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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
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Columnist Jake Jarvis discusses female comedians’ role in the industry and the ongoing battle of the sexes.OPINION PAGE 4
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The Rootwire Transforma-tional Arts Festival visits West Virginia for the first time.A&E PAGE 6
ROOTWIRE COMES ALIVE
FEMALE COMEDIANS: FUNNY OR NOT?
Former WVU baseball player signs with the Yankees.SPORTS PAGE 7
TO THE YANKEES
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means there are guys who have played and are experienced and should continue to get better each and every year.”
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BY AlExIs RAnDolphStaff Writer
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A recent ranking by “US News & World Report,” named West Virginia Uni-versity Hospitals as the best in West Virginia.
For the third year in a row WVUH has been ranked as the best hospital in the state as well as Ruby Memorial receiving 12 high-performing rankings.
Charlotte Bennett in-terim president and CEO of WVUH said the rank-ing was an honor for the hospitals.
“It’s always an honor to be recognized, espe-cially when the ranking is based on real numbers,” Bennett said. “This rank-ing is reflective of positive outcomes for our patients and is a testament to the outstanding care provided by our physicians, nurses, and the entire healthcare team.”
The high-performing rankings were handed out to cancer, cardiology, heart surgery, diabetes and en-docrinology, as well as seven other categories.
With nearly 30,000 patients a year visiting WVUH, Bennett said qual-ity patient care is a number one concern for all of the hospital’s professionals.
“We are committed to our mission of improving the health of all West Vir-ginians through patient care, education, and re-search, and I believe this recognition validates that,” she said. “Our patients deserve the best, and we strive to deliver the best care possible.”
“US News & World Re-port” ranks hospitals among 16 different spe-cialties to provide patients with up to date and helpful information about hospi-tals in their area. Hard data based on the categories of reputation with specialists, survival, patient safety and other care-related indica-
tors provides information for each of those 16 spe-cialties to be ranked. A new ranking list is released ev-ery July.
While not ranked na-tionally, WVUH scored in the top 25 percent in each of its 12 high-performing categories it was awarded.
Bennett said by focus-ing on the quality of care patients receive, WVUH is able to maintain its place at the top of both the state and regional listings.
“We continually focus on the quality of care pro-vided in our hospital. We never become complacent and are always striving to identify ways to improve services to our patients,” she said.
She said it is the profes-sionals providing services at WVUH that also help to maintain this high-per-forming status.
“The dedicated, com-mitted professionals that care for our patients is the single most significant fac-tor responsible for WVU Hospitals achieving this recognition for the past three years,” Bennett said.
“It puts me at ease know-ing I can go to a WVU hos-pital and be well taken care of,” Jennifer Jones, a senior elementary education stu-dent said. “Having been to West Virginia University Hospital in the past, I was reassured by their check-ing in on me and the fact that they were always mak-ing sure I was comfortable.”
Jones said WVUH is a great environment for learning.
“Being the best hospital in West Virginia also helps establishes a great learning environment for the Uni-versity,” she said. “I have had class at Ruby and it was very professional and it was a great place to be.”
To view the full list of rankings visit http://h e a l t h . u s n e w s . c o m /best-hospitals
West Virginia University Hospitals named best in state for third consecutive year
hEathErwEStpr.cOMWest Virginia University Hospitals receive No. 1 ranking in the state.
BY AlExIs RAnDolphStaff Writer
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Hilary Kinney, a West Vir-ginia University sophomore journalism and geography student, has spent her sum-mer working to ensure there is less food waste in the state of West Virginia. Now she is bringing her work back to campus this fall.
Kinney has been work-ing with Dr. Brad Wilson in the geography department to map food pantries in West Virginia. This work helped spark the idea to start a pro-gram where students would help the University donate more of its dining hall left-overs to those in need.
Kinney said the traveling has helped her really un-derstand the food situation throughout the state.
“The traveling I have been doing is related to the food project I have been work-ing on. I have been travel-ing to Huntington, Charles-ton and many other places in Monongalia County try-ing to get a feel for what food pantries are doing and offer-ing in West Virginia,” Kinney said.
Kinney also said she dis-covered a national organi-zation with the same focus she has.
“There is this national or-ganization called the Food Recovery Network, and what they do is they mobilize stu-dents at different universi-ties to get together and col-lect the food that is normally thrown out in dining halls,” she said. “They then trans-port that food to local shel-ters who are in need.”
Food Recovery Network started at the University of Maryland in 2011 when stu-dents noticed how much food was being thrown out from the dining halls. In 2013, the group received
a large donation and was able to go from volunteer to professional.
With the traveling she has been doing, she has used the data to find out if and where food can be taken to from the five dining halls at WVU.
“I think this lack of re-search is the reason the Uni-versity has not been doing more with its leftover food until now,” she said. “The University usually donates a couple hundred pounds, so they aren’t doing nothing. But, this would mean getting more students involved and just have more hands and a bigger labor force.”
Kathy Curtin, associate director of WVU dining ser-vices, said the program will add to the work WVU al-ready does.
“We have actually been
donating usable leftovers to several of the homeless shel-ters around Morgantown for many years,” Curtin said. “Hilary is interested in de-veloping a student network that would help to distrib-ute food to additional loca-tions which would allow us to reach more of the people who are in need.”
Curtin said this program would also greatly help with the University’s green initiatives.
“I think being able to fun-nel this food to someone who needs it is a major part of our green initiative,” she said. “We’ve done a lot to cut back on waste but invariably there are pans of food left-over from serving areas at the end of meal periods.”
Kinney said since an-nouncing the project on so-
cial media, she has had close to 20 students come forward who are willing to volun-teer and help out with the project.
“No one likes throwing away food. You look at the statistics and literally tons, like 12,000 pounds a week, are thrown out, that in-cluded scraps but that also includes just pans of un-touched food,” Kinney said. “Food is something every-one can relate to. I am all about causes, but in reality not all causes affect every-one. But everyone knows and needs food, and these are statistics everyone can look at and be disgusted by,”
To get involved with this new project contact Kinney at [email protected]
Student makes strides to ensure less food waste in state
SubMIttEdThe St. Ursula Food Pantry is located in Morgantown and is being mapped by Kinney.
BY AlExIs RAnDolphStaff Writer
@Dailyathenaeum
Due to recent growth in the forensics career field, West Virginia Uni-versity has established the Department of Fo-rensic and Investigative Science.
The forensics program has been not only nation-ally recognized, but also internationally recog-nized since its inception in 1997.
Dr. Gerald Lang will be the chair of the newly es-tablished department. He said he feels this was the next natural step for the department.
“I think most of the time in any development of any academic depart-
ment you start out as a program,” Lang said. “It was time for this pro-gram to be on par with the other science depart-ments in the Eberly Col-lege of Arts and Science so the request was sub-mitted through the de-partment to the dean’s of-fice and it was approved. It is mostly an academic change.”
Both the undergradu-ate and graduate foren-sics programs have been accredited for some time. This accredita-tion is something Lang said he believed helped the development of the department.
“We have faculty com-mitted to working with
WVU establishes Department of Forensic and Investigative Science
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our students to make sure they get a quality educa-tion and we have very good students who are commit-ted to fulfilling the expec-tations of the program,” he said. “It is a symbiotic re-lationship. Our students do very well because they have to take capstone ex-periences, they are in-volved in research with faculty, they really get to do the science as well as the hands on experience and that is what the ac-crediting body is looking for. We meet their criteria and exceed them.”
Lang described the program as one of the more challenging under-graduate programs at the University.
“If you think about it, if you are going to collect ev-idence and that evidence is going to be used in a case you certainly want to make sure your investiga-tors understand the chain of evidence, because guilt or innocence is based on the evidence that is being collected. So yes, the ex-pectations are high,” he said.
As undergraduates, stu-dents can pick between three different emphases of study: forensic exam-iner, forensic chemistry and forensic biology. The graduate program is an ex-
tension of the forensic ex-aminer track. Both pro-grams are accredited by the American Academy of Forensic Science, an honor only five other institutions can claim as well.
“We are graduating stu-dents form a program that is recognized nationally. I have sat here and inter-viewed a woman form the Netherlands who was in-terested in possibly com-ing to school here. We attract students interna-tionally because of our reputation,” Lang said. “We are a magnet which draws students from else-where, and one of the things we have is our facil-ities. I don’t think there is anyone in the country that has a crime scene complex as unique as ours.”
The program boasts an 18,000 square-foot lab-oratory facility, crime scene training facility and faculty with more than 50 years of combined work-ing experience in forensic laboratories.
Sam Borowski , a senior forensic chemistry and chemistry student and president of the forensic club, said she thinks the establishment of the de-partment will bring even more recognition.
“I think that this is going to bring more attention to the department. I know we are already considered one of the programs that many students come from out of state for,” she said.
Borowski, originally from Michigan, said she visited several schools be-fore she found her fit at WVU.
“I like how you can inte-grate forensics with other sciences. I learn some-thing every day from peo-ple in this department, I think it is by far the best department in the coun-try for forensics,” she said. “It just seemed like the obvious choice for me.”
Roger Jefferys, a first year graduate student in the forensics program, said he hopes the estab-lishment will lead to the development of higher degrees.
“I think becoming a de-partment one leads to the possibility of higher de-grees and there is also the fact that being a depart-ment can help students fo-cus on themselves where before it was more about going through Eberly,” he said. “We have now upped ourselves to the next level, so to speak.”
Jefferys said he picked the program for its strong research emphasis.
“We are a very strong re-searched based program. The faculty is very smart and diverse, they are sec-ond to none,” he said. “I wanted law enforcement hands on, and that is why I came into the forensic program.”
BY hAnnAh WIGAlStaff Writer
@Dailyathenaeum
West Virginia University alumnus and West Virginia native, Travis Mollohan, has been selected as the director of state, corporate and com-munity relations for WVU.
The director is respon-sible for providing lead-ership, advice, consulta-tion and implementation on matters including state government relations, pri-vate business sector rela-tions, outside university re-lations, local government
relations, alumni relations and donor relations, among other duties.
Mollohan served as aide to U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and has held various senatorial and gu-bernatorial positions since graduating from WVU in 2005 with a bachelor’s de-gree in political science.
Mollohan will take over the position beginning Au-gust 5, and will be working under William H. Hutchens III, vice president for cor-porate and legal affairs and general counsel, and Sarah Smith, associate vice presi-
dent for state and corporate relations.
The director of state, cor-porate and community rela-tions is responsible for being knowledgeable of bill track-ing and analysis, committee hearing tracking and regular communication with Uni-versity leadership and con-stituency groups regarding the status of the legislative process relating to the inter-ests of the University.
“If WVU is to be the kind of institution West Virgin-ian’s expect it to be, it will need to be actively engaged in ongoing conversation
with policymakers at all lev-els,” Hutchens said. “Travis will be integrally involved in making sure these con-versations happen so that WVU can help meet those needs.”
Mollohan recently held the position of director of constituent services for Senator Manchin in the Charleston office. His final day was July 18.
“Senator Manchin has given me so many great op-portunities over the past nine years and I thank him for his continued confi-dence,” Mollohan said. “I
am honored to have been involved in the progress our state has made under his leadership.”
Mollohan said he is thankful for for the oppor-tunity from Senator Man-chin to serve the people of West Virginia but he is ex-cited to take on his new po-sition at WVU.
“I am very excited and deeply humbled by the op-portunity to serve my in-credible alma mater,” Mol-lohan said.
Mollohan will be work-ing closely with local legisla-tive members and executive
branch staff and will advise WVU officials regarding op-portunities for governmen-tal fundraising, works with public officials and will co-ordinate the interaction be-tween University staff with those officials.
“WVU has made such a positive impact on citi-zens and communities of the Mountain State,” Mollo-han said. “I will do my part to continue the important work of our state’s flagship university and help take it to the next level.”
Alumnus and former aide to Senator Manchin chosen to hold position at WVU
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JeRUsaLeM (aP) — A Hamas rocket exploded Tuesday near Israel’s main airport, prompting a ban on flights from the U.S. and many from Europe and Can-ada as aviation authorities responded to the shock of seeing a civilian jetliner shot down over Ukraine.
Israel declared that Ben-Gurion Airport was safe and said there was no reason to “hand terror a prize” by halt-ing flights.
The rare flight ban came as Israel grappled with news that a soldier went missing after an attack in the Gaza Strip, raising the possibil-ity he was abducted, a sce-nario that could complicate intense diplomatic efforts to end the two-week conflict.
Palestinian militants have fired more than 2,000 rock-ets toward Israel since fight-ing began on July 8, but most – including several heading toward Tel Aviv - fell harm-lessly into open areas or were shot out of the sky by the “Iron Dome” defense system, keeping Israeli ca-sualties low.
Tuesday’s rocket attack was the closest to the airport so far, said police spokes-woman Luba Samri, and largely destroyed a house, slightly injuring one Israeli in the nearby Tel Aviv sub-urb of Yehud.
Aviation authorities re-acted swiftly. The U.S. Fed-eral Aviation Administration prohibited American airlines from flying to Tel Aviv for 24 hours “due to the potentially hazardous situation created by the armed conflict in Is-rael and Gaza.” Later, the European Aviation Safety Agency issued an advisory to airlines saying it “strongly recommends” airlines avoid the airport.
Germany’s Lufthansa, Air France, Air Canada, Ali-talia, Dutch KLM, Britain’s easyJet, Turkish Airlines and Greece’s Aegean Airlines were among those carriers canceling flights to Tel Aviv over safety concerns amid the increasing violence.
Israeli Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz called on the U.S. aviation author-ity to reconsider, calling the flight ban “unnecessary” and saying Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system pro-
vided cover for civil aviation.“Ben-Gurion Airport
is safe and completely guarded and there is no rea-son whatsoever that Ameri-can companies would stop their flights and hand terror a prize,” his office said in a statement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised the issue of the ban with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who was in the Middle East on Tuesday, State De-partment spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
“The FAA’s notice was is-sued to protect American citizens and American car-riers. The only consideration in issuing the notice was the safety and security of our cit-izens,” Psaki said in a state-ment. “
International airlines and passengers have grown more anxious about safety since last week, when a Ma-laysia Airlines jet was shot down over Ukraine, kill-ing all 298 people on board. While Hamas rockets aren’t guided missiles, they still can cause massive damage to an aircraft. For instance, un-guided mortar fire in Trip-oli from a militia battling to control its international air-port destroyed an Airbus A330 on the ground over the weekend.
The Tel Aviv airport is Is-rael’s main gateway to the world and Hamas militants have said they hoped to tar-get it to disrupt life in Israel.
Another Hamas objective was to abduct an Israeli sol-dier, and Israeli fears over such an occurrence were revisited Tuesday when the military announced that a soldier was missing follow-ing a deadly battle in Gaza, where the Israelis are fight-ing Hamas militants in the third such war in just over five years.
The military said Sgt. Oron Shaul was among seven sol-diers in a vehicle that was hit by an anti-tank missile in a battle in Gaza over the week-end. The other six have been confirmed as dead, but no remains have been identi-fied as Shaul’s.
Hamas claims to have ab-ducted him and has flaunted his name and military ID number to try to back that claim. Military officials say
the soldier is almost cer-tainly dead, but it would be a nightmare scenario for the Jewish state if even his re-mains were in the hands of Hamas.
Past abductions of Israeli soldiers have turned into painful drawn-out affairs and Israel has paid a heavy price in lopsided prisoner swaps to retrieve captured soldiers or remains held by its enemies. The prolonged saga of Gilad Schalit, a sol-dier captured by Hamas-al-lied militants in 2006 and held for more than five years before he was swapped for more than 1,000 Palestinians prisoners, still weighs heav-ily in Israel.
“We understand the terror organization is looking for some leverage and as cyni-cal as it sounds, one type of leverage is bargaining over parts of bodies,” said Lior Lo-tan, a reserve Israeli colonel and former head of its POW and MIA department.
Israeli airstrikes contin-ued to pummel Gaza tun-nels, rocket launchers and militants on the 15th day of the war Tuesday as diplo-matic efforts intensified to end fighting that has killed at least 630 Palestinians and 29 Israelis - 27 soldiers and two civilians.
Israel says its troops have killed hundreds of Hamas gunmen, while Gaza offi-
cials say the vast majority have been civilians, many of them children.
Israel says it is trying hard to avoid civilian casualties and blames Hamas for using civilians as “human shields.”
Human rights activists say past confrontations have shown that when Israeli car-ries out attacks in densely populated Palestinian areas, civilian deaths are inevitable.
The Israeli military said that after a firefight with Pal-estinian militants on Tues-day, troops saw some Pales-tinian gunmen flee the scene in an ambulance.
The military said soldiers “did not target the ambu-lance in light of the possibil-ity uninvolved civilians were in it.”
Egypt, Israel and the U.S. back an unconditional cease-fire, to be followed by talks on a possible new bor-der arrangement for Gaza. Israel and Egypt have se-verely restricted movement in and out of Gaza since Hamas seized the territory in 2007. But Hamas has re-jected repeated Egyptian truce proposals.
Both U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and Kerry were in the region to make the high-est-level push yet to end the deadly conflict.
Kerry met with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and other senior offi-
cials in Cairo. He stopped short of advocating a new round of peace talks but left the door open for broad negotiations between Is-rael and Palestinian offi-cials once a cease-fire is in place.
“Just reaching a cease-fire is clearly not enough,” Kerry said. “It is imperative that there be a serious engage-ment, discussion, negotia-tion, regarding the under-lying issues and addressing all the concerns that have brought us to where we are today.”
El-Sissi said he raised with Ban the possibility of an in-ternational donor confer-ence for Gaza reconstruc-tion after a cease-fire is implemented.
The U.N. secretary-gen-eral, meanwhile, said it was his “hope and belief” that his mission would lead to an end to the fighting “in the very near future.” Ban told the Security Council by vid-eoconference from the West Bank city of Ramallah that he could not publicly reveal details “at this highly sensi-tive moment.” As he spoke a siren could be heard in the background.
Ban earlier met with Ne-tanyahu in Israel, where he urged a resumption of talks toward bringing about a two-state solution.
Netanyahu responded
that Hamas, a group whose charter calls for the destruc-tion of Israel, does not want a two-state solution and said the international commu-nity needed to hold Hamas accountable for the latest round of violence, saying its refusal to agree to a cease-fire had prevented an earlier end to the fighting.
“What we’re seeing here with Hamas is another in-stance of Islamist extrem-ism, violent extremism,” Ne-tanyahu said at a joint press conference in Tel Aviv. “What grievance can we solve with Hamas? Their grievance is that we exist. They don’t want a two-state solution, they don’t want any state solution.”
Hamas, with backing from its allies Qatar and Turkey, says it wants guarantees on lifting the blockade before halting its fire.
Israel launched a mas-sive air campaign on July 8 to stop relentless Hamas rocket fire into Israel, and expanded it to a ground war last week aimed at destroy-ing tunnels the military says Hamas has constructed from Gaza into Israel for attacks against Israelis.
Israel has struck almost 3,000 sites in Gaza, killed more than 180 armed Pales-tinians and uncovered 66 ac-cess shafts of 23 tunnels, the military said.
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Two-man play, ‘Red,’ offers last performance on Saturdayby jake jaRviS
A&E Editor @jAkEjArviswvu
“Red” finishes its fi-nal two performances at the Monongalia Arts Cen-ter on Friday and Satur-day night. David Beach, a West Virginia University English professor, joins Shenendoah Thompson in an attempt to bring life to the story of Mark Rothko, the famous ab-stract impressionist.
The play, written by John Logan in 2009, takes place in Rothko’s studio in 1958-9. Rothko (Beach) has been commissioned
to paint a collection of pieces for the Four Sea-sons restaurant. His as-sistant, Ken (Thompson), aides Rothko with assem-bling the canvases.
Along the way, the con-versation twists to art cri-tique and a deeper un-derstanding of Rothko’s humanity.
Beach and Thompson worked together in pre-vious productions at M.T. Pockets Theatre, but never while acting together. The two decided to finally change that.
“I said, ‘Well, we need to find the right vehicle,” Beach said.
Ten minutes later, Beach said he thought of “Red.” He bought the script on-line and sent it to Thomp-son. Barely 90 minutes later Thompson said “let’s do it.”
Beach chose “Red” be-cause the age difference between he and Thomp-son is a perfect fit for the play. Also, he said the lan-guage is rich and it’s an “intense character driven play.”
Because this play has only two characters, they must both work ex-tremely well together. They claimed they “share a brain.”
One might be skepti-cal of this claim — that is until they start finish-ing each other’s sentences and always aim three steps ahead of each other.
“I think it’s been a wonderful experience,” Thompson said. “It speaks about art in so many dif-ferent idioms. It applies to you whether you are a pho-tographer, painter, film-maker, wordsmith, poet — whatever it may be.”
“If you’re just the guy that sits there and appre-ciates the art it will speak to you even more.”
This was the first time Beach has portrayed a his-
torical character. He said researching for this role was difficult, and he relied heavily on another actor’s portrayal from a BBC pro-duction on Rothko, closer to the original time period.
Beach said the big-gest challenge he faces with directing himself was not being able to see the way the blocking, or stage movements, looked from the audience’s perspective.
Thompson, on the other hand, felt directing him-self was “natural” and even presented benefits that having a separate director did not bring.
While they may disagree on directing oneself, they surely agree on the effort it takes to produce a show of this caliber.
“I feel like it is a portion of us bearing our souls and if the audience is here and it is the right moment, and they share a little bit of their soul with us, we’re going to have a soul ex-change,” Thompson said.
The show begins at 8 p.m. in the Tanner The-atre. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased at the door or ahead of time by calling (304) 292-3325.
Local swing dance club offers a fun evening to kick up your heelsby miTchell glazieR
A&E writEr @dAilyAthEnAEum
Morgantown Swing, a dance collective comprised of students with a variety of skill levels, hosts Swing Alley on Tuesdays at Chick-N-Bones Rhythm Cafe on Chestnut Street from 7-10 p.m.
All ages are welcome, and encouraged, to attend the weekly dance hall event. Af-ter paying a cover charge of $3, dancers are ushered into the arena to classic hits from the early 30’s to late 50’s.
Chick-N-Bones Rhythm Cafe boasts an open dance floor for anyone seeking to cut the rug to hits of genera-tions past. With weekly drink specials, Tuesday Swing Al-leys are sure to make dancers put their best foot forward for a swingin’ time.
“There honestly isn’t a better thing you could be doing on a Tuesday night,” said David Loomis, Morgan-town Swing coordinator and dance instructor, “We have a good crowd of students each week, but there’s certainly al-ways room for more.”
In addition to food specials at Chick-N-Bones Rhythm Cafe, the venue has a varied happy hour that includes $1
Milwaukee’s Best, $3 Mixed Drinks and $3 Fireballs.
Each Tuesday night at Swing Alley, dance lessons are provided to ensure that everyone feels comfortable enough to “bust a move.”
“The specials are reason enough to come on out,” Loo-mis said. “With good drinks and fun for literally any age
and skill level, Swing Alley is a no brainer for a fun Tues-day night.”
A timeline of the night is followed to facilitate the vari-ous phases of the three hour dance hall jamboree.
“We have tons of spe-cials and fun for everyone. All ages come out each week and find ways to have a great
time,” Loomis said. “We’re definitely expanding and planning new events and ways to accommodate more dancers.”
This event is aimed to promote vintage music and swing dancing culture.
If you’re planning to at-tend, parking is available from 5-10 p.m. behind West
Virginia Community College. “Morgantown Swing is
growing,” said Loomis, “We’re already discussing new ways to cater to a growing group of attendees.”
For additional informa-tion regarding Morgantown Swing or Alley Swing on Tuesday nights, visit http://www.morgantownswing.
blogspot.com. “Lots of students have re-
ally generated a buzz around us. Morgantown Swing has really grown in the last year,” Loomis said. “This year, we hope to incorporate new and improved events to keep the buzz going.”
Shannon McKenna/The DaILY aThenaeUMA couple dances the night away.
Shannon McKenna/The DaILY aThenaeUMA couple draws close under dim lighting.
WVU theatre alumni bring original ‘Propaganda! The Musical’ to NYMTFjake jaRviS
A&E Editor @jAkEjArviswvu
From mountains to sky-scrapers, West Virginia University alumni Tay-lor Ferrera and Matt Web-ster have crunched into the big apple. Their new musi-cal, “Propaganda! The Mu-sical,” opens today at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
“When I was in school and when I moved to New York, my goal was just to make a living — to make it in New York, but also have a creative out-let,” Ferrera said. “I never really had a specific di-rection, but this makes sense.”
The NYMTF, running July 7-27, finds its begin-nings in 2004. It was cre-ated to showcase new cre-ative works and talents from the nation. The scope has greatly increased over
the years, earning A Drama Desk award in 2013 “for a decade of creating and nur-turing new musical theater [and] ensuring the future of this essential art form.”
While the NYMTF was rising in popularity, so arose a college friendship that would last well past graduation.
Ferrera and Webster were classmates in the WVU School of Theatre & Dance. The pair met late in 2008 during a production of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
From there, they found a creative spark that ulti-mately resulted with Fer-rera cast in Webster’s first penned musical, “Kingdom Come.” This time around it was Fer-rera coming up with the ideas.
She said the idea for a song came to her during an audition.
After taking the song to
Webster, the two contin-ued to edit and revise, set on achieving a finished product.
The pair continued on this path for three years. Ferrera said there were many times where they wanted to go “full produc-tion” but felt it was best to wait.
The waiting paid off. Now, they’re both the writers and producers of “Propaganda!”
“Sometimes when you’re just a writer, people that are paying for things make some of the decisions be-cause they don’t want to put their money in that sort of direction,” Webster said. “They only want to give money if it’s ‘this way’ because that’s what they like.”
This presents them with opportunity for full artis-tic disclosure but also a handful of challenges. In fact, during the phone in-
terview, Ferrera and Web-ster multitasked by giv-ing the final stamp of approval on costumes as performers paraded in the background.
They said they couldn’t do all of it alone, how-ever, and admitted re-lying on a group of tal-ented professionals to let them make smaller decisions.
“Be careful what you wish for, because it will happen,” Webster said. “When you ask for what you really want and are given what you want, you have to be ready to accept it and work to make it a success.”
Ferrera said that al-though she appreciates this stage of the journey with “Propaganda!,” she misses the stage where she would relax with Webster in his apartment and “just write songs.”
The next stage for “Pro-
paganda!” is hopefully a commercial-run. Webster said the point of partici-pating in this festival was to attract people who might want to produce the show. The two have sent cop-ies of the show to regional and college theatres across the country but none have picked it up yet.
“I don’t blame them, be-
cause it’s these two random kids in New York sending this random script to peo-ple,” Ferrera said. “But now the show has more credibility.”
Follow the show’s official Twitter account @PropThe-Musical for updates on how the show progresses.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The To-ronto International Film Fes-tival unveiled a star-heavy lineup amid increased fes-tival jockeying for the most plum premieres of Holly-wood’s fall season.
Toronto’s slate for Sept. 4-14, announced in a press conference Tuesday, fea-tures anticipated perfor-mances from Denzel Wash-ington, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Downey Jr. and Bene-dict Cumberbatch, as well as films from directors includ-ing Chris Rock, Noah Baum-bach and Jon Stewart, mak-ing his debut behind the camera.
But much of the drama to this fall festival season is about the competition for that most sought-after label: “world premiere.”
Toronto, now in its 39th year, has long been a sprawl-ing annual event that helps set much of the agenda for Hollywood’s award season. It’s where recent best-pic-ture winners like “12 Years a Slave” and “Argo” were effec-tively introduced, although both of those films sneak-peaked first at the smaller
Telluride Film Festival days earlier.
As a result, Toronto ear-lier announced a new man-date that only true world pre-mieres will play during the festival’s first four days, dur-ing its most desirable first weekend.
“There needed to be clar-ity,” said festival director Piers Handling on Tuesday.
This year’s Toronto still boasts an incredible breadth
of selection. Handling ex-pects as many as 300 features at the festival, for which more films will later be added to the 59 galas and special presentations announced Tuesday.
Among the highlights are: “The Equalizer,” a crime film that reteams Washington with “Training Day” director Antoine Fuqua; Mike Bind-er’s “Black and White,” a cus-tody battle drama with Kevin
Costner; “The Judge,” starring Downey as a big city lawyer; Jason Reitman’s Los Ange-les crime journalism drama “Nightcrawler,” with Jake Gyl-lenhaal; and “The Imitation Game,” with Cumberbatch as World War II code-breaker Alan Turing.
While festival program-mers have yet to name an opening night film, Alan Rickman’s “A Little Chaos,” starring Kate Winslet as a Pal-
ace of Versailles landscaper, will close the festival.
The festival will also fea-ture the directorial debut of “Daily Show” host Stew-art, “Rosewater,” a drama about the imprisonment of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari. Other notables in-clude two films for Wither-spoon (the addiction recov-ery drama “Wild” and the Sudanese Lost Boys drama “The Good Lie”), two for Al
Pacino (“Manglehorn” and “The Humbling”), as well as films starring Jennifer An-iston (“Cake”) and Jessica Chastain (“Miss Julie”).
Rock will premiere his “Top Five,” about a comic-turned-movie star. Baubach will present his “While We’re Young,” with Ben Stiller.
Handling said Toronto’s new premiere policy will only impact scheduling, not selection.
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I returned to my home-town, Huntington, West Virginia, for the weekend. Besides a small wedding I at-tended, I was basically loung-ing around for hours, trying to think of something to do. When I realized it was time for Saturday Night Live, I quickly changed the channel and set-tled in.
It was a rerun, of course, all the way from Nov. 3, 2013. Kerry Washington was the host. The opening scene fea-tured Washington dressed as Michelle Obama, greeting her husband.
A white house staff mem-ber alerted the Obamas that Beyonce was coming in next. Washington, jokingly, had to dash off screen and change into a different costume.
Because at the time, they didn’t have another black woman to play the role.
Here’s a breakdown of the current SNL cast. The reper-tory players, cast members used frequently in sketches, consist of five women and four men. The feature play-ers, cast members not as frequently used, has 2-6 respectively.
The only women of color are Nasim Pedrad (reper-tory) and Sasheer Zamata (featured).
Sure, this is has been talked about again and again, but it’s a point that bears repeat-ing. From an objective point of view, these numbers sug-gest that women, especially black women, just aren’t all that funny.
What is it about being a woman that makes a per-son not funny? I guess the real question here should be, why does the public pretend they’re not funny?
My favorite comic, Amy Schumer, is one of the best comics of our time. So is Chel-sea Handler.
And yet in the Forbes Top-Earning Comedians of 2013
list, all ten listed are men. No. 4 was the puppet-toting Jeff Dunham. I would have hoped that America would be over his Sesame Street-esque an-tics, but alas.
What I notice most about female comics is the niche markets they cast themselves in. They quickly become car-icatures of themselves. Sure, it might be easier to stand out if there are only a few fe-males working the circuit, but I speculate on how much of their success comes from this narrow-casting.
Take Kathy Griffin. I don’t mean to say that her love of “the gays” is in any way a fa-çade. On the contrary, she is a dedicated advocate who uses her platform to try and em-power marginalized groups in our society.
And yet, she’s got a schtick.“Hello Austin, how the hell
are ya’? Where are all my gays at?”
Lisa Lampinelli, another brass female comic, fetishizes her love of black men. She’ll tout racist comments that
would make even the Ku Klux Klan blush, but it’s all in good fun.
These are just two stun-ning examples of female co-medians becoming carica-tures for the sake of being “edgy.”
If we compare the strate-gies of a female comic with a male comic, like Daniel Tosh, it’s easy to see that Tosh is less streamlined in his approach. Because Tosh is a male, the audience can, for whatever reason, see the different sides of his humor. Sometimes it’s toilet humor, witty one-liners or even “your mom” jokes.
Yes, Tosh made a name for himself with his hit show, Tosh.0, but in general, I think it’s easier for male comics like Tosh to change their act to keep it fresh and live for each performance.
Joan Rivers has been a co-median for over 50 years and she still sells the same kind of routine – which I still love, by the way.
Of black female comedi-ans, who do we have? Whoopi
Goldberg, Marina Franklin, Maya Rudolph and more.
The point is this: female comedians are out there and they’re funny. And they’re funny in ways other than just talking about periods and menstrual cramps – they’re funny in ways that a man could never even dream of being.
But continually, women are passed up for a spot on
late night television. Women get booked last for events. And when Kerry Washington has to play two black women because there’s no one else to do so, it’s laughed at.
While the equal pay for equal work debate is fresh on our mind, let’s remem-ber the gals that make us laugh.
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In the Miller v. Alabama case, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in 2012 that it’s unconstitu-tional to hold a mandatory life without parole (LWOP) sentencing for juveniles. This ruling, in plain English, tells us that if an offender is under the age of 18, though still tried as an adult, they cannot have an automatic or mandatory ruling of LWOP.
SCOTUS used the 8th amendment to support this decision, specifically the “cruel and unusual punish-ment” phrase.
USA Today reported just after the ruling that Chief Justice John Roberts said up to 2,500 juveniles across the nation were sentenced with mandatory LWOP. This is a shockingly high number.
The Miller ruling ex-panded upon the 2010 case of Graham v. Florida which found it unconstitutional for juveniles to be sentenced to LWOP, except for in homi-cide cases.
To give a sense of the se-riousness of this issue, look at the case of Jennifer Pruitt.
As a juvenile, she was con-victed of felony murder when friend, Donnell Mir-acle, stabbed her drunken neighbor. The pair were rob-bing him but Pruitt had no direct involvement with the stabbing.
Pruitt, by association with the homicide, was sen-tenced to mandatory LWOP in Michigan.
Without this SCOTUS rul-ing, courts don’t have to take into account extraneous fac-tors when sentencing.
So what’s the big deal? This is old news, after all.
In January, the West Vir-ginia legislature passed HB 4210, a bill to reform cur-rent West Virginian laws to comply with the SCOTUS ruling. The new wording al-lows for juveniles, after serv-ing the minimum sentence (15 years for homicide) to be eligible for parole.
Not guaranteed parole – just eligible for it. This new law is being enacted retro-actively, meaning anyone in a West Virginia correctional facility who was convicted as a minor and given LWOP now has the opportunity for parole.
What was meant to be a progressive act that went hand in hand with the spirit of the SCOTUS decision has become a point of debate for some.
MetroNews reported on Tuesday that House Minor-ity Leader Tim Armstead is calling for lawmakers to re-examine this decision on the basis of “I’m not even sure that we needed to do anything.”
He’s partially right. There are no mandatory LWOP sentences for juveniles in West Virginia which is what SCOTUS specificially cited – the mandatory part.
Perhaps it’s the retroac-tive part of the new law that has Armstead up in arms. This shouldn’t, however, as a federal judge ruled in Pruitt’s case that the Miller v. Alabama decision was in fact a retroactive one, set-ting a precedent.
Taylor County Prosecut-ing Attorney John Bord, was quoted in MetroNews as saying as many as six cases might be affected by the retroactivity of the law. Big whoop, Bord.
West Virginia lawmak-
ers should be lauded for taking such a progressive stance on the issue. The new law lists 15 different mitigating circumstances that should be considered after a juvenile has been tried as an adult and found guilty.
This includes the fol-lowing: intellectual capac-ity, trauma history, level of participation in the offense and family and community environment.
Also, the law requires the court to “consider the out-comes of a comprehensive mental health evaluation.”
Armstead is right – this law wasn’t necessary to be compliant with the SCO-TUS ruling. But that doesn’t mean it was a bad call. In fact, it was a great one.
Taking a life by murder is bad, so too is taking a life be-cause of carelessness in the legal system. It should be the job of the court to check and re-check all informa-tion and sentencing under the light of new evidence, mitigating circumstances as it becomes available.
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Students on food stamps, a moral dilemma
College students should not be going on food stamps. This is a moral and political dilemma that we must face.
College is getting more and more expensive these days, increasing the finan-cial difficulties of students all across the nation. Ac-cording to collegedata.com, the average annual ex-penses of an in-state college student are over $22,000. You can add at least an-other $12,000 if you’re out-of-state. Keep in mind these estimated numbers are on the low end.
Because of these colossal costs, students are turning to SNAP (Supplemental Nu-trition Assistance Program). Formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, “SNAP of-fers nutrition assistance to millions of eligible, low-in-come individuals and fami-lies and provides economic benefits to communities,” as per their website.
All negative stereotypes of government entitlement programs aside, the core safety net values that pro-grams like this offer are es-sential to a civilized soci-ety. In a perfect world we wouldn’t need programs like SNAP because there would be no poverty class. I know that we can never have a perfect world. Ideally we would spend as little on these programs as possible, meaning very few would be economically forced to use the entitlement programs. Our taxes would go down, too.
This is not the case. Ac-cording to the SNAP web-site, almost half of all col-lege students are eligible for some variation of SNAP.
This is where I have a moral problem with the concept of college students using Food Stamps. Disclo-sure: By no means am I con-demning the SNAP program or the benefits it provides for those truly in need of its services. It provides an es-sential minimum standard of living preventing people from falling into an inequi-table despair.
Entitlement programs are meant for those whom life kicked to economic ruin
and now need a hand pick-ing them back up. What does it say about the insti-tution of college that half of all participating are im-mediately classified as poor enough to use welfare? Get-ting a college education should decrease economic constraints on people, not increase them in an already stagflationary society.
This is a political issue because in 2014 the Agri-cultural Act of 2014 (The US Farm Bill) was passed two years late because of par-tisan politics. According to the New York Times, the new farm bill cut eight bil-lion dollars worth of SNAP appropriations, or about $90 a month’s worth of food for about 850,000 families. When food stamp use goes up, but funding concur-rently goes down, we have a macro level problem, America.
The worst part about all of this is that no matter how morally or politically wrong it might be for college stu-dents to have to be on wel-fare, it is helping. Therefore giving policy makers the ex-cuse to keep the status quo.
In fact, a close friend of mine just recently joined SNAP. He loses between $200-300 a month in taxes from his paycheck, as one stipulation of SNAP is you must work 20 hours per week. It just doesn’t seem right to me that someone could be a full time stu-dent, work at least 20 hours a week and still not be able to afford groceries.
As it turns out, the bene-fits of SNAP would equate to about $200-400 in savings a month. Now he and his girl-friend can feed themselves, their dogs, and pay the ca-ble bill without ringing up debt. Does that sound like freedom to you?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “‘Ne-cessitous men are not free men.’ People who are hun-gry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” If we truly are a free nation, then we should not be rigging the system to put those looking for an education in a cycle of per-petual debt and reliance on government entitlement programs. You do the math.
[email protected] four months since the disappearance of Flight 370, tragedy struck again. This time, Flight 17 crashed in eastern Ukraine, and the broken pieces of the plane bore a testament of a nation in shambles.
The fates of the 298 pas-sengers were known within a few hours, but that didn’t lessen the blow. The world’s attention is now redirected to Malaysia, and many were wondering how the Malay-sians will respond this time. It is a more somber affair.
Prime Minister Najib
Razak executed his duties perfectly and led calmly in the face of a brewing storm. Russia and Ukraine’s re-spective leaders quickly pointed fingers at each other. The United States and Europe began look-ing hard at Russia to bear the responsibility of the crash.
However, in Malaysia, the outpouring support, love and comfort was tre-mendous. Yes, there were a few people who voiced their concerns about Ma-laysia Airlines, but no one blamed the national carrier. Flight 17 was a casualty of war, no doubt.
International media out-lets began looking into the
Russian-Ukrainian con-flict, determined to bring Russia to justice for its al-leged hand in the crash. Malaysian media, on the other hand, sought more to humanize the tragedy.
Individual stories about several known passengers were treated with care, and the public showered the vic-tims’ families with support and grieved together with them. More people came forward to support the na-tional carrier.
When I compared the headlines of international news outlets like the CNN and The Guardian to Ma-laysian news such as Malay-sian Insider and The Star, I
just couldn’t quell my dis-gust for Western media. The headlines and stories only served to fuel the hate and provided more misinforma-tion regarding the crashes. They were laced with anti-Russian sentiments, and such tones could only lead to disaster. It was no lon-ger journalism. It was now propaganda.
We are not pro-Russian. We, like many others, are afraid of a third World War, with Malaysia caught in the middle just like Poland was in WWII. Now, we can only hope the independent in-vestigation will be done carefully and thoroughly.
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BORN TODAY This year you intu-itively know what to do. You say the right words, and you are more asser-tive than in the past. You take action with ease. Others will support you more often and will want to partici-pate in your ventures. You also begin a new 12-year luck cycle. If you are single, you will be hard-pressed to maintain that status, as many poten-tial suitors head your way. If you are attached, the love between you and your significant other blazes bright. You will want to fulfill one of your joint life goals in the next 12 months.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH You will be determined to wrap up a situation or eliminate a problem. Someone around you could be contentious. Sit back, and listen to what is being shared. You’ll
be coming from an unusually secure position. Let this person air out his or her concerns. Tonight: Take the night off.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHH You tend to be instinctive when it comes to solving a problem. You seem to know what to do with any issue that arises from your daily con-tacts. You have a lot to offer. Allow others to come to you. Listen to what they ask, and then you can decide what to do. Tonight: Your treat.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHH You might want to clear the air. You will need a creative approach in or-der to open up others, as they are likely to shut down unexpectedly if you are not careful. Remain sensitive to someone else’s suggestions. Do not go beyond your normal limits. Tonight: Out late.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHH You might want to say little and handle what you must first. Main-tain good listening skills, and you will learn a lot about others. Do not allow a sense of irritation to get to you. Someone could be dif-ficult, but you can ignore this per-son’s criticism as well. Tonight: Nap, then decide.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Do not lose your focus; instead, stay focused on what is important. You could be distracted by a very flirta-tious individual in your life, and en-joying every moment. You’ll have a strong sense of direction once you refocus. Know what is needed here. Tonight: Share news.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHH Pressure builds around you. You might feel as if you need to do some
hard thinking, but you won’t have the time yet to stop and reflect. Once you finish your to-do list, you will want to slow down and relax. A con-versation with a friend also will be helpful. Tonight: A late-night chat.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH You’ll feel energized and want to be direct with someone at a distance. This person might not appreciate your immediate reaction. Read be-tween the lines with his or her re-actions. You will assume far more responsibility than you typically do. Tonight: Out till the wee hours.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH Ask yourself why you are having a strong reaction to someone. The an-swer could be more significant than you realize. Try to detach. You will
be able to work with this person, if you so choose. Tonight: Reach out to someone at a distance and catch up on news.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH Others naturally will dom-inate the scene today. You could be focused on a different goal, and you might be barely interested in your day-to-day routine. A friend could be pushing you hard in the next few days. Take time for a loved one. Tonight: Relate to others directly.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHH You seem to add to your to-do list all day long, rather than crossing things off. Be more in touch with how rou-tine some of your activities are. Slow down, and know that you do not need to carry others’ burdens. To-night: Join a friend for drinks.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH You think quickly on your feet, even more so today. Your natural inclination will bring positive and rewarding results. Reach out to someone at a dis-tance. The conversation alone will help you gain a perspective on what is happening around you. Tonight: Out and about.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHH A partner could force your hand. You might want to pull back and con-sider what is going on. Is this re-ally the stand you want to take? Honor what feels right to you, even if it involves a sudden change. Tonight: Head home first, then decide.
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I’m all for pushing boundaries. However, when I found myself stand-ing only feet from a top-less woman dancing with a hoard of professional hula hoopers, I thought I pushed myself too far for one day.
This experience was of course thanks to Rootwire, the Transformational Arts Festival in Terra Alta, West Virginia. Over the week-end, thousands gathered at the Sunshine Daydream Memorial Park at Tripp’s Farm.
Rootwire was previously held in Hocking County, Ohio. There, it boasted high numbers — upwards of 5,000. As the directions
led Shannon McKenna, the Daily Athenaeum Art Director, and I down a gravel road, I thought we were surely lost.
The Dominion Post re-ported that Rootwire had to cut from 5,000 allotted tickets to a max of 2,950. This was because of a Pres-ton Country mass gather-ing ordinance that states all gatherings over 3,000 must have a special per-mit, according to the Do-minion Post.
The organizers at Root-wire did not learn of this rule in time to acquire a permit so, therefore, had to cut attendance.
But legalities aside, the Rootwire organizers deliv-ered on their promise to give a one-of-a-kind expe-rience. Quite frankly, the festival was overwhelming.
Everywhere you looked
there were vendors sell-ing pinecones recycled into one-of-a-kind ac-cessories, vegan snow cones with B12 infu-sions or alternative heal-ing tents. Yeah, you might say Rootwire is a hippie’s paradise.
Amidst the unfamiliar world, I was surprised by how eerily familiar it felt.
A thick slice of cheesy pizza brought me down from the contact high of just being there. With a full stomach, I returned to the open field in front of the stage where people gath-ered to dance and listen to music.
I stood on the sides with my camera ready to cap-ture anything interesting that might happen. I held
the giggles watching a few dancers. I thought, “These people are nuts.”
Despite us sharing dancing styles (bad), there was one fundamental dif-ference between us: they were having fun regardless of who was around, and I stood watching.
Because I was only in Terra Alta for a few short hours, I wasn’t able to re-ally sink into the Rootwire mentality and let loose. If you choose to go to Root-wire next year, stay the full time, not just a day.
The one complaint I have for the festival is there’s no “new-comer’s guide.” With all that’s go-ing on, it’s quite easy to be overwhelmed or miss something. Perhaps there
was a welcome guide, but I must have missed it.
If you feel lost – find a friendly face.
I was amazed to over-hear stories of people who met only hours prior and then clung to each other as if they’ve been friends for a lifetime.
“Oh my gosh Ashley, I love you!”
“Actually, I’m Allie, and that’s Ashley. But it’s what-ever, I love you too!”
I’m a pretty sheltered person. So I wondered: What could bring people together so easily? More so, what could move to-tal strangers to share food and shelter?
Perhaps it’s the mu-sic or the visual art or just the shared experience of existing in a field in West Virginia for four days. No matter what it is, the entire crowd seemed to live by a different set of rules.
Rootwire may not have lasted in Hocking County, but hopefully it has found a forever home in Terra Alta. Next time, who knows – I might be the top-less woman hula hooping. If so, let’s keep that our lit-tle secret.
Can’t wait for next year? Check out theda-online.com for an exclu-sive video of my Rootwire experience.
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Holgorsen addresses state of program at Big 12 Media Days
West Virginia football coach Dana Holgorsen addressed the media on day two of the Big 12 Me-dia Days to preview the up-coming season Tuesday.
The Mountaineers are coming off a disappoint-ing 4-8 season, the worst record for any WVU foot-ball team since the early 2000’s. Some fans and me-dia alike questioned Hol-gorsen’s status with the team following the year, but Director of Athlet-ics Oliver Luck placed his confidence in Holgorsen for another season.
Unlike last year, the Mountaineers will head into training camp next week with a clear cut starting quarterback. Hol-gorsen named Clint Trick-ett the starter a few weeks ago after he showed flashes of potential last season when he was healthy. He appeared in seven confer-ence games in 2013 and ac-tually finished third among conference quarterbacks in passing yards per game (229.3 ypg.) and total of-fense (225.7 ypg.).
“Clint’s been around football his whole life,” Holgorsen said. “I think it starts with his father, Rick, who is a tremendous of-fensive line coach at Flor-ida State. (Clint) played three good high school years at North Florida Christian and played at a high level down there in a pretty good football situa-tion, backed up E.J. Man-uel and backed up Jameis Winston for several years, and has been around a lot of football. But he joined our team in August and although he possesses a tremendous amount of knowledge when it comes to the game of football, he possessed zero knowl-edge when it came to our offense. So it took him a while to be able to under-stand that. When I finally felt like he was ready to go, we put him in against Oklahoma State and he had a tremendous game, got hurt, and was never the same the rest of the year.”
Holgorsen and staff are entering the 2014 sea-son with a new mindset. Trickett, according to Hol-gorsen, is a completely different player than the quarterback who upset
then-No. 11 ranked Okla-homa State at Milan Pus-kar Stadium in September of last year.
“Not only does he pos-sess the knowledge that it takes to be successful in the game of football, he understands the knowl-edge that needs to ex-ist when it comes to our team,” he said. “He’s been out there working with our guys all summer.”
The offense looks like its heading in the right di-rection, but like most WVU teams, the defense remains a huge question mark.
The defensive line lost Will Clarke and Shaq Row-ell to graduation this past May, two guys who com-bined for over 200 tackles during their 58 combined starts.
West Virginia has re-cruited several defen-sive players to add quality depth and get to the level needed to compete.
“We try to recruit as much defensive person-nel as we can,” Holgorsen said. “You better have line-backers that can fill gaps and stop the run. In addi-tion to that, you better be able to drop coverage and be able to cover.”
Holgorsen is hoping for big seasons out of two de-fensive backs to improve the defense.
“Daryl Worley is here, he’s one of the better cover guys that I’ve seen and he’s only going into his second year on our team,” Hol-gorsen said. “And Karl Jo-seph is a guy that’s ex-tremely motivated and playing at a high level.”
Joseph was the lone Mountaineer to make the preseason All-Big 12 team.
At the end of the day, this team knows the diffi-culties that lie ahead. The Mountaineers will have the challenge of taking on perennial national title contender, Alabama and Oklahoma, the preseason selection to win the Big 12, all before week 5 of the season.
“I think our guys our ready to go. We play one of the toughest schedules, if not the toughest sched-ules in the country,” said Holgorsen. “I haven’t re-ally had to mention to the guys the challenges ahead of us, because they know what the challenges are like. They’re working hard and getting ready for the challenges in 2014.”
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Kyle Monroe/The Daily aThenaeuMBilly Fleming rounds the bases against Marshall during the 2014 season.
Following a strong showing in the Cape Cod Baseball league this summer, West Virginia second baseman Billy Fleming signed a profes-sional contract with the New york yankees Tues-day and will not return to Morgantown for his se-nior season.
Fleming has been light-ing it up with the Bourne Braves, hitting .357 with 18 RBIs and seven dou-bles. He was selected as the West Division’s sec-ond baseman for the CCBl All-Star Game.
“Ever since I was a lit-tle kid, it’s been my dream to play professional base-ball,” Fleming said. “It is still surreal that I get to chase my dream, but I am ready to get after it. I loved my three years at WVu and want to thank
all the coaches that made it possible for me to achieve my dream.”
West Virginia will now be without one of its best bats from the 2013 sea-son. Fleming finished the year No. 2 in the Big 12 with an overall average of .351, tied for No. 3 in hits with 78 and No. 10 with an on-base percentage of 0.407.
“Billy Fleming is one of the best baseball play-ers I’ve ever coached, and also one of the best kids,” said head coach Randy Mazey. “He was a great Mountaineer and we’re really going to miss him in our program, but I wish him all the luck in the world. I really think his de-sire is going to carry him a long way in professional baseball.”
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Defensive line must fill void left by Clarke, RowellBy Kevin HooKer
SportS Writer @Dailyathenaeum
The West Virginia defense will look much different in 2014.
Filling the voids left by graduates Will Clarke and Shaq Rowell (a combined 210 tackles and 58 career starts) will not be an easy accomplishment.
Even with those two, the Mountaineer defensive line sacked the quarterback just 17 times for 127 yards lost in 2013, both of which ranked No. 9 in the Big 12 Conference.
The defensive line will look to get added pressure from redshirt junior Kyle Rose this upcoming fall, who doesn’t think the defensive line ques-tion marks will be an issue. He doesn’t pay attention to out-side criticism.
“That question kind of irri-tates me a little bit,” Rose said of the depth issues. “If people think we don’t have players on the defensive line, that’s a misconception.”
But at the end of the day, a
change in defense is needed for WVU to succeed in 2014. Depth on the defensive side of the ball has been an issue for the Mountaineers since joining the Big 12, and coach Dana Holgorsen and staff re-alize that.
“You better have some big guys up front that can stop the run. You better have line-backers that can fill gaps and stop the run. In addition to that, you better be able to drop coverage and be able to cover. The secondary is prob-ably the most important posi-tion on the defense in today’s day and time. We need pass rush. With that said, we need guys to cover. I feel like Da-ryl Worley is here, he’s one of the better cover guys that I’ve seen and he’s only going into his second year on our team,” Holgorsen said.
WVU has employed a “3-3-5” or “odd stack” defense for this upcoming season. The 3-3-5 is a subset of the 3-4 scheme the team ran under defensive coordinators Joe DeForest and Keith Patterson this past season, but Patterson
left for the same job at Arizona State this past spring.
The 3-3-5 uses a three-man defensive front with three true linebackers lined up behind them. Five defensive backs (corners and safeties) are used, but two of them line up as hybrid safeties or outside linebackers.
In addition to its low pres-sure on the quarterback, the defense as a whole allowed 455 yards of total offense and 33.3 points per game last sea-son, both among the worst 25 marks in Division I.
But the strength of the scheme is that it can be used in a variety of ways. Any num-ber of backers can stunt, at-tack gaps and blitz, creating a mask of chaos that is difficult for any quarterback to read, especially in an up-tempo, no huddle, conference like the Big 12.
Coach Tony Gibson has replaced Patterson as defen-sive coordinator, and said the Mountaineers have plenty of capable playmakers who will be ready to step up when their name is called.
“If you look, you’ve got Kyle Rose, Christian Brown, Dontrill (Hyman), Eric Kin-sey, Darrien Howard and Noble (Nwachukwu),” Gib-son said. “All six of those guys have played. It’s not going to be new for any of those kids. They’ve played against Texas and Oklahoma and have made plays in games.”
Holgorsen also brought in longtime Penn State assistant Tom Bradley this past March who has worked with almost every position on the field during his career.
Bradley has coached col-lege studs like Sean Lee, LaVar Arrington and Paul Posluszny during his long career.
He also was part of staffs that coached top-10 defenses at Penn State.
“When you play in the Big 12, you’re going to have to de-fend the pass, and you’re go-ing to have to do it quickly,” Holgorsen said. “I think ev-erybody understands the style of play that exists in the Big 12 and we’re no different.”
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Holgorsen, West Virginia taking lessons from struggles in first two years in Big 12 ConferenceConnor Murray
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West Virginia’s first few weeks in the Big 12 couldn’t have been brighter. After starting 5-0 and climbing into the top-5 in the nation, the results have been much dimmer for the Mountain-eers ever since.
Head coach Dana Hol-gorsen has guided the Mountaineers through the Big 12 gauntlet. He said his team’s first two years in the conference have been a
learning experience.“I think our players in our
locker room understand what the Big 12 is all about. They understand how chal-lenging it is,” he said.
Yes, the Mountaineers have certainly become well acquainted with the chal-lenges of playing in the Big 12. Despite Holgorsen hav-ing some experience coach-ing in the conference as an assistant at Oklahoma State and Texas Tech, West Vir-ginia has gone through a bit of culture shock since join-ing the league in 2012.
“I obviously tried my hardest to be able to relay that to not only the play-ers but the coaches and the administration and the fan base. And until we get through it for a couple of years, I knew it was going to be challenging,” Holgorsen said.
The Mountaineers hit rock bottom in 2013. Incon-sistency, injuries and inex-perience cost them dearly. They struggled to get over the hump in close games and limped to a 4-8 finish.
“One of the challenges we
knew going into Big 12 play several years ago is you bet-ter have depth. You better have depth that can com-pete at a high level,” Hol-gorsen said.
West Virginia’s lack of depth was exposed as the season wore on. Key play-ers like Jared Barber, KJ Dil-lon and Clint Trickett each missed considerable time due to injury in 2013, and the team struggled to keep up in their absence.
While he said a team might be able to get by with-out depth in the Mountain-
eers’ former conference, Holgorsen said that isn’t possible in the Big 12.
“For several reasons, one, when guys get injured, and they will, you need guys to step in and perform at a high level. The style of ball that exists in the Big 12, al-though a very exciting style of play, you’re going to end up taking more snaps,” he said.
“So when guys get tired, you better be able to re-place those guys with guys that go in and perform at a high level.”
With a fresh recruiting class and a crop of trans-fers that appears ready to contribute, Holgorsen said he feels much better pre-pared heading into the 2014 season.
“I think we’re at that point right now. We have 55 guys on our team that have played Big 12 football, so that just means there are guys who have played and are experienced and should continue to get better each and every year,” he said.
Spain, offensive line must stand tall for WVu in 2014By Dillon DurSt
SportS WritEr @DailyathEnaEuM
With fall camp just a few weeks away and an Aug. 30 date with perennial power Alabama looming, West Vir-ginia’s offensive line needs to be a consistent force in 2014 if the Mountaineers expect to return to a bowl game.
The Mountaineers lose
three starters up front from last year’s squad but return an experienced group at the interior guard and center positions.
Senior Quinton Spain, who stands a whopping 6-foot-5, 332 pounds, head-lines the group at left guard. Spain, who has started ev-ery game for the Mountain-eers since 2012, will be a key factor in protecting quar-terback Clint Trickett and
opening up holes for WVU’s plethora of backs.
Keeping Trickett healthy throughout the season fig-ures to be a top priority for head coach Dana Holgorsen and offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson, and that starts up front with Spain.
Senior Mark Glowinski will man the right guard position, opposite of Spain. Glowinski started all 12 games at right guard last
season and was on the field for a team-high 842 offen-sive plays.
At 6-foot-5, 310 pounds, Glowinski figures to make an impact opening running lanes up the middle, as well as pulling and lead blocking outside the tackles.
Spain and Glowinski will be the key components on a relatively inexperienced of-fensive line. The duo com-bines for 37 starts and 2,600 plays.
Sophomore Tyler Orlosky takes over at center for the Mountaineers in 2014. Or-losky boasts an optimal amount of experience, play-ing in 11 games and starting three last season.
The 6-foot-4, 303 pound Cleveland, Ohio native will be tested early and often against Alabama’s nation-ally-ranked defense.
Sophomore Adam Pan-
key locked up the starting left tackle job after a strong spring session. Pankey, who checks in at 6-foot-5, 305 pounds, is the least ex-perienced of the three new starters up front, and will be making his first career start against the Crimson Tide.
There is some concern that comes along with an inexperienced left tackle. Pankey will be charged with protecting Trickett’s blind-side, and will be key in the amount of hits the senior quarterback is subjected to.
Junior Marquis Lucas will be the man at right tackle, opposite of Pankey. Lu-cas brings with him a de-cent amount of experience, playing in nine games and starting four at guard a sea-son ago.
Coaches have said that Lucas has adjusted nicely to the switch from guard to
tackle this spring, and also mentioned that he seems to be a more natural fit at tackle.
Pankey and Lucas will be tested early, and will likely take their licks against an elite Alabama defense that likes to bring pressure off the edges with quick out-side linebackers.
The offensive line will likely face another elite de-fense early in the season when the Oklahoma Soon-ers visit Morgantown Sept. 20.
If the Mountaineers ex-pect to return to a bowl game this season, the of-fensive line must be better than it has been the past few years. WVU may have one of the deepest backfields in the Big 12 Conference, but that is all for naught if the line doesn’t do its job.
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HELP WANTEDBARTENDERS, COOK WANTED. Part-time. 18 and over. Will train. Barside Grill in Westover. Call for interview. 304-365-4565
BLACK BEAR DOWNTOWN NOW HIR-ING line cooks ($9.25/hour) and kitchen shift leader ($10.50/hour) for pm shifts. Must be able to work in the fall. Apply within 132 Pleasant St.
FRATERNITY HOUSE MANAGER POSI-TION. Kappa Alpha Order, Alpha Rho Chapter is seeking a Manager of the Chap-ter house at 670 North High Street. Fullapartment, parking and salary is included in the position. The applicant should be a Graduate or Grad Student of WVU with strong management skills for managing af-fairs and operations of the chapter house. This is a full time position. Email/[email protected]
MARIO’S FISHBOWL NOW HIRING servers & cooks: Apply in person at 704 Richwood Ave./3117 University Ave. or e-mail resume to [email protected]
RELIABLE, STRONG YARD HELPER NOW THRU OCT. Must have
vehicle. $8/hr. Five minutes fromUniversity High School.
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THE LAKEHOUSE NOW HIRING for sum-mer jobs. Busy lake front restaurant. Great summer atmosphere! Hiring bartenders, servers, cooks, hosts, and dishwashers. Apply in person. 304-594-0088.
BUSINESSOPPORTUNITIES
High St. Cold Stone Creamery for sale
A Morgantown tradition for thepast 10 years.
Own your own business in the ‘best small town’ in America.
Cold Stone Creamery is a national franchise with
over 1000 stores in the US & Canada.
Be in business for yourself, but not by yourself.
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