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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
Wednesday April 23, 2014 Volume 126, issue 134www.THedaOnLIne.comda
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ON THE SAME BRAINWAVE
Kyle monroe/THe DAily ATHenAeumWVU Undergraduate Neuroscience Club member Kartik Motwani helps a little boy dissect a brain Tuesday afternoon at the Boys and Girls Club.
Kyle monroe/THe DAily ATHenAeumStudents at the Boys and Girls Club talk about the different arts and crafts materials they used to protect their egg Tuesday afternoon.
Neuroscience Club inspires children to
brainstorm By MEAgAN cARpENTER
staff writer @dailyathenaeum
The West Virginia Univer-sity Undergraduate Neuro-science Club visited the Boys and Girls Club Tues-day at the Woodburn School to teach children in third through seventh grades about the brain and how it functions.
The main goals of the club were to spark teh chil-dren’s interest in science as a possible career and to in-form them of the opportuni-ties of being a scientist.
Kathryn Baker, a junior biology student, founded the club in 2012 and now serves as the club’s pres-ident. Baker said she
Morgantown, WVU aim for safer community
Athletic Dept. seeks fan input, to form fan experience committee
By jAcOB BOjESSONcity editor
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The West Virginia Univer-sity Department of Intercol-legiate Athletics is forming a fan experience committee with the hopes of enhanc-ing the atmosphere at WVU sporting events.
The committee’s task will be to make suggestions for improvements to the WVU sporting events based on fans’ feedback.
“I think it’s a good time for us to engage our fans and get some feedback on what they like and what they would like to see moving forward around our athletic events,” said Matt Wells, associate athletic director for Mar-keting and Sales. “We’re al-ways looking at ways to im-prove the experience and our attendance.”
The committee will be comprised of 12-15 people of different ages and back-grounds to represent the spectrum of fans.
Wells said applicants should at least be 18 years old and have a passion for
the Mountaineers. “We’re just looking for
Mountaineer fans who are interested in being involved and giving us their impor-tant opinions on our game experience,” he said. “We want students, faculty mem-bers, the general public fan and season ticket holders, so there is really no particular type we are looking for.”
Topics of discussion will include pregame activities, tailgating, in-game activities, season ticket holder bene-fits, student engagement and concession items. How-ever, Wells said committee members are encouraged to generate their own ideas and not be limited to the identified issues.
“We don’t want to put
Entrepreneurship Club teaches local 5th graders business skills
micK posey/THe DAily ATHenAeumStudents from North Elementary School talk about their lemonade stand busi-ness to a passerby in front of the Mountainlair Tuesday afternoon.
By AlySSA lAzARcorrespondent
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Fifth-grade students from North Elementary School in Morgantown lit up a gray and rainy morn-ing on Tuesday by sell-ing lemonade outside the Mountainlair. The 16 fifth-graders, four from each classroom, came to try their hand at small busi-ness by charging $1 for a glass.
The West Virginia Uni-versity Entrepreneur-ship Club sponsored the students’ efforts to teach them basic business and entrepreneurial skills.
“We went into their school to teach them about the concepts needed to make a lemonade stand, how much it costs, and how much they needed to earn to make a profit,” said Scott Burack, a senior psy-chology student and trea-surer of the Entrepreneur-ship Club.
The lemonade stand served as a community service project for the club.
Club members spent their time providing guid-ance to the fifth-graders about the necessary skills to start and run a business.
“We taught them about profits, selling, and every-thing that goes into a small business,” Burack said.
Besides getting out of school, the elementary school students were ex-cited to partake in their own form of creating a small business. Although they said the project was a lot of fun, it took some time for them to get used to run-ning their own business.
One fifth-grader said he learned it was not easy to start a business. How-ever, once it began, it was rewarding to know his ef-forts paid off.
Another student said she learned businesses do not always operate smoothly in the beginning, as it was “rickety.”
The project allowed the students to gain some ex-perience in the field of business, and several of
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Applications for the fan experience committee are online at http://wvusports.com/fan-experience-committee-form.cfm
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By TAylOR McSORlEy staff writer
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Morgantown has part-nered with West Virginia University and compiled a letter of intent to be sub-mitted to the National Safety Council.
The letter, titled “Safe Community,” promotes safety and healthy behav-ior to protect residents from harm in all aspects of their lives.
A group of faculty, staff, community members, and state and city representa-tives have begun meet-ing to consider the steps needed in order to main-tain a National Safety Council Safe Community.
“A safe community brings all residents to-gether,” said Donna Stein-Harris, director of the Na-tional Safety Council’s Safe Communities Amer-
ica. “This is the picture of a community in action.”
By creating a safe com-munity, Morgantown and WVU will continue to come together and im-plement programs to help people in need and to pre-vent injuries, deaths and drug overdoses. It will also provide structure, techni-cal support and expertise.
“We would like to be-come a safe community be-cause we have a lot of good resources to use and peo-ple to collaborate with,” said Marti Shamberger, deputy mayor of the fifth ward in Morgantown.
Colleen Harshbarger, director of health and wellness for WELLWVU: The Students’ Center of Health, said many in the Morgantown community have a common goal for the city.
“There are a lot of peo-ple in Greater Morgantown
who are working in differ-ent areas around the com-munity that touch on this application,” Harshbarger said. “It really brings ev-eryone together across the board with a common goal of safety and well-being in mind.”
The letter of intent rec-ognizes similar interests and diverse skill sets that would contribute to en-hancing the well-being of members of the WVu and Greater Morgantown community and estab-lish recognized leaders in collaboration, safety and prevention.
It will take about nine to 12 months to be a National Safety Council Safe Com-munity after a series of re-search and data retrieval to decide on which areas to prioritize.
“We plan to sustain mo-mentum to continue this plan for the future. The
plan is to pull together a functional group of com-mittees to share data and evaluate programs in or-der to continue this for the long haul,” Harshbarger said.
She said it is also vital to focus on what programs will be offered to help pre-vent injuries.
“This initiative that WVU and Morgantown are making really shows what kind of community it is. People here are always trying to help one another and make it a better place for students and families,” said Kevin Quinn, a senior business management student.
Once the initiative is passed, the Safe Commu-nity will have far-reaching potential than just improv-ing the quality of Morgan-town living.
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them claimed they are in-terested in starting and run-ning their own businesses when they grow up.
The students developed creative ways to entice the crowd to stop for some lem-onade. They wore hand-made aprons and special T-shirts. They also invented a dance to perform in front of the crowd.
Mallory Carte and Patri-cia Sparks, teachers from North Elementary, super-vised the kids as they per-suaded the crowd to buy lemonade. They oversaw the incoming profits and encouraged students to ac-tively recruit customers.
Besides this community project, the WVU Entre-preneurship Club educate college students who want to get into the business field during their weekly meetings.
“We meet every week to discuss business op-portunities and busi-ness strategies,” Burack said. “Basically just any-thing about the business world.”
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this in too much of a box be-cause we want fans that are selected to the committee to come to us with some ideas and things,” he said. “I think it’s a good perspective to get and consider the things they bring to the table.”
The feedback will be used
to tailor the approach the de-partment will take in imple-menting the fans’ ideas.
“It will be very much an open forum where we will give fans a chance to raise their ideas and give sugges-tions, and then we’ll work to-wards identifying the things that we feel makes sense,” Wells said. “We’ll get to work and put those in place for the upcoming year, so I think a lot of what it looks like is still to
be determined based on the feedback we’ve received.”
Committee applications must be submitted by Mon-day and can be found online at http://wvusports.com/fan-experience-committee-form.cfm. Selected members will attend meetings on May 3 and June 21 to start working on improvements for the up-coming year.
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established the club to show the University that students have an interest in the sub-ject, and a major or minor in neuroscience should be offered.
Throughout the program, the children were intro-duced to activities to help them learn more about the brain. They constructed a brain out of Play-Doh to represent the lobes, and the club provided a sheep brain for the children to touch.
Comparative anatomy activities also gave the chil-dren an opportunity to compare different kinds of brains such as rats, sheep and fish.
Baker said she wants to do more outreach pro-grams, and going to the Boys and Girls Club gave her and the club an oppor-tunity to educate children about the brain.
“We want to get kids ex-cited about the brain,” Baker said. “Everyone in the Neuroscience Club thinks it’s fascinating, and I think if kids are intro-duced to it at an early age, they’ll carry that with them the rest of their lives and
always be thinking about how the brain controls their thoughts and activities.”
Baker said the children know they need to protect their brains, but she wants to teach them what each part of the brain helps to function and how to keep it healthy.
Rachael Taylor, a sopho-more biology student, has been part of the club for the past year and has helped teach the students about the different lobes of the brain.
“I don’t think people re-ally think about how im-portant the brain is, and we are doing some outreach activities at elementary schools,” Taylor said. “We like to give things for them to take home to their par-ents to try and teach their parents what they learned in school.”
Taylor said the Under-graduate Neuroscience Club wants the children to be excited about science and know it is cool and fun to learn about.
“My favorite part is know-ing that I can be a good role model for these kids and to help them learn,” Taylor said.
Dr. Liz Engler-Chiu-razzi is a post-doctoral fel-low in the laboratory of Dr.
James Simpkins and part of the basic and translational stroke research core. She has worked for WVU for the past six months and is the head adviser for the Un-dergraduate Neuroscience Club.
Engler-Chiurazzi taught the club members the ac-tivities they used with the children. She came up with some activities on her own, learned some through other outreach programs and borrowed some from the Internet.
“When I see kids again af-ter months and months and they can still tell me where the frontal lobe is and what it does, and remember some of the things I taught them, that’s very gratifying,” Engler-Chiurazzi said.
The club has worked with two schools prior to the Boys and Girls Club, but hopes to extend the number of schools to visit as well as work with older children to get them excited about neuroscience.
“We want to inspire these kids,” Taylor said. “I know if I would’ve gotten some-thing like this in elementary school – I would’ve found my passion a lot sooner in life.”
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Kyle monroe/THe DAily ATHenAeumStudents at the Boys and Girls Club had a chance to learn about the brain Tuesday afternoon with the help of the WVU Un-dergraduate Neuroscience Club.
Kyle monroe/THe DAily ATHenAeumMembers of the WVU Undergraduate Neuroscience Club speak to students about the different parts of the human brain Tuesday afternoon.
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jet stowaway undetected for hours before departureHOnOLULU (aP) — A
15-year-old stowaway who survived a flight over the Pa-cific in a jet’s wheel well spent seven hours undetected in what is supposed to be a highly secure area of San Jose International Airport before the flight departed, accord-ing to an official briefed on the investigation.
The law enforcement of-ficial told The Associated Press on Tuesday that video surveillance shows the boy on the airfield a little after 1 a.m. Sunday, walking on the tarmac and near airplanes in fenced and guarded areas. The official was not autho-rized to speak publicly about the case and spoke on condi-tion of anonymity.
While it’s not clear how the teen spent all that time, FBI spokesman Tom Simon in Honolulu said the teen was sleeping in the plane be-fore the 8 a.m. PDT takeoff. He “literally just slept on the plane overnight,” Simon said.
High altitude and low temperatures knocked him out during the 5 1/2-hour flight; he didn’t regain con-sciousness until an hour af-ter the plane landed in Ha-waii, Simon said. Medical experts have said the boy may have survived the sub-zero temperatures and thin air of the plane’s 38,000-foot cruising altitude because his
body went into a state akin to hibernation.
When the landing gear of a Boeing 767 retracts, there is little room to maneuver in the wheel well. The boy would have had to curl up in the fetal position or crouch down the entire time. And there is no way to get into the main cabin or luggage com-partment without removing large pieces of the aircraft’s interior, said Jon Day, general manager of Southern Califor-nia Aviation, a maintenance yard in Victorville, Calif., that handles commercial jets.
The boy was resting Tues-day at a Honolulu hospital. Hawaii’s Department of Hu-man Services said child wel-fare officials were arranging his safe return to Northern California.
Meanwhile, investigators were struggling to find out how the San Jose airport’s post-9/11 security could have been so easily breached.
Besides video surveillance, the airport has German shep-herds and Segway-riding police officers and is sur-rounded by fences, although many sections do not have barbed wire and could eas-ily be scaled.
The incident “raises seri-ous concerns affecting pas-senger safety,” said U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., who is asking the Government
Accountability Office to as-sess airport perimeter safety nationwide.
The Transportation Se-curity Administration said it has spent $80 billion on avia-tion security since its incep-tion, shortly after the 9/11 at-tacks. That includes baggage and passenger screening, but not perimeter security, which is the responsibility of local authorities.
San Jose airport officials
did not respond to questions about their security budget.
Swalwell said San Jose air-port officials told him Tues-day they were still reviewing video from before dawn Sun-day because there are multi-ple feeds from many cameras at the 1,050-acre airport.
Simon, at the FBI, said video they’ve found so far shows the teen right after he scaled the fence and going to-ward the plane.
The boy has not been charged with a crime, but much about him – includ-ing his identity and his mo-tivation – remained a public mystery. Media were camped outside a Santa Clara, Calif., home where his family pur-portedly lives, but no one came out Tuesday.
Authorities haven’t re-leased the boy’s name, but Jennifer Dericco, a spokes-woman for the Santa Clara
Unified School District, said that he attends school in the district.
The FAA says about one-quarter of the 105 stow-aways who have sneaked aboard flights worldwide since 1947 have survived. Some wheel-well stow-aways survived deadly cold and a lack of oxygen be-cause their breathing, heart rate and brain activity slow down.
ApHawaiian Airlines Flight 45 arrives from San Jose, Calif., in Kahului Airport in Kahului, Hawaii, Monday. A 15-year-old boy on Sunday scrambled over an airport fence, crossed a tarmac and climbed into a jetliner’s wheel well, then flew for five freezing hours to Hawaii on a misadventure that forced authorities to take a hard look at the security system that protects the nation’s airline fleet.
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The national touring production of “We Will Rock You: The Music of Queen” excited audience members with classic rock ‘n’ roll during its first per-formance Tuesday at the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center.
After a successful 11-year tour in London, the musical is making its first North American tour de-but. The performance brought the love of British rock band Queen to Mor-gantown, as part of one of the last scheduled per-formances of the 2013-14 University Arts Se-ries. “We Will Rock You” first premiered at Lon-don’s Dominion Theatre in May 2002, and since
then has reached more than 15 million people in 17 countries.
This jukebox musical, under the direction of Ben Elton and choreography by Arlene Phillips, features music based on the songs of Queen and Elton’s book.
Chart-toppers such as “Fat Bottomed Girls,” “An-other One Bites the Dust,” “We Are the Champions” and “Bohemian Rhap-sody” are incorporated into the musical’s plot, which is catered to appeal to a diverse audience.
Several audience mem-bers entered the Lyell B. Clay Theatre not knowing much about the musical’s storyline, but they still had high expectations for the musical numbers of the evening.
“We Will Rock You” is set 300 years in a dysto-
pian future, like some-thing out of a horror sci-fi film, where Globalsoft Corporation controls ev-eryone–the way they act, think and feel.
In this grim society, ev-eryone dresses the same, does the same mun-dane tasks, and worst of all, musical expression is banned. Anyone who sings or makes music is arrested on the spot.
Galileo, a rebellious teenager, hears lyrics of the past and music in his head. He meets Goth out-cast Scaramouche in a hospital after they are ar-rested for singing.
After talking to one an-other, they venture to find the Bohemians, rebels try-ing to restore rock ‘n’ roll and freedom of expression to the world once more.
Will they defeat the
Killer Queen, the ruler of the Globalsoft Corpora-tion? Will they succeed and bring music back to Earth, now known as the iPlanet?
Along with an intriguing storyline, the cast proved they belonged onstage with dynamic vocals and energetic choreography.
The audience had a clear song favorite early in the first act of the play when Scaramouche, played by Ruby Lewis, belted “Some-body to Love.” Each mem-ber of the cast brought their characters to life on stage with little quirks and big personalities.
Stephen Michael Pat-rick, a music student at WVU, said he thoroughly enjoyed the performance.
“I think Buddy was my favorite character– I thought he was absolutely
hilarious,” he said. “I re-ally liked ‘You’re My Best Friend.’ I just thought the way they staged that was absolutely adorable.”
For their encore the cast of “We Will Rock You” performed one of Queen’s greatest achievements–“Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Freddy Mercury, lead vocalist and lyricist for Queen, knew the song would succeed despite its long running (five minutes and 55 seconds) and pro-ducer Roy Thomas Baker’s skepticism.
The song first appeared in the band’s 1975 album “A Night at the Opera,” and immediately garnered positive attention appear-ing at the No. 1 spot on the charts in the U.K. The song reappeared at the No. 1 position after Mercury’s death in 1991.
Carla Wood, an audi-ence member, said she believes those coming to the performance tonight should expect a high-en-ergy show full of excite-ment and memories of days past.
“I think it’s great. It has lots of energy, and it is en-tertaining and goes back to songs that you remem-ber,” she said. “I like all the songs. It’s just all unique, I like the way it is done.”
There will be a second performance of “We Will Rock You” tonight at 8. Pa-rental discretion is advised for because of some strong language and explicit sub-ject matter.
Tickets can be pur-chased at the Mountainlair and CAC box offices or on-line at Ticketmaster.com.
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PopShop, a local mu-sic education program, will host Rock a While for Walk a Mile, a spring con-cert and charity event at Black Bear Burritos on Evansdale Wednesday and Thursday. The two-night event will feature 14 bands and raise money for Walk a Mile in Her Shoes.
Each of the bands – made up of PopShop stu-dents ranging from age 9 to adult – will play two songs of their choice, with one of the two songs be-ing from an artist who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the last 10 years.
U2, Metallica, Traffic, Genesis, Nirvana and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers are among the Hall of Famers to be honored.
The show is free, but friends, family and fans are asked to vote on their favorite bands by put-ting money in that band’s container.
All of the money raised will be donated to the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes – Morgantown event to help prevent rape, sexual as-sault and gender violence. The walk will be held Sat-urday at Hazel Ruby Mc-Quain Park.
“The thing I like to teach the kids and the parents with music and the arts is to do some-thing with it,” said Chris Russell, the owner of PopShop. “I think it’s important to tell the kids that you can do something with your art besides just grow-i n g a n d nu r t u r i n g . We chose Walk a Mile because it’s near and dear to the community, a couple of the staff members and myself.”
A l t h ou g h Po p Sh o p holds at least one public show every semester, this is the first time they have worked with Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, which will have representatives pres-ent at the event to speak about the walk and their local projects.
Russell said it is impor-tant to raise awareness for the cause, especially now that government has cut funding for the program.
“The Walk a Mile idea came around about a month ago,” Russell said. “I called the RDVIC (Rape and Domestic Violence Information Center) and said, ‘Would you want to be a part of this? We’re raising all the money for you guys.’ Of course, they jumped on it and said yes.”
In addition to working with Walk a Mile and the
RDVIC, PopShop puts on food drives every semes-ter in which they raise up to 10 or 15 cases of food for the Scotts Run S e t t l e m e n t H o u s e , as PopShop is lo-cated on Scotts Run Road.
Russell started Pop-Shop in 2010 with 11 stu-dents. Since then, the program has grown to include more than 70 students.
Russell and his in-structors teach everyone from 8-year-olds to mid-dle-aged WVU profes-sors and really stress the community aspect of the business.
B etw e en the stu-dents, the charity work and the studio space rented from a local property owner, every-thing about PopShop says community.
“Just trying to get peo-ple excited about playing music,” Russell said.
Rock a While for Walk a Mile will be from 6-9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday at Black Bear Burritos on Evansdale.
For information about registering with the program or to see the summer classes being of-fered, visit http://pop-shopwv.com.
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Nick Morales/THe DailY aTHeNaeUMThe cast performs ‘We Are The Champions’ at the end of ‘We Will Rock You: The Music of Queen’ Tuesday at the Creative Arts Center.
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Since the beginning of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” there has been a strong and unspoken separation between drag queens and the transgender commu-nity. One is an art form and the other an identity – or so it seems. This line was blurred Feb. 4, 2013.
Contestant and drag performer Monica Beverly Hillz came out as a trans-gender woman in the mid-dle of transition.
This means she was undergoing the medi-cal treatment to align her gender identity with her genitals and secondary characteristics.
This was surprising news, as much of the trans-gender community has shown a strong distaste for the way RuPaul uses T-slurs.
During the current sea-son, contestants recently took part in a challenge called “Female or She-male.” Contestants were shown zoomed-in body parts and were ask to judge whether the person was a female or “she-male.”
Logo TV announced later the episode was pulled and the challenge would not appear again in future episodes.
To give an idea of the scope of the show’s of-fense, let’s take a look at GLAAD’s media reference guide, which for years has been the go-to standard for LGBT terms.
According to the guide, RuPaul’s use of these words
“only serve to dehumanize transgender people and should not be used.”
But here’s the kicker. Most contestants on the show are not transgender individuals.
Our Lady J, a writer for Huffington Post Gay Voices, wrote, “Drag is punk and should never be subjected to politically correct ideals. The mo-ment it stops provoking is the moment it fails as an art form.” And I completely agree with her.
This model of thinking is perfect for people who are well-versed in matters sur-rounding the queer com-
munity. Unfortunately, the general public is still in the dark about gender identity, expression and the way to correctly address and re-spect individuals with dif-fering identities.
This is because of the lack of exposure.
The most accessible me-dia in which the transgen-der community has been shown are documentaries, such as “Boys Don’t Cry” and “XXY.” It is only very recently they have been al-lowed to breakthrough into primetime television.
So for those in the com-munity along with those not in it, we’re still finding
our footing in this world for political correctness.
This debate takes root in the idea of ownership. Which part of the commu-nity owns the struggle?
I could bring up the his-tory behind words like she-male to help either side of the debate. Both parts, the drag and transgen-der communities, do have substantial claim to these terms.
When it comes to the reappropriation of them, it’s still very unclear about whose opinion in the argu-ment matters.
Calpernia Addams, a well-known transgender
rights activist and writer for “The Advocate,” likens it to “children squabbling over an inheritance.”
That’s why, as a cisgen-der man, I leave it up to the individual to identify themselves with the words by which they feel most re-spected by. Cisgender in-dividuals don’t have the right to dictate that.
What I can say for sure is the tactics some of our community are using to fight oppression are not working.
There is visceral anger from some of the transgen-der community because of the oppression they
face. Words are policed by “hashtag activists,” which ends up taking individu-als with different modes of thought and inspires a fear of being labeled a bigot.
But this anger is with-out a doubt justified. For a group of individuals who are supposed to be in-cluded in the LGBT com-munity, the “T” is often for-gotten. America is making grounds in equality with the rise in gay marriages, but the fight isn’t over.
Transwomen of color are disproportionately targeted by police of-ficers. Countless cases of anti-transgender vi-olence are seen every day.
Health care is often de-nied for those in transition, leaving them with nowhere to turn.
That’s what we should be fighting. That’s where we should direct the anger.
As a writer, I love words. But the fight over words has surpassed the fight for more important things like safety, health care, housing and equal pay.
What I care most about is the world my children will one day be in. I hope to see a world where these words have no power. When someone says “tranny” in a hurtful, demeaning way, no one will care.
I hope to see a world so accepting this hateful lan-guage isn’t given a second thought.
We all have a claim to the future of this world. Let’s make it a bright one, shall we?
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lack of hands-on approach at WVUWhat actually quali-
fies a professor as “good”? There are several fac-tors that could contribute to the quality of a profes-sor, such as their teaching method, the grading, per-sonality and assignments given. While all of these fac-tors contribute immensely to the overall learning out-come, it is the instructor’s teaching method that cap-tures students and creates a desire to learn the subject presented.
While not every student agrees with the idea of a more hands-on curricu-lum, certain areas of study at West Virginia Univer-sity could benefit from this teaching method.
Employees are expected to apply their practical knowledge, not recite their theoretical understanding.
Many areas of study fo-cus on internships or field placements toward the end of the college student’s ca-reer, but some don’t, which
puts more emphasis on textbook knowledge and writing. Practical knowl-edge is important for stu-dents, as it will provide them with a working ex-perience for their future
careers. No one wants to blindly enter into a new job right after college.
Of course, learning the fundamental concepts of a subject is necessary, but without the consistent
practical application of the knowledge, how far can a career go?
Universities across the nation have tendencies to hire instructors with higher level degrees in the sub-jects taught, as opposed to teachers who have actual education degrees.
Those who have actual knowledge in educating students are being pushed aside without considering their teaching effectiveness and the effect on students’
learning.There will always be a
need for good instructors who teach students to apply their knowledge practically. With the 2014-15 school year quickly approaching, and hiring is underway, we encourage WVU to con-sider hiring those who en-gage students in hands-on learning as well as those who are highly specialized in the subject.
OUr VIeW Curriculum in some WVU departments needs to focus less on textbook knowledge
and more on hands-on experience.
Moving into the adult world is a scary transi-tion, especially since we don’t know exactly what lies ahead. We have to start figuring things out for ourselves, like how to pay rent, taxes and many other “wonderful” things that fall into the category of becoming an adult. Luck-ily, this transition doesn’t have to be made alone; we will always have our par-ents there for guidance, and the promise of what a college degree can bring will help us feel more se-cure for our future.
According to this press release, H&R Block Dollars & Sense, a program com-mitted to helping Ameri-can teens increase their financial know-how, con-ducted a national survey catered towards individu-als between the ages of 13-17, to examine their mind-sets and behavior.
The survey found that “eight of every 10 teenag-ers are worried about find-ing a good job and more than half are concerned about being worse off fi-nancially than their par-ents, who 75 percent say are their most important source of financial infor-mation.” Seventy eight per-cent of those interviewed said that they are worried about the student loan debt that they will plum-met into, but 97 percent still plan on attending college.
The pressure of going to college is putting an am-ple amount of stress on people at such a young age, which can make it all the more terrifying and over-whelming.
It really makes you want to run into your parent’s arms, and have them take care of you again. In or-der to reduce stress, it’s all about getting educated about these grownup mat-ters, and making sure that you are informed to the fullest extent.
H&R Block Chief Mar-keting Officer Kathy Col-lins said in the press release:
“Our survey shows 57 percent of teens use their own money on purchases, yet they often lack funda-mental money manage-ment skills. The good news is, the research clearly il-lustrates a desire to learn, to grow and to become fi-nancially savvy – and par-ents play a huge part in that.”
Many teens view their parents as good role models when it comes to money, and this is awe-some for when you get into a situation that you are not quite sure how to go about on your own. My parents know their stuff, so it helps me feel more at ease, even in tight situations, because I know I can always call them and ask for advice. According to the press re-lease, young adults also tend to turn to their teach-ers for money knowledge. Know that help is always available, and though it
is good to attempt to fig-ure things out for yourself, never be afraid to ask.
Finances are compli-cated, no matter what your age, so this is where H&R Block Dollars & Sense comes into play.
“We created Dollars & Sense in part as a guide and a resource, not just for teens, but for parents and educators charged with having these often diffi-cult conversations and imparting lessons,” Col-lins said in the press re-lease. “Together, we can help give young people the understanding needed to manage their personal finances.”
Dollars & Sense is really committed to helping the younger generations, and since 2009, has donated more than $4 million in grants and scholarships. Helping with financial ad-vice and getting students to afford college? Now that is pretty awesome. Click here for more information.
We all know that the col-lege situations keep get-
ting worse, with the rise of tuition and the competi-tiveness of jobs since jobs are lacking in the market place, but this isn’t stop-ping students from com-pleting the next essential phase in their life. They re-alize that it will better their future, and for most it isn’t even a question.
Despite knowing its im-portance, students still fear student loans, not wanting to take out too many and then have the debt hanging over them for the rest of their lives. For a lot of students, cost of university is the main deciding factor of where they will attend college, which is really annoying.
Teens nowadays are worried that they will be less financially stable than their parents, since college cost keeps rising, and me-dian household income fell for the fifth straight year in 2012. The odds are not really in our favor, but somehow, we will make it work. Getting informed may be a long process, but
it will help us get to where we need to go.
Taxes, for example, are one of the things that should be on the top of your “learning to be an adult” list. According to the press release, “only three of every 100 have filled out an income tax form, while 26 percent feel the forms are too complex.”
Taxes definitely fly right over my head, but it would be awesome to learn how to do them myself and not have to rely on anyone.
A bit about H&R Block: I’m sure the name sounds familiar. They are the world’s largest consumer tax services provider. H&R Block provides affordable banking products and ser-vices. More than 625 mil-lion tax returns have been prepared worldwide by and through H&R Block since 1955.
And their new pro-gram, Dollars & Sense, is a great way to get people informed and help them transition into the adult world.
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BORN TODAY This year you open up to strong feelings, which often is not easy to do. Unexpected events and stunning insights point to your perspective changing. You will not be able to look at the same situa-tions in the same way you have in the past. You’ll expand your mind as a result. Travel and/or higher educa-tion is likely to open doors for you. If you are single, you will be attracted to someone quite different from you, who could be from a different culture. You have a lot to offer each other. If you are attached, you might decide to sign up for a class together or go off on an exotic trip.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHHH You could be driven to bring other like-minded individuals together. There may be an important talk re-
garding money. Determining who assumes the role of the leader might be worth discussing, as well as what direction the group will head in. Tonight: Hang with friends.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HH HHHHH You might be more of a role model than you realize. What seems impossible could force you into a situation where you’ll lose your temper, absorb extra work and/or move in a new direction. Be sen-sible when making your choices. To-night: Avoid being impulsive.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HH HHHH You could be searching for new infor-mation. If you choose to stay on the same course, how you see a situation could surprise you. You might want to consider an alternative and have a discussion with someone who has
more experience. Tonight: Be where there is good music.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HH Reach out to someone who makes a difference in your life. A family mem-ber could have strong opinions about a potential sweetie. You might not want to indulge this person in airing his or her views. The only opinion that matters is yours. Tonight: Where your friends are.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) H HHH You could be taken aback by a situation in which someone’s temper gets the bet-ter of him or her. It would take a swift interaction to stop what might seem in-evitable. You could be exhausted by a strange turn of events. Tonight: Choose a favorite stressbuster.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHHHH You might want to rethink a personal
matter that is affecting a serious re-lationship. A child could act out and cause you to question what is really going on. Stay focused on the issue. Understand that you likely will have to take action. Tonight: All smiles.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) H HHH You might push someone into say-ing something you would prefer not to hear. You could be wondering ex-actly what is next and what needs to come down the pike. Use your charm to calm down what could be a diffi-cult situation. You know your limits. Tonight: Out late.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH You might be far from where you want to be. Your anger could emerge from out of the blue and cause a problem. Understand your limits. Know what you want to hap-pen. Encourage someone to create
more of what he or she feels is im-portant. Tonight: Head home and relax.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HH HHHHH You are in the moment, and you know what to do. A call that heads your way could allow greater give-and-take. You have a strong drive, and you’ll need to ful-fill certain projects and errands in a timely manner. Clear out as much as you can. Tonight: Time for fun.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HH HHHH Be more forthright about what your desire. Rest assured that there are many ways to get past a minor roadblock. You could push someone beyond his or her nat-ural limits when it comes to find-ing the right solution. Know that the outcome will be favorable. To-night: Your treat.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HH HH Listen to your sixth sense when you see a disagreement arise. Strive to stay neutral, as you are likely to hit a lot of problems. Recognize a de-ficiency for what it is. Understand that you must accept this issue. To-night: Don’t even think about trying to change someone else.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHHH Keep reaching out to someone who understands you. Once you discuss a potential change, you will feel re-newed and more decisive. You might want to rethink your goals, as they also could be changing. Tonight: Don’t worry about a difficult person and/or an unreturned call.
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Student unveils new Earth Day sculpture at Coopers Rock State Forest
submittedBenjamin Gazsi works on his most recent sculpture at Coopers Rock.
BY STEPHANIE MESSINGER & LACEY PALMER
DA STAFF @DAilyAThenAeum
Benjamin Gazsi, a West Virgina University sculpture student, has created and in-stalled yet another Earth Day piece at Coopers Rock, simply titled “The Coopers Rock Turtle.”
The sculpture greets visi-tors at the overlook area of the state forest. This piece was inspired by a box turtle Gazsi saw during the sum-mer that “blended in with the forest floor.”
The sculpture is ex-tremely intricate, and this oversized turtle represents Gazsi’s experience in the field.
Gazsi made his presence felt in the art industry after recently landing sixth place at the world’s largest public art competition, ArtPrize, with his sculpture, “The Giant.”
Now, both pieces are dis-played at Coopers Rock.
“Since this year is my se-nior year and last chance to make an Earth Day piece at Coopers Rock, I decided to make something stronger and more durable,” Gazsi said. “I wanted to leave something for Morgantown that might last a few more years than the others will.”
After taking a total of 12 days to construct, the new-est sculpture is made of wild grape vine, and the shell of
the turtle is constructed of an earth mound layered by natural stone and mortar, most of which was collected at the state forest. Gazsi fin-ished the project on Earth Day, which was ideal for the
artist.According to Gazsi, all of
his sculptures are on dis-play at Coopers Rock.
“This piece is a good end to what I started here in town,” Gazsi said. “This
one was definitely more la-bor intensive, but hopefully, everyone will be able to see it change and weather through the next few years.”
Originally from Lancaster
County, Pa., Gazsi moved to Morgantown in 2008 and finally found his niche for nature after changing ma-jors. Now, after graduating from WVU, Gazsi’s plans in-clude pursuing his master’s
degree in Fine Arts at Al-fred University in New York, where he hopes to keep working and creating what he has started at WVU.
Semester nears close, students plan summer trips
It’s that time of year again.
Classes are wind-ing down, finals are next week, and we can already smell the ocean air and feel the sand between our toes. Do you already have a vacation planned for the summer months? If not, check out our rec-ommendations for sweet summer vacation spots that fit all budgets and styles.
Grab your best friends or your family, and start planning a trip to some-where fun. If you’ve got the cash and the time, try an all-inclusive resort some-where tropical. Good loca-tions for this are Cancun in Mexico, Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic or Jamaica.
Check out the resorts and surrounding areas and decide which offers the best deal. Most packages are all-inclusive, which will save you a lot of money on food and drinks while on vacation.Check out air-fares and book with your party to make sure you’re all on the same flights. An all-inclusive vaca-tion offers an unforgetta-ble, relaxing time and the chance to see somewhere new.
Suggest vacation ideas to your parents and see what their ideas are, too. If you don’t want to feel awk-ward with your parents at a resort, go somewhere fam-ily oriented. Myrtle Beach, S.C., has many activities for families, and you can also spend all day at the beach.
The classic family vaca-tion spot is Disney World in Florida or Disneyland in California. You could
also opt to go on a cruise, see shows or sightsee. It’ll take some planning and time, but spending time with your parents before you’re on your own is a must.
If you want to just take a few days to unwind, try a weekend getaway. Pick a place you’ve never been before, whether it’s a lo-cal beach or a metropol-itan area. Since you’ve got the whole weekend, venture out of your com-fort zone and head some-where where you can do some sightseeing or just relax.
You can choose to fly, drive or take a train, de-pending on the location. Nashville, Tenn., or Bos-ton offer perfect week-end getaways for a big city lover. Key West, Fla., or Long Beach Island, N.J., are great weekend beach spots. You can plan a long weekend trip or go on a
whim, but make sure to get out there and have some fun.
Just need a daytrip to get out of town and relax? Head to a local beach. If you live on the East Coast, most beaches are only a few hours away. Pack up the car with essentials and spend the day soaking up the sun.
You can also head to a local city or park. If you’re close, you can head to New York City or to Cen-tral Park to escape real life for a day. You can also see some of America’s history in Philadelphia, Pennsyl-vania, Virginia or Wash-ington, D.C. Take a day to forget about real life and focus on yourself and your surroundings.
Wherever this sum-mer takes you, be safe and have fun, Mountaineers.
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‘Wicked’ composer, others fight sheet music piracy
NEW YORK (AP) — By now, some young musical theater fans have received an email from Stephen Schwartz asking them to stop ille-gally downloading sheet music from any of his shows. Or anyone’s show, for that matter.
The award-winning com-poser of the Broadway smash, “Wicked,” wants peo-ple to know that it’s stealing.
“You wouldn’t walk into a music store and walk out with a piece of music under your arm. So why would it be acceptable to do it online,” Schwartz told The Associated Press Monday at an anti-piracy awareness event hosted by the Drama-tists Guild.
He added, “I just went to the first of the Web sites that I’m going to be emailing, and I typed my name in to see how many individual pieces of sheet music that were available for free of mine – over 11,000.
“I didn’t know I had that many pieces of music,” said an astonished Schwartz.
The event proved to be a summit of musical theater composers that included Jason Robert Brown, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Amanda Green, Stephen Flaherty, Marc Shaiman, Scott Witt-man, and others. Many of them sat in a room across the hall from the organiza-tion’s headquarters hunched over computers, writing let-ters to offenders as a projec-tion screen showed the orga-nization’s Twitter activity.
The idea of reaching out to sheet music pirates be-gan a few years ago, when composer and Dramatists Guild member Georgia Stitt found out during a talk with students that her husband’s sheet music was being illegally downloaded. Stitt is married to “Bridges of Madison County” com-poser Jason Robert Brown.
Brown took to a let-ter-writing campaign to ask illegal downloaders to stop.
“About three or four years ago, when Georgia had told me about it and I got on the Internet, I saw a whole list, about three or four hundred
people pirating my sheet music that day, and I said ‘I’m just going to write them,’” he said.
While that doesn’t entirely solve the problem, Brown feels getting an email from a Broadway composer carries enormous clout.
“If Stephen Sondheim had written to me when I was 20 years old, when I was 16 years old, I would have had an aneurism,” Brown said. “It’s more of a rea-son to take somebody seri-ously. You’re not going to lis-ten to your mother about it, or your teachers, but maybe you’ll listen to someone that you respect when they say to you, ‘This hurts me.’”
Miranda, composer of the Tony-winning “In the Heights,” feels most of the people illegally download-ing music are unaware of the impact on the artist.
“Musical theater art-ists, we thrive on produc-tions and we thrive on sheet music. That’s our bread and butter,” he said. “We’re not ranked iTunes artists. We create for live produc-tions, so we suffer more than most in this era where you can download anything.”
Dramatist Guild com-mittee chair Craig Carnelia is leading the fight in shutting down these illegal Web sites, as well as bringing awareness to the problem.
“There are more songs being stolen than being sold ... there are people that believe that intellectual prop-erty should belong to every-one, but for the most part, it’s people that don’t really un-derstand that by doing this, they’re taking from the very people they revere, and dam-aging the business they hope to become a part of,” Carne-lia said.
The Anti-Piracy Commit-tee was founded in 2010. Since then, it has produced numerous resources for writers, as well as “Some-one Wrote That Song,” a musical PSA with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Carnelia.
The committee has not assigned a dollar value to the sheet music illegally traded, but feels it’s signif-icantly impacting the live-lihoods of composers and lyricists. Well-known com-posers have tens of thousands of pieces of music avail-able for download. Car-nelia said he’s seen thou-sands of pieces of his material being offered for free.
Sheet music gener-ally sells for $5 to $10. But some sell as low as 99 cents.
“Hands on a Hardbody” lyricist and composer Amanda Green understands why young people just want to get their hands on some music. But she feels it’s important to let them know of that it hurts the composer’s livelihood.
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Local hip-hop artist’s video receives recognition from Snoop DoggBY LACEY PALMER
A&E EDITOR @LACEYPALMER
Famed artist Snoop Dogg recently recognized Ponce De’Leioun, a local hip-hop artist, on his latest episode of “Underground Heat.”
“Underground Heat” is a top 10 video countdown program that brings un-derground music to the forefront. Snoop Dogg re-leases a new episode each Friday, featuring his top 10 favorites from upcom-ing and independent art-ists worldwide.
“It’s basically Snoop giv-ing underground and rising artists an outlet to show-case their music in hopes of getting a little more no-toriety,” De’Leioun said. “If you have good work, it will speak for itself.
If you have a good fan base, you will rise in the (countdown). If you have good music and a good fan base, the possibilities are limitless.”
Snoop Dogg released episode 53, which featured De’Leioun’s “It’s On” video at No. 10. After a week of voting, De’Leioun’s video rose to No. 3.
“I was actually un-aware of it until the other day. I received a ran-dom tweet from an indi-vidual that I didn’t even know, and at the time, I didn’t even know what it was, so I ignored the link,” De’Leioun said. “A few hours later, I decided to click it, and there I go on
the countdown.”Videos must be submit-
ted at Theunderground-heat.com to make it onto the countdown, but De’Leioun did not submit his own.
“I figured somebody submitted the video, and it was picked up,” De’Leioun said. “I always say sup-port goes a long way, and in this case, it really did. Whoever had the heart to submit my video has to be a true supporter, and I appreciate it to the fullest.”
“ It ’s O n ,” w h i c h De’Leioun spent countless hours writing, rehearsing, recording and editing, is meant to send a message to every listener, accord-ing to De’Leioun.
“I chose to be very lyr-ical and powerful with my flow but kept it com-merical enough for peo-ple to understand and vibe to,” De’Leioun said. “I guess Snoop must have felt the right vibe. He gave me a chance, and that’s all I can ever ask for. My music will speak for itself.”
West Virginia isn’t widely known for its thriv-ing hip-hop music, so De’Leioun’s rising fame will give audiences across the nation a new perspec-tive of the state’s music industry.
“Being from the state of West Virginia and be-ing recognized by a leg-endary hip-hop artist like Snoop Dogg is huge,” De’Leioun said. “It means
it is possible to do what-ever you want and suc-ceed from West Virginia as long as you put the time and grind into it. I’m try-ing to take this music ca-reer to the top level and never come down, and I’ll represent my state to the fullest.”
While hoping to hit No. 1 on the countdown, De’Leioun has a lot of other projects in the works for the upcoming months, as well.
“This summer, I’ll be fly-
ing back out to London for another session and inter-view with Tim Westwood, flying to Canada for a mu-sic video with a rising art-ist named Church Chizzle who has a great buzz in To-ronto and heading out to California to do some net-working,” he said.
For every comment on Snoop Dogg’s most re-cent episode on YouTube that includes the words “Ponce De’Leioun,” “West Virginia” or “Video #,” his video will move up the list
for next week’s countdown.“The more support (you
get), the more movement it creates,” De’Leioun said. “I have no idea what can happen if it makes it to No. 1. However, I do know that the possibilities are limit-less. It is all about recog-nition, and if my video sits at No. 1, it will be recog-nized by more people, and hopefully, Snoop will show a little more love by giv-ing me a shout out or in-terview on his show. Who knows?”
To check out Snoop Dogg’s latest episode of “Underground Heat” fea-turing De’Leioun and vote, visit https://youtube.com/watch?v=f4_Y5acT-Dkk or search on You-Tube for “Snoop Dogg Un-derground Heat Episode 54.”
To learn more about De’Leioun, follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @PonceDeleioun or visit http://PonceMusic.net.
youtube.comPonce De’Leioun’s most recent video hit No. 3 on Snoop Dogg’s ‘Underground Heat’ countdown.
Headgroove closes out WWVU-FM’s Morgantown Sound for 2013-14 yearBY SAM BOSSERMAN
A&E WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM
WWVU-FM’s weekly live music show, Morgan-town Sound, featured the one-of-a-kind music of the band Headgroove inside of the Gluck Theatre Monday. Headgroove’s performance was different from the other acts to grace Morgantown Sound this year as front man Evan Neva controlled the majority of the sound by using a loop pedal.
The use of the loop pedal allowed the band to play a diverse range of sounds while only having three members on stage. At its most intense point, Head-
groove’s performance had at least six unique instru-ments played in a single song.
According to Neva, the idea to use a loop pedal came out of a history of be-ing burned by members of previous bands.
“I’ve been in a lot of bands, and it always seems like somebody quits, and the band breaks up,” Neva said. “I got sick to death of other people constantly pulling the rug out from un-derneath me.”
Neva said using the loop pedal means a band mem-ber can quit without bring-ing down the whole project. He said he also enjoys be-ing able to sing lead, a role
he was rarely given when working in previous bands.
Neva said Headgroove itself is not a single group of people, but rather it de-pends on where he is play-ing. Having grown up in Baltimore, Neva said he travels back and forth be-tween there and Morgan-town quite a bit.
“Usually I play with Mor-gantown people in Morgan-town and Baltimore peo-ple when I’m in Baltimore,” Neva said. “We’ve all played together in many different bands throughout the years and among talented musi-cians everybody kind of knows each other.”
Neva said he is heavily influenced by the music of
the ’70s, as well as Funk in general.
Dan Velloso, Head-groove’s percussionist, said his experience with the band has been interest-ing, particularly because he had to switch from his traditional role of being a set drummer to playing the conga drums.
“It took me a little bit of getting used to, but it’s kind of cool, because it’s a dif-ferent side of drumming,” Velloso said. “It has been a challenge at times, because as a set drummer, I’m used to keeping the beat.”
Velloso said people are sometimes taken aback at first when they listen to the band. He said audiences are
usually expecting a tradi-tional drum setup but even-tually realize just as much sound can come out of their compact band.
“People should be pre-pared for a band with not that many people but a whole lot of sound,” Velloso said.
Headgroove’s perfor-mance marked Morgan-town Sound’s last show of the 2013-14 school year. Producer John Casey said it was a good year for the show, and people should expect to see it grow in the future.
“We had a whole range of acts this year. Every Monday we could possibly pull it off, we did,” Casey said. “There
are plans for the future, like having a website up for next semester.”
Casey said he hopes the website will feature songs from each show for people to listen to at any time.
This year was the first time Morgantown Sound was broadcasted live en-tirely, and Casey said he en-joyed the excitement a live show brings.
“It’s exciting and gets your heart pumping when it’s live,” Casey said.
For more information on performing for Mor-gantown Sound in the fall, email [email protected].
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Supreme Court justices skeptical, concerned over Internet TV case, expect decision in JuneWASHINGTON (AP) —
Grappling with fast-chang-ing technology, Supreme Court justices debated Tues-day whether they can pro-tect the copyrights of TV broadcasters to the shows they send out without stran-gling innovations in the use of the Internet.
The high court heard ar-guments in a dispute be-tween television broadcast-ers and Aereo Inc., which takes free television sig-nals from the airwaves and charges subscribers to watch the programs on laptop computers, smartphones and even their large-screen televisions. The case has
the potential to bring big changes to the television industry.
There was a good mea-sure of skepticism about Aereo’s approach, some-times leavened with humor. Chief Justice John Roberts declared at one point: “I’m just saying your technologi-cal model is based solely on circumventing legal prohibi-tions that you don’t want to comply with, which is fine. I mean, you know, lawyers do that.”
But several justices ex-pressed concern that a rul-ing for the broadcasters could hamper the burgeon-ing world of cloud comput-
ing, which gives users access to a vast online computer network that stores and pro-cesses information.
Justice Stephen Breyer said the prospect makes him nervous. “Are we somehow catching other things that would really change life and shouldn’t?” Breyer asked.
Paul Clement, represent-ing the broadcasters, tried to assure the court it could draw an appropriate line be-tween Aereo’s service and cloud computing gener-ally. People who merely re-trieve what they have stored should have no reason to worry, Clement said.
The discussion veered be-
tween references to Roku, a TV streaming device, and other high-tech gadgets on the one hand, and analogies to coat-check rooms and valet parking in an effort to make matters more under-standable on the other.
Aereo’s service starts at $8 a month and is available in New York, Boston, Houston and Atlanta, among 11 met-ropolitan areas. Subscribers get about two dozen local over-the-air stations, plus the Bloomberg TV financial channel.
In each market, Aereo has a data center with thousands of dime-size antennas. When a subscriber wants to
watch a show live or record it, the company temporarily assigns the customer an an-tenna and transmits the pro-gram over the Internet to the subscriber’s laptop, tablet, smartphone or even a big-screen TV with a Roku or Ap-ple TV streaming device.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said its ruling stemmed from a 2008 decision in which it held that Cablevision Sys-tems Corp. could offer a re-mote digital video record-ing service without paying additional licensing fees to broadcasters because each playback transmission was made to a single subscriber
using a single unique copy produced by that subscriber. The Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal from movie studios, TV networks and cable TV companies.
In the Aereo case, a dis-senting judge said his court’s decision would eviscerate copyright law. Judge Denny Chin called Aereo’s setup a sham and said the individual antennas are a “Rube Gold-berg-like contrivance” – an overly complicated device that accomplishes a simple task in a confusing way – that exists for the sole purpose of evading copyright law.
A decision is expected by late June.
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This May, former West Vir-ginia linebacker Doug Rigg will graduate from the School of Medicine with a degree in exercise physiology.
Rigg, responsible for the forced fumble leading to Darwin Cook’s 99-yard momentum swinging touch-down return in the 2012 Dis-cover Orange Bowl, is a bigger star in the classroom. Both on and off the field, he represents the West Virginia program well.
For 10 months out of the year, Rigg receives a Pell Grant check worth approx-imately $1,100. In the early months of 2013, prior to his final set of spring practices, Rigg noticed some of his Pell Grant money had started to disappear.
He recently purchased a used car. With his Pell Grant, Rigg budgeted his funds for rent, car insurance, gasoline and food.
“In February or March they cut my check in half,” Rigg said.
Pell Grants are a federal special assistance fund for student-athletes in need of financial assistance. The NCAA and its member institutions allow student-athletes to receive Pell Grants, which works similar to a stipend for student-athletes. Different than a loan, a Pell Grant doesn’t have to be repaid.
Each recipient of a Pell Grant gets a different amount of money based on their family situation.
Rigg, a native of Oradell, N.J., is the son of a single mother. His mom is a teacher and administers standard-ized tests to kids with learn-ing disabilities. He also has a brother at the University of Pennsylvania. His Pell Grant was one of the largest stipends on the West Virginia football team, because he had a brother in college and one parent paying tuition for both of them.
“This is when I found out I was over-rewarded be-cause of the major I joined,” he said.
Since exercise physiol-ogy is in under the School of Medicine, it is more costly. Rigg was under the impression his scholarship would cover everything needed for school.
That wasn’t the case. One of Rigg’s coaches
approached him to let him know he had a hold on his student account and couldn’t register for classes since he now owed $1,600 to the University.
To his disappointment, when Rigg investigated his situation, he found out he owed even more money.
“To my understanding, the scholarship was going to cover everything. I had no idea there was any limit on it at all until I had a hold,” Rigg said. “I went to some people and got the understanding that I had over a $6,000 hold. Then, they pulled my Pell Grant check, so I didn’t get
any of my Pell Grant money.” The University and NCAA
cut his Pell Grant check down to about $400 per month in order to use the other $600 to pay off the $6,000. Since Rigg was tak-ing classes in the School of Medicine, many had ex-tra lab fees and expensive textbooks that weren’t covered by the scholarship.
“I was entitled to the money I was supposed to get, but the fact that my ma-jor costs so much money and there is a cap on your schol-arship, I had to pay that money back,” Rigg said.
Out of Bergen Catholic High School, Rigg was of-fered a partial academic scholarship to study and play football at Harvard Univer-sity. He turned it down so he could play at the Division I level.
Still wanting a quality edu-cation, he didn’t think being one of the few WVU football players in a challenging field of study would harm him.
Rigg said he believes if he
was in a clustered major, this would have never happened to him.
Entering the 2013 season, West Virginia had 40 per-cent of the roster enrolled as a multi-disciplinary studies or general studies student.
“It was the fact that since I chose to be in a tougher major, I got penalized and had to pay back the school,” Rigg said.
By the time he paid off the funds, it was May, which also meant it was a time when he wouldn’t get his Pell Grant check. The Pell Grant only runs 10 months out of the year.
Student-athletes don’t receive Pell Grant checks in May because the NCAA asummes during this month players are home on a break from their university long enough that they don’t need money.
He admitted at this point there were a few nights when he went hungry.
“I guess they don’t know we still have to pay rent,”
Rigg said. “Going into the summer session, I was flat-out broke.”
Today, Rigg has received his final Pell Grant check with graduation on the horizon.
Still struggling finan-cially as he prepares for a possible NFL career, he said he believes the NCAA needs reform to support its student-athletes.
“There (are) just certain things you need. We don’t have enough money to fully cover all of that, especially if your family can’t really help you and you have to do it yourself,” Rigg said. “Some take it out of context and act like we’re trying to get paid as if it’s the pros. It isn’t like that at all. I just want to be able to cover everything, and maybe (have) a little to spend on my own time.”
The NCAA and National Letter of Intent were con-tacted for comment, but after inquiry, neither would.
file photoSenior Doug Rigg returns an interception in a home game against Maryland during the 2012 season.
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For a second straight offseason, the West Vir-ginia football team will head into the summer months without a clear-cut starter at quarterback.
The 2013-14 Mountain-eer season was a failure for many reasons, but primar-ily because of the uncer-tainty at the quarterback position.
Clint Trickett, Paul Mil-lard and Ford Childress all started at least one game in September alone. Both an inconsistent relation-ship among the quar-terbacks and an inexpe-rienced wide receiving corps played a major role in WVU’s disappointing 4-8 season.
Childress has since left the program, but WVU still finds itself with five quar-terbacks on roster. Trick-ett is still recovering from
a shoulder surgery, and freshman William Crest hasn’t joined the team yet, forcing WVU to rely on Millard and transfers Logan Moore and Skyler Howard throughout the spring.
“We’re going to have to narrow it down,” said West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen about the com-petition. “We are going to figure out who that guy is, and we’re going to have to give him all the reps.”
All three quarterbacks showed flashes of prom-ises in WVU’s Gold-Blue Spring Game, but it is dif-ficult to evaluate talent at such an early stage in the offseason.
Millard was the obvious standout, completing 14 of his 29 passes for 129 yards and two touchdowns.
Moore, a transfer from Fairmont State, ran the ball three times for 35 yards, including a scrimmage best 28-yard scramble.
Howard, a former Riv-erside C.C. transfer, com-pleted nine of his 13 passes for 70 yards and a touchdown.
After transferring from Florida State, Trickett started eight games last season for WVU, but com-pleted more than 50 per-cent of his passes – throw-ing seven touchdowns and seven interceptions.
He was the starting QB in WVU’s upset over No. 11 Oklahoma State, but he injured his shoulder in the game and hasn’t been able to the throw the ball the same way since.
Millard went into the 2013 campaign as the starter, but he also had an inconsistent season. He threw for 259 yards and a touchdown in WVU’s over-time loss to No. 9 Texas but also struggled against Kan-sas and Iowa State, argu-ably the Big 12 Confer-ence’s two weakest teams.
With a season of starting
experience under Trick-ett and Millard’s belts, the Mountaineer coaching staff should know what these two quarterbacks their capabilities.
What the staff hasn’t seen yet is Crest, a four-star recruit who signed with the program in Feb-ruary. As a dual-threat QB, Crest has already drawn comparisons to former quarterback Geno Smith.
“We’ve spent a good amount of time with Wil-liam (Crest), and we’re ex-cited about him joining our program,” Holgorsen said when the team signed him. “We feel very good about (Crest) as the future of this program.”
However, if Holgorsen and his staff want to see an improvement from the 2013 season, naming a full-time starter early in the season will be crucial to the team’s success.
FILE PHOTORedshirt senior Clint Trickett drops back for a pass during the Texas Tech game at home in the 2013 season.
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WvU offense comes alive in winby joe mitchin
sports writer @dailyathenaeum
The electricians may be called upon to check up on the Hawley Field scoreboard after West Virginia’s hit parade in its 14-2 drubbing of Mary-land Tuesday night.
T h e Mo u nt a i n e e r s pounded out 16 hits by eight different players to earn their fourth victory in the past five games.
“Offense is conta-gious,” said WVU head coach Randy Mazey. “When one guy sees an-other guy get his swing off and drive balls, it fil-ters its way through the dugout. Everybody, right now, is going up there with the intentions of re-ally getting their swing off and getting a good pitch to hit.”
WVU put up crooked numbers in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to really separate them-selves from the Terrapins.
Eleven of the team’s 14 runs on the evening came in those three frames.
Outfielder Brad John-son got the night started for the Mountaineer of-fense. Coming off a ca-reer-best four hits Satur-day afternoon in a WVU win over Oklahoma, Johnson hit an RBI dou-ble in the second inning and drove in two more runs in the fourth.
“It’s all about getting comfortable,” Johnson said. “I haven’t gotten many at-bats all season. I think it’s about having confidence in myself and knowing I can do the job.”
The big night sent 39 WVU hitters to the plate in eight innings, and 13 players were able to get at least one at-bat.
Designated hitter Max Nogay was the only West Virginia starter without a hit. Four players had a multi-RBI game, while seven Mountaineers reg-istered at least two hits.
It was a big night for
outfielder Bobby Boyd who went 2-for-5 with a three-run homer to right field in the fifth, followed by an RBI triple in the sixth. Boyd finished with a team-high four RBIs on the evening.
“We’ve been hitting the ball really well,” Boyd said. “We just haven’t had that key hit. The past couple of games every-one has really been step-ping up and getting hits in the right situations.”
Nine of West Virgin-ia’s 16 hits were extra base hits. The team hit seven doubles, includ-ing two each from short-stop Taylor Munden and third baseman Michael Constantini.
“Extra base hits mean everything,” Mazey said. “We’ve had some games where we’ve had 12 hits and 11 singles. We don’t score many runs when we do that. Today we had about the same amount of hits, but extra base hits really mean the
difference.”The 14 runs are the
most the Mountaineers have scored since March 15 when the team did it in a 14-11 win over Cal State Northridge. In the past two games, WVU has scored 23 runs on 34 hits.
The production from the offense was also crucial defensively, as Mountaineer starter Ross Vance was able to exit the game after six strong in-nings and only 90 pitches thrown. Mazey said he was pleased Vance will be available this weekend in the conference series against Kansas State.
T h e Mo u nt a i n e e r s (20-16) will look to keep the bats hot Wednes-day night when the team hosts in-state rival Mar-shall at Hawley Field.
WvU quarterback search continues
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Joe Mitchin’s farewell column
Unlike many writers at this great paper, I wasn’t a “DA lifer.” I started on the Sports staff summer 2013, before my senior year at WVU. I considered it a great opportunity to further my writing skills and cover a varsity team on a daily ba-sis. That’s it. I never knew my short but wonderful ex-perience at The DA would turn out like this.
When I arrived at the 2013 Greenbrier Classic to cover the Fourth of July weekend PGA golf tour-nament – only to receive a warm welcome by many who saw “The Daily Athe-naeum” in small print on my press pass – I knew this paper was more than just a light read between classes for college students. It didn’t take too long for me to realize how much of a legacy The DA owns and how prideful alumni writ-ers feel about it.
My pride and joy came in fall of 2014 when I had the opportunity to cover the men’s and women’s soccer teams for The DA. Many don’t know that I also broadcast the two teams’ games on the University’s online webcast. Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium felt like my second apartment for a while. I was literally at the field more than the players.
Looking back, these eve-nings would become the most rewarding endeavor I’d take part in as a student at West Virginia University.
As my college career ends and I prepare myself for whatever shows up next, I’ll look back on my time at The DA – not for the articles or the deadlines – I’ll cher-ish the people the most.
It was an absolute plea-sure to work with Amit Batra and Connor Murray on the Sports staff. They treated me better than what I deserved and were always there to of-fer a helpful opinion or in-struction. I’ve known Amit for close to the entirety of my four years in school, and one thing has never changed: he’s a talented writer and even a better guy. I’m sure he has the same confidence in Connor as I had for running the Sports section in the future.
There are so many great people in the WVU Sports Communications office. I worked very closely with Shannon McNamara and Grant Dovey all year long, and they were nothing short of wonderful. I owe them so much for helping me to do my job to the best of my abilities.
In closing, if you’re like me and have a passion for writing sports or otherwise, apply for a position at The DA. I’m the perfect exam-ple that it’s never too late to begin a journey with the mighty tools of a pen and paper.
I’m so proud to have played a small part in this award-winning newspaper in the 2013-14 school year and consider it a blessing that former Sports Editor Michael Carvelli and Greg Madia, who’s a good friend, roommate and classmate of the Class of 2014, urged me to apply to be a part of the team. My time at The DA has been so enjoyable. I never thought it would go any other way.
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wYTHE wOODS/THE DailY aTHEnaEumJunior outfielder Bobby Boyd, center, celebrates hitting a three-run home run Tuesday.
West Virginia lights up scoreboard in 14-2 rout of rival Maryland Terrapins Tuesdayby CONNOr Murray
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Coming off a week-end series win over Okla-homa that featured some of West Virginia’s best of-fensive firepower of the 2014 season, the Moun-taineers slugged their way to a 14-2 win over the Maryland Terrapins Tues-day night at Hawley Field.
Right fielder Brad John-son drove in West Virgin-ia’s first three runs of the night. He drove a double to the gap in left center field that brought home Ryan McBroom in the sec-ond inning and followed up with a two-run single that scored McBroom and Jacob Rice in the fourth.
Johnson’s big night against the Terrapins came on the heels of a productive series against the Sooners. Head coach Randy Mazey said John-son is beginning to turn his season around at the plate after a tough start.
“The kid is playing with confidence. Confidence
is a decision you make,” Mazey said. “It’s pretty easy when things are go-ing well, but it’s pretty tough when you really need it and things aren’t going well.”
“He got off to a rough start this season and made a decision that he was go-ing to play loosely and not worry about anything. He sure has responded.”
The rest of the lineup caught up to Johnson in the bottom of the fifth in-ning. Junior Bobby Boyd smoked a three-run home run over the right field wall, and West Virginia stretched its lead to 8-0 with a five-run fifth. The home run was the third of Boyd’s career and the first one he has hit since he had two in his freshman season in 2012.
“Offense is contagious. When one guy sees an-other guy get his swing off and drive the ball it kind of filters its way through the dugout,” Mazey said. “Ev-erybody right now is go-ing up there with the in-tention of really getting their swing off and getting a good pitch to hit.
“That’s been our hitting philosophy all along, it’s just now starting to come to fruition.”
Pitcher Ross Vance got his second start of the sea-son and his career Tues-day and followed up his complete game, a 14 strikeout effort from last week, with another strong performance.
The sophomore struck out six Terrapin hitters and allowed one run to score, while giving up three hits and a walk in six innings of work.
Vance has put together two consecutive solid
outings, providing Mazey with a potential answer to the mid-week pitching issues the Mountaineers have had this season.
“It feels good to get some offense behind you. It takes a lot of the pres-sure off. It takes a lot of the strain out of playing (and lets you) go out there and have some fun,” Vance said.
In his 15 innings as a starting pitcher, Vance has been a headache for opposing hitters. Making full use of his off-speed and breaking pitches, he has struck out 20 batters in two starts.
With the victory over Maryland, West Vir-ginia has now won four of its last five games. The Mountaineers will look to keep their offense rolling when they take on rival Marshall at Hawley Field tonight.
“This is a trap game,” Mazey said. “We’re primed for a letdown. When that happens, the leaders on the team have to step up and make sure we come with energy (today). We can’t afford to take a day off. We’ve got a lot to play for right now.”
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