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by rachel mcbridestaff writer

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The West Virginia Uni-versity Public Relations Student Society of Amer-ica will host a develop-mental workshop for students interested in in-creasing their job appli-cation skills. It will take place 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Sat-urday at the Reed College of Media in Martin Hall.

Students from all ma-jors are invited to attend. Spots reserved for atten-dance are quickly filling up and remaining regis-tration for the event will be open until midnight tonight.

The workshop will cen-ter around providing stu-dents with insight on how to professionally con-struct a resume, digital portfolio, cover letter and LinkedIn profile.

“We decided we would develop this workshop and make it unlike any other at WVU,” said Geah Pressgrove, a faculty advi-sor for PRSSA.

The workshop will be a six-hour learning pro-cess focusing on how to prepare oneself for the workforce.

Students attending the event will begin the workshop by completing a strength quest assess-ment, which is designed to assess each individ-ual student’s professional strengths. Each student will leave the assessment understanding what their strengths mean and how those assets can bene-fit them in the workforce. Professional headshots for Linkedin profiles will also be given to those who attend the event.

Other simulations such as mock interviews con-ducted by professionals

from a wide range of cor-porations will take place during the developmental workshop. The main goal of the mock interviews is to give students a real-life experience of what an in-terview for a major corpo-ration could consist of.

PRSSA President Val-erie Bennett is certain this workshop will pro-vide students with the tools they need to be suc-cessful in the workforce.

“One of the main goals is to have them (the stu-dents) feel confident when applying for a job,” Bennett said.

Several students con-sidered the idea of the de-velopmental workshop as an asset for those inter-ested in increasing their knowledge of professional labor.

“One of the things I struggle with most is won-dering what they (em-ployers) want to see on a resume. It’s difficult to go in there and just pres-ent yourself to a complete stranger,” said sophomore Alyssa Murdoch.

Public relations student Hannah Wigal said she is attending the workshop because she is graduating in December.

“I think it will be a great opportunity to work one on one with professors and professionals in my career field of interest,” she said.

To register for the work-shop, visit http://prssa.studentorgs.wvu.edu.

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Last night, the former president of the University of Kentucky, Lee Todd, Jr., ad-vocated for a push in the ad-vancement of entrepreneur-ship and innovation in energy among West Virginia Univer-sity students at the 3rd annual TransTech Energy Business Development Conference.

“We’ve got to earn our way. We can compete; we know how to do that,” Todd said. “But we need events like this, and we’ve got to continue this push because the country absolutely needs the innova-tions and the ideas.”

Todd, the developer of UK’s “Top 20 Business Plan” that led the university to rank sixth among all public and private universities in the U.S. regard-ing the initiation of univer-

sity-based, start-up compa-nies, hailed the conference as an opportunity for WVU stu-dents to take risks in a com-munal environment.

During the conference, 23 entrepreneurs from a pool of 30 applicants presented 8-minute pitches to pan-els of experts who will later decide which presenter to award with merits. Eight of those presenters were West Virginia-based.

The entrepreneurs pre-sented innovative energy al-ternatives to experts, such as windows that warm buildings and personal power wind tur-bines that provide electricity in remote areas.

WVU President E. Gor-don Gee said he also recog-nizes the importance of such an event to inspire WVU students.

“I think for students they see that the world is very com-

petitive,” Gee said. “But there are so many opportunities out there, especially in creativity.”

Justin Chambers, last year’s winner of the inaugural West Virginia Technology Entre-preneurship Challenge, was among the presenters to pitch his prized WindPax, LLC. He is scheduled to present again today for the final word of in-vestment in his company.

“This is something that’s very new to WVU. But we need to be inventing our own jobs and controlling our own destiny,” said Trina Wafle, as-sociate director of the Na-tional Research Center for Coal & Energy.

Samantha Lang, an ap-plied and environmental mi-crobiology student, said she felt a good message came across from the event.

“I just really liked the whole concept of the conference be-cause it’s people going there

to promote their own compa-nies and their own inventions, and I think that’s healthy. Even if they don’t get any fi-nancial help, it’s good prac-tice,” Lang said.

While the University and sponsors of the event hope to expand the conference to make Morgantown the “Mecca” for energy entrepre-neurship, Lang said she be-lieves the conference should relocate in order to effectively make a difference.

“If they tried to get it into a big city where there’s more companies and more peo-ple to spread the word, I really think they would have a bigger turnout,” Lang said.

Currently, WVU funds multiple programs in order to promote entrepreneurship among students. President Gee said the LaunchLab is a

by alyssa lazarstaff writer

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Advising at West Vir-ginia University is a cause of great concern for most of the student body, and after recent publicity re-garding the issue, the Stu-dent Government Associ-ation is beginning to step in to alleviate some of the concerns.

Vice chair for SGA, Ste-phen Scott, addressed concerns at Wednesday evening’s SGA meeting that have been raised by a recent publication in The Daily Athenaeum.

Serving as a source for information, The DA

brought up the lack of staff to handle a heavy influx of students around schedul-ing time. Students are also unaware of who to talk to when they need help with advising.

“I agree with having more people dedicated to advising specifically, hav-ing more staffing and hav-ing people within each de-partment whose priority is advising,” Scott said.

Now that the issues have been raised, it is a matter of how to address them.

“It is difficult to have faculty who have to teach, serve on committees (and) have advising on top of that. Having specific point people to be those advis-

ers, granted some colleges already have those de-partments, but having it more centralized with go-to people would be ideal,” Scott said.

Scott emphasized the students’ role in helping to absolve this problem.

“It is important moving forward in tackling advis-ing issues that students are

able to be proactive and address their issues, but they also need to help this process in whatever way they can,” Scott said. “If they feel that their advis-ers aren’t spending much time with them, don’t be afraid to say that or talk to another adviser within the University College to get that extra time they need.

I am working to make sure that they know that.”

Governor Joy Wang sug-gested compiling a list of advisers for every major that would be made acces-sible to all students.

Athletic Counselor Ash-ley Morgan suggested do-ing what her sports and exercise psychology pro-gram does, by providing upperclassmen with the role of helping underclass-men, and requiring that they attend office hours to seek help before their ad-vising appointment.

“I am working with Anita Mayer with the Uni-versity College because we are specifically looking at transfer students com-

ing into the University and how that too affects advis-ing,” Scott said. “In the fu-ture, I want to work with Provost McConnell and see how we can improve advising here.”

His first order of busi-ness in regards to this is-sue has been setting up a survey to assess the issues that students have about advising.

The survey can be found at http://tinyurl.com/WVUSGAFall2014. Par-ticipants receive a chance to win a $25 gift card to Barnes & Noble.

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NIck HolsteIN/tHe DAIlY AtHeNAeumLee T. Todd Jr, former president of the U of K, shares his life experiences as an entrepreneur with the attendees of the TransTech energy conference.

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TOPEKa, Kan. (aP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday said same-sex marriages can go ahead in Kansas in a decision that the state insists applies to only two counties.

Separately Wednesday, a federal judge struck down South Carolina’s ban on gay marriage as unconstitutional.

The nation’s highest court denied a request from Kan-

sas to prevent gay and lesbian couples from marrying while the state fights the issue in court. The order is consistent with how the justices have handled recent requests from other states that have sought to keep their bans in place while they appealed lower court rulings in favor of gay and lesbian couples.

However, Kansas’ emer-gency appeal was closely

watched to see if the court would change its practice following last week’s appel-late ruling upholding anti-gay marriage laws in Ken-tucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. Those cases now are headed to the Supreme Court, and the gay marriage issue nationwide could be heard and decided by late June.

The Supreme Court last

month declined to hear cases from three appeals courts that had overturned gay marriage bans. Kansas, South Caro-lina and Montana all have refused to allow gay couples to obtain marriages licenses despite rulings from federal appeals courts that oversee them.

Kansas went to the Su-preme Court after the Ameri-can Civil Liberties Union sued

on behalf of two lesbian cou-ples. A judge issued an in-junction barring the state from enforcing its gay-mar-riage ban, but the case hasn’t yet gone to trial.

The ACLU says Kansas’ ban violates the couples’ consti-tutionally protected rights to due legal process and equal legal protection. Gay-rights advocates saw the Supreme Court’s action Wednesday as

another sign they’re likely to ultimately prevail.

“Now, this is a day to cele-brate,” said Tom Witt, execu-tive director of the gay rights group Equality Kansas.

Still, Kansas Attorney Gen-eral Derek Schmidt main-tains the ruling applies only in Douglas and Sedgwick coun-ties, because the ACLU’s law-suit was prompted by judges’ orders there.

Supreme Court lifts hold on gay marriage in Kansas, movement continues

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great way to develop a busi-ness plan and get students to think about what they want to do after graduation.

During his speech, Todd insisted students need to look at education in a new perspective to move the na-tion forward.

Todd noted differences between state universities and other prestigious institu-tions such as MIT. In the lat-ter, “(students) go there to cre-ate jobs.”

“And that’s what we’re talk-ing about here at this conven-tion,” Todd said, “getting stu-dents to create jobs.”

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WashINGTON (aP) — Don’t expect the landmark U.S.-China climate change agreement to nudge the world’s rising thermostat downward much on its own, scientists say.

While they hail it as a start, experts who study heat-trapping carbon di-oxide don’t see the deal, announced Wednesday in Beijing, making significant progress without other countries joining in.

The math shows that even with the agreement, the globe is still rushing toward another 2-degree temperature rise — a level that world leaders have pledged to avoid as too dangerous.

China, the world’s No. 1 polluter, will still increase its emissions until 2030 or so, under the agreement. The U.S., which ranks sec-ond, promised to cut pol-lution from the burning of coal, oil and gas to lev-els that haven’t been seen since 1969. But whatever cuts the U.S. makes will be swamped by the Chinese growth in pollution over the next 15 years.

“It doesn’t change things much,” said Glen Peters, a Norwegian sci-entist who was part of the Global Carbon Project in-ternational team of re-searchers that tracks and calculates global emis-sions every year.

“This is not far off the business as usual” sce-nario the world is already on, he said.

In 2009, countries across the globe set a goal of limiting global warm-ing to about another 2 de-grees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) above current lev-els. Peters’ team calcu-lated earlier this fall that the world would hit that mark around 2040 and the U.S.-China accord doesn’t change that, he said.

The numbers are just too big, especially out of China.

MIT professor John Sterman, who runs com-puter simulations of global emissions, compared the numbers to a driver with his foot all the way down on the accelerator in the fog heading toward a cliff. While this agreement

helps, it’s only letting up on the pedal, not slowing the car.

“It doesn’t buy a lot of time for when we blast through the 2-degree level,” Sterman said.

It may help in the long run when emission cuts pile up, he said, “but by then you’ve locked in sea-level rise, you’ve locked in more extreme weather, wa-ter shortages and declines in agricultural output.”

World leaders forged the first international treaty to combat global warming in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997. But developing countries, including China and In-dia, were not required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and that caused a big rift. The United States signed the agreement, but did not ratify or honor it.

After only non-binding goals were adopted in 2009 in Copenhagen and a U.N. summit earlier this year, international leaders are now aiming to forge a fol-low-up agreement in Paris in late 2015.

After Wednesday’s an-nouncement, Climate In-

teractive, a group that makes projections on emissions, ran simula-tions that showed the new agreement will mean about 700 billion tons (639 billion metric tons) of car-bon dioxide will be kept out of the air by 2100, re-ducing expected cumula-tive carbon pollution by about 8 percent.

That would only prevent temperatures from rising about a third of a degree Fahrenheit (two-tenths of a degree Celsius), said Andrew Jones, co-director of the project at MIT. If all other countries followed the U.S.-China example, temperatures could be reduced by as much as 1.5 degrees F (0.8 degree Celsius).

In the agreement, China, whose emissions are rising as it builds new coal plants to fuel its eco-nomic growth, set a target for its emissions to peak in 2030 or earlier. That’s the first time China has set a deadline for stopping its emissions growth. China also said it would increase the share of clean energy

sources like wind and so-lar power to 20 percent by 2030, about double what it is today.

It’s not clear how high China’s emissions will go until the 2030 peak. But using recent growth rates and simple math, Pe-ters calculated that Chi-na’s annual carbon emis-sions could grow by as much as 5 billion tons, to 16 billion tons over that period.

In contrast, U.S. emis-sions will only go down about 1.2 billion tons by 2025 as a result of Pres-ident Barack Obama’s pledge to reduce carbon pollution 26 to 28 per-cent below 2005 levels. U.S. emissions peaked at 6.4 billion tons in 2007, then started falling in part because of the economy and a switch from coal to cheaper natural gas before jumping up again last year.

“We need to solve this problem together because neither one of us can solve it alone,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times on Wednes-

day. “Even if the United States somehow elimi-nated all of our domes-tic greenhouse gas emis-sions, it still wouldn’t be enough to counteract the carbon pollution com-ing from China and the rest of the world. Like-wise, even if China went down to zero emissions, it wouldn’t make enough of a difference if the United States and the rest of the world didn’t change direction.”

Still, the U.S.-China agreement, even when combined with pledges already on the table from other nations, including the European Union, — which earlier committed to cuts — that’s only half of the world’s carbon di-oxide emissions. Much of the rest of the emissions are coming from the de-veloping world, which are likely to see their carbon pollution soar, said Henry Jacoby, also of MIT.

Mathematically “it may not blow you down, but it is an important politi-cal development,” Jacoby said.

Pact with us, china won’t slow warming muchAP

APU.S. President Barack Obama, left, shakes hands with Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Zhang Dejiang during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday.

WEsTMINsTEr, Mass. (aP) — Only a handful of people were able to speak on a pro-posal that could make the tiny Massachusetts town of Westminster the first in the nation to ban all sales of to-bacco products when boos and shouts from the crowd shut down the public hear-ing Wednesday night.

Sixty or more residents

in the packed Westminster Elementary school gym-nasium were registered to share their opinions. Some among the audience of sev-eral hundred toted signs opposing the ban; some had participated in a rally earlier.

But amid shouts of “America!” and “Freedom Now,” Board of Health

c ha i r w o ma n A n d re a Crete gaveled the hear-ing to a close just 25 min-utes into it instead of taking comments.

“The crowd’s getting out of control and the room’s filled to capacity,” she said. “We don’t want any riots.”

Crete and the two other board members were es-

corted out by police, and the crowd dispersed. She said the board would ac-cept written testimony until Dec. 1 and would vote later. She didn’t specify a date.

“I’m disappointed that we didn’t get to have the hearing,” she said. “We’re trying to save lives and pre-vent children from being future users.”

Joyce McGuire, a West-minster resident and non-smoker who opposes the ban, also was disappointed the hearing ended early.

“I think people are really angry because they feel this

is being shoved down their throats,” she said. And with the proposal drawing na-tional media attention, she added, “I think we all feel really embarrassed. I don’t think this is the way our town is.”

The decision rests solely with the board, which says it is fed up with bubble-gum-flavored cigars, elec-tronic cigarettes and other new products that appeal to young people. Board mem-bers say the easiest course of action is to enact a total ban on all sales within town lines.

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Celebrating 31 Years in Same Location!

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The West Virginia Arts & Crafts Christmas Spec-tacular will be back for its 5th annual celebration at the Ruby Community Cen-ter at Mylan Park, near Morgantown.

The event will feature more than 185 exhibits from artists and craftsmen throughout the region. The exhibits will be filled with high-quality arts and crafts including decorative paintings, soft sculptures, jewelry, photography and floral arrangements. The exhibits will also include many holiday-specific arts and crafts including hol-iday decorations for the home, ornaments, scented candles, lotions and soaps, pet collars and treats .

The event is organized and promoted by the Fam-ily Festivals Association. The company is owned and operated by David Stoner and originated in Irwin, Pa. Since its found-ing in 1993, the company has successfully produced approximately 110 high-quality shows over the past 22 years.

The arts and crafts avail-able for purchase at the event are great for individ-ual use, but also make for great gifts during the hol-iday season. Some of the exhibits will package pur-chased items, making it much simpler for custom-ers to deliver the gifts.

There will be many ex-hibits that feature native West Virginian artists and sellers. Among these art-ists include first-time ex-hibitor Charles Penn from Morgantown, selling home-scenting products; Vicki Flink from Moundsville, W.Va., selling beaded jew-elry; and watercolor art-work by Russ Shaffer from Wellsburg, W.Va. Shaffer’s work in particular is very different in that he uses or-ganic papers in a multi-step process, molding them into different shapes and paint-ing them in watercolor to make 2D prints, primarily inspired by animals or na-

ture landscapes. Not only will there be

arts and crafts for pro-spective customers to ex-plore, but there will also be dips, drink mixes, candies, fudge, kettle korn, roasted almonds and nuts, dessert mixes and other foods to sample.

“This will be my first time attending the event,” said West Virginia Univer-sity sophomore Emilee Harmison. “I am really looking forward to the or-nament collections and definitely the Christmas ed-ibles, as well. It should be a really fun time.”

This event is for all ages. Santa will make an appear-ance at the event for chil-dren to get photographed with. While there, children also have the opportunity to visit the face-painting sta-tion and create balloon an-imals with clowns named Glitter Dot and Dapper.

“This is a very unique shopping opportunity for those looking to bring hol-iday spirit into the home, with one-of-a-kind, senti-mental, special items,” said Trisha Cusisk, the promot-er’s assistant at the Family Festivals Association. “Not only will these shopping exhibits help you dazzle up your home, but they will also provide holiday jew-elry to make outfits more festive and a variety of culi-nary items to indulge in at an office Christmas party.”

The entry fee for adults and senior citizens is $6, while children ages 6-12 pay $1. Children under the age of 5 can attend for free. Parking for the event is free, and service animals are permitted into the fes-tival. The event will be held regardless of the weather all day Sunday.

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Nick Jonas has broken out of the boy-band label with the debut of his self-ti-tled new solo album, “Nick Jonas,” and his roles in the television series “Kingdom” as well as in the upcoming release of the thriller film, “Careful What You Wish For.”

Nick Jonas’ career, unlike many celebrities, began in a barber shop. There, Jonas was discovered at the age of 6 and referred to a profes-sional show business man-ager. Soon after, Jonas made his debut on Broadway. Jo-nas performed in several plays including “A Christ-mas Carol,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “Les Miserables.”

Jonas was picked up by Columbia Records and INO Records in 2004, after the la-bel discovered a song he re-corded with his father en-titled, “Joy to the World (A Christmas Prayer).”

After Daylight/Columbia met with Jonas and watched him perform alongside his brothers Kevin and Joe to “Please Be Mine,” a song they cowrote, the label signed them as a group act, more fa-mously known as The Jonas Brothers. The Jonas Broth-ers strongly appealed to

pre-teen girls and often ap-peared on Disney Channel. Just last year, after promot-ing a big comeback tour af-ter a hiatus, the band broke up. For Nick Jonas, this was a chance to break out into a more serious solo career, both in music and film.

“I thought his transfor-mation happened pretty fast, but Miley Cyrus did the same thing,” said Kelli Mc-Cleary, a senior at West Vir-ginia University. “I guess there’s a point where every-one grows up and changes into the image they want ev-eryone to perceive.”

In order to create buzz be-fore the release of his debut album and the big entrance of his serious solo career in the music world, Jonas did a photoshoot with Flaunt Magazine that had fans go-ing crazy on social media. In this particular issue of Flaunt Magazine, Jonas recreates the infamous Calvin Klein photoshoot featuring Mark Wahlberg in 1992. Jonas put on a substantial amount of muscle since his time with the Jonas Brothers, therefore adding to his conceivability in becoming a more mature, manly artist.

“I think it is very differ-ent for men and women,” said Jonas in an interview with Yahoo, “And I can only speak for my journey, be-

cause it’s the challenge that I faced was in just giving peo-ple a reason to give me a sec-ond look.”

Jonas’ first single, “Chains,” made quite the statement when it was re-leased in late July of this year. The song had a moody R&B theme and sounded drasti-cally different from anything Jonas had done in the past.

“Chains” has been suc-cessful, but nowhere near as much as his single “Jeal-ous.” Since its release, “Jeal-ous” has been in the top-10 released singles on iTunes and has been played repeat-edly on radio stations across the country.

Jonas’ new album consists of many ‘80s and R&B influ-ences. The album is filled with a variety of songs with different sounds, some being what has become the main-stream, poppy singles, while others are deeper, darker and more soulful. The album has similar sounds to those of Justin Timberlake, Robin Thicke and Frank Ocean.

“I think it’s an appropri-ate change for him because he is getting older and more mature,” said Jessie Johnson, a junior at WVU. “So it makes sense for him to change his image and sound to cater to a different audience.”


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Childrensart.infoChristmas themed crafts will be available at the show.

The long road to ‘Foxcatcher’AP

NEW YORK (AP) — Over a plate of pasta, Bennett Miller is trying to explain how a movie goes from an idea to an actual thing.

“When you get hooked onto something like the notion of `Foxcatcher,’ for me, there is a very strong, specific feeling about the soul of this film, in the same way you might know a person or that you might know a film that ex-ists, to have that sense of WHAT IT IS,” says Miller. “But it’s still not a material thing yet, and how to re-alize that thing, how that soul gets incarnated is the process.”

“It’s like, `I had a glimpse of Big Foot, and now let’s go track him.’”

For nearly seven years, Miller hunted his latest film, a modern Greek trag-edy based on the true tale of two Olympic wrestlers, Mark and Dave Schultz (Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo), taken in by a wealthy benefactor, John DuPont (Steve Carell). The project died at least once. Miller was at one point sued by the origi-nal production company. And after “Foxcatcher” did finally come together, thanks to its own wealthy patron (producer Megan Ellison) Miller took a year to edit.

Speed, you might say, is not one of Miller’s attributes.

But Miller, 47, is dog-gedly determined (“I never thought it wouldn’t happen,” he says of “Fox-catcher”), and when he picks up on the scent

of a film, his pursuit is steady and deliberate. “Foxcatcher,” for which Miller won best direc-tor at Cannes, is a sensa-tional tabloid story that Miller first learned about from a newspaper clip-ping, but crafted with a solemn disaffection and heavy themes of America.

Carell, who was layered with makeup and a pros-thetic nose for the role, re-calls his first meeting with Miller:

“He painted a picture of the movie that was vivid, that was incredibly de-tailed even at that early stage,” says the actor. “Years later when I saw it for the first time, it was ex-

actly as he described it to me.”

Filmmaking is by its nature an accumulation of details, a synthesis of a million decisions. But few directors combine such obsessive meticulousness with a desire to let a film grow organically.

“It’s like he constructs this great Olympic-size pool with an incredi-ble diving board,” says Dan Futterman, a long-time friend of Miller’s who wrote Miller’s 2005 breakthrough, “Capote,” and co-wrote “Fox-catcher.” “But then he wants to walk out there with the actors and jump woff.”

beyondhollywood.ComBennett Miller has hunted seven years for ‘Foxcatcher.’

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Housing wars: lease regulations

Finding an apartment in a college town could very well double as an Olym-pic sport. The competition is fierce and the stakes are high.

Location, price, parking, utilities and many other as-pects go into finding the perfect place to live. So you begin your search and find, no matter how early you start, you are already be-hind the crowd.

“We are showing that one tomorrow,” and, “Sorry, it’s been leased,” become two of the most dreaded phrases to hear on the other end of the phone.

But, then you find your perfect apartment and say a little prayer to some deity so that you never have to go through this process again.

With so much stress caused, there has to be an-other way we as students can find housing without having to start looking in October and keeping our search hidden from the competition (i.e., anyone who isn’t going to be your roommate.)

The Daily Athenaeum would like to see some kind of legal regulations for when property owners and stu-dents can begin looking for

and leasing apartments for the upcoming summer and school year.

If there were regulations in place by the City which said these places weren’t al-lowed to start showing and leasing properties until the spring semester, then stu-dents would have a better shot at making a well in-formed decision.

Many times, property owners will pressure you into signing a lease before you have had a real chance to look over it or take it to Student Legal Services (lo-cated conveniently on the Downtown Campus, call

304-293-4897 to make an appointment.)

These owners may tell you the property will go fast, someone else wants to sign or that the rates may even go up. While this may be true, they are mostly just pressuring you into signing before you can find some-thing better suited for you.

If Morgantown were to regulate when this could start, then students would have the time to look at and find the best options through a little research. Properties would even have time to, say, hold an open house, so all interested

parties could come view the apartment at once and be able to see it in its best shape.

Another option could be the University stepping in and working with these property owners to come to a similar agreement. Like the off-campus housing fair, which takes place in Janu-ary, this agreement could facilitate a better search process for students. For co-operating with WVU, these owners could be labeled “WVU approved,” giving them more credibility.

At the least, the off-cam-pus housing search engine

the University provides should offer better options for searching. This service could also be tailored to help this new process be-tween property owners and students.

Apartment hunting shouldn’t have to be an all-out cut-throat war among students. It should be en-joyable and a bright spot in planning one’s next step as a WVU student. Removing the stress and pressure will help not only students, but in the end, property own-ers as well.

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While many have criti-cized Colorado’s legaliza-tion of marijuana by falsely linking it to isolated inci-dents of death and violent behavior among citizens (rates of violent crime have actually decreased in Col-orado since legalization via Forbes), few are talking about its very real conse-quence for the state.

In January of 2014, new laws legalized recreational marijuana use in the state of Colorado. In the state, any resident over the age of 21 can legally purchase up to an ounce of cannabis from licensed pot shops for use on private property.

Additionally, individu-als can grow up to six mari-juana plants for recreational use. The legalization of mar-ijuana has been beneficial overall for Colorado. Ac-cording to Forbes, pot sales raked in 6.17 million in tax revenue in just the first two months alone. It is esti-mated that the state could see as much as 98 million

in tax revenue over the en-tire fiscal year.

Forty million of this reve-nue will be allocated to pub-lic school construction. The legal marijuana industry in the state has created an es-timated 7,500-10,000 jobs.

However, the benefits of legal weed have not been without consequences for Colorado.

Homeless youth flock-ing to Colorado to smoke weed without consequence was an unexpected con-sequence of the legaliza-tion. This has resulted in the flooding of the state’s already strained homeless shelters.

According to an article in The Denver Post, while the typical population of Col-orado’s shelters fits in the 35-60 age range, this sum-mer has seen a much larger influx of people aged 18-25 year-olds.

Of the homeless who re-ported coming to Colorado because of the marijuana legalization, shelter orga-nizers said about half are medicinal users. However, they believe the other half came to the state for a legal high.

Kendall Rames, deputy director of the Denver and Colorado Springs nonprofit organization Urban Peak, stated many of the people are just migrating through.

“Of the new kids we’re seeing, the majority are say-ing they’re here because of the weed. They’re traveling through. It is very unfortu-nate,” he said.

Shelters are struggling to accommodate the grow-ing number of those seek-ing help. As reported in the Denver Post Article, Denver shelter, Father Woody’s Ha-ven of Hope, typically ex-pects occupancy to rise by about 50 people a month during the summer. This year, it saw increases of over 300 people a month.

In total, 923 new home-less people came to the shelter to seek help be-tween May and July alone.

While the marijuana in-dustry in Colorado is heav-ily regulated, and out-of-state residents are restricted to purchasing less than in-state residents may pur-chase, legislation must be put in place to prevent or regulate this “marijuana tourism.” This tourism is

straining the resources of the already cash-strapped homeless networks.

It should not be legal for out-of-state residents to purchase marijuana in the state. Proper studies must be conducted to find out

just how pervasive of an is-sue this is and how best to address it.

Additionally, while the benefits of marijuana le-galization in Colorado have outweighed the conse-quences, the issue of the in-

flux of homeless youth can-not be ignored and must be addressed head on be-fore other states introduce similar pro-marijuana legislation.

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What a let down this past Veterans Day was. Veter-ans Day is supposed to be a day of remembrance and honor. It’s the one day of the year where we take the time to recognize all of the sacrifices that not only our armed forces, but all the armed forces of the world have given so that we may be here today.

This is coming from someone who despises just about all wars and what they stand for. Now I’m not a pacifist, I just don’t usu-ally see the merits in go-ing to other countries and killing for their natural resources.

However, despite my dis-like for war, I understand and appreciate the sacri-

fices that men and women have made so I could be writing this. It is because of this appreciation that I was appalled by the lack of grat-itude on Veterans Day.

All day I never once heard anyone mention or ac-knowledge that it was even V e t e r -ans Day. S c h o o l w a s n ’ t canceled and no professor even had a moment of silence. I got compliments on my obnoxiously American bald eagle shirt, but when I said it was for Veterans Day, I got back blank stares.

Later that night I went to cover the Veterans Day parade for The Daily Athe-naeum. It started off as ex-pected, hundreds of people

of all ages lining the streets. Children screamed and ran after the cars passing by, parents clapped while try-ing to hold back their chil-dren. Grandparents looked onward, recalling battles fought and friends lost. But after the first few marching

bands passed, the mood died down considerably.

It was like the people only came to hear them-selves cheer, not to cheer on the veterans. This self-con-gratulatory vibe was really off-putting.

This, however, was not that unexpected. For years

now, it seems like our armed forces do not get the respect they deserve. Maybe it’s because the wars they fight are unpopular, or when they come back, they seem colder and hardened in some ways. But this is only because we turn them

into warriors. Warriors that are trained to kill, and that is a scary thought.

There also seems to be a gag order in the me-

dia about the hardships of war. You never hear news anchors talk about the dif-ficulties soldiers face on their return home. We never here them talk about it ei-ther, but for very different reasons.

Soldiers come home, from every war, morally pol-

luted from the killing they have done or, for some, only seen. They come home not to parades or celebrations but distrust or misunder-standing as to what they went through.

No one made a big deal when it was announced we would be pulling out of Iraq or Afghanistan. And no one said a word when we sent 1,500 troops back into Iraq the other week.

To me, this is because America has lost all of its personal touch with the military. During World War I, the war in which Veterans Day is based off of, about 12 percent of Americans served. Everyone in the country had intimate ties to service men and women back then.

Now only about 0.6 per-cent of Americans have served. Most of us don’t even know people who

have risked their lives for our freedom.

This lack of familiarity is, I believe, the driving force behind our lack of empa-thy toward our soldiers. We can’t relate to their experi-ences, and they will never be able to lose the warrior in them to be just like us.

Now I’m not calling for everyone to drop what they are doing and sign up for boot camp, just to be a lit-tle more sympathetic to the cause.

I’m only asking that the next time you encounter a veteran, don’t just give a hallow, “Thank you for your service,” but tell them why you are thankful. Let them know how much you truly appreciate their service, because if you or I can’t do that, then we don’t deserve their sacrifice anyway.

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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR

Born today This year you of-ten feel at odds with others, even those with whom you have experi-enced great closeness. The issue is boundaries; however, this issue will seem less important in another year because of your attention to it now. If you are single, you might be for-tunate enough to attract someone who has similar issues and is willing to look at them with you. Otherwise, you are on a dating roller coaster. If you are attached, your willingness to look within will encourage the same from your mate. This year could be fundamental to your life together. VIRGO often challenges you.

ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HHHH You have a strong sense of direction, no matter which way you

turn. Listen to your sixth sense with regard to money. Focus on the pres-ent, and maximize your financial se-curity. Tonight: Clear out your desk or workspace.

TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHHHH No one can deny your creativity when you decide to apply your focus and ingenuity to a situa-tion. You can make the unworkable workable. Be sensitive to a situation where you suspect the other party might be out of sorts. You do not need an emotional collision. Tonight: Let your hair down.

GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) HHHH H Stay close to home, but don’t push your luck. You could be overly tired and dragging from recent pressures. Give yourself a break from whatever is creating this stress. Tonight: Home.

cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) HHHH You might want to have a long-over-due conversation. Be careful, as one of you could be angrier than antici-pated. If it is you, be sure to clear the air in a way that does not close down a conversation. Tonight: Make it easy.

lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHHH You could decide that you would prefer to stand back and assess a situation from a distance. You have a strong sense of humor and enjoy yourself no matter what. Those you answer to clearly are favorably disposed toward you. The timing is right to make an important request or talk to these people. Tonight: Treat time.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEpT. 22) HHHH Confusion surrounds a key per-son. If you over think, you will not know which way to go. Be sponta-

neous, and you naturally will draw the results you want. Someone you care about lets you know that he or she would like to be around you. Tonight: The world is your oyster.

lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HH Pull back some, and understand what is happening behind the scenes. Your sense of humor goes a long way toward resolving a problem, in that you detach and become less involved. Be careful when ex-pressing your dismay. You will come off far more strongly than you think. Tonight: Vanish quickly.

S cO R p I O ( O c T. 23- N O V. 21) HHHHH Zero in on the basics dur-ing a meeting. You finally gain some-one’s confidence, and feel much better as a result. Be sensible when

dealing with an angry or upset per-son. This person might not be able to contain him- or herself. Tonight: Where the fun is.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HHH Stay on top of your respon-sibilities. Though much could be happening around you, be sure to keep your plans and schedule in-tact. You have enough energy to squeeze in an extra event with a friend. Worry less. Tonight: Know when to call it a day.

c ApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Your ability to detach and see what others refuse to see ear-marks your abilities, especially to-day. Creativity seems to flow nat-urally between you and others. A mere suggestion could trigger a great idea. Tonight: Where the fun is.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH You might be dealing with one per-son after another. Everyone has something he or she needs your opinion on. Your nature is unusu-ally giving, especially now. Still, do not toss your plans down the drain. Tonight: Dinner for two.

pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) H You need to sort through what you must do, as opposed to what you want to accomplish. Others do not need your input and you can be quite demanding. Trust your judg-ments with a key person. Tonight: Bite your tongue.

Born today French composer Maurice Ravel (1875), televangelist Tammy Faye Messner (1942).

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

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across1 Radical diet5 Balkan native9 Old West trail sight14 Arabian prince15 Court material, perhaps16 Country-rock artist Steve17 You may get one from a doctor18 Exclude19 Goody-goody20 Place for a nagging passenger?23 Small dose?24 Doctor’s order25 Peppy26 Secret motives29 Rouse31 Trim (down)32 Its maker traditionally buys the drinks37 Pay back?38 Prohibition against Confederate soldiers?40 Bailed-out insurance co.41 Aleve and Advil43 Movie role played by Skippy44 Tide table term45 Played on a green47 Weary from overuse49 Apparent53 In the style of54 Soup with a prayer?58 Sal of “Rebel Without a Cause”60 South American rodent61 Scruff62 Word from the Latin for “little grandfather”63 Algerian port64 Bad to the bone65 Sneaks a look66 Zebras that don’t fear Lions?67 Shoot down

down1 __ shui2 Eros counterpart3 In __: as found4 Shake5 Rebukes6 Funny Fudd7 Worker’s reward8 Units of memory9 Let it all out, in a way10 Rhine tributary11 Tribute to a sourpuss?

12 More familiar, joke-wise13 Poor21 Dragonfly prey22 On the briny25 Moral lapse26 Per person27 Simba’s mate28 Farmer’s harvest tradition?30 English can32 Kubrick’s computer33 Olive often rescued34 Dumbbell abbr.35 Nick at __36 Quaint expression of surprise38 Student’s fig.39 More apt to be picked42 Word between some last names43 Brought into harmony with, with “to”45 Praline nuts46 Low nœmero47 Traffic congestion48 Dress with a flare

50 Mist51 Comforting words52 Joltless joe?54 Takes off55 Talk excitedly56 __ doctor57 Hard to hang on to59 Bugling beast

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Student Health Services is offering weekend flu shot clinics throughout the month of November. The shots will be given, while supplies last, on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the WVU Student Health Services clinic.

Students can pay with cash ($15) or use their health insurance card (no co-pay).

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WVU Symphonic Band performs concert to celebrate Veterans Day

Kyle Monroe/THe DAIly ATHenAeUMGraduate Conductor Stephen Lane gestures to the soloists that performed during the piece entitled ‘American Elegy’ Tuesday night in the Creative Arts Center.

Kyle Monroe/THe DAIly ATHenAeUMFlute Soloist Neve McClymont acknowledges the au-dience following the WVU Symphonic Band’s concert.

Kyle Monroe/THe DAIly ATHenAeUMBaritone Saxist Amanda Malkinoff eyes the con-

ductor while performing a piece entitled ‘Concord,’ written by composer Clare Grundman.

Kyle Monroe/THe DAIly ATHenAeUMTimpanist John Carper performs a piece entitled ‘Each Time You Tell Their Story,’ which was written by Sam-uel R. Hazo and featured Guest Narrator Bill Nevin.

Melissa Etheridge rocks out in MorgantownBy ChElsEa WalkEr

A&E WritEr @dAilyAthEnAEum

Lyell B. Theatre was filled with rock-ing souls and raspy ballads as Melissa Etheridge took the stage Wednesday night in the Creative Arts Center.

Bringing her “This is M.E.” tour to Morgantown, Etheridge showed off her multi-faceted talent, singing some of her greatest hits along with new tracks from her most recent al-bum, “This is M.E.”

Opening the show for Etheridge, Al-exander Cardinale awoke the crowd through a series of acoustic, heartfelt

tunes. A solo Car-dinale armed

w ith only an acous-

tic guitar s t a r t e d t h e s h o w w i t h h i s s i n g l e “ O n e

S h o t .” The up-

and-com-ing musi-

cian is on the road for his fall/

winter tour, travel-

ing with Etheridge across 25 cities. “She just seems so eager to support

her opening act,” Cardinale said. “To me, that just shows so much humility. I hope to be like that when I’m a head-liner someday.”

Cardinale wrapped up his stage time performing his latest single, “Made for You,” which is now being played on alternative radio stations in cities across the country.

Following a short intermission, the Lyell B. Theatre was cloaked in black as crowd members waited anxiously for Etheridge. As lights leaked onto the stage, Etheridge began her show with a taunting drum solo, leading into “I Won’t Be Alone Tonight.” Equipped with a full band made up of Guitarist Brandon Ford, Bassist Jerry Wonda, Drummer Blair Centa, Pianist Arden Altino and two backup singers, Ava Rain and Jessica Antonette, Etheridge was more than prepared to rock the crowd.

“Good evening Morgantown,” Etheridge said. “I just learned I haven’t been here in 20 years. How are the kids?”

With a rowdy response from the crowd, Etheridge jumped into one of her newest tracks, “Take My Num-ber.” Hitting all the high notes, Ether-idge played classics “Come to My Win-dow” and “I’m the Only One,” which received standing ovations from the

crowd. “Thank you, West Virginia,”

Etheridge said. “Thanks for coming out and rocking with me. No-body loves you like the way I do.”

As the crowd rose to their fe et , Ether-idge wrapped up the show with “Like the Way I Do,” fol-lowing with a rocking en-core of her tune “Monster.” Knocking the lights out, Ether-idge flaunted solos on the guitar, drums and harmonica.

“She really demon-strated how talented she really is,” said Herb Thomas, a fan from Waynesburg, Pa. “Sharing the limelight with the rest of her band was just a really special moment.”

Thomas believes the musician’s capability to play a variety of instru-ments serves as an inspiration and shows the true talent of the classic rocker.

“It’s a terrific venue, right in our backyard,” Thomas said. “We get talent

like Melissa

i n h e r e w i t h a

r e l a t i v e l y small crowd - i t ’s hard to beat.”

Jane Douglas was also blown away by the artist’s performance.

“The amount of instruments she plays and what a voice she has,” Doug-las said. “Her show was wonderful.”


Doyle MAUrer/THe DAIly ATHenAeUMThe crowd claps along to Melissa Etheridge’s opening number, ‘I Won’t Be Alone Tonight,’ from her new album entitled, ‘This is M.E.’

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A DIFFERENT FEEL

by dillon durstsports writer

@dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia Uni-versity wrestling team will officially kick off the Sam-mie Henson era tonight against Arizona State at 8 p.m. in the WVU Coliseum.

The meet will serve as both teams’ first dual meet of the season.

Henson, who was hired in May to replace longtime former head coach Craig Turnbull, brings excep-tional accolades and expe-rience as both an athlete and a coach to WVU.

Th e Mou nt a i n e e r s

are coming off their first competition of the sea-son last weekend at the Michigan State University Open, where five grapplers placed in the top eight.

Junior Bubba Schef-fel posted a 5-1 record at the tournament, finish-ing fifth at 184 pounds. Af-ter transferring from Vir-ginia Tech in 2012, Scheffel compiled a 29-9 record last season and earned an au-tomatic bid to the NCAA Championships.

Senior Mike Morales, who dropped from com-peting at 149 to 141 last season, posted a 4-2 record at the MSU Open, finish-

ing sixth. Morales placed third at the Big 12 Champi-onships last season at 149, and qualified for the NCAA Championships for the second time in his career.

“(141) is loaded with wrestlers. However, it looks as if Mike (Morales) is not only the one to beat at WVU but in the Big 12,” Henson said. “We expect big things from him this season, es-pecially at NCAAs.”

Although Morales and Scheffel are among the team’s most experienced, sophomore Jake S. Smith will look to have an impact this year at the 141-pound weight class, as well. Smith

went 5-0 at the MSU Open, claiming the 141-pound title.

“Michigan State was a true measuring stick for our program,” Henson said afterwards. “We have a lot to work on, and I know we have the wrestlers who will put in the work.”

Sophomore Cory Stain-brook bumps up to 133 af-ter finishing third at the Big 12 Championships at 125 last season and qualifying for the NCAA Championships.

“Cory (Stainbrook) has been relentless in his train-ing,” Henson said. “We are looking to cap off his sea-

son with All-American status.”

Freshman Jake A. Smith appears to be the leader to start for the Mountaineers at 197. Smith, who was a 2012 and 2013 West Vir-ginia Secondary School Activities Commission state champion, made his WVU debut at the MSU Open.

Junior A.J. Vizcarrondo, who placed second at heavyweight and quali-fied for the NCAA Cham-pionships last season, will likely be the Mountaineers’ starter at heavyweight this season.

Arizona State is coming

off its season debut at the Daktronics Open in Brook-ings, S.D., last weekend.

Junior Blake Stauffer and sophomore Dalton Brady claimed titles for the Sun Devils at 184 and 133, respectively. Stauffer is No. 9 at 184 pounds, according to the Intermat poll.

Additionally, six ASU grapplers finished third or higher at the tournament.

B r a d y ( 4 - 0 ) , 149-pounder Christian Pagdilao (5-1), Stauffer (5-0) and heavyweight Chace Eskam (5-1) all expect to start tonight against WVU.

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@pecorarowvunews

The taste of success has not been too evident around the West Virginia men’s basketball team the past couple of seasons, but things are looking up en-tering the 2014-15 season.

Coming off a 17-16 sea-son, and now playing their third season in one of the toughest conferences in the nation - the Big 12 - the Mountaineers know noth-ing is going to come easy as they prepare for their first game of the season, which

will be Friday night at the WVU Coliseum.

However, after head coach Bob Huggins did some major remodeling to his team in the off-sea-son, and added an array of talent – while also los-ing some talent – play-ers throughout the locker room are in agreement about one thing: They have what it takes to win.

Two forwards for West Virginia this season that have been gaining more and more momentum as the season approaches are sophomore Devin Wil-liams, who stands at 6-foot-

9, 255 pounds, and redshirt freshman Elijah Macon, who comes in at 6-foot-9, 240 pounds.

This dynamic duo is something Williams is look-ing forward to this season and knows the challenges the two of them will be able to put on opponents.

“If I grab the rebound, he’s (Macon’s) running. If he grabs the rebound, I’m running,” Williams said. “I think that’s kind of what I like about having Elijah on the court with me. It doesn’t matter who we’re guarding down there, we can pretty much handle

anybody.”During the 2013-14 sea-

son, Williams, a Cincinnati native, averaged 8.4 points per game and led the team in rebounds with 7.2 boards per game, while starting in 31 of the Mountaineers’ 33 games last season.

Williams said a big dif-ference for him personally entering this season is the increased leadership role he now has and what he means to the entire Moun-taineer squad.

“I think I have a differ-ent role this year,” he said. “The most important thing for me is just doing what I

can and play my role and help the guys out that are new to the team.”

In West Virginia’s exhibi-tion Sunday against Shep-herd University, in which the Mountaineers won in dominating fashion 109-60, both Williams and Ma-con scored 11 points. But for Williams, the new and improved rebounding of the Mountaineers is what may be most valuable to him.

“It’s a whole lot better because I know someone is going to be down there rebounding, and I know I can run the floor a little bit

now,” he said. “Rebound-ing will be the key to this teams. It’s a whole differ-ent look.”

Though Macon has yet to officially play for West Vir-ginia – besides the exhibi-tion – Williams has some tremendous praise for him and hopes of the produc-tion he sees may hold for this season, as well as West Virginia as a whole.

West Virginia will tip off its regular season against Monmouth University at 7 p.m. Friday at the WVU Coliseum.

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WVU defense remains confident after two-straight lossesby anthony pecoraro

sports editor @pecorarowvunews

West Virginia entered 2014 with a couple of new coaching faces on the side-lines, as well as one major change within the coach-ing staff.

Specifically, three de-fensive coaching changes were made to the Moun-taineers (6-4, 4-3 Big 12) prior to the start of the sea-son. In addition to bring-ing aboard long-time Penn State coach Tom Bradley

and former WVU player Damon Cogdell to assist in coaching the defensive line, WVU head coach Dana Hol-gorsen named Tony Gibson the defensive coordinator in the off-season, who was the safeties coach in 2013.

Through the first nine games of West Virgin-ia’s season – even with two losses then-No. 2 Alabama and then-No. 4 Oklahoma – there was a great sense of accomplishment on the de-fensive side of the ball, es-pecially after many setbacks over the past couple of sea-

sons for the WVU defense.However, Saturday was a

completely different story. Though the defense has given up more points than they did Saturday this sea-son, when they gave up 33, it was how they did it that has the coaching staff put-ting much of the blame on themselves.

“We weren’t ready to play, and that’s on me. I don’t know if it was a little bit of a hangover from last week, but that’s on me,” Hol-gorsen said.

“I’ll take full responsibil-

ity for the defense in the first half. We came out sluggish and couldn’t stop the run,” Gibson said. “That’s 100 per-cent on me. They controlled the line of scrimmage and did whatever they wanted.”

Although the coaches believe that whether it was their play calling or what-ever it may be, they feel they did wrong. Neither Holgorsen nor Gibson en-visioned Saturday’s game going the way it did – that was until the lack of moti-vation became evident from some players during Satur-

day’s pregame, according to some WVU coaches.

“You motivate and coach during the week, and then on game day you try to call a game,” Gibson said. “If you have to motivate them to come play in this venue in another Big 12 game, that is not a good thing.”

Though Saturday seemed to have created much con-fusion for West Virginia in many ways, Holgorsen said he is still confident in the defense’s ability to close out the tail end of the sea-son due to the experience

and depth of the defense.“Defensively, I knew we

would get better,” he said. “We knew all these guys were going to be better play-ers because they were the same guys that have been playing.

“They just improved. I see improvement. I think we’re going to continue to improve. I think a year from now that you’re going to be looking at a team that’s even better than what we’ve got right now.”

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West Virginia fueled entering ncaa tournamentby ryan petroVich

sports writer @dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia wom-en’s soccer team’s to-do list is dwindling.

Regular season Big 12 champions, check. Big 12 Tournament champions, check. What’s left on the list?

A deep run in the NCAA Tournament or even host-ing the NCAA Champion-ship seems to be the only unchecked box.

West Virginia earned a three seed in this year’s NCAA Tournament, and de-

spite this being the Moun-taineers’ 15th-straight tour-nament appearance, head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown’s re-action to being a three seed yielded disappointment.

“I think my reaction was a bit of frustration because my job is to correct things or to fix things,” Izzo-Brown said. “It’s a frustrating thing at my end. I don’t know what else we’re supposed to do other than a clean sheet maybe?”

The Mountaineers’ re-sume is impressive. Izzo-Brown has built a dominant team in the Big 12 but is still only a three-seed. Izzo-

Brown and company have accepted their position and turned their focus to the task at hand.

West Virginia will face Georgetown in the open-ing round of the NCAA Tournament.

Georgetown and West Virginia battled to a dou-ble-overtime draw during the regular season. Junior defender Carly Black said she knows it will take a lot to handle a sound George-town team Saturday.

“From a defensive stand-point, I just think they have some dynamic midfield-

ers,” Black said. “I just think as a backline, specifically with me, we’re just going to have to be on our toes and be aware of everything. They are a very technical and smart team.”

West Virginia has faced a lot of adversity this season. Whether it was senior for-ward Kate Schwindel miss-ing time due to an injury or having the Canadian play-ers, such as Defensive Player of the Year Kadeisha Bu-chanan, playing with the Ca-nadian National team dur-ing the season – WVU has found a way to overcome the

obstacles and has two Big 12 trophies to show for it.

“This team’s special,” Izzo-Brown said. “There’s so much diversity of character on this team, and they make it fun. We go through differ-ent games, having different obstacles, and I always love watching how they’re going to respond to the next one.”

Izzo-Brown harped that this team has a lot of char-acter, while Schwindel em-phasized the team’s close-ness on and off the field.

“This has absolutely been the tightest team I’ve ever been a part of,” Schwindel

said. “We’re a huge family and we’re always together. I’ve never experienced any-thing like that. They’re defi-nitely my sisters and will al-ways be my sisters.”

Being handed a third seed has fueled the Moun-taineers. They’re ready to make a run in the tourna-ment and look forward to the challenge.

West Virginia and Georgetown will kick-off at 4 p.m. Saturday at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.

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Marsh looks to take advantage of time left at WVUby daVid statMan


As the West Virginia Uni-versity men’s swimming and diving team moves into the next phase of the season, Coach Vic Riggs’ squad has relied on break-out performances from several of the team’s most talented swimmers.

One of the swim-mers who has carried the team so far has been An-drew Marsh. In WVU’s three competitive meets – including competitions against Penn State and

Villanova, along with the West Virginia State Games – Marsh has scored nine in-dividual victories.

A junior from Bemus Point, N.Y., Marsh said knowing he only has a cou-ple more seasons to make his mark as a Mountaineer swimmer has motivated him to reach new heights.

“I only have two years left, so I just want to see how good I can get in the next two years,” Marsh said. “I want to do every-thing I can do (to) become the fastest version of myself in these next two years.”

Normally one of Riggs’

top fly and backstroke swimmers, Marsh has filled in as one of the team’s lead-ing freestyle swimmers with the absence of se-nior Tim Squires, who has been out with an illness and whose status for the upcoming Mizzou Invite is still in question.

With Squires sidelined, Marsh stepped up and claimed first place in the 100-yard freestyle event against Penn State, and then finished first in the 50-yard freestyle two days later against Villanova. In the latter meet, Marsh scored wins in three differ-

ent disciplines. The men’s swimming

team has also been buoyed by the performance of sophomore Nate Carr, who has excelled in med-ley events this year and has additionally won races in the 200-yard freestyle, the 500-yard freestyle and the 200-yard breaststroke.

After Marsh and Carr combined for six wins against Villanova – in-cluding one on the same relay team – Riggs said they “continue to swim at a high level,” and also of-fered praise for junior Max Spencer, whom Riggs said

is “improving every meet.”Spencer, a native of Chi-

cago, has quickly estab-lished himself as the team’s top breaststroke swimmer this season. Against Vil-lanova, Spencer won the 50-yard and the 100-yard breaststroke races.

With some of the sea-son’s biggest events com-ing up, Marsh said the team is on the right track to succeed.

“We’ve been doing bet-ter and better each meet,” Marsh said. “We have goals where we try to beat our best times from the last meet, and we’ve

been going 70 or 80 per-cent achievement rate for each meet, so that’s pretty good.”

After nearly a month off from competition, the Mountaineer swimming and diving team will kick their season back up again with the Mizzou Invite in Columbia, Mo., from Nov. 20-22. If the Mountain-eer men want to taste suc-cess in Missouri, they will need big performances out of the likes of Marsh, Carr and Spencer.

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West Virginia loses to no. 4 texas 3-0, 3-9 in big 12by nicole cUrtin


Last night, the West Vir-ginia University volleyball team dropped its match against the No. 4 Texas Longhorns, 3-0. This is the Mountaineers’ fifth-straight loss and their sea-son record is now 13-13 overall, and 3-9 in the Big 12.

Earlier in the season, the Mountaineers were able to take the first and second sets away from the Long-horns, but Texas came back with a vengeance in the last three sets and took home a win.

Head coach Jill Kramer said it wasn’t the offen-sive effort that slowed the

Mountaineers down, but their reception of serves from Texas.

“I do think we did a lot of good things offensively, that wasn’t really our issue tonight,” she said. “We re-ally had to dig more balls. They have an outside hitter Haley Eckerman who really turned it on and was really tough to stop.”

Leading Texas was Haley Eckerman. With 18 kills she hit for a .533 clip on the match and also had four aces, three digs and two blocks. On the WVU side of the net, Jordan Anderson led the attacking effort with 10. Hannah Shreve had six, hitting a .455 clip and Evyn McCoy had five on a .556 clip.

“I thought our middles

performed really well,” Kramer said. “Jordan had a really good night too. She tooled the block really well

and moved the ball good. “We got better as the

match progressed. I think we started out hitting at a high .100, which is not what we want. We want to be closer to .250 or higher

and then we hit over .300, we just didn’t kill the ball enough.”

Altogether the Moun-

taineers downed three serving aces, from Lam-prini Konstantinidou, Melvina Brown and Evyn McCoy.

WVU had a total of 22 digs compared to Texas’

38, but the Longhorns put down more kills than West Virginia did, 52 and 36 respectively.

Gianna Gotterba led the Mountaineers with seven digs, and Anderson con-tributed six as well. De-fending the net, WVU put up five team blocks and Konstantinidou split time with Brittany Sample to set for a combined 34 assists.

Comparatively, Texas player Nicole Dalton set 24 assists herself followed by Chloe Collins with 22.

Kramer said when it comes to playing a tough team like Texas, being on your “A-game” is key for a win.

“We had a couple of things we could have taken care of, little ‘gimmes’

from them, things that we earned, like maybe we would serve really tough or maybe they tipped a ball and we didn’t handle it bet-ter so we could get a good swing out of it,” she said.

“To beat a team as good as Texas when they’re on, (and) I thought they played really well tonight, you have to take care of those things.”

The Mountaineers will be back on the home court Saturday at 3:30 p.m. for a matchup against the Texas Tech Red Raiders at the WVU Coliseum. This match, and next week-end’s game against the Baylor Bears will conclude the home season for West Virginia.

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Baylor reemerges, TCU reaffirms in Week 11

All of a sudden, af-ter it looked like the Big 12 might get shut out of the first College Football Playoff completely, there is an embarrassment of riches in the conference. After passing yet another tough test with flying col-ors, TCU climbed into the playoff committee’s top four, and with the sched-ule the Horned Frogs have

left, they are well on their way to securing a berth.

Plenty can change in a matter of weeks in col-lege football, however. Just ask the Baylor Bears. After plummeting in the rank-ings when they left Mor-gantown with their tails between their legs a few weeks ago, the Bears are back in the thick of things in the conference title and playoff races:

1. TCU – I have no idea why, but despite their re-markable run through the conference this season, I was still skeptical of Gary

Patterson’s Horned Frogs. Count me among the skep-tics no longer. Quarterback Trevone Boykin has made one of the most incred-ible turnarounds in col-lege football this season. This guy was a receiver last year. Now he’s making a serious run at the Heisman Trophy and leading TCU in what looks like a year of destiny. Kansas State was the last major roadblock on their schedule, and the Horned Frogs plowed right through it. To put a variation on an old Garth Brooks lyric, they never hit the brakes and they were shifting gears. Boykin and the Frogs obliterated the Wildcats with the eyes of the nation upon them and looked about as impres-sive as you can look while doing it. A road game against Texas at the end of the month will be any-thing but a pushover, es-pecially with the way the Longhorn defense is play-ing right now, but TCU is all but coasting to the fin-ish line at this point.

2. Baylor – In case you were wondering, this team is not playing around. Head coach Art Briles took a bunch of heat for the Bears’ soft non-con-ference schedule. After the aforementioned loss to West Virginia in mid-October, it looked like the critics would be right. Bay-lor’s playoff hopes were on life support. Enter Bryce Petty. The Baylor quar-terback seems to have lit a fire under this team. All week leading up to Bay-lor’s matchup with Okla-homa, Petty was all busi-ness. The phrase “Ready for OU” was repeated time

and time again. When Sat-urday rolled around, Petty and the Bears proved they were more than ready. Even after falling into an early 14-3 hole, this team did not lose composure. The Bears rattled off 45 unanswered points, a re-cord mark for an opponent of a Bob Stoops-led Okla-homa team, and rolled to an eye-opening 48-14 win. With a 5-1 conference mark and a win over TCU in their back pocket, the Bears are in the driver’s seat in the Big 12. With a bye this week, followed by less-than challenging op-ponents (Oklahoma State and Texas Tech) on tap, it will likely be until the last week of the season, when Kansas State comes to Waco, that Baylor will be tested again.

3. Kansas State – The Wildcats finally blinked. It took running into the buzz saw that is TCU, but Kansas State finally surrendered its Big 12 frontrunner sta-tus Saturday in Fort Worth. With a back-loaded con-ference schedule that in-cluded road games against TCU, West Virginia and Baylor, the narrative on the Wildcats the last few weeks was that the road was about to get rocky. Boy, has it ever. Not many people had Kansas State as a top-10 team coming into this year, however, and there is plenty left to play for. While their play-off chances have gone up in smoke, the Wildcats still have a very good shot at a 10-win season, a big time bowl game and could still earn a share of the confer-ence title.

4. Texas – Don’t look now, but Charlie Strong’s team is finally starting to come together. This sea-son got off to a rocky start to say the least, but with back-to-back dominat-ing wins to their credit, the Longhorns are start-ing to look more like the team Strong envisioned when he took the Texas job. With talent galore on the defensive side of the ball, any yard earned against the Longhorns is a yard well-earned, espe-cially through the air. De-spite Kevin White getting over the 100-yard receiv-ing mark, the Longhorn secondary, which ranks No. 1 in the Big 12 in pass defense, all but shut down West Virginia’s potent passing game Saturday. The Longhorns were easily the more motivated team on the field last week, and with good reason. Sitting at 5-5, Texas needs just one more victory, against either Oklahoma State or TCU, to clinch a bowl berth. With how this team looked a matter of weeks ago, that is quite the feat.

5. West Virginia – The last two weeks have served as a bit of a heat check for the Mountaineers. A close home loss against TCU seemed to be in the back of the team’s mind early on in Saturday’s loss to Texas, especially in the first half. The Mountaineers came out flatter than Texas’ In-terstate 35 in the early stages against the Long-horns, and, despite a val-iant comeback effort in the second half, a 24-3 half-time deficit was too much to overcome. It’s regroup-ing time for Dana Hol-gorsen. This team has the talent to play with the na-tion’s best, as it has proven on several occasions this season, but a measure of mental toughness will be needed down the stretch. Are the Mountaineers satisfied having already clinched a bowl berth, or is the fire still there? The second half of the Texas game might provide a spark, but that will have to be fanned into a flame in a hurry if West Virginia has a chance of pulling a home upset over Kansas State next Thursday.

6. Oklahoma – To be quite frank, Oklahoma was embarrassed on its home turf against Baylor Saturday. In just over a month, the Sooners have gone from the class of the conference to a team des-perately searching for an-swers in the season’s home stretch. A bad loss turned into a much worse one when quarterback Trevor Knight went down with a neck injury and was carted off the field in the fourth quarter. Initial reports are that Knight avoided a concussion, but his status for this week’s matchup against Texas Tech is in question. Frustration is running high in Norman right now, and Bob Stoops’ run of four-straight 10-win seasons is in danger of be-ing snapped.

7. Oklahoma State – It really has been a tale of two seasons for the Okla-homa State Cowboys. This team looked like a typ-ical Mike Gundy offen-sive juggernaut on its way to a 5-1 start, but that all came crashing down in a hurry. The Cowboys’ of-fense has averaged just over 10 points per game in its last three, all of which ended in a loss. It’s hard to imagine a team that won five of its first six games missing a bowl berth, but that is starting to look like a reality for Okla-homa State. A home game against suddenly relevant Texas will be the Cowboys’ best chance to reach the six-win plateau, as they close the season out with back-to-back road games against Baylor and Okla-

homa. Taking on a tough Texas defense isn’t exactly what the doctor ordered for a struggling offense. The Cowboys’ season will be teetering on the brink Saturday.

8. Texas Tech – The postseason train has all but left the station in Lub-bock, and the Red Raiders will likely be left standing on the platform when all is said and done this sea-son. Having lost six of their last seven games, the Red Raiders have looked noth-ing like the team that took the Big 12 by storm in 2013. Granted, losing big time playmakers like Jace Am-aro and Eric Ward would set any program back, but that’s the nature of college football. Wide receiver Ja-keem Grant is an exciting playmaker to watch, but he can’t do it all by him-self, and he surely hasn’t been good enough to mask the Red Raiders’ defensive deficiencies. Tech is giv-ing up a league-worst 41.6 points per game. There is rarely a good time to play Oklahoma, but this week may be one of those rare occasions. Injuries and frustration aside, it will still take a near-perfect game from the Red Raid-ers to come out victori-ous and keep their quickly fading bowl hopes alive for another week.

9. Kansas – Let the Jay-hawks have their fun. Kan-sas fans took some heat for storming the field and tearing down the goal posts after their team beat 2-7 Iowa State Saturday, but, in my opinion, they have been through enough in the last few years for this kind of celebration to be warranted. It is a bit re-dundant, considering they did the same thing after a win over WVU in 2013, but when your conference wins come as few and far between as Kansas’ have in recent history, you can see the cause for celebra-tion. There could be a time in the not-so-distant fu-ture when the goal posts at Memorial Stadium can rest easy after a Big 12 win, but for now, go crazy Jay-hawks. Go crazy.

10. Iowa State – Rock bottom is hard to find when you are dominated by most of your confer-ence on a regular basis, but the Iowa State Cy-clones have done just that after a 20-point loss at the hands of the Kansas Jay-hawks. No sir, it does not get much worse than that. They will have a puncher’s chance at home against Texas Tech and West Vir-ginia, but the Cyclones are staring a winless con-ference season squarely in the face.

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