “The Regents BA degree is widely recognized by re-gional employers. Out-of-state employers may not be familiar with the Regents BA, but Re-gents graduates report few, if any, difficulties once employ-ers understand the nature of the Regents program.”
Carol Hando, program co-ordinator, says many students continue their education after obtaining their RBA degree. If a student plans to continue into a graduate or professional degree program, they simply take the appropriate courses for their preferred program.
“Because the University is accredited, all of the programs offered through the University are accredited,” Hando said. “As such, students can continue their education either in state
or out of state.”The program recognizes mil-
itary service, giving two credits per year of service up to a max-imum of eight credits.
There is no set length of time for a student to obtain their de-gree. Students are considered active in the program for three years after initial admission and will be considered active as long as courses and other requirements continue to be fulfilled.
Students may transfer cred-its from previous work experi-ence by filling out a portfolio containing a formal request, a resume, a narrative demon-strating skills and documen-tation to support claims of accomplishment.
The RBA program currently has two advisers, Hando and Griffin. Their office is located at 221 Armstrong Hall on WVU’s Downtown Campus.
For more information, con-tact the program at Regents [email protected]
assessed.” Th e portfolio will cost students
around $50 per semester, and stu-dents own the content, which they may “zip up” and take after graduation, Lastinger said.
Faculty members at the meet-ing also raised concerns regarding the accessibility of information regarding academic dishonesty
and other students problems. Committee Member Michael
Perone said the WVU website is often useless when searching for information, and it is nearly im-possible to fi nd something with-out knowing specifi cs.
“At least once a year, most fac-ulty receive some notice of prob-ably 70 percent of the things they need to know about, but it’s in-formation overload,” Perone said. “What they really need to know is, ‘here is a list of some of the things
you might encounter, and here is the website where you can always fi nd the answer’.”
Provost Michele Wheatly lik-ened such a list to a “faculty sur-vival kit.”
Faculty Senate Chair Nigel Clark said such information is available in the faculty hand-book, though he agreed faculty could use a quick reference to information.
bookstore, with students saving more than 50 percent of the cost
of the book.“Renting is a good option,” Ar-
buckle said. “Sometimes books don’t get bought back so you’re saving money by renting.”
He said since the Book Ex-
change sells books for less over-all cost than the Barnes & No-ble campus bookstore, the rental price will be lower, as well.
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Emergency air pack shortage in minesCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) —
One of just two major makers of emergency air packs for U.S. coal mines has stopped selling the de-vices because they often don’t au-tomatically start and the industry fears it will lead to a shortage, of-fi cials said Wednesday.
Underground mines must in-crease stockpiles as their oper-ations grow. Government rules require the nation’s 50,000 under-ground miners to wear an emer-gency air pack on their belt and operators to cache extra air ones in work areas, on vehicles used to bring miners underground and along escapeways.
With one company not plan-ning to sell them for the foresee-able future, the industry worries there will be a shortage, said Na-tional Mining Association lobby-ist Bruce Watzman.
Th e new danger comes as the industry deals with its worst loss of life in 40 years – the deaths of 29 miners in an explosion at a
West Virginia underground mine last month.
Monroeville, Pa.-based CSE Corp. controls about half the U.S. market. Small oxygen cylinders used to start its air packs auto-matically have long been known to fail. Th e devices, known as self-contained self-rescuers, are de-signed to generate enough oxy-gen from chemicals for a miner to breathe for about an hour in toxic conditions due to fi re or explosion.
Th e federal Mine Safety and Health Administration won’t al-low CSE to resume shipments un-til the problem is fi xed, spokes-woman Amy Louviere said.
“If they try to go back into pro-duction before they solve the problem, we will issue a formal letter of stop sale,” Louviere said.
MSHA will soon give options to mine operators about how to comply with regulations without CSE’s devices, she said.
CSE said its air packs remain
safe and haven’t been pulled from mines because workers are trained to start the device manu-ally. However, MSHA is advising miners to try a spare before at-tempting a manual start.
Starting it manually is dan-gerous because miners have to breathe in carbon monoxide, smoke and other toxins to blow air into the packs, said Randy Harris, engineering consultant to the West Virginia’s mine safety director.
Th e problem has been noted before in studies by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which found a 16 percent failure rate in its most re-cent report. Harris found a much higher rate in tests he conducted for West Virginia and Kentucky regulators.
Of the 50 that West Virginia and Kentucky jointly tested, two-thirds of them failed, which Har-ris called “a highly unacceptable rate.”
Attorney General in Mass. argues against federal gay marriage ban
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BOSTON (AP) — The Massa-chusetts attorney general asked a judge Wednesday to strike down a federal gay marriage ban, arguing it interferes with the right of states to defi ne marriage and have those marriages acknowledged by the federal government.
Th e challenge to the constitu-tionality of the Defense of Mar-riage Act by Attorney General Martha Coakley’s offi ce was heard in federal court in Boston.
Assistant Attorney General Maura Healey argued states have historically had the right to de-fi ne marriage.
She said the 1996 law could re-sult in the denial of Medicaid and other benefi ts to married couples in Massachusetts, where same-sex unions have been legal since 2004.
A lawyer from the U.S. Justice Department, Christopher Hall, argued the federal government has the right to set eligibility re-quirements for federal benefi ts – including requiring that those benefi ts only go to couples in marriages between a man and a woman.
Hall also pointed to instances where the federal government has regulated the defi nition of marriage in certain immigration cases.
It is the second time this month that a challenge to the federal law, also known as DOMA, has been heard in a federal court.
Earlier this month, gay rights groups launched their own chal-lenge before the same judge, ar-guing the law unconstitutionally denies gay couples federal ben-efi ts available to other married couples.
An estimated 15,000 same-sex couples have been married in Massachusetts.
Healey argued the federal law not only intrudes on an area of core state sovereignty, but “forces Massachusetts to discriminate against its own citizens.”
“Never before has the federal government told a married cou-
ple that they are married under state law but not under federal law,” Healey said, adding that states “have always had exclusive control over defi ning and regulat-ing marriage.”
Healey cited the case of a mil-itary veteran who has asked that he and his same-sex spouse be buried in a veterans’ cemetery when they die, a privilege of-fered other married veterans. She said the state has decided to au-thorize the burial, even though it risks losing federal money for doing so.
“Why? Because it’s the right thing to do,” she said. “We are now subject to forfeiture and lose of funds.”
Hall argued the law doesn’t in-trude on states’ sovereignty be-cause it doesn’t bar them from le-galizing same-sex marriages.
Hall also argued that by ap-proving the 1996 marriage law, Congress didn’t preclude revisit-ing the potentially divisive issue in the future when there might be
more of a national consensus.“Congress decided to freeze
the status quo and let the dem-ocratic process work itself out at the state level,” he said.
Hall defended the federal gov-ernment’s right to set eligibility requirements for federal funds – noting that federal highway funds must be spent on highways.
Under questioning from U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro, however, Hall acknowl-edged the law sets a different marriage standard for state and federal governments.
Tauro also pressed Hall on the case of the veteran, asking if the federal government had an inter-est in “perpetuating heterosexu-ality in the graveyard.”
When Hall tried to argue that the state faced no immediate harm by authorizing the burial since the Obama administration opposes the law and is pushing for its repeal, Tauro pressed him on what constituted an immedi-ate threat.
APMary Bonauto, attorney for Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, is surrounded by plaintiff s as she speaks outside the federal courthouse in Boston, May 6, after opening arguments chal-lenging the constitutionality of a federal law that defi nes marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
LA Catholics welcome newest leaderLOS ANGELES (AP) — Th e future
leader of the nation’s most pop-ulous Roman Catholic archdio-cese was welcomed Wednesday with a standing ovation in a reli-gious service at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
Th e Mass of Reception marks the start of Coadjutor Archbishop Jose H. Gomez’s ministry as an assistant to Cardinal Roger Ma-hony, who will retire next year. Gomez then automatically be-comes the archbishop.
“Mahony goes; Gomez comes. But Christ alone endures,” Ma-hony said in his homily.
Other cardinals, dozens of bishops, more than 400 priests and representatives from 288 parishes throughout the nearly 8,800-square-mile archdiocese participated in a service incor-porating a half-dozen languages to reflect the diversity of the region.
Mahony, who became arch-bishop of Los Angeles in 1985, has said he urged Pope Benedict XVI to select a Latino to replace him when, under church law, he retires in February at age 75.
Born in Monterrey, Mexico, Gomez, 58, will become the fi rst Hispanic archbishop of the Los Angeles archdiocese at a time when illegal immigration from Mexico is a heated politi-cal issue.
In a homily delivered in Eng-lish and Spanish, Mahony di-rectly set the stage for Gomez on that issue.
“A good shepherd here will of necessity work tirelessly for just immigration policies and for the protection of the dignity of all our immigrants,” Mahony said.
Gomez is the newly elected chair of the Committee on Mi-grants and Refugee Services for the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops. His new position in Los Angeles will give the former arch-bishop of San Antonio, a more visible platform on immigration while refl ecting a large segment of the U.S. church.
More than a third of the 65 million Catholics in the United States are Hispanic, as are nearly three-quarters of the 5 million-plus members of the three-county archdiocese.
Gomez will also inherit re-maining elements of the clergy sex abuse scandal that has dogged the Archdiocese of Los Angeles for years.
In, 2007, Mahony agreed to a $660 million settlement with more than 500 alleged victims of clergy abuse, and a federal grand jury is investigating how the arch-diocese handled abuse claims.
Mahony is not a target of the investigation, according to his attorney.
APArchbishop Jose H. Gomez, center, arrives along with Roman Catholic priests for a welcoming Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels marking the start of Coadjutor Archbishop Jose H. Gomez’s ministry in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday.
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BP begins novel eff orts to stop Gulf of Mexico oil leak
COVINGTON, La. (AP) — BP on Wednesday launched its latest bid to plug the gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico by force-feed-ing it heavy drilling mud, a ma-neuver known as a “top kill” that has never before been tried 5,000 feet underwater.
Th e oil giant’s chief executive earlier gave the procedure a 60 to 70 percent chance of working, and President Barack Obama cautioned Wednesday there were “no guarantees.”
BP spokesman Steve Rinehart said the company will pump mud for hours, and offi cials have indi-cated it may be a couple of days before they know whether the procedure is working. Th e top kill involves pumping enough mud into the gusher to overcome the fl ow of oil, and engineers plan to follow it up with cement to try to permanently seal the well.
A live video stream showed pictures of the oil gushing and the blowout preventer, the fi ve-story device the mud was being pumped into. A weak spot in the device could blow under the pres-sure, causing a brand new leak.
Gene Beck, a petroleum engi-neering professor at Texas A&M in College Station, said the en-deavor would likely fail quickly if the mud could not overcome the pressure of the oil.
“Th e longer it goes, maybe the better news that is,” Beck said. “Th ey are hoping that nothing
breaks, that they don’t have any failures in what they’re pumping into.”
BP PLC was leasing the rig Deepwater Horizon when it ex-ploded April 20, killing 11 workers and triggering the spill that has so far spewed at least 7 million gal-lons into the Gulf. Oil has begun coating birds and washing into Louisiana’s delicate wetlands.
Witness statements obtained by Th e Associated Press show se-nior managers complained BP was “taking shortcuts” the day of the explosion by replacing heavy drilling fl uid with saltwater in the well that blew out.
Truitt Crawford, a roustabout for drilling rig owner Trans-ocean Ltd., told Coast Guard in-vestigators about the complaints. Th e seawater, which would have provided less weight to contain surging pressure from the ocean depths, was being used to pre-pare for dropping a fi nal blob of cement into the well.
“I overheard upper manage-ment talking saying that BP was taking shortcuts by displacing the well with saltwater instead of mud without sealing the well with cement plugs, this is why it blew out,” Crawford said in his state-ment. BP declined to comment.
Th e statements show workers talked just minutes before the blowout about pressure prob-lems in the well. At fi rst, nobody seemed too worried: Th e chief
mate for Transocean left two crew members to deal with the issue on their own.
What began as a routine pres-sure problem, however, suddenly turned to panic. The workers called bosses to report a situa-tion, with assistant driller Ste-phen Curtis telling one senior op-erator that the well was “coming in.” Someone told well site leader Donald Vidrine that they were “getting mud back.” Th e drilling supervisor, Jason Anderson, tried to shut down the well.
It didn’t work. Both Curtis and Anderson died in the explosion.
At a hearing in New Orleans on Wednesday, Douglas Brown, the Deepwater Horizon’s chief me-chanic, testifi ed about what he described as a “skirmish” between someone he called the “company man” – a BP offi cial – and three other employees during a meet-ing the day of the explosion.
Brown said he didn’t pay par-ticular attention to what they were discussing because it did not involve his engine room du-ties. He later said he did not know the BP offi cial’s name.
“The driller outlined what would be taking place, but the company man stood up and said ‘We’ll be having some changes to that,’” Brown testifi ed. He said the three other workers initially disagreed but “the company man said ‘Th is is how it’s going to be.’”
APOil absorbent material boom and oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is seen on Elmer’s Island in Grand Isle, La. Tuesday.
Obama border plan similar to Bush’sPHOENIX (AP) — President Ba-
rack Obama’s plan to send as many as 1,200 National Guard troops back to the U.S.-Mexico border quelled demands that he must do more to battle illegal im-migration and drug smuggling, but advocates for tougher en-forcement say the troops need au-thority to make detentions.
Th e new plan looks similar to the National Guard initiative un-der former President George W. Bush, but on a much smaller scale: Troops will work on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support, and will eventually be re-placed by more border patrol and customs agents. Th e plan at this point doesn’t call for the ability to round up suspected illegal immi-grants and smugglers.
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual, speaking to jour-nalists Wednesday in Mexico City, said the troops will serve as a bridge until the American gov-ernment can get more agents on the border. He emphasized that the troops won’t be working on the front lines or interacting with people crossing the border.
“It’s much more back office functions of receiving reports that are coming in from other intelli-gence entities,” he said. Th e troops will “review and analyze” intelli-gence, then “feed that to the peo-ple who are actually the presence on the border itself.” In addition, he said the troops will observe the border from remote surveillance points, then communicate with Customs and Border Protection offi cers.
Th e comments came a day after the Mexican government issued a statement saying it hoped the troops would be used to fi ght drug cartels and not enforce immigra-tion laws. Mexico has traditionally objected to the use of the military to control illegal immigration.
Under Bush, the National Guard troops were designed to back the Border Patrol for two years as 6,000 more agents were trained and hired, and they weren’t al-lowed to detain immigrants or smugglers. Th ey were pulled out in July 2008, as planned, but many argue that drug violence and im-migrant smuggling continue unchecked.
Pascual said the U.S. learned from that operation. “Th e big-gest lesson was that we needed a much bigger and stronger civilian law enforcement presence along the border,” he said.
Arizona’s sweeping new im-migration law, which requires
police to question anyone they suspect of being in the country il-legally, has made the topic a na-tional campaign issue. Obama was pushed to take action Tues-day after Republicans threatened to force a congressional vote on sending troops to the border.
Republican state Sen. Russell Pearce of Arizona, the author of the state’s new immigration law, said he fears Obama will repeat what he sees as Bush’s mistake in not giving troops the power to confront and detain violent smug-glers and other armed criminals along the border.
Pearce was disturbed by an in-cident in 2007 where National Guard troops backed off and called in federal agents as gun-men approached their Arizona post.
While supporters of the deci-sion said the Guard members did as they were supposed to, Pearce questioned the point of having troops on the border if they can’t
confront such dangers. “It was a welcome-wagon role last time,” Pearce said. “They weren’t al-lowed to do anything.”
Obama’s plan also calls for sending only a fi fth of the 6,000 troops deployed under Bush. It is unclear where on the border the soldiers will be sent.
Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever, whose jurisdiction in-cludes about 80 miles (about 130 kilometers) of the Arizona-Mex-ico border, said 1,200 soldiers might make a diff erence along a smaller portion of the border.“But if you spread it across the border, it’s like spitting into the wind,” Dever said.
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, a Democrat like Obama who has prosecuted drug and immigrant smugglers, said the planned deployment was a good fi rst step, but believes that the president’s plan should evolve to include more troops and more authority.
Offi cials seek drug war change
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Obama administration wants to shift U.S. aid in Mexico away from high-priced helicopters and airplanes and toward reforming Mexico’s corrupt law enforce-ment, courts and politicians.
Marking a dramatic change from past years, most of the $310 million that the Obama admin-istration seeks for Mexico in its 2011 budget request is aimed at judicial reforms and good gover-nance programs in Mexico.
“We are moving away from big ticket equipment” and toward programs that support “Mexican capacity to sustain adherence to the rule of law and respect for human rights,” said Deputy As-sistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobsen in testimony prepared for a congressional subcommit-tee hearing on Th ursday.
“Th e starkest shift is in how funding will be spent,” said Shannon O’Neil of the Coun-cil of Foreign Relations, also in prepared testimony provided to Th e Associated Press ahead of Th ursday’s hearings.
While the administration has previously talked about empha-sizing institution-building and
prevention instead of law en-forcement in the fi ght against drugs, State Department bud-gets obtained by Th e Associated Press show that funding has re-mained almost entirely devoted to law enforcement.
Th e proposals to be unveiled Th ursday indicate that may soon change, marking a fundamental shift in the way the Untied States has waged its war on drugs for four decades.
Th e changes are not going to be easy, nor direct.
“Successful programs focused on building institutions and eco-nomic opportunity are much harder to deliver than helicop-ters or boats,” O’Neil said. “But they also hold more promise for long-term solutions, as they rec-ognize the complicated realities of Mexico’s drug war and the limitations of military hardware in changing the tide.”
Mexico’s foreign relations sec-retary, Patricia Espinosa, said Tuesday that changes – and a commitment to continue work-ing together – are welcome.
“Because of the characteris-tics of the phenomenon of or-ganized crime, we cannot think
that the problems will end after just two or three years of coop-eration,” she said.
Espinosa said U.S. aid may be directed specifi cally to so-cial programs in Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1 million bordering El Paso, Texas, where drug cartel violence killed more than 2,600 people last year, making it one of the most violent places in the world.
Th ousands of Mexican sol-diers and federal police have failed to ease crime there, prompting President Felipe Cal-deron to announce a new ap-proach that would involve jobs, education and other community support.
Espinosa said Mexico would like to see U.S. programs in-volved “as part of the compre-hensive strategy to tackle the problem of transnational orga-nized crime.”
Until 2007, the U.S. had been spending about $50 million in aid to Mexico each year. But that year, Mexico’s newly elected President Felipe Calderon vowed to crack down on powerful drug cartels and President George W. Bush said he would help.
APA protester shouts as he joins thousands attending an immigration rally at the Arizona Capitol April, 25. Activists called on President Barack Obama to fi ght a tough new Arizona law targeting illegal immigrants, promising to march in the streets and invite arrest by refusing to com-ply if the measure goes into eff ect.
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Education problems begin before the classroomMuch debate has taken place
across West Virginia in recent weeks regarding the quality of the state’s public education.
And with good reason. West Virginia students con-
sistently rank near the bottom of most quality of education studies.
Gov. Joe Manchin called a special legislative session earlier this month to address the issue head-on. The goal of the spe-cial session was to derive educa-tional reforms that would create greater teacher and principal ac-countability in an effort to aug-ment student performance.
Doing so, officials believed,
would help the state secure mil-lions in federal grants from the Race to the Top competition.
But as the debate stalled, Manchin withdrew his propos-als. The state would not radi-cally (and hastily) change its current education system to chase federal dollars without proper planning and research.
We applaud such good judgement.
This state must improve the quality of its education.
According to the National Center for Education Statis-tics, West Virginia students score below the national aver-age in both fourth and eighth
grade reading and math scores. Only 60 percent of students in this state have achieved basic proficiency in math by eighth grade, and only 68 percent of the state’s eighth graders have reached basic proficiency in reading.
Sadly, the school ranks 48th in percentage of residents with a high school diploma and last in the rate of state residents with a college degree, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
But where to start? Recent debate has centered upon im-proving the quality of the state’s teachers by recruiting and re-taining the best and getting rid
of the worst. Innovative tech-niques, such as linking teacher pay to student performance have been discussed, but to no effect.
What teacher would want their pay linked to students who consistently score below national averages?
In fact, new evidence sug-gests that a child’s future is vir-tually sealed before he or she ever steps foot into a classroom. In the paper titled “Early Child-hood Poverty and Adult Attain-ment, Behavior and Health,” the authors conclude that there is a direct impact on “adult out-comes depending on where
childhood income prior to age six was with respect to the pov-erty line.”
The study proves the long-lasting impact on income and educational attainment for chil-dren living in poverty. The poor among us, and West Virginia has its fair share as one of the poorest states in the country, rarely achieve success like their wealthier “peers.”
Until the state can account for inequalities before a child steps foot into a classroom, student achievement as a whole will be consistently poor.
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In a controversial move, the Texas State Board of Education approved changes to the social studies curriculum standards for the state’s public schools – a decision that highlights the per-ils of an overly politicized public education system that makes at-tempts to challenge church and state separation.
The Dallas Morning News re-ported the new curriculum stan-dards, which were approved by a Republican-dominated BOE in a 9-5 vote split along party lines, will encourage high school students to question the legal doctrine of church-state separation.
Several of the BOE’s mem-bers subscribe to the belief the Founding Fathers did not intend to separate church and state.
The Washington Post re-
ported board member Cynthia Dunbar, a graduate of Pat Rob-ertson’s Regent University law school, made her beliefs all too clear.
Dunbar said, “I believe the entire Bill of Rights came into being because of the knowledge our forefathers had of the Bible and their belief in it ... I like to believe that we are living today in the spirit of the Christian re-ligion and as long as we do so, no great harm can come to our country.”
The not-so-implicit goal of the majority of the board members appears to be to indoctrinate the state’s stu-dents, to force-feed the students only the informa-tion they believe will propel them down a path of Christian conservatism.
The Texas school board is making blatant attempts to caste Christian conservative principals as normative in the public education system – a sys-tem in which neutrality in re-gard to politics and religion is
necessary.There are places for Christi-
anity and the teaching of Chris-tian principles – church or the home.
If parents want their children to be educated in a Christian en-vironment, there are places for that too: Christian schools.
There are some families that do not adhere to Christian prin-ciples, as ghastly as that may seem to some. Their children deserve the opportunity to learn in a neutral environment.
Primary and secondary school education should focus on providing students with a well-rounded education free of lessons rife with political innu-endo and should teach students how to think. Most importantly, students must be taught how to think critically and how to think for themselves.
Critical thinking is important because it is the intellectually disciplined process of skillfully conceptualizing and evaluating information, with careful rea-soning, as a guide to belief and
action. It is a skill essential to the de-
velopment of young minds.According to the Wash-
ington Monthly, Texas board member David Bradley, aninsurance salesman with-out a college degree, said that “this critical thinking stuff is gobbledygook.”
This statement says a great deal about the Texas State Board of Education’s perspective on education.
The Chronicle of Higher Ed-ucation reported that some of the harshest criticism of the new standards came from six mem-bers of a nine-member panel of experts appointed by the BOE to act in an advisory capacity dur-ing the push for changes in the state’s curriculum standards.
In a two-page statement re-leased last week, the six mem-bers – two college professors and four high school teachers – expressed their “collective dis-gust” with the changes made by the Texas school board.
According to the Chronicle of
Higher Education: “We feel that the SBOE’s bi-
ased and unfounded amend-ments undercut our attempt to build a strong, balanced and di-verse set of standards … Texans should be outraged (at how the board rewrote the standards) without regard to standard his-torical interpretations.”
The Dallas Morning News re-ported that Dunbar referred to the U.S. as a “Christian land gov-erned by Christian principles.”
To say the Founding Fathers set up a Christian country on the basis of Christian principles is to make an unreasonable ar-gument and an immaterial one at that.
The same Founding Fathers pushed for the separation of church and state and religious freedom – two principles seem-ingly ignored or misunderstood by the board.
Claims such as those made by Dunbar merely capitalize on one aspect of the Founding Fa-thers’ beliefs while conveniently disregarding others.
All state school boards should avoid the politicization of the education system – whether those boards be dominated by conservative Republicans or lib-eral Democrats.
It just so happens that Repub-licans committed this, the most recent crime against the educa-tion system. The issue is keeping the system free of all political and religious biases, regardless of the specific bent.
It would be equally inappro-priate for liberal Democrats to force curriculum changes that hold humans contribute to global warming or that God does not exist as incontrovert-ible fact.
The education system is too important to be meddled with by politicians with little or no experience as educators, who care little for anything other than willfully pushing their political agenda – in this case, forcing Christian conservative beliefs and values on the pu-pils of the Texas public school system.
Blatant bias in the Texas school board threatens public education JORDAN BONNERCOLUMNIST
I am a human being.A simple statement – it should
be obvious. But you’d be sur-prised how some people treat women like me as if we are some-thing sub-human, as if we are slaves.
As if our sole purpose in life is to be a loving housewife whose only job is to clean the house all day and bring her man a beer and a sandwich as soon as he walks in the door after work.
Some of you might be laughing right now, saying “Heidi, you’re being too literal. Th ose are just jokes. Nobody actually thinks like that anymore.”
Problem is, they do.I’m not saying there’s anything
wrong with being a housewife, but women shouldn’t be forced into that role. And certain peo-ple, the Republican party in Me-dina County, Ohio, are trying to
do just that. Instead of making a rational argument against Dem-ocratic Rep. Betty Sutton, their newsletter said “Let’s take Betty Sutton out of the House and put her back in the kitchen.”
How very professional.Even if truly intended as a joke
of some sort, statements like these reveal a stereotype and a belief that people still hold, even if they don’t admit it most of the time for fear of sounding politi-cally incorrect. It’s incorrect for a reason, though, and the of-fense it has caused is no laugh-ing matter.
Th is particular statement has caused quite an uproar, and Sut-ton has called for an apology and the resignation of County GOP chairman Bill Heck, who approved the newsletter before it went out. Heck has yet to re-sign, claiming that no wrong was done. Heck stated that the com-ment was “speaking to the people of that district, and not intended to be a sexist comment.”
How is a “get back to the kitchen” statement, even if
meant as a joke, not sexist? To make it worse, Heck also said, “I think to say that it’s sexist is really diverting the issues around Betty Sutton. Th e voters should really be up in arms about her perfor-mance as a representative for the district, as opposed to the idea that she is being singled out or characterized as someone who should go back to the kitchen as a woman.”
If that is the case, then why in the world didn’t the newsletter say that? No, the writer singled out the fact that she was a woman and used that as the main argu-ment against her.
All the other statements that were against men said things like “Let’s fi re Harry Reid from his job as Senate Majority Leader by put-ting Republicans in the majority.” Nothing focusing on sex there.
Heck also tried to defend him-self by saying that his wife was twice elected to a county offi ce. Logical fallacy, right there. It’s like someone who claims that they’re not racist because they have one black friend: It doesn’t
mean that they treat all minori-ties with respect or even anyone outside of that friend.
Humor and sexism, like hu-mor and racism, should not be mixed. It’s off ensive, perpetu-ates stereotypes and alienates a group of people. Aren’t political parties supposed to be “for the people”?
I have to wonder how the Re-publican party can say they are standing up for the rights of American citizens when they’ve just alienated 51 percent of the United States population and set them back 50 years. And what is the basis for beliefs like this?
Th at women are less intelligent or less qualifi ed than men?
Women have been success-ful politicians, as well as scien-tists, writers, activists, entre-preneurs, journalists, farmers, inventors, doctors, lawyers and much more.
A majority of college students are now women. We are not stu-pid, and we should not be limited based on a few physical charac-teristics, especially in a fi eld like
politics where intelligence and beliefs should be the main de-ciding factors.
We especially should not be demeaned or insulted like this, when some people take it seriously.
Unfortunately, too many peo-ple haven’t fi gured this out, and statements like these prove that. Also, sexist remarks aren’t con-tained to Medina County, Ohio.
Look back a little way, and you’ll fi nd a National Republican Congressional committee press release that bashed Nancy Pelosi, too, saying that she needed to be “put in her place” for speaking her mind about Afghanistan.
She’s the Speaker of the House. Obviously she has enough brains to get there. Let’s let her use them and tell us what she’s thinking.
And if you still think women are on equal ground when it comes to the rest of the political world, think again. I was talk-ing to Democratic candidate Ivy Harper, who is running against Jeff Fortenberry here in the mid-terms. We started talking about
how few women are actually in-volved in political offi ces. She said it’s just one of those things you notice if you’re in the fi eld long enough. If the playing fi eld were actually equal, we conjec-tured, there would naturally be more women.
But as it is, we aren’t equal, and politics isn’t considered our “place.”
Just ask Sandra Hochman, a writer and poet who created a documentary titled “Year of the Woman” about the democratic convention of 1972.
When she came to UNL to speak during Women’s Week this year, she made clear that while we have taken steps forward in politics and other arenas, we still have a great journey ahead of us.
These “kitchen” statements just make that journey harder. I hope voters watch out for pol-iticians – in either party – who “joke” about women being sub-human. We have voices, and we will use them in the coming midterms.
Sexist jokes can potentially hinder women’s political progress in US
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APA member of the media takes close-up video of a protest sign at a ‘Don’t White-Out Our History’ Rally outside the building where the State Board of Education was meeting May 19 in Austin, Texas. A push by conservatives to revise Texas public schools’ social studies curriculum to amend or water down teaching of the civil rights movement, slav-ery and America’s relationship with the U.N. was scheduled for a vote amid a storm of criticism.
APBoard member Mary Helen Berlanga shows her frustration at the numerous amendments during a meeting of the State Board of Education to discuss social studies standards Friday in Austin, Texas. Conservatives say the Texas his-tory curriculum has been unfairly skewed to the left after years of Democrats controlling the board.
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Jackson concert honors fallen minersBY MACKENZIE MAYS
A&E EDITOR
Country music star Alan Jack-son brought his “Freight Train Tour” to the Charleston Civic Center May 22, dedicating the performance to the 29 miners who lost their lives in the Up-per Big Branch mining disaster April 5.
Jackson didn’t disappoint the 7,200 fans in Charleston’s audi-ence, honoring the fallen miners throughout the night.
Jackson donated $150,000 of the proceeds to the WV Coun-cil of Churches to help support the families of the lost miners, according to Charleston Civic Center General Manager John Robertson.
Robertson has been with the Charleston Civic Center for 32 years and said though artists have put on charity concerts before, Jackson’s was diff erent.
“It was truly meant to do some-thing meaningful and not a feel-good publicity stunt,” Robertson said. “Th is concert stands out pri-marily due to the spirit of giving and concern from the artist to his fans. Alan Jackson is very hum-ble and considers himself a work-ing man and has true empathy for working people.”
A slideshow featuring pic-tures of the fallen miners played throughout the concert and the
miners’ families were invited to free front-row seating and a meet and greet prior to the concert.
Emily Pritt, a junior at Alder-son-Broaddus College, lost her boyfriend, 20-year-old Cory Davis, in the recent mining disaster.
She appreciated Jackson’s ges-ture, saying it allowed friends and family to have a good time
while remembering and honor-ing those whose lives were lost in the tragedy.
Th e concert was particularly special to Pritt because it fell on what would’ve been Davis’ 21st birthday.
“On April 5th, 2010, my life was changed. I lost the love of my life and it’s really hard adjusting with-out Cory,” she said. “All I have are
memories, but they’re great ones, and that’s what keeps me going.”
Pritt said friends and family of Davis received free concert tick-ets and were given a chance to speak to Jackson about who they had lost.
“We told (Jackson) that it was Cory’s 21st birthday, and we gave him one of the brace-lets Cory’s mom had made to be
worn in memory of Cory,” Pritt said. “(Jackson) wore it during his whole performance; I have a lot of respect for him.”
Recipient of the American Mu-sic Awards and three-time CMA Entertainer of Th e Year, Jackson has produced several successful albums since the early ’90s and has become a staple for the coun-try music industry with his signa-
ture white cowboy hat and classic Southern voice.
Jackson’s latest album “Freight Train” is set to release Sunday. For more information on how to donate to the Montcoal Min-ing Disaster Fund, visit the West Virginia Council of Churches at wvcc.org.
APCountry singer Alan Jackson, left, is given a bracelet with the name of Upper Big Branch coal mine explosion victim Cory Davis with Davis’ birth-day on it of May 22, 1989, by his mother Cindy Davis and from left, brother Nathan Davis, girlfriend Emily Pritt, and father Tommy Davis prior to a benefi t concert May 22.
APJackson performs during a benefi t show for the victims of the Upper Big Branch coal mine ex-plosion May 22, 2010 at the Charleston Civic Center in Charleston, W.Va. Proceeds of the concert went to the families of the April 5 disaster in Montcoal, W.Va.
‘MacGruber’ delivers ’80s inspired comic action cliches
ROGUE PICTURESKristen Wiig, Will Forte and Ryan Phillipe star in ‘MacGruber,’ a parody of ’80s television action series ‘MacGyver.’
Movies based on “Saturday Night Live” sketches are always a mixed bag.
For every success of “Wayne’s World” there are at least 10 aw-ful ones, such as “A Night At Th e Roxbury.”
I’m pleased to say that despite some other negative reviews from more prominent critics and poor box offi ce reaction, “MacGruber” is not bad.
In fact, it’s pretty great.“MacGruber” began life on
“Saturday Night Live” with Will Forte playing the part of an action hero who can make the cleverest of gadgets from ordinary objects (think “Macgyver”).
On “Saturday Night Live,” how-ever, the sketches last for only 30 seconds – usually with MacGru-ber being distracted long enough to blow up.
Th e sketches are quick, funny,
if not slightly repetitive. After all, what kind of constant mileage can you get from a parody of a cheesy action series?
In the movie version, Forte (who helped write the fi lm) has crafted an efficient backstory of the character complete with every ’80s action movie cliche imaginable.
In the fi lm, a national threat is unveiled from an arch enemy of the United States – Esther Von Cunth (Val Kilmer). He’s out to dominate the world, as all super-villains are.
When the U.S. discovers Cunth has stolen a nuclear weapon, it’s time to call up their biggest asset – MacGruber.
Like many action heroes of the ’80s, MacGruber has retired, liv-ing a life of peace and solitude. He’s not convinced when he’s asked to return.
Only is it when it is revealed Cunth is behind the dastardly plot does MacGruber see a chance to avenge the death of his wife (Cunth killed his wife the day of their wedding).
It’s up to him to assemble a crack team of assistants from pre-vious missions to stop Cunth.
Fortunately for him, MacGru-ber isn’t competent and ends up having no team at all.
Eventually, MacGruber teams up with brash, young Lt. Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillipe) and Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig) to help foil the plot.
I can understand why so many people didn’t go out and see the fi lm. Th ere’s such a long history of bad movies associated with “Saturday Night Live” sketches, as previously mentioned.
But you should never go in to these movies expecting anything like Shakespeare.
Th e movie knows what it is – an extended sketch from a TV show based on a parody of an-other TV show. It’s silly, it’s child-ish, its nonsense – and that’s why it’s funny.
I mean, come on – the villain’s name is Cunth. A movie willing to have such a name in it knows how silly it is.
There are some moments
of comic stupidity – such as MacGruber using celery and his own bodily orifi ces to distract gun-wielding henchmen.
Th ere’s also plenty of child-ish name-calling and misguided trash-talk between Dixon and MacGruber to keep you laughing throughout.
Kilmer’s villain is surprisingly refreshing, embracing the exag-gerated supervillain with ease and comic snideness. Phillipe’s turn as a comic actor and straight man for MacGruber is great.
Certainly, Wiig steals the show in every scene she’s in – a shoot-out in a coff ee shop is a highlight of the movie. She’s by far one of the best new talents on “Saturday Night Live” in years, as is Forte.
Sometimes, you have to ignore what the critics are saying (except for me, of course).
“MacGruber” is a funny, slightly off-kilter, comedy that exceeds the low expectations set by years of “Saturday Night Live” failures.
DAVID RYANCOPY EDITOR
Good summer reads to help pass the long days
Whether your summer con-sists of lying by the pool and go-ing on vacation or taking sum-mer classes and working, you need to take a break at some point and read a good book.
For those separated from their significant other over the summer or maybe things just didn’t work out since you’ve parted for the break, “The Day I Shot Cupid: Hello My Name Is Jennifer Love Hewitt and I’m a Love-Aholic” offers dating and break-up advice from a well-known name.
Hewitt offers a cynical point of view for breaking up or start-ing over. The new self-help book consists of stone-cold advice and the understanding love is hard work – not a fairy tale.
Hewitt gives humorous and thoughtful advice that will have readers both laughing and kick-ing their selves – making them realize the things you should have or should not have done in a relationship.
Not heartbroken or love sick, but need something to keep your mind off things or enter-tain yourself through a unevent-ful summer?
Try to pick a good book based on your interests to hold your attention.
If you’re going on a long car ride or just having a boring break, pick up an entire series of books such as the Stieg Larsson Trilogy compiled of “The Girl
with the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Girl Who Played with Fire” and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hor-net’s Nest.”
Larsson’s trilogy is a set of mystery novels that are sure to leave readers wanting more.
The books were released sep-arately and all have had a huge following. His novels have el-ements of sex, emotion and mystery that are sure to keep any reader on the edge of their seat.
The main character in the Lar-sson series, Lisbeth Salander, is described as “pierced and tat-tooed” giving readers an edgy character rather than the usual boring detective.
The trilogy is one of the few that seem to actually get bet-ter instead of peaking at the original.
The newest addition to the Charlene Harris collection of Sookie Stackhouse novels, “Dead in the Family,” has also just been released.
The series follows southern waitress Sookie Stackhouse throughout her unorthodox life full of vampires and other myth-ical creatures in the small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana.
The newest installment cap-tures the anger and loneliness of Sookie which paves the way for the bad boy vampire Eric to move in for the kill.
The love and death paral-lel of these novels in addition to their catchy humor and ris-que storyline are sure to please those looking for an entertain-ing page-turner.
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LUTHERAN DISASTER RESPONSE COLLEGIATE CORPS meets at the Lutheran Chapel at 8 p.m. The LDRCC responds to regional and national disasters. No expe-rience is necessary. For more information, e-mail Stephanie at [email protected] or visit www.lutheranmountaineer.org/disaster.
UNITED METHODIST STUDENT MOVEMENT meets at 7 p.m. at the Campus Min-istry Center on the corner of Price and Wil-ley streets. For more information, e-mail [email protected].
CADUCEUS, a completely confi dential organization of people who work in any role in health care fi elds who are in ad-diction recovery, meets at 6 p.m. in the large conference room of Chestnut Ridge Behavioral Health Center on Evansdale Campus. Students who are in recovery of any kind are welcome to attend this closed, private meeting.
Every FridayWVU HILLEL off ers a Shabbat Dinner
at 6:30 p.m. at the Hillel House at 1420 University Ave. For more information or a ride, call 304-685-5195.
LUNCH FOR A BUCK will take place at the Campus Ministry Center on the cor-ner of Willey and Price streets. For more information, call 304-292-4061.
CHABAD AT WVU will take place at 7 p.m. at 643 Valley View Drive. For more information, visit www.jewishWVU.org or call 304-599-1515.
CAMPUS LIGHT MINISTRIES hosts a weekly meeting and Bible study at 7 p.m. in the Bluestone Room of the Mountainlair.
Every SaturdayOPEN GYM FOR VOLLEYBALL is from 2
p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Student Recreation Center. No commitment or prior experi-ence is necessary. Just show up and play. For more information, contact Mandy at mhatfi [email protected].
CATHOLIC MASS will be held at St. John University Parish at 5 p.m.
TRADITIONAL KARATE CLASS FOR SELFDEFENSE meets at 10:30 a.m. in Multipurpose Room A of the Student Recreation Center.
Every SundayTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH off ers
services at 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. The church is located on the corner of Spruce and Willey streets.
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LAT
TERDAY SAINTS off ers a service for stu-dents at 10 a.m. at the chapel on Willey Street. For more information, call 304-296-7538.
WVU HILLEL off ers a Bagel Brunch at 12:30 p.m. at the Hillel House at 1420 University Ave. For more information or a ride, call 304-685-5195.
CATHOLIC MASS will be held at St. John University Parish at 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Mass will also be held at 7:30 p.m. in Room 406 of Allen Hall on the Evansdale Campus. All are welcome.
SINGLE ADULT DINNER for the never-married, widowed and divorced will be held at 5 p.m. More information, call 866-948-6441 or visit www.SingleFocusMin-istries.org.
ContinualGOLF CLUB meets regularly. Golfers of
any skill level are invited to join. Club ac-tivities include competitions with other schools and intraclub golf outings. For more information, e-mail [email protected].
MOTOWNPOETS is looking for poets who are interested in practicing and shar-ing poetry with others on an online forum. For more information, visit www.groups.yahoo.com/group/motownpoetry.
MON GENERAL HOSPITAL needs vol-unteers for the information desk, pre-ad-mission testing, hospitality cart, mail de-livery and gift shop. For more information, call Christina Brown at 304-598-1324.
WELLNESS PROGRAMS on topics such as nutrition, sexual health and healthy liv-ing are provided for interested student groups, organizations or classes by WELL WVU Student Wellness and Health Pro-motion. For more information, visit www.well.wvu.edu/wellness.
WELL WVU STUDENT HEALTH is paid for by tuition and fees and is confi den-tial. For appointments or more informa-tion, call 304-293-2311 or visit www.well.edu.wvu/medical.
CHRISTIAN HELP needs volunteers to help with the daily operations of six pro-grams: a free clothing store, food pantry, emergency fi nancial assistance, Women’s Career Clothing Closet, Working Man’s Closet and the Furniture Exchange. For more information or to volunteer, con-tact Jessica at 304-296-0221 or [email protected].
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meets nightly in the Morgantown and Fair-mont areas. For more information, call the helpline at 800-766-4442 or visit www.mrscna.org.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS meets daily. For help or a schedule, call 304-291-7918. For more information, visit www.aawv.org.
CARITAS HOUSE, a local nonprofi t or-ganization serving West Virginians with HIV/AIDS, needs donations of food and personal care items and volunteers to support all aspects of the organization’s activities. For more information, call John Sonnenday at 304-985-0021.
CONFIDENTIAL COUNSELING SERVICES are provided for free by the Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatric Services. A walk-in clinic is off ered week-days from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services in-clude educational, career, individual, cou-ples and group counseling. Please visit www.well.wvu.edu to find out more information.
SCOTT’S RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE, a local outreach organization, needs vol-unteers for daily programs and special events. For more information or to volun-teer, contact Adrienne Hines at [email protected] or 304-599-5020.
ANIMAL FRIENDS needs foster fami-lies for abandoned animals before they fi nd their permanent families. If you or anyone you know can help, call 304-290-
4PET. LUTHERAN STUDENT MOVEMENT
meets regularly at the Lutheran Campus Chapel directly across the street from the Downtown Library Complex. Anyone is welcome to attend the events. For more information, e-mail Rebecca at [email protected] or visit www.lu-theranmountaineer.org and follow the links to the LSM Web site.
WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN needs volunteers. WIC provides educa-tion, supplemental foods and immuni-zations for pregnant women and children under 5 years of age. This is an opportu-nity to earn volunteer hours for class re-quirements. For more information, con-tact Michelle Prudnick at 304-598-5180 or 304-598-5185.
FREE RAPID HIV TESTING is available on the fi rst Monday of every month from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Caritas House of-fi ce located at 391 Scott Ave. Test results are available in 20 minutes and are con-fi dential. To make an appointment, call 304-293-4117. For more information, visit www.caritashouse.net.
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS, a United Way agency, is looking for volunteers to become Big Brothers and Big Sisters in its one-on-one community-based and school-based mentoring programs. Com-munity-based mentors pick up a child at his or her home and do activities the two of them choose together on a weekly ba-sis. School-based mentors meet with a child at an area elementary school during the after-school program for one hour, one day per week for homework help and hanging out. To volunteer, contact Sylvia at 304-983-2383, ext. 104 or e-mail [email protected].
ROSENBAUM FAMILY HOUSE, which provides a place for adult patients and their families to stay while receiving med-ical care at WVU, is looking for service or-ganizations to provide dinner for 20 to 40 Family House guests. Although the hos-pital cafeteria is only steps away, guests enjoy a home-cooked or restaurant-do-nated meal. People may, individually or as a group, provide the food, serve and clean up on a regular basis or as a one-time event. For more information, call 304-983-2823 or e-mail [email protected].
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS is seeking vol-unteers for one-on-one tutoring in basic reading and English as a second language. Volunteer tutors will complete tutor train-ing, meet weekly with their adult learners, report volunteer hours quarterly, attend at least two in-service trainings per year, and help with one fundraising event. For more information, call 304-296-3400 or e-mail [email protected].
CATHOLIC MASS is held at St. John Uni-versity Parish at 4:30 p.m. on weekdays.
MOUNTAINEER SPAY/NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM is an all-volunteer, non-profi t organization dedicated to reducing the number of unwanted cats and dogs by encouraging and supporting spay/neuter. They are looking for new mem-bers and friends to help by donating their time, talents and fundraising skills. For more information, contact M-SNAP at 304-985-0123.
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP is an interdenominational student-led organization that meets weekly on campus. Everyone is welcome to attend events. For more information, e-mail Dan-iel at [email protected] or visit the IVCF Web site at www.wvuiv.org.ed.
KALEIDOSCOPE, an afterschool pro-gram, is dedicated to providing a safe and educational environment for children af-terschool. The programs provides home-work help and enrichment classes. The program runs from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., Mon-day through Friday. Interested volunteers should e-mail [email protected] or call 304-291-9288.
CAMPUS CALENDAR POLICY To place an announcement, fi ll out a form in The Daily Athenaeum offi ce no later than three days prior to when the announcement is to run. Informa-tion may also be faxed to 304-293-6857 or e-mailed to [email protected]. Announcements will not be taken over the phone. Please include all pertinent information, in-
cluding the dates the announcement is to run.
Because of space limitations, an-nouncements will only run one day unless otherwise requested. All non-University related events must have free admission to be included in the calendar.
If a group has regularly sched-uled meetings, it should submit all
information along with instructions for regular appearance in the Cam-pus Calendar. These announcements must be resubmitted each semester.
The editors reserve the right to edit or delete any submission. There is no charge for publication. Questions should be directed to Campus Cal-endar Editor James Carbone at 304-293-5092.
Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis
F Minus by Tony Carrillo
Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley
Cow and Boy by Mark Leiknes
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FEATURE OF THE DAYTHE MORGANTOWN SONG
WRITER CIRCLE will meet at the Monongalia Arts Center from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. This is an informal group for songwriters to meet and work on new material in a casual setting. For more information, contact Jim at 304-212-8833 or [email protected].
BY JACQUELINE BIGAR
BORN TODAY You might have a tendency to indulge in black-and-white thinking. You will need to see how both black and white might be true in or-der to resolve issues. You will see a similarity in the base is-sue. Your popularity evolves to a new level this year. Be ready to make decisions quickly; op-portunities drop in out of the blue. If you are single, take heed of the advice just given. Learn to not make more out of a bond than exists. If you are attached, the two of you will fi nd that communication sizzles. Learn to work with new ideas. SAGIT-TARIUS can be challenging.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) ★★★★ You swing into a diff erent mind-set. Be ready for everything that could possibly present itself with today’s Full Moon. Commu-nication will flourish. You also might not believe every-thing that goes on. Tonight: Hop onto the roller coaster of life.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) ★★★★★ You could be over-whelmed with the swings in a dealing. Let go of a money matter for now. Right now, the Full Moon seems to be demanding more and more
involvement. Tonight: Don’t forget your budget.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) ★★★★★ Others run the show. The extremes you see might only be the beginning. Someone could blow into your life today and have a great impact, no matter how long this person is around. Tonight: Where the action is.
CANCER (JUNE 21- JULY 22) ★★★★ Your ability to move in new ways allows greater fl exibility. Your work and your image might be up for some changes, whether you have a clue or not. Greet the unex-pected positively. Let go of comfort. Tonight: Step up to the plate.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) ★★★★ Your get-up-and-go is only added to by the seemingly surprising turn of events. Remain mellow, and understand that there are many options. You want to be able to choose rather than be in a reactive place. Tonight: Let the fun begin.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) ★★★ You might be juggling more than you can handle, though you might not re-alize it yet. A partner could become quite weary and
difficult. Expect the unex-pected with this person, and you will be OK. Let go of im-ages. Tonight: Be open to a conversation.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) ★★★★★ If you maintain a sense of humor and detach slightly, you might see humor in some of the intensity that surrounds the day. From pre-viously closemouthed peo-ple, you witness unexpected actions and a need to com-municate on a deep level. You see the complete gamut of wildness! Tonight: Be an observer and be aware.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) ★★★ Taking risks is right up your alley. How much you invest in these risks is your call. A cycle of wildness is beginning in your daily life. You might love it, and you might hate it – both at once! Tonight: Keep damages and costs down.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) ★★★★ The Full Moon in your sign pushes you out onto the stage of life. An up-set could occur with every-thing that goes on. Though you might have triggered some of the activity, brain-storm and allow greater creative interchange. To-
night: Whatever you want (but remember, there is a tomorrow).
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) ★★★ Your ability to fl ex will be tested to the max. Though you might not like everything that you hear, you are prepared to deal with it. Don’t take someone’s com-ment personally. You might be more sensitive than usual. Tonight: Vanish.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) ★★★★★ You might want to rethink a decision involving a goal and/or a specifi c friend-ship. Though you might think one way, by the end of the day, you will need to regroup. Quite possibly, many of your thoughts prove to be invalid. Tonight: Prepare to be some-what startled.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) ★★★★★ Rethink a de-cision on another basis. You wonder whether it is possible to see a money situation dif-ferently. In the near future, an unanticipated change in the status quo could impact you. Tonight: Out and about.
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If you’re looking to sharpen up your political knowledge while not in class, pick up “The Promise: President Obama, Year One” by Jonathan Alter.
Alter provides a narrative tell-ing the tale of the most contro-versial presidency to date. The book focuses on Obama’s prom-ises to change while struggling with being thrown into an eco-nomic depression, war and eco-nomical downfall.
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Sixth annual River Jam brings music, nature togetherBY MACKENZIE MAYS
A&E EDITOR
The sixth annual River Jam music festival begins Friday at Laurel Creek Campground in Arden, W.Va., featuring perfor-mances by more than 13 bands of a variety of musical genres.
The three-day river-side concert and camping event plans to showcase a wide range of local talent and pro-vide a natural outdoor venue atmosphere.
Renowned local jam band Fletcher’s Grove is kicking off its summer tour with the event, having had a good experi-ence performing at last year’s festival.
Rhythm guitarist/vocalist Ryan Krofcheck said the envi-ronment allowed for the band to put on one of its best shows ever and he is looking forward to not only performing himself, but experiencing other acts the festival has to offer.
“There are going to be lots of different genres of mu-sic: funk, rock, folk and everything inbetween – even a washtub bass player,” Krofcheck
said. “It’s going to be a low key fes-
tival experience like no other and the biggest kick off of the summer. For us it’s as much as a vacation as it is a show.”
Athens, Ohio-based rock fu-sion band Elemental Groove Theory will also be performing at the upcoming festival.
The eight-member band is currently working on the final stages of its first full-length al-bum and describes itself as “an extremely diverse group with the ability to play many differ-ent styles,” deriving influences from Latin to jazz.
Having just recently been submersed into the local music scene, playing ven-ues throughout Parkers-burg, W.Va., Kyle Slemmer, sax player of Elemental Groove Theory, said the band is excited about playing River Jam for the first time and hopes to intro-duce themselves to a whole new group of fans.
“People are the reason we are doing this. It’s the harmonious balance and flow of energy be-tween sentient beings that fuels our creativity and performance,”
Slemmer said.“We want to convey to every-
one listening that we love what we do, and we hope that they can feel that energy.”
“Our reputation is built upon our energetic live performance
and it’s what we’re best known for – I don’t care if you’re not a dancer, you’ll be dancing by the end of our set. Brace your-self,” he said.
Slemmer has high expec-tations for the event. Having
played similar outdoor ven-ues before, he expects the same high energy atmosphere.
“We’ve played several out-door festivals already this year and without a doubt you are al-most guaranteed to make new
friends each and every time,” Slemmer said.
“The main reason everyone shows to these events is for the music, and that is obvious from the great crowd responses we get.”
“Anyone who is willing to rough it in the wild for a week-end of good music is a friend of ours,” Slemmer said.
Elemental Groove Theory is scheduled to play Saturday, while Fletcher’s Grove will take the stage Sunday.
Other acts include The Greens, Neutral, Kristen Federer, Ed Streets, Jukebox, Joe Shuk, Gabi & Carly, Sometimes, Jim Branden & Bellyman Tom, Ga-bi’s Pale Kids and Meaningful Gnames.
Shuttle services will be pro-vided to the river from the campground.
Tickets cost $25 for the entire weekend, and single night rates will be available at the gate.
For more information contact Rusty Murphy, owner of The In-dian Auditorium and sponsor of the event, at 304-672-3354.
APFletcher’s Grove perform at the 2010 Springfest earlier this year.
BY AARON DAWSONA&E WRITER
Known for its folklore, music, lit-erature, art and even dialect, Appa-lachia has never lacked culture.
Beginning Memorial Day week-end, this culture will be celebrated at the third annual River City Fes-tival of the Arts in Rowlesburg, W.Va.
Anna Nassif, one of the event’s coordinators, said the event was developed to create a sense of state pride and to come together to rec-ognize the state’s talent.
“Th e mission and purpose of Th e River City Festival of the Arts is to celebrate life and art at the grassroots level. It’s to preserve and build on local heritage and to encourage community pride in ar-tistic achievement,” Nassif said.
Th e festival will begin Friday evening at 6:30 in the Szilagyi Cen-ter Auditorium as the Sheila Cole-man Quintet and the piano mu-sic of Th omas Harttung Nassif take the stage.
Tickets are $10 and are available at local Clear Mountain Banks.
Beginning Sunday at 11 a.m., an open church service will be held at the Christ United Method-ist Church followed by a tribute to soldiers who have served in all of the nation’s wars.
Lunch will be available for purchase at the River City Cafe afterwards.
Although the festival is to appre-ciate the local area and its people, Nassif said the event is also to teach outsiders about the state and to of-fer a sort of cultural outsourcing.
“We want to increase cultural tourism, to raise awareness and in-terest in the arts, to provide cul-
tural and artistic opportunities for interested artists in the town, county, state and nation,” Nassif said.
As Th omas Nassif and the Sheila Coleman Quintet represent West Virginia’s jazz talent and Th omas Nassif’s daughter, accomplished soprano Cristina Nassif, lights up the stage with a program of art songs and arias, Andrew McK-night and Beyond Boarders will take care of representing the state’s folk talent.
Playing as both a solo act and with Beyond Boarders, McKnight and friends will close Saturday evening’s activities as they take the stage at the Szilagyi Center Audito-rium. Tickets for this portion of the festival are $10.
Beginning his career as an en-vironmental engineer, McKnight turned to music after a short stint in the engineering business, tak-ing an interest in music early on in his childhood, inspired by his father’s musical endeavors and aspirations.
Supporting himself in college and grad school by playing bar gigs with his rock band, McKnight eventually began to write his own songs in a markedly diff erent style, and released his fi rst album “Trav-eler” in 1995.
McKnight’s music is environ-mentally conscious Appalachian music using acoustic instruments including guitar, banjo and string bass to evoke the Americana roots West Virginia is known for.
Although most of the material performed at McKnight’s Satur-day evening concert is composed by him, songs written by other members of the group will be fea-tured as well, including Stephanie
Th ompson and Lisa Taylor. “My music is an incubator. (As
a group,) We’re slowly transition-ing to other members’ material,” McKnight said of working with his new group.
With an active week of prac-ticing and playing for two ma-jor shows, McKnight said he is hopeful that the RCAF will be a success and is looking forward to what he thinks will be a special night.
Th e night preceding McKnight’s performance at the RCAF, he and Beyond Boarders will be record-ing a live concert scheduled to be released as a DVD in the near
future. Th e weekend will end with a
production of French playwright Stephen Vincent Benet’s “The Devil and Daniel Webster” per-formed by the Preston High Th e-ater Company and directed by Lynn Broderick.
Tickets for the play are $7 for adults and $5 for students.
A weekend pass for the entire weekend’s activities is available for $30.
For more information and the itinerary for the festival, visit www.rowlesburg.org/rivercity.html.
Arts Festival celebrates state talent, heritage
WEBSoprano Cristina Nassif will perform Saturday at 3 p.m at the River City Festival of the Arts.
‘Team CoCo’ comedy special coming to TBS
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andy Richter and Conan O’Brien’s writers will take the spotlight in a TBS special to be taped dur-ing a Chicago comedy festival next month.
Th e one-hour special, with the working title “Team Coco presents Conan’s Writers Live,” is scheduled to air 10 p.m. EDT June 27.
Th e show will be taped June 17 during the second annual Just for Laughs festival pre-sented by TBS. Th e festival runs from June 15-19.
Tickets for the “Team Coco” show, which will also feature music by comedian Reggie Watts, go on sale Friday.
Richter, who was O’Brien’s sidekick on “Th e Tonight Show” and will play the same role on O’Brien’s upcoming TBS talk show, will host the special. Richter also is on a nationwide comedy tour with O’Brien.
Th e show keeps O’Brien and his new TBS show in the pub-lic eye while giving the redhead nicknamed “Coco” a break.
“It was a good way to do a special that was about the show and not so specifi cally focused on Conan,” Richter said.
“After this tour is over, he’s going to be a little spent. And the writers are chomping at the bit to get a little taste of per-forming again.”
The writing staff, Richter said, will create the personal-ity of O’Brien’s new talk show, so the special will give the au-dience a “taste” of what the TBS
show will be.TBS also is taping specials
at the Chicago festival with El-len DeGeneres and Cedric Th e Entertainer.
Others taking part in the fi ve-day event include Denis Leary, Tim Meadows and Rob Corrdry.
Expected to debut in No-vember, O’Brien’s as-yet-un-titled TBS talk show will re-turn him to the air after an absence that began in January with his unpleasant exit from NBC, his employer for 17 years.
O’Brien’s new program will air Mondays through Th ursdays at 11 p.m. Eastern, which will shift “Lopez Tonight,” starring George Lopez, to midnight.
APConan O’Brien.
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If you haven’t yet seen the fi nal episode of “Lost,”and intend to watch it later, please skip this page.
‘Lost’ delivers a satisfying ending to island mystery
It’s finally over.After six years of wanting to
scream at the television and wait-ing in constant anxiety for the next episode, “Lost” has come to a close.
In a two and a half hour finale, the creators finally put to rest what exactly that sideways timeline was and how it impacted the survivors of Oceanic 815.
In this, the final season, the ten-sion on the island has never been greater.
The Man in Black is on his quest to leave the island after Ben has killed his brother, Jacob – some-thing he could not do himself.
Jack and other “lostaways” have been revealed to be part of a larger scale plan for the island’s salva-tion – ending the mystery of what brought them to the island in the first place.
Acting from beyond the grave, Jacob has been coursing the island-ers into the ultimate confrontation – who will be the protector of the is-land and keep the balance between good and evil.
For those who haven’t watched the finale yet, turn away now.
Island:In the final episode, Jack and the
others are on their way to find Des-mond, believing him to be the key to destroying the Man in Black.
Conversely, the Man in Black is off to find Desmond, believing he will be the one to destroy the island once and for all – enabling his free-dom to escape.
Jack and the Man in Black lower Desmond into the shining light at the heart of the island where he re-moves a “cork” in a well. The Man in Black’s immortality runs dry – enabling the islanders to defeat him once and for all.
After a “Matrix” style fight on a cliff face, the Man in Black is finally
brought down by Kate’s bullet and Jack’s kick off the cliff face.
Unfortunately, Jack’s fatally wounded and knows his fate – he has to reverse Desmond’s removal of the “cork” and restore order to the island, with Ben and Hurley following.
Kate and Sawyer, on the other hand, scurry off to the plane, leav-ing the island once and for all.
Jack transfers responsibility for the island to Hurley, who asks Ben to serve as his No. 2 (which, of course, made me giggle).
Jack eventually finds his way back to the bamboo trees where he awoke in the pilot – bringing to-gether the show full circle.
Whereas the beginning of the show was Jack’s eye opening after the plane crash, the finale ended with his eye closing.
Sideways:The reasoning behind this recap
of the final episode is simple – the sideways timeline actually began the second Jack’s eye closed when he died.
This explains Jack’s mysterious cut on his neck in the sideways’ first reveal in the first episode of the season.
The sideways world isn’t actually an alternate timeline but a tempo-rary existence – ala purgatory – de-signed for the islanders to meet up and allow each other to remember the events before they can “move on” to another plane of existence.
Christian Shephard, who ap-pears alive and well, breaks it to Jack there’s only one way they could be alive together. Jack’s realization he died – and the eventual remem-brance from touching his father’s coffin – was heartbreaking.
The reveal that the sideways world and all their “remem-brances” was a great idea though slightly underwhelming.
It was clever how Desmond could breach both realities, allow-ing himself to help the islanders get together to “remember.”
Christian explains the only way they could remember the events
and move on is because they all shared their “most important moments” together and had to regroup.
Questions still exist, and the cre-ators have been rumored to include an extra 20 minutes of material on the final DVD and BluRay set to an-swer the “minutiae” of the overall show.
In the end, this show has been about characters just as much as it has mystery.
To have such resolutions with characters is great, though it is sad we don’t know exactly how long Hurley and Ben served the island before they were able to meet up with everyone else.
It’s a fitting conclusion after six years, though it would have been nice to know more – but perhaps
speculation and discussion may help keep the show alive through fans.
I’ve already begun watching the show again from the beginning, noticing little things I hadn’t seen before.
The show was rewarding, baf-fling, confusing and even irritating at times.
Great television leaves an im-pression by having longevity and deeper meaning beyond its origi-nal run on television.
“Lost” did that.
DAVID RYANA&E EDITOR
AP/ABCJack Shephard (Matthew Fox) lies dying in the same bamboo fi eld he woke up in after a plane crash in the series’ fi rst episode.
AP/ABCChristian Shephard (John Terry) walks through a church doorway into a bright light, believed to be Heaven.
Relive the fi nal season on our A&E Blog with “Blogst,” our weekly recap of “Lost” episodes.Visit www.thedaonline.com and click A&E Blog on the top navigation bar.
Aft er outcry, Facebook adjusts its privacy controlsNEW YORK (AP) — In Face-
book’s vision of the Web, you would no longer be alone and anonymous. Sites would reflect your tastes and interests – as you expressed them on the so-cial network – and you wouldn’t have to fish around for news and songs that interest you.
Standing in the way is grow-ing concern about privacy from Facebook users – most recently complaints that the site forced them to share personal details with the rest of the online world or have them removed from Fa-
cebook profiles altogether.Facebook responded to the
backlash Wednesday by an-nouncing it is simplifying its privacy controls and applying them retroactively, so users can protect the status updates and photos they have posted in the past.
“A lot of people are upset with us,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg ac-knowledged at a news confer-ence at Facebook’s Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters.
The changes came after Fa-cebook rolled out a slew of new
features in April that spread its reach to the broader Web. Among them was a program called “instant personalization” that draws information from a person’s profile to customize sites such as the music service Pandora. Some users found it creepy, not cool.
Privacy groups have com-plained to regulators, and some people threatened to quit the site. Even struggling MySpace jumped in to capitalize on its ri-val’s bad press by announcing a “new, simpler privacy setting.”
To address complaints its settings were getting too com-plex, Facebook will now give us-ers the option of applying the same preferences to all their content, so that with one click you can decide whether to share things with just “friends” or with everyone.
For those who found it com-plicated to prevent outside websites and applications from gaining access to Facebook data, there’s now a way to do so in a couple of clicks.
It’s not clear whether the changes will quell the unease among Facebook users, which has threatened to slow the site’s breakneck evolution from a scrappy college network to an Internet powerhouse with nearly a half-billion people.
“They’ve lost the users’ trust. That’s the problem,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Informa-tion Center, an advocacy group. “In the earlier days, there was time to regain it. It’s not so clear now. I think it’s getting more se-rious than making changes and moving on.”
Some of Facebook’s loudest critics offered cautious praise but indicated the young com-pany will need to do more to
prove it cares about privacy.Sen. Charles Schumer called
it a “significant first step that Fa-cebook deserves credit for,” but added he’d still prefer that Fa-cebook require users to actively turn on sharing with outside sites, rather than having shar-ing be the default setting.
For some users, the prob-lem has been that the company has changed its privacy settings so often that keeping up with them became too much. Before Wednesday’s announcement, Craig Mather, a 28-year-old graduate student in Portland, Ore., was already complaining of having to adjust his privacy settings every time Facebook comes up with a new plan.
“It puts us on our guard, where we feel like we are trying to plug a leak,” he said.
For Facebook, being seen as a company people can trust with the personal details of their lives is key. Users will only share in-formation if they have control over who sees it.
“The kernel of what we do is that people want to stay con-nected and share with those around them,” Zuckerberg said.
Jules Polonetsky, a former AOL executive who now co-chairs the Washington-based Future of Privacy Forum, said the privacy concerns stem from Facebook’s transformation from a place to socialize with friends into the “de-facto identity sys-tem for the Web.” It’s a big step. Facebook is no longer just a place to share photos and play “Mafia Wars.” It’s a reflection of who you are online.
Facebook has touted its cul-ture of authenticity from the be-ginning. It asks users to go by their real names on the site, and it deletes obviously fake profiles.
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10 WVU athletes prepare for chance at NCAA Championship
world.”The program costs approxi-
mately $5,000 for an athletic de-partment comprised of almost 500 athletes.
“(Cost) depends on the size of the school,” Long said. “We base it off the number of athletes that are being covered. Some schools just do one team, but most do the en-tire athletic department.”
WVU does not use UDiligence, but it does monitor each play-ers’ social networking profiles internally.
The Thundering Herd’s football home page is an advertisement selling tickets to the game.
Holliday said he would like to see the rivalry continue, but that it isn’t up to him.
“It’s a great thing,” Holli-day said. “We have to keep the money in state by packing those houses and spending money in their restaurants. Plus, we’re three hours away. That’s why Iowa plays Iowa State every year, Florida plays Florida State ev-ery year.
“It’s something that should happen. The people in the state deserve it.”
Because Holliday coached at West Virginia for the last two seasons, he knows a lot about the program, including how strong WVU could be in 2010.
“They’ve got the three best players in the Big East Con-ference,” Holliday said. “Noel Devine and Jock Sanders and probably the two best offensive players in the league. Robert Sands will be the most talented defensive player in that league.
“There’s no secrets. Every-body knows they have probably the most talent in the Big East.”
That will make it tough for the Thundering Herd to upset the Mountaineers.
And Holliday will have to do so without Marshall’s leading rusher from 2009, Darius Mar-shall, the player who carried the Thundering Herd to its first bowl game since 2004.
Marshall might have a new quarterback at the helm, as well. Clemson transfer Willy Korn started classes in Hunting-ton, W.Va., on Monday and will be competing in what Holliday calls “an open battle” with last year’s starter Brian Anderson and Florida native A.J. Graham.
“We’ll find out in the first two or three weeks of camp who gives us the best chance to win.”
Defensively, the Thunder-ing Herd returns seven starters from last year’s defense, which ranked second in Conference USA. Leading tackler Mario Harvey returns, as well.
RETURNING LEADERSPASSINGBrian Anderson 231-298 for 2,646 yards (203.5 per game) 14 touch-downs 13 interceptions, 58 percentRUSHINGMartin Ward 82 attempts 393 yard (4.8 avg. and 30.2 per game) and 3 touchdownsRECEIVINGWR Antavio Wilson 60 catches for 724 yards (12.1 per) and 3 touch-downsTACKLESLB Mario Harvey 117SACKSILB E.J. Brown 3, DE Quinton Davis 3INTERCEPTIONSHarvey 7
TEAM STATSCOASTAL CAROLINA/OPPONENTSSCORING (per game) 283 (21.8)/316 (24.3)RUSHING PER GAME 142.7/134.8RUSHING TOUCHDOWNS18/18PASSING PER GAME 206.4/236.9PASSING TOUCHDOWNS 14/20TOTAL OFFENSE PER GAME 349.1/371.8TURNOVERS 22/18TOUCHDOWNS 34/41
INSIDE MARSHALLKEY PLAYERMario Harvey, LBMarshall returns a good deal of experience on defense, but it all starts with star line-backer Harvey, who recorded 117 tackles and 8.5 sacks last season as a junior. His success propelled him to become an all-Conference USA selection. “He’s done exactly what we’ve asked him to do,” said head coach Doc Holliday. “He’s worked extremely hard this off season.” Harvey will be the key in helping the Thundering Herd defense shut down the powerful West Virginia rushing attack sparked by senior running back Noel Devine. With the Moun-taineers’ superior speed, Harvey will have a tough task in stopping WVU’s off ense.
OTHER PLAYERS TO WATCHChad Schofi eld, C; Lee Smith, TE; DeQuan Bembry, CB; Martin Ward, RB
IMPORTANT LOSSESDarius Marshall, RB; Cody Slate, TE; Craig Ratanmom, K
STRENGTHSLinebacker experienceReceiver depthRunning game
WEAKNESSESLack of turnovers on defenseQuarterback playNew system and coaching staff
QUOTE TO REMEMBERHolliday on the reception his program is garnering from recruits:
“People have great respect for Marshall. What people realize is that there was a period in the ‘90s where it was the winningest program in college football. The ‘We Are Marshall’ movie helped. You go out on the recruiting trail ... they know the great players who played here and the championships that have been won here. We’re getting a lot of positive feedback from recruits across the country.”
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SOCIALContinued from PAGE 12
BY BRAD JOYALSPORTS WRITER
Ten athletes from the West Vir-ginia track and fi eld team will try to advance to the NCAA National Championship today, when the team takes part in the NCAA Out-door East Regional in Greensboro, N.C.
Th e Regional will be held at N.C. State and serve as the prelim-inary rounds for the NCAA Cham-pionship. WVU head coach Sean Cleary is confi dent his team will be prepared.
“I’m very excited for the women
to compete this weekend,” Cleary said. “I can’t think of a single ath-lete not physically prepared, emo-tionally ready and excited to com-pete. It is rare to have the entire group peaking at the right time. Now, it is simply about going out there and competing to the best of their abilities.”
Junior Katelyn Williams will compete in the high jump at 5 p.m., today. In her last compe-tition at the Swarthmore Last Chance Meet, the junior placed second with a showing of 1.8 meters.
“Katelyn simply needs to jump
as she did two weeks ago and raise herself above one more bar to make her trip out West,” Cleary said.
While Williams is competing, the Mountaineers will have four all-Americans, seniors Keri Bland and Karly Hamric and juniors Kaylyn Christopher and Jessica O’Connell, competing in the fi rst round of the 1,500-meter race.
The 1,500 meter has been a strength for the Mountaineers all season. In its last meet, Ham-ric and Bland recorded second-place and personal-best fi nishes on consecutive days.
Hamric posted her personal-best (4:15.30), which was the sec-ond-best time in school history. Th e next day Bland rose to the challenge (4:14.70), passing Ham-ric on the all-time list.
“Th e motto for the 1,500 me-ter has been ‘one step at a time’,” Cleary said. “All four are all-Amer-icans and have the ability to move on.”
Senior Clara Grandt will close out competition today with an ap-pearance in the semifi nals of the 10,000-meter event at 9:15 p.m.
Th e Mountaineers will take a day off before returning to action
Saturday, with the quarterfi nals of the 1,500 meter and the semifi nals of the 5,000 meter.
Th e team will have four, senior Marie-Louise Asselin, juniors Kate Harrison and Ahna Lewis and sophomore Sarah-Anne Brault, run in the 5,000 meter.
Cleary said he expects to see some qualifi cations in the 5,000 meter alongside Asselin, who was the runner up in the race at the NCAA Indoor Championship ear-lier this year.
“We’ll see the 5,000-meter run-ners toe the line in the best shape of their lives,” Cleary said. “Led by
Asselin, we look to qualify a few of her teammates to join her on the line in Eugene (Ore.).”
Cleary said he would be happy if half of his team competing quali-fi es for the NCAA Championship.
“To be honest, I believe there is a realistic scenario that all 10 con-trol their destiny for the road to Eugene,” Cleary said. “Th is will be the greatest track and fi eld meet of collegiate athletes outside of the fi nals. I feel confi dent that we are both physically and mentally pre-pared for what is coming.”
One scout compared Ebanks to former NBA forward Stacey Augmon who created similar mismatches in his 16-year NBA career.
Ebanks is, much like Augmon was, a team player who is aware of his role as a defensive-minded for-ward who has the ability to score when needed.
WVU head Coach Bob Hug-gins said in the past Ebanks is “ex-tremely coachable” and “an ex-cellent teammate” – qualities that many young players with the same type of national exposure seem to lack.
Th ough Ebanks is not consid-ered NBA-ready like former Moun-taineer Joe Alexander, Ebanks does have the potential to blossom into a very nice player.
Coming out early may seem like a bad idea, but one must also keep in mind the NBA’s Collective Bar-
raging Agreement that will expire following the 2010-11 season.
By declaring for this year’s draft, Ebanks is not only guaranteed a $1 million contract plus a signing bo-nus, but his contract will be guar-anteed for two seasons with club options for the third and fourth seasons should he be selected in the fi rst round.
With a new CBA, the 2011 NBA Draft could result in shorter and less lucrative contracts for rookies.
That being said, the biggest question for Ebanks is what team will he be playing for in 2010-11. Prior to the 2009-10 season, Ebanks was projected to be taken as high as 13th on online draft boards. As the season went on, Ebanks slowly fell.
Nbadraft.net has Ebanks being selected 27th overall by the New Jersey Nets, a young team with potential.
After missing out on the fi rst overall pick, who will most likely be John Wall, the Nets may need to take a player who has the ability
to make an impact right away like Cincinnati swing-man Lance Ste-phenson or point guard, like Eric Bledsoe from Kentucky or Elliot Williams from Memphis.
If the Nets pass on Ebanks, the Memphis Grizzlies could take Ebanks with the 28th pick.
It would make sense for the Griz-zlies, a young team with a lot of up-side, to take Ebanks to compliment guard O.J. Mayo.
Ebanks also shares a WVU con-nection with Mountaineer great Jerry West, the Grizzlies’ general manager.
Rudy Gay, the current Grizzlies small forward, will become a re-stricted free agent this summer and has been linked to several trade ru-mors in the past few months.
With Gay potentially leaving town, the Grizzlies will need to fi ll that hole.
Look for Ebanks to be in either a Nets or Grizzlies uniform next season.
DENNENYContinued from PAGE 12 in the eighth inning.
WVU’s Andy Berry pitched six strong innings but was shaky be-ginning the seventh frame. Berry walked the leadoff batter and was immediately pulled to bring in re-liever Andy Altemus.
“Berry went real far for us,” Van Zant said. “He did put us in a po-sition to win by keeping the ball down and working all around the plate to fool the hitters.”
Altemus, the reigning Big East Pitcher of the Week, struggled against the Cardinals. Louisville picked up four runs to take a 5-4 lead. Andrew Clark singled to cen-ter fi eld scoring Kyle Grieshaber. Th e run was attributed to Berry, who surrendered four hits and gave up two runs.
Later in the seventh inning, Wright hit a three-run homer to right fi eld to take an 8-4 lead.
WVU committed three costly errors in the game. Two of those came in the eighth inning and all but sealed the victory for the
Cardinals. In the ninth, Holland sent WVU
down in order to earn the save. Facing elimination from the
tournament, WVU remains in Clearwater, Fla., for a game today against the loser of South Florida and St. John’s. First pitch is at 5 p.m. at Bright House Field.
“We’re going to have to take time to re-group before tomor-row but we are ready to play who-ever we get,” Van Zant said. “We like our chances to stay alive.”
BASEBALLContinued from PAGE 12
BY MATTHEW PEASLEESPORTS WRITER
Last season’s West Virginia baseball team was blessed with having one of the best catchers in the business.
Tobias Streich polished off a storied career in 2009, hitting .322 with 46 RBI – fourth on a team that totaled 525 runs in the season.
Streich’s eff orts led him to be drafted in the fi fth round of the 2009 MLB Draft by the Minnesota Twins.
Th e catching position voided by Streich was one of the biggest question marks heading into the 2010 season. It was an issue WVU head coach Greg Van Zant said would be pressing throughout the season.
“It is going to be a good compe-tition,” Van Zant said prior to the season. “Th at catching battle will come down to Kevin Griffi n and Matt Malloy. Th ey both can hit it out of the park.”
Both players did hit it out of the park, splitting time behind the plate during the year. Griffi n belted fi ve homers while Malloy teed off for three.
However, no home run was more meaningful than the one Griffi n hit last Saturday with two outs in the ninth inning against
Villanova. The Martinsburg, W.Va., na-
tive saw a pitch and crushed it over the right-fi eld fence at Haw-ley Field. It was a walk off home run that gave WVU a 3-2 victory over the Wildcats and clinched the Mountaineers a spot in the Big East Tournament.
“As soon as I hit that one I knew it was getting out of here,” Griffi n told msnsportsnet.com. “I kind of froze and stood there in the box for a couple of seconds,” he said. “A walk-off bomb in the bottom of the ninth inning to keep our sea-son alive. I think I kind of earned that a little bit.”
While Griffin was taking in the historic blast, Van Zant was thrilled at the opportunity the home run gave West Virginia – a shot at a Big East Tournament title.
“I do not think I have ever coached a game like that where we won on a walk-off ,” Van Zant said. “It was just an amazing, real special day.
Van Zant remembered when the Mountaineers got off to a slow start in conference play and a Big East Tournament berth was merely an afterthought, espe-cially with injuries to starters Dan DiBartolomeo and TJ Kuban.
“You look at where we came
from the beginning of the season until now, it really has been some-thing,” Van Zant said. “We had in-juries that hurt us in the begin-ning and started off conference play (with a record of) 3-15. See-ing them jump up and home plate was awesome.”
Griffi n, a junior and transfer from Potomac State, did his part throughout the season in the pla-toon role. He fl ourished toward the end of the season and com-pleted his fi rst season of Big East ball batting a respectable .271 while earning third place on the team in RBI.
Van Zant stresses the impor-tance of experience, something he felt Griffi n did not have enter-ing this season.
“‘Griff ’ really came on strong late and turned out to be a solid player for us.” Van Zant said.
However, after being a major reason why the Mountaineers lived to play another game, Grif-fi n may just have completed his lesson in experience while earn-ing respect from his coach.
“Th at’s what you got to do to win tight games,” Van Zant told msnsportsnet.com. “Your guys have to step up in big situations like Kevin did.”
Griffi n earns place in WVU lore with homer
DAVID RYAN/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMThe West Virginia baseball team celebrates as catcher Kevin Griffi n heads toward home following a game-winning home run Saturday.
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BY TONY DOBIESSPORTS EDITOR
No changes will be made to West Virginia University’s stu-dent ticketing process for football games this year.
Each year, a committee com-prised of members of the athletic department, University and stu-dent representatives meet to dis-cuss changes to the process. Th is will be the sixth year with the same process, according to Matt Wells, the athletic department’s director of marketing.
“It’s been a few years since we’ve made any changes,” Wells said.
Students are given 11,000 seats in Milan Puskar Stadium, and when more than 12,500 tickets are requested (to allow for no-shows) via an online site, a lottery system goes into eff ect which favors stu-dents who attended more games.
Last season, Wells said a lottery occurred several times.
“For the most part, students un-derstand it, and things have gone well with it,” Wells said.
Meetings to discuss poten-tial changes to the student ticket-ing process for men’s basketball games will take place later this summer.
“All options will be discussed,” Wells said. “Coming out of that, will determine whether or not there are any changes.”
Th ose meetings could center around the possible implemen-tation of a ticketing process for home games instead of having students swipe WVU IDs to enter the WVU Coliseum.
Changes could help prevent multiple incidents involving bad fan behavior, which occurred dur-ing home games last season.
“Much like football, we will convene here in the summer and evaluate for basketball,” Wells said. “It’s too early to tell … but it is something that will be discussed.”
Around 30,000 football sea- �son tickets have been sold this
year, Wells said. Th at number is about what the athletic depart-ment expected to see and is simi-lar to last year’s amount sold.
“All in all we are pleased with where we are so far,” Wells said.
Single game tickets will go on sale in mid-August based on avail-ability. Fans can purchase those at the Mountaineer Ticket Offi ce at the WVU Coliseum, by phone at 1-800-WVU-GAME or online at www.WVUgame.com.
West Virginia shortstop Jedd �Gyorko was named the all-Big East Conference’s fi rst team for the second year in a row on Wednes-day. He was the only Mountain-eer player to make an all-confer-ence team.
Later in the day, Gyorko com-peted in the fi rst Big East Home Run Derby. Gyorko was elimi-nated in the fi rst round, though, after hitting just two home runs. He fi nished fi fth out of eight com-petitors in the fi rst round. Th e top four moved on to the fi nal round.
Connecticut’s Mike Olt won the home run derby.
Four members of the WVU �rowing team have been named Collegiate Rowing Coaching Association National Scholar-Athletes.
Graduates Kimberly Benda and Brett Krumholz along with senior Rachel Viglianco and ju-nior Shannon Gribbons earned the recognition.
Seven former WVU athletes �
and athletic department person-nel were added to the University’s Sports Hall of Fame, earlier this month.
Th e class is led by former Moun-taineer quarterback Marc Bulger. Also in the class is former public-ity director Eddie Barrett, former men’s basketball captain Bobby Carroll, three-sport standout Bill Karr, two-time air rifl e national champion Ann-Marie (Pfi ff ner) Johnson, former baseball pitcher John Radosevich and basketball and baseball letterwinner Ronnie Retton.
Th e WVU women’s basket- �ball program has found a replace-ment for assistant Donchez Gra-ham, who left the team after the 2009-10 season.
Head coach Mike Carey added former St. Louis head coach Jill Pizzotti as an assistant. She will also be the Mountaineers’ recruit-ing coordinator.
Most recently, Pizzotti served as Nike’s manager of women’s college basketball and Girl’s Elite Youth basketball.
WVU rifl e members Andy �Lamson and Nicco Campri-ani along with gymnast Kiersten Spoerko were named to the ESPN Th e Magazine Academic All-Dis-trict II at-large men’s and wom-en’s teams. Th e honors are voted on by the College Sports Informa-tion Directors of America.
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2010 WVU SCHEDULE
Sept. 18 MarylandSept. 25 @ LSUOct. 9 UNLVOct. 14 South Florida (ESPN)Oct. 23 SyracuseOct. 29 @ Connecticut (ESPN2)Nov. 13 CincinnatiNov. 20 @ LouisvilleNov. 26 @ Pitt (ESPN/ESPN2/ABC)Dec. 4 Rutgers (ESPN/ESPN2/ABC)
Sept. 10 MarshallMarshall has never beaten WVU. Last year, MU lost, 24-7. The last game in Huntington, W.Va. was close for a half.
Sept. 4 Coastal Carolina
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BY TONY DOBIESSPORTS EDITOR
New Marshall head football coach Doc Holliday doesn’t hide his influences.
Holliday, who had been an assistant coach for his entire career at West Virginia, Flor-ida and N.C. State, uses much of what he learned while under former Mountaineer head coach Don Nehlen and current Florida head coach Urban Meyer.
“I spent 20 years with (Ne-hlen), and to this day, I’m not sure he gets the credit he de-serves,” Holliday said. “When I was at West Virginia with Don, he taught me great work ethic and how to evaluate players.”
Despite being a WVU gradu-ate and a former Mountaineer linebacker from 1976-78, Mar-shall fans have taken an instant liking to their new head coach, even though he has a slew of ties to the Thundering Herd’s fierc-est rivals.
“I wasn’t surprised, because I’m from 20 minutes down the road,” said Holliday, a Hurri-cane, W.Va., native. “The fans have been great. It’s been overwhelming.”
Holliday said he didn’t think twice when the Marshall posi-tion opened up. It was a dream of his to become a head coach.
“There’s only 119 head jobs out there,” Holliday said. “This is a great one.”
Holliday spent the first few months on the job adapting to the roles of a head coach. He isn’t recruiting as much. For Holliday, who is widely consid-ered one of the best recruiters in college football, it has been his hardest adjustment.
“I’ve been on the road for 30-straight years. It’s going to be the first month of May that I haven’t been out recruiting,” Holliday said. “I think I’m going through recruiting withdrawal.”
He called his first spring at Marshall productive but said his team has to improve in all areas if it wants to survive an
early season stretch that fea-tures games at Ohio State, vs. West Virginia, at Bowling Green, vs. Ohio, at Southern Miss., vs. Central Florida and at East Car-olina – all bowl teams last year.
“I don’t think there’s another team in the country that opens up with a schedule like that,” Holliday said. “It’s going to be a challenge, so we can’t let a day go by that we don’t get better as a football team, otherwise we don’t have a chance.”
Marshall has built up the meeting at Joan C. Edwards Stadium against the Mountain-eers as the first big showdown in Holliday’s head coaching career.
DEREK DENNENYSPORTS WRITER
Ebanks has potential, but needs work
Devin Ebanks raised a few eye-brows in April when he declared for the 2010 NBA Draft following WVU’s Final Four run.
After averaging 12 points and eight rebounds per game last sea-son, it seemed to make sense for the 6-foot-9 forward to stay in Mor-gantown for another season to pol-ish his game for the NBA.
Ebanks’ skills at this point are raw. Perimeter shooting seems to be the most glaring weakness in his game.
Ebanks made just eight career 3-pointers at WVU, something he will need to improve upon to cut it in the NBA.
With a seven-foot wingspan, he will have an advantage shoot-ing over shorter defenders but still needs to fi nd his jump shot before he can even use that length to his advantage.
Ball handling, court vision and decision making are also skills scouts believe Ebanks will need to work on.
His performance in the pre-draft workouts has been nothing to write home about.
Ebanks was overshadowed by Butler’s Gordon Hayward, New Mexico’s Darrington Hobson and Maryland’s Grevis Vasquez in shooting and ball handling drills.
However, Ebanks seems to have impressed some scouts with his play in scrimmages, particularly defensively.
Ebanks’ strength is on the de-fensive end. Last season, Ebanks kept star players like Kentucky’s John Wall, Ohio State’s Evan Turner and Syracuse’s Wesley Johnson in check.
With his long arms and athleti-cism, Ebanks creates many prob-lems for smaller opponents who cannot see around the lanky for-ward. Bigger opponents have trou-ble keeping up with his quickness.
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L’ville rallies to beat WVU, 11-4
BY MATTHEW PEASLEESPORTS WRITER
Big East Conference Pitcher of the Year Th omas Royce of Louis-ville was no match for West Virgin-
ia’s Jedd Gyorko. The Mountaineer shortstop
went deep twice in Wednesday’s opening game of the Big East Tournament.
However, the rest of the ninth-ranked Louisville Cardinals fought back from an early defi cit to defeat West Virginia 11-4, thanks in part to a four-run seventh inning.
Gyorko’s pair of home runs makes the Morgantown native WVU’s all-time leader in career
home runs. It was his 35th. “He is such a good player, just
such a good player,” WVU head coach Greg Van Zant said, “Th e fi rst one he hit to left fi eld and the sec-ond one he hit to right. Not many guys have that power to spread the ball to all parts of the fi eld.”
Gyorko was not the only Moun-taineer who provided a spark from the plate. Freshman Matt Frazer hit a solo home run in the sixth in-ning to give WVU its fourth run of
the game. It was the Nitro, W.Va., native’s second career home run.
Th e 6-foot-5-inch slugger was inserted into the lineup in left fi eld. He has seen limited playing time as the season progressed, but Van Zant was confi dent in Frazer and let him swing away.
“Th e guys were real intense af-ter that home run,” Van Zant said, “It was a normal feel in the dug-out but the guys were up and we thought we could have pulled off
the win.”Royce has now given up nine
home runs over the last fi ve games. Royce allowed four runs on seven base hits.
Relief pitcher Tony Zick was brought in during the seventh in-ning. He held the Mountaineers hitless in the seventh, using a fast-ball that clocked in the mid-90s. Closer Neil Holland was called on
Universities keep a closer eye on athletes’ social networking sites
BY BRIAN KUPPELWEISERSPORTS WRITER
John Flowers became a Twitter sen-sation during the West Virginia men’s basketball team’s Final Four run ear-lier this year.
Flowers, a junior forward for the Mountaineers, posted videos online via his Twitter account of he and his teammates unwinding during the downtime between games.
One video showed players Jonnie West and Joe Mazzulla recreating the theme song video of “Th e Fresh Prince of Bel Air.”
Th e videos, some of which found their way onto website www.dead-spin.com, brought added public at-tention to the Mountaineers.
However, some universities wouldn’t have allowed such con-tent to leak out through social net-working sites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.
To deal with the added empha-sis on social media, one company has begun to market itself as an in-surance policy to limit the chances for negative publicity because of an athlete’s network.
UDiligence, which is the brain-child of former congressional press secretary Kevin Long, is based in
Montpelier, Vt., and designed to protect the online reputation of athletes.
Long thought of the idea after travel-ing the country for his other company, MVP Sports Media Trainer.
“It was an idea that came from doing media training for college athletic pro-grams around the country,” Long said. “I was traveling around the country do-ing training, and in doing that, I came across a lot of incidents of student-ath-letes putting negative things on their social networking sites.”
UDiligence uses an automated sys-
tem that searches each athlete’s pro-fi le for certain terms or words. Th e list of terms, which Long said numbers at around 425, can be customized to each individual coach’s preferences to make as strict or lenient as he or she wants.
“It scans Facebook, MySpace and Twitter pages for items that could be viewed in a negative light by people outside of that person,” Long said. “Any-thing that may have a negative conno-tation we grab and send an e-mail alert back to the assistant coach or depart-ment administrator or whoever is in charge of the program.”
Th e program’s beta testing fi rst be-gan in 2007. It hit the market a year later. Now, more than 2,000 teams use the program.
Th e fi rst university to try out UDili-gence was the New Jersey Institute of Technology, which Long praised for protecting their athletes.
“At the time when they signed up, they were a Division I school that was not yet in a conference,” Long said. “Th ey saw the wisdom in protecting their athlete’s reputations as well as the school’s reputation. It is a real credit that they understand that athletes need to have a clean slate on their resume when they head out into the business
Doc Holliday-led Marshall is WVU’s fi rst road test of 2010
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FILE PHOTOMarshall linebacker Mario Harvey attempts to tackle West Virginia tight end Will Johnson during the Mountaineers’ and Thundering Herd’s game last season. WVU won 24-7.
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Baseball jumps out to three-run lead,
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