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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.” THE DAILY ATHENAEUM WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16, 2013 VOLUME 125, ISSUE 77 www.THEDAONLINE.com da The West Virginia men’s basketball team will look to rebound from its loss to No. 16 Kansas State when it travels to take on Iowa State Wednesday night. SPORTS PAGE 6 XX° / XX° XXXXXXXXXXX INSIDE News: X, X, X Opinion: X A&E: X, X, X Sports: X, X, X Campus Calendar: 6 Puzzles: 6 Classifieds: X, X CONTACT US Newsroom 304-293-5092 or [email protected] Advertising 304-293-4141 or [email protected] Classifieds 304-293-4141 or DA-Classifi[email protected] Fax 304-293-6857 The West Virginia women’s basketball team earned its third-straight Big 12 win, beating TCU Tuesday night at the Coliseum SPORTS PAGE 6 A WIN IS A WIN ON THE INSIDE Dance troupe Pilobolus per- formed to a packed CAC crowd Tuesday night. A&E PAGE 7 PILOBOLUS Medical class passes crucial exam AdventureWV, BSA team up for Jamboree Renowned dance class comes to WVU THE GREEN MACHINE Stalnaker Terrace Room pairs technology, sustainability CHECK OUR SPORTS BLOG Get the latest on Mountaineer sports in our WVU Sports Insider Blog at http://blogs.thedaonline.com/sports/. BY EVELYN MERITHEW STAFF WRITER West Virginia University and Adventure WV are of- fering a unique opportunity for those students seeking the thrill of adventure. e program is offering the opportunity for those in- terested to become a certi- fied canopy tour guide, free of cost. ese students will put their new skills to use this summer in partnership with the Boy Scouts of America at the 2013 National Scout Jamboree at the newly built Summit Bechtel Reserve. “WVU has partnered with Bonsai Design and e Boy Scouts of America to train students to serve as canopy tour guides at the Jamboree. ese students have a pretty incredible opportunity that others are envious of,” said Nathan Harlan, Adventure WV Program Coordinator. e scouts have several high adventure camps with various foci, including back- packing or canoeing. ese camps are in high demand, and each program has a waiting list. A few years ago BSA de- cided to build a high-ad- venture camp in West Vir- ginia, between Glen Jean and Beckley, near New River Gorge National River. e Jamboree, a national scout conference that takes place every four years, has historically been hosted in different locations across the country. BSA wanted to find a per- manent home for the con- ference, which they decided would be in West Virginia. “is 2013 summer, it will be the first time the Jambo- ree is held at the new venue. Nearly half a billion dollars will be invested in the site before it is finished. The scale is massive, making it one of the largest construc- tion site in the world,” Har- lan said. What makes part of the Summit Bechtel Reserve unique is that it has several canopy tours for the scouts to engage in, an experience Harlan said not many scouts have participated in before. “Part of what makes BSA so great is that it is very vol- unteer based, but there hasn’t been a huge re- sponse for canopy tour vol- unteers,” Harlan said. “At WVU, we have been train- ing people on our own chal- lenge course, which opened an opportunity to get people training to learn a new skill set, then go volunteer at the inaugural event at the new facility.” Bonsai Design, the com- pany that built the sustain- able canopy tours for the reserve, donated more than $100,000 toward a canopy tour at WVU to help make this training possible. The process of being trained to give a canopy tour is typically very costly, but Harlan said through the Bonsai Design/BSA part- nership, training will be free to students who are willing to volunteer at the Jamboree. “e training will be for six days over break, and it will be a two-credit class. It’s a pretty unique experience, all in all,” Harlan said. Students who are inter- BY CARLEE LAMMERS CITY EDITOR Each semester one of West Vir- ginia University’s dining halls, the Terrace Room, utilizes more than 24,000 styrofoam to-go containers. According to Nathan Hite, stu- dent manager of the Terrace Room, that number is too high. In an effort to increase sustain- ability and eliminate waste, WVU’s Dining Services has introduced a new resource. Dining Services has contracted with OZZI Enterprises to provide reusable to-go containers at select dining facilities across campus. OZZI Enterprises developed a sustainable to-go system that uses tokens and a collectable machine system to provide an easy and sus- tainable alternative to disposable to-go boxes. “I learned as a worker that you really don’t realize how many stu- dents will take to-go boxes out. Most of them go to their rooms and eat, whereas if they just ate here you wouldn’t have as much trash buildup,” Hite said. “I’m assuming that, over time, the University has come to realize we’re wasting so much product.” Each container will have a printed barcode that is read by the collection station. The system will then issue the students a token for returning a container. Cashiers will issue new sanitized contain- ers to students in exchange for a token. “This system could ultimately eliminate disposable takeout con- tainers in our residential dining program and replace them with reusable containers to reduce the amount of our trash sent to our landfill,” said David Friend, direc- tor of WVU Dining Services. Hite said he understands the need to take food to-go, as a stu- dent schedule is often hectic. He also said he believes the en- vironmental implications of the traditional styrofoam container run much deeper than the prob- lems cause by hectic schedule. “It seems like every other per- son wants to-go (boxes),” he said. “You know, some people go places, or in between classes they need it, but some of them just go into their room. It might be so- cial anxiety, or not wanting to eat alone, but a lot of people take it to go,” he said. “There’s other implications. Some of the students don’t like (the OZZI machine) just because see CANOPY on PAGE 2 KATIE FLOWERS/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Computer and electrical engineering student Walter Hardy returns his OZZI box in exchange for a token. SUBMITTED Through a joint agreement between AdventureWV and the Boy Scouts of Amer- ica, students can become certified canopy tour guides free of cost. see OZZI on PAGE 2 BY TERRI PARLETT COPY EDITOR An innovative dance company and a develop- ing program came together Tuesday in a master dance class presented by Pilobolus dance company in the An- toinette Falbo eatre at the Creative Arts Center. Pilobolus, a progres- sive modern dance com- pany originally formed at Dartmouth College in the 1970s, performed in the Lyell B. Clay Concert e- atre at the CAC. eir in- ventive movement style has given the group popularity worldwide. “I think Pilobolus is very creative in its approach to movement and dance. e partnering will be very in- novative for our students, something they haven’t tried yet here. I think it will really open their minds and creative juices to looking at movement in a whole dif- ferent way, in the way Pilo- bolus does,” said Yoav Kad- dar, assistant professor of dance and director of the Dance Program at West Vir- ginia University. Kaddar said he feels this master class will benefit stu- dents in the dance program because it exposes the stu- dents to styles of dance and opportunities that aren’t available in a small program like WVU’s. “In any program, study- ing just with the faculty is pretty limited. Even though the faculty can present as many classes as they can, you’re still studying with a set number of people. And especially right now, when we’re such a small faculty, it’s pretty limited,” he said. The workshop with Pi- lobolus dancers is not the first of its kind for dancers at WVU. “We’ve tried to get more and more outside artists to come in and contrib- ute. We’ve had a dancer with Justin Bieber com- ing in, teaching a hip-hop workshop, we had Dan Wagoner here, we’re hav- ing Pilobolus. We’re trying to get the shows that come through from Arts & Enter- tainment somehow to start a partnership with them and get a workshop with them,” Kaddar said. Workshops like this are instrumental to major changes coming to the WVU Dance Program, the biggest of which is an addition of a new degree – a bachelor’s in dance. Other changes include plans to increase the fac- ulty of two full-time, ten- ure-track faculty mem- bers and the introduction BY ALYSSA PLUCHINO CORRESPONDENT It’s been compared to “a pitcher playing two per- fect games, and for stu- dents in the West Virginia University School of Med- icine, a winning score is everything. e School of Medicine recently celebrated the entire class of 2014’s suc- cess in passing the United States Medical Licensing Exam – all the students in the class passed the exam on the first try, which is a rare occurrence. “I believe this reflects the outstanding learn- ing environment our clin- ical faculty has created for our students as well as the impressive dedication our students have toward be- coming fine physicians,” said Arthur Ross, dean of the School of Medicine. All students enrolled in his or her second year in the School of Medicine took a 322 question multi- ple-choice exam on Sept. 1, which is required for them to continue to their third year of medical education. e exam is taken dur- ing an allotted time of eight hours, broken up into seven sessions of 60 min- utes. Similar to the SATs, students are able to answer and review questions in any order – but once time is up, they cannot work on any previous material. During these grueling eight hours, the class of 2014 tested their knowl- edge of anatomy, bio- chemistry, physiology, cell biology and several other subjects that require core scientific knowledge. In order to receive a passing grade, students taking the exam must have a minimum score of 188. However, not only did ev- ery student pass step 1 of the USMLE, they also beat the national mean of a 225 with a score of 230. The highest score received was a 270. Although receiving a passing grade can allow the students to be placed in a residency program, stu- dents are allowed to take the exam up to three times to improve the grade. However, the class of 2014 cannot put their text books away just yet. “e students must also pass USMLE step 2, a clini- cal performance examina- tion and exams in all their core clinical rotations. So they must pass many other exams to graduate,” said Vice Dean Norman Ferrari. As well as the class of 2014’s victory, the School of Medicine’s classes of 2013, 2012 and 2011 have each passed step 2 of the USMLE exam consecutively for the past three years. “Our curriculum committee has been see EXAM on PAGE 2 see DANCE on PAGE 2

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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

Wednesday January 16, 2013 Volume 125, Issue 77www.THedaOnLIne.comda

The West Virginia men’s basketball team will look to rebound from its loss to No. 16 Kansas State when it travels to take on Iowa State Wednesday night. SPORTS PAGE 6

XX° / XX° XXXXXXXXXXX

INSIDENews: X, X, XOpinion: XA&E: X, X, XSports: X, X, X

Campus Calendar: 6Puzzles: 6Classifieds: X, X

CONTACT USNewsroom 304-293-5092 or [email protected] 304-293-4141 or [email protected] 304-293-4141 or [email protected] Fax 304-293-6857

The West Virginia women’s basketball team earned its third-straight Big 12 win, beating TCU Tuesday night at the ColiseumSPORTS PAGE 6

A WIN IS A WIN

ON THE INSIDE

Dance troupe Pilobolus per-formed to a packed CAC crowd Tuesday night. A&E PAGE 7

PILOBOLUS

Medical class passes crucial exam

AdventureWV, BSA team up for

Jamboree

Renowned dance class comes to WVU

THE GREEN MACHINE

Stalnaker Terrace Room pairs technology, sustainability

CHECK OUR SPORTS BLOGGet the latest on Mountaineer sports in our WVU Sports Insider Blog at http://blogs.thedaonline.com/sports/.

By EVElyN MERITHEW staff writer

West Virginia University and Adventure WV are of-fering a unique opportunity for those students seeking the thrill of adventure.

The program is offering the opportunity for those in-terested to become a certi-fied canopy tour guide, free of cost.

These students will put their new skills to use this summer in partnership with the Boy Scouts of America at the 2013 National Scout Jamboree at the newly built Summit Bechtel Reserve.

“WVU has partnered with Bonsai Design and The Boy Scouts of America to train students to serve as canopy tour guides at the Jamboree. These students have a pretty incredible opportunity that others are envious of,” said Nathan Harlan, Adventure WV Program Coordinator.

The scouts have several high adventure camps with various foci, including back-packing or canoeing.

These camps are in high demand, and each program has a waiting list.

A few years ago BSA de-cided to build a high-ad-venture camp in West Vir-ginia, between Glen Jean and Beckley, near New River Gorge National River.

The Jamboree, a national scout conference that takes place every four years, has historically been hosted in different locations across the country.

BSA wanted to find a per-manent home for the con-ference, which they decided would be in West Virginia.

“This 2013 summer, it will

be the first time the Jambo-ree is held at the new venue. Nearly half a billion dollars will be invested in the site before it is finished. The scale is massive, making it one of the largest construc-tion site in the world,” Har-lan said.

What makes part of the Summit Bechtel Reserve unique is that it has several canopy tours for the scouts to engage in, an experience Harlan said not many scouts have participated in before.

“Part of what makes BSA so great is that it is very vol-unteer based, but there hasn’t been a huge re-sponse for canopy tour vol-unteers,” Harlan said. “At WVU, we have been train-ing people on our own chal-lenge course, which opened an opportunity to get people training to learn a new skill set, then go volunteer at the inaugural event at the new facility.”

Bonsai Design, the com-pany that built the sustain-able canopy tours for the reserve, donated more than $100,000 toward a canopy tour at WVU to help make this training possible.

The process of being trained to give a canopy tour is typically very costly, but Harlan said through the Bonsai Design/BSA part-nership, training will be free to students who are willing to volunteer at the Jamboree.

“The training will be for six days over break, and it will be a two-credit class. It’s a pretty unique experience, all in all,” Harlan said.

Students who are inter-

By CARlEE lAMMERSCity editor

Each semester one of West Vir-ginia University’s dining halls, the Terrace Room, utilizes more than 24,000 styrofoam to-go containers.

According to Nathan Hite, stu-dent manager of the Terrace Room, that number is too high.

In an effort to increase sustain-ability and eliminate waste, WVU’s Dining Services has introduced a new resource.

Dining Services has contracted with OZZI Enterprises to provide reusable to-go containers at select dining facilities across campus.

OZZI Enterprises developed a sustainable to-go system that uses tokens and a collectable machine system to provide an easy and sus-tainable alternative to disposable to-go boxes.

“I learned as a worker that you really don’t realize how many stu-dents will take to-go boxes out. Most of them go to their rooms and eat, whereas if they just ate here you wouldn’t have as much trash buildup,” Hite said. “I’m assuming that, over time, the University has come to realize we’re wasting so much product.”

Each container will have a printed barcode that is read by the collection station. The system will then issue the students a token for returning a container. Cashiers will issue new sanitized contain-ers to students in exchange for a token.

“This system could ultimately eliminate disposable takeout con-tainers in our residential dining program and replace them with reusable containers to reduce the amount of our trash sent to our

landfill,” said David Friend, direc-tor of WVU Dining Services.

Hite said he understands the need to take food to-go, as a stu-dent schedule is often hectic.

He also said he believes the en-vironmental implications of the traditional styrofoam container run much deeper than the prob-lems cause by hectic schedule.

“It seems like every other per-son wants to-go (boxes),” he said.

“You know, some people go places, or in between classes they need it, but some of them just go into their room. It might be so-cial anxiety, or not wanting to eat alone, but a lot of people take it to go,” he said.

“There’s other implications. Some of the students don’t like (the OZZI machine) just because

see canopy on PAGE 2

KatIe Flowers/tHe DaIly atHenaeumComputer and electrical engineering student Walter Hardy returns his OZZI box in exchange for a token.

submItteDThrough a joint agreement between AdventureWV and the Boy Scouts of Amer-ica, students can become certified canopy tour guides free of cost.

see ozzi on PAGE 2

By TERRI PARlETTCopy editor

An innovative dance company and a develop-ing program came together Tuesday in a master dance class presented by Pilobolus dance company in the An-toinette Falbo Theatre at the Creative Arts Center.

Pilobolus, a progres-sive modern dance com-pany originally formed at Dartmouth College in the 1970s, performed in the Lyell B. Clay Concert The-atre at the CAC. Their in-ventive movement style has given the group popularity worldwide.

“I think Pilobolus is very

creative in its approach to movement and dance. The partnering will be very in-novative for our students, something they haven’t tried yet here. I think it will really open their minds and creative juices to looking at movement in a whole dif-ferent way, in the way Pilo-bolus does,” said Yoav Kad-dar, assistant professor of dance and director of the Dance Program at West Vir-ginia University.

Kaddar said he feels this master class will benefit stu-dents in the dance program because it exposes the stu-dents to styles of dance and opportunities that aren’t available in a small program

like WVU’s. “In any program, study-

ing just with the faculty is pretty limited. Even though the faculty can present as many classes as they can, you’re still studying with a set number of people. And especially right now, when we’re such a small faculty, it’s pretty limited,” he said.

The workshop with Pi-lobolus dancers is not the first of its kind for dancers at WVU.

“We’ve tried to get more and more outside artists to come in and contrib-ute. We’ve had a dancer with Justin Bieber com-ing in, teaching a hip-hop workshop, we had Dan

Wagoner here, we’re hav-ing Pilobolus. We’re trying to get the shows that come through from Arts & Enter-tainment somehow to start a partnership with them and get a workshop with them,” Kaddar said.

Workshops like this are instrumental to major changes coming to the WVU Dance Program, the biggest of which is an addition of a new degree – a bachelor’s in dance.

Other changes include plans to increase the fac-ulty of two full-time, ten-ure-track faculty mem-bers and the introduction

By AlySSA PluCHINoCorrespondent

It’s been compared to “a pitcher playing two per-fect games, and for stu-dents in the West Virginia University School of Med-icine, a winning score is everything.

The School of Medicine recently celebrated the entire class of 2014’s suc-cess in passing the United States Medical Licensing Exam – all the students in

the class passed the exam on the first try, which is a rare occurrence.

“I believe this reflects the outstanding learn-ing environment our clin-ical faculty has created for our students as well as the impressive dedication our students have toward be-coming fine physicians,” said Arthur Ross, dean of the School of Medicine.

All students enrolled in his or her second year in the School of Medicine

took a 322 question multi-ple-choice exam on Sept. 1, which is required for them to continue to their third year of medical education.

The exam is taken dur-ing an allotted time of eight hours, broken up into seven sessions of 60 min-utes. Similar to the SATs, students are able to answer and review questions in any order – but once time is up, they cannot work on any previous material.

During these grueling eight hours, the class of 2014 tested their knowl-edge of anatomy, bio-chemistry, physiology, cell biology and several other subjects that require core scientific knowledge.

In order to receive a passing grade, students taking the exam must have a minimum score of 188. However, not only did ev-ery student pass step 1 of the USMLE, they also beat the national mean of a 225

with a score of 230. The highest score received was a 270.

Although receiving a passing grade can allow the students to be placed in a residency program, stu-dents are allowed to take the exam up to three times to improve the grade.

However, the class of 2014 cannot put their text books away just yet.

“The students must also pass USMLE step 2, a clini-cal performance examina-

tion and exams in all their core clinical rotations. So they must pass many other exams to graduate,” said Vice Dean Norman Ferrari.

As well as the class of 2014’s victory, the School of Medicine’s classes of 2013, 2012 and 2011 have each passed step 2 of the USMLE exam consecutively for the past three years.

“ O u r c u r r i c u l u m committee has been

see EXaM on PAGE 2

see dancE on PAGE 2

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM WEDNESDAy January 16, 20132 | NEWS

ested in participating must either register as an adult leader or as part of a ventur-ing crew. Those interested must be at least 21 years old to register as an adult leader.

To become certified through this program, stu-dents must commit to vol-unteering at the Jamboree.

“The training is challeng-ing; there’s a lot of informa-tion you have to remember to keep people safe. If you’re unable to pass the training for some reason, you would still be able to volunteer in another way at the tour, such as checking people’s har-nesses,” Harlan said.

Harlan said the experi-ence is very physically engag-ing, and the Jamboree itself will prove to be challenging.

WVU’s participation in the inauguration of Summit Bechtel Reserve is signifi-cant and will help represent the school in a positive way, Harlan said.

“BSA originally reached out to WVU as they began planning for the camp. WVU responded with enthusiasm,” he said. “We thought it’d be a great opportunity to posi-tively represent WVU, our unique programs and ser-vices and attract potential high quality students from around the country.

The Jamboree is expected to draw more than 30,000 scouts and 20,000 visitors per day.

Harlan said WVU’s pres-ence at the Jamboree extends beyond just canopy tours.

There will be students and staff from WVU teaching the science behind mountain biking and ziplining, and rep-

resentatives from the WVU Forensics and Investigative Science Department with an interactive crime scene.

“All of the youth that will be at the Jamboree are pumped to be there, and they will be able to see what WVU’s cul-ture and people are really like instead of the stereotypes they may have heard. They will see an appealing view of the state and the school in a positive light,” Harlan said.

WVU’s personal canopy tour is located at the WVU challenge course near Coo-pers Rock.

While some details and programming are still being created, the canopy tour will be open to WVU students, faculty and staff in April.

The WVU course will be open three days a week in the spring and four days a week in the summer.

Harlan said the program

hopes the canopy tour will be utilized for various other lo-cal education opportunities.

“Adventure WV also plans on utilizing the new canopy tour to engage local K-12 schools in science curricu-lum and natural resource ed-ucation” Harlan said.

There will be future op-portunities to take classes on canopy tour facilitation at WVU.

“We are working on build-ing relationships with lo-cal canopy tours around the state to help ensure that stu-dents who take this class and become certified have a good chance of getting summer jobs in the field,” Harlan said.

Those interested in be-coming a canopy tour guide and volunteering at the Jam-boree can read more and complete the interest form found at www.challenge.wvu.edu.

CANoPyContinued from PAGE 1

it’s more responsibility on them.

“They don’t understand the damage we’re doing by using all the styrofoam products.”

Senior journalism stu-dent Sarah Cordonier said despite the extra steps the new machine requires, she belives it’s worth her while to promote sustainabillity.

“I do feel like a to-go box is necessary, but I prefer the plastic ones. I know they sound like a hassle, but in the long run they are going to bene-fit the environment, so it doesn’t bother me,” she said. “Yeah, I have to take a little bit of extra time; so

inconvenient, yes, but it’s saving the planet.”

Chris Haddox, a visit-ing assistant professor for the Davis College of Agri-culture, Natural Resources and Design, said he is ex-cited about the opportu-nity for WVU to become a more environmentally conscious campus.

“While styrofoam con-tainers have many advan-tages for the food service industry, they have the potential to leave behind a nasty legacy in terms of nondegradable trash in the environment,” Haddox said.

“In addition, the use of styrofoam containers pro-motes the ‘use it once and throw it away’ mental-ity that is associated with many of the environmen-

tal problems we face as a world.”

Friend said WVU Dining Services has already taken other initiatives to increase sustainability, including going trayless in each on-campus dining hall. And Dining Services is always working to improve, he said.

“We have improved the majority of our takeout containers in our grab-and-go operations; how-ever, there is always room for improvement.

“Dining Services con-ducted an extensive waste audit last year in conjunc-tion with the WVU Sustain-ability Committee to deter-mine various items both pre- and post-consumer that end up in the land fill,” he said.

“Our goal is to contin-uously develop strategies that will ultimately reduce the generation of waste within dining services.”

The system will be tested throughout the spring se-mester in the Terrace Room.

Dining Services will as-sess the effectiveness of both waste reduction and financial impact of the OZZI system.

If it is successful, Friend said Dining Services would try to expand the pro-gram to both Boreman and Arnold the following semester.

For more information on the OZZI system or OZZI Enterprises, visit www.ozzienterprises.com.

[email protected]

city council votes Tuesday to purchase new fire engine

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During Tuesday’s regu-larly scheduled Morgan-town City Council meet-ing, the council voted to purchase a new fire en-gine for the city.

The current engines are outdated, and the council voted to replace one of the engines, which will cost $491,713.

“There are only a few companies across the country who manufacture fire trucks,” said Jeff Mikor-ski, deputy city man-ager. “They are extremely expensive.”

The engine was pur-chased through Pierce Manufacturing, a fire equipment company lo-cated in appleton, Wis.

“In order to purchase the engine, funds must be allocated from the contin-gency line to the expen-diture line,” Mikorski said.

The Council voted to move $495,000 from the contingency to the fire de-partment equipment line.

The engine will be or-dered immediately and will take approximately six months to manufac-ture, he said.

The Council also dis-cussed the education of the use of the city’s toters, which are included in the city-wide recycling effort.

Council plans to work the West Virginia univer-sity Student Government association to help stu-dents better understand which items are appro-priate to be placed in the toter.

The next City Council meeting will be held Tues-day, Jan. 29 at 7 p.m.

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of two different dance mi-nors. The minors would in-clude a minor in dance ed-ucation, as well as one in dance science.

“It would focus, of course, on the sciences. It will be geared to peo-ple who are interested in combining dance and the sciences. For example, physical therapy and oc-cupational therapy,” Kad-dar said.

The major program is scheduled to open in fall 2013, and Kaddar said there has already been interest

shown. “We have prospective

students looking at the pro-gram, and we have some who know they are com-ing here. We even have a few transfers who have transferred because of the major.”

There is one challenge, however. There is currently only one dance studio on the Downtown Campus, lo-cated in E. Moore Hall, and one dance classroom in the Creative Arts Center. Kad-dar said there are also plans to remedy this.

“There is a plan in action to expand the CAC, and the biggest expansion is adding three dance studios and a

yoga/pilates studio. We’re definitely going to bring the dance program here (to the CAC) to be a part of the College of Creative Arts, because that’s where we belong. We are a part of it anyway, and for the ma-jors - they need to be in this kind of environment, and we do need better facilities. We need more facilities.

“Once we have better fa-cilities, hopefully our fac-ulty will grow, and we will be able to offer a lot more to our students.”

The Dance Program is also making preparations for its annual dance con-cert, Dance Now!, which will be performed Feb. 2-4.

ver y act ive in i ts responsibility to constantly review and improve our curriculum and course of-ferings so that we can pro-vide the best learning envi-ronment for our students,” Ferrari said.

“The faculty has worked very hard to challenge our students so they would be ready to perform on this first step to licensure. Each has risen to the occasion and has made us all quite proud.”

[email protected]

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WasHInGTOn (aP) — President Barack Obama is launching the nation’s most sweeping effort to curb gun violence in nearly two de-cades, urging a reluctant Congress to ban military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines like those used in last month’s massacre of 20 elementary school children in Newtown, Conn.

The broad package Obama will announce Wednesday will also include efforts to stop bullying and boost avail-ability of mental health ser-vices. It’s expected to include more than a dozen steps the president can take on his own through executive action. Those measures will provide a pathway for skirting oppos-ing lawmakers, but they will be limited in scope, and in some cases, focused simply on enforcing existing laws.

But Congress would have to approve the bans on as-sault weapons and ammuni-tion magazines holding more than 10 bullets, along with a requirement for universal background checks on gun buyers. Some gun control advocates worry that oppo-sition from Republicans and conservative Democrats, as well as the National Rifle As-sociation, will be too great to overcome.

“We’re not going to get an outright ban,” Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., said of lim-its on assault weapons. Still, McCarthy, a leading voice in Congress in favor of gun

control, said she would keep pushing for a ban and hoped Obama would as well.

White House officials, seeking to avoid setting the president up for failure, have emphasized that no sin-gle measure – even an as-sault weapons ban – would solve a scourge of gun vi-olence across the country. But without such a ban, or other sweeping Congress-approved measures, it’s un-clear whether executive ac-tions alone can make any noticeable difference.

“It is a simple fact that there are limits to what can be done within existing law,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday. “Con-gress has to act on the kinds of measures we’ve already mentioned because the power to do that is reserved by Congress.”

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday signed into law the toughest gun control law in the nation, and the first since the Connecti-cut school shootings. The law includes a tougher assault-weapons ban and provisions to try to keep guns out of the hands of mentally ill people who make threats.

Obama will announce his proposals in a midday event at the White House, flanked by children who wrote to him about gun violence following the massacre of 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Law en-forcement officials, mayors from across the country and

supportive congressional lawmakers are also expected to attend.

According to a lobbyist briefed Tuesday, Obama will present a three-part plan fo-cused on gun violence, edu-cation and mental health.

The president will call for a focus on universal back-ground checks. Some 40 per-cent of gun sales take place without background checks, including those by private sellers at gun shows or over the Internet, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

The president will call for banning assault weap-ons and limiting ammuni-tion magazines to 10 rounds or fewer, and also propose a federal statute to stop “straw man” purchases of guns and crack down on traffick-ing rings. He’ll order federal agencies to conduct more research on gun use and crimes, something Repub-lican congressional major-ities have limited through language in budget bills, the lobbyist said.

On education, Obama will call for more anti-bullying ef-forts; more training for teach-ers, counselors and princi-ples; and providing resources for schools for more counsel-ors and resource officers.

And on mental health, Obama will focus on more availability of mental health services, training more school counselors and men-tal health professionals, and mental health first aid

training for first respond-ers, according to the lobbyist briefed on the plans. The lob-byist was not authorized to discuss the plan publicly be-fore Obama’s announcement and requested anonymity.

Obama has pledged ur-gent action to prevent fu-ture mass shootings, and his plan – coming just one month after the Newtown at-tacks – is swift by Washington standards.

The president’s frame-work is based on recom-mendations from Vice Pres-ident Joe Biden, who led a wide-ranging task force on gun violence. The vice presi-dent’s proposals included 19 steps that could be achieved through executive action.

Obama may order the Jus-tice Department to crack down on people who lie on background checks; only a tiny number are now prose-cuted. Such a step has sup-port from the National Rifle Association, which has con-sistently argued that existing laws must be enforced before new ones are considered.

He also could take steps ordering federal agencies to make more data on gun crimes available and con-duct more research on the issue, something Republi-can congressional majorities have limited through lan-guage in budget bills. And he may order tougher pen-alties against gun trafficking and give schools flexibility to use grant money to improve safety.

obama proposing gun limits, but faces tough obstacles

Cold still threatens crops in West, but it’s easing

FResnO, Calif. (aP) — The freeze gripping the West ap-peared on the verge of eas-ing Tuesday, but farmers who spent millions to pro-tect crops were still assess-ing damage, some produce prices climbed, and busi-nesses and residents dealt with burst pipes.

The National Weather Service predicted another frosty night, but said tem-peratures would begin to warm as high pressure moved east.

For a fifth night, tempera-tures in the San Joaquin Val-ley, California’s agricultural heart, dipped below freez-ing, though they were a few degrees warmer than previ-ous nights, said Paul Story of Exeter-based California Cit-rus Mutual, an association of citrus growers.

Growers, who have about $1.5 billion worth of citrus fruit on the trees, used wind machines to keep warmer air closer to the ground and irri-gation to raise temperatures.

Citrus growers statewide spent more than $23 mil-lion over five nights to save their crops, the association estimated.

But in some areas, that wasn’t enough.

“We definitely had some damage, but it’s hard to tell how much,” Story said, add-ing that the fruit’s matu-rity and high sugar content helped protect much of the crop.

Crop damage estimates weren’t yet available, grow-ers said, because for some varieties damage isn’t vis-ible for days or weeks. Ini-tial reports indicated up to 6 percent of the state’s orange crop was damaged and up to 9 percent of the manda-rin crop, Story said.

Despite damage, Story said, plenty of good citrus is left on trees.

“The fact is, we have a lot of good quality fruit to sell,” Story said.

Wind machines and irri-gation would run in groves for least two more nights, he said. A freeze warn-ing was issued for the ar-eas around Hanford, Lem-oore and Tulare in the San Joaquin Valley, starting at 7 p.m. Tuesday and ending at 10 a.m. Wednesday, accord-ing to the National Weather Service.

California’s strawberry growers also were using

wind machines, sprinklers and helicopters, said Car-olyn O’Donnell with the state Strawberry Commis-sion. In Oxnard and Santa Maria, growers who lacked frost protection saw damage to flowers and fruit in their early berry varieties.

In urban centers, it was 39 degrees in downtown Los Angeles early Tuesday, while San Francisco had 37 and San Diego, 36. In Oak-land, black ice caused sev-eral crashes.

Some Lake Tahoe casinos on the California-Nevada border were cleaning up after below-zero tempera-tures caused water damage. The temperature dropped to minus 11 on Monday at South Lake Tahoe, but was expected to warm slightly by Tuesday.

Pipes burst at Harrah’s casino and sent thousands of gallons into the main, 18-story tower and a high-roller gambling area, said Tahoe-Douglas Fire Mar-shal Eric Geuvin. Flooding temporarily disabled eleva-tors, damaged slot machines and caused an evacuation.

Two sprinkler heads broke at Harvey’s casino, and another broken pipe sent water into the loading dock at the Horizon casino. At the MontBleu, an anti-freeze system meant to pre-vent pipe breakage froze, he said.

Sparks, Nev., declared a state of emergency Monday, mostly to free up money to repair a pair of 7-foot diam-eter sewer lines that broke.

Homeowners reported pipes breaking from Flag-staff, Ariz., to Las Vegas, where Monday’s high of 38 degrees was the coldest on record for the date. But a rare freeze warning expired Tuesday as temperatures warmed.

In New Mexico, some public facilities opened later than usual Tuesday because of freezing temperatures and poor driving condi-tions. School districts from Albuquerque west to Gallup were also on two-hour de-lays Tuesday morning.

And in Flagstaff, which saw the final day of the coldest five-day stretch the mountain city had seen in more than 22 years, firefight-ers on Monday picked up two homeless people who passed out on the streets.

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The West Virginia wom-en’s basketball team proved it could win in close-game situations Tuesday night.

In the last three games against Texas, Kansas State and TCU, the Mountaineers used late game heroics to get to three straight confer-ence wins after a shaky 0-2 start.

It wasn’t always pretty, but West Virginia is now 11-5 overall, and 3-2 in Big 12 Conference play. WVU defeated TCU Tuesday night 58-50 to get on a bit of a hot streak before traveling to Baylor to take on the top-ranked Bears Saturday.

The Mountaineers started the game on a very positive note. West Virginia made its first seven shots and went 5-for-5 from long range. In the first half, WVU went 5-for-7 from 3-point range for a 71.4 shooting percent-age. While the 2-for-11 mark from deep in the sec-ond half gave the Mountain-eers trouble, they still were able to shoot nearly 39 per-cent from the game.

What Tuesday’s game proved is that West Virginia can hold on to the leads it builds when times get tough. While WVU opened up a double-digit lead in the first half, TCU switched up zones to give the Mountain-eers’ fits. The Horned Frogs were able to rally and tie up the game at halftime.

“I was real proud of our group for kind of withstand-ing that (the start for West Virginia),” said TCU head coach Jeff Mittle. “West Vir-ginia is more known for driving the basketball – tak-ing it inside. They were on fire early.

“We had to keep our discipline at that point. I thought our group did a pretty solid job. That’s not easy to do – especially for a young group. We kept tell-ing them in timeouts to stay the course. We got it back to a basketball game. I thought our zone was pretty good.

They’re (West Virginia) tough to score on.”

Despite 24 turnovers on the night, WVU found a way to win. Due to key defen-sive stops, outrebound-ing the Horned Frogs 48-38 and getting solid play from role players such as sopho-more guard Akilah Bethel, freshman guard Darius Faulk, freshman guard Bria Holmes and sophomore forward Crystal Leary, the Mountaineers were able to get the energy when they desperately needed it.

“We didn’t play well, but I’d rather not play well and get a win than play well and not get a win,” said West Virginia head coach Mike Carey. “They started on a 1-3-1 (zone) and we hit our shots. Then they went to a 2-3, which we worked on for three days, and we looked out of sync on that.”

Despite Carey mention-ing that the team looked a step slow, West Virginia did just enough to get the win and extend its winning streak to three games. He also stated that the team plays up and down to its competition – something that can’t keep happening in a conference such as the Big 12.

“Until our players realize that, we’re going to struggle a little bit,” he said. “We just have to get better. Hopefully this will wake us up.”

The Mountaineers held the Horned Frogs to a sea-son-low three 3-pointers on the night. For the game, TCU shot 3-of-17 for 17.6 percent from long range.

There’s still some con-cern with WVU’s inability to build off of its momen-tum and hold on to leads, however.

“I definitely thought we were hot (on the quick start),” said Bethel. “We made seven in a row, so I definitely thought it was in the bag. But (we) can’t think too quickly.”

For junior guard Tay-lor Palmer, who scored 13 points on the night, West Virginia didn’t play to its

potential.“I guess we got kind of

lackadaisical and weren’t playing up to our potential with a lot of intensity like we should have,” she said. “We were just turning over the ball a lot. It’s just something we need to work on. I felt like before we just weren’t closing out games.

“Now we’re picking it up a little bit. We still have a long way to go, but we’ve done a lot better closing out games.”

With learning how to close out games lately and tend-ing to play up to the compe-tition, Baylor could have a serious test the Mountain-eers come Saturday.

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tebow’s future uncertainNEW YORK (AP) —

From nearly unstoppable to nearly invisible.

Tim Tebow was two wins from the Super Bowl a year ago. Now, he’s pretty much a player without a team — likely to be released by the New York Jets after one frustrating season and his hometown team in Jack-sonville already pulling in the welcome mat.

Even Tebow doesn’t how this will unfold. A backup role on another NFL team? A position change? The Canadian Football League?

“I don’t know what my future holds, but I know who holds my future,” the devout Christian said in a recent interview with Fox Business Network, his only public comments since his strange Jets season ended.

“And, in that,” he added, “there is a lot of peace and a lot of comfort.”

Tebow barely played for the Jets last season. “An absolute mess,” is the way recently retired spe-cial teams coordinator Mike Westhoff described it. Tebow has two years left on his contract, but New York is expected to trade or release him in the next few weeks. So far, destina-tion unknown.

“I can’t imagine a sce-nario in which he’ll be a Jacksonville Jaguar,” new general manager Da-vid Caldwell declared last week. “Even if he’s released.”

While there’s an out-side chance Tebow could remain a New Yorker, de-pending on the whims of the still -to-be-hired GM, it appears highly unlikely.

So, that’s two NFL teams down – the only ones, at that, who showed any in-terest last offseason when Denver shopped him – and the 25-year-old Tebow’s options appear to be dwindling.

“Tim Tebow is an ex-tremely popular individ-ual – or, he was,” said for-mer Cowboys executive Gil Brandt, now an analyst for NFL.com. “I think his pop-ularity has waned signifi-cantly the last three or four months.”

The buzz these days be-longs to young quarter-backs like Washington’s Robert Griffin III, Seat-tle’s Russell Wilson, India-napolis’ Andrew Luck and San Francisco’s Colin Kae-pernick. It seems so long ago now that Tebowing – his signature dropping to a knee for a prayerful pose – was all the rage.

But even Tebow never Tebowed during the reg-ular season for the Jets.

Not once. Quite a fall for a Heisman Trophy win-ner and two-time national champion with the Univer-sity of Florida, and whose No. 15 Broncos jersey ranked second in national sales to Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers in 2011.

“I think it’s fair to say,” Tebow acknowledged last month, “that I’m a little disappointed.”

The Jets had every in-tention of trying to make things work with Tebow when general manager Mike Tannenbaum sur-prisingly acquired him from Denver last March – after Peyton Manning ar-rived – for a fourth-round draft pick. But once Tebow got on the field, something went woefully wrong.

Tebow went from be-ing considered a key part of Rex Ryan’s offense to almost non-existent. Of-fensive coordinator Tony Sparano didn’t know how to use him effectively, and Tebow wasn’t particularly productive when he got his few snaps in the wild-cat-style formation. He made his biggest mark on special teams as the per-sonal punt protector, and did all he could to hide his frustration at not playing. But the numbers said it all: a mere 102 yards rush-ing and 6-of-8 passing for 39 yards. And, the most damning stat of all: zero touchdowns.

“I would’ve liked to see him get a chance,” defen-sive end Mike DeVito said.

It didn’t even come when Mark Sanchez strug-gled so badly that he was benched for the first time in his career. Instead of going with Tebow, the No. 2 quarterback on the depth chart, Ryan went with third-stringer Greg McElroy. Tebow now had a bruised ego to go along with the two broken ribs that limited him earlier in the season.

“Every opportunity you get, you want to make the most of,” Tebow said a few weeks before the sea-son ended, “and I’d have loved to have more of an opportunity to just play quarterback.”

Acquiring Tebow ul-timately led to Tannen-baum and Sparano losing their jobs. And, it clouded Tebow’s prospects in the NFL. No matter what, though, he insists he’s a quarterback.

Eric Crouch, a fellow former Heisman Trophy winner, knows what he’s going through. Crouch was Tebow before Tebow, a tremendous athlete who played quarterback at the

University of Nebraska but was told he’d have to switch positions to have a future in the NFL.

“I came out of a run-ning attack at Nebraska where we didn’t read a whole lot of passing de-fenses,” said Crouch, now a college analyst for Fox Sports. “So, I was probably a much bigger project than what Tebow is. Sometimes you get labeled a running quarterback, but what you want is to be labeled a dual threat or a passing quar-terback who can run.”

Crouch was drafted in the third round in 2002 as a wide receiver by St. Louis, switched to safety and was in camp with Green Bay and Kansas City the next few years before playing in NFL Europe. In 2006, he played three games at quarterback for Toronto of the CFL. Crouch is done with football now after giv-ing it one final shot with his hometown Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League in 2011.

“Listen, I learned a long time ago that I should’ve just done what I felt was the right thing to do, which was hold out on people changing me to what they think was best for me,” Crouch said. “I was playing quarterback since I was 9 years old. I think the most important thing I would tell Tim is, you’ve got to listen to yourself on this one.

“There are going to be a lot of people telling Tebow what he should or shouldn’t do.”

Like the folks who in-sist a position switch is the only way Tebow will re-main in the NFL – whether that’s as a tight end, re-ceiver, halfback, fullback or safety.

“I just don’t think he will ever be a quarterback in the NFL,” Brandt said. “I think he’s really smart, but I don’t think he has the mental quickness at the position. The second thing is, he just is not accurate.”

Tebow, reportedly work-ing out in Arizona with a personal trainer, could still land somewhere in the league as a project for an offensive coordinator will-ing to learn from the Jets’ mistakes.

“He’s still worth a try and I think somebody will sign him, but it’ll be under the condition that it will be as something other than as a quarterback,” said Brandt, who thinks Tebow will stay on offense. “If Al Davis were still here, he’d take him in a second and try to turn him into a tight end for the Raiders.”

West Virginia head foot-ball coach Dana Holgorsen announced the hiring of new cornerbacks coach Brian Mitchell Tuesday morning. Mitchell, who has spent the past three sea-sons at East Carolina uni-versity, will replace former Mountaineer cornerbacks coach Daron roberts, who was fired last month.

Mitchell was the Pirates’ defensive coordinator and secondaries coach from 2009-12 and was the corner-backs coach at Texas Tech from 2006-09.

“It’s an honor to be asso-ciated with a program that has a great winning tradition such as West Virginia,” Mitch-ell said. “I believe the fans are second to none; the state is second to none. It is a privi-lege to earn the right to go through this process to be a part of this family.”

Holgorsen, who was at

Texas Tech with Mitchell for two seasons, is very famil-iar with Mitchell’s coaching style.

“Brian is an excellent addi-tion to the West Virginia foot-ball staff and has a wealth of experience as a cornerbacks coach,” Holgorsen said. “He brings a lot of energy, is an aggressive recruiter, and I have seen him develop young players into great players. He is an outstand-ing coach and even better person, and I look forward to him joining our program.”

The red raider pass-ing defense was first in the Big 12 Conference in those two seasons Holgorsen and Mitchell spent together in Lubbock during 2006 and 2007.

after spending some time as a defensive coordinator, Mitchell is pleased to return to focusing on cornerbacks.

“It’s a natural fit for me,

coaching cornerbacks, be-cause I played the position at all three levels, in high school, college and in the nFL,” Mitchell said. “I was for-tunate enough to play in the nFL with some very domi-nate football players such as Deion Sanders.

I was able to learn, ab-sorb, see, hear and put to-gether and formulate a plan to help young men be very successful at the nCaa Divi-sion I level at the cornerback position. Knowledge is key to all things. I’ve been able to acquire that knowledge over the years and have had success of consistently put-ting a good product on the field.”

Mitchell is a native of Waco, Texas, and played col-lege football at Byu before a brief nFL career with the atlanta Falcons and Dallas Cowboys.

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Wythe Woods/the daily athenaeumSenior center Ayana Dunning attempts a shot against TCU Tuesday night.

field. The Horned Frogs shot 28.1 percent (18-64) from the field.

The Mountaineers out-re-bounded TCU 48-38.

The leading scorer for the Mountaineers was Caldwell, recording 14 points, seven rebounds and one steal.

Although the Mountain-eers pulled off a win, WVU head coach Mike Carey was

disappointed with the per-formance his team and gave credit to his players, Holmes, Akilah Bethel, Dar-ius Faulk and Crystal Leary.

“I thought they came in with energy that got us moving,” Carey said. “I was proud of them.”

The Mountaineers will return to action for another Big 12 conference game on the road against No. 1 Bay-lor Saturday. The game is set to tip off at 8 p.m.

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The end of an illustrious careerLast week, West Virgin-

ia’s long-serving Senator Jay Rockefeller announced he would be stepping down from his position when his six-year term expires in 2014.

Sen. Rockefeller has served as West Virgin-ia’s representative in our country’s highest legisla-tive chamber for the past 27 years. As a U.S. sena-tor, Rockefeller has served as the chairman of vari-ous committees, includ-

ing the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Senate Select Commit-tee on Intelligence. Previ-ously, Rockefeller served two terms as West Virgin-ia’s governor.

The great-grandson of billionaire oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, Sen. Rockefeller is estimated to be worth nearly $100 mil-lion. Despite his inherited wealth, Rockefeller chose to go into public service

after working in West Vir-ginia as a VISTA volun-teer. Since that time, Rock-efeller has faithfully served the state of West Virginia and his contributions to the state and the coun-try as a whole have been substantial.

After Rockefeller’s an-nouncement, West Virginia University President James P. Clements issued a state-ment commending Sen. Rockefeller for his “incred-ible work ethic and gener-

ous spirit” and his “extraor-dinary life and career in public service.” The Daily Athenaeum staff would like to echo this sentiment.

From speaking out against the transgres-sions of the coal industry and fighting for universal health care to standing up to the Bush Administra-tion’s woeful mismanage-ment of the Iraq War, Rock-efeller has proven time and time again that he is will-ing to fight for what he

believes. Along with the late leg-

endary Robert C. Byrd, Rockefeller worked tire-lessly for the state and its people for decades.

We congratulate Sen. Rockefeller on his accom-plishments and we hope his successor will serve the Mountain State as ef-fectively and as faithfully as he has through all these years.

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Once all the tweets and status updates about Christmas and the New Year finally petered out toward the end of win-ter break, a new and ex-citing topic hit the social networks: MTV’s newest reality show, “Buckwild.”

For those of you who haven’t caught the first four episodes, which air Thursdays at 10 p.m., the program follows the lives of nine young adults liv-ing in West Virginia. Among other hobbies, these kids seem to en-joy a good ride in a tire down a hillside, jumping off of bridges, creating pools out of truck beds and partying in the “big city” of Morgantown.

Considering the neg-ative effects of the now-c o n c l u d e d “ J e r s e y Shore” franchise on New Jersey stereotypes, it’s understandable that a new television show also produced by MTV – and in the same time slot to boot – would be cause for concern.

Add to that the recent outcry from West Vir-ginia’s own Senator Joe Manchin, who requested the show be canceled before its debut on Jan-uary 3. In a letter Man-chin wrote to the presi-dent of MTV, he stated that the program would undoubtedly promote negative and false ste-reotypes of West Virgin-ians and have a hand at bringing the state’s rep-utation lower than ever before, mentioning that MTV should be ashamed of profiting from young people’s poor decisions.

Given that “Jersey Shore” has undeniably had an effect on the way America views our tanned friends from the East Coast, I anticipated that our senator was right to be concerned. Beyond the fact that some Amer-icans still refer to our state as “Western Vir-ginia,” the assumption that West Virginia is a teeming cesspool of in-cest and rednecks has al-ways stuck with our state.

But to my surprise, “Buckwild” does not seem to want to follow the same dark path as

“Jersey Shore.” In fact, so far, “Buckwild” appears to bring more respect to the state of West Virginia than harm.

Beyond the expected hookups and scuffles between castmates, the individuals portrayed in the program are not what would be expected. They are not stupid, they do not seek to hurt other people, and they are not constantly looking to use a “smush room” or jive each other for bring-ing home “a grenade.” In fact, the “Buckwild” “rednecks” don’t seem much like rednecks at all. At least one of them has been revealed to be a student here at West Virginia University. And overall the whole cast seems to be genuine, fun-loving and decent.

Take, for example, the first sign of romance blooming on the show, when “pretty boy” Tyler takes Cara up to the top of a hillside to have their first kiss overlooking the city lights. Whereas the show could have easily focused on promiscuous sex or brutal catfights between roommates, MTV chose to showcase the softer side of living in West Virginia, some-thing “Jersey Shore” to-tally lacked.

From partying at Mor-gantown’s own Karma Nightclub to throwing bonfires in a friend’s backyard, the activities shown on “Buckwild,” while not necessarily the safest, have been rela-tively innocuous to date.

Although there have been a handful of risque scenes – such as the top-less female crew mem-bers decked out in body paint – the fact remains that MTV has refrained from digging its claws into the negative stereo-types about which West Virginians were initially so concerned. In con-trast, Buckwild shows viewers a healthy dose of the upsides to living in West Virginia – as a great place to live, love and have a blast with your best friends down in the holler.

And if that’s not a stereotype state resi-dents are fond of, let’s just be thankful we’re not the next Honey Boo Boo.

APPresident Barack Obama gestures as he speaks during the last news conference of his first term in the East Room of the White House in Washington Monday.

MOLLY ROBINSONcolumnist

The U.S. military camp at Guantánamo Bay re-cently celebrated two sol-emn anniversaries.

Last week marked the 11th anniversary of the fa-cility’s use as a torture and detention facility in the U.S.’s never-ending “war on terror.” Less noticed, it was also the four-year anniversary of President Obama’s inaugural pledge to close the prison in less than a year.

With hindsight, we might be less inclined to trust Obama’s words. The president who came into office proclaiming a sun-shine transparency policy has classified more doc-uments than any other in history. The candidate who unequivocally vowed to filibuster any bill pro-tecting illegal Bush-era wiretapping later voted for precisely such a bill – the 2008 FISA Amendments – and as president insists upon the right of warrant-less eavesdropping.

Obama’s signing of the 2013 National Defense Au-thorization Act now en-sures he cannot legally ful-fill his long overdue pledge to close Guantánamo any time soon. Meanwhile, 166 prisoners remain locked up at the camp, many de-veloping the debilitating physical and psychologi-cal conditions of indefinite detention and extreme isolation. Egregiously, 86 of them, who have been

unanimously cleared for release by relevant fed-eral agencies, remain imprisoned.

We were once chastised by Obama to look “for-ward,” not backward, on the U.S.’s crimes of tor-ture, but the men at Guan-tánamo are allowed nei-ther luxury. Their personal histories as well as futures have been forsaken. At the prison camp’s sham tribu-nals, evidentiary disclo-sure of torture is blocked from the public, throwing a dark veil over the CIA’s storied abuses.

But the stories are there. Journalist Sami al-Hajj, wrongfully held at Guan-tánamo for six years and released only after a 438-day hunger strike, recalls being tortured, attacked by dogs and hung shack-led from ceilings. Brandon Neely, a former Guantá-namo guard, watched as a medic beat an inmate he was supposed to treat.

Fu r t h e r t rou b l i ng, Guantánamo has become only the barely-visible tip of the U.S.’s sprawling se-cret torture regime. Al-though in the fantasyland of 2008 rhetoric Obama claimed, “We don’t farm out torture,” referring to the CIA’s practice of “ren-dering” terror suspects out to torture contrac-tors, he has since em-braced the policy. The Eu-ropean Court of Human Rights last year revealed that CIA agents wrong-fully shackled, sodomized and beat a car salesman named Khaled El-Masri. Picked up on a case of

mistaken identity, he was later dumped on the side of an Albanian road. A similar fate – down to the gruesome extreme of ritu-alized rape – befell Sulei-man Abdullah, wrongfully detained at several for-eign U.S. detention facili-ties, including Bagram Air Force Base, for five years and later released with no compensation. In 2010, an American-born teenager named Gulet Mohamed sobbed to reporters on the phone, unable to under-stand why the Obama ad-ministration had arranged to have him beaten and tortured while on a visit to Kuwait.

Basic human compas-sion demands we con-tend with these individu-als so heinously wronged by our legacy of torture. Looking forward, we must also ensure such grievous mistakes are never again repeated.

Yet our Nobel Peace Prize-winning president seems incapable or unwill-ing to express remorse. The Justice Department has definitively indicated that no Bush-era war criminals, even in the case of death-by-torture, will ever be prosecuted. John Kiriakou, meanwhile, an ex-CIA of-ficial who refused torture training and was the first to publicly admit the tor-ture program’s existence, received a neat jail sen-tence. He now holds the dubious distinction of be-ing the only person against whom the U.S. has pressed any charges with regard to post-9/11 torture.

John Brennan, a vocal advocate of Bush-era wire-tapping and torture (even beyond waterboarding), has now been awarded with a nomination for the CIA directorship. In 2008, Brennan withdrew his name from consider-ation for the same post amid these precise con-cerns, but they have since been forgiven. As Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, Brennan is best known for leading the extrajudi-cial drone assassination campaign and accompa-nying para-militarization of the executive branch. In that capacity he was also caught outright ly-ing about the civilian ca-sualties of drone strikes, claiming there were none despite glaring contrary evidence.

The brutal contrast be-tween Brennan and Kiriak-ou’s treatment by the Obama administration showcases its true values – unabashed secrecy, mil-itarism and dishonesty – far more clearly than any statement ever issued by an official.

Policies once contro-versial under a Republi-can president in the im-mediate aftermath of a terrorist attack have thus been superseded and ce-mented by his Demo-cratic successor. Perhaps we should add to the oft-repeated truism “only Nixon [avowed Cold War-rior] could go to China” a slogan for our era’s false progressive hope: “only Obama could spy, torture and assassinate.”

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women’s basketball team went on the road to then-No. 2 Notre Dame and did some-thing it hadn’t ever done in program history – it won.

It was a stunning upset – one Notre Dame would make up for with a 28-point blast-ing of the Mountaineers in the Big East Conference tourna-ment – but the win was a ma-jor milestone for the Moun-taineer women’s basketball team and served as a great boon for head coach Mike Carey and the direction of the program.

West Virginia will once again try to surprise the wom-en’s college basketball world Saturday and knock off No. 1 Baylor – the defending na-tional champions and the most well-known, culturally relevant women’s basketball team in the country.

Everyone knows about 6-foot-8 senior center Brit-tany Griner – a three-time first team all-American and one of the most dominating women’s basketball players of the decade.

However, there’s more to the Bears than just Griner. Baylor returned all five start-ers from last season’s 40-0 team, and they’re playing just as well as last year.

Baylor is outscoring oppo-nents by more than 30 points per game, and three players average double-figure scoring per matchup.

It’s a tall order to ask any team in the country to play Baylor and not get embar-rassed, let alone actually try to win.

Carey and the Mountain-eers are no stranger to jugger-naut-style opponents, such as the UConn teams of the past decade; he will have the Mountaineers in position to play a competitive game.

One thing that will help-WVU in their quest to make history again is a hot start.

In last night’s 58-50 win against TCU, the Mountain-eers played the first five min-utes at a blistering offensive pace, notching 5-of-5 three-point tries and connecting on 7-of-8 field goal attempts.

It seemed like the Moun-taineers might not miss again but then the hot start faded, and West Virginia shot 4-of-19 from the field for the next 15 minutes of the first half.

So, to add a disclaimer to the hot start thing, the West Virginia offense can’t afford to slack off as the game wears on.

The Mountaineers had the opportunity to blow last night’s game wide open be-fore the teams took to the locker room for halftime but instead, West Virginia turned the ball over 13 times, played spotty defense and let TCU keep itself in the game.

The 12-point lead nine minutes into the game disap-peared, and the Horned Frogs parlayed the Mountaineers’ misfortunes into a 27-27 half-time score.

At that point, the hot start was all but a memory.

In the second half, West Virginia made only 2-of-11 3-point attempts; luckily for the Mountaineers, TCU shot a paltry 6-of-32 from the field in the second half – a poor showing Baylor’s offense cer-tainly won’t emulate.

With a little more than three minutes to play, TCU trailed by only two points – a dangerous position the game should have never reached.

As the Mountaineers dis-covered last night, an oppo-nent that stays competitive and keeps the score within a reasonable range is a tough one to kill.

It is the same strategy that West Virginia used to knock off Notre Dame last season, and the same one it will try and incorporate against Baylor.

All things considered, West Virginia scrapped and fought its way to an 8-point confer-ence victory Tuesday. How-ever, the box score reeks of a team that played careless and inconsistent basketball.

It was the type of game that West Virginia can’t – and won’t – play come Saturday.

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Wythe Woods/the daily athenaeumWest Virginia junior guard Taylor palmer looks to make a pass against TCU Tuesday night.

West Virginia outlasts TCU, wins third straight Big 12 gameby Shea uliSney

sports writer

The West Virginia wom-en’s basketball team ex-tended its winning streak to three games after defeating TCU 58-50 at the Coliseum last night, giving it a confer-ence record of 3-2, and ad-vancing its overall record to 11-5.

The Mountaineers were the first to score in the game with a jumper made by sophomore forward Averee Fields. Two 3-point shots made by junior guard Christal Caldwell and se-

nior center gave the Moun-taineers a 8-0 lead before a 2-point jumper made by TCU’s Veja Hamilton put the Horned Frogs on the board.

Within the first nine min-utes of the game, the Moun-taineers created a 21-9 lead. A jumper made by TCU’s Hamilton in the 10th min-ute gave the Horned Frogs scoring momentum for the remainder of the period.

In the final two seconds of the first half, TCU’s Don-ielle Breaux scored off of a 2-point jumper tying the game, 27-27. West Virgin-

ia’s Caldwell led the team recording 8 points for the Mountaineers in the first half.

The Mountaineers out-rebounded the Horned Frogs in the first half, 21-16.

TCU head coach Jeff Mitte commented on the intensity of the Mountain-eer team.

“They were on fire early,” Mitte said. “West Virginia’s defense was pretty good; they’re tough to score on.”

The Horned Frogs were the first to score in the sec-ond half after a layup made by freshman guard Kamy

Cole. The Mountaineers responded with a 3-point jumper and 2-point jumper both made by junior guard Taylor Palmer.

After a foul made by Palmer, TCU’s Hamilton chipped in two free throws and a 2-point jumper shortly after gave the Horned Frogs a 1-point lead.

In the 32nd minute, the Mountaineers looked to take the lead 40-38, but a foul by sophomore guard Akilah Bethel gave TCU’s Cole two free throws, tying the game 40-40.

The Mountaineers larg-

est lead in the second half was in the final six minutes of the game after a 2-point jumper made by freshman guard Bria Holmes giving West Virginia an 8-point lead, 48-40.

An effort by TCU fresh-man guard Zahna Medley gave the Horned Frogs ad-ditional 2-points, but a final free throw made by Palmer with 22 seconds remain-ing secured the win for the Mountaineers.

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West Virginia set to take on iowa Stateby miChael CarVelli

sports editor

Fresh off a 1-point loss to No. 16 Kansas State dur-ing the weekend, the West Virginia men’s basketball team will head to Ames, Iowa to take on Iowa State tonight.

Though the Mountain-eers have continued to im-prove throughout the last week, showing more energy and effort than they did during the first 12 games of the year, Iowa State has been one of the Big 12 Con-ference’s hottest teams.

The Cyclones have won five of their last six games, with the only loss coming in an overtime de-feat at home to No. 4 Kan-sas last week.

But head coach Fred Hoiberg thinks WVU will provide the Cyclones one of their toughest tests to date.

“This will be the most physical team we’ve played all year,” Hoiberg said. “It’s going to be a great test for our guys. We’ve got to do a great job on the glass.

“They do as good a job as anyone in the country as far as getting their own miss and capitalizing on it. It’s a big couple of days for us to get in the right frame of mind and get the right mentality for this one.”

West Virginia is looking to pick up its second Big 12 victory of the season. A win would keep the Moun-taineers undefeated on the road in conference play and would give them a much-

needed bounceback win following the heartbreak-ing loss at home Saturday.

But it’s still up in the air if the Mountaineers will have starting point guard Juwan Staten in the lineup Wednesday night.

The sophomore has sat out since the second half of WVU’s win against Texas and, although Huggins said he will travel with the team for the Iowa State game, He is still unsure if Staten will play when the Mountain-eers take the court.

“Everybody’s got to be on the same page,” Huggins said. “If everybody isn’t on the same page, you don’t have a very good team.

“We all make mistakes ... We’ll see where everything is and then what happens

from there.”Staten is leading West

Virginia in assists, aver-aging 2.9 per game, and is one of two Mountain-eers averaging double fig-ures in scoring. In his first season playing with WVU after transferring from Dayton, where he led the Atlantic 10 Conference in assists, Staten is averaging more than 30 minutes per game.

With Staten on the bench against the Wild-cats, sophomore Jabarie Hinds moved back into his position as the team’s pri-mary ball handler and ex-celled. The Mount Vernon, N.Y., native made six of his 10 shot attempts for a team-high 15 points and three assists.

“I’m seeing the floor better because as the point guard you have to see every position on the court,” Hinds said. “That really helped me.

“I just know that I was in the game a lot more, so I just had to get com-fortable and make plays out there.”

A significant por-tion of WVU’s produc-tion this season has come thanks to Staten and fel-

low transfer Aaric Murray, who came to West Virginia after spending two seasons at La Salle.

Iowa State has also re-lied heavily on transfers to have success early on. For-mer Michigan State guard Korie Lucious is scoring more than 10 points per game and leads the Cy-clones with 5.4 assists. And Will Clyburn, who played at Utah, is leading the team at 14.3 points per game.

Both teams have take advantage of the transfers, and it’s something that Huggins wants to continue doing in the future.

“I’ve kind of liked it,” Huggins said. “We haven’t had a whole bunch but we’ve had a few over the years that turned out really well for us. I like it.”

But for now, Huggins just wants to see this year’s group improve the way it has in the last week.

“I’d rather shoot 30 per-cent and win, than 51 per-cent and lose. We are get-ting better,” Huggins said. “I think we get better and bet-ter all the time. The more experience they get, the better we get.”

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Pilobolus amazes Creative Arts Center

Kyle Monroe/THe DAIly ATHenAeUMPilobolus, a modern dance troupe, performs at the WVU Creative Arts Center Tuesday.

By Terri ParleTTCopy Editor

Pilobolus: (n) a breed of fungus that typically grows on the dung of herbivores.

It takes a special kind of dance company to take its name from a fungus, and Pilobolus far exceeded its humble name Tuesday night in the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre.

T h e p e r f o r m a n c e opened to a rather unen-thused weeknight audi-ence, and it appeared Pi-lobolus’s unique style might risk being lost on the drowsy crowd. However, as the first number began, few could help but be taken in by the acrobatics before them.

The dancers performed acts that seemed to defy both logic and physics, and

as the dance shifted from a slow, refined display of strength to a more primal, driven feel, the perform-ers really showed their capabilities.

This show ranged from the deeply conceptual to the nearly whimsical, and boundaries were pushed at every turn. The danc-ers displayed strength that many athletes can’t boast, and even the basics of how humans move were tested. They didn’t require feet to walk; hands, shoulders or backs would suffice.

Traditional gender roles of partnering were also promptly thrown out the window. Men partnered men, women partnered women, and even when men partnered women, it was anything but typical.

Pilobolus is well-known

for the structures they build out of people. Dur-ing a performance at the Oscars, dancers used bod-ies to create depictions of each film nominated, and they continued this tradi-tion Tuesday. Three men created a wheel that ro-tated around a fourth as he walked inside. Danc-ers created machines that tilted, rolled, crawled and swung across the stage, wowing every member of the crowd.

Personally, I’ve never watched a dance com-pany that appeared to en-joy a performance more. Even in the most inac-cessible moments of the dance, these performers threw themselves so far into the movement and the artistry that I was dragged with them.

Much of what they do is movement for the sake of experimentation, but they find a place in this that produces a unique beauty, and it is genuinely exciting to witness.

Right before intermis-sion, an almost childlike number full of simple play was showcased. There was nothing simple about the structure. This num-ber was filmed from below as the performers danced on a scaffold. It was a dis-play of curiosity, athlet-

icism, imagination and pure fun. By the end, the dancers were laughing and the audience even chuck-led, joining in the joy of the piece.

It was impossible not to be taken in by the dancers, who related to the audi-ence even in the most in-timate moments between performers. They truly are some of the most impres-sive athletes, actors and performers around.

The final number, a wildly fast, carnal, roller-

coaster ride of a dance, had the audience completely enthralled.

It was a stark turnaround from the very natural look at human relationships that had been on display before, but it was beauti-ful and thrilling, and by its close, it had brought the audience to its feet. The previously dull, lethargic crowd was finally ener-gized, and nobody left the show feeling disappointed.

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Kyle Monroe/THe DAIly ATHenAeUMPilobolus performs one of many acrobatic stunts during the show.

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snowshoemAg.comWest Virginia’s Snowshoe Mountain Ski Resort, located in Snowshoe, W.Va., provides breathtaking scenery for skiers and snowboarders.

by Nick wesdockA&E writEr

After a winter with nearly no snow, there is little doubt many skiers and snow-boarders alike are ready to hit the slopes.

For all the snow-lovers, here’s a look at some of the premier resorts in the area.

Pennsylvania’s Laurel Highlands features a num-ber of resorts that offer both downhill and cross-coun-try skiing, including Seven Springs Mountain Resort and Hidden Valley Four Seasons Resort.

Seven Springs is located in Seven Springs, Pa., and is approximately 1.5 hours from Morgantown.

At an elevation of more than 2,200 feet, the re-sort sees an average of 135 inches of snow every win-ter and offers 40 trails and seven terrain parks.

Currently, there are 12 slopes and three lifts open at Seven Springs.

Check out www.7springs.com for lift ticket prices.

Nearby Hidden Valley is slightly smaller than Seven

Springs but very similar in elevation and annual snowfall.

The resort has 31 trails, 11 lifts and three terrain parks and usually operates December-April.

For anyone looking to save a buck (who isn’t?), Hidden Valley is a good al-ternative to the more popu-lar and costly Seven Springs.

Lift tickets and rates are available at www.hidden-valleyresort.com.

Roughly 50 minutes east of Morgantown is Wisp Resort, Maryland’s only haven for skiers and snowboarders.

This resort sits on the northern end of Deep Creek Lake in Garrett County, Md.

Wisp’s summit sits at more than 3,100 feet and averages more than 100 inches of snow annually. So far this winter, it has re-ceived 76 inches. Twenty-three of the resort’s 32 slopes are open, as well as nine of its 10 lifts.

Lift ticket prices vary and can be expensive, but no other resort can boast the same conditions and prox-

imity to Morgantown. Wisp is by far the best

bet for WVU students who want to get out and shred the gnar.

In the Mountain State, Canaan Valley, Timberline and Snowshoe are three of West Virginia’s best places to ski and snowboard.

Timberline Resort and Canaan Valley Resort are both located in the Canaan Valley of West Virginia.

Timberline Resort boasts 37 trails and just four lifts, but it is home to some of the longest trails in the area, in-cluding the two-mile Sala-mander Run.

With a peak elevation of 4,268 feet, the resort can expect anywhere between 150-200 inches of snow per season, sometimes even more.

Unfortunately, Timber-line is a two-hour drive from Morgantown and is a bit more pricey than others.

Canaan Valley, on the other hand, is much more reasonably priced and av-erages the same amount of annual snowfall as Timber-line. In addition, Canaan

Valley touts 42 trails, five lifts and one terrain park.

Last, but certainly not least, is Snowshoe Moun-tain Ski Resort, one of the largest and most popular resorts on the East Coast.

Every year, more than 180 inches of natural snow falls on Snowshoe’s 60 slopes and 15 lifts.

Its nearly 5,000-foot sum-mit tops any mountain on this list.

Snowshoe is currently operating 11 lifts and 45 trails and has received more than 75 inches of snow.

But all good things come with a price, and Snowshoe is no exception. It’s not cheap to ski or board there, and it is a tiresome 2.5-hour drive from Morgantown.

For a WVU student, this trip might be best to do once during a long weekend.

With temperatures back on the decline and wintry weather in the forecast for most of these resorts, anx-ious skiers and boarders have something to look for-ward to this winter.

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Nominations announced for 85th Academy Awards show

Keith BeRnstein/colliDeR.comBen Affleck directs a scene on the set of ‘Argo.’

by Noelle harrisA&E writEr

It is that time of year again – awards season has rolled around.

Although the biggest show of them all, the Acad-emy Awards, does not air until next month, the nom-inations were recently announced.

These included a sam-pling of favorites, surprises and downright snubs.

“Lincoln” led the pack with 12 nominations, in-cluding Best Picture.

Daniel Day-Lewis, who played the part of Abraham Lincoln, was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role. The film also received nom-inations in the categories of Actor in a Supporting Role, Actress in a Supporting Role, Cinematography and Director categories.

Also nominated for Best Picture is Ang Lee’s visual masterpiece, “Life of Pi,” which received 11 nomina-tions. The movie, which fol-lows a boy who survives a shipwreck while stranded on a boat with a Bengal ti-ger, also received nomina-tions in the Best Director, Adapted Screenplay and original score categories.

Perhaps the biggest sur-prise of the nominations came when Ben Affleck did not get nominated for Best Director, an award he just won at the Golden Globes with “Argo.”

Despite this snub, “Argo” was nominated for several other awards, including Best Picture and the Supporting Actor category.

All in all, the biggest and most-anticipated category, Best Picture, has nine nom-inees, and each film dazzled

audiences at some point over the past year.

The nominees in this prestigious category are “Amour,” “Argo,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Django Unchained,” “Les Misera-bles,” “Lincoln,” “Silver Lin-ings Playbook,” “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Life of Pi.”

Because the Oscars do not have separate categories for dramas and musicals like the Golden Globes, the two movies that won the Golden Globes in their respective categories, “Les Miserables” and “Argo,” will be forced to

compete against each other for the Best Picture award.

Whether or not either will win remains to be seen, and the award could conceiv-ably go to one of the other nine deserving pictures in the category, a common oc-currence between the two awards shows.

Will Anne Hathaway win a supporting actress award for her portrayal in “Les Miserables” like she did at the Golden Globes, or will another worthy actress take it?

Will Daniel Day-Lewis

beat out all the competitors, or will Denzel Washington take the award?

Right now it’s all up in the air, but one thing is certain: No matter who wins this year, the Academy Awards will be sure to please and surprise those watching live and at home.

Tune in to the Academy Awards Feb. 24 at 8:30 p.m. on ABC to see how your fa-vorite movies and movie stars fare during the night’s festivities.

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